Texas Storm Toll Rises With Hotel Collapse and Sea Rescue
The Galveston area reels from a violent storm that drove crowds into depots and hotels on a perilous night. A hotel in Virginia tied to a stalled car collapsed, leaving dozens missing or dead. Rescue crews found multiple bodies as Seabrook ferried 40 survivors to safety and life at Surf Side station faced near-destruction.
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Texas
Texas City
Houston
Broadway
Powell
Galveston
Roctet G
Kemp
W. E. Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Wilmena Hern
Ernest Roed
Highth
Post Office
Seabrook
F. H. Leclair
Frank Annelle
Seabrook Station
Leclair
Swift & Co
Ameclair
Annelle
Seabrook Bridge
Virginia Point
Causeway Hotel
Milo Waggle
Surf Side
Freeport
John P. Steinhart
Pollet Shannon
Brazos River
Steinhart
Sweet Dreams Mosquito Remedy Claims Sleep Guard Role
An advertisement touts Sweet Dreams as a mosquito remedy guarding Dixie sleep. It asserts mosquitoes are deterred, promises large bottles for 15 cents, and claims the product is the preferred solution for safe slumber.
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Dixie
Larga
Danish Boat Detained by British at Kirkwall
The Danish motor boat Jutlandia sailing from San Francisco to Copenhagen with general cargo has been detained at Kirkwall by British authorities for examination.
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Kirkwall
London
San Francisco
Copenhagen
Phils Show True Value of Pitching Over Hitting
The Philadelphia Nationals, last in steals and hits, illustrate how pitching dominates. With Mayer and Alexander strong early, they led the league, but since July they fall short of .500 as pitching falters while Cincinnati leads in hitting and fielding but lacks pitching.
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PHILS
Brown Holmes
Philadelphia Nationals
Cincinnati
Mayer
Alexander
Chalmers
Cincinnati Reds
German Socialists Back War Credit Vote
Amsterdam dispatch says the German Reichstag Socialist party will vote for the war credits. The session opens with a proposed new war loan of 2.6 billion marks as a principal matter before the body.
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Amsterdam
London
Socialist Party
Reichstag
London Police Raid Three Labor Publications
London police raided the Independence Labor Party headquarters the Labor Leader and the Socialist Review seizing every copy of the publications and hundreds of pamphlets on labor problems linked to the Pope no arrests were made.
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London
Independence Labor Party
Labor Leader
Socialist Review
Penny offered stirs talk at hotel encounter in town
Tessie-I offered a long-haired young man at the hotel a penny for his thoughts last night. Jessie-What did he say? Tessie he’d had worse offers from publishers.
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Tessie
Erkat
Jessie
Tessid
Cardinal Vannutelli Dead at Rome Influential in Sacred College
Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli dean of the sacred college died in Rome at age 67. A leading cardinal bishop tied to the suburbun sees of Rome he served as bishop of Porto Santa Rufina and Ostia. Born November 26 1834 in Genazzano he pursued theology at Capranica before teaching and entering diplomacy serving as papal nuncio in Bavaria Ecuador Peru and at Brussels and Vienna.
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Rome
Serafino Vannutelli
The
Sacred College
Cardinal Vannutelli
Porto
Santa Rufina
Ostia
Leo XIII
Cardinal
Genazzano
Palastrgna
Capranica College
Pontifical Seminary
Bavaria
Ecuador
Peru
Brussels
Vienna
Moley and Tod Sloan Hitting Over .300 Mark
Birmingham boasts two top Southern League hitters Tod Sloan right fielder and Carlton Molesworth manager both over .300 for the season Sloan unique in the league never hit under .300 in a season since 1911 with Bristol and Nashville stints Molesworth career .816 average over sixteen years with Birmingham and retirement from the lineup due to leg troubles referenced alongside related notes about 1914 1905 performance and contention for moves to St Louis.
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Birmingham
Tod Sloan
Carlton Molesworth
Molesworth
Sloan
Baron
Bristol
St. Louis
Brown
Montgomery
Appalachian
Ted
Browns
Nashville
Schwarz Sloan
Southern
Barons
Jimmy Magee
Sherwood Magee
Boston Braves
Mobile Retail Merchants Organized as Grocers Association
The Mobile Retail Grocers and M erchants Association elected a 13 member board of directors at a Wednesday night meeting. The group already has seventy five charter members and formed a Flying Squadron membership committee. They discussed a monthly Alabama Grocer journal and Grocers Day with stores closed for employee outings.
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Mobile Retail Grocers and Merchants’ Association
A. Streb
L. L. Noble
A. M. Tulley
E J. Hanlon
Ernest D. Sigler
H. Hudoff
J. E. Moseley
J. H. Wentworth
J. McCowan
W. F. Mandrill
BE. B. Marshall
Value of Farms Owned by Negroes Near Tripled in Fifteen Years
Boston reports during the National Negro Business League session show farm property owned by African Americans rising from 177 million to 482 million dollars over fifteen years. Officials noted growth across affiliated bodies and business ventures as part of progress summaries.
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Boston
National Negro Business League
Mexican Thanks to Argentina Attitude at Pan American
A telegram from the Mexican Trade Union praises Argentina for its stance at the Pan American conference. It notes Argentina’s declaration against interference in Mexican internal affairs and armed intervention and calls the move a guarantee for Latin America, stirring pride among Mexicans.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Arg
Munatore
Washington
Latin Americas
Latin America
Stromboli Volcano Erupts Forming Lake of Fire
The Stromboli volcano erupts sending lava into the sea creating a lake of fire between craters. Detonations and smoke accompany the emission as reported from Messina via Paris on August 19.
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Stromboli
Messina
Sicily
Paris
Island of Stromboli
Stromboli Volcano
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New Orleans
Caribbean & Southern Steamship Co., Inc
Seeberg Steamship Co
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Jamaica
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Everett True
Ce Jee -Hee
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Johnson
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