Ship French liner Chanzy wrecked in Mediterranean storm
The French steamer Chanzy, under Captain Cayol, was driven off course by an unprecedented storm near Minorca and Ciudadela. Sixty plus crew and passengers, mostly French officials and their families, perished or were lost after the vessel broke up. Rescue found wreckage and bodies with few Americans aboard. explosion suspected in the boiler chamber.
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Mediterranes
Ney Tinie
Gludadeln
Lhedlsanas
Cryo
Algeria
Chilren
Addiery
Privat
Gloven
Nudhear
Algiers
Viclims
Parla
Francis Dufar
Olver
Chanzy
Cayol
Calcutta
Post Offices See Big January Revenue Rise Across Cities
An unusually strong January for the nation’s post offices shows gains in receipts from 1.72 percent at Dayton Ohio to 27.81 percent at Hartford Connecticut. The five largest increases occur at Hartford Mansfield Springfield Portland Denver and Chicago. Overall postal revenue up about 11.27 percent year over year signaling improved business conditions nationwide.
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Ofty
Nitty
Dayton
Hartford
Cot
Steamship Lina Ashore in Magellan Straits
The Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Lina went ashore in Magellan Straits, likely a total loss. Chief pilot says fifty passengers drowned and twenty seven crew perished. British steamer Hothumel rescued those aboard. Arrests reported in connection with the incident and ensuing investigations.
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Pacific Navigation Company
Magellan Straits
Ames Lina
Magellin
Mie
Atrack
Hothumel
Porsons
Navy Department Mitigates Court Martial Sentences
The Navy Department reduced or remitted penalties from a December assault case involving Paymaster Auld and Passed Assistant Surgeon Robnett. Auld had his sentence entirely remitted and restored to duty, while Robnett’s sentence was mitigated to a loss of two numbers. The action followed recommendations of the court martial amid provocation for the assault on Dr. Cowles Ly at the navy hop on December 11.
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Navy Department
A. H. Robnelt
G. S.N
Robnett
Cowles
Auld
Navy
Frars Law Leaves Kin to Die in Cleveland Pantry
In Cleveland a man named Zahour, hanging in a pantry, was cut down by a policeman after his son-in-law Pichanys misunderstood a law. Zahour died en route to a hospital. the coroner was not immediately summoned due to the wrong belief.
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Cleveland
Mongs
Aliye
Otte Pieh Gays
John Zenner
Ieh
Pichanys
Plob
Zahour
Ifo
Fragmented 19th Century News Clipped From Page
A collage of misread and garbled items mentions Germany Prussia finances a Julyan loan of 120 million on government bonds. A new Catholic cathedral in St Paul will host public services by year end. Arabs raid nine convents in Jerusalem, occupying monasteries with families. Canadian conservation conference in Obetawe shows no stance against wood exports. Pittsburgh faces municipal turmoil amid accusations of bank official corruption and city councilmen selling out. London proposes three major railways merger totaling 80 million capital with stocks and bonds.
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Prussia
St. Paul
Wiead
Obetawe
Vic
United States
Canada
Pittsburghad
Aire Bank
Etty
London
Brg
Wie
Baker Street
Waterloo
Charing Cross
Hampatoud
Doarcity Cause of High Meat Prices Report
The Department of Commerce and Labor report cites dwindling livestock receipts in seven leading interior markets for 1909, with hogs down sharply from 1908. Chicago and other hubs show large declines in hog and cattle totals, while total packing-house shipments and grain receipts also fall from prior years.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Chicago
Kansas City
Ommuba
St. Joseph
St. Louia
Culcazo
Producta Frota
Anya
Brick Manufacturers Form National Safe Building Group
Members of the National Brick Manufacturers Association have organized to push for safer buildings. The group cites rising fire destruction and cites statistics showing the United States burns through many structures annually as justification for the new campaign.
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National Brick Manufactur Era’ Association
United States
Wnder
Unreadable OCR Brief From Staten Island Hospital Notice
Fragmentary text describes a medical or hospital notice at Sailors Sung Marhor Hospital in New Brighton Staten Island with garbled terms and names. No clear actions or outcomes discernible.
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Ouren
Honk Ae Craig
Sailors Sung -Marhor
New Brighton
Staten Teland
Theodore Roosevelt Jr to wed Eleanor Alexander
Theodore Roosevelts eldest son to marry Eleanor Butler Alexander daughter of Mrs Henry Addison Alexander of 42 Went Forty-seventh Street New York Betrothal announced by the brideto be mother wedding planned for June after the elder Roosevelt returns to America Teddy Junior aged about 22 Harvard graduate 1908 now working at Hartford Carpet Company in Thompsonville Conn with limited social activity and few New York trips
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Eleanor Alexander
Theodore Roosuvelt, Jr
United States
Eleanor Butler Alexander
Henry Addison Alexander
Forty-seventh Street
New York
America
Drigé
Roosevelt
Teddy Junior
Harvard
Hartford Carpet Company
Thompsonville
Conn
Blaze Traps Guests as Hotel Fire Injures Three at Harris Hotel
A Washington hotel blaze at 2 a.m. sent about a hundred guests fleeing from a third story window. Orville A. Henry of Berwick Pennsylvania his wife and child leaped to safety but three people were severely hurt. The source notes the fire origin is unknown.
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Washington
Harris
Union Station
Orville A. Henry
Berwick
Plans for Canadian Navy College at Halifax Atlantis station
The Canadian government plans a new naval college linked to the navy to be built at Halifax near the Atlantis station. Two Bristol cruisers and the pix destroyers and the cruiser Niobe are to be purchased for about 2 million dollars.
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New Naval College
de Dalit
de Locaied
Nulitex
Naval College
Halifax
Bristol
Pix
Niobe
Trade and Industry Notes From Red Cloud and Beyond
A regional roundup reports Charles Guernsey of Red Cloud selling $9,240 worth of cattle in one day, with alfalfa hay sales of $300 and 600 tons left. Carl Calvin, Lancaster, now chief engineer of Consumers' Iron Mining Co. in Virginia, is highlighted. A Missouri lad sold $280 worth of sheep, bought ewe lambs with wool proceeds, and expanded his flock. John Kurtz of Colorado confronted railroad officials over crop trespass with a gun and dogs, leading to a forged claim against the railroad. Moorhead, Minnesota’s Commercial Club heard President Hunton of First National Bank urge action to mold the potato crop, noting 1,300 refrigerators would be needed to haul the harvest from the area, signaling a large economic push.
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Charles Guernsey
Red Cloud
Neb
Carl. Calvin
Lancaster
University of Wiseconaln Department
Eivil Engineering
Consumers’ Iron Mining Co
Virginia
Waverly
Moorhead
Minn
Huntoon
First National Bank
Henry
Robbers Burglars Loot Citizens National Bank Chatsworth Illinois
Four men entered Citizens National Bank in Chatsworth Illinois by dynamiting doors and blasting open the safe. They took four thousand three hundred dollars in paper money and two thousand dollars in a flyer, bound and gagged a local baker and a night watchman, then fled in a carriage. The pair were found barely alive. bank insurance covered five thousand dollars. Police described the robbers as desperate looking with varying builds.
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Citizens’ National Bank
Chatsworth
Yurglara
Will
Oer
Warka
Chaty Worth
Citizens’ Bank
Wen
William Cahill
Albert Kerber
Bowl
Cahill
Train Robber Pleads Guilty In Eureka Missouri Robbery
George Eheling pleaded guilty in St. Louis to robbing a Missouri Pacific train near Eureka Missouri on January 21. He implicated W. W. Lowe and claimed James Lowe and W. Emerson had no part in the holdup. Eheling said Lowe ran the locomotive while the engineer and fireman fled, and that he and Lowe walked thirty miles to St. Louis after the robbery.
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Missouri Pacific
Eureka
George Eheling
St. Louis
Death Laid To Witchcraft In Reading Family
Parents of Frederick Carl claim 17 of their 26 children died from witchcraft in Reading Pennsylvania. A 28 year old daughter was buried recently. Most children died young as parents and physicians noted marasmus without fever. Pow wow doctors blamed an old woman for the affliction.
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Frederick Carl
Parenta
Reading
Alsense
Pardon Allows Prisoner to Seek Lucrative West Virginia Job
Governor Harmon pardons Richard Jenkins, a long-imp prison inmate, enabling him to leave Ohio and take a high paying foreman role in West Virginia. Jenkins’s release clashes with parole rules prohibiting state departures. The case mentions another man tied to a saloon killing and a separate property speculation in California amid scattered misread phrases.
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Ohio
Convret
Harmon
Ohile
Richard Jenkins
West Virginia
Jenkins
Trn
Uhricheyilie
Jomina
East Liverproot
Boj
President Taft Defends Policies At Lincoln Day Dinner
President Taft spoke at the Lincoln Day celebration of the New York Republican Club defending administration policies. He labeled hysteria over anti-trust actions as unjustified and urged unity, while pledging enforcement of law to protect prosperity and addressing party dissent. Governor Hughes joined the applause as Taft warned insurgents to align with party goals.
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Tait
New York Republican Club
1Hp
Hia
Tall
Republican Party
Ernor Hughes
Taft
al — Eo
Bes N motVé
Washington
Vadsayatsa
Congress
Senate
Abe
Zrow
Trift
Repub
Ean
Sdeqlara
Famous Sea Fighter Meade Dies in Lexington
Brigadier General Robert Meade of the United States Army Corps died in Lexington after several months illness. Born in 1841 in Washington, he was the son of Commodore A. W. Meade and attended St. Mary's College and the U.S. Naval Academy before a long military career. He served as midshipman in 1858, joined the Civil War effort, commanded troops, and retired in 1906. He married in the year prior.
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Robert “Leamy
Meade
Rober Meade
United State Corps
Téllred
Lexington
Nese
Ge Waa
Washington, D
W. Meade
United States
Mery's College
Th States Naval Academy
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