Ruin in the South As Hurricanes Ravage Gulf Coast
Devastation from Mobile to Pensacola leaves Mobile and Pensacola in ruins with widespread property loss. Winds up to ninety six miles per hour flood Mobile River and coast towns. Two revenue cutters sink, ships wreck, and hundreds perish as flames, flood and collapsed buildings sweep the shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Mexican Gulf
Mobile
Pensacola
Bilox
Mobile Bay
Mobile River
Slater's Landing
Gulf
Mobile Rifles
Mobile Grays
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Flomaton Junction
Blomaton
Pensasola
Alabama
Tombigbee
Bienville Square
Wttle
Government
Royal
Christ Church
Fort Morgan
Jackson
Citronelle
Illinois
Michigan
Ladd
Experts link rise in typhoid cases to raw shellfish
Dr J B Pease of the New York State board of health told the Atlantic City homeopathic congress sanitary department that experts now agree the September surge in typhoid is caused by eating raw oysters mussels and other shellfish. He notes handlers are particularly at risk for infection.
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de. J. B. Pease
New York State Board of Health
Sanitary Department of the Homeopathic Congress
Atlantic City
Nominees for Governor of New York Hughes and Hearst
The Republican Charles Evans Hughes and Democrat William Randolph Hearst are the gubernatorial nominees. Hughes, a lawyer known for the Armstrong commission, sought City Mayor of Greater New York previously. Hearst, a journalist and politician from San Francisco, serves in Congress and advocates radical reforms and public utilities ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Evans Hughes
William Randolph Hearst
New York State
Hughes
Armstrong Commission
Greater New York
Ife
Glens Falls
Brown University
Columbia Law College
Delhi
N. Y
Hearst
Congress
New York
George F. Hearst
California
San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner
Harvard
New York City
George B. McClellan
Gulf Coast Gale Reports Wide Gulf Coast Damage
Data of death and destruction along the Gulf Coast report extensive property losses and dozens of lives. Mobile cites 75 deaths and widespread injuries with $4.5 million in damage. Pensacola reports $5 million and loss of fishermen. New Orleans notes trailer and plant damage. Fort Morgan and the coast guard area show isolation and heavy impact. broader coast reports hundreds of thousands in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Navy Yard
New Orleans
Fort Morgan
Coast Artillery
Gulf Coast
Red Wing Clam Digging Draws City Dwellers for Pearls
Red Wing Minnesota residents join clam fishing in local waters chasing pearls reported to range from small finds to prizes around 100000 dollars. Dozens of diggers and curious locals flock to the beds as stories of luck spread, though most abandon the quest after limited success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nesota
Red Wing
Minn
Rural school consolidation trends reflect rising interest
The passage notes growing effort to consolidate rural schools in Kansas, with the number of districts rising from six in 1903 to twenty in 1906 and many communities weighing the issue. It also mentions Michigan Bulletin No. 19 on consolidating districts, Mt. Vernon educators rejecting unlicensed absence excuses, Claude Palmer earning a scholarship, Hyannis Normal school loans aiding graduates, and an Illinois ruling restricting critic teachers paid from local funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Michigan State Department of Education
Michigan
Board of Education
Mt. Vernon
Claude ©. Palmer
Osawatomie
Kan
University
New York School of Applied Sciences
Helen Gould
Hyannis Normal School
Baldwin
Ilinois
China Foremost East in Five Years Progress
The article reports rapid Chinese advances toward Western learning over five years, with 5 000 schools to meet a decree, 11 000 Chinese students in Tokyo, and 2 000 to 3 000 coming to America. It notes rising post offices from 100 to 1 800, growing newspapers in Tianjin, prohibition on binding girls feet, Bible literacy in schools, and a royal decree making the Christian Sabbath a holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
China Ding
Tokio
Amo
Alnoy
Tien-T'sin
Immigrant dollars flow to Italian banks as Italians save
Immigrants in the United States hoard millions in Italian banks, with the Bank of Naples reporting 183 000 accounts and over 500 000 dollars added in the latest fiscal year. Italians abroad sent 828 000 from Argentina and 425 000 from Brazil, boosting Naples bank receipts above the prior year by 200 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Banka
Italy
United States
Rome
Bank of Naples
Argentina
Brazil
Naples
Aly
Short Personal Notes From The Day
Tierbert H. D. Peirce arrives as American minister to Norway and lands in Christiania. Charles Francis Brush maintains strict office hours from 11:30 to 12, always on time and never overtime. Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee returns from Europe after six weeks studying English cathedrals for Washington’s Cathedral project. A Paul Revere bell from Warren Rhode Island will be recast in Troy New York with a church member overseeing and writing a historical account. Justice Brewer notes he spends his vacation reading and avoids contact from June through October.
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Tierbert H. D. Peirce
Norway
Christiania
Charles Francis Brush
Cleveland
Henry Y. Satterlee
Washington, D. C
Europe
St. Paul and
St. Luke
Washington
Paul Revere
Old Baptist Church
Warren
R. I
Troy
N. Y
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Illinois Farmers Prosper as Corn Prices Rise Across The State
Illinois farmers report higher corn prices and record crops boosting prosperity. A bumper corn year is linked to a state output surpassing Europe and Iowa, with total grain value around 250 million dollars. A Cambridge inquiry into former county clerk Frank H Welton’s accounts prompts a five-member audit panel amid local factionalism.
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Illinois
Ilinois
Europe
Iowa
Frank H. On
Cambridge
Henry County
Henry County Vice Association
Welton
Board of Supervisors
Weston
Safe crackists loot Sigel bank vault for 3900 dollars
Burglars blew the People's Bank vault at Sigel and stole about 3900 dollars in currency and coin. The owners are the Bigler brothers and H F Berechtold, with 5000 dollars insurance. Bank opened next morning after contacting Neoga's Cumberland County bank. Pieces of mutilated notes and amateurish entry suggest improvised work.
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Sigel
People’s Bank
Bigler Brothers
H. IF. Berechtold
Cumberland County
Neoga
Murder in Lomiiayville poker rooms shocks town
Oliver Kinnamon a carpenter died after a riot in Flora saloon sleeping and poker rooms. Police say a blunt instrument crushed his skull and a .38 revolver was placed in his hand to simulate suicide. About $25 from a Grand Island ring vanished. suspects held on gambling charges.
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Lomiiayville
Oliver Kinnamon
Flora
Kinnamon
Trainmen Unveil Monument in Galesburg
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen dedicated a monument in Galesburg to memory of B Wilkinson, longtime grand master, with delegations from railroad centers across Illinois and 700 from Chicago. T. Salisbury led the opening remarks, with P. H. Morrissey and others speaking on the event.
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Imp Ac Ee
Stone
Head of
Locomotive Engineers
Alae
Kennedy Man Ambushes and Kills Railroad Worker
A. B. Farley of Kennedy ambushed Adolph Williams, a white friend, at a Hil dorado camp on the Marion and Southwestern Railroad near Marion. Believing Williams to be a negro after a prior quarrel, Farley fired a double barrel shotgun, killing Williams and flee ing before capture. Bloodhounds aided the pursuit until Farley was jailed.
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Williams
Farley
Auto Backs Down Hill Crash Injures Hebron Couple
Dr and Mrs BE Herrick of Hebron narrowly escaped death when their auto rolled on Meyers hill near Twin Lakes station Wisconsin. Mrs Herrick fractured her right ankle and the doctor suffered a head wound and shoulder bruises. Two guests escaped.
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Hebron
BE. L. Herrick
Meyer's Hill
Twin Lakes Station
Wis
State News in Brief Highlights and Tragic Incidents
A condensed report from an annual Knights of Honor meeting in Springfield notes the order’s prosperous state. Items include a new lace business in Wakeeyan led by Arthur Stevenson, Cairo wealth figure Lewis Herbert, and multiple personal tragedies from Paris to Freeport. Also covered are local crime, kidnaping charges, crop labor demands, Coles county finances, and a Minneapolis wreck survivor’s eerie recovery.
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Carl Darwin
Paris
Knights of Honor
Springfield
Waikeeyan
Arthur Stevenson
Zion City
Lewis Herbert
Cairo
Baptist Hospital
St. Louis
J. Wesley Shenberger, Jr
Freeport
Henry Thomas
Mann Hotel
Virginia
A. B. Warrendorf
Charles W. Bintzen
New York
Memphis
Moline to Become Mississippi River Port After Canal Work
Uncle Sam funds and builds a harbor and canal linking Moline with the Mississippi River. A $280,000 lock contract awarded to Brave Construction Co begins work to create direct passage to Moline riverfront. Dredging and harbor plans push total cost to $400,000–$500,000, enabling up river and down river steamers to bypass the Rock Island rapids via the power canal.
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Sinois City
Moline
Davenport
Iowa
Government Island
Rock Island Arsenal
Rock Island
Uncle Sam
Long Power Canal
Brave Construction Company
Moline River
Power Wall
Illinois
Melime
Recluse's Will Leaves Sterling Real Estate to Helper
Fred Billings, a Sterling Street Railway employee, gained a $30 000 estate from Peter Keller a recluse after providing care during his final illness The will drawn up in Keller's basement was witnessed by two neighbors Contested by Keller's Cincinnati heirs the Whiteside County Circuit Court ruled the will valid and the heirs dropped the contest leaving the estate to Billings
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Sterling Street Railway
Fred Billings
Peter Keller
Keller
Billings
Jess Keller
Cincinnati
Peter
Whiteside County
Fire drill saves 133 girls at Evanston school
A fire at the Illinois Industrial School for Girls in Evanston caused dense smoke from a clothes closet. Daily drills kept 183 girls calm as teachers opened rooms, guiding pupils to the hall and down stairs in an orderly fashion, with doors closed behind them. No injuries reported and damage was small.
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Illinois Industrial School For Girls
Evanston
Louise Johnson
Naval site sold for taxes complicates Lake Bluff project
Lake Bluff naval training station land once set aside for government use has been sold for back taxes. The 190 acre tract, partly transferred after an April 1905 levy, now has a contested title. Buyers include T. J. Jorgensen G W Hardacker George Brown W F Hogan and James G Edwards. About 150 acres have changed hands.
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Lake Bluff
Lake Bluff Naval Training Station
Dhe
T. J. Jorgensen
G W. Hardacker
George Brown
W. F. Hogan
James G. Edwards
Bank Robbery at Verona Nets $500 After Burst Safe
Burglars entered the Verona bank around 2 AM and blew the tank safe to pieces. The interior suffered damage but no arrests were made as the robbers left after about ten minutes. Only $800 was in the safe, of which $500 was taken. Nearby Rockford residents report flea infestations and failed remedies. Sulfur fumigation failed. families vacated homes. Duquoin opens a new Opera House completing a $30,000 project seating 1,200 with formal dedication planned for Oct 1.
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Verona
Rockford
Garner
College Avenue
Clark
Duquoin Opera House
Illinois
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Charles E. Hughes
William BR. Hearst
AG Sgstees
China
America
Illinois State News
Arong
Illinois Bank
Yates City
Bill
George Peterson
John Dunswort
Tretrint
Peterson
J. ©. Marty
Eldorado
Marty
Helen
Litchfield
Central Illinois
Coles County
Nanice
David Green
Chicago
Minneapolis and
New Prague
Green
Naval
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