Heatwave and storms sweep across multiple regions
A day of extreme heat followed by a cyclone slammed Iowa farms injuring a homemaker and her children while a farmhand is missing. Japan faced a disastrous storm tearing houses and wrecking boats. Lincoln reported its heaviest rainfall in six years with no fatalities. Severe weather damaged a church in Evansville and caused widespread heat records across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma. The Black River area faced renewed flood fears and four dead in Cleveland amid a Northern Ohio storm.
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Hospers, In
Lowa Farms
James Allen
Neth
Sorenson
Chicago & Northwestern
Lincoln
Black River
Neilaville
Wis
Black River Falls
Greenwood
Here
Municipal Light and Power Company
Ohio
Cleveland
Helena
Sandusky County
Mersey to join royal commission on Empress of Ireland disaster
News from Montreal confirms Lord Mersey, who presided over the Titanic inquiry, will serve on the royal commission investigating the Empress of Ireland sinking. Canadian members include Chief Justice Ezekiel McLeod and Sir Adolph Routhier. Official tallies count 1,024 dead, 1,476 aboard, and 452 saved. Captain Lange notes Storstad survivors and lifeboat saves, with government ships patrolling the St Lawrence for more bodies. Memorials by Salvation Army expected across sixty nine counties and colonies, with about 200,000 officers conducting services for 138 members. Officials release lists of American passengers and survivors, including Clark, Freeman, Bach, and Karalaske among others.
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Montreal
Lord Mersey
Ezekiel McLeod
New Brunswick
Adolph Routhier
Quebec
Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Company
Ove Lange
Maritime Steamship Company
Storstad
Eureka
Empress of Ireland
Lange
St. Lawrence
Salvation Army
Gebhard Willrich
State Department
Washington
Charles P. Clark
Detroit
Harry Freeman
Milwaukee
Edith Bach
Rochester
Minn
Herman
Frieda Kruz
Sherburne
Witness Sullivan Defies Court After Testimony
After Jack Sullivan left the stand he caused an uproar by answering as he saw fit. Friends urged him to drink cooling beverages but he refused, saying he needed a two or three days snooze in somebody's icehouse to recover.
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Jack Sullivan
Becker
Sullivan
Jack
Cuticura Heals Scaly Psoriasis Says Soldier
Walter Mahony of Troop H 6th A S Cavalry Camp McCoy Sparta Wisconsin states he suffered two years from psoriasis on arms and legs. After trying various treatments he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and was cured in three months. Ad text promotes free samples and a Skin Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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A. S
Camp McCoy
Sparta
Wis
Walter Mahony
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
How to Tell Mastoiditis Early
Doctors at the New York State Medical Society meeting emphasized early detection to avoid fatal outcomes. Mastoiditis is indicated by tenderness on the ridge behind the ear and a running ear, signs that warrant prompt care.
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New York State Medical Society
Not transferable line on ticket explained
A rustic speaker asks what the phrase Not transferable means on a ticket. The answer clarifies it prevents admission by anyone other than the holder who must present themselves at the exchange.
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Mr. Johnsing
Mr. Dorman
Johnsing
Not Wholly True ou Not Wholly True ou
A fragmentary item appears to discuss a poet and a divorce. The readable bits mention a husband and his wife’s divorce, with uncertain context and quotation marks. The text suggests a rumor or literary note rather than a full report.
Concerning Clothes Burlesque Styles Trigger Debate
A severe woman calls new fashions burlesques while Miss Cayenne calls them travesties on good form and suggests they are mere take-offs. The exchange frames a debate over fashion novelty shaping perceptions of propriety and taste.
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Miss Cayenne
Humorous Proverbing Lines on Vice and Virtue
A quirky reflection notes that reliance on luck for heaven needs work like coal shoveling. It suggests romance needs steady effort beyond flirty looks. It adds that getting hot under the collar means quitting the collar altogether in a light moral twist.
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OWA
Japan
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Tokio
Mongolia
Nagasaki
Nebraska
Evansville
Ind
First Avenue Presbyterian
Kansas
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Missouri
Sedalia
St. Joseph
Manhattan
St. Louis
St. Louisans
Empress
Royal Commission To
Press of Ireland
Coca-Cola Co
Artania, Ga
W.l.douglas
Chile
W. I Doulas
Reskin
W. I. Douglas
Wits Rosplan
Selon Stally
Deatalor
Douglas
Spark
Brockton
Mass
Daisy Fly Killer
Express
Harold Somers
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
N.Y
Rey
Billy
America
Diamond Pubg. CO
Philadelphia
Penn
Order
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
California
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