No More Bodies Found After Flat Rock Tragedy
The Schuylkill river near Flat Rock dam remains unrecovered after five victims. Searchers prodded the depths with grappling irons while crowds gathered, hoping for clues. Police teams and volunteers persist amid rocky eddies, fearing bodies may lie beneath rocks or under the dam crest. Funerals for two victims planned Tuesday. families request burial assistance.
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Sehuylkill Harbor
Glen Willow
Schuylkill Harbor
Montgomery County
Manayunk
Roxborough
Pencoyd
Robert Densmore
May Kenny
South Clarion Street
James Emory Dinerty
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Moriah
Bertram Osmond
Calvary Baptist Church
Seventh Street
Snyder Avenue
Young Osmond
Dudley Street
J. Wesley Sullivan
Wiliam J. Cambon
Camden
N. J
Thomas H. Andrews
True Sorrow From Pearson's Seance
A disjointed seance account describes a tall dark-eyed spirit with moustaches and a middle aged look, crying out as a medium questions him. The elderly man’s grief and a remark about another friend being needed are noted, with fragmented dialogue and unclear context.
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Pearson's
Boverine
George
Boer Leader Persists Amid Standoff and Poor Luck
London Express recounts a Boer siege scene as Gen Babington crushes a march group near Ventersdorp Krugersdorp. Commandant Celliers lies mortally wounded with both thighs perforated. a barnyard blood stain and flour rubbed face mark grim surrender. Colonel Shekelton aids, but the dying man asks to die among friends. Surgeon sleeps under a Cape cart. note promises cart return.
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Delarey
Ventersdorp
Krugersdorp
Commandant Celliers
Shekelton
R. A
Selliers
Beneficial Diseases Suggest Long Life By Odd Theories
New York Press outlines speculative ideas that certain illnesses may extend life. Rheumatic people sometimes outlive others, smallpox survivors may reach old age, deafness allegedly reduces daily worries, and avoidance of loud noises is said to protect ear health and longevity.
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Govert
Couldn’t Be Beat Him From the Detroit Free Press
A wealthy business man Jones shows ruthless focus in a northern Michigan poker game using beans as stakes. The narrator admires Jones yet fears losing years of hard work as beans pile into Jones’s growing hoard.
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Detroit Free Press
Jones
Chance
Michigan
Dangerous Etiquette in Spain Protects Royal Dignity
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts Spain's strict royal etiquette where no one may touch the king or queen. It cites Alfonso XIII narrowly escaping harm as a child after a swing incident and recalls a near-fatal riding accident where a rescuer intervened before a traitor could be seized.
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Chicago Tribune
Spain
Alfonso XIII
Ommane
Chester shipyard chance spurs Delaware revival in early reports
Exclusive Philadelphia Times notes Chester promoters eye a new shipyard with 3,000,000 capital plan and 1500 to 2000 jobs. Bath Iron Works figures, river frontage, nearby steel and machine works, and regional port advantages are cited as key factors for a potential Delaware River shipbuilding surge.
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Chester
Philadelphia Times
John Roach
Delaware
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Clyde
Tyne
Arthur Sewell
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Atlantic Seaboard
Tidewater Steel Company
Wetherill Machine Company
Chester Steel Castings Company
Hum of City Streets and Memorial Day Echoes
Vivid vignettes describe street life with a 250 pound passerby and a lunch pall, a cigarette clash on a city streetcar, a hotel mourner’s odd request, and finally a Germantown Memorial Day tribute to Confederate soldiers at Haines Street National Cemetery. The piece blends social observation with reminiscence and local color.
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Germantown
Haines Street
National Ceme
G A R Encampment Special Gettysburg Excursion Tickets
The Philadelphia and Reading Railway will sell excursion tickets to Gettysburg for the G A R annual encampment from June 1 to 5 at single fare round trip. Tickets valid for return until June 10. Includes special Ree Sis, iaes Pepsin Terwta.
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Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Gettysburg
I Aes Pepsin
Truce Caps Traction War At Darby’s Fork
Rival trolley firms clash over track connections near Darby on the Chester pike and Parker avenue. A truce agreed until Monday ends further moves while authorities pursue theft and trespass charges amid efforts to link lines to Fernwood and Clifton.
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Main Street
Darby
Chester Traction Company
Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore Traction Company
Parker Avenue
Fernwood
Union Traction Company
Chester Company
Swarthmore Company
Chester Pike
Chester
Swarthmore Gang
Arthur P. Jacks
Laroche
Simpson
Clifton
Darby Bridge
Supreme Court
Milwauke Sentinel tale of a frugal young agent and a lingering loan
A Milwaukee west side insurance man struggles with weekly 15 dollar payments and borrows cash to impress a date. He stays with a landlady who helps with clothes and laundry while he improvises to attend a Carter play and a theater outing, amid social and financial pressure.
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Milwaukee
Wells Street
Rosy O'Grady
Leslie Carter
Money Lost in Laundry After Hidden Cash Found
New York Mall and Express reports a laundry manager warns customers to search clothing for valuables before washing. A woman sent dresses with 190 dollars in bills found during washing, but the cash appeared intact after the cycle, shocking staff who had not checked pockets beforehand.
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New York
Mall and Express
Gold Fever Near Washington Spurs Mining Talk
The New York Press reports Washington realises a gold fever as geologists locate eight gold bearing rock veins within an easy walk. The belt runs northeast to southwest along the Potomac, part of Appalachian deposits with historical Virginia yields. Conduit Road’s quartz, stamped mills, and gold assays surface estimates from seven to twenty seven dollars per ton with notable nuggets from Rock Run.
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New York Press
Washington
National Capital
Potomac River
Appalachian Mountains
Virginia
Spottsylvania County
United States Mint
8. F. Emmons
Geological Survey
Cabin John Bridge
Great Falla
Rock Run
Potomac
California Volunteers
Great Falls
Imaginary Aictions Treatable by Imaginary Remedies
A Montreal Herald and Star piece notes doctors increasingly use imagination as a cure, citing water as a substitute for morphine in a Cincinnati hospital. It recounts cases where patients misperceive illness, including a woman thinking her heart grows to her side and an elderly man improving under a wooden magnet treatment.
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Montreal Herald
Star
City Hospital
Cincinnati
Ayeteria
Planne
Stalked by vultures in India hunting tale
An Anglo-Indian correspondent recalls stalking a black buck in India when vultures suddenly converged, circling close as the photographer-like birds appeared to wait for a wounded quarry. He fired at a vulture at twenty yards but misjudged the sighting and missed.
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Whiting Allen
Forepaugh
Sells Brothers
Lewis Sells
Julius Caesar
Odessa
Russia
White House
India
Fad for Bookplates Widens Library Taste in New York
The New York Sun notes a rising fad for bookplates as many with a library order bespoke designs reflecting personal taste. A new American book surveys English and French works on bookplates and features famous examples.
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New York Sun
England
France
Labouchere
Thousands Rush to Summer Places in Bright June Turnout
Philadelphia swarmed to open air sites as rain ended and sunshine returned. Rail and trolley lines carried 50,000 people to Willow Grove and nearby resorts with long lines forming for Atlantic City and Cape May as stores closed early and summer attire appeared.
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Atlantic City
Cape May
Willow Grove
Washington Park
Chestnut Hill
Woodside Park
English Traveler Sees Yosemite Glories Anew
An English visitor journeys 4 000 miles to Yosemite and ponders the valley’s laws of creation. He debates origins of the gorge with a stranger, who shifts the talk to selling photographs priced at 1 50 a dozen.
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Yosemite
The Clever Secretary
The piece highlights Secretary Root as elusive to interview and notes witty exchanges with reporters. It recounts quips from a New York daily scribe about Root’s interviewing prowess and a Washington politician’s Havana joke. It closes with Root’s remark on New Englanders and Paris versus New York.
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Root
New York Daily
Washington
Cuba
Havana
New Englané Society
Mr. Root
New
Edison and Platinum From Leslie's Magazine
Edison organized a global correspondence bureau sending platinum samples to consuls and scientists to locate and identify platinum sources. The effort, though costly, eased fears of extinction and earned the gratitude of scientific investigators.
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Globe
United States
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