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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1893
Page
2
A collage of notices and dispatches reports a Fargo fire losses totaling 5.3 million dollars, Lincoln era site destruction, and a Ford Theatre history recap. Also covers Washington and Havana postings, dynamite near an ex-queen, and local editorials urging responsible correspondents.
An explosion disaster in a government building left an estimated 400 to 450 workers in the area when the front floors collapsed. Rescue teams, emergency hospitals, and Red Cross ambulances pressed work through the ruins as officials tallied 16 dead at the morgue and funeral-like casualty numbers. Survivors and injured were transported to hospitals statewide while authorities weighed totals of victims and missing.
The first graduates of A and M College were celebrated in a May evening ceremony in the College Chapel. President of the class R W Allen welcomed attendees while S E Asbury offered class sketches. Speakers urged noble manhood and higher aims, with music interludes and a reception following.
A telegram from Milwaukee announces Mr. Marsden Bellamy a Wilmington lawyer elected Supreme Dictator of the Knights of Honor for the United States and Canada. He is the first native Southerner chosen to this role with a $2500 annual salary and two-term limit. Bellamy’s headquarters will be in Wilmington.
The Rock Hill Herald reports Mrs Kate Crawford, wife of D G Crawford of McConnellsville, struck by lightning while with her three children in a room. She died after 3 hours in the home event, as Dr Love could not avert the disaster. James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald is also noted as critically injured in a separate Paris report.
Fragmentary OCR note discusses liver work and health terms with unclear percentages and references to harmless conditions, house care, and ant statements. The readable text centers on the liver being a factor in health and a vague caution about lifestyle effects.
Magazine reading in the past has been a pleasure that only a comparatively limited number of people could indulge in because of the high price of the magazine. McClure's Magazine is of the highest literary excellence, artistically designed, beautifully illustrated, novel, unique, and yet will be sold at 15 cents a number, or $1.50 a year.
Published monthly issue now ready priced at 15 cents per copy or 1.50 per year. Contributors include Stevenson Kipling Howells Hardy Jewett Doyle Harte Stockton Cheney Harris Stockton etc. June number now ready for readers and subscribers.
The first issue is ready priced at 15 cents and features short stories by famous authors including Kipling and Conan Doyle. It promises portraits and interviews, extensive discussion of invention science medicine and exploration, with four to five portrait series and a prospectus on pages 94 to 96. McClure's seeks agents in North Carolina and subscriptions via Room 408 Equitable Building Atlanta Georgia.
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