Tragedy and turmoil sweep early 1900s headlines
A wreck on the Great Eastern Railway Berlin steamer from Arwich to the Hook of Holland drowns 140 aboard, with one survivor. Other items include a divorce case in Winrlington, Iowa, a Coast Artillery accident at Fort Pickens, a printers strike hitting Butte, wolves in Kansas, a Wyoming bandit girl, and a heroic boy saving his mother from a fire in Indiana.
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Holand
Great Eastern Railway Company
Berlin
Arwich
Ildland
Warren Dreckwith
Jessie Lincoln Beckwith
Robert LT. Lincoln
Winrlington
Iowa
V Wuierkircher
Blanche Julia Cutter
Aurora
St. Louis
New Orleans
Larry L. Leonard
Chicago
Twenty-fifth Company of
Coast Artillery
Fort Pickens
Pia
Leonard
Ins
Leo Settle
Wsat
Butte
Fem
Suseanda
Daix
Eames
Dettisis
Jeushas
Mickerson
Kan
Hevan
Ethel Thourrens
Wyoming
Dubois
Stro Mp
Albert Campbell
Newhburn
Ind
Death sentences for Ferreira and followers in Africa raid
News nuggets report Ferreira leader of a raid from German Southwest Africa last November and four of his followers sentenced to death. Also noted are wide fires near Hattiesburg Mississippi threatening settlers, acquittals of union leader Cornelius I Shea and co-defendants in Chicago, a $1,000 verdict for George Bevans in Cleveland after a spoonful of brains claim, a fatal freight engine explosion at Strauz Texas injuring Engineer George Merchant and Fireman Filicott, and various other incidents including a Columbia University president’s engagement, machinists seeking an eight hour day, a Seattle inmate sent to asylum, Flora McDonald’s Chicago shooting, Rockefeller’s wealth shrinkage, a fire at Friend paper mills in Ohio, and a defective electric wire cause.
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Central High School
Pacffe
Strauz
Texas
George Merchant
Filicott
Nicholas Murray Puiler
Columbia University
Kate LaMontagne
August LaMontagne
New York
International Association of Machinists
Greater New York
Jersey City
Hoboken
Esther Mitchell
Seattle
George Mitchell
State Asylum For the
Stellacoon
Flora McDonald
Mike” McDonald
Webster &. Guerin
Chicago
McDonald
Guerin
John D Rockefeller
Frederick T. Gates
Friend Paper Mills
West Carrollton
Ohio
22 Killed in New York Central Electric Train Wreck
A New York Central Suburban electric train derailed near Bedford Park station Saturday evening killing 22 and injuring about 100. The four overturned cars dragged along the track, smashing to splinters and scattering victims. Fire broke out as rescuers worked amid mangled remains and clothing torn from passengers. The cause remains under investigation.
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New York Central
Bedford Park Station
Grand Central Station
New York City
Bedford
Gulf Stream Shifts Westward Following Major Earthquake
Captain John C. Soley reports startling Gulf Stream deflections after the Kingston earthquake. The current now charts a wide arc near Central America, altering its former path near Cuba and Florida. He notes a vast oil pool two hundred miles off Louisiana and an inland sea of fresh water along the Florida coast with distinct eddying currents and debris.
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Kingston
John C. Soley
Gulf Division
The
Hydrographic Office
Central America
Ealf
Cuba
American
Florida Peninsula
Atlantic
Seley
Louisiana
Atchafalaya River
Florida
Gulf
Rent Problem Plan by Dr Felix Adier of New York
Dr Felix Adier proposes city buy suburban land to build affordable homes for workers with rents within reach and good investment returns. He urges forming a social league of nonunion workers and thinkers to push reforms, argues collectivism as the coming trend though opposing socialism.
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Felix Adier
New York
Dr. Adler
Irrigation Treaty Settles Texas Mexican Dam Dispute
A treaty signed in Washington ends the long dispute over a dam to divert the Rio Grande at El Paso. The agreement provides dam construction and allows Mexico to receive its water share from the retained flow.
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Mexico
Texas
el Paso
Washington
Notable Deaths and Appointments in Brief
Prof. Charles F. E. Garman of Amherst College died in Amherst Massachusetts at an advanced age. Frank Banisik was hanged in Newark New Jersey for the Montclair murder committed two years prior. Vice Admiral Topete is slated to become admiral of the Spanish navy succeeding the late Admiral Beranger. A large group of cranberry growers in southern New Jersey formed the New Jersey Cranberry Sales Company to boost market efforts.
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Charles FE. Garman
Amherst College
Amherst
Mass
Frank Banisik
Newark
N. J
Thomas Fed
Montclair
Topete
Admiral Beranger
New Jersey
New Jersey Cranberry Sales Company
Berlin Wreck Off Hook of Holland Kills Ninety-One
A German English English steamer Berlin driven ashore in a southwesterly gale near the Hook of Holland on the North Sea. Of 141 aboard 91 passengers and crew perished. some reports say 120 passengers and 60 crew. Lifeboats could not reach the vessel as heavy seas tossed the ship, breaking it in two.
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Berlin
Hook of Nelland
Wek
Holland
Harwich
London
Hook of
Rotterdam
North Sea
Mas
Nesbit Thaw Testifies Under Sharp Cross Examination
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw remains unshaken in a grueling session with District Attorney Jerome. The cross examination features insinuations and sarcasm as Nesbit answers in controlled, defiant tones and relies on memory gaps to guard her testimony.
Berlin Steamer Disaster Off North Sea Pier
The steel steamer Berlin, twelve years old and popular with north European travelers, sank after striking a rock or obstacle near a new north side waterway by a pier and railroad station. Most passengers could have been saved, as the vessel was near land and navigable waters. The loss left a large portion of the crew and travelers aboard.
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North Sea
Berlin
Europe
Mrs Snyres First Big Cuts Gifts to Troy Schools
A news item reports gifts totaling 2 million dollars to Emma Willard Seminary and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from Mrs. Sage in memory of her education and with no attached conditions. An additional 250 thousand dollars to the national YMCA will fund a building for executive offices on Twenty ninth Street in New York City near Lexington Avenue.
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Ricketts
The
Polytechnic
Twentyninth Street
Lexington Avenue
New York City
Negro National Fair to Be Held in Mobile in 1907
A negro national fair will be held in Mobile Alabama in November 1907. The President will be asked to visit the exposition. Wire destroyed the Townsend block a major structure in Princeton Minnesota causing an estimated loss of 60 000 pounds. Two hundred striking Italian laborers threatened violence at the General Electric Signal Company buildings at Rochester New York but police prevented a clash.
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Mobile
Ala
Townsend
Princeton, Minn
Italan Indorers
General In Electric Signal Company
Rochester
Cross Examination of Evelyn Nesbit in Thaw Case
The trial featured a lengthy direct examination with Nesbit repeatedly saying I don’t remember on key points. District Attorney and defense attorney Jerome pressed her on Stanford White’s 1902 deposit and alleged conditions for payments, while Nesbit described her past life and her handling of letters, aided by her mother’s and brother’s statements.
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Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbit
Jerome
Mrs. Thaw
Pasturization Declared Key Cure by Royal Commission
The British royal commission on tuberculosis concludes that unsterilized milk causes consumption, opposing Prof. Koch's theory that bovine tuberculosis is not transmissible to humans via milk. The finding underscores milk pasteurization as a primary public health measure.
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Royal Commission On
Prof
Koch
New York City Collects Back Taxes From Traction Firms
New York City has collected more than 3 million dollars toward a 19 million dollar bill from traction companies under the special franchise tax. The payments advance the city’s effort to recover overdue taxes.
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New York
New York City
Smoot Keeps His Seat After Senate Vote Ends Fight
The Senate cleared Smoot of expulsion by a 32 vote short of two thirds and 17 shy of the needed majority. All 28 no votes were Republicans. 3 Democrats voted in favor. Women filled galleries, supporters congratulated Burrows, and the chamber paused other business as the Smoot case concluded.
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Senate
Tead Smeot
Heathy
Utah
Neces Reed Smootsary
Smooth
Smoot
Burrows
Dubois
Hansbrough
Mr. Smoot
Foraker
Beveridge
United States
Treaty expires March. Roosevelt pushes new pact
President Roosevelt works toward a new Japan treaty as the old one ends March 12, after talks with the California delegation. Harry F. New and Elmer Dover announce a December meeting to fill the chairmanship. Philippe Bunau-Varilla foresees catastrophe for the Panama canal if the US fights nature, warning of an unsafe lock canal and a washed Gatun Dam. Sheffield Ingalls, son of the late Senator, joins Kansas Legislature after a tied election decided by drawing straws.
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Harry F. New
Indiana
Elmer Dover
Republican National Committee
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Panama Republic
United States
Panama Canal
Gatun
Roosevelt
Foreign Commerce Convention
Sheffield Ingalls
Atchison
Kxan
Ingalls
Kansas
Peruna ingredients praised by United States Dispensatory
The article argues Peruna’s claim as a catarrh remedy is supported by the Dispensatory. Hydrastis canadensis, corydalis formosa, cubebs, Cedron seeds and oil of copaiba are cited as mucous membrane tonics and stimulants with uses against rhinitis stomach catarrh dysentery and chronic bladder and liver or kidney issues. It invites readers to request a free testimonials book in support.
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United States
Peruna
Onts Heads 2 Peet Long Seeding New Heads This Year
Onts Heads 2 Peet Long and The John A. Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin announce a new outs with heads two feet wide. Their heir catalog proclaims Spetz the greatest cereal hay food America ever saw and urges readers to consult the catalog.
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John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
America
Seed Catalog Free Offer From Salter Seed Co
Free 148 page Seed and Tool Catalog mailed to buyers or free samples of Two Foot Long Oats and other cereals. John A. Salter Seed Co. Box C La Crosse Wis invites stamps for catalog and samples.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
Box C
la Crosse
Wis
First Known Mentions of Petroleum Through History
The text traces petroleum in Western thought from 1659 when Father De la Roche d Allien records it in America to earlier uses. It notes medieval Latin roots of the term petroille and references such as rock oil, petreol, and Lodge 1596 metaphor, with petrol reemerging in the motor era from French as refined petroleum.
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America
Father de la Roche d’Allien
Peter
Alice
Petroille
Trench
Lodge
Calves in 2 Meat ow quoted as painting title
Dialogue between Stippler and Dobber reveals mixed doubt and praise about artworks. Kutts admires the effort in the painter's work, noting visible personal investment. The referenced piece is titled Calves in 2 Meat ow.
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Stippler
Grape-Nuts Claims Help for Dyspepsia at 70
A Maine man aged 70 credits Grape-Nuts with curing his dyspepsia and liver troubles after nine months of using it for breakfast with cream and a little sugar. He reports pain relief, weight gain, better sleep, and broad dietary tolerance, and offers to answer letters from others seeking a remedy. The ad cites Postum Co. and the book The Road to Wellville as supporting materials.
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Maine
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Kingman
B. C. Hudler
Around
Gulf Stream
Goast
Inter Ocean
Evelyn Than
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Tarentum, PA
Ne * Aenne
California
U.S
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