Calamity in Calabria Sicilian Earthquake Devastates Reggio
Reports from the Italian provinces of Calabria and Sicily detail a catastrophe of vast scale. Reggio, a 50 000 population city, disappeared with only five survivors. Messina was leveled as sea and rock replaced streets. Officials warn many bodies unaccounted and sea routes blocked by a changed Messina Strait.
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Calabria
Sicily
Reggio
Messina
Straits of
Cattanzaro
Palmi
Nome
Ministry of Marine
Rome
Strait of
Faro
Map of Devastated Region Reveals Altered Landscape
The account describes widespread destruction in Messina and Catania after a great cataclysm, noting that the coast line and terrain have changed drastically. It compares the scale to San Francisco’s disaster and mentions Scylla and Charybdis as altered references from myth.
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San Francisco
Messina
Reggio
California
Scylla
Charybdis
Devastation After Sicilian Earthquake Strikes Messina Area
Scene across Sicily and Reggio Calabria shows 32 second quake with Cha rybdis rock blocking the Messina Strait. Several hundred killed and widespread destruction within affected provinces, including 150 guests at Hotel Trinacria, 80 visitors among them foreigners, many bodies unrecovered.
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Sicily
Reggio di Calabria
Charybdis
Strait of Messina
Towns Wrecked by the Quake in Sicily and Calabria
Reading a disaster list from Sicily and Calabria after a major earthquake, Messina and Catania are reported in ruins. Other towns such as Patti Reggio Vittoria Palmi Scilla Naro Mineo Paterno Bagnara Castoreal and Ali show varying degrees of destruction and loss.
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Sicily
Italy
Messina
Catania
Paterno
Vittoria
Camarine River
Naro
Ali
Mineo
Patti
Castoreal
Milazzo
Palmi
Calabria
Reggio
Strait of Messina
Scilla
Bagnara
Messina and Reggio Suffer Severe Earthquake Calamity
The passage notes a violent quake and ensuing fire in Messina and Reggio with many buried victims burned alive after the conflagration, comparing it to 1788. It discusses seismic activity along Etna and Vesuvius lines, predicting long term demographic changes and grave regional impact.
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Messina
Red Cross Relief Mobilizes for Italian Earthquake Sufferers
The American National Red Cross sent telegraphic appeals to branches for relief funds for southern Italy quake victims. The Italian Red Cross Society is well organized so funds will be sent promptly. The US treasury holds $2,000 in reserve, with $12,000 previously sent after Vesuvius eruption. No American ships are near southern Italy.
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American National Red Cross
Italy
Italian Red Cross Society
American Society
Red Cross
United States
Vesuvius
Lipari Islands Destroyed In Cataclysmic Seismic Wave
A wireless report from the Strait of Messina details the Lipari Islands near Sicily nearly wiped out with 28 000 residents presumed dead. Messina suffers extensive destruction with about 60 000 to 160 000 inhabitants affected, many buried, as Italy faces possible evacuation and bombardment to curb disease. King Victor Emmanuel calls for abandoning the quake zone.
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Vita
Strait of Messina
Lipari Islands
Mediterranean
Sicily
Liparian Islands
Messina
Reggio
Italy
Russia
Japan
Lazzaro
Scylla
Bagnara
Villa San Giovanni
Palmi
Victor Emmanuel
Calabrian People Live Amid Earthquakes and Isolation
The Territory of Calabria with about 1.3 million inhabitants shows Greek Albanian and old Italian dialects. Many communities lack roads schools and markets and survive on beans peas and potatoes. Villages sit on rocky hills in earthquake prone areas with unstable stone and mud homes. emigration is common.
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Calabria
Naval power standings and new grenade tested at Manila
The Year Book lists Great Britain with 61 battleships and 910 330 tons, the United States 31 battleships 449 796 tons, France 26 battleships 357 132 tons, Germany 31 battleships 414 486 tons, and Japan 15 battleships 285 444 tons. Including armored cruisers, France leads tonnage at 573 364 with Germany at 548 254 and the US at 607 241. Total navy tonnage shows France at 801 188 and Britain at 1 395 930 while Japan lags. A new hand grenade, claimed most deadly, is sent to Manila for trial. Lieut. W S Mapes, inventor, also known for the poncho boat.
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Germany
France
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Manila
W. S. Mapes
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Lieut
Mapes
Questioning the Germ Theory of Disease
Dr. H I éwin Lewis of New York challenges the idea that a single fixed germ causes disease. He cites Prof. Lehmann and argues micro organisms consist of many evolving varieties within a family, suggesting different germs may cause the same illness and raising whether the germ or the disease drives causation.
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H. I.éwin Lewis
New York
Lehmann
Lewis
Smithsonian finds second Pompeii site in Casa Grande Arizona
Secretary Wolcott reports under Congress funding J Walter Fewkes excavated a prehistoric city at Casa Grande. The largest find is a 200 foot long building with eleven rooms and surrounding wells around a plaza. A Seat of Montezuma is in the central room. The year adds 200000 specimens across science fields. A notable loan is the 30 foot square American flag from Fort McHenry that inspired The Star Spangled Banner.
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Wolcott
Smithsonian Institution
Casa Grande
Ariz
Congress
J. Walter Fewkes
Montezuma
Fort McHenry
Francis Key
Baby at 23 Begins to Grow With Thyroid Treatment
Mildred Hart of London England aged 23 shows marked growth after thyroid extract therapy from October diagnosis of thyroid absence. She has grown two and a half inches taller gained teeth and a strong appetite and has become unusually talkative.
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Mildred Hart
London
England
Sugar Wext in a Year Shows Large U S Sugar Use
The report from the Bureau of Statistics states the average American consumes over half their body weight in sugar annually. In 1907 total sugar use reached 7,089,665,975 pounds with 21.3 percent home produced, 17.7 percent from insular possessions, and 61 percent from foreign sources. Beet sugar production topped cane for the first time, 967,000,000 pounds versus 544,000,000. World sugar production reached 32,000,000,000 pounds as it nearly doubled in twenty years.
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Bureau of Statistics
United States
Timeline of key events from 1620 to 1900 in a weekly digest
A compact chronology lists milestones from Ply mouth landing in 1620 to 1900 Paul Kruger in Paris and martial law in Cape Colony. It notes American colonial and early national events, disasters, territorial actions, legal cases, inventions, and leadership changes across North America Europe and Africa.
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Plymouth
Mays
Mercury
America
Philadelphia
Thomas Mifflin
Pennsylvania
Napoleon Bonaparte
United States
Richmond
New Orleans
Pittsburg
Fort van Buren
Ark
Wilmington
N. C
Sherman
Savannah
Little Rock
David Howard Harrison
Manitoba
Charles I
Portugal
Southern Pacific
Burbank
Cal
Dreyfus
Devil's Island
Mackenzie Bowell
Canada
Paul Kruger
Paris
Cape Colony
Rail and coal rate battles and railroad deals spread across states
Minnesota orders a 25 to 30 percent milk rate cut on the Manterville line with appeals planned. North Dakota coal rate hearings conclude and will go to the State Supreme Court. The Hill system gains a Gulf outlet via a Colorado and Southern share purchase of 24.5 million in common stock. Two receivers appointed for Municipal Traction and Cleveland Railway to preserve property pending future hearings. Pennsylvania steel rail talks with foreign makers yield a $28 per ton price and ongoing inspections during production.
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Minnesota Railroad Commission
Manterville
Chicago Great Western Road
North Dakota
Hoskins
State Supreme Court
Railway Commission
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Retiroad
New York
Colorado
Sounerrm
Edwin Hawley
Gulf of Mexico
Municipal Traction Company
Cleveland Railway Company
Taylor
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Pizzio
Woplen
Hotel Trinacria
Monteleone
Celabria
Mount Etna
Mount Vesuvius
Uncle Sam
the Weekly Historian
Ghent
American Colonization Society
Africa
Washington, d. C
Georgia
Canadian River
Samuel Colt
Caroline
Niagara Falls
Havana
Kansan
Tybee Island
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