Enid Fire Destroys Four Business Blocks. Loss Over 100000
A blaze in Enid Oklahoma destroyed four blocks of public square business houses in under three hours after midnight on Saturday. Firefighters used dynamite to blow up buildings to stop the flames as drought fed the fire. Total losses exceed 100000 with insurance light. many structures and contents were incinerated including Crandall Grubb and Gensman Bros. holdings.
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Enid
Oxfa
John Benton
Gensman Bros
Snyder Furniture
Cramer
Mauldin’s
Central Hotel
Enid Carriage Works
Yeakey
Crandall & Grubb
St. Joe
Armour Packing Co
Montezuma
Clivinger
Weekly Events Printing Office
Weatherly
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Garfield County
Oklahoma
Territory
Drowned During Hebrew Picnic Bathing At Daufuskie Beach
Six people drowned while surf bathing at a Hebrew group picnic near Savannah Georgia on Daufuskie beach. The victims included Mrs Abe Dickstein and five children ages 10 to 22. A southeast wind and flood tide drove bathers toward a sluice between a shoal and shore. Fifty yards offshore the sea swept them under with heavy waves and current.
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Savannah
Daufuskie Beach
Abe Dickstein
Annie Kronstadt
Ida Kronstadt
Leah Silverstein
Annie Horowitz
Ysaac Zachi
Avere
Mrs. Dickstein
Scar Face Jim Eludes Marshals After Dalton Gang Fight
Ardmore dated July 15 reports Scar Face Jim, alleged Dalton gang member, found with a bullet wound 20 miles east. He was wounded in Sulphur during a fight with deputy U S marshals, escaped, and vowed not to be captured alive as Hammer and deputies pursue him.
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Ardmore
J. T
Jim
Dalton Gang of Outlaws
Here
United States
Hammer
Scar-Face
Pickpocket gang derails Epworth Leaguers in Colorado
In Colorado Springs a highly organized gang robbed about twenty Epworth Leaguers stranded in Glenwood Springs. Victims lost all money and tickets with some trunks seized on stolen baggage checks. Dr Lee Wilson and wife daughter and Mrs H R Harrington of Dover Del were among the robbed. Maj S K Hooper of the Denver Rio Grande arranged passes for stranded passengers to Ogden to continue west.
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Glenwood Springs
Col
Colorado Springs
Epworth
San Francisco
Lee Wilson
H. R. Harrington
Dover
Del
Dr. Wilson
Maj. S. K. Hooper
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Ogden
Botkin Case Aims for U S Supreme Court After New Trial
Attorneys for Mrs. Cordelia Botkin plan to file for a writ of habeas corpus in the state court and, if denied, pursue a writ of error to the United States Supreme Court. They raise two jurisdiction questions, arguing the poisoned candy mail incident may not be a crime here and that the Constitution requires trial where the crime occurred.
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An Francisco
Cordelia Botkin
State Supreme Court
John P. Dunning
Delaware
United States Supreme Court
Fire guts boiler works in St Louis block
Fire started in the engine room of the John O'Brien Boiler Works Co Sunday afternoon at four. In one hour the plant between Eleventh and Twelfth and Mullanphy and Howard streets was gutted. Loss mainly on iron-working machines, about 50 000 dollars, insured.
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St. Louis
John O’brien Boiler Works Co
Mullanphy
Howard Streets
John O’brien, Jr
Youngers Released After 25 Years In Prison
Cole and James Younger left Stillwater prison on Sunday and stepped into downtown Stillwater for the first time in a quarter of a century. They greeted the city with childlike wonder, marveling at electric cars and telephones as crowds watched a restrained, secretive parole day.
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Stillwater Minn
Cole
James Younger
Wolfer
Missouri
Monument unveiled at Kurihama honoring Perry landing
In Yokohama on July 15 1853 memorial ceremony mark the landing anniversary. Rear Admiral Rodgers led the unveiling with Viscount Katsura delivering the memorial address. Three American and five Japanese ships saluted in the event attended by high ranking officials.
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Yokohama
Kurihama
Commodore Perry
Rodgers
United States
Viscount Katsura
Heat Wane Lingers as Drought Hits Western Plains
Kansas City reports 102 degrees with no relief in sight as drought scorches western Missouri and Kansas. Farmers fear crop loss and water shortages as cattle shipments to market continue amid blistering heat and fire risk. Maryville records 104 and three prostrations as persistent sun drains the region.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Southwest
Maryville
Kas
Drought Ravages Corn and Oats Across Midwest and Plains
Reports from St Joseph, Omaha, and Minnesota describe prolonged heat and dry weather destroying corn oats and crops. Livestock feed costs rise as pastures fail with temperatures reaching the upper nineties to over a hundred. Chinch bugs worsen wheat damage in southern Minnesota as rain remains absent.
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St. Joseph
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Huron
Lims Falls
New Ulm
W. M. Hayes
State Agricultural Experimental Farm
Remarkable Cure Reported From Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs. Rorick claims complete relief from Rheumatism after using Dodd's Kidney Pills with no relapse after stopping. Tippecanoe County residents at large report similar improvements, praising the remedy. In Nebraska, a heat wave peaks at 109 degrees in the northwest region, with a 102 degree reading at the official station.
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Dodd
Tippecanoe County
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
Peakness
Dinah the Sun Payment Mixup in Virginia Tale
A Baltimore woman recalls Dinah, a simple Southern cook, astonished by a door to door sun payment request. Dinah pays 24 cents for the Sun, wonders if sunshine in Virginia should be free like air, and laughs at the local custom as a city quirk.
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Baltimore
Dinah
Missus
Virginia
Hebben
Baltimore Sun
It is said lobsters may die out in 25 years
Hiland quotes a remark about impending lobster extinction. Halket replies with a darkly humorous view, suggesting they may all die before that time, preferring to look on the bright side.
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Hiland
Halket
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Charge of the Light Brigade meter teased
In a brief exchange, Willie and Pa discuss the meter of the poem cited by a teacher. The Philadelphia Press notes the ironic joke as gas meter pun and literary reference.
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Willie
Light Brigade
Philadelphia Press
Supreme Court Sustains the Foot-Ease Trade Mark
Justice Laughlin in Buffalo orders a permanent injunction with costs and accounting of sales against Paul B. Hudson and a Brooklyn retailer for selling Dr. Clark's Foot Powder. The court holds it an imitation of Foot-Ease owned by Allen S. Olmsted of Leroy New York, who popularized the product nationwide. Similar actions will follow against infringers.
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Supreme Court
Laughlin
Buffalo
Paul B. Hudson
Dr. Clark
Brooklyn
Allen S. Olmsted
Leroy
N. Y
Carpet Beater Joke From Divided Floors
An amused man comments on his downstairs neighbor Smith with the remark that he would make an elegant carpet beater. His wife asks why and he explains the neighbor has the regular carpet beater's touch. Mrs Robbins credits Piso's Cure for Consumption to saving her life three years ago.
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Smith
N. Y
Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich
A Man and Woman Reflections on Hair Age
A noted saying from the Atchison Globe notes a man’s hair struggle begins with baldness and a woman’s starts when she can safely use a curling iron. The aphorism reflects evolving grooming concerns across genders.
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Atchison Globe
Hoxsie’s Croup Cure Champion of Children
An old Washington IA newspaper endorses Hoxsie’s Croup Cure as a life saver for children. It claims no opium and notes a 50 day period of effectiveness. The ad includes a self help aphorism about mood and responsibility.
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Hoxsie
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