Tornado Rips Brinkley Arkansas Killing and Wreckage Scattered
Fourteen dead and many injured as Brinkley suffers massive destruction from a Monday night tornado. Refugees describe shattered businesses and homes, fires started by the storm, and relief trains arriving while communications fail. Survivors recount scenes of terror with rescue efforts ongoing and a governor summoned for aid.
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Weakley
Ark
Brinkley
T. M. Kimmell
Kimmell
Rock Island
Kimmel
J. M. Wojtawski
Richards
Gale
Porter Foote
Belle Darden
G. L. Sterrett
Henry Stovall, Jr
Phillips
Charles Frenze
Claira Rose
Hood
Donaghey
Little Rock
Baneaum
Memphis
Cyclone Toll In Brinkley Destruction Tills Memphis Dispatch
A Brinkley dispatch reports a Monday night cyclone killing fifteen white people and over twenty Black residents, with from fifty to a hundred injured. Rescue workers recover many bodies buried under wreckage.
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Memphis
Brinkley Direct
Heaviest Winter Snowstorm Hits Topeka and Iowa
The heaviest snowstorm of the winter blanketed Topeka and much of Iowa on Tuesday. Trains ran one to two hours late. Snow was wet and light enough to bind streetcar traffic, with temperatures near freezing. Des Moines reported severe snowfall and difficult train movement despite light winds and above zero temperatures.
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Topeka
Kan
Des Moines
Iowa
Four Inch Snow Hits Enid Area With Tornado-Grade Wind
Enid Oklahoma reports the heaviest snowfall in memory on Tuesday morning, laying four inches over the vicinity. The storm halts cotton plowing but benefits spring wheat. A violent wind reached tornado velocity and temperatures dropped sharply.
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Enid
Okla
Switch Signal Inventor Killed in Massillon
Thomas Buchanan, a switch signal inventor, was killed by a train in Massillon Ohio on a March day. The accident occurred near the railroad yard leaving no clear witnesses. Authorities investigation continues as details emerge.
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Massillon, O
Thomas Buchanan
Bryan City Election Ordinance Adopts April Ballot
City Council adopts ordinance for election of Marshal Secretary and three council members to be held at County Court House in Bryan on the first Tuesday in April, under City Charter and state election laws. Mayor J. T. Maloney signed on March 4, 1909 with City Secretary J. B. Hines.
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City of
Bryan
County Court House
Man ends life after note to mother deaths in New Orleans
In New Orleans on March 9 a Texas man identified as Charles A Vandervoort wrote a courtesy closing note before taking strychnine in a lodging house. He stated his mother had died in the same manner and gave no explicit reason for his act. Tulsa reports a record oil deal where the Holland syndicate acquired the Reese Oil and Kansas-Oklahoma Oil companies for 450000 dollars in the Glenn Pool field.
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Vandervoort
Tulsa
Okla
Holland Syndicate
Glenn Pool
Reese Oil Company
Kansas-Oklahoma Oil Company
The Assassins of Persia and Syria
The Assassins began in eleventh century Persia as a religious military order devoted to destroying opponents of Islam. Crusaders encountered them in Syria where many were slain in sudden attacks. The Tartars wiped out the Persian group in 1250, and a Syrian sect fell to an Egyptian ruler fourteen years later, but their feared name endures.
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Persia
Syria
Mi-o-na Promises Rapid Cure for Indigestion
The ad touts Mi-o-na as a cure for digestive misery including belching, sour stomach, nausea, and foul breath. It claims thousands cured quickly by removing the cause and urges readers to contact E. J. Jenkins for a 50 cent box, promising health and renewed flesh.
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E. J. Jenkins
Jenkins
Fire Company Elects Officers and Delegates
Protection Bayne Company No 1 held a meeting Monday night electing J W Hamilton as chief A B Sandifer foreman Wade Cox assistant foreman E J Ettle president J J Ray vice president C E Jenkins secretary W S Howell treasurer G C Calhoun driver Hamilton chosen as state firemen association delegate Sandifer as alternate A silver loving cup won by Allen Academy basketball team in Houston was placed in Haswell’s window with engraving noting the championship and benefactors C L and Theo Berring Jr Houston Texas
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Allen Academy
Houston
Haswell
C. L
Theo. Berring Jr
Texas
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Kurten
German Evangelist Church
Rey
Kasisky
Lueck
Germany
Brazos
Philip Endler
Sunflower State
J. T. Maloney
J. B. Hines
New Orleans
Charles A. Vandervoort
Postoffice Ave
Galveston
The
Assassins
Hyome
E. Rohde
Rohde
Miller’'S
M. H. James
Stevenson Machine & Repair Works
Bryan, Texas
Buchanan & Cloud
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