Typhoon Death Toll Reaches 10000 At Swatow
Aug 8 Hongkong report recounts Swatow's ruin after last week’s typhoon and tidal wave killing about 10,000. Many buildings destroyed, including factories and the German consulate. American consulate and a warehouse damaged. Three Ursuline Sisters survived miraculously. police thwart looting as refugees crowd wrecked streets.
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Hongkong
Swatow
Here
Shanghai
Standard Gilt Company
Banque Industrielle de China
Bund
Harbor Road
Ursuline
A. Rayssac
Mission Catholique
Marie Rosary
Public urge for new northern Market Street paralleling Seventh to Ninth
Voters are asked to weigh in on locating a new street in the northern city area running parallel to Market Street from Seventh to Ninth. The item highlights civic consideration and potential impact on traffic and neighborhood access.
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Market Street
Wind and flood devastate mission compound inventories
The wind and water carried away and destroyed all church vestments personal belongings of the convent inhabitants and school equipment. No word from Catholic missions at Chaochowin and Kitsang and it is feared they have been wrecked.
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Chaochowin
Kitsang
Lion Swallows Monkey Jocko's Parade Prank at Leo's Cage
In West Chester Pennsylvania on August 8 a circus pet monkey named Jocko joined the parade by entering Leo the lion's cage. The coat remained in the cage while Leo slept after a big meal and reportedly appeared unfazed by the intrusion.
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Jocko
Leo
Circus
West Chester
Doge Kill over 100 Turkeys Near Allentown Farm
Stray dogs, whose ownership James D. Geary seeks to determine, killed over 100 turkeys on Harvey Kreitz’s farm between Lyon Valley and Leather Corner Post, about eleven miles northwest of Allentown, Pa., on August 8.
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Allentown
James D. Geary
Harvey Kreitz
Lyon Valley
Leather Corner Post
Sleven
Tug Ithaca sinks after 18 hour battle off Longport
The tug Ithaca bound from New York to Philadelphia sank six miles off Longport after an 18 hour effort to save her. Captain John Jones and five crew abandoned ship as decks were ripped for fuel amid a gale and hailstorm. The crew reached Longport then Philadelphia.</s>
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Atlantic City
N. J
Ithaca
New York
Philadelphia
Longport
John Jones
Jones
Samuel Holdtrom
Delaware River
Erie Railroad
Walter Hagan
Camden
Captain Jones
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Ghocap
de Qiao Ginger Ale
Opera House
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Edmard Goulding
Robert Z. Leonard
Mae
Murray
Tiffany
Tombs
New York City
Purina
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Roy W. Poole
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