Disaster on a Bennington gunboat in San Diego harbor
In San Diego harbor on Friday a catastrophic explosion ripped through the U S gunboat Bennington. The ship beached to prevent sinking. Authorities report 323 dead or missing and 70 wounded with many expected to die. Commander Young and Surgeon Peck managed rescue efforts and flooding of magazines to avert more explosions.
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San Diego
Cal
United States
Bennington
Wyormine
Mare Island
Lucien Young
Peck
Young
Washington
Navy Department
Cammander Young
Magign Perry
Snaway
LSE
Maine
Havana Harbor
Yorktown
Concord
Auto plunges into ditch near Broad Ripple a deadly crash
A speeding auto on River Road near Broad Ripple Indiana overturned in a ditch igniting its gasoline tank. Olive Johnson of Lima Ohio died from burns while C. O. Dale and four passengers including Clara Brennan Ethel Jones Inez Brennan and Hazel Orr suffered serious or minor burns and injuries. William Klanke helped drag Dale from the burning car and extinguished flames.
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Indianapolis
Misa Olive! Johnson
Lima
Road Ripple
C. O. Dale
Clara Brennan
Muncie
Ind
Ethel Jones
Shelbyville
Inez Brennan
Hazel Orr
William ¥. Klanke
Olive Johnson
Pale
Kankle
Indictments for graft in Milwaukee grand jury action
Milwaukee reports a third batch of indictments totaling 129 since June 20. Thomas A. Clancy chief of the city fire department faces perjury charges while others include architects Herman Bumming and Gustav Dick in hospital project deals and A V Kiefish implicated in bribe and extortion tied to the old morgue site transfer.
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Milwaukee
Dey
Grand Tote
Thomas A. Clancy
Clancy
Police
Fire Departments
Fire Department
Herman Bumming
Gustav Dick
August
Frank Schultz
Hands Care and Lessons From Soldiers and Students
A household beauty routine advises olive oil soakings, almond meal soap, vaseline rubbing, and careful nail shaping with routine repeats. It also recalls a one armed veteran’s cautionary tale about misfired bravado and a Chinese student Miss Lia Hui in Philadelphia graduating with honors in medicine.
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Li Bi Cu
Hingghua
China
Philadelphia
Woman’s Medical College
Lia
Hindhghua
Methodist Church
Kitchen Curtains and Home Care Tips From a Past Era
A fragmentary garden and home section offers guidance on curtains that let light in and remain tidy, skin care routines with magnesia and soaps, a pale blue chambray dress detail, stain removal for fabrics and grass, garden border ideas, fruit stain removal, and a note on bread served with soup and salad.
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Gal
Sigabee
Norfolk
Norfolk Navy Yard
Sigshoe
John Paul Jones
Cape Henry
Witte
Paria
Vladivostok
Copenhagen
St. Petersburg
Nikolaievsk
Amur
Viadivostok
Khabarovsk
Turkey
Salonica
Uropean
Baltina
Grodeshuuss Thuersday
Tamaasnna
Gardui
Finnegan
Cardus
AUTO
Broad Ripple
Dayton
John H. Patterson
Far Hills
Brussels
Constantinople
St. Louis
David Stuart Scott
Pittsburg
Scott
Topeka
Kan
T. E. Kelly
Hoch
CG. J. Devlin
Kelly
America
Louisville Courier
Abe
Chicago News
Myra M. Henry
Arkansas City
Myra
Sorosis
Sorosis Oxfords For
Oxfords
Broad Street
West Sixth Street
Vo Ag
Blackheads
Chambray
S. Day
Elyria
Hygienic Ice CO
Hollister’s
Rocky Mountain
H. A. Dykeman
Smith
Elyria Block Shoe Store
Hiodes Bros
Hodes Bros
Mill Street
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