Carbondale Flood Carries staggering losses and damage
A cloudburst and freshet inundated Carbondale Pa and surrounding towns causing $10,000,000 in property damage. More than 86,000 homes and businesses flooded, roads blocked between Scranton and Carbondale, mines wrecked, rail yards washed out, and major arteries torn apart as water filled streets and basements.
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Carbondale
East Mountainborn
Lackawanna Valley
Scranton
Hudson Coal Company
Jermyn
J Hudson Company
Delaware and Hudigon
Forest City
Honesdale
Williams Avenue
ID Shannon
Consolidated Lie’ Company
Fall Brook
USA
Mey
Arch Hod
Peckville
Jessup
Olyphant
Tievidence
Archbalt
Peckyville
Liberty Discount and Savin Tank
Paneer Dime Bank
Birst Nutt Thuik
2K Cann Brothers
James H.al
News
Mecian 1
Garfield Avenue
Paul
Scranton Traction Company
Mayfield
Childe
War Memorial Grove Purchase Near Martinsburg
Altoona reports Morrison's Cove Memorial Association acquired a four ten acre woodland near Martinsburg for a world war memorial grove. Planned dedication July 26 to Cove soldiers and opening as a public playground. Purchase price ten thousand dollars.
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Grove
Altoona
Martinsburg
Morrison’s Cove Memorial
SAIL HOME IN TINY YACHT
Mr and Mrs John B Kelly set sail from Cowes Isle of Wight on the Diablesse for New York. They hope to reach Madeira in a week and complete the voyage in six weeks at eight knots with Robert Somerset and two Isle of Wight sailors aboard. They plan to take turns at the wheel as the Royal yacht squadron signals bon voyage.
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Mrs. Kelly
Atlantic Ocean
Cowes
Isle of Wight
Diablesse
British Isles
New York
John B. Kelly
Royal Yacht Squadron
Madeira
Robert Somerset
Lowescroft
Treasure Chest Elusive Seekers For Gut Based Jesuit Gold
In Penetanguisene Ontario on June 19 treasure hunters probing the Yye river for a chest of gold said to be lost by Jesuit missionaries about 300 years ago were startled when a steel rod sounding located the object. The dredge Baltic had drifted downstream and continues slow work while spectators cheered the chest’s relocation. The crew does not expect to raise it before this afternoon.
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Penetanguisene
Ont
Yye
Whisky In Potato Car Seized On Seaboard Line
Federal prohibition officers seized a car labeled potatoes on Seaboard Air Line tracks near Savannah. The car, bound for Jersey City, contained 320000 dollars worth of liquor and a small number of potatoes.
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Savannah
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Jersey
Mount Alagheuz Climb by Two American Athletes
Two American college climbers have conquered Mount Alagheuz in the Caucasus after years of attempts. The peak stands about 13,800 feet above a plateau near Alexandropol, Armenia, marking a historic ascent for the explorers.
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Alagheuz
Caucasus
Alexandropol
Armenia
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China
Gosman
Gogman
Fountainr
Reg
Fwapai
Gosmans
Gosmans Ginger Ale
Tae Gosman Gincer Ale
PHAE
Gandy
Goodyear
WM. H. Moore
East Patrick St
Chester Spiles
Rodhert Hak Ask Neer
C.$. Schermerhorn & Son
N. Market ST
Prederick, MD
Purina An Chow
Oxford
Lowenstein & Wertheimer
Fordson
Detroit
The
Ford and
Fordson Frederick Motor Co
R. W .Warth.o, Preeana
Mgt
West Patricl ST
East Patrick Street
Frederick
Maryland
James E. Doll
Frederick, MD
B. W. Wilson
Patrick Street
Newspapre Rarhive
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