Devastation Across Wisconsin and Minnesota After Cyclone
Details of a Midwest cyclone show New Richmond Wisconsin heavily damaged with many dead and hundreds injured. The storm path traced from Mankato Minnesota to New Richmond and on to Herman Nebraska with widespread destruction, fires, and relief efforts underway across Wisconsin and nearby towns.
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New Richmond
Wis
Herman
Neb
Boardman
Onalaska
la Crosse
Clear Lake
Barron
Deadly Windstorms Mark A Century Of Destruction
The record lists historic U S tornadoes from 1794 to 1898 with high death tolls and property loss. Notable events include the May 27 1896 St Louis cyclone with hundreds killed, and mass fatalities in Adams County Mississippi 1840, 1884 1890 Louisville and 1855 Cook County. The article notes Savannah and St Louis as repeatedly affected and cites a table of famous storms with locations dates and losses.
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Mississippi River
Atlantic
St. Louis
Adams County
Mississippi
Louisville
Chicago
Cook County
America
Adams Co
Erie
Webster
New Ulm
Minfi
Grinnell
Iowa
Emmetsburg
West
Savannah and Vicinity
Rey
Louisiana and
Gulf Coast
Kirksville
Savannah
Illinois
Wisconsin
Tornado Devastates Herman Nebraska Kills Twenty
A cyclone struck Herman Nebraska Tuesday evening annihilating 300 houses and leaving only a school, a house and a small residence standing. At least twenty people were killed and about 150 injured as survivors faced homelessness. Residents had observed two enormous clouds forming to the north before the storm hit around six o clock.
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New Richmond
Willow River
Lake St. Croix
Gleat Lake
Catfish Bar
Hudson
Omaha Road
Herman
Néb
Chicago Must Take Water Says Prof Gilbert City Will Be In The Lake
Chicago faces a distant threat from Lake Michigan as land rise and shoreline subsidence could divert the lake’s flow toward the Mississippi. Prof Gilbert notes onset 500 years hence with establishment 2000 years or more in the future, possibly flooding the city site.
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Prof
Gilbert
Chicago
Lake Michigan
G. K. Gilbert
Geological Survey
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
Harmo for vacant Cincinnati judgeship
Judson Harmo, former Attorney General in Cleveland's cabinet, is a candidate for a vacant judgeship in Cincinnati. The report notes his legal background and the nomination context.
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Judson. Harmo
Mr. Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indiana Postoffice Readjustments Raise Class and Salaries
The Indiana study of postal receipts shows Richmond rising to first class and multiple cities advancing across classes. Salaries increased by $100 to $200 for many offices, with Ham mond and Martinsville receiving the largest jumps. Lawrenceburg and Geneva saw reductions. The report calls the overall rise remarkable and notes nationwide gains.
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Indiana
Richmond
Bedford
Franklin
Greenfield
Greensburg
Tartford City
Kendallville
Martinsville
Newcastle
Albany
Attica
Butler
Decatur
Fairmount
Garrett
Goshen
Albion
Auburn
Bloomfield
Bremen
Cambridge City
Columbia City
Corydon
Fowler
Gas City
Aurora
Brookville
Clay City
Crown Point
Evansville
Goodland
Huntington
Sknightstown
Laporte
Ligonier
Lowell
Mishawaka
Napanee
Noblesville
Pendleton
Seymour
Spencer
Tipton
Valparaiso
Warsaw
Worthington
Hartford City
Indianapolis
Linton
Monticello
North Vernon
Plainfield
Rochester
Summitville
Union City
Veedersburg
Huntingburg
Jasper
Kentland
Lafayette
Liberty
Logansport
Middletown
Muncie
New Harmony
Notre Dame
Remington
Rushville
Thorntown
Winchester
Bourbon
Clinton
Converse
Edinburg
Alexandria
Bluffton
Connersville
Jonesboro
Ladoga
Sheridan
Williamsport
South Whitley
Upland
Hammond
Lawrenceburg
Geneva
Tragic Indiana Scenes From Several Counties
A long list of accidents and crimes across Indiana counties reports a widow burned to death at Terre Haute after her clothes caught fire from a cook stove, a 2-year-old boy kicked to death by a horse near Boone Grove, and a infant girl near Muncie badly injured by a fall in a home. Other items note shootings in Seymour and Crawfordsville, burglary with safe destruction near Carbon, and a large fire at Bedford’s Snyder Block causing substantial losses.
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Rosa Neukem
Terre Haute
Willie Herring
Boone Grove
Muncie
W. A. Wilson
Edlen France
Henry France
Switz City
Bloomfield
Smith
Elkhart
Jerry Simpson
Charles Magness
New Albany
Magness
Roousr
Ed Dixon
Crawfordsville
Harry Orme
Dixon
Orme
Flora
Bessie
William Scott
Sheridan
Bedford
Snyder
Cosner Bros
Samuel Touse
Washington
W. E. Eppert & Co
Carbon
Brazil
John H. Sturgeon
Winslow
Everet M. Thompson
Indianapolis
Carpenters
Marion
Frades Council
George Milford
Fort Wayne
Boston
England
Milford
Theodore Thomas
Hope Hospital
David O. Harris
George Brown
Seymour
Brown
Harris
George
Thicksston
Alexandria
Chicago
J.C. May
Andy Walker
Vandalia Line
Vandalia
Reading a Will as the Will of God by Dr Joseph Parker
The speaker contrasts a judge’s plain delivery with a minister’s need to please audiences. He argues people attend wills to learn provisions, not to admire manner, and likens reading a will to declaring the will of God. He ends with a call for wisdom to understand such matters.
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Canon Holland
England
Joseph Parker
True Loyalty and Honest Service in Public Life
The excerpt defines loyalty as devoted service to a cause without blind obedience. It emphasizes doing right, remaining truthful, and opposing wrong actions. Loyalty entails capacity to dissent when necessary for the truth and the public good.
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Sunday School Times
Strength and Righteousness in Hardship
Quoted sermon lines urge faith as a ship Endures storms and Christ at the helm enhances confidence. The speaker cites Spurgeon on the ark and the secure salvation of all believers at the final judgment, using nautical imagery of waves and bilows.
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Christ
Ark of Our Salvation
C. H. Spurgeon
Tiny England Church in Sussex Described as Smallest
The smallest church in England sits in Lullington Sussex built of flint with stone quoins and a red tiled roof. It measures sixteen feet square and has five narrow windows lighting the interior. The community capacity is about thirty people.
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Posit Eee
Essex
Cambridge
England
Lullington
Sussex
A Small Kingdom of Coco Island Ruler George Clunies-Ross
The article profiles George Clunies-Ross ruler of Cocos and Christmas Islands a tiny realm with 700 subjects where no police or jails exist. It notes idyllic life with abundant coconuts fish plentiful food by foraging and a rule promising three acres per marriage and no money.
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George Clunies-Ross
Cocos
Christmas Islands
Keeling
Cocos Islands
Clunies-Ross
Kingdom
Britain’s Tea Pot Balance Forces A Bigger Scale
The piece notes Britain’s tea consumption is eleven times the Russian average and four times the US. It argues a 215 060 man army would not balance a tea chest on a scale, even with heavier reinforcements, as more men join the six armies already at ease and total reach 1 356 000.
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British Isles
United States
Great Britain
Hopeful plans for summer visit arouse family chatter
In Philadelphia North American dialogue dusenbuck asks about returning to the same summer spot. Bustenbroke replies that last year many girls brought home their husbands from there and hopes they will leave them where they found them this year.
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Dusenbuck
Bustenbroke
Philadelphia
North American
Oldest Living Creature Belongs to Walter Rothschild
A giant tortoise owned by Walter Rothschild is cited as the world s oldest living creature with an estimated weight around a quarter ton and a known lifespan near 150 years.
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Walter Rothschild
Siam's Female Bodyguard Formed From 400 Geared Warriors
Report claims the king of Siam maintains a female guard of 400 selected from the strongest women in the land. The unit is described as highly capable and loyal with elite training.
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Siam
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