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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1898
Page
7
Reports from Shawneetown Illinois describe catastrophic levee breaks sending a tidal flood through the town. Rescue crews saved hundreds clinging to roofs and levees while the waters rose thirty feet in places and all stores and homes were flooded with casualties feared.
Mayor Carney of Stawnecqtown urged Governor Tanner for 100 tents and 100 cuffing as relief shipments arrive. Tents reached the town, but crossing the Wabash backwaters remains blocked by flooding. The south levee threatens to fail, risking dangerous currents for rescuers in skiffs.
In Waco Texas Brann editor of The Tecnoclast and Thomas Ed Davis clash Friday night. Both men die within hours with eyewitnesses naming Brann as aggressor. Davis had two daughters at church school and was a partisan manager for a mayoral candidate. Davis allegedly says Ward Brann’s business manager fired on him as he lay dying. Ward is arrested.
Mrs John Tansey of Detroit recalls her daughter’s near collapse from anemia and describes how Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People restored her vigor. She praises the medicine’s blood enriching properties and urges other mothers to keep it on hand for daughters approaching womanhood.
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