Earthquake Toll Fears Subside as Relief Races Begin
Rome notes the disaster’s scale but focuses on relief. Government channels and foreign aid mobilize, with 36 rescue vessels in the Strait of Messina and 500,000 soldiers landed for aid. Evacuation ships carry fugitives to Naples and Palermo while survivors starve and lack shelter. Lipari Islands reportedly vanish, threatening 28,000 residents. The marine minister dispatches a torpedo boat to verify.
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Rome
Naples
Palermo
Catania
Strait of Messina
Lipari Islands
Mediterranean
Sicily
Destructive Lick-Branch Mine Explosion Death Toll Grows
Bluefield West Virginia December 31 Forty nine bodies have been recovered from the Lick-Branch colliery explosion last Tuesday and the final death toll is not yet known. Officials fear the number may reach sixty as more victims are believed trapped. State Mine Inspector D R Phillips had previously deemed the mine safe noting good ventilation and drainage with no dust or gas. Current investigators have not released findings. Also items note a gas steamer for charter, a Palmetto Cub smoker event and a lost bicycle at Carolina Hardware with a reward offered.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Lick-Branch
Mining Department
D. R. Phillips
Slain Wife Found in Brooklyn Cellar
Brooklyn police uncovered the buried body of Mrs. Matilda Breitag at 221 Fifty third Street after her disappearance for three weeks. Her husband Carl Breitag, a Bush docks worker, confessed to strangling her on December 6 to marry his stepdaughter, then was arrested for murder in the first degree.
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Matilda Vreitag
Brooklyn
Fifty Third Street
Carl Wreitag
Bush Docks
New York
Tilda
McLaughlin
McGowan
Putnam
Breitag
Prohibition Closing Walterboro Dispensary Impacts Town
Walterboro closed its dispensary from Tuesday evening to Monday morning by order of Mayor Fishburne. Prohibitionists cite economic and social benefits, noting calmer streets, safer holidays, and increased legitimate trade. A local example shows a family facing higher grocery costs if liquor were available, urging Colleton county to sustain the closure.
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Walterboro
Fishburne
Colleton County
Mayor Fishburne
Walterboro Press and Standard
Opening of Books for Georgetown Railway & Light stock
Notice of subscription books for Georgetown Railway and Light Company capital stock of 100000 dollars in 4000 shares at 25 dollars each. Books open at Georgetown Electric Company in Georgetown S C. Corporate action dated December 23 1908 issued by R M McCown Secretary of State and H C Case.
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State of
South Carolina
Georgetown
R. M. McCown
Georgetown Railway & Light Company
Georgetown Electric Company
Jennery
Joe
S.C
S. C
United Powers Rally For Global Warship Alliance
Dispatch reports all great powers sending warships to Sicily signaling a rare concert of humanity against disaster. The piece envisions a future where nations unite to apply science and art to earthly dangers, transforming weapons into tools and human effort into civilization’s advancement.
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Sicily
Earth
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Carrie M. Dudley
C. L. Ford
Daily Item
Sam's
Palmetto Cub
Iver and Johnson
Carolina Hardware Store
Cember
Phenix Dumiture
Opera
W. H. Morgan
Pittsburg
Ghe
Georgetown Grocery O
Benevolent Social Society of
A. J. Vanderhost
A. E. Ford
Toney Alston
F. F. Ford
J. L Hazard
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