World’s greatest disaster devastates Calabria and Messina
Reports from Calabria and Sicily describe a catastrophe that wiped Reggio from the map and left Messina dramatically altered. An estimated 150000 dead in a population of 1.75 million, with survivors recounting sea water flooding streets and towers as the strait’s navigation was disrupted.
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Calabria
Sicily
Reggio
Straits of
Messina
Alaaddin
Cattanzaro
Palmi
Rome
Ministry of Marine
Strait of
Faro
Map of Devastated Region Describes Widespread Damage
The narrative details a vast natural catastrophe altering the landscape from Messina to Catania. It compares the disaster’s scale to California’s quake, noting shattered cities Messina and Reggio and the coast line’s altered face.
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San Francisco
Messina
Reggio
California
Scylla
Charybdis
Devastation in Sicily and Calabria After Major Quake
Reports detail a disastrous 32 second quake in Sicily and the Calabria mainland. Cha rybdis rock blocks the Messina Strait entrance and entire towns along both shores lie in ruins. Hundreds perish, including 150 guests at the Hotel Trinacria, with 80 foreign tourists among the dead.
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Sicily
Reggio di Calabria
Charybdis
Strait of Messina
Rome
Hotel Trinacria
Towns Wrecked by the Quake Across Sicily and Calabria
A list of Sicilian and Calabrian towns reported wrecked or heavily damaged by the earthquake and resulting tidal wave. Messina and Reggio Calabria described as destroyed. Catania Paterno Patti Mineo and others also listed as in ruins or heavily damaged with populations noted.
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Messina
Reggio
Reggie
Sicily
Italy
Catania
Paterno
Vittoria
Camarine River
Naro
Ali
Mineo
Patti
Castoreal
Milazzo
Palmi
Calabria
Strait of Messina
Scilla
Bagnara
Messina Earthquake and Fire Devastate Southern Italy
The passage recalls the 1908 Messina quake and ensuing conflagration and the fruitless efforts to fight the fire amid wooden ruins. It notes prior shocks in 1788 and 1905 1907, places Messina and Reggio on a seismic boundary near Etna and Vesuvius, and predicts long term demographic shifts and future studies.
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Messina
Reggio
Mount Etna
Mount Vesuvius
Sicily
Italy
Red Cross Relief Appeals For Southern Italy Earthquake Sufferers
The American National Red Cross issued telegraphic appeals to its branches for relief funds for southern Italy earthquake victims. Italy’s Red Cross is well organized, so only money contributions are needed and will be sent promptly. The US treasury holds 2000 dollars in reserve for emergencies, and 12000 dollars were sent after Vesuvius eruptions. no American ships are nearby.
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American National Red Cross
Italy
Italian Red Cross Society
American Society
Red Cross
United States
Vesuvius
Lipari Islands Vanish as Messina Suffers Catastrophe
A wireless report from Vita says the Lipari Islands near Sicily have disappeared with 28 000 residents believed dead. Messina and nearby towns suffered total destruction with tens of thousands killed or buried beneath ruins. King Victor Emmanuel urges abandoning the earthquake region.
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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 Territory Faces Isolation and Seismic Risk
The article notes Calabria with 1.3 million people speaking Grecian Albanian or antique Italian. Many communities lack roads schools markets bread scarce with beans peas and potatoes. Villages on rocky hills hide in mountains as earthquakes strike their unstable stone homes. Emigration to distant lands is common.
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Calabria
Navy Ranks and New Grenade Highlight War Prep
The Navy Year Book ranks the United States second among world powers, with 31 battleships and 607,241 tons of ships including armored cruisers. France tops tonnage, Japan builds slowly, and Germany trails. A deadly hand grenade by Lt. W. S. Mapes is sent to Manila for trial, promising one soldier equal to forty as it scythes targets with ground-spread fragments. Mapes also created the poncho boat for four-man equipment flotation.
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Pitman Pulsifer
Senate Navy Committee
Germany
France
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Army
Manila
W. S. Mapes
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Lieut
Mapes
Questioning the Germ Theory of Disease
Dr H T dwin Lewis of New York challenges the idea that a single fixed germ causes disease. He cites Prof Lehmann to argue bacteria vary and can convert between forms, suggesting many related germs may trigger illness and raising whether the germ or disease drives the process.
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H. T.dwin Lewis
New York
Lehmann
Lewis
American Pompeii Found at Casa Grande Ariz
Smithsonian Secretary Wolcott reports unearthed second Pompeii at Casa Grande Arizona under Congress funding. Dr J Walter Fewkes led excavations of a prehistoric city with a 200 foot long building and eleven rooms surrounding a plaza. A Seat of Montezuma is in the central room. The year added 200000 specimens and loaned is the American flag once at Fort McHenry inspiring 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 22 Begins to Grow
Mildred Hart of London England, aged 23 with the development of a child of 5, began to grow after thyroid extract treatment begun in October. The patient gained 2.5 inches in height, cut new teeth, and developed a ferocious appetite. Her speech improved, showing a markedly expanded vocabulary.
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Mildred Hart
London
England
Sugar consumption and production in 1907 United States
The Bureau of Statistics estimates an average American eats more than half his weight in sugar yearly. U S consumption reached 7,089,665,975 pounds with 21.8 percent home produced, 17.7 percent from possessions, and 61 percent from foreign sources. Exports totaled 43,000,000 pounds. Beet sugar output (967,000,000) surpassed cane (544,000,000). World sugar production nearly doubled in two decades to 32,000,000,000 pounds.
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Bureau of Statistics
United States
Timeline of notable events from 1620 to 1900 in a historical digest
A dense chronology lists milestones from Plymouth landing and early American publication to 1900. Entries include 1620 Plymouth, 1719 American Weekly Mercury, 1720 Mifflin as PA governor, 1807 Embargo Act, 1811 Richmond theater fire, 1814 Ghent Treaty, 1847–1860s conflicts, Colt patent, Caroline incident, Dreyfus affair, and Kruger’s Paris visit. The compendium imprints broad historical markers with dates and brief actions.
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Plymouth
Mass
America
Philadelphia
Thomas Mifflin
Pennsylvania
Napoleon Bonaparte
United States
Richmond
New Orleans
Pittsburg
Great Britain
Ghent
American Colonization Society
Africa
Washington, D. C
Georgia
Canadian
Samuel Colt
Niagara Falls
Havana
Kansas
Tybee Island
Railroad rate cuts eyed in Midwest orders and access to Gulf
The Minnesota railroad commission ordered a 25 to 30 percent rate reduction on milk moved over the Manterville branch of the Chicago Great Western. The company plans an appeal to the courts. North Dakota coal rate hearings conclude before Referee Hoskins and will be submitted to the State Supreme Court for enforcement efforts amid railroad resistance. Directors of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy ratify a $24.5 million common stock purchase in Colorado and Southern, expanding Hill system access to the Gulf of Mexico. Two receivers for Municipal Tract tion and Cleveland Rail way companies appointed by Judge Taylor to preserve property with final rights undecided. Pennsylvania rail order reveals steel rail makers agree to $28 per ton after secret negotiations with foreign producers, with inspectors allowed on site to monitor ingot top cuts.
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Minnesota Railroad Commission
Manterville
Chicago Great Western Road
North Dakota
Hoskins
State Supreme Court
Railway Commission
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
New York
Colorado and Southern
Eddie Hawley
Gulf of Mexican
Municipal Traction Company
Cleveland Railway Company
Taylor
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David Howard Harrison
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Charles I
Portugal
Southern Pacific
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Cal
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Devil’s Island
Mackenzie Bowell
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Paul Kruger
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