Empress of Ireland Disaster Highlights Sea Travel Dangers
The Empress of Ireland sinking near the St Lawrence shows sea travel remains risky despite lifeboats wireless and cutter reforms. Weather and fog contributed to the tragedy, with brave rescues and harrowing losses including Sabina Barber and her daughter Evelyn, and miner Robert Crellen's heroism amid icy waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Line
Storstad
St. Lawrence
Revenue Cutter Service
Rt. Lawrence
Volturno
Mexico Losing Its Wealth In Revolt
Washington reports from Consul Hamm in Durango warn that Mexican upheaval cripples wealth and trade. Durango's 1918 rains failed to yield full crop, land seized for war, peppers and cotton exports collapsed, US shipments fell from 9.7 million to 2.25 million, and Torreon warehouses hold half the cotton. Mazatlan sees steep price rises, banks close, and rail service vanishes, leaving little mail for arrivals of US warships.
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Washington
Theodore C. Hamm
Department of Commerce
Durango
Chile
Laguna
Coahuila
Nacas
Torreon
United States
Mexico
Gulf
Gumutaetoring City
Syracuse
Paterson
N. J
Mazatlan
Pacific
W. &. Alger
Georgian Traveled 2000 Miles for Revenge After Learning Harrell Dead
William Berry a Georgian arrived in El Paso expecting to confront Bill Harrell who testified against him in an Oklahoma perjury case. Berry learned Harrell had died five years earlier after attacking publisher J. F. Mitchim. Berry said years of prison, family loss, and hardship followed Harrell’s testimony.
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el Paso
Tex
William Berry
Berry
Georgia
Oklahoma
Bill Harrell
Marrell
Harrell
J. F. Mitchim
Mitchim
Runaway Hogs Lived Wild in Arkansas Forest
Ben G. B. Lewis, a farmer near Runaway, Arkansas, reports two wild hogs he killed that had fled since 1910. The hogs, not full grown, roamed the forest in bunches and proved elusive, ferocious to dogs but wary of men. The two dogs slain by Lewis weighed about 200 pounds each. He still hunts three more hogs roaming the woods.
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Ben, Ark
G. B. Lewis
Lewis
Oldest Iowa resident Jeremiah Roser buried in McGregor
Jeremiah Roser, believed Iowa's oldest resident, was buried in McGregor. He married in Iowa seventy-nine years and began as a sixteen year old mail carrier. In winter 1844 45 he rode sixty miles on horseback from Dubuque, leaving mail in a tree trunk hole for settlers nearby.
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McGregor
Jeremiah Roser
Iowa
Roser
Dubuque
Americas Most Daring Air Man Niles at Twenty Five
Hempstead New York aviator Charles B Niles 25 known as Take a Chance Niles has looped the loop flown upside down stood his machine on its head and on its tail in midair and performed wing over wing stunts in gusty conditions His career began after a car dealer offered ten lessons for aviation training He later joined a factory to test planes and engines expressing fear only of a machine collapsing in flight He is praised as the most daring aviator in America with Lincoln Beachy noted for similar feats.
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Niles
America
Hempstead Plains
Lincoln Beachy
Rochester
N. Y
School of Aviation
Development Board Urged to Govern Alaska Resources
Secretary Lane urges a three member development board with Alaska headquarters to oversee all natural resources and development. The board would absorb authority from multiple bureaus, control roads, water power, rails, telegraphs, land and minerals, and even education and reindeer industries, replacing current federal agencies to streamline Alaska governance. It would create unified management from the shore outward, aiming to accelerate settlement and national resource use.
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Washington
Key Pittman
William C. Houston
Senate
House
Territories
Lane
Interior Department
Alaska
Chamberlain
Oregon
Wickersham
General Land Office
Forest Service
Road Commission
Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Education
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau of Fisheries
Development Board
Surveyor General’s
Department of Agriculture
United States
Signals Corps
War Department
Coffin Shaped Display Marks Longevity of Montgomery Merchant
Nicholas Detoul, Montgom ery oldest merchant, kept a walnut coffin under his counter and showed it to customers. He attempted suicide multiple times, stating he was too old, and died by self-inflicted gunshot. A widow survives his death.
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Montgomery City
Nicholas Detoul
Montgomery
Detoul
Marooned man found on Lake Erie island tale told
Henry Adair of Detroit says he was taken to Middle Sister Island in Lake Erie about three weeks ago by a man who offered work and a place to stay. The stranger provided little food, leaving Adair with a few crusts and clams to survive while he cried for help.
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Ishaid
Middle Sister Island
Lake Erie
Henry Adair
Detroit
Adair
Trapped Golden Eagle Fells Edmonton Fur Trader
Edmonton reporter details fur trapper Tom E H Mason traveling to the city for medical care after a fierce encounter with a gigantic golden eagle. Mason says the bird had a wingspan of eight feet two inches and attacked him when he approached a trap. He killed the eagle to escape, recounting the struggle and the trap pinning him.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Tom EH
Mason
Rules of tennis training for champions from Clare Cassel
New York report outlines twelve strict rules for tennis success as explained by Clare Cassel, national indoor doubles champion. Rules ban golf candy dancing cigarettes nighttime reading wine swimming and require daily rally work, barley water during matches, and nine hours sleep, plus morning massages and measured meals.
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New York
Clare Cassel
Miss Cassel
Man wed in chicken coop to 10000 at poultry show
Kansas City clerk Charles Sumner, married in a chicken coop before 10,000 at Convention hall, was remanded to the county jail on wife abandonment charges. Mrs Sumner cited novelty of marriage as factor. Poultry show committee rewarded the couple with $10, a dozen chickens, and the coop. Justice Welch quipped Sumner belongs in a coop.
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Kansas City
Charles Sumner
Sumner
Poultry Show
Justice Welch
Leopard in All Day Vigil Over Mate in Bronx Zoo
Sultan the four year old snow leopard kept vigiling over the corpse of his mate Sultana in a forty foot square Bronx Zoo outdoor cage from morning till night. He roared periodically while nearby lions and jaguars voiced their own distress. Keeper David Schwartz tried a porterhouse steak to tempt him, but Sultan ignored the food. Schwartz said he would not enter while Sultan mourns, not for twenty hours.
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New
X‘ork
Sultan
Sultana
Bronx
David Schwartz
Animal House
Sultanna
Schwartz
California man drills eight on road to form army for Mexico
San Rafael California Henry Klopp caretaker of a large estate claimed to raise an army of eight men by halting them on a county highway and drilling them for an hour. A sheriff deputy subdued Klopp with the gun butt as the improvised army was found to have an empty weapon and Klopp faces a sanity examination.
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San Rafael
Cal
Mexico
Henry Klopp
Here
Klopp
Sheriff’s Office
Peter of Servia Aims to Abdicate and Retire in Geneva
Geneva reports say King Peter of Servia plans to abdicate in favor of his son and retire to private life in Geneva. He spent a decade abroad for his children’s education and has private friends there. He cites the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga and says he is too old to rule, hoping to end his days in peace and honor after the war.
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Geneva
Peter of Servia
Alexander
Draga
Peter
Karageorgevitch
Rat Robot at Toledo Station Slot Machine
A rat was observed climbing the wall near a slot machine at the Toledo and Ohio Central passenger station. It jumped onto the trap, releasing gum and pennies, leading to suspicion that several boys had been robbing the machine of four hundred sticks of gum and fifty pennies.
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Findlay
Toledo and
Ohio Central
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Silverstone
B. C
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William Barry
England
Mr. Crellen
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American Press Association
Captain Kendall
Empress OF Treland
Charles F. Niags
RUSOE
Bird
Hunter
Girl
Hencogp
Judge
Inexico
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King Peter OF
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