Galveston Passes Hurricane Safely Behind New Sea Wall
Galveston Texas withstood a Gulf hurricane similar to 1900, aided by a new sea wall and elevated position. Seven feet of floodwater covered parts, beach front damage included bath houses and piers, but shipping remained undisturbed. Twenty-five lives were lost, four more fatally injured, over fifty seriously wounded, and overall property damage to exceed one million dollars.
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Galveston
Tex
Galveston Bay
Gulf Coast
Colonel Undismayed Hippopotami Attack Roosevelt Ride
Colonel Roosevelt hunted near Naivasha aboard a rowboat with two natives when a herd of hippos surrounded the craft. The natives panicked but Roosevelt remained calm and selected a bull and cow to shoot, driving off the rest of the herd.
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Roosevelt
Naivasha
Lake Naivasha
John W Gates Sees Savings Through Reused Clothes
John W Gates returns from a six week overseas trip in high spirits saying Americans cut costs by wearing old clothes. He notes two years of retrenchment boosted bank deposits nationwide and predicts four more years of strong industrial growth and trillions in savings.
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John W. Gates
New York
United States
Every Well A Producer No Dry Holes Drilled in Cemetery
Oil operators push cemetery leases around Steubenville Ohio as they report success. A big producer was struck at Pleasant Hill church cemetery lot and Mount Calvary cemetery has nine producers. Union cemetery, at the city’s edge, also shows drilling activity with several large wells. An old operator says he never knew a dry hole in a cemetery lot.
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Cemetery Lota
Steubenville
Pleasant Hill Church
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Union Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Left Till War Is Over Farmer Flee to Peaceful Region
A Nevada Missouri encampment story notes farmer George Rutherford left home fearing militia activity near Camp Hadley. He traveled toward Tennessee while his family remains unaware of his exact whereabouts amid the yearlong encampment.
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Farmer
Camp Hadley
Nevada
Atated
George Rutherford
Tennessee
Dun's Review of Trade Reflects Rising Confidence
Dun's Review of Trade reports growing business confidence as tariff questions ease, crops promise large value, and prices in some steel sectors rise. It notes cautious buying for the distant future, with leading interests likely to seek better terms for steel bars plates and shapes amid active demand and a general recovery.
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Bismave
Dun
Fprofada
Crops Killed by Moths Hit Pennsylvania Apples
State agriculture reports severe damage to fruit crops in Pennsylvania. Only about a quarter of peaches and a third of apples will be harvested this year. Apple losses could reach $1,000,000, blamed largely on the coddling moth, with 95 percent of apples stung or wormy. Drought also contributes to the shortage.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture
Surface
Professor Surface
Body of Foreigner Found in Trunk
A trunk murder mystery emerges as Minos K. Monjian is found killed in a Lynn boarding house room with a bullet and multiple knife wounds. Victim’s bank book and valuables remain in pockets, suggesting no robbery motive. Police seek Vahan Nalbandian aka Frank Jones for clues. Also reported: a 5,000 witness Mississippi hanging. Edward Thompson, 19, sentenced to one year for car theft and injuring a pedestrian.
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Minos K. Monjian
Vahan Nalbandian
Lynn
Mass
Nalbandian
Frank Jones
Pittsburg Markets and Chicago Grain Report
Pittsburg markets report prices for potatoes and poultry with live stock values for cattle sheep hogs and dairy items. Cattle supplies steady on top grades, other grades down. hogs lower with primes around 8.45 to 8.50. Chicago grain market notes enormous wheat receipts causing declines. July wheat to 1.0644 and 1.0544 for others, corn and oats also weak.
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Pennsylvania
Oklo Creamery
Chicgage
Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Fight Over Old Cow in Union Miss Ends in Fatal Shootout
A feud over a cow in Union Mississippi erupted into a street gun battle leaving cattleman F. J. McDonald and his brother Peter dead. Cor nelius Chisholm Joseph Miller and Murphy McDonald were wounded as revolvers fired near the Union bank. Murphy McDonald was seriously wounded but not killed.
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Union
Miss
F. J. McDonald
Peter McDonnald
Cornelius Chisholm
Joseph Miller
Murphy McDonald
Chisholm
McDonalds
Half Moon Arrives in New York for Hudson Fulton Celebration
Reproduction of Henry Hudsons vessel the Half Moon arrives in New York harbor aboard the freighter Soestayk. Built in Amsterdam under public subscription, the replica honors the Hudson Fulton celebration and the river discovery from the original Half Moon voyage with Robert Fulton.
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Henry Hudson
Weasel
New York
New York Harbor
Amsterdam
Holland
Hudson’ River
Robert Fulton
Burlington Bristles Over 1200 Negro Cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen
In Burlington Vermont residents protest government plans to quarter 1200 Negro cavalrymen at Fort Ethan Allen nearby, recalling Brownsville tensions. Reports say trouble has arisen with a portion of the regiment already present and alarms grow at the prospect of the full detachment in town.
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Brownsville
Tex
Vermont
Burlington
New England
Fort
Ethan Allan
Tailor made suits cut in half for spring and summer
Spring and summer fashion drives cut prices on suits across styles. The store slashes prices from 40 to 50 dollars to 25 and 35 dollars, from 30 and 35 to 20 and 25, and from 20 and 25 to 15 and 18, with lowest groups from 12.50 to 18 reduced to 10 to 12.50.
Babe Swings In Midair Woman Catches Falling Baby
Two year old Viola Aiber of Indianapolis swung from a window ledge and, after hanging by her hands, fell into the arms of Mrs. Herman Try who held another child. The event occurred above a cement pavement as Mia Pry did not have time to set down her own baby.
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Viola Aiber
Indianapolis
Ind
Harvest Hands Sought as West Farmers Call for Labor
Fifty thousand able bodied men are wanted across the West to harvest the season's crops, a demand urged by Representative Stevens of Minnesota to officials in the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington. The call reflects a critical labor shortage pressing farmers nationwide.
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West
Department, of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Representative Stevens
Minnesota
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