Storm Toll Soars Across Ohio Valley and Midwest
A massive storm swept the Ohio Valley and Missouri causing extensive damage and many deaths. Cincinnati reported the highest fatalities at thirty three with fifteen missing. Tornadoes devastated St Charles and St Peters in Missouri while Gilmore and Tallawood suffered severe destruction. Nebraska Illinois Indiana all reported injuries and property losses in the millions as crews worked to account for the missing.
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Y Armecinven
Cincinnati
Int
Ohio Valley
Sixth Street
Mound
Kentucky
Nebraska
Ohio
Missouri
St. Charles
St. Peters
Gilmore
Lincoln
Custer
Tallaway
Ilinois
Illinois
Mound City
Indiana
Samuel Faris Joins County Board of Equalization
Samuel S Faris qualified as a member of the county board of equalization and review with a bond set at 6000 dollars. Virgil and Highland are noted as bonded likewise. Other board members also hold bonds of similar amounts.
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Samuel S. Faris
County Board of Equalization and Review
Virgil &. Highland Surely
Thirty Five Dead as Cincinnati Storm Ravages City
A devastating midwestern storm struck Cincinnati around 9 20 pm causing at least 35 deaths and heavy property damage. Suburban areas report rising missing persons lists while Newport Covington Fort Thomas and Fort Mitchell Kentucky report collapsed houses and suspended streetcar service. Damaged districts include Clifton Avondale and College Hill with numerous fatalities from collapsing structures and a capsize on the Ohio River.
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Cincinnati
Ohlo Tiver
Newport
Covington
Fort Thomas
Fort Mitchell
Clifton
Avondale
College Hill
James T. Allen
Ohio Hie Mune Society
Cohen
Rosa Tenenbaum
Charles Kildt
Brad Williams
Falton
William Henpelman
Irene Glatthaus
Phitlip Rizso
George Fagan
Obin
Mound Steel
Etisaeete Wei
Newcomers Lease Monticello Plant for Expanded Auto Trade
The Newcomer Auto and Supply Company will move from the Gore building to the Monticello Automobile and Garage Plant at East Main and Monticello Avenue by July 15. They will handle Overland cars exclusively with a full stock of supplies and accessories, serving twenty nine counties and a 60 car contract for Overlands for the 1916 season. The Monticello plant will enable better sales, auto hire, and repair service as demand for Overland cars grows.
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Gore Building
Second Street
Newcomer Auto and Supply Company
Monticello Automobile and Garage Company
East Main Street
Monticello Avenas
Newcomer
Gore
Overland
Monticello
M. G. Cunningham
Washington Court House Hit Hardest by Storm
Central Ohio faced torrential rains and fierce winds last night with Washington Court House sustaining the worst damage. Over twenty buildings damaged including a hotel, an ice plant, and a chair factory. many residences and farms unroofed. boats swamped at Buckeye Lake. No fatalities reported in the section. Weather winds peaked at about sixty five miles per hour.
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Tmemit
Columbus
Ohio
Washington Court House
Fayette County
Buckeye Lake
Newark
Buckeye
Duke
No Reply From Wilson on German Submarine Note
Washington July 5 President Wilson will not answer Ambassador Gerard's inquiry on instructions about Germany's note on submarine warfare and will not comment until Germany submits a formal reply.
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Vp srociaTan
Washington
Wilson
Gerard
United States
Germany
Government takes over Sayville wireless station
Washington July 3. The government seized the Sayville wireless station the last privately operated link between the United States and Germany. Secretary Daniels said Captain Bullard, head of naval radio, has gone to assume control and will run the station under Naval Forces.
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Ase
Washington
Sayville
United States
Germany
Daniels
Bullard
Naval Radio
Oer
Minnehaha Afire at Sea After Warning Incident
A wireless message from Captain Claret of the Atlantic Transport line steamer Minnehaha reports the ship afire at sea about 570 miles southeast of Halifax. No passengers aboard. crew about 100. Ship was at New York pier a week earlier preparing for London voyage scheduled to reach Halifax tomorrow forenoon. The blaze is in No 3 hold and aroused speculation whether a bomb linked to Frank Holt’s warning caused it.
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New York
Frank Holt
Claret
Atlantic Transport Line
Halifax
Holt
London
Enid
Jarrell Mother Seeks Clemency Before Execution
Mrs Jarrell and her daughter Lydia of Charleston traveled to the state penitentiary to comfort Matt Jarrell who faces execution tomorrow unless Governor Hatfield commutes his death sentence for the killing of Eskdale officer Sal Nance seven months ago. Warden White said preparations for the hanging were complete.
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Moundlyville
Hatfeld
Charleston
Warden White
Fire results from explosion aboard Minnehaha
Wireless telegram reports a fire aboard the Minnehaha caused by an explosion. Captain Claret's 1240 p.m. message says the fire was brought under control by suffocation and smoke, with much smoke reported and the vessel steering toward Chenucto Head.
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New York
Toral
Chenucto
Ager
Thaw Sanity Trial Proceedings Open With Testy Exchange
The Thaw sanity trial resumed on Thursday in New York with Harry K. Thaw testifying. He denied hostility toward William Travers Jerome and rejected prior witnesses' accounts of violence in a poker-room altercation. He defended his conduct as not matching those testimonies.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
William Travers
Rothe
Schow
Coliece Ays
Hoe
Witneawes
Pokar
Endeavor work not halted by war reports show growth
Chicago July 8 not withstanding the European war the Christian Endeavor movement has prospered in the last two years per William Shaw general secretary at the World convention. Enrollment of 4 000 009 with 77 766 societies and nearly 4 million members plus over a million in allied groups brings the total to about five million in sixty nations and eighty denominations.
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Epecca
Pmenet
Chicago
Christian Endeavor
William Shaw
Christian Endeavor Society
Seasion
Quiet Hour
Tenth Legion
Missing Man From Preston County Vanishes in Morgantown
Edwin S Brown of near Reedsville Preston county disappeared after leaving home June 23. He last wrote June 25 from Morgantown saying he was tired of life and not to expect him home. He is a member of a prominent Preston family, wife nine children four sisters and five brothers. A reward is offered for any trace.
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Morgantown
Edwin S Brown
Reedsville
Preston County
Brown
Airs
W. O. Dawson
Charleston
Dawson
American envoy and German official discuss Lusitania note
Berlin July 8 James W Ger ard American ambassador conferred with Dr Alfred Zimmerman German under secretary of foreign affairs at noon to discuss the German reply to the American note on the Lusitania incident and to pursue further discussion of German tentative proposals from an American standpoint
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Berlin
James W. Gerard
Alfred Zimmerman
Lusitania
Seventeen Die In Niagara Trolley Wreck Near Queenston Heights
Seventeen persons were killed and about fifty injured when a special International railway car carrying 241 passengers left the rails near Queenston Heights while racing to catch a steamer for Toronto. The car struck a tree and toppled into a pulley, breaking nearly in two. The dead and eight more injured were reported in Toronto morgues. All victims were residents of Toronto.
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Southern Railway
Terrace Park
Latonia
E. R Bradley
Niagara
Nome
Queenston Heights
Toronto
International Railway
Tarsote
Twenty First Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association
All arrangements completed for the Twenty First annual meeting of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association to be held in Wheeling July 13 14 and 15. Read notice of agenda and hotel accommodations for attendees.
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Weet
Virginia Funeral Directors
Wheeling Tuly
Beadoacece Woba
Wii
Guardian Qualifies In Mary Hornor Bond Case
Charles L. Watkins hies qualified as guardian for Mary C. Hornor infant daughter of Ray M. Hornor, deceased, with Clara A. Watkins named as surety on bond.
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Charles L. Watkins Hies
Mary C. Hornor
Ray M. Hornor
Clara A. Watkins
Bond
Earnest Appeal for Free Band Concerts in Clarksburg
Harvey Leslie Gregory, bandmaster of the First Regiment band of Clarksburg, appeals to editors and citizens on July 3 1915 for municipal support to fund free band concerts. He notes no public appropriation exists for music yet argues music lifts spirits and invites officials to back a state leading band in the city.
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Clarksburg
Board of Trade
National’ Guard of
West Virginia
Harvey Leslie Gregory
First Regiment
Fullerton Funeral Rites Set At Family Home
Funeral services for A. B. Fullerton are planned at 7 30 tonight at the family home on Lee street with Rev. GD Smith of the First Methodist Episcopal church in charge. The funeral train leaves Friday morning for Parkersburg for a short service and burial in the Odd Fellows cemetery, with Rev. S. Kirbuthnot, now pastor in Parkersburg, to conduct the services there.
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A. B. Fullerton
A. J. Pul Yerton
Lee Street
GD. Smith
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Baltimore and Ohio
Parkersburg
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Kirbuthnot
Hpiscopal
Amalfi Sinks After Austrian Submarine Attack
Italian armored cruiser Amalfi was torpedoed at dawn in the upper Adriatic during a reconnaissance. Most crew were saved. the commander urged crew to jump aboard and cried long live the king and Italy before sinking. The note from the ministry confirms the loss and heroism.
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Rome
Paris
Amalfi
Adriatic
Ministry of ‘Marine
Amali
Ordea
Italy
King's Version of Red Flag Affair in Salem
George W King denies any arrest or incitement reports. He describes his restaurant as Socialist Headquarters and says the red banner was part of Fourth of July decorations, not a flagpole display, with no flags on the building other than the banner. He asserts he is a law abiding citizen and promises legal action if defamatory reports continue.
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Salem
George W. King
King
Telegram
George W King
George King
Socialist Party
Universm] Brotherhood
Gunty
Parole Case Tests New State Law In Bristol Incident
Judge James W. Robinson set a Friday session to dispose of the case of Cecil Morris who violated his parole after a fresking into G Le Swentsel store in Bristol. Morris 18, was sentenced to two years but was paroled to Ross Fr Stow sheriff who sent him to the Stout farm. He left the farm for Bristol and now faces possible reimprisonment under the new parole law. The case marks the first under the state parole act.
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Criminal Court
James W. Robinson
Cécil Morris
Morris
G. le Swentsel
Bristol
Robinson
Ross
Stow
Stout
Bumgardner Funeral Services Held For Adams Town Resident
Funeral services for Gibson Bumgardner, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Bumgardner of Adams Town, who died Wednesday morning, will be held Friday at 2 pm at the Adams Town home. Rev D W Cunningham will officiate and burial will be in the Odd Fellows cemetery here.
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Fideral
Gibson Bumgardner
Walter Bumgardner
Adamston
Adamaton
D. W. Cunningham
Odd Fellows
Adriatic Docks Reported In Liverpool Arrival
New York July 3 Dow Jones reports the White Star Adriatic docked exactly at Liverpool in the afternoon. No charges have been sworn against King, and prosecutors have not indicated any alleged violations or formal information to date.
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New York
Dow Jones Nava
Today x
Liverpool
Hha
Attornay Eid Tippe
Wick
Gaergo
Tagully
W. Eine
Durie
Amid Russian Offensive Shifts Near Bug and Vistula
Report from London notes Russian pressure expanding between the Bug and Vistula rivers, with Austrians holding the eastern front while Hungarians pause. German forces in the West show limited movement, and Turkish troops may enter battle as troops redeploy.
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Bug
Vistula
London
Russia
Thtula
Krasni
Lublin
Warsaw
Thad
Ypres
Belgium
St. Mihielbdl
Port
Daniel Rose dies after long illness at age five
Daniel Rose aged five passes away at home of Mia Kathryn Smithers Alta Vista after a long stomach illness Engrave Hart Brothers foundry in Rose IA. Survived by two dais Kate and Alice Rose, a son and Hose All reside in the city. Funeral services set for 2:30 PM Friday followed by burial in Elk View cemetery.
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Daniel Rose
Mia
Kathryn Smithers
Sinfillera
Elk View
Indictment Unsealed in Montenegro Case Involving Nyer Charge
Federal grand jury on a July day named five defendants in an indictment tied to conspiracy against neurality laws of the Staten. The case centers on the king of Montenegro and the Can pie affair, with charges alleging orchestration of illicit activities across jurisdictions.
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Chicago
Threscoma
Montenegro
Canpie
Federal
Joey Day
Staten
Work Started on Building in New Matushoras Area
The state legislature authorized the project and the intractor began work. construction moved forward with completion expected early next period. Total cost estimated at about a figure not fully legible in the fragment.
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New Matushoras
Peureae
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Czar
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Fullerton Funeral
Adriatae
Bumgardneer Funeral
Adriatic Docks
Montay Negrins
Tiasrange Hoense Bas Ati
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