Rivals for the Cup and the Greatest Yachting Season Ahead
The article previews a renewed bid to defend the America's Cup as American yachtsmen prepare strong contenders. Galatea is the British challenger with a steel hull and vast canvas, while New York Yacht Club entrants Atlantic Puritan Mayflower aim to outpace the Briton.
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America
Britain
Henn
England
Greenock
Clyde
Beaver Webb
New York Yacht Club
Atlantic
New York
Brooklyn
N. Y
Puritan
Genesta
Atlante
Royal Yacht Club
Bartley Campbell a Noted Playwright Sinks Into Madness
A long profile tracks Bartley Campbell from Pittsburgh roots to success with My Partner and The Galley Slave then Siberia. Ill fate and financial trouble followed a failed Fourteenth Street production, trips to Europe, and erratic behavior. The piece compares him to Artemus Ward and notes his residence at Irvington with Gould.
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Bartley Campbell
John McCullough
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Dispatch
Campbell
Europe
Paris
Bartley
Siberia
Fourteenth Street Theatre
New York
Artemus Ward
Tornadoes and Floods Ravage Midwest and Xenia
A historic series of storms hits the Midwest with tornadoes and floods on May 12. In Xenia Ohio twenty six people die and ten are missing, mostly from the poorer neighborhoods near Archer creek. Similar floods and twisters strike Illinois Indiana Kansas and Missouri as the same storm moves eastward.
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Ohio
Xenia
Archer Creek
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Missouri
Tornado Ravages Kansas City School and City Landmarks
Tornado wrecks the Lathrop public school building and a county courthouse in Kansas City causing roofs to vanish and walls to collapse. A deputy sheriff is killed, prisoners in the basement survive, and the Missouri Bridge is swept away as telegraph and rail lines suffer extensive damage.
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Kansas City
Minnesota
New England
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Lathrop
County Cert
Court House
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Gen. Paine
Mr. Gould’s
Gould
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George Dawson Merritt
Hudson River
Mangold
New Orleans Picayune
Irving
Charles
Henry Irving
John C. Freund
Missouri River
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Clingman’s Efobacco
Clingman
Clingman Tobacco Cure CO
Durham
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J. J. Reithman & CO
Denver
Colorado
Ghoo
M. Sphar
Portland Cement
Michigan
Red Cross Paints
Marshall & Fox Coal
Mansfield’s
Cinches
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
Hart
Dr. Clark
U. S
M.A. McLauchlin & CO
Skinner Block
Denver, Col. N. B
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Portland
Maine
Randly
Hauser
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Reliable Drug House
J. F. Fezer
Medley & Beals
Dentists
Lawrence
E. Edbrooke & CO
Tabor Elk
E. H. Cooper
General State
Lawrence St
Deever Envertron Fence CO
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Fifteenth St
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Walbracht Elk
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16Th St
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E. Weatherfield
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Staimea
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Blake
Jed
ART & Lee
16Th Street
A. Hale
B.chitect
Onan House
Enver Bird Store
E. E. Achert
Larimer
S. Pettit & CO
Arapahoe Street
Cole
Denver, Cole
M. Medina
Sixteenth St
Strich
Chas
Eacock
Manu’Jr
W. Koeller & Co
Seventeenth St
Britannica
J. H. Williamson
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Castoria
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