Hurst of a Week: Global Happenings Inventory
Globetrotting reports highlight Curtiss and Farman breaking aviation records at Rheims France with speeds up to 47.65 mph and 111.78 miles respectively. News notes Morse, Newhouse, and others in legal and personal dramas, plus political shifts and public incidents across the United States and Europe.
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Glenn H. Curtiss
Rheims
France
Pues
Charles W. Morse
Tombs Prison
New York
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Henry Farman
Albert Newhouse
Bloomington
Indianapolis
Frank X. Riedinger
Delafield
Wis
Belle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Fairfield
Neb
J. T. Chase
Duncan B. Cooper
Robin
Senator Carmack
Tennessee
William F. Cooper
William Travers Jerome
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Denver
George B. Moulder
Illinois Central Railroad
American Association of Railroad Gardeners
Philadelphia
Notable deaths and events cross 1900s in brief
Thomas A. Wood former Globe-Democrat manager died in St Louis. Emperor William invited Orville Wright and sister to watch Count Zeppelin’s Berlin flight. Rev J Holmes McGuinness said Harriman is improving. Floods at Monterey Mexico killed 1200 with up to 20 million in damage. Taft accepted or considered McHarg resignation. West Scranton mine collapse caused heavy damage. A E Swisher died by hanging in Iowa City. Five killed in car accident near St Louis. Rev Q E Ackerman named president Cookman University Jackson, Florida.
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Thomas A. Wood
Globe-Democrat
St. Louis
Emperor William
Orville Wright
Katherine
Count Zeppelin
Berlin
J. Holmes McGuiness
Edward H. Harriman
Arden
Scranton
A. E. Swisher
Iowa Bar Association
Iowa City
St. Louie
Q. E. Ackerman
Hedding
I. HL
Cookman University At
Jackson Fin
Courage of Nuns and Priests in Rockaway Fire Save 600 Children
A blaze at St Malachi's home in Rockaway Park endangered 600 orphans as 500 slept and 100 prayed. Fire, then police and fire officials coordinated rescue, with all children uninjured. Nearby facilities include a Hebrew sanitarium and St George Episcopal home.
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New York
St. Malachi’s
Rockaway Park
First
Beach Avenues
Beach Avenue
Hebrew Sanitarium
St. George Episcopal Home
Broken Mast Tragedy Near Ocean City Sinks Two Teens
A strong Monday evening gust drove a small sailboat into the Somers Point bridge. An Atlantic City electric car struck the mast, knocking it off and sending two Philadelphia girls overboard. Alice Boisnot, 15, and Marie Mueller, 16, drowned despite rescue efforts. Two young men with them fled. their identities are unknown.
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Ocean City
N. J
Great Egg Harbor Bay
Somer's Point
Atlantic City
Alice Boisnot
Marie Mueller
Philadelphia
Fall From Chair Kills Steeplejack at Singer Building
Belden Woodring, veteran steeplejack who rigged the flagpole atop the Singer building, died after fracturing his skull when a chair toppled while he leaned back. He died soon after in New York. Whisky te Made. Guarda Lose Jobs, Pittsburg, Pa. EHight guards at Western Pennsylvania penitentiary dismissed for failing to detect prisoners making whisky from grape juice, yeast, and sugar.
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New York
Belden Woodring
Singer
Dizzy Heights
Woodring
Pittsburg
Western Pennsylvania
Terrible Deed of Farmer in Redwood Falls
Wealthy farmer Will Tibibbitts, 70, of Dylht, Minnesota killed Cecil Norton 15 and his daughter Dorothy 12, set fire to the house to hide the double murder, and then hanged himself.
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Redwood Falls
Minn
Will Tibbitts
Cecil Norton
Dorothy
Market reports from Cincinnati and Chicago scaled prices
Cincinnati notes cattle at 96.25, calves to 8.75, hogs around 8.25 to 8.20, sheep at 4.50, flour 6.40 to 6.65, wheat 1.07 to 1.10, corn 70 cents, oats 36 cents, rye 2 choice, hay 16 dollars, butter 22 cents, eggs 22 1/2 cents, potatoes 1.75 to 1.0 per bin, tobacco 12.75 to 16.75. Chicago shows wheat around 1.06 to 1.07, corn and oats mixed, pork prime 22.40.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Ted
Rae
The Real Worth of a Garden in the Home Market
The piece argues gardening can yield a decent income with smart methods. It cites French market gardens near Paris and American large-scale small plots, noting profits from tomatoes and seed production. It advises starting small, using simple greenhouses, and highlights that women and children can earn pin money from tiny plots.
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Moray
Panion
Gramblers
sea+sons
Paris
Germany
Holland
Leon
Boston
Paria
Twig Girdler Beetle Damages Limbs
The twig girdler is a longhorn beetle about half an inch long with brownish gray ground color and yellow dots. It girdles twigs by cutting bark and cambium, causing twig death and creating feeding material for larvae on the fallen branch. The larval stage then grows in the debris on the ground.
Lydia E Pinkham Remedies Promoted for Women
An early health advertisement urges women to seek Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. It claims the remedy supports health during periods and general well being, inviting readers to write for confidential advice about their cases.
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Lydia E
Escape tale and tuberculosis funding debate headline
A rowboat accident leaves Lofty’s fiancée drowned as a quip about fate prompts talk on the TB fight. The piece then reports that Metropolitan Life’s torpedoed sanatorium bid failed on legal grounds but education, pamphlets, and health bureaus expand. Fraternal orders consider erecting sanatoria for tuberculous members.
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Metropolitan Life
New York State
Hotchkiss
Provident
Savings Life Assurance Society
Woodmen
Knights of Pythias
Royal League
Royal Arcanum
Workmen's Circle
Laborer’s diet story warns coffee and heavy work harm office men
A 12 year store clerk turned telegraph worker describes how limited exercise and strong coffee weakened his nerves and stomach. He quit meat and tobacco and even most foods but coffee kept him poorly, nearly wrecking his health. The tale stresses diet and activity balance for laborers.
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Andrew Hortola
M. J
Summit
Morse Filton
Ardstey Hall
Joseph Harding
George E. Gethin
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forestry Service
Seattle
Wash
Northwest
Forestry Service
Tuunville
Edwin W. Drake
Kelly Canning
Waverly
George McRoberts
Walter Davis
Irene Lockley
George Miller
Santa Grace
Johnstown
Patrick F. Campbell
Charles Hays
Campell
Fort Slocum
Frank E. Williamson
Florence Lillian Wood
Brooklyn
N. Y
Williamson
Harry S. Bates
Blackwell
Indianapolls
William Bourque
Harry Holcomb
Motor Speedway Commission
Sarah Nagler
Bertha Rocha
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
M. Paulhan
Rhelma
Wilbur Wright
Isthmian Canal Commission
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
G. B. Harber
China
Forbidden City
Gulf of Mexico
Tropics
Nations Insurance Commissioners
Colorado Springs
Col
Viviano
Vivianos
Wyman
Rotterdam
General News
Gaves
St. Malachi
Raine
Des Moines
Charles A. Coppersmith
Newton
Here
H. P. Snyder
Baltimore
Joseph Abramaitis
Columbia Avenue
Market Reports
Suitten
Bel
Jack
Young Lofty
Gil
Ruth
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