Flood Devastation Reported Across Multiple States
Augusta Georgia reels as flood damages rise to 2.5 million dollars with 22 bodies recovered and at least 60 dead. River steamer captain recounts twenty five corpses seen, mostly Black laborers. Fayetteville Cape Fear river hits record height. South Carolina flood damages exceed 1 million with bridges lost and crops ruined. Thousands left homeless and many counties report extensive livestock losses.
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North Carolina
South Catalina
Folsom
Fifteen Drowned After Cloudburst Destroys Cameron and Folsom
Aug 29 Trinidad Colorado reports a flood and cloudburst sweeping Cameron and Folsom New Mexico. Fifteen feared drowned with eleven bodies recovered as Colorado and Southern railway suffered widespread damage including ten miles of track and twelve bridges. Meager advices say entire towns were wiped out and searches are ongoing. In Albany New York the Merry Widows club bans married men from Men’s night events while allowing bachelor widowers and single women to attend. in Wilkes Barre a horse race disaster injures several after an airship incident. Coates of Larksville suffers a collapse and two jockeys die.
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Colo
Cameron
Folsom
N. M
Colorado & Southern Railway
Merry Widows
Albany
N. Y
Merry Widows’ Club
Tex
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Fagin School Detected as NY East Side Police Crackdown
Detectives seize a second-story room over a barber shop on Third Avenue arresting twelve boys aged thirteen to twenty and a woman named as Lilian Sullivan alias Nellie Sliney. They find stolen goods and poker, craps, and other pastimes. police plan further inquiry into thefts linked to the school.
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New York
Third Avenue
Polce
Burglar Mantell Surrenders in Philadelphia Confession
Joseph G Mantell, who says he lives in New York, surrendered in Philadelphia claiming he is wanted in Brooklyn for burglaries at Miss Bertha Brand in City avenue Brooklyn on Oct 28 and at William Gluck in Washington on Nov 9 1907 He said he had been tortured by conscience and wished to face trial and end it all.
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Philadelphia
Joseph G. Mantell
New York
Brooklyn
Bertha Brand
City Avenue
William Gluck
Washington
Mantell
Three Men Hurt In Hammer Attack In Adams County
York Pa Aug 29 three men He Adams county as the result of an attack on them by John Bosserman aged twenty six who became suddenly insane John Bott aged forty and Cornelius Baker aged seventy are suffering from fractured skulls and Nathaniel Baker is in a critical condition from concussion of the brain All injuries were inflicted with a heavy plumbers hammer wielded by Bosserman He was seized with insane desire to harm every person he met overpowered by two men then taken to the almshouse at Gettysburg.
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York
Adams County
John Bosserman
John Bott
Cornelius Baker
Nathaniel Baker
Bosserman
Gettysburg
Fires destroy Parsons Camp Ground buildings in Kentucky
The famous Parsons Camp Ground near Russellville Kentucky was leveled by fire. Speaker Joseph Cannon will kick off the Republican campaign in Indiana Merion county on September 24. Rev D B Milligan Canton pastor and golfer commits suicide. Rev D Killis, Monitor survivor and retired clergyman, dies of Bright's disease in Annville Pennsylvania at age 58.
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Parsons Camp Ground
Russellville
Joseph
Cannon
House of Representatives
Indlang
Merion County
D. B
Milligan
First Presbyterian Church
Canton
Rev
D._&.Killis
United Brethren
Bright
Annville
Taft Leaves Hot Springs for Middle Base Island
William H Taft Mrs Taft and Master Charley left Hot Springs Virginia last night for Middle Base Island in Lake Erie en route to Athens Ohio where he will address Civil and Spanish American war veterans. The party then goes to Toledo and to the home of the Middle Base Flaking club as host for the week. He returns to Toledo September 2 for a non political address to the Grand Army encampment.
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Taft
Athens
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Homestead
Harriman Lawyer Said to Donate to Campaign
Chicago reports say William Nelson Cromwell Harriman's attorney gave sixty thousand dollars to the Republican campaign fund. Fred Upham admitted being told of a contribution to Treasurer Sheldon but did not know the amount. Local Republicans fear Democrats will use the report to sharpen a campaign barrage.
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Chicago
New York
William Nelson Cromwell
K. H. Harriman
Fred W. Upham
National Committee
Cromwell
Sheldon
Runaway Car Kills Five at Warrior Run Mine
Wilkes Barre Pa Aug 29 Five miners were killed and five others seriously injured in a runaway mine car collision at the Warrior Run colliery of the Lebish Valley Coal company six miles from the city. The line car jumped its track while being switched and plowed into two loaded cars on No 3 lift as workers prepared to head upward. Only six escaped unhurt.
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Wilkes-Barre
Ofm
Simon Bucovage
John Torkarschack
Julius Morts
No. 3
Smugglers' Philanthropy At Broadmoor and Perth
Smugglers supply free, exquisite tobacco to the criminal lunatics at Broadmoor and in Perth. The contraband tobacco costs the government nothing as smugglers pay for the smoking of the criminal insane, with confiscated smuggled tobacco filling the boxes used in Perth and Broadmoor.
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Broadmoor
Perth
England
A Quicker Way. Young Minister Search for Mirror
An odd fragment from Sob éon Tatler shows a scene where a young minister asks for a glass, speaking in a rural dialect about taking a sip from a bottle while asking for a mirror. The brief sketch suggests comic rural dialogue and social setting.
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Sobéon Tatler
Sore Eyes Cured With Chamberlain's Salve Claim
A reader reports success using Chamberlain's Salve for granulated sore eyes after being urged by a man named Keene. The note mentions purchasing one box and achieving relief, aligning with common 19th century patent remedy claims.
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Chamberlain
Grounded debate on baseball positions and fielding skills
The article analyzes which baseball positions are easiest or hardest to play, noting center field as easiest, left field hardest when sun not a factor, and third base challenging due to need for speed and strong throws. It also highlights catcher as crucial and pressure filled, with various pro players cited. A separate note covers Flanagan’s hammer throw record in Queenstown and O’Rourke leaving Cornell football to work with the state engineer’s department.
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Canadian pacer breaks trotting record in 2:03 gait
The Ee clocked 2:03 in a pacer race as The Canadian trotter Eol at Gamboleer set a 1008 trotting mark. Moving posted 2:10, both by Medium, with Reverd Molder and Happles noted in the event.
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BASE BALL SCORES OF LEAGUE TEAMS
Reported baseball scores across leagues with results for first and second games. Highlights include at Philadelphia Athletic 11 Detroit 4. Washington 8 Cleveland 0. New York 2 Chicago 1 in the second game. Boston 3 St. Louis 1. and Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 0. Standings show Detroit leading in one league and Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh contending in others.
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New York
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Hogg
Sweeney
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St. Louis
P. Weir
Detroit
Athletic
Eveld
Chicago
N.york
Barber's shop misread by bald customer seeking suit
A baldheaded man enters a barber shop and, after a comic exchange about duties, complains that barbers should infer needs from obvious data. The barber lathers without asking about shaving or other services, highlighting a humorous mismatch of expectations and communication.
Fragmentary note hints at sore feet remedy at Pearry’s Pharmacy
A garbled advertisement fragment mentions remedies for sore feet and footwear, referencing Pearry’s Pharmacy and a late hour lay at 2M. It notes Bey Beetlen’s Arms and a Mr Wy otune, with unclear directions and duties.
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Wy Otune
Pearry's
Eth Pharmacy
Refined remedy ad for indigestion and stomach relief
A vintage ad promotes a stomach remedy claimed to ease indigestion and constipation. It touts easy, pleasant effects and offers free samples at Pearre's Modern Pharmacy, inviting readers to try the product.
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Frea
Pearre
Modent
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