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As printed: SIX BODIES RECOVERED FROM MINE
ContextRockwood is a coal and iron town in east Tennessee where the Roane Iron Company works the mines. "After damp" is the suffocating gas left in the workings after an explosion, and the Knights of Pythias is a fraternal order whose lodges conducted funerals for their members.
As printed: Stage Manager Offers 'Peaches' $2000 a Week
ContextEdward W. "Daddy" Browning is a New York real-estate man whose marriage last April to teenaged Frances Heenan, known as "Peaches," was followed closely by the newspapers.
As printed: Scots Troupe Loses 51 Pounds and $84, But Plan to Recover From Hotel Fails
ContextThe Orpheus Choir is a Glasgow choral society touring the United States; Poli's Theater and the Lee House hotel both stood in downtown Washington. The British pound was then worth a little under five dollars.
At Rockwood the funeral of W. C. Elliott, and possibly that of George Riddell, is set for tomorrow while the crews go back down after the twenty-two men still unaccounted for.