Left a Trail of Death Denton Cyclone Hits Gribble Springs
A cyclone struck Gribble Springs eight miles north of Denton Texas yesterday afternoon killing four and badly injuring five more. The property damage is large. Local report notes a death toll and injuries with grim detail from the storm. The article also references several other nationwide brief items including robberies and legal matters with terse summaries.
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Denton
Tex
Gribble Springs
Race Meeting at Pierre July 2 3 4
Arrangements completed for a race meeting in Pierre with running trotting and bicycle races as features. Also reports scores from National League and Western League games with players listed and game results.
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Pierre
Opening Day at Morris Park Splendid Feature in Metropo litan Handicap
Metropolitan handicap thrills 15000 spectators as Counter Tenor loses to an exhausted St Maxim who outfinishes Sir Walter by a half length. Distant fields and fast times noted. Also reports Brooklyn cruiser speed test marks and Indiana G A R encampment scenes with Lew Wallace and James Mount expected.
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Morris Park
Hornpipe
Sir Walter
Dorian
Rubicon
St. Maxim
Counter Tenor
Hamilton
Ruppert
Conan
Taral
Clayton
South Bend
Southenn
Ind
Indiana Department
Lew Wallace
Crawfordsville
James A. Mount
Mount
Indiana
Daeager Thomas Convicted in Missouri wagering case
Thomas Daeager, manager of the Missouri Sporting News and Telegraph, was found guilty of accepting wagers on races run outside Missouri. Judge Murphy sentenced him to six months in the workhouse and a $1000 fine. Other items note a Northern Pacific land sale decree and a murder linked to drink in Ontario.
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St. Louis
Charles B. Thomas
Missouri Sporting News and Telegraph Company
Missouri
Murphy
Northern Pacific
New Yor
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Northern Pacific Railroad
Stanford Track Team to Represent California in Chicago
Cal will send the Stanford track team to Chicago on June 6 for the western intercollegiate contests. The squad departs from Pato ALrTo on May 18.
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Stanford
Pato Alrto
Cal
Chicago
California
Simmons Liver Regulator Advertisement Claim
An 19th century style advert promotes SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR to wake and regulate the liver after winter. It claims the liver slows, causes malaria fever and rheumatism, and that the product keeps the system poison free and the body invigorated. It suggests taking the remedy in powder liquid or tea and highlights a red Z on the package.
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Simmons Liver Regulator
J. H. Zeilin & Co
Philade
Five Killed and Dozens Injured as Tornado Hits Kansas
A Kansas cyclone struck Sabetha Nemaha county and surrounding towns on May 18 tearing through Subetha Sabetha Frankfort and Reserve. Five died including in Sabetha and Frankfort while many were injured and homes destroyed. Rescue efforts and medical aid were organized across impacted communities.
Serious Riot Ends in Shootings at MacAdoo Ball Game
A riot by drunken Italians at a MacAdoo baseball game left six people shot and several more injured. Players and spectators fled as revolvers, clubs, and stones were used, with Ward the catcher among the seriously wounded awaiting hospital care. Authorities arrested several offenders and more arrests expected.
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HagzietTon
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Thomas Kairns
James Muldowney
Burke Brennan
James Brennan
Mary Burke
Antonio Rizzo
Rose Viedha
Ward
MacAdoo Club
Iowa Crop Report Highlights Dry Conditions and Chinch Bugs
The Iowa weekly weather crop bulletin reports a hot dry week with ample sunshine and light rainfall a trace in most areas. Central and northern districts saw showers Sunday evening extending over a wide area while southern regions seek moisture for pastures and small grains. Corn planting progressed well with early stands good and cultivation underway. chinch bugs cause anxiety in some areas.
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Des Moines
Iowa Weekly
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Topeka
Kansas Crop Bulletin
Missouri Columpus
Missouri Crop Bulletin
Editorialists Plan Mid Summer Meeting at Delevan Lake
Executive committee of the Fifth District Editorial association decides to hold the annual mid summer meeting at Delevan Lake Wisconsin in the first week of August. The meeting venue and timing are set amid other brief notices. Eight killed in Howe Texas cyclone wrecks town on May 16 leaving ruin and casualties. The cyclone path was about a quarter mile wide with ten farm homes and as many barns destroyed. Eight dead and many injured, trees stripped, stock killed.
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Semoa
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M. R. Connell
M. E. Voorhees
Peter Assenmac
Oneida
James Sherrard
Baileyvil's
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Francfort
Delevan Lake
Artesian Well Contract at Crow Creek Agency
May 18 report from Crow Creek agency notes James Sanford of this city securing a 3000 dollar contract to sink a 6 inch artesian well. The project aims to furnish power for the agency mill and electric plant and water supply, influencing wells at other Sioux agencies. Also: Arthur Putnam, ex-president of Chadron Banking, arrested at Onapron for accepting deposits while insolvent.
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Crow Creek Agency
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Onapron
Arthur ©. Putnam
Chadron Banking Company
The Pitman and the Ear Trumpet
In a Newcastle public house a pitman greets an old man with a loud morning salutation. The elder, lying in wait, draws a trumpet from his pocket to test hearing, then declares with disappointment that no sound comes and adds a quip about not playing with the ear.
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Newcastle
Miracle Cure Reported For Breast Cancer
Mr A H Crausby of 158 Kerr St Memphis says his wife ignored a small lump that grew into a severe breast cancer. After doctors proclaimed it incurable a New York specialist gave up, then S S S treatment seemed to help and the cancer healed after several bottles with no relapse years later.
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Memphis
Tenn
New York
Window in Bern and a Vermont court tale
A window in Bern shows how Swiss maidens idle afternoons with knitting songs and gossip while a nearby student leans from the window for familiar views. A later anecdote recalls Governor Mattox of Vermont testing a bar candidate who confessed he did not know what a freehold estate is, a quip the judge accepts as honesty.
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Those Monotonous Sonnets and Other Fragments
A fragmentary snippet notes a literary exchange about Sonnets and criticism. It also catalogs a brief prose line about a dewdrop on a rose and a practical cooking tip for orange, ending with a civil notice: 16 additional British officers ordered to Egypt for the Nile expedition.
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the Chronicle
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