England Navy Blows as Gladiator Sinks After Collision
London Apr 27 The Gladiator crew deaths and missing total 26 with 5 more dead later and six seriously injured as the St Paul and Gladiator collide off the Isle of Wight. Admiralty issues revised casualty list and warns of an inquiry while witnesses praise sailors’ discipline.
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London
St. Paul
Isle of Wight
Admiralty Yate
Wight
Hayal
Board of Trade
Tiger
Crauiser Herwick
Thesse of Wight
Two Mail Bags Stolen in Transit to New York
London authorities report two bags of malt and valuables worth 590000 stolen in transit between steamers and the post office. One bag, destined for St. Louis, shipped by the Majestic, arrived New York March 26. The other, for Brooklyn, aboard the steamer Philadelphia, arrived March 29.
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London
New York
St. Louis
Majestic
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Mountain Buries Village De Salette Ontario in Landslide
Buckingham Ontario reports a mountain slide burying half of Notre Dame de Salette with at least 30 residents dead or missing. Eyewitnesses describe the swift avalanche from the riverbank hillside, destroying homes, cottages, and gardens as rescuers rush from nearby Buckingham and Pouperc.
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Buckingham
Notre Dame de Salette
Bere
Loiovre
Lierre
Camille Lo Pointe
Renguera
Pouperc
de Salette
Blizzard disrupts Great Britain with heavy snow
A severe blizzard across southern England produced eight foot snow drifts and a violent northerly gale. Railways and telegraph networks were disrupted, tram and motor traffic slowed, many districts isolated, and several deaths from exposure were reported. London, after days of heavy snow, cleared to sunshine but remained very cold.
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London
England
United Kingdom
Mercury for Tuberculosis Treatment Trial Report
A preliminary report to the Surgeon General details mercury based treatment for tuberculosis. Surgeon B L Wright, at Fort Lyon Naval Hospital, leads investigations with Medical Inspector C T Hibbett noting growing clinic interest. Wright and Bucher apply the treatment personally to prevent needle infection, with encouraging early results.
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Washington
B. L Wright
Navy
Nya
Fort Lyon
Cal
C. T. Hibbett
W. H. Bucher
Wright
Ht Te Said
Labor Wants a Mint Investigated in Philadelphia
Central Labor union leaders urge President Roosevelt to probe Superintendent Landis of the Philadelphia mint for alleged violations of the eight hour law and the president's orders on legal holiday observance. Also notes Detroit Polish district march and protest against German land expropriation, plus a destructive Indiana tornado damaging barns and telegraph service with losses under 50,000 dollars.
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Labor
Philadelphia
Central Labor Union
Roosevelt
Landis
Detroit
Mich
Woodward Avenue
Light Guard
Poland
Tornado toll and devastation rise across Deep South
New Orleans April 27. Deaths numbered about 359 and injuries around 1,200 with thousands homeless after Friday tornadoes wrecked 46 towns in four southern states. Amite La Purvis Miss hit hardest as homes and negro habitations lay in ruins, with boats of destruction spreading through northern Louisiana Mississippi and Tennessee.
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Fridey
Brittly
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Amite
Purvia
Miss
Raye
Sam
Hamilton Warnerg
Claude Bennett
Cie Whitling
Mobile
Ala
Meridian
Saya
Miseicaippi
Causeyville
Two Old Washingtonians Die
John Edward Libbey president and Charles Th. Church vice president of the Oldest Inhabitantal association of DC died Sunday in Washington. Libbey born November 22 1837 in Washington and Church born September 11 1826 in Jefferson Maryland. Both men long tied to the lumber business.
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Washington
John Edward Libbey
Charles Th. Church
District of Columbia
Mr. Libbey
Mr. Church
Jefferson
Frederick County
Maryland
Joliet Fire Ravages Stores and Hammond Building
Joliet Illinois April 27 Fire Sunday destroyed the Boston store and damaged the Hammond building adjoining The loss on the store and contents totals about 3100 000 The roof and third floor of the Hammond building burned with a loss of about 25 000 Lightning killed a father and son at Huntington West Virginia April 27 a 12 year old son also perished at their home in the county.
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Joliet, Hl
Boston
Hammond
Aston
Huntington
W. Va
Art Horrlang
Chile ‘Wix
Honing
Tbis County
Busy Man's Corner Highlights in Brief
Wisconsin Governor Davidson fell on a polished floor and broke his left arm. Former U S Senator John Camden of West Virginia died in Baltimore at age 80. Rockford alderman E F Carty was arrested for doodling and two other council members resigned. Mrs Jennina A Call of Chicago was sentenced to bridewell for a year for using tails to defraud. Louis A Gorrdain, once a lottery king, escaped from a federal asylum in Washington. Herman H Peters of Port Huron died by his own hand after losing $10,000 from a failed fraternity. At Lordsburg Oliver Garthson killed his wife and wounded George Allen before taking poison.
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Gov. Davidson
Wisconsin
United States
Johnson N. Camden
West Virginia
Baltimore
E. F. Carty
Rockford
Itt
Council
Jennin ‘A. Call
Chicago
Louis A. Gorrdain
St. Rhisenbeth
Dtate
Washington
Herman H. Peters
Port Hurog
Mich
United Home Protectors
Lordsburg
N. M
Oliver Gartson
George Allen
Quinide
Big Bridge Explosion Damages Bristol County Span
Fall River Massachusetts reports a mysterious dynamite blast early Sunday badly damaging the Bristol County steel bridge linking Fall River to Somerset across the Taunton river. The $750,000 structure, still under construction, could incur about $15,000 in contractor losses. The project is by Holprack Cabot Rollina of Boston, nonunion workers, with prior attempts on their bridges in Baltimore Philadelphia and the Bronx.
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Mase
Ape
Bristol County
Somerset
Taunton River
Holprack, Cabot & Rollina
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Bronx
New York
Castro asks academy to halt bubonic plague in Gardena
Caracas reports President Castro requesting the Academy of Medicine to draft sanitation measures for Gardena. The academy orders immediate rat destruction and daily street cleaning, removal of infection foci, use of Haffkire serum, and hospital huts in suburbs. Sanitary commissions are set for each ward as suspicious cases rise.
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Caracas
Vie WiHemstad
Castro Hag
Academy of Medicine
Gardena
Academy Alsc
Arizen
Fatal Fight With a Mob in Texas Leaves Two Dead
A Memphis style massacre narrative: In Go mer Texas a drunken Ben Holland killed his sister Jennie Marble. A mob gathered to lynch him and Constable Cumble fought to disperse them. In the clash two were killed including an unknown negro and Josephine Mitchell. In Baltimore a boarder McIntyre killed his landlady and friends before suicide.
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Port Worth
Tex
Gomer
Knight
Ben Holland
Jennie Marlble
Cumble
Josephine Mitchell
Sunday School Teacher Confronts Mischief and a Ball Pup Tale
A Sunday school teacher struggles to engage her class as spontaneity drains away and a bull terrier wanders in. A shy boy breaks the tension with a quirky remark, saying he once had a ball pup that grew into a bloodhound.
Fragmented dialogue on Koskowine river Athabascans
A lecturer notes that among the Athabascans on the Koskowine river the females are supreme. A resolute spinster interrupts with a request to leave. The speaker shows concern asking if she is ill. She responds that she is better but mentions betraying the Koskow wine traitor.
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Koskowine
Cavarro Cure Ww the only Posse Ure HOw KROWR CO
A mock prescription advertisement featuring a claimed cure for a salence disease with garbled phrasing and references to Hall's Cat and various medical terms. It touts a $100 reward and lists improvised remedies and a Toledo address for KRY Le G0., aiming to mislead with sensational health claims.
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Cavarro
Krowr
Hall
Sharett Dane Ing
Ditsuee
DuLdieg
Ericainy Addrasa
KRY
Taledo
garfield tea and health claims in old Minnesota ad
An OCR fragment purports health claims for Garfield Tea noting digestion aid and vitality. It mentions Minnesota School Land Sales from July 1908 offering 300000 acres, with contact by state auditor H. G. Iverson in St Paul Minnesota. Other bits reference Lewis Fogle Binder and a Peoria Illinois factory, plus a George Eliot quote about duty and value.
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Minnesota
G. Iverson
St. Paul
Mion
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
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