News Condensed for August 7 11 Time Capsule
August 7 to 13 highlights include the 322 annual Catholic total abstinence convention at Dubuque Iowa. US figures Maj Booths Seventh Infantry arrived Seattle from Alaska. Hanna spoke at Urbana and Lake Chautauqua on Capital and Labor. Nebraska Prohibitionists nominated a full state ticket. Richmonds Union Seminary fire caused 5906 damage. An explosion near Santander Spain killed 14. Nancy Hanks grave monument to be dedicated October 1. William Williams Berlin announces two new German submarines. Corbin returned to Washington from the northwest inspection tour. Wireless communication linked Washington and Annapolis via Navy. Twenty eighth NYVI veterans dedicated Cedar Mountain monument.
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Catholic Total Abstinence Enion of America
Dubuque
Seventh Infantry
Booth
Seattle
Alaska
Hanna
Chautauqua Assembly
Urbana
Chautauqua Association
Lake Chautauqua
N. Y
Nebraska
Presbyterian Union Seminary
Richmond
Santander
Spain
Negro Young People’s Christian and Educational Congress
Atlanta
Cedar Mountain battlefield
Virginia
Wiliam Zink
New York
Akron
McKinley National Memorial
Wardiner Vigilancia
Havana
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Edward VII Crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
Edward VII was crowned king at 12 39 pm in Westminster Abbey amid a grand pageant. Queen Alexandra’s crown followed, the procession included royal family and foreign dignitaries, and the crowd cheered as the king and queen were crowned and saluted.
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London
Edward VII
England
Alexendra
Weseminster Abbey
erssia
Princess of Wales
Edward
Gueen Alexandra
Duke of Bucsleugh
Geveral
Poral Company of
Hari Walde Brave
Duke of Portland
Roys
Second Life Guards
archbishop of Canterbury
King Edward
Yerk
Washed From Their Graves at Madison Disaster
A cloudburst washed over Madison New Jersey flooding a Presbyterian cemetery and washing hundreds of graves. About a hundred coffins with bodies were recovered. many unidentified. Track washout on the Lackawanna line derailed a passenger train, killing the brakeman and injuring the conductor and engineer.
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Madison
N. J
Avs
Presbyterian cemetery
Lackawanna Road
Purchased Terminal Site Baltimore
Aug 13 a Western Maryland Railroad company purchased land in South Baltimore for a terminal site west of Fort McHenry on the Patapsco middle branch. Water frontage on both sides of the point has been required. The price is undisclosed though the land is largely unimproved and valued around £215,600.
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Baltimore
Western Marryland Railroad company
Fort McHenry
Patapsco
General Markets Report From Milling and Poultry Prices
Market notes show mils and extra figures with quiet trade at 53.25 for poultry. Dressed fowls are listed with price points and brief specs, reflecting a small regional commodities snapshot.
Strikers Raid Farms Amid Threats and Troop Talk
In Shensadezh Pennsylvania on August 12 farmers report strikers pressuring farmers in the Catawissa Valley amid threats to protect property. Complaints reach brigade headquarters with talk of cavalry and troops to guard farms day and night.
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Shensadezh
Catawissa
Gobin
Lucien Musbeckh
nicht
Homan
Fighth Regiment
remai
bisi
Lively Battle at Throop
Scranton Pa August 12 deputies clashed last night with residents of Throop a mining village six miles north of Scranton. Scores of shots were exchanged with no confirmed injuries. The Pancoast Coal Company washery in the village began operations Tuesday under armed guard as officials faced local tension.
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Scranton
Bt Throop
Pancoast Coal Comparatian
Ontario
W Tmcoe
desweies
Battle of Barcelona Venezuela rages six days
Rebels captured Barcelona after a six day siege as fighting continued from August 3 through August 9. Government forces were overwhelmed, with 167 dead and widespread looting and atrocities against civilians reported. Foreign consulates appealed for protection while U S ships were dispatched to the area to aid the wounded and bring supplies.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Barcelona
Venezuela
Francisco
Monagas
Platero
Martin Marcano
United States
Bowen
Caracas
Cincinnati
Porto Cabello
Sfarietta
Orinoco
Falke
Curacoa
Giovanni Bausan
Pallas La Guzira
Boys drownings shock Atlantic City crowds at summer shore
In Atlantic City two Philadelphia youths aged 16 and 8? were swept under by a strong undertow as bystanders watched. Joseph Land died after attempting to rescue Daniel De Angeli while Samuel Stagg narrowly escaped. Bodies were recovered and lifebuoy efforts described. the drowning drew a crowd of visitors with a witness from Newark.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Joseph Lend
Philadelphia
Daniel De Angeli
John De Angeli
John Murphy
Samuel Stags
Newark
Land
De Angeli
Angeli
Lang
Stagg
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Vatican
Rome
Silver Lake
Pinto
W. Va
Admeiral Schicy
Catholic Summer School of America
Clit Haven
Westminster Abbey
Cetawissa Valley
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Liverpool
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