Hold-Steamer Colon Battered by Gulf Storm
The steamship Colon, sailing from New York September 10, endured a severe hurricane about forty miles north of Watling Island. Winds near a hundred miles per hour swept seas aboard, flooding staterooms and dining areas, tearing a smokestack, washing three boats overboard, and damaging wireless gear. Passengers sheltered in the dining saloon as saltwater flooded forward holds and two engineers risked their lives below to shut tank connections. One engineer died, and several crew members were injured while the ship struggled to reach Colon.
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Colon
Wrzalten
New York
Watling Island
Gem
Te Possengers
Will. Penkin
Able’s Corpontes
J Ison
Ware
R. Berthl
Somerow
Barth
Sands
Olsen
Mouretania Anchors at the Hook Amid Bay Fog Storms
Heavy fog over the bay delayed arrivals as several liners reached Sandy Hook. The Pretoria, Deutschland, Celtic, Allityga, and Orinoco endured a hurricane warning, while Mauretanian anchored offshore awaiting smoother seas and passengers anxious for news. Charles W. Gates met his father aboard the Mauretanian, receiving a wireless update.
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Mouretania
Pretoria
Hambers
Deutschland
Wireses
Schrotter
Schrotte
Sandy Hook
Celtic
Te Bors
Mevretania
Charles W. Gates
Mauretania
Help Wanted Classifieds Mixed in Old Brooklyn Newspaper
Job line includes multiple ads for work wanted including a Mass poultry manager and caretaker, practical draftsmanship lessons, stenographer, coachmen, gardeners, and janitorial staff. Entries show names, addresses in Brooklyn and Long Island, references requested, various duties from country estate care to office work, with age and marital status noted where provided.
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Maried
Germany
Holland
America
F. W
Lawrence
Long Island
N.Y
Mauretania Near Dock as Fog Binds Vessel
Cunard Line officials fail to reach Captain Pritchard by wireless after fog traps the vessel. The Mauretania is expected to reach its dock today with marooned passengers including Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt aboard.
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Cunard Line
Pritchard
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Caracas Safe in Port After Hurricane Encounter
The Red D Line steamer Caracas arriving from New York reports encountering the hurricane off the southern edge near latitude 30 on September 14. Winds reached 1% miles an hour for a full day. Passengers stayed below, no injuries occurred, and the ship was slightly damaged. Passengers praised Captain Furst and the crew with thanks and a token subscription.
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San Juan
P. R
Red D Line
Caracas
Furst
New York
Rainstorm floods Galveston with heavy rainfall
Galveston reports six and a half inches of rain in sixteen hours and a wind peak of seventy mph for two minutes. Streets were knee to chest deep with rain water, tide reached four feet, normal eighteen inches. No private property damage reported.
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Galveston
Drouth Drives Diptheria Threat Across Counties
Greensburg Pennsylvania reports drought linked diphtheria near epidemic level with nine cases in a public school. Sewage flushing halted by stagnant water as families group in four households. Ohio city Alliance faces water famine with river deepening and boil water orders. Vandergrift mills idle as acid in the Kiskiminetas River corrodes boilers during low water.
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Greensburg
Penn
Board of Health
7Th Ward
Clements
The
Health Board
Alliance
Ohio
Mahoning
City Board of Health
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling Railroad
Vandergrift
American Sheet Tin Plate Company
Kiskiminetas
Drouth
Girl Survives 2300 Volt Shock From Dare
Mollie Frank a 12 year old of 23 Emerald Avenue Chicago survived a dare that sent 2300 volts through her body. After climbing an electric light pole and touching a live wire she fell unconscious but was revived by doctors and is expected to recover. The incident compares the voltage to that used for condemned prisoners in some states.
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Chicago
Mollie Frank
Emerald Avenue
Andy
New York
Ohio
Autopsy and grave cited in death penalty debate
Medical men argue that executions by electric chair are not final, claiming death comes from the surgeon’s knife during autopsy or from dissolution in the grave, a contention raised amid controversy over capital punishment methods.
Dehydration proposed to feed world at banquet
Waukesha Wis September 18 Judge M B Griswold urged that dehydration could solve the world food problem when population outstrips productivity by turning sea weed from the G real Sargasso Sea into edible food. The first such banquet was prepared by Miss C A Lyford of State Normal University Bloomington Ill and featured speeches by Louis Muench A J Frame president of the Waukesha National Bank Dr Hugh Phillip Professor E B Hutchins of Carroll College and others.
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Waukesha
Wis
Sargasso
M. 8. Griswold
C. A. Lyford
State Normal University
Bloomington, Ill
Louis Muench
A. J. Frame
Waukesha National Bank
Hugh Phillip
E. B. Hutchins
Carroll College
Labour classifieds for domestic staff in city and country
A mixed list of classified ads seeking domestic workers and help for homes and estates. It includes positions for a single man, valet, chambermaid, waitress, cook, laundress, nurse, housekeeper, kitchen maid, and several specialized roles. Names include Malcol Morrison and Makoto. Locations cited include New York City addresses and Englewood New Jersey.
Southern Pacific Thraen 68 East 112th
Southern Pacific Coast item in New York New Orleans region notes the Thraen unit at address 68 East 112th. Details are sparse but indicate a transportation or railroad reference associated with Southern Pacific operations.
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New York
New Orleans
Pacific
Southern Pacific
Thraen
Notice of appointment of commissioners of appraisal
Public notice from the New York City Corporation Counsel states an application to the New York Supreme Court for the appointment of three disinterested freeholders as Commissioners of Appraisal. The real estate involved lies in Orange and Putnam counties, including Montgomery Newburgh Cornwall and Phillipstown, for the Northern Aqueduct Section 6 project. The filing cites maps, dates, and the extensive parcel descriptions filed June 1908, with a hearing set for September 26 at 9:30 AM in New Rochelle, Westchester County.
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NEW York Supreme Court
Orange County
Putnam County
Aqueduct Department
City of
New York
Supreme Court of
State of New
New Rochelle
Westchester County
N. Y
County of
Oafe
Putnam
Montgomery
Newburgh
Cornwall
Phillipstown
Fee
Nwall
County of Orange
Fishkill
Dutchess
County of Putnam
State of New York
Northern Aqueduct Department
Board of Water Sup— Pty
City of New York
Ulster and
Orange
Plaina Road
New Paltz
St. Andrew
King’s Hill Road
Leptondale
Walden
Newchurgh
South Plank Road
Paio
Cochecton Turn Pike
Coldenham
East Coldenham
Turn Pike
Drury Lane
Cochecton
el No
Alden
Lyatt Yrd
New York Central and
Hudson River Company
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