Merida wreck rescues praised after Cape Charles collision
Norfolk May 13 reports tell of the Ward liner Merida wreck off Cape Charles where 197 passengers and 130 crew were landed safely. The Admiral Farragut rammed the Merida in heavy mist and transshipments saved all lives. The wireless again proved crucial, aiding rescue by the Iowa and Hamilton.
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Norfolk
Merida
Cape Charles
Admiral Farragut
American Mail
Farragut
Iowa
Hamilton
Hansbrough Novel Out Puts New Astrocratic Party
Minneapolis May 13 Henry Clay Hansbrough former U S senator from South Dakota publishes a novel The Second Amendment critiquing old parties and proposing the Astrocratic party as a cure for political ills.
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Minneapolis
Henry Clay Hansbrough
United States
South Dakota
Princeton Junior Hamilton Brown Ends Life in Dorm Room
Hamilton Brown of New York, a Princeton junior and Colonial Club member, shot himself in Upper Lyne Hall. He had attended classes that day and was found by a friend in his room. Brown held the intercollegiate record in the half mile.
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Princeton
N. J
Hamilton Brown
New York
Upper Lyne
Brown
Colonial Club
General Markets Report with Dairy and Produce Quotes
Butter weaker with receipts 4745 packages and varied grades. Cheese weaker with 3912 boxes. Eggs weak with 31472 cases storage packed firsts 18 to 18 1 2 c per dozen. Potatoes new steady old weak Bermuda No 1 525 50 per barrel Maine 170 to 185 per bag. Hay steady live poultry steady dressed poultry steady. Meats live veal calves 6 to 7 75 per 100 lbs calls 5 to 5 50. Also a faded fiction excerpt ends with a brief dialogue about a romance.
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Pennsylvania
Nennery
A.c
Hennery
Brown
Bermuda
Maine
State
Fried Potatoes Sold on French Streets from Pushcarts
Consular Reports describes pommes frites sold in northern France from covered pushcarts. Workers and laborers buy a hot, nutritious meal for a few cents during noon and throughout the day, with fat-free odor indoors. Potatoes are cut, fried in beef suet fat, salted, and served in small paper cornucopias.
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France
Bull Ants of Africa Terrify Elephants and Men in Forests
A Pearson's excerpt describes the great bull ant as Africa's dread insect. It overruns forests in long columns two inches wide, devours prey on the spot, and can force creatures to flee into rivers. Humans are said to be attacked and even sacrificed to ants in legends.
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Africa
Pearson
Dentist Gas Question Sparks Quick Barbed Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds with a dentist asking about gas while a character named Mr Tightwad probes meter rates, leading to a brief courtroom style interjection from a judge.
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Tightwad
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