Night of Fire Lamps Aboard Mercados Off Newfoundland
The British steamship Mercados, returning from Bilbao, faced a nightmarish storm on the Grand Banks. A south southwest gale tore loose a deck derrick and caused major damage while balls of flamable ignition exploded from the masts. Electrical fire lit the ship for two nights, forcing improvisational repairs to reach port as Captain Tait described an ordeal for the crew and officers amid seas and wreckage.
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Mercedes
Philadelphia
Bilbao
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Tait
Mercados
Vessal
Aterm
Pales
Depres
Philadelphia Recor
Liberty bell fever spreads through Mexico tale
A chaotic New York World column recalls the Liberty Bell dream in Mexico with debates over a Liberty bell or doll, a patriotic vow, and a poet’s motto Aut campanam inveniam aut faciam. It notes bells in Mexico and urging national independence symbolism amid exhibition plans.
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Mexico
Tiraybout
Maxico
National Archives
Severn
New York World
Rockefeller Mountain Park Plan At Tarrytown
A New York Journal report describes John D. Rockefeller’s plan to cut the summit of Kykult Mountain near Tarrytown to create a vast 1,000 acre park retreat. Men work to reshape the peak, add terraces, and lay out drives as a future grand mansion site awaits design. The project ties historic Washington Irving lore to a modern landscape transformation.
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John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
Kykult Mountain
Manymilion
Rockefeller
Oman
Muhammed
Pocantico Hills
Carrytown
Rockefeller State
Andes
Himalayas
Parsons Place
Tarry
Washington Irving
F. A. Bolzw
New York Journal
Overboard in a gale aboard the Len Fox
Captain Manuel Caton and crew confront a violent gale while bound for Iran. A 9 foot rogue wave lifts him from the deck and he clings to a rope and the wrecked hull as the Fox drifts. Two brothers August and Manuel Louis rescue him as the crew lures a dory aboard and fights to safety. Buston Herald.
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Manuel Caton
Len Fox
Iran
Bald
Tyne
Marion
Cross Sons
August
Manuel Louis
Ilerald
Electric Palace of Yerkes Home Showcases Massive Battery
The New York residence of Charles T. Yerkes at sixty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue features an advanced electric system with 3200 lamps, a large storage battery of 60 blocks totaling 2600 ampere hours, a gas engine driven dynamo, an electric elevator and multiple motors. The lighting design emphasizes cathedral glass glow and concealed lamps in rosettes and carved woodwork.
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Yerkes
New York
Charles T. Yerkes
Chicago
Sixty-Eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Inarivato
Wapella County Evangelists Fail to Convert Town
In Wapella County Indiana Protestant leaders including Dwight L Moody and two others target Kiddyville with no converts as Robert G Logerson lectures draw the male population. Eddyville reports 1500 residents and prior revival by Billy Sunday yielded no converts. Local grand jury head Majoc Broderick adjourns to hear Ingersoll lecture. A gin mill in Gis City sees a boy age ten oppose his father’s liquor business and the town backs the boy as the saloon closes.
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Wapella County
Wapulla County
Dwight L. Moody
Kiddyville
Tur Wooka
Robert G. Logersonn
Hivar
Eddyville
Ginmer Billy Sunday
Suttle
Majoc Broderick
Foraman
Wapella
John Champion
Gis City
Lnd
Champion
Dunraven a Jonah as ship disasters mount
Ti $a claims Lord Dunraven shows Jonah like traits aboard Valkyrie II and III and on the White Star liner Germanic amid wrecks and sinkings. Circle City Alaska newspaper notes remote Yukos reliance on distant neighbors for weekly news as a printing plant ships in. Children prefer Captor Oj to Laxol.
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Dunraven
Jonah
Vigrant
Defender
Satanlta
Clydy
White Star
Beotch
Lend Calor
Circle City
Alaska
Uot
Yukop
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Jacob Blind
Court House
Burlingto, Mich
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Grets
Richard Butler
Plias Hewitt
Real Estate & Insurance Bureau
Willbuy
Magsgane
James Mi
Parbons
Lon
Dawid S Beach
Orving
Brate Street
Wiesman’s Grocery
Marshall
Michigan
J. W. Lester
F. B. Snyder
Jd. W. Lester
Agiolia
Louis C. Mittes
Charces C. Mires Milleeh & Miller
Lew
Afice
Cook Block
Magedant
Miouigus
Luraugay
W. Tik
Enn
Emiaeda
Ill
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Mich
Byde Druggat
A. EB. Fiokongur
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Richmond Dispatch
Hol Heng
Canton
China
L'Independence Belge
Ti Lien Fou
Hos
Menlo Park
Bardock
Wo. Kirby
Akron
Mohammed Outdone
Dodge
Scranton
John B. Davis
Bellevue Street
Siumooth
Shiloh
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Hyde
Sweeney
U.S. A
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Pitcher
Wellbach
Maryhall
Marshall Light CO
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Munson Typewriter CO
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United States
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