Four Kings to Attend Funeral for Archduke and Duchess
Reports from Vienna and Sarajevo describe public outrage after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. Martial law is in effect in Sarajevo and Barajevo as mobs attack Serb targets. The bodies will lie in state at Artstetten before a midnight funeral attended by foreign monarchs.
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Vienna
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Francis Ferdinand
Duchess of
Hohenberg
Barajevo
Ubs
Esxeh
Francia Joseph
Ferdinand
Pringly
Auke
Prince
Dynes
Arenstein
Spain
Morace
Saxony
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Diuchess
Hakenberg
Uip
Artstetten
Metkontch
Eenney
Trieste
Charles Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph
Europe
Tlehenberg
Belgrade
Buena Amt
Austria
China Appeals to U S Over Flood Homelessness
A historic flood devastates southern China destroying crops and leaving about two million people homeless and destitute. Appeals surge to the American Red Cross and other relief organizations as details remain scarce.
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Washington
China
American Red Cross
Christina Pagaliad
Bisi Rions
Chisappa
Committee of American Tisgionaries
Me Chesure
Nood
News Food
Tywal River
Tri-State League Scores Highlight Close Contests
In a double feature of extra innings and tough defense, Allentown-Wiltington edged Allen Town 7 to 5 in twelve innings at Trenton. Reading defeated TMarristwre 6 to 1 at Reading. York topped Trenton 12 to 6.
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AL Allentown
Wiltinington
Allentown
Readinge
Tmarristwre
Reading
Trenton
York
Liszt Endures a Baroness Teasing Tea Party Prank
The tale recalls Liszt rebuffing a tactless Baroness who pressed him to play after promising a tea, moving a piano to the room and faltering beneath the social set. He jokes through the moment, later sharing songs with guests and finally laughing at the staged mishap as the ladies peeked behind a screen.
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Liszt
Lisat
Lin
Lisst
Madun
Mouseigneur
Liset
Monseigngur
Jess
Cokliy
Madam Melbig
Ninous
Beleeren
Johan
Nina
Mme. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
Harper's Magazine
Varnishing Day At The Royal Academy
Worn canvases regain luster on varnishing day as hangers adjust orientation and critics discuss recent labors. A frustrated lady complains her work was hung horizontally instead of vertically, amid cautions about possible misinterpretation.
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Royal Academy
Hifi
New York Sun
Canned Talks in Health Crusade
United States public health service launches a health education campaign using card mounts phonograph records and lectures on hygiene. Ninety five typhoid slides accompany explanations while another set covers infectious diseases TB smallpox yellow fever malaria and sanitary conditions.
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United States Public Health Service
Wong Seriossibraries
Perfect Baby Contest Reckons Measurements and Origins
A fragment describes a newborn girl or boy with a flawless set of measurements, citing a New York contest winner Johanna Wiggers. The text mentions parent ages Elsie Strech and Max Wiggers and includes unrelated jokes about roads and growing babies.
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Johanna Wiggers
New York
History as She is Wrote and a Comical Domestic Moment
Excerpts translated by the London Star discuss Louis VII and Louis XVII with Napoleon and Alexander I in a sweeping foreign history note. The Philadelphia Telegraph recounts Father Brown’s suburban domestic scene where Jimmy buys a cornet, provoking his wife’s amusement and concern.
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Klajayski
London Star
Lewis VII
Louis XVII
Napoleon
Gogaparte
Alexander I
Russias
St. Helen
Brown
Jimmy
Philadelphia Telegraph
American Surgeon Fights Yellow Fever in Iquitos
In Iquitos on the Amazon near the equator an American Public Health Service surgeon, backed by the Peruvian government, eradicates yellow fever despite flooding and poor drainage. He halves the annual death rate from about 49 to 28 per year, challenging other cities to preventable disease.
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Stereoption Library
Public Health Service Corps
Washington
Stereopticon
Stereopticon Library
Amazon
Iquitos
Public Health Service
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Twenty two injured in Milwaukee intake tunnel blast
Milwaukee workers suffered serious injuries when gas in the new intake tunnel beneath Lake Michigan exploded. Twenty two men were rescued, some fatally harmed, as investigators assess the blast at the lakefront facility.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Amter Lake Michigne
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Federal Bureau
Hearth Service
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