Woman Adrift on Island Recalls Three Months Struggle
Mrs. Stone recounts being swept from her husband Charles R. Stone's schooner during a typhoon near the Philippines. She drifted for hours, found refuge on a small island named Esperanza, and survived three months by building a signal fire and foraging cocos and water. Her rescue followed a beacon fire.
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Manila
P. I
Luzon
Philippines
Robinson Crusoe
Mra
Charles R. Stone
Neille
Oakland
Cal
Esperanza
Mrs. Stone
Isle
Girl Gompers Organizes Women Tailors in Massachusetts
Anna Weinstock, who began work in a sweatshop at fourteen, leads the Women’s Trade Union League aiming to organize 385000 women workers in Massachusetts. A dramatic tale unfolds of isolated footprints on a shore and a lone survivor island story amid a typhoon wreck.
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Anna Weinstock
Women’s Trade Union League
Massachusetts
Raises His Valet to $20 Per Month
Calcutta reports Col Wedgewood, M. P., paying a bearer an Indian valet, a wage far above the typical $5 to $5.50 monthly. He is here to argue Indian laborers are very poorly paid and set a higher standard.
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Calcutta
Col Wedgewood
M. P
Englishman Hangs Dog and Is Fined
ROXBURGSHIRE March 4 William Tait was fined 25 dollars for hanging a dog from a tree and leaving it to die He said he bought the dog recently but it would not work and he hanged it in a fit of passion before going to dinner
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Stone
Balinao
Roxburgshire
Eng
William Tait
Ironworker Rebounds After 11 Story Fall
Nathan Cohen, an ironworker, survived an 11 story plunge from a Broadway building. He landed on a canvas sheet, hung at the fifth floor, shook himself, and returned to work.
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New York
Ike
Nathan Cohen
Broadway
Beware of Men and Women Warned in New York
In a New York report dated March 4 two alleged bigamists in the Tombs caution both sexes. Mrs. Anna C. Burey warns girls to beware of men while Poy G. Salisbury warns men to watch out for the girls.
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New York
Anna C. Burey
Poy G. Salisbury
Rewards Offered for Sea Bottles
Scientists from the ministry of agriculture will release many drift bottles in the North Sea to study ocean currents and fish movements. Small rewards will be paid to finders.
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London
Ministry of Agriculture
North Sea
Church Organist Held as Wife Slayer in Iowa Case
In Algona Iowa on March 4 Mrs Minnie Benjamin wife of L T Benjamin organist at the Congregational church was found beside a skull fractured in four places a bloodstained hammer nearby A coroner s jury held her husband for murder based on the evidence presented at the scene
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Algona
Iowa
Minnie Benjamin
L. T. Benjamin
Necklace Bequeathed to Louvre Set for Sale in Paris
Paris reports a three string 634 carat pearl necklace with 154 large pearls from Mme Thiers likely to be auctioned. An expert valuing it at 1250000 dollars notes the piece as part of the Louvre collection awaiting sale.
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Paris
Louvre
Mme. Thiers
Futurist Dance Vision Promises Mechanical Motion
Italian futurist Signor S T Marinetti predicts future tourism dancing will be unharmonious and ungraceful, moving like engines and pistons. He describes a metallistic dance style that combines gears and cams to embody speed and technology.
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Signor
T. Marinetti
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Mme Roansignol
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