Three New Destroyers Launched at Sparrow's Point
Baltimore reports the first triple launching in U S history as the torpedo boat destroyers Truxton Whipple and Worden slid from the ways at Sparrow's Point in a 2 PM ceremony. The ships are 435 tons 80 officers and men capacity and 20 knot ships with four 3 inch guns two 18 inch torpedo tubes and four cylinder 8400 horsepower engines.
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Baltimore
United States
Sparrow's Point
Truxton
Whipple
Worden
Patapsco
Point
United States Navy
Alligator Mose Undergoes Coin Removal at Zoo
In New York on August 15, the 18 foot alligator known as Big Mose had two coins removed from his mouth weighing nearly a half pound each. The operation used anesthetics and a rope-bound plan to blindfold and immobilize the creature before removal. Mose roared and stood once freed, returning to the tank.
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New York
Mose
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Mose i
Beardless Squire Smock and a Mysterious Reappearance
A beardless Squire Smock astonishes kin and neighbors after shaving. His mother visits, mistaken by family members for a stranger, while old friends push through doors calling him Mr Stevens. The tale notes a sudden, comic identity shift and reactions.
Nurses in Demand At Indianapolis Health Crisis
Intestineal diseases prompt high demand for trained nurses as doctors report record calls and empty job boards. Meanwhile in Keosport Pennsylvania, 200 workers at the seamless tube plant quit, signaling a broad strike wave as the plant produces projectiles for the U S army.
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Indianapolis
Keesport
Seamless
National Works
Seamless Tube Works
United States Army
Loco Weed Blamed for Animal Drunkenness in Montana
Bozeman Montana August 15 A group of eastern research bodies including the Smithsonian have dispatched scientists to study reports that sheep cattle and horses in parts of Montana are addicted to intoxication and drugs. Montana agricultural experiment station botanist J W Blankinship cites loco weed as the poison producing fatal animal intoxication with stiff legs glassy eyes and rapid flesh loss described.
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Bozeman
Mont
Smithsonian Institution
Montana
J. W. Blankinship
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Hornet In His Mouth Bets Speechless Man
Stamford Connecticut August 15 Van Bur en Lockwood of Stamford was nearly speechless after a hornet flew into his dining room and settled in a dish of rest The insect stung him multiple times before he removed it His tongue swelled to twice normal size and he could not speak clearly until medical aid arrived He now speaks only in a husky whisper.
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Ms Lockwood
Ohio governor and Montana official plan St Louis fair 1902
Gov. Francis Scuri and Hon. Thomas Carter arrived in Canton on Thursday to view Mr. McNinles and finalize the decision to have the president officially proclaim to the world that the World’s Fair will be held in St. Louis in 1902.
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Canton
Francisscuri
Thomas Carter
Montana
McNinles
St. Louis
British Engage Commandants Near Steinsdorp
Cape Town reports British forces clashed with Commandants Kritsinger Erasmus Piper and Cachet near Steinsdorp on Wednesday. Erasmus and Cachet were mortally wounded as Boer forces reportedly routed.
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Kritsinger
Erasmux
Piper
Cachet
Steinsdorp
Erasmus
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