Fire at Macon Academy for the Blind district scene
A general alarm at 7:05 Morning in Macon sent fire companies 5 2 3 and 4 to a blaze at the Academy for the Blind. Neighbors and Mercer students formed a bucket line to save adjoining homes as winds spread sparks. Mrs Manard and son narrowly escaped later fires damaged furniture and losses mounted for Willingham and Winchester properties.
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Macon
Academy For
Madison
Cotton Avenue
College Streets
Washington Avenue
Madison Street
Mercer
O. P. Williams
W. R. Winchester
Tom Rogers
Winchester
Manard
Fire at Blind Asylum Triggers Citywide Crowd and Hose Flood
News spread that the Blind Asylum burned, drawing large crowds into Madison Street. Firefighters sprayed water as hoses crossed tracks, delaying streetcars. By nine in the evening the blaze had spent itself, with reporters riding back into town after a wet, breakfastless start.
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Madison Street
Nemo
Nashville Murder Mystery and Mutilated Body Found
Nashville detectives wrestle with ident ity of a mutilated corpse found buried in tan bark near Hell's Half Acre. The coroner and force probe motive and identity, with theories ranging from entrapment to jealousy. Possible suspect Martin ruled out. detectives now suspect Frank Arnold, a missing man. An unrelated street encounter and past political ties are noted, alongside pancake eating wagers in Camden and Brooklyn.
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Nashyicce
Tenn
Hell's Half Acre
Martin
Frank Arnold
Oliver Woodson
Camden
N. J
Michael Delaney
Brooklyn
McLaughlin
Woodson
Railway property as a fifth of capital and vast freight moves
Edward Atkinson states railways account for one fifth of accumulated national capital, employ 650000 people, and move 400000000 tons of freight yearly. Half is fuel and food, and transport costs are so low that a Massachusetts mechanic can ship a year’s supply of food from a distance of 1000 miles for one day’s labor.
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Edward Atkinson
Massachusetts
Explosion in German mill scatters flour sparks roof lifted
A flour sack ruptured while descending stairs in a German mill, dust cloud ignited by a gas flame, triggering an explosion that lifted part of the roof and shattered most windows.
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Germany
Burdette’s Discoverer and the Peoria Romance
The article profiles Phocion Howard who claims to have discovered humorist Robert J. Burdette. It narrates Burdette’s youth in Peoria, his courtship of a stationmaster’s daughter, a pistol and shotgun episode, elopement to wed, and Burdette’s later tribute to his wife whose death inspired his work.
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Phocion Howard
Ilinois
Robert J. Burdette
Col. Howard
Peoria
Burdette
Justice of the Peace
Sturdy
Grim
Charley
Carrie
Aquire
Robert
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Eprey
Mr. Tharpe
Mr. Willingham
Marr
Ines
Nashville
Mulberry Street
Angus
The
Chicago News
Dro P. R. Holt
Dean Sta
Manila
K. F
Lyon
Holt
Howard W. Key
Andrew Female
Collee
Cuthbert
Davenport
Tuginlyrom
Sumter County
A. C. Speer
Georgia
Sumren
Court of Ordinary
William F
Minnie Rhett
Jesse Green
L. A. Catching
Guardian
Webster County
OTICE
Grenora
Werster
Z. F. Saunders
Eutcry
M.T. Sauxpers
J. A. Cures
Wenssten
B. B. Tullis
Penelope Tullis
W. H. Cosby
Granata
Wauster County
Geo. E. Dennard
John R. Leverett
Richland
N. C. Alston, Jr
Weston
Churae
N. C. Alston
People's National Vank
Parker
Tam
Mattie N. Graves
Cor East
Front Streets
Providence
R. I. Parker
Hiscox & Co
N. Y
Jenlwin
A. T. Rogers
Practical Gunsmith
Lamar Street
Americus
Seccessor
Guna
Gupsmith
Sumter
Schley
Dooly, Lee
Webster Counties
Mathews
Americas
Aines
J.N. Walker
Weston & Ford's
J. A. McDonald
Viziat Americus
Fraley Place
G. V. Weaver
Avericus
Ibden
Isaac A. Sheppard & Co
Baltimore
A W. Shesfield &Co
Markos
Gartenery
C. M. Ferry & CQ
Detroit
Michiga
Chichester
Bae
Propertin
Phiza
He.s.l
Hehe
Louiscan
Hn Oglesby
Louisiane National Bank
Samuel Ji. Kennedy
Prest
Sate National Tok
Baldwin
New Orleans National Bank
Academy OF Music
New Orleans
Capital
Abu
Avreoximarion
Palau
Rene
New York Exchange
M. A
M.A. Dauphin
Washington, Co
William Lawrence
Gyles
Americus, Ga
W. B. Oliver
Rylandards
Ameneus
Edward J. Miller
Horace Metal
Bite
Bay of the
Aea
Rs Ovecea
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