Widespread Ills and Innovations Mark Early 20th Century Letter
A collage of topics notes epidemics and crime surpassing cholera fears, warns of quarantine limits, and questions punishments for drunkards. It comments on college orators favoring practical questions, praises public interest in national flower ballots, and reports on Paris telecommunication experiments and high tech naval costs. It mentions Concord grape originator, paper stockings in Germany, and early electric power proposals in Niagara.
World Update of Disasters and Deaths Across the Nation
A wide range of calamities and notable deaths fill the condensed bulletin. Cyclones strike Stillwater Minnesota. fishermen and miners suffer fatalities. bank failures surge with Platts and Denver closures. Prominent figures including John H Chapman and Gen Edward J Dillon die. a train wreck injures multiple. column notes bursts about world fair, banking panic, and political events.
Multiple World Events Reported Across Borders
A clash at a Mexican resort left three women wounded in a knife fight near the capital. Siamese casualties from a battle with French gunboats on the Meinant river totaled twenty dead and fourteen injured. Greenland voyage details include the steamer Falcon leaving St John’s for Greenland via Labrador. An army bill passed in the Reichstag by an overwhelming margin. A derailment near Hilbow Spar killed six and injured thirty. Antisemitic mobs in Yalta killed and looted. A tornado struck Voghera and nearby towns causing heavy destruction and deaths. Twelve men drowned in the Danube near Vienna after a boat capsize. Thirteen warehouse fires in London caused massive losses.
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Ansre Geaky
Mary Schrieber
Port Clinton
Pelhamville
N. J
Westfield
Fovr Knights of Pythias
Vincennes
Ind
Indianapolis
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
John H. Chapman
Chicago
Grance Grandpin
New York
T. W. Dickinson
Niagara Falls
United States Grand Jury
Tatoma
Wash
van Horne
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Fresno
Cal
Adam Allis
Willie Boyce
Mill Creek
Allis
Philadelphia
Boston
Fittsburgh
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
St Louis
Hualtimore
Washington
Louisville
Clinton
Tean
Freeman
Mose Cox
George Beels
Luca SchaeIer
Los Angeles
St. Dussexperre
Puyallup
Goshen
America
Morris
California
Yue Bouton
Montana
Clement Mitte
Columbus
Glen
Gleam Station
N. H
W. FL
Weewen
Crittenden County
Ark
Little Rock
Groner Bown
Albert Batteroux
Willie Clawnon
Galveston
Tex
Richard P. Rovenson
Frederick T. Rewlion
Bagdereville
Bireet
John Eas
Segeriman
Wharton
C. T
First National Bank
Cedar Town
Joan McConnel
D.C. Johnston
Steubenville
Snake River
Idaho
Anna Witkower
Palmer House
Baron Sohlberg
Council of Administration
George McDonald
Frank J. Egan
Missouri National Bank of Kansas
Ozone Park
S. 1
Girand
Sppradley
Nacophobhes
Joel Goodwin
Duplex Mreet Railway Track Company
West Virginia
Virginia
Whiting
Standard Oil Company
Worfares
Elwood
Martin Richelberger
York
Yale University
National Commission
Kansas
Citizens Bank of
People’s Savings
Fort, Deptt
War Department
Fort Reine
Ohio County
Deperster
Buffalo
East Aurora
XN. Y
J.D. Carter
Marina
Director of Works
Burnham
Edward W. Murphy
J. B. Skinner
Charles A. McDonald
Grand Jury
Cherokee Strip
Oklahoma
Iimaports
The
Union
Commercial
National Bank of Commerce
Mercantile
Capital
North Denver
Denver
Western Union Telegraph Company
Brazil
Congress of Boys and Girls
Texas
Mexico
Meinant
Liert Peary
Falcon
St John’s
N. F
Greenland
Labrador
Reichstag
Hilbow Spar
Yalta
Russia
Hend
Voghera
Italy
Danube
Vienna
London
Various isolated incidents across the nation including wrecked wages and fires
Reports detail a 10 percent wage cut amid tough times, a 100 percent tariff shift on goods, writs of attachment in Sharpsville, smallpox cases near Elizabeth New Jersey, a Texas countys attorney arrest for robbery, pension fraud probes in New Mexico, a Guanajuato family massacre, a Greenville Mississippi drugstore fire, wage strike at Newark Edison works, a Tonawanda inheritance, and a Susanville fire destroying sixty buildings and $250000 town.
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D. A. Breas
Arkansas Gavotte
Little Rock
Deil
Toho Springs
Col
St. Louis
Times
Treasury Department
Sharpsville
Pao
Douglass Furnace Company
Elizabeth
N. J
Aldene
Ota F. Lanf
Gregg County
Texas
Fort Smith
Ark
Pension Bureau
New Mexico
Marbelino
Servano Loriz
Guanajuato
Mexico
Lopez
Greenville
Misa
H. ©. Garrett
Newark
Edison Lamp Works
Conrad Weilham
Tonawanda
N. Y
India
Art Susanville
Cal
Swelling the Fund at the World’s Fair Fire Relief Drive
July 11 reports show 49 401 visitors paid for admission to the World’s Columbian Exposition Sunday with 2 403 children’s tickets sold, boosting the relief fund for Cold Storage Fire victims to about 9 7 9 287. Many attendees donated cash without taking change. Festival Hall hosted a Sunday service with a 200 voice choir and a large audience as funds continue to grow beyond gate receipts.
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Chicago
Teleeta
Fromen
Beneft
Sixty-second Street
New York
Aticket
Mortice Tucker
Festival Hall
W. L. Tomlins
Arthur Mees
L. K. Merver
New Church Temple
Sweden
Train Over Precipice in Spain Kills Six, Injures Thirty
A Bilboa dispatch reports a rail accident in Mis Cav province when a locomotive and six cars derailed on a sharp mountain curve and plunged into a valley. Six people were killed and thirty seriously injured, many from prominent Basque families.救
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Spain
Mapnit
Dalyi
Bilbo
Mis- Cav
Rniiwayy
Auzuola
Vergara
Killed at a Picnic by a Firework Mortar Explosion
An explosion at a Sunday night picnic under the Society del Carmine affiliations near Sixty-ninth and State streets killed Richard Marshall and Michael Soow and injured four others. Marshall’s head was severed, a two year old babe present in a carriage was uninjured.
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Coreani Daly U
Richard Marshall
Michael Soow
Sinty-ninth
Woe
Society del Carmine
Father Machin
Marshall
Chinese Backflow Policy Sparks Entry Dispute
An official note from Mr. Derby, the U S minister to China, cites a Chinese decree barring 100 000 returnees from reentry to the United States. Treasury findings show far fewer Chinese actually return home since 1844, highlighting the proclamation’s exaggeration.
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United States
State Department
Derby
China
Treasury Department
A Silent Bardee at Besteman’s Biennal Yaharu 90 Mobs the Man Talk
A noisy morning in a basement barber shop linked to a fashionable hotel turns into a comical silent exchange. The barber communicates through signs as the man asks about races theater and daily life, finally paying with a twenty cent piece and a dubious check. The piece captures quick witticisms and a snapshot of urban chat.
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Besteman
Yaharu
Washington Monument
Polley
Diablo
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Pires
Nemslan
Fenete Woke
Cemfort
Caar
Lea
New York Recorder
Massachusetts
Yebors
United States Treasury
Paris
M. Veille
Mediterranean
Britain
Berlin
Eoukain W. Bei
Concord
Mass
Emerson and
Alcott
Iowa
Arkansas
Preston Bower
Niagara Helis Wystem
Biour Nation of
Newcastle
Wyo
Ishpeming, Mich
Schlessinger Syndicate
W. H. Buam
N. M. Tabor
Brown Palace
Excmanuss
Branford
Hay & Webb
Carmi
Ill
Cumshax Seeaueen
Buffle
D. Y
Lorex Mumaver
Mary Wirsh
W. L. Osamier
Sas Francisco
Knights of Pythias
Grex
W. H. Exocas
Tenth
Ohio
Irenton
Rean Apwrat Eagre Exazisn
Gen
Eoward Jandinee
Tuomas Enwaxo Watsy
University of Notre Dame
South Bend
Hright
St. Mary's Hospital
Milwaukee
Witttax M. Stone
Land Office
Oklahoma City
O. T
Stone
Twenty-second
Iowa Infantry
Resayas
Frederick A. Johnson
Glens Falls
Johnson Vincentz
Racine
Wis
Duan Les Breck
Milton
Order
Conangs
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Louise Scott-King
Louisville, Ky
Supreme Court
A. H. Howland
Maynard
Howard
Bariuty
Mbemare
Tie Muni
Eage Phosphates
Keston Herald
Hinek
Amy
N. V. Werkly
Wonton
Johnson
New
Puck
Tate
Hood
Tion
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