Kennewick's Greatest Needs and Local Growth Vision
A plea for a substantial building loan fund to accelerate Kennewick growth. The piece argues housing, business space, and a hall or opera house are essential, urging capitalists to finance homes via affordable payments and stressing local progress over Sunnyside. It ends with a humorous telephone exchange from the New Orleans Picayune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennewick
Sunnyside
S. J. Harrison
Eugene
Oregon
500 PERISH IN STORM IN SOUTHERN STATES
A devastating midwestern US tornado outbreak swept Texas Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee and Georgia over two days. Estimates place dead near 500 with hundreds fatally injured and thousands homeless. Looting and lawlessness occurred in some towns while governors appealed for aid and tents for the displaced.
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New Orleans
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Amite
Sveral
Noel
Aftermath of Georgia storm reports widespread damage
The storm's approach brought serious damage across Georgia with relief teams noting utter misery in Purvis Mississippi where 900 residents remain and wrecked homes offer scant shelter. Wounded black residents and children suffer under the sun while relief workers race to find blankets and shelter amid high fatalities. White residents also die in the same storm system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Purvis
Miss
Notre Dame de Salette Slide Buries Hamlet
A massive landslide buried half of Notre Dame de Salette village on the Lievre River in Buckingham Quebec. About 30 residents are reported dead as morning slides collapsed homes and blocked escape routes in the isolated hamlet lacking phone or telegraph service.
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Buckingham
Quebec
Notre Dame de Salette
Lievre
St Paul Rams British Cruiser Gladiator Off Isle of Wight
In a dense snow storm the American liner St Paul collided with and destroyed the British cruiser Gladiator near the Isle of Wight. The disaster leaves 34 dead and many injured as the St Paul had been en route from Southampton to New York.
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Southampton
St. Paul
New York
Gladiator
Isle of Wight
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Cen
Violet Park
Elmdale
John Henry Miggies
Blickenstreet
Mr. Miggles
Egypt
Hone
Hippocrates
Chios
Ahmes
J. E. Tull
McCall’s
Ladies
Oxfords
H.a.howe
H. A. Hower
Ennevwiick
Post Office
The
Brunswick
C. E. Tripp & Son
Stark Brothers’ Nursery
Ohio
Hamilton Supply Co
Routledge Seed Co
Denver
Church Seed Co
Spokane
North Yakima
Sash and
Cascade Lumber Co
R. C. Mounsey, the Hustler
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