Flood Devastates Brazos Region Widespread Losses
Relief efforts mobilize as three trains depart from Houston Galveston and San Antonio to feed and shelter up to 20000 displaced black residents. Cotton and crop losses peak at about 5 million dollars with total property damage around 8.6 million. In Galveston Harris and other counties 37 drownings reported and hunger spread in Sealey and Hearn as the Brazos river drains 85 miles from Caney to Chocolate with utter destruction.
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Matagorda County
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NEW NATIONAL PARK PLANS FOR NORTHERN MINNESOTA
A national park or forestry reserve for governmental preservation of over 7,000,000 acres in northern Minnesota will be formed in Chicago this month. The tract includes the Leech Lake district and counties Crow Wing Aitken Wadena Hubbard Beltrama and Itasca with over 1,000 lakes.
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Chicago
Mississippi River
Leech Lake
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Doings of Endeavorers Crowd Detroit Meetings
Crowded gatherings of men and women followed by a Sabbath observance rally in Detroit on July 10. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon preached at Bethany Presbyterian Church after walking over three miles, urging civic righteousness and stewardship. About 3,500 men filled Light Guard Armory for the men’s meeting, pledging a landmark life change, while Mrs. F. B. Clark presided over the women’s gathering at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church.
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Bethany Presbyterian Church
Sheldon
Light Guard
F. B. Clark
Clark
Woodward Avenue Baptist Church
Shamrock Trial Spin Sparks Solent Hype for America's Cup
The Times notes Shamrock as the fastest light weather craft seen in the Solent. The ship sailed steadily with easy helm and good canvas, meeting expectations. A correspondent calls her a vessel of great power with ample freeboard, dwarfing Meteor and Satania in light wind. Yachting circles in the Solent hype the Shamrock Columbia race.
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the Times
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Times
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National Education Association gathers visitors in Los Angeles
Teachers and thousands of visitors flood Los Angeles as Sunday rest and recreation mark the eighth day of the National Education Association gathering. Trains bring delegates and friends to seaside and mountain resorts while churches fill to standing room. The national council of education opens its second session tomorrow led by W. T. Harris. Foresters Annual Meeting in Milwaukee opens fifth session. Chief ranger J. R. Schoemaker reports growth in the Northwestern United Order of Foresters. convention ends Tuesday.
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Supreme Court of the United Order of Foresters
J. R. Schoemaker
St. Paul
Rockefellers Buys Texado Island Mines In BC
Telegrams terse summarize Rockefeller purchasing Texado island iron mines in British Columbia with price kept secret. Also reports Walker acquitted in Bristol Tennessee shooting case. A fatal collision on a Wabash train near Buffalo leaves two dead including Lizzie Prequesel and William Diem. Washington timber land sales shift 50k acres to Michigan and Minnesota interests for about 500000 dollars. Navy paymaster Wilcox found guilty of drunkenness and dismissed. Harriman wins American amateur golf title over Douglas. Flint Glass Workers open convention at Muncie with labor parade. Knights of Labor discuss surface railway labor in NY and Brooklyn. Bear Island annexation denial from Germany noted. Serbian King Milan assassination fallout cited. clerical arrests mentioned.
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Lizzie Prequesel
Buffalo
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Snohomish
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League Island Navy Yard
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Meadowbrook Golf Club
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Muncie
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New York
Brooklyn
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State Department
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Servia
Victoria
Francis Joseph
Milan
Destructive cyclone devastates Ainsworth area killing one
A cyclone passed two miles north of Ainsworth yesterday afternoon killing a woman and destroying farmsteads. Homes owned by John Strohm, William Lockmiller, Rev. T. W. Delong, George Brown, Charley Trotter, and W. H. Haring were demolished or wrecked. Crops were destroyed and livestock killed as the funnel dissipated over Bone Creek bridge and surrounding prairie. The Delong family avoided injury by sheltering in a cellar. The storm moved in a direct line, with the funnel’s final collapse near Meadville road.
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Ainsworth
William Lockmiller
Bone Creek Bridge
Meadville Road
George Brown
Charley Trotter
Delong
Delong’s
Fourth of July casualties and accidents reported nationwide
The Tribune’s Fourth of July number tallies 83 deaths and 1,730 injuries across 250 cities. Fire losses total 283,070 dollars with most injuries from fireworks and cannon crackers. Other items include a jailhouse tragedy in Iowa, a Nev. train wreck near Elko, vessels grounded near Evansville, a Missouri special election call, and a balloonist fall in Sioux City witnessed by 5,000 people.
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the Tribune
Bishop Newman Dies After Illness in Saratoga
Bishop John P. Newman of the Methodist Episcopal church dies in Saratoga after a serious illness. He had been near death for more than 84 hours as pneumonia and myelitis took him. Close friends Mrs. U. S. Grant Mrs. Fred D. Grant and Miss Julia Grant aided at his bedside a son and daughter in law attended the funeral arrangements planned for First Methodist Episcopal church in Saratoga.
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John P. Newman
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Newman Cottage
U. S. Grant
Fred D. Grant
Julia Grant
Grant
General Conference
Omaha
Houston
Tex
Board of Bishops
San Francisco
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