Victims and Valor Across a Century’s Headlines
A Danish barque Havila from Tacoma reaches Falmouth after 102 days at sea with wheat, recounting a perilous October 15 snow storm that swept four crew overboard. Sotheby’s auctions honor two Victoria Crosses won in 1855 and 1901. A Burton-on-Trent incident ends with a calm man rescuing the driver. a Mount’s Bay bird rescue shows gulls saving a dove only to fail. Court notes include a wife’s sharp remark on emancipation and a man’s plea, and a Cheshire woman dies saving her child after leaping from a moving train.
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Tacoma
Ff Snow Blizzars
Taeklenberg
Alice
Winter
Treklenhity
Sotheby's
London
George Raven- Hil
2Nd
Royal Stars Wusiliers
Colenso
Fat
George Sysions
Royal Artillery
Elopement, wrecks, and a pensioner’s tobacco relief in 19th century reports
A mother dies after a fall at a station as a child wanders crying. An elopement thwarted at Plymouth aboard the Orient leads to pursuit from London to Plymouth and a farmer lover’s arrest. A Crewe man claims a £5,000 inheritance after dodging a warrant, while a German officer explains Britain’s map literacy to Chelmsford officers. The Maggie May wreck near Lowestoft costs two lives. eight survivors are rescued after hours at sea. Major Hambrough’s Ardlamont case is recalled with Not Proven verdict. A Sussex workhouse inmate, Granny Shepherd, wins tobacco rations instead of tea to ease life in old age.
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Edinburgh
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Cuckfield
Sussex
Prince Edward Island May Admit Autos
Halifax N S January 19 petitions sweep through Prince Edward Island urging repeal of the Anti Automobile Act. They are being signed by farmers and others. automobiles may soon be seen on the roads of the province.
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Halifax
N. S
Fort
Prince Edward Teland
Died in St Louis Former New Westminster resident dies in Missouri
Word arrives of the accidental death of Robert D. Fraser in St Louis Missouri. He was the eldest son of Mrs James Fraser of Albert Crescent and left several sisters and brothers including Mrs C D Peel Cranbrook Miss Margaret Fraser Norman Fraser and John Fraser. A Cranbrook teacher formerly Miss Margaret Fraser taught at Cranbrook school.
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Norman Fraser
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John Fraser
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