Central Louisiana storms sparked deadly incidents and shocks
A severe electrical storm in Central Louisiana followed extreme heat, killing Henry LaFranc and his wife and injuring their three year old daughter in a car crash. Across the nation a wave of tragedies and notable events unfolded including drownings, murders, deaths, arrests, and institutional actions.
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Louisiana
Henry LaFranc
Anton H. Strause
East Great Forks
Minn
Virginia Paul
Lansdowne, A
W. Brooke Lessig
Philadelphia
Wildwood
N. J
William Leach
Wilkes-Barre
John M. Dean
West Texas
el Paso
Congress Hotel
Chicago
Green Bay
C. N. Moiles
Saginaw
Mich
Saginaw Bay
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
East Pittsburg
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
Mauretania
Liverpool
Queenstown
Warfield
McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Station
Baltimore
International Pressmen’s Union
Hawkins County
Tenn
Taft
Rolando Sutton
Military Academy
Chicago Postonce
Colorado
Shawmont
Shinnecock
R. L
Yellowstone Park
Edward Lateril
San Francisco
Carl S. Jones
Detroit
France
Princeton University
Madden Pierson
Arlingtom
Prohibition Party
Elmer Burritt Bryan
Franklin College
Indiana
Colgate University
Samuel J. Seligman
New York
Deal, N. J
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Curtiss Denies Infringement Claim At Rheims Show
Glenn Curtiss, the American aviator, now at Rheims for the aviation contests, denies the charge of infringement by the Wright brothers in their suit against the Aeronautic Society of New York. Orville Wright and his sister arrived in Berlin to witness one of his flights.
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Glenn Curtiss
Rheims
Wright Brothers
Aeronautic Society of
New York
Jean Gaston Darboux
French Academy of Science
France
Nairobi
British Africa
Roosevelt
United States
Reyes
Nuevo Leon
Mexico
Santiago
Chile
Stockholm
Canada
China
Japan
Antung-Mukden
British Empire
Orville Wright
Berlin
American Association of Commerce
Americ National Waterways Commison
B. H. Shackleton
South Pole
Greece
Fire devastates Virginia Portsmouth district causing heavy losses
A large fire swept the southern portion of Portsmouth destroying forty three buildings, including a warehouse and several homes and groceries. Losses are estimated at 60 000 dollars with many families left homeless and some insurance coverage in place. Additional reports detail a bank depositor suit against directors of the failed People's Bank of Portsmouth, and Roanoke city elections, Newport News arrest case, a Bristol grocery firm formation, and Richmond governor grants partial death row relief.
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Portsmouth
Duke, Effingham
Brighton
Green Streets
L. J. Plummer
Green Street
J. T. Parker & Bros
Jacob Goodman
Brighton Street
Norfolk
John T. Griffin
People’s Bank of Portsmouth
Alexander Butt
Richmond
Falmouth Anti Saloon League Holds Annual Meeting
Fredericksburg report notes the Falmouth Anti Saloon League met at Hulls Memorial Chapel Stafford with Field Secretary J D McAllister delivering an address. A medal contest featured recitations won by Miss Isabel Brooks silver and Miss Myrtle Bullock gold. Winchester elected officers Rev D R Hardesty president Alexander Littlefield L A Blake C A Bryan W A Botts vice presidents S R Truslow secretary and Frank Brown treasurer. Also reported is the death of Mrs Nina Kiger Shearer wife of Al Shearer in Winchester at 55 from Brights disease. She was previously married to Charles McCullum of Baltimore and leaves two sons and three sisters.
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Falmouth
Fredericksburg
Anti-Saloon League
Hulls Memorial Chapel
Stafford County
J. D. McAllister
Richmond
Isabel Brooks
Myrtle Bullock
D. R. Hardesty
Alexander Littlefield
L. A Blake
Winchester
Nina Kiger Shearer
al Shearer
Bright
Charles McCullum
Baltimore
Harry McCullum
San Antonio
Tex
Sellman McCullum
Panama
Nina Shearer
A. L. Shearer
Shearer
William G. Kiger
Texas
J. C. Vanfossin
William Tapscott
Berryville
James Sellman
Lynchburg Broker J Clinton Kinnear Dies at 44
J Clinton Kinnear a Lynchburg broker died at Jefferson Hospital Roanoke from pneumonia. He married Virginia Langhorne daughter of the late Col Maurite Langhorne. He leaves a widow and two children. Remains shipped to Lynchburg an hour after death. He was 44 years old.
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Roanoke
J. Clinton Kinnear
Lynchburg
Jefferson Hospital
Fredericksburg Tragedy: J Frank Covey Ends Life in Newport News
J Frank Covey, 22, formerly of Fredericksburg and now in Newport News, shot himself in the forehead with a revolver in the dining room of M. J. Gateley’s home. He was reportedly in love with Miss Edna Robinson, Gateley’s niece, who rejected him.
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Fredericksburg
J. Frank Covey
Frank T. Covey
Newport News
M. J. Gateley
Covey
Mr. Gateley
Edna Robinson
Gateley House
Frightful Flywheel Accident Traps Youth at Richmond
Frank Neal, a 15 year old machinist at the Richmond American Locomotive Works, was dragged by a massive flywheel as his clothing became entangled. He was hurled around with each revolution before clothing freed. If no internal injury, recovery expected.
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Richmond
Frank Neal
American Locomotive Works
Neal
Mosby's Men to Hold 43rd Virginia Battalion Reunion
Under the Women's Memorial Association of Front Royal the Forty third Virginia Battalion known as Mosby's Men will hold their annual reunion August 28. The veteran fighters have for years held these reunions though each year participation has grown smaller. During the war Mosby Men were a constant source of report to Federal outposts and lines of communication.
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Luray
Women’s Memorial Association
Front Royal
Forty-third
Virginia
Wet and Dry Fight Reaches Election Date in Roanoke
Roanoke Judge Staples of the Corporation Court ordered a local option election for September 30 after a petition from the drys. Lawyers for the wets filed a protest and plan to take the case to the Supreme Court, which convenes in Richmond on August 30.
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Roanoke
Staples
Corporation Court
Lynchburg Marriage of Miss Hatchet and Mr Effinger
Miss Helen Chilton Hatchet of Lynchburg wed George Washington Effinger of Harrisonburg in a formal Richmond ceremony. The Rev. BE B. Carter officiated as illness in the bride’s family prompted the union. The event was reported from local society notes.
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Lynchburg
Helen Chilton Hatchet
George Washington Effinger
Harrisonburg
Be, B. Carter
Prominent Lynchburg Merchant Dies After Illness
Roanoke Clinton Kinnier a leading Lynchburg businessman died of pneumonia at Jefferson Hospital after a brief illness. He was 44, born and raised in Lynchburg, married Virginia Langhorne, with two children. Survived by wife and children.
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Roanoke
Clinton Kinnier
Lynchburg
Jefferson Hospital
Kinnier
Virginia Langhorne
Maurice Langhorne
England and Wales population figures and historic crime note
The article notes England and Wales population at 5.35 million versus 31.517 million a decade earlier, cites rising London police court crime, Alaska salmon output equaling combined BC US Japan catches, US cotton crop value 722 million from 150 percent harvest, pauperism rate 24.1 per thousand dropping to 22.4, and a historical remark on chimneys in Europe and Roman uses.
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England and
Wales
London
Alaska
British Columbia
United States
Japan
England
Europe
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Aid Sufferers in Letters
Consumer letters praiseDr Miles Anti Pain Pills for quick relief and no habit. Mrs G H Webb of Austinburg Ohio notes family headaches gripped by pills and a backache LaGrippe case improved. Claims support from a druggist refund offer and authorizes return of first package price if no benefit. Elkhart Ind Miles Medical Co.
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Miles
LaGrippe
Pluerfay
G. H. Webb
Austinburg
Ohio
Dr. Miles
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Chesapeake Steamship Company Line Service Details
The Chesapeake Steamship Company operates the Chesapeake Line passenger steamers Columbia and Augusta. Vessels depart from Baltimore daily except Sunday at 6:50 PM and leave Old Point Comfort at 6:00 AM and Norfolk at 7:00 AM, connecting with rail lines to all points south.
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Chesapeake Line
Columbia
Augusta
Ould Point Comfort
Norfolk
Baltimore
West Point
Richmond
Gloucester Point
Clement’s
Clay Bank
Allmond
Light Street
City
Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Robson
T. H
T. H. Deser & Co
J Ho Eager
N. Charles Street
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CE Mumford
Sands Smith
J. P. Nottingham
Casa
The
L. E. Mumford Banking Co
Blackstone School For Girls
EES
Tods
Lewes
James Cannon, JR
Blackstone
Catalogen Rural Supply CO
S. Third St
Richmond, Va
Rchmond
Euitoria
Mathews Journal
Journal
the Mathews Journal
the News
News of Virginia
Blaze
Frank L. Gibbons
W. B. Bates
Beverly Berkley
John Randolph Bryan
Berkley
Charles Deyter
National Soldiers' Home Farm
Hampton
Chamberlain Hotel
Deyter
Adams
Chamberlain
Bristol
Umstattd & Akers
C. C. English
J. W. Umstattd
West Virginia Capital
Swanson
Walter F. Schultz
Alexandria
Calvin Johnson
Richard Pines
Eugene Dorsey
Nina K. Shearer
Mosby's Men
Virginia Breifs
George Carroll
St. Paul
St. Peter Streets
Beverly B. Berkeley
J. R. Bryan
A. H. Gibbony
Annis Gammon
L. H. Gammon
Petersburg
Gustavus Adolphus Erdman
Sysonby Garden
Din- Widdie County
Sysonby
Erdman
South Dakota
Germany
Odds and
A. M. Marchant
Chesapeake Steamship Company
M. S. Foster
Sibney Bros’ Mathews
Wace
Lee
Geo. W. Wright
Leslie C. Garnett
Mathews
Middlesex
Gloucester
Frederic S. Lee
Columbia University
Weichardt
Hill
Clark Sash and Door Corp
Frank T. Clark
Corner Plume
Randolph Sts
Gid Siminion Steamship Co
Gloucester Counties
Norfolk, Co
North St
Norfolk, Bay Line
Old
Cols
Bay Line
Old Point
East River
Severn
O. D
Philpot
Philphot
Williams
James River
Bitwen
Berkeley
Brandon
Richyong
Main Line
Main Street
Atiga Heel
A Earnest
L. Bugg
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