Tornado Devastates Snyder Killing Many Injuring Dozens
Relentless storm rips Snyder Oklahoma with 100 feared dead and 140 injured. Eighty five bodies recovered, dozen missing, dozens seriously hurt. Oklahoma City sends 100 diggers and undertakers with 100 coffins as relief pours in from neighboring towns. Governor Ferguson issues aid proclamation amid scarce information and widespread destruction.
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Guthrie
Okla
Snyder
Oklahoma City
Ferguson
Oklahoma
Mrs Murphy Credits Dr Williams Pink Pills For Health
Mrs. Mary D. Murphy describes relief from years of stomach trouble heat flashes and nervous weakness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She notes rapid improvement within a half box and full recovery after three boxes. She urges other sufferers to try the remedy and mentions local contact details and free literature.
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Dr. Williams
Mary D. Murphy
Force Street
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Woman Beheaded in Snyder Storm Tragedy
In Snyder Oklahoma a deadly tornado struck at night. Colonel Williamson seized a woman he mistook for his wife and fled to safety, only to discover she was not his wife. Mrs Williamson was later found headless at the temporary morgue. Freight yards suffered ruin with fifty cars burned to kindling and tracks torn up. One business block was consumed by fire as the storm swept in from the southwest.
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Clarence Donovan
Nina Fessenden
Fred Crump
Cooperton
Jtown
Snyder
Guthrie
Okla
Williamson
Relief Rush Reaches Snyder After Oklahoma Storm
News of a devastating Snyder storm came at midnight as telegraph and phone lines failed. Relief trains from Hobart and other towns rushed out with doctors nurses and volunteers. By dawn rescuers found widespread wreckage and numerous casualties amid scattered debris and urgent aid efforts.
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Guthrie
Okla
Snyder
Hobart
Chickasha
I. T
Oklahoma City
Snyder Oklahoma Built by Rail At Junction Town
Snyder, Oklahoma a Kiowa county town of about 2500 residents grew around the St Louis and San Francisco railway at a key junction. The railroad laid out the town named for Bryan Snyder passenger traffic manager and served as division point for the Quanah line.
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Snyder
Kiowa County
Oklahoma
Kiowa and
Comanche
St. Louis
San Francisco Railway
Quanah
Bryan Snyder
Tornado Strikes Overbrook Near Topeka Kansas
A tornado hit the town of Overbrook about 12 miles southeast of Topeka on May 11 damaging several houses and barns in a dense farming community. No fatalities were reported as yet.
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Topeka
Kan
Overbrook
Gideonites Plan Revival Campaign In Hub Area
A group of Gideonites met at the Parker House and set plans for a revival campaign. John Nicholson of Wisconsin will lead the effort starting next week for one month, with travelling men sharing experiences to encourage fellow commercial travellers to join the movement.
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Christian Commercial Travellers’ Association
Gideonites
Parker House
East
John Nicholson
Wisconsin
Professor Mitchell Cleared of Heresy Charge
After weeks of suspense the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church cleared Professor Hinckley G Mitchell of the heresy charge for his criticisms of the Bible. Charges had claimed his views harmed church interests and were under consideration for weeks.
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Hinckley G. Mitchell
Board of Bishops
the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Mitchell
Methodist Church
Brava Portuguese Smuggling Suspected in Providence
May 11. A two masted schooner Hattie and Lottie was stopped in Providence as 20 Portuguese from Brava Cape Verde Islands were found aboard along with 20 crew and 20 passengers without manifests. The vessel was held and Boston immigration officials planned a full investigation to determine if a smuggling operation is involved and potential fines and head money.
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Providence
Brava
Cape Verde Islands
Hattie
Lottie
George C. Gardiner
Billings
Boston
United States
Fall River Seeks Leather Plant to Lift Industrial Spirit
Prominent citizens plan a citizens association to woo Baron Von Heyl of Germany and G M Gillington of England to establish a leather plant in eastern Massachusetts. They seek the two men after a Boston leather-centre tour and have written to the Boston Post for contact details. Public meetings have been held as workers strike and Fall River hopes to regain prominence as a manufacturing hub.
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Fall River
Citizens’ Association
Baron von Heyl
Germany
G. M. Gillington
England
Boston
Massachusetts
Jacob Feiberberg
Boston Post
Gillington
Newton Man Fights Trolley Over Washington Street Tracks
Dr. N Emmons Paine of Newton has filed a bill in equity in Middlesex County seeking to enjoin the Newton Street Railway Company from laying tracks on Washington Street Newton. He says the tracks would injure his property and threaten his sanitarium with damage.
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N. Emmons Paine
Newton
Clerk of Courts
Middlesex County
Cambridge
Newton Street Railway Company
Washington Street
Hoch trial hears testimony on poison death mystery
In Chicago on May 11 1910 Dr. Ludwig Hektoen says no nephritis found in Marie Welcker Hoch. Witness Frederick O Collins a New York druggist testifies arsenic found in Hoch’s fountain pen not traced to his store on the claimed date.
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Chicago
Johann Hoch
Marie Welcker-Hoch
Ludwig Hektoen
Frederick O. Collins
New York
Hoch
Collins
Burglary Attempt Foiled At Cambridge Drug Store
Louis Porter, owner of a Cambridge drug store at Massachusetts avenue and Columbia street, Cambridge, was alerted by a midnight call from a supposed burglar. The intruder fled, pursued by Porter and his lookout, ending the attempted break-in.
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Louis Porter
Massachusetts Avenue
Columbia Street
Cambridge
Contest over Bigelow estate in Boston triggers challenge
A Boston bar figure Edwin M. Bigelow left a 300000 plus estate to his adopted grandson Leslie Hastings a Harvard student. Brothers from Worcester hire Bartlett and Anderson and Fred Gilpatric to challenge the will and adoption proceedings loom with A E Pillsbury as counsel.
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Edwin M. Bigelow
Boston
Bigelow
Worcester
Bartlett & Anderson
Fred C. Gilpatric
Leslie Hastings
Harvard
A. E. Pillsbury
Two Little Strangers Welcomed in Roxe
Mr and Mrs John Condon of Mt Pleasant Roxbury celebrated the arrival of two robust young Condons at 100 Burrell Street Roxbury. Friends enjoyed piano and violin selections by Roxbury musicians and a late hour batch of songs followed by an elaborate collation.
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John Condon
Mt. Pleasant
Burrell Street
Roxbury
Condons
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