Hunger strike and death toll in Siberian prison revolt
An account describes a hunger protest by female prisoners led to forcible feeding, deaths from poison and morphia, and a government inquiry. Six lives were lost. in the end the flogging clause was canceled, reflecting shifting attitudes during the revolution era. The text notes a shift from hunting fugitives to aiding escapees and the changing climate for revolution in the last two years.
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Mlle Bigida
Maria Kovalevska
Vanvanzoff
Flogerie
J C Haskell Badly Hurt In Street Car Incident
J C Haskell of the Southern Car Service Association was thrown from a rapidly moving car at Peach Tree and Fifth Streets Saturday and suffered painful and possibly serious injuries.
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Fifth Street
Owc Haskell
Southern Car Service Association
Peachtree and
Fifth Streets
Rats Spread Bubonic Plague Warned in India
Simla August 18 The plague commission announced that bubonic plague is spread by rats and rat fleas. The government urged destruction of rats, improved housing, and protection of grain stores to reduce infestation.
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Gperin
Simla
Xnvewment
Plague Commission
Rete
Nurse's Story From a Patient Letter About Pain Relief
A nurse's story describes a patient letter detailing struggle with headaches and neuralgia and seeks guidance on relief. The text mentions drug sales and a name, Hine Bohn, with an Auburn New York address.
Yankee Duchess Blinded Guests at Roxburghe Dinner
Special Cable from London reports the duchess of Roxburghe hosted a royal dinner in honor of the prince and princess of Wales. The American hostess wore dazzling jewels, and the table service and orchids from Floors castle added splendor. An artificial nightingale chorus and a Highland fling with the duke followed an impromptu reel, the duchess wearing a coronet and jewelled draperies throughout.
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London
Paris
Windsor Castle
Naylor-Leyland
Floors Castle
Sandringham
Parle
Scotland
Mars Not Inhabited Says Newcomb at Cal lecture
Professor Simon Newcomb of the United States Naval Observatory told a Hearst hall audience at the University of California that Mars is too cold for irrigation canals and likely lifeless. He dismissed Lowell’s canal theories and Wallace’s inhabited-world claim as preposterous, noting heat and atmosphere rules. The summer-session lecturer critiqued recent planetary observations with lantern slides.
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Berkley
Cal Cor
San Francisco
Mars
Simon Newcomb
United States Naval Observatory
Hearst Hall
University of Calfornia
Newcomb
Lowell
Alfred Wallace
Ous
Seared by Train Order Nerves Chinese Passenger
A Chinese traveler named Fong Pake on a San Francisco to St Paul train near Savannah feared a murder plot after being ordered to change cars. He tried to strangle himself with a kerchief but was discovered alive and revived, unable to understand the conductor's instructions.
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Dubuque
Fong Pake
San Francisco
St Paul
Savannah
Ufe
Emigration Discouraged Says Latimer in London Visit
Senator Latimer of South Carolina, part of a special emigration commission, reports European governments are actively discouraging emigration to the United States. He notes strict port inspections, Treasury rules, costly repatriations, and elaborate preaisolations at ports. Latimer observes varied attitudes, with some countries omitting northern migrants and others showing improved emigrant conditions in ports like Hamburg. He urges U S regulation of destination and suggests state emigration commissioners to address the flow.
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London
Senator Latimer
South Carolina
Special Emigration Commission
United States
Latimer
Treasury Department
Italy
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Ellis Island
Hamburg
Lombardy
The Standard Rotary Sewing Machine Ad
The Standard Rotary Sewing Machine is always chosen when price or prejudice do not govern a choice. Both phones 2105 and 88 South Broad Street.
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South Broad Street
Baby reads at 27 months is wonder to Long Beach
Harold Wilson son of Mrs T Wilson of Fifteenth street and Atlantic avenue astonishes neighbors by reading the alphabet, figures, punctuation marks, and simple sentences from magazines. He identifies pictures, recites nursery rhymes, and selects his favorite photo, to the pride of his mother.
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Long Beach
Cal
Los Angeles Examiner
Harold Wilson
T. Wilson
Fifteenth Street
Atlantic Avenue
Couch
Examiner
Harold
Swap Wives Lawfully in Vermilion Trade
Abraham N Endler and Edward D Winspear, former Sweetwater County stockmen, secured divorce decrees and married each other’s wives in Vermilion. The four had long been friends, and after mutual misalliances, the men traveled to South Dakota for divorces to enable the wife swap. The couples then traveled to western Canada together.
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New York World
Abraham N. Endler
Edward D Winepsar
Sweetwater County
Vermilion
Arigona
Endler
Mia Winspear
Winspear
Endier
Noll
South Dakota
Westerl ‘Ganads
English comedian opens American bar in London on Rupert Street
London reports Aubrey Fitzgerald, a well known English comedian, has opened Fitzs American bar on Rupert Street near the Prince Rupert case. The bar aims to offer American style drinks with a small complimentary lunch and a social, theatre crowd atmosphere. Fitzgerald uses the venture to bridge gaps between acting jobs while the London theatre scene slows.
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London
Rupert Street
Prince Rupert Case
Aubrey Fitzgerald
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Fitzgerald
United States
Ted
America
Fitz
Fitz's
Wire Strikers Plan Daily Paper Amid Settlement Glow
News of the telegraphers strike shows mutual satisfaction and a plan to publish a daily paper from strike headquarters. Western Union and Postal Telegraph leaders are away, while strikers report favorable conditions and a refined leased wire news service nationwide. In lighter items, a Philadelphia man narrowly escaped tragedy when a failing bathing suit caused a rescue at Ocean Pier, and a humorous fishing tale ends with a jumbled coin joke among friends.
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New York
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
Taft Begins Global Tour With Manila Return Promise
Secretary of War Taft left Washington for a world circumnavigation to attend Manila’s opening of its first legislative assembly. He will be joined by his son Charles and will meet at Yellowstone Park and Seattle. The trip aims for a December return with a stop in Columbus Ohio for a Buckeye Republican Club speech.
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Washington
Globe
Manila
Legislative Assembly
Taft
W Michler
Mr. Taft
Charles
Yellowstone Park
Fred W. Carpenter
Seattle
Columbus
Ohio
Buckeya Republican Club
Ocean
Drake fatal shooting near Orme and Hunnicutt streets
Ed Drake a Black man was fatally shot at the corner of Orme and Hunnicutt streets during a dispute with Oliver W Brown, a soda fountain proprietor. Brown was arrested as police gather evidence for a possible conviction. The coroner confirmed a gunshot injury to the lungs and the body was prepared for burial.
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Ed Drake
Orme
Hunnicutt
Oliver W Brown
Brown
Goforth Shot in Centre dispute over price
In Centre Saturday night at about 8 o clock Ernest Goforth a Black man was shot and seriously wounded in the stomach by Faul Moora during a price dispute over a negro skating rink. Moora was arrested and admitted the shooting. Goforth was taken to the Grady hospital where treatment was started.
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Goforth
Centregxenue
Ernest Goforth
Negro
Faul Moora
Negro Moora
Grady
Canteen Act Injury to Army
Washington reports the annual pic ture shows 3913 courts martial in the army last year with 32 officers among the convicted. Desertion and absence led the cases, while anti canteen law blamed for vices near military reservations and calls for broader prohibitions to restore discipline.
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Washington
Porter
Portrait by Maclise Hidden in Christie Sale Revealed
A bidder at Christies acquired a portrait he believed unnamed and by an English master. The new owner identified it as rockstone the actor, by Daniel Maclise, noting an engraving in the Maclise portrait gallery.
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John Lane
Pearson
Christies
Sir Henry Irving
Tne Whistler
Coneciaua
Ruckstone
Daniel Maclise
Jie
Maclise
Death of Emma Leachalster and Rob Younger in streetcar crash
In Kansas City Monument 18 Mre Emma Leachalster of Cole and Rob Younger, former members of the James Bend of band dita, died here today as the result of two injuries received in a street car accident.
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Kansas
City
Monument
Emma Leachalster
Cole
Rob Younger
James Bend
Dita
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