Fire devastates Boston area injuring many and displacing hundreds
After Sundays blaze in East Boston and Charlestown, over fifty babies were found and taken to police stations. Officials pledge relief funds for the homeless while the city plans mass aid meetings. Authorities suspend liquor licenses to aid police and militia in restoring order as search of ruins continues.
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Boston
Draper
State House
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Somerville
Crimmons
h@ds
Gutter
Board of Assessors
Charlestown
Chelsea
O'Meara
Broken Knife Blade Hid In Brooklyn Man’s Lung
Jacob I. Hyland of Brooklyn lived twenty years with a blade fragment in his right lung believed to cause tuberculosis like symptoms. He died at St. Luke's Hospital. autopsy revealed the blade, the origin of its entry unknown, possibly during boyhood with no external wound. Physicians noted the mystery of how it entered the lung remains unsolved.
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New York
Jacob I. Hyland
Brooklyn
Hyland
St. Luke Hospital
St. Luke’s
St. Luke
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
American Asiatic Squadron Sails for Northern Cruise
The American Asiatic squadron assembles in Subig Bay Manila and will depart Wednesday for a four month northern cruise under Rear Admiral Hemphill. Part of the fleet will advance up the Yangtze to Hankow while another group heads to Vladivostok. Galveston and Chattanooga stay to host the Japanese training squadron and later cruise to Saigon Bangkok and Singapore.
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Subig Bay
Manila
Hemphill
China
Japan
Yangtsekiang River
Hankow
Vladivostok
Galveston
Chattanooga
Sagen
Bangkok
Singapore
Four Soldiers Slain Near Transcaucasia Frontier
Lenkoran April 13. Russian troops clashed with Persian brigands near Belostvar coast frontier. Captain and three soldiers were killed. five others wounded in the engagement.
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Lenkoran
Belostvar
Bald Thirty Years, Now Has Hair
New Orleans reports Henry Gilbert aged seventy eight regained a full head of hair after thirty years of baldness. Pensacola notes no cars were run on Monday with streets patrolled and traffic controlled.
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New Orleans
Henry Gilbert
Pensacola
Fla
Great Naval Parade Promises Imposing San Diego Display
San Diego on April 13 reports a grand naval parade as Atlantic fleet arrives with 5000 sailors and 200 officers. Sixteen first class battleships assemble for the voyage to the Pacific, with bands and marines, Governor Gillette and Mayor Forward to speak, two oclock Wednesday parade marking welcome ceremonies.
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San Diego
Cal
Admiral Dewey
New York City
Manila Bay
Pacific
San Francisco
Gillette
Forward
Pacific Coast Artillery
Army
Fort Rosecrans
California National Guard
Naval
Grand Army of the Republic
First Steps Taken on Texas Insurance Tax
Commissioner Love moves to enforce the 3 percent tax on life insurers leaving Texas after the Robertson law. He sent a demand to a New York company warning suit if taxes and penalties are not paid by May 1. About $100000 in taxes are involved as the Oklahoma railway and corporation commission party arrives with AG West and AG Henson.
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Love
Austin
Texas
New York
Oklahoma Railway and Corporation Commission
West
Henson
Flood in Hankow Drowns 2000 as Floodwaters Sink 700 Junks
A disastrous Hankow flood in Hu Po province kills about two thousand people and sinks or wrecks seven hundred junks after an unexpected freshet sweeps through the area in the middle of the night. Shanghai reports the toll remains unconfirmed.
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China
Shanghai
Hankow
Hu Poh
Woman slain in St. Louis. throat cut and money missing
In St Louis on April 13 Mrs Bridget E Mullady aged woman was found murdered at her home on South Fourteenth street. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and a purse with a substantial sum of money was found empty.
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St. Louis
Bridget E. Mullady
South Fourteenth Street
Murder of Bronx shirtwaist factory owner remains under inquiry
New York on April 13 reports Mrs. Liberman wife of a Bronx shirtwaist manufacturer found murdered in Courtland Avenue apartments. Her throat was cut and a deep wound in her left side noted. Her husband held for investigation by the coroner as authorities pursue the case. May Be Next Week, Austin April 13 says the U S Supreme Court may hear the railroads versus Texas Love receipts tax law mid or late this week, with several cases ahead possibly delaying beyond then.
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New York
A. Liberman
Bronx
Courtland Avenue
Austin
Davidson
United States Supreme Court
State of Texas
Two Hotels Burn in Genoa Italy
Genoa reports two hotels burned on April 13. In Corinth Mississippi on April 13 Jack Bruner was seriously stabbed by Dave Vroal.
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Genoa
Italy
Corinth
Miss
Jack Bruner
Dave Vroal
Reed Promotes Texas Insurance Plans for All Ages
The speaker highlights a Texas company with capital and surplus, promising to keep Texas money in Texas. Joe B. Reed will outline plans and rates and offer Accident and Sick Benefit Insurance from top firms. He urges every man and woman under 50 in good health to join.
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Texas
Joe B. Reed
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Perri-Walla
India
Ceylon
Lipton Tea
Elks’ Delight
E. J. Jenkins
GEO. A. Adams Insurance
Oliver
Will S. Higgs
Stevenson Machine and Repair
Bryan
Transcaucasia
Russia
Brazos County
The
City National Bank
G. S. Parker
E. H. Astin
Albert W. Wilkerson
E. W. Crenshaw
J. N. Cole
J. K. Parker
J. W. English
J. Bulte
Valley
Chapman
Sanders Bros
CRAIN
Southwestern Life Insurance CO
Dallas, Tex
Friend IN
Need Society
Joe Breed
W. H. Lawrence
the Miller House
W. F. Miller
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