East swept by a October storm wrecks vessels off Roosevet
A fierce hurricane and sea gale from Oyster Bay to New York crippled ships near Roosevelt and Manhattan. Vessels were driven ashore at Hell Gate and Broadwater. telegraph lines and street wires toppled. Captain and crew abandoned ship, many injuries reported, with loss of life and wrecked buildings and docks. President Theodore Roosevelt endured a perilous voyage aboard the Sylph as it battled waves and wind to reach New York Harbor.
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Turmoil Across Balkans and Asian Crises Reflected in Dispatches
Dispatches describe Austria Hungary and Russia pressured to defend Balkan borders as Bulgarian Turks resist insurgent bands in Macedonia. Reports mention massacres near Monastir Kastoria and massacred families, with consuls powerless. Asia news note Russia demands Manchuria evacuation, Japan pressing for withdrawal, while Beiruti unrest and plague fears surge in Beirut and Torda.
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Cabinet Resignations Rock UK as Liberal Return Hints
London September 18 The cabinet crisis deepens as Joseph Chamberlain C T Ritchie and George Hamiton resign. Lord Lansdowne travels to Balmoral while Lord Balfour may resign. Conservatives anticipate reshuffles as calls for an immediate country appeal grow and analysts predict a Liberal return to power.
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Associated Press
Downing Street
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C. T. Ritchir
Excheaner
Lori George Kamiiton
India
Lord Lansdowne
Balmoral
Balfour
Duke
Austen Chamberlain
Earl of Selborne
Bulgarians Mobilize on Turkish Frontier Amid Rumors
Sofia Sept 16 Twenty thousand Bulgarian troops mobilize as rumors fly of frontline divisions summoned though official word says only three divisions recalled. Government warns against panic while awaiting a response from the powers to Bulgaria's note amid Turkish pressure near the frontier. Wrecks dot the Florida coast as ships run aground along the Havana route.
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Bulgaria
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Adrianople
Monument to Late President McKinley Erected at Toledo
The McKinley monument in Toledo was unveiled on September 14. A gray granite square column bears the inscription William McKinley with a brief life history on its four faces, and the shaft is surmounted.
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Toledo
William McKinley
Revere
Circumstances Under Which Key Wrote The Nation’s Anthem
Francis Scott Key, father a Revolutionary officer and lawyer after St Johns college, wrote the Star Spangled Banner in 1814 while observing Baltimore’s bombardment from a British vessel. All night shot and shell fell, the flag over Fort McHenry remained, and Key penned the poem that became the national anthem.
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Maryland
St. John's College
Madison
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Key
Fort McHenry
Turned Century, Still Healthy Hoboken Man Reaches 103
Wolff Weissmann of Hoboken New Jersey celebrated his one hundred third birthday last week after a day of electioneering downtown. He drank wine and smoked a pipe but plans to quit smoking. Born in Kishineff Russia he left in 1824 due to persecution of Jews.
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Hoboken
N. J
Kishineff
Russia
South Africa He Can Continue Mission Work Abroad
Reverend Alexander Francis, an American clergyman at St. Petersburg noted for managing famine relief funds for Russia in 1892, plans to leave his mission there and relocate to South Africa to pursue new work.
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Alexander Francis
St. Petersburg
Russia
Vanderbilt Feud Healed After Waltorf Reunion
It is stated that the reconciliation between members of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s family, begun last spring, is now nearly complete after a visit to the Waldorf Astoria New York. Five Revolutionary War widows and daughters are drawing U.S. pensions: Hannah Newell Barrett 103 Esther Damon 85 Rebecca Mayo 90 Rhoda Thompson 82. Edward Tealey, a San Francisco reporter, was robbed of $6.20. a cake of soap on his person was overlooked by the footpads.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
United States
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Esther 5S. Damon
Sarah C. Hurlbutt
Rebecca Mayo
Rhoda Augusta Thompson
Edward F. Tealey
San Francisco
Around Earth in Forty Days Planned by Banker
Cleveland banker Spencer, president of the Cleveland National Bank, aims to circumnavigate the globe in forty days. He plans a route linking Yokohama, Moscow, Vladivostok, Nichi, Yokohama, San Francisco, and Cleveland, hoping for tight connections to beat the record. Plans are provisional awaiting departure date and route finalization.
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Russia
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Nich
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Pigeons to be Carried Aboard Ships for War
Experiments with carrier pigeons in the German army are considered satisfactory and now every warship departing Kiel or Wilhelmshaven will take a consignment of pigeons. They will be released at varying distances from land stations and are estimated to endure a flight home about 185 miles.
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Wilhelmshaven
Prominent in Law at Ninety-one
Albert Ware Paine of Bangor remains active in law at his ninety one birth anniversary. He has voted at every presidential election except the one when Zachary Taylor won. Paine is president of the Maine Telegraph company and notes California fruits are supplanting French and Italian exports in German markets.
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Mme
Law
Maine Telegraph Company
Zachary Taylor
Fragmented OCR note on personal matters and questions
A garbled OCR fragment references prayer, loyalties, fears, and a misquoted line about a son and intentions. It mentions Angela, Jane, and Sam-Yeas and ends with unclear phrases about home and strike actions. No clear event or report emerges.
Fragmentary Gibberish OCR Notes from An Unclear Page
A garbled OCR passage shows fragmented phrases and nonsensical dialogue about names and places, including references to Noah, St Louis, and unsettled questions. The legible content is minimal, with stray quotes and stray words offering no coherent event or context.
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