Clara Barton plans railroad hospital car service in new relief drive
Clara Barton, over eighty, returns to Massachusetts to organize hospital corps on railroads to speed aid for wreck victims. The Red Cross founder sits for a rare portrait with Mrs John A Logan as her companion.
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Clara Barton
Red Cross
Massachusetts
John A. Logan
New England
Patent Office
Washington
Army of the Potomac
Cedar Mountain
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Wilderness
Barton
Strasburg
Paris
United States
Ohio
Louisiana
Texas
Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan
Missouri
Kentucky
Sionary
Oxford
Mass
Congress
Johnstown
Cuba
Galveston
America
Miss Barton
Baden
Natalie
Italy
Germany
Elijah the Third rises in Zion City satire
Quips note that Elijah the third has gained prominence in Zion City, likening his ascent to the original. A Kansas woman bitten tongue by a mule serves as cautionary humor about talking back to beasts. Russell Sage questions air travel versus walking costs, mocking modern travel trends.
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Zion City
Elijah the Third
Kansas
Russell Sage
Krakatoa eruption described by Sir Robert Ball
The Krakatoa event of 1883 produced ash clouds and the loudest sound ever recorded, heard hundreds of miles away. It caused atmospheric ripples circumnavigating the globe and was witnessed from Batavia to Rodriguez, 3000 miles distant, with studies noting its global acoustic reach.
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Robert Ball
Nrakafon
J. Appleton & Co
Isso
Krakatoa
Sumatra
Java
Batavia
Tie Island
Werakatea
Suethatra
Straits of
Sunda
Indian Ocean
Straits of Sunda
Rodriguez
Nile
Equator
Mecca
Siberia
Persia
Atlantic
United States
Wike’s Peak
Colorado
Pacific
Florida
Alaska
North America
Vike’s Peak
South America
Balloon Voyage Over Baltic Ends in Swedish Snow Bank
German Army airship crews Wolff and Brand survived a five hundred mile drift from Berlin to the Baltic and into Sweden after a three day gale. Stranded high above the sea they cut free the basket and clung to rigging while lightened to rise again, finally landing in a snow bank near a Swedish village and walking two miles to a cabin.
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Baltic Sea
Rps
Wolff
Brand
Berlin
Sweden
Europe
Sequoia State Named for Cherokee Leader by Convention
The Muskogee convention chose Sequoia as the new state's name, honoring Cherokee leader Sequoia who created the Cherokee alphabet. The article notes Sequoia's role, his life, and the Cherokee Nation's schooling system, contrasting Indian-named states with other commemorations. It mentions California's Sequoia gigatea and Delaware, Pennsylvania naming roots.
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Muskogee
Indian Territory
Sequoia
America
George Gist
Tribunal Council
California
Fagelang
Union
Delaware
Lord Dale Warr
Pennsylvania
William Penn
George Washington
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D. B. Henderson
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Fast Indies
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Ottilie Guenther
Pope Pius X
Chicago
Otto Guenther
Guenther
Northwestern University Law School
Mirandy
Nance
State OF Sequoia
Scranton
Tor Ork
Ammer
Mechan
Flee
Liring Suptechargineer
Gineer
Ainest
International Correspondence School
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