San Francisco in Ruins After Quake and Fire
San Francisco lies in ruins after a Wednesday earthquake and ensuing fires. Estimates place deaths between 2,000 and 6,000 with property losses surpassing 300 million dollars. Thousands are homeless as fires devastate the waterfront and downtown districts, while federal troops aid fire suppression and looters are to be shot on sight.
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San Francisco
Market Street
11Th Street
Market
Hayes
McAllister Streets
Fillmore
Montgomery
Montgomery Street
Palace Hotel
Claus Spreckels
Third
Market Streets
Rialto
Examiner
Call
Crocker
Washington Stret
Taravansary
Destructive Fire Drives San Francisco Refugees Across North Shore
April 21 23 reports describe 200000 refugees fleeing the conflagration from Nob Hill to the North Beach area and ferries as fires raged, many missing loved ones, with aid scarce and bread arriving from Oakland and Berkeley for distribution by Mayor Schmitz’s relief effort.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Nob Hill
North Beach
Central
Southern Pacific Road
Bay
Oakland
Berkeley
Schmitz
Golden Gate Park
California
Ape Acannon
Hopkins Art Ificttute
University of California
Mark Hopkins
Ware
Stanford
Hugtington
Oakland Caring for 15000 Homeless Refugees After Quake
Oakland, April 23. The city is sheltering about 15,000 people displaced by the San Francisco disaster and is set to care for as many again. Refugees continue to arrive while others depart by train. free transport is scrutinized, with priority given to women, children, and married men joining families. A bureau at a street corner calls eligible pass recipients.
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Schmitz
Gen. Funston
San Francisco
Fairmont
Acre
van Ness Avenue
Dinan
Richmond
Pacific Street
Ellis
Russian Hill
Ellis, O'Farrell and
Sutter
Oakland
Oakland Mole
General Committee
Board of Health
Coroner’s Board and Health Department
Golden Park
Market Street
Royal
Fourth
Minna
Portland House
Sixth Street
Mission
Market
Brunswick
Sixth
Howard Streets
Fifth and
Mission Streets
Mission Street
Wilson
Denver House
Lower Third Street
Cal
Transportation Bureau
Buckman Steamer Sails With 800 Tons for San Francisco Sufferers
The steamer Buckman sailed at noon from Seattle with 800 tons of supplies for San Francisco sufferers. An additional thousand one hundred tons of supplies are stacked on the wharf awaiting shipment.
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Buckman
Salis
Seattle
Wash
San Francisco
Pink Pills Credited With Curing Heart Attack Case
A Pleasanthill Louisiana man recounts severe heart and indigestion symptoms in 1905 and credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with complete recovery after taking several boxes. The medicine is described as non narcotic non habit forming and blood acting with sale through druggists or postpaid from the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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F. L. Graves
Pleasanthill
Dr. Williams
Writers and artists in obituary and career notes
The column reviews literary figures and artists: Henry Harland’s rumored $70,000 novel earnings and fatal working style. M Jusserand as a prolific French ambassador. Drummond leaving medicine for copper mining. Caruso’s illustrated volume profits for Italian Benevolent Institute. Bliss Perry named Harvard English professor. Myrrha Vibert Lichwizkaya’s grave added at St. Petersburg’s Alexander Nevski cloister.
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Henry Harland
M. Jusserand
William Henry Drummond
Dominion
Signor Caruso
Italian Benevolent Institute
Bliss Perry
Atlantic Monthly
Harvard College
George Ticknor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Alexander Newski
St. Petersburg
Myrrha Lichwizkaya
Vibert
Heir to Hairlessness Puns on Family Baldness
A young man laments early hair loss and notes his father and grandfather went bald at 20. A comic skeptic quips that he is the heir to their hairlessness, in a magazine joke about heredity and vanity.
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Magazine of Fun
Energetic New York-area woman credits Grape-Nuts and Postum
A busy writer and dairy-farm resident describes long illness and digestive woes improved after using Grape-Nuts and quitting coffee in favor of Postum. She reports restored digestion sleep and vitality enabling her to manage home farm duties childcare and an exchange business.
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New York
Postum Co
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