Frightful Disaster on New York Ferry Westfield Explodes
A Staten Island ferry boat Westfield exploded its boiler at Whitehall on a Tuesday afternoon. About 800 to 1000 people were aboard. many were killed or injured as the forward deck and boiler were ripped apart. Wounded were rushed to hospitals as fire and smoke filled the hold. Debris and bodies filled the water and docks. The vessel, old and overdue for inspection, had its boiler pressure reportedly high just before the blast. Witnesses describe brutal scenes of agony and mass panic as hundreds struggled for life.
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Staten Teland
Wesfield
Whitehall Ferry
Faust
Tuner Ferry
Varia
Westdield
Staten Inlind Ferry Company
Patrick Winnegan
Smek
Taspeetor
Capitiern
Desevibul Amish
Tospitil
Seemre
Tin Reine
Amainy
Xhorassan
Shiraz
Caspian
Persian Gulf
Jeberan
Ispahap
Earthquake Calamity in Philippine Islands Report
The London Standard recaps a deadly earthquake sequence on a Philippine island chain, noting over 200 killed as landslides and subsidence swallowed villages. It details volcanic activity, vast eruption effects, and the collapse of a plain into a crater amid ongoing fires and evacuations.
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The
London Standard
Philippine Islands
Borneo
Celebes
Mimila
Luzon
Nualy
Philippines
Philipine Islands
Weeten
Anil
Cumignin
Misamis
Catarmin
Ana
Canignin
Gue-Teuth
The Cannibals of the Khorassan Plague Story
A long dated notice argues Persia suffers a second great famine and plague since the middle ages, with Khorassan as the outbreak region. It cites sources from Vabreez-thin and St. Petersburg, notes Persian depopulation, and describes Khorassan’s geography and demography as context.
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Persie
Gwayne
Abboth
Vabreez
Persie Alsa
Persia
Genghis Khan
Nadir Shah
El-Bab
Nasse-Ed-Din
Plague quarantine schemes traced by imperial lines
The piece outlines a geographic triangle with Tabreez Tebriz and Meshed as vertices and describes proposed sanitary cordons. A northern line from the Tigris Euphrates head to Kars and another eastward to the Caspian Sea would, if guarded, enclose the plague region and bolster quarantine efforts.
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Tabreez
Tebriz
Sabriz
Khorassa
Mesched
Pearls on self-denial and reform for tough times
The excerpt urges teaching self-denial to shape a sublime destiny and warns against bias and vanity. It emphasizes humility, patient reform, and clear questioning, noting that steadfastness without knowledge becomes rash and that self-promotion diminishes listening. It cautions conflict and urges measured discourse.
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Eve Jong
Anne
The Snake Charmers of Egypt and Oddities
A traveler notes Egyptian snake charmers of the Rifaca Dervishes who declare they detect venomous snakes in homes and lure them out. Performers undergo thorough searches, then enter with ritualized actions and threats of death if disobedient. The cure is believed to lie in the fakir’s oil on bodies and clothing that scents the snakes. The item also mentions cholera in Poland and Persia and oleander poisoning cases in Ohio with dramatic symptoms.
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Egypt
Rifaca Dervishes
T. L. Wright
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Republican
Shrewd Wife Uses Husband’s Faults to Curb Vices
A witty exchange between two married ladies frames a sharp point about wives leveraging their spouses’ flaws. One woman allows her husband to smoke in her rooms, but he spends his evenings with her, at that price, illustrating a humorous, moral view on managing vice through intimate leverage.
Om Prerudices Dying Out and Odd Medical Ads
A scrambled 19th century miscellany notes that old prejudices are dying as new medicines prove effective. It cites Vinecan Brrrers for indigestion and rheumatism, praises Hazard & Caswell's cod liver oil, and mocks court life and debt. Snippets include scab losses in Missouri sheep, a London eating ad, a Cairo wedding prank, and a Maine patient cured by an old remedy.
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Walxer
Hazard & Caswell
Criswell, Hazard & Co
New York
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N.Y
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Delta
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Liberty Hill
Conn
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U.S
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Pottsville. Pa
Perry Davis
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P.O
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Marshall, Mich
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Broadwey
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H. R. Stevens
Boston, Mass
Rice
Heider
Wellxas
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California
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Tazee
Jefferson
National Migration Bureau
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Columbian Southern Tand Agency
Park Row
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Ington
Nase
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Gale
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Jefferson, Obie
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