Rochester Orphan Asylum Fire Kills Many Children
A devastating blaze at the Rochester Orphan Asylum early today engulfed the east wing and killed at least 23 children and several adults. Nurses, volunteers, and fire crews fought to rescue inmates as flames and smoke spread rapidly, with hospitals receiving the injured for severe burns and trauma.
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Rochester Orphan Asylum
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Brad
East Wing
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Dinehart
Hadkeen
Lositul
Plymouth Avenue
Clark
Negro Resisted Arrest In Montgomery Riot
A posse pursued Roiti Meloy a Black man in Montgomery Alabama as a gun battle broke out near West Had. Meloy broke away and fired several times injuring officer Davis in the arm. A mob of whites and Blacks fired on officers until police arrived and dispersed the crowd. Roland Bailly’s brother and two other Black men were arrested.
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Roti Meloy
Anegro
Weat
Eo Wodleide
Nokrony
Santelin
Davis
Roland Bailly
Pedi
Girl Murdered by a Negro in Indianapolis A Grim Double Suicide
Indianapolis report details Norris Jones shooting Miss Eliza Newkirk, a white student, then fatally shooting himself. Jones, janitor at a business college, killed Miss Newkirk at her door before fleeing and dying by a self-inflicted gunshot. The item notes the incident alongside a broader six-month legislative session and other state news.
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Norris Jones
Eliza Newkirk
Miss Newkirk
Woreh Business College
Jones
Attracting the Rural Family Home in Georgia
Commissioner Stevens urges beautifying country homes to keep young people on the farm. The 1900 census shows urban growth but warns a strong rural population sustains republican ideals. Emphasizes paint, gardens, libraries, and stock, poultry, and forage as paths to thrift and stability.
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Georgia
Walla
Jersey
R. L. Pritchard
Central of Georgia Railway
O. B. Stevens
Legal Weights Per Bushel in Georgia List of Commodities
A Stark Agricultural Department correspondent provides Georgia legal weights per bushel from the 1882 Code page 41. Wheat 60, shelled corn 56, corn in the ear 70, peas 60, rye 46, oats 32, barley 47, Irish potatoes 69, sweet potatoes 53.5, white beans 60, clover seed 60, timothy seed 44, flax seed 55, hemp seed 44, blue grass seed 14, buckwheat 52, dried peaches unpeeled 38, peeled 88, dried apples 24, onions 57, stone coal 80, unstacked lime 80, turnips 55, corn meal 48, wheat bran 20, cotton seed 30, ground feed 25, plastering hair 8. This summarizes the listed weights.
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Dee
Stark Agricultural Depaktayn
Apples of Gold and One Word of Courage
Dr. Talmage preaches on the value of a single timely word. He links Proverbs apples of gold to a basket of silver and urges kindness, encouragement, and sympathy as decisive in a life’s direction. He urges older mentors to offer courage to young professionals facing career trials.
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