Wavestopping nets and naval planning in 1900s notes
Reports describe Baron d Alessandros waterproof hemp nets to break sea waves and shield hydraulic works. Also covered are Salvation Army fundraising gains, Edison’s hearing joke, a Paris nun n relief sculpture discovered, naval war college plans including canal defense, and camera use as legal proof for cruelty cases and smoke nuisances.
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Havre
Naval War College
Navy Department
Atlantic
Pacific
Nicaragua Canal
Straits of Magallan
Two-Teacher Classrooms Boost Ha tavia Students
In Ha tavia New York the board of education adds larger grade rooms with two teachers per class to aid slower learners. The president says the change sparked instant gains, boosting confidence of laggards, equalizing peers, advancing grades, and easing teacher strain.
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Board of Education
Hatavia
New York
Fall River Leads Cotton Centers With Vast Production
Fall River dominates American cotton manufacturing with about one fifth of national spindles and more than any other industrial center. It produces 848 million yards of cloth annually and weaves over 1,500 miles of cloth each workday, enough to suggest the entire mill could be run on a single piece whose length would outpace the fastest express train, given a weaving rate over two miles per minute.
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Fall River
America
United States
Wrmsbington Notes: Currents from the Hague to Manila
The article reports on national bank examiner appointment F B Miller of Red Oak, military and diplomatic movements in China and the Philippines, tax rulings for stock brokers, naval awards, brigadier general commissions, and a long list of notable deaths and accidents including artists, officials, and industrial casualties with varied locations and ages. It notes Choate’s return, Cudahy’s illness, and a large West Virginia flood toll among other incident summaries.
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Wrmsbington
F. B. Miller
Red Oak
Town
Gen. MacArthur
Lawton
Manila
Eleventh Infantry
United States
China
State Department
W. W. Rockhill
Pekin
Conger
Root
Army
Internal Revenue
Yerkes
Stock Exchange
New York
New York Exchange
Naval Board of Awards
Long
Congress
United States Navy
Campaion
West Indies
HW. Crowder
Judge’ Advocate’s Department
James Allen
Signal Corps
Robert L. Haze
Cavalry
Plague toll and global notes from mid June report
Summary of weekly dispatches: Hongkong records 155 bubonic plague cases and 762 deaths in the week to June 22. Paris and St Petersburg discuss a 129 million ruble loan. A German draft tariff bill is submitted to the bundesrat. Princess Henry of Prussia christens the cruiser Prinz Adelbert at Kiel. London reports a grand jury true bill for Lars Russell in a bigamy case to be tried in the House of Lords. Bombay monsoon outlook appears bleak if rains stay confined to the presidency. An Isle of Wight artillery accident kills a captain and a man, with several others wounded.
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Bundesrath
Henry
Kiel
Prinz Adelbert
Prugalan
Berlin Neuste Nachrichten
Paris
St. Petersburg
Batley Court
London
Lars Russell
Recorder
House of Lords
Portia Knight
Edward Clarke
Duke of Manchester
Bombay
London Daily Express
Bombay Presidency
Isle of Wight
A. L. M. Bray
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Amt
Sing and Sinnera: a chaotic string of crimes in era press coverage
A batch of brief items notes William Barnes killing his wife then himself near Barrington Massachusetts. Other crimes include George Worthman robbed of jewels on a New York Central train. John W. Cockman jailed thirteen years for murder near Dresden Missouri. Rickhart jailed for kidnapping his two children in Illinois. Warren Stoner charged with attempting to pass a worthless draft in Chicago. Charles E B Cotton acquitted in Nebraska for false reports and embezzlement. Frank Siegel indicted for embezzling 23000 dollars from Siegel-Sanders. R H Thomas escaped after seven months for forged transport letters from Mexican Central. his case involved West railroads.
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Sinnera
William Barnes
Barrington
South Egremont
Mass
George Worthman
Chicago
New York Central
John W. Cockman
Sedalia
Jesse McBride
Dresden
Rickhart
Pana
Crowley
Iowa
Warren Stoner
McKitucky
Washington Park Race Track
Charles EB. Cotton
First National Bank of
Syracuse
Neb
Treasury
Frank Siegel
Siegel-Sanders Commission Company
Frank Rockefeller
Kansas City Grand Jury
Siegel
R. H. Thomas
J. H. Freeman
Knoxville
Tenn
Mexican Central Railway
Musham Named Chicago Fire Chief After Forty Years
A compilation of notable items from the era includes William H. Musham becoming chief of the Chicago fire department after four decades of service. Other notes cover Judge Taft praising civil service, a New York consumptive census, and Kansas City Live Stock exchange rejecting a merger with the National exchange.
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Chicago
William H. Musham
Taft
Philippine Commission
Wiliam Dudley Foulke
Richmond
Ind
New York State
Daniel Lewis
State Board of Health
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
National Live Stock Exchange
Berlin
William
James J. Corbett
Baquedano
New York
Washington
Col. H. McGregor
Ninth Cavalry
Godfrey
J. D. Dornt
J. C. Gresham
Record Heat Ravages Cities From New York To Chicago
Extreme heat gripped major cities with 99 in New York and 100 in St. Louis as thunderstorms failed to appear. Deaths and prostrations climbed in New York, Pittsburg, and Brooklyn amid a cloudless sky and oppressive humidity, with officials warning of no relief for days.
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New York
Chicago Heatbreaks Records as City Suffers
Chicago sweltered with temperatures hitting 97 inside the Weather Bureau tower and 104 to 106 on streets. Heat caused extensive suffering in poorer districts while police ambulances ferried those overwhelmed. no fatalities reported though several prostrations were serious.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Auditorium
Cigarette Blaze Destroys Alton Block Fire Starts In Livery Stable
A boy smoking a cigarette in a livery stable touches off a major fire in Alton Illinois on July 2 destroying the entire block. The blaze consumes the John Snyder Clothing Co building with stock and the George F Kirsch Packing Co storehouse. Loss exceeds sixty thousand dollars with adjacent homes and buildings also destroyed.
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Alton
Beauita
Lvery
Charles Safford
John Snyder Clothing Company
Itn
Hvery
George F. Kirsch Packing Company
Forest Fire Menaces Mount Baldy Timber West Slope
Breckenridge Colorado July 2 A forest fire thought sparked by a locomotive fire is sweeping miles of timber on the west slope of Mount Baldy about three miles from town. Dozens of cabins and tunnel houses have been destroyed as a fire brigade works to shield the Mountain Pride mill and shaft house, already well supplied with hoses.
Belgians Demonstrate for Boers Then Dispersed in Brussels
A pro-Boer demonstration followed lectures at the Alhambra theater by Andries Dewet, cousin of General Dewet. The crowd cheered the lecturer, seized the carriage horses, and carried the vehicle to his hotel before marching toward the British legation where police dispersed them.
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Legation
Brussels
Alhambra
Andries Dewet
Dewet
Regation
Heat Wave Grips Washington D C. 102 Degree Day Recorded
The hot spell worsened in Washington D C with a record 102 degrees in the afternoon. Fifty heat prostrations were reported, two fatally, as a prolonged heat wave continues with no relief expected for the next forty eight hours. Weather officials trace the heat to a west starting June 20 with high temperatures across the region and scattered rains in some areas.
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Weather Bureau
South Atlantic
Middle
East Gulf States
Rocky Mountains
New York
Philadelphia
Bureau
Atlantic City
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Davenport
Towa
Denver
Des Moines
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Vicksburg
Miss
D. C
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New England
Pittsburg
Woohington
New York City
Perlod
Broadway
Twenty-third
Forty-second Street
Madison Square
Heat Wave Grips Major Cities Crushing Hospitals
Describes record heat across New York and other cities on July 1 2 and 3 1911 noting record highs hospitals overwhelmed with patients and dozens of deaths and prostrations. Reports Brooklyn Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cincinnati Boston Chicago St Louis Milwaukee all suffering heat related casualties and disruptions.
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Boston
New England
Carnegie to fund new Detroit library building
Detroit July 3 George W Redford member of the Tigtek public literary board received a letter from Andrew Carnegie announcing a donation of 760000 toward the erection of a new public library in Detroit.
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Detroit
George W. Redford
Tigteak Public Ltorary Board
Andrew Carnegie
Transport Quinctuck Released From Quarantine
Washington July 3 The war department reports that the transport ICintuck has been released from quarantine at Port Townsend and will proceed directly to Seattle with the troops.
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Washington
War Department
Port Townsend
Seattle
Chicago Storm Kills Twelve at North Side Pier
A summer thunderstorm struck Chicago near a north side pier at around 2 PM. Twelve men and boys sought shelter in a cramped cabin, and a lightning bolt caused eleven deaths and injuries to the exhausted rescue. Willie Anderson survived after being trapped beneath the crowd. Perry Keane alerted authorities. police later revived Anderson and recovered the others.
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Chicago
Fider A
Willie Anderson
Perry Keane
Young Keane
Young Anderson
Constitution Defeated In Close Newport Race
Columbia Comex edged ahead by a slim margin after a close start in the first race for the new Herreshoff yacht. A jib staff mishap left Constitution without its jib for about ten minutes, temporarily adding about a mile to the deficit before a strong run tightens the finish.
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Columbia Comex
Newport
Rel
Julya
Columbia
Herreshoff
Whylward
Russia in Manchuria draws new dispute over New Chwang admin
Pekin July 3 The installation by Russia of a civil administrator in New Chwang Manchuria has revived debate on the occupation. Some powers have recognized the admin but many ministers remain uncertain and await home government guidance. The United States representative is among those awaiting instruction.
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Pekin
Russia
New Chwang
Manchuria
United States
Cripple Creek Six-Month Output Totals 322,683,900 Dollars
Cripple Creek mines report June output of 48,600 tons valued at 2,174,000, bringing six month totals to 297,800 tons and 322,683,900 dollars. The past fiscal year produced 23,815,022 dollars in earnings. The camp's total product to date reaches 104,365,210 dollars, while 1901 dividends disbursed by public companies amount to 2,204,240 dollars, down 1,117,489 from the prior period.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Cripple Creek
Danes Cordial to Hartford Officers and Crew
Copenhagen reports the Danish authorities invite the Hartford crew to participate in a Fourth of July celebration at Tivoli Gardens. Commander J M Hawley of the Hartford visited Danish officials and the Enterprise under Lieut Commander E M Hughes, arriving expected in July.
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Electrical Review
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Carnavalet Museum
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James EB. Taylor
George S. Thomas
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