Empress of Ireland Disaster Mortality Update at Quebec
Reports from Quebec detail Captain Kendall's inquiry testimony aboard the Empress of Ireland disaster. Ships Storstad and Empress of Ireland collided in fog, the liner sank. 964 dead, 403 rescued. Lady Grey recovered 188 bodies as funeral processions began along the St. Lawrence.
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Himouski
Quebec
Henry George Kendall
Pinaud
Kendall
Storstad
Rimouski
St. Lawrence
Sex
Notable Pledges and Pains In An Era Of Strife
Reports from Liege London and Paris trace illness suspensions and protests. Mme Bernhardt tours while suffragettes choose primrose as emblem after a 2000-member conference. Ada Rice imprisoned after firing blank cartridges at a policeman. minor injury reported. Graft trials in London involve army canteen contracts. Earthquakes in Sicily fuel fears of casualties in Catania. Prince Oskar announces engagement at Potsdam. Sir Joseph Swan dies in London at eighty six. electric lamp pioneer. Mexican officials Lozano and Modeno disappear from Vera Cruz. Walter Shaw condemns Yellowstone cruelty. inquiry begins with interior affairs and naturalists.
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Freda Graham
Berlin
National Gallery
London
Ada Rice
Epsom Downs
Catania
Sicily
Prince Oskar
Countess von Bassewitz-Levetzow
Potsdam
Joseph Wilson Swan
Sunderland
Eng
Sir Joseph
Vera Cruz
Jose Maria Lozano
Querida Modeno
Commerce
Industry
Colorful Descriptions Of Colorado Strike War At New York Hearings
Wives of two miners painted graphic word pictures of the Colorado strike war for the U S commission on industrial relations in New York. Confederate veterans from the North Carolina soldiers home will attend Decoration Day exercises at Union cemetery led by the Confederate drum corps.
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Colorado
New York
United States Commission On Industrial Relations
North Carolina
Union Cemetery
National Tax Association
Denver
M. Zander
Arizona Tax Commission
J. Pierpont
Morgan
Charles S. Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mellen
New Haven
John D. Rockefeller
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Ohio
Baltimore
Edward. Bilsberg
Colorado City
Colo
Fred H. Pelton
Adrian R, Marion
Rabbits and a Legal Eagle on a Scottish Farm
A distinguished English lawyer lodging on a Scottish farm tries rabbit shooting all afternoon but fails to hit any. Returning disappointed, the farmer asks in a Highland accent what he would have done if one rabbit had attacked him.
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Scotland
The New Cook Card Stirs Suffrage Tea Talk
Senator John Sharp Williams argued against suffrage in Washington with a joke about a new cook. He said feminists know less about women than the cook knew about cooking. The anecdote features a mistress, Martha, and a hostler as a punchline.
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John Sharp Williams
Washington
Martha
Wise mother in law helps brighten health with Postum
A reader writes from Io wa that coffee caused stomach distress and headaches, but Postum coffee substitute improved digestion and complexion. She shares that her grandmother also found relief and health gains after switching, noting Postum comes in Regular and Instant forms sold by grocers.
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Iowa
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonial
Terre Hill Pennsylvania resident Mrs Augustus Lyon says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her long standing female troubles and pains restoring appetite sleep and well being. The ad touts the remedy as a historic standard for women's ills with thousands of testimonial letters supporting its efficacy.
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Terre Hill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
Terre Hill, Pa
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Warrant
Montreal
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Canadian Pacific Railway
W. Simpson Walker
K.C
Anderson
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Liege
Paris
Walter Shaw
Gardiner
New York Society For the Prevention
Yellowstone Park
Society
Secretary of the Interior
Booth-Overton Co
Broadway
New Yorks
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