Excursion Train Disaster Near Berry Alabama Kills Many
A Southern Railway excursion train left the track on a 60 foot embankment near Berry Alabama at 9 30 am Monday. The wreck killed thirty persons and injured eighty one as cars piled over one another and crushed like egg shells. Most dead and injured were African American travelers from Mississippi. a few whites including the trainmaster and an engineer perished. Wreck crews from Columbus Mississippi and Birmingham rushed aid as physicians treated the injured.
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Birmingham
Ala
Berry
Als
Southern Railway
H. M. Dudley
Southern Railway Living
Child
Columbus
Miss
Charley Carp
Exel Patterson
West Point
Hol Clarke
Nute. Green
Willie Thompson
Eruption at Mont Pelee Destroys Morne Rouge Town
The British steamer Korona reports Mont Pelee erupted Saturday night at 9 o clock striking Morne Rouge and causing a tidal wave that destroyed the village. About 200 lives were lost. A sloop from St. Vincent notes the crater quieted but detonations had been terrifying that night.
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Whelms
Korona
Castries
St. Lucia
Danish West Indies
Fort de France
Martinque
Mont Pelee
Morne Rouge
Island of
St. Vincent
Freight Wreck Kills Five at Randolph Kansas
Five women are reported dead in a light wreck on the Rock Island Railroad near Randolph Kansas. The incident blocks the line and local authorities investigate the cause.
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Rock Island Railroad
Randolph
Kansas
Savable Wins Rich Futurity at Sheepshead Bay
Savable, sired by Salvator, wins the rich futurity at Sheepshead Bay on Saturday. John A. Drake owns the winner. Hastings Cold, Lord of the Vale, and Dazzling finish 2nd, 4th, and 3rd respectively. Purse totals award $45,400 to the winner, $5,200 to second, and $2,750 to third, totaling $53,400.
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Sheepshead Bay
Savable
Salvator
John A. Drake
August Belmont
Lord of the Vale
Dazzling
Transvaal stamp set sparks collector demand worldwide
The Transvaal government issued a ten stamp set in various colors from one cent to $2.60 each. All feature King Edward’s head in an oval within a beaded frame with Transvaal above. Colors range from bluish green to scarlet orange olive green and purple. Concurrently the British colonial office weighs a Kipling designed coat of arms for the Orange River colony with an orange tree Tudor rose water waves and two springboks.
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Transvaal
Edward
Ofce
Lockwood Kipling
Orange River Colony
Orange Free State
Bloemfontein
Sheep Use Bottle Trees To Sustain Flocks In Drought
In drought ravaged Queensland, a few squatters save remnants of their flocks by feeding them on bottle trees. The sterculia tree, tall four to five feet with a bottle shaped trunk, yields a mucilaginous, nutritious sap that sheep eagerly lick from the chips to extract moisture.
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Queensland
Pie Perplexes Patience and Doughall in Quiet Vignette
Simpkins questions the pie as Mrs. Doughall insists one piece remains. The brief exchange centers on the missing cherries and the shared bake sale tension.
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Simpkins
Mrs. Doughall
Mr. Simpkins
Jericho Amid Wretched Cabins In Palestine
Jericho today shows a settlement of shabby cabins housing a peculiar people distinct from other Palestine communities. The description portrays isolation and hardship among residents.
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Jericho
Palestine
Hix Windig Seen as Local Power House Figure
A Chicago News quote portrays Hix Windig as not hiding his light and viewing himself as the entire electric power facility. The excerpt mocks him, suggesting the town would face total darkness if he failed.
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Hix—Windig
Dix
Chicago News
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Patent Medicines Note
An OCR fragment notes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a liquid taken internally affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. It mentions testimonials and Toledo sellers. Also references Dr Kline's nerve restorer, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething and wind colic, dynamite usage at Johannesburg mines, Piso's Cure for consumption, and coin controlled phones in China with dated location hints.
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Hall
Cuzner & Co
Props
Toledo
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International Harvester Company
Cyrus H. McCormick
Charles Deering
George W. Perkins
Harold F. McCormick
James Deering
Wm. H. Jones
John J. Glessner
Richard F. Howe
Cyrus Bentley
William Deering
Eldridge M. Fowler
B. H. Gary
Abram M. Hyatt
William H. Jones
Norman B. Ream
Leslie N. Ward
Paul D. Cravath
Champion
Deering
McCormick
Milwaukee
Plano
Canada
Memphis
W. T. Saunders
F. E. Clark
Pryor and
Decatur Streets
Atlanta
Kline
BH. Kum, Ltd
Phila
United States
Johannesbure
Borzzity Springs
Ind
China
Ayer
S. T. Jones
Wichita
Kans
Ater Co
Lowell, Mass
Cross
Buckingham
R. P. Hall & Co
Nashus
N. H
Ripans
Montgomery
Fin
Cal College OF OF Kentucky
Mies
Rere ViLuoe
Beuternational Telegraphy
Douleville
Fou
Winchester
Repeater
Royal Worcester
Royal Worcester Corset CO
Worcester, Mass
Douglas
SaboPe
Avery & Bape
Frick
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