Park Central Hotel blast devastates Haarrorp city
A boiler explosion at the Park Central Hotel in Haarrorp wrecked the five story building at 5 am. The loss of life is estimated between 40 and 70, with at least fifty dead and many injured. Fire and smoke hindered rescue as crowds gathered and dramatic scenes unfolded around the ruins.
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Haarrorp
Park Central
Park Central Hotel
High
Allen Streets
Earl House
Allen Street
Worman
Patents Granted and World News Rhapsody
A list of recent patents granted to various inventors across the South includes steam cooker decorticator fiber planter coal heater and electric railway equipment among others. The article also criticizes Secretary Bayard and praises President Cleveland's foreign policy as patient and prudent with a digression on winter travel to Norway and its air.
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C. A. Snow & Co
Washington, D. C
Baltimore
E. W. Sylvan
Savannah
M. Toulmin
G. W. Trahan
Houma
O. Wells
Newberry
S.C
J. White
Bearden
Ark
Ark., Reversing Gear, J. 8. Williams, Beaver Dam, Ky
J.D. Yarrington
Lexington
H. Z. Young
Seville
Fla
Bayard
Cleveland
London cabman arrested for injuring horse owner jailed
A London cabman was arrested after an incident involving whipping a horse owner who had lent him a horse. The cabman was discharged. the owner received a month in prison for related offenses.
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London
Newbern Fair Opens Under Gov Fowle With 10000 Items
The Newbern fair opened with Gov Fowle in attendance and Rev Dr Vass delivering the opening prayer. The exhibit holds over 10000 articles across fish oysters game field products and taxidermy. Officials expect large crowds as the Legislature arrives by special train and veterans of Burnside’s expedition arrive by steamer. Ferguson Harrison rumor lists executive officers including Blaine Rusk Thomas Noble Miller Wanamaker and others.
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Maggenger
Gov Fowle
L. A. Vass Hid
Clement Manly
North Carolina
Nort Carolina
V.u
The
Fair Association
Esleigh
Fair Grounds
New York
Tobacco Consumption Around Europe and U S
The article notes Europe per person tobacco use varying by country with the United States at 41 pounds per inhabitant, higher than most Europeans except the Netherlands. It lists national revenues from tobacco and cites a Salisbury case of a child dying from strychnine poisoning after playing doctor. It also mentions a Nevada bill restricting hat height in theatres.
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Europe
Netherlands
Australia
Denmark
Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
Norway
France
Sweden
Spain
Great Britain
Ireland
Italy
Russia
United States
Holland
Austria-Hungary
New York Tribune
Nevada
Weeding Out the Negro in Sherman State Farm Tenants
A county report exposes how the Arnett law drives colored tenant farmers from lands after lease expirations. White landlords quietly replace black tenants by denying new leases, leaving no colored pupils in local schools and harming the colored community.
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Sherman
Reley O
Missing Links and Oddities from News of the Day
A collage of short items notes long tows from Brazil to Scotland, domestic kerosene milestones, marriages turned quarrels, and various curiosities. Reports cover theft probes, exodus chatter in Kansas, fashion gifts, stamp delivery schemes, and local political shifts in Raleigh with school questions and voting implications.
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United States
Brazil
Greenock
Scotland
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Taos
Rurrix
Graham & Ruffin
Hillsboro
N. C
Alamanc
Durham
Guilford
Bockingham
Fayerton
Raleigh
N.O
Lander
Payettevilla, ¥. C
Chas, A. Goodwin
Rier
Edgar Allan Poe
Augustus van Cleef
Harper's
West
Chicago Herald
Samoa
Gloucester
Baltimore Sun
Joshua F. Ross
George Hughes
Francis M. Shipley
North Fulton Avenue
Rhoda Shipley
Ross
George
Hughes
Gloucester County
Virginia
Bijornstjesne
Harper's Magazine
Vernor Fowle
Harrison
Indianapolis News
John R. Thomas
Illinois
Lotertor
J. W. Noble
Missouri
W. H. H. Miller
Lodiana
John Wanamaker
Pennsylvania
Warner Miller
Greeneboro
Eugene Chnston
Salisbury
Texas
Dakota
Sylvanus Cobb
Peter Hastings
Anna Smith
Utica
Anna
Olive Logan
Jersey City
Hone
Adadbeast
Cairo
Elfenton
Norfolk and Southra Railroad
Cigod
Newton Enterprise
Rice
D.C
Philadelphia Record
Enve
Wake County
Kansas
Mowenger
Raleigh Township
D. D. Reynolds
Rockford, Mich
Viivate
Philadelpia
Alexandria
St. Louis
Almont
Mich
Mark Lane
Peter Clark
Boston
Lin
Japan
John Leibenderfer
Beaver Falls
Augusta
Memphis
Peesthnt
Washington
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