Day of activity in San Francisco change in city streets
Conditions are improving in San Francisco with entry restrictions eased and transit resuming on Market Street. Banks plan to reopen payments via mint cashing, labor demand rises, water use restrictions ease, and camps report cleaner living spaces though blankets remain scarce and disease risk stays low.
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Washington Post
San Francisco
Cal
Kaliance
Luv Pardee
Gen Breoly
Crocke
Woolworth
Nevada
van Ness Avenue
Ben
Fifth Avenue
New York
San Frantisco
Burnham
London
Paris
New Lork
Leach
Oakland
Cnn
San Linmsee
War Department
Oakland Summers
Golden Gate Park
Aftermath of Ruin Pressures and Clearing Gangs Move In
In the burned district, safes are hauled from ruined businesses as owners identify property. Rail tracks will be laid on Market and Mission streets to remove wreckage. Water supply remains dire with no pressure downtown and reservoirs not yet replenished. Sewers are heavily damaged. full repairs expected later.
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Denk
Market Street
Mission Street
Cal
Chronicle, Crocker
Merchants’ Exchange
Bank of California
Distrot
Hill
Citizens' Subcommittee On Water Supply
Inn
Subcommittee On Sewers
Gimpy Bill's Escape From San Francisco Fire
An account of a disabled panhandler known as Gimpy Bill who fled the 1906 San Francisco quake and fires. He strapped rollers to his stumps, crawled along Market Street, climbed from a window with a makeshift rope, and trudged about fourteen miles to Golden Gate Park as flames raged, aided by others who helped him down and one Italian who pulled him by a rope.
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Washington Post
San Francisco
Market Street
Bull
Washington Street
Montgomery
Golden Gate Park
Escana
Berlin Council Passes Motion for Aid to California and Vesuvius Victims
At a Berlin city council meeting President Langerhans urged the city to express sympathy to Ambassador Tawes and pledge aid for the San Francisco earthquake and Mount Vesuvius eruption relief. The council approved the resolution despite President Roosevelt’s claim that the U S did not need foreign assistance.
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API
Langerhans
San Francisco
Mount Vesuvius
Roosevelt
United States
California
Behn
Tawes
Chinese Consul Complains of Graft and Looting
San Francisco April 21 Chinese consul general accuses soldiers of extorting refugees from Fort Mason to the ferry charging five dollars per head for guidance. He claims Chinese property was stolen as crowds roamed Chinatown and white residents looted ruins while Chinese and Californians stood by.
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San Francisco
Fort Mason
Chinatown
California
Kidnapped Her Boy Claims Keepers Beat Him
L. F. George Cadieux, the boy, was abducted from the Odd Fellows Home in Unionport New York by his mother actress Katherine Cadieux. She fled across a yard fence after leaping from a window but was captured by Detective Gaynor near her home in New York City. She faces abduction and contempt charges with bail set at 2500 dollars.
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Odd Fellows’ Home
Unionport
N. Y
Washington Post
New York
L .F. George Cadieux
Odd Fellows
Katherine Cadieux
West Thirty-ninth Street
Gaynor
Westchester
Westchester Court
Jersey City
Barlow
Elmer Fenger
Michael J Cooney
Cadiella
Mary Singer
Cooney
Land
Harlem
Cadieux
Mrs Cadieux
West Thirty-third Street
Charles M. Schwab Sued Over Picture Contract
London court hears breach of contract claim in the King's Bench Division as Davis Rothschild sues Charles B. Schwab of New York for purchasing Constable's painting Ledlam's Tick for £15600. Rothschild testifies Schwab offered by cable, offer accepted, then withdrawn. case adjourned.
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Ledlam Tock
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Trial of Dr Crapsey Nears End in Ecclesiastical Court
The Washington Post reports the Crapsey heresy trial in Batavia NY nears completion. Prosecution opened, defense closed. summing up tomorrow. Witnesses barred and questions on doctrine debated. final arguments to follow with planned speeches by John Lord O’Brien, Frank Locke, Elwood Worcester, and others. A separate notice announces a sale of Southern mahogany furniture and a Weber grand piano at Washington Art Galleries today.
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John Lord O'Brian
Franklin Locke
Judge Steiness
Frank J Hall
James Fred Perlins
Elwood Worcaster
Edward M Shepard
Crapsey
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Joseph Alexander Leighton
Hobart College
W. L. Hoopes
Cambridge Springs
Alexis W Stein
Fitchburg
Mass
Columbia University
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Winchester
Edwid Hoffman
Christ Church
Hornellsville
George Clark
Calvary Church
Cincinnati
John Howard Melosh
Holy Trinity
Brooklyn
Charles Henry Babcock
New York
Mr Nelson
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Elwood Worcester
Emmanuel Church
Boston
Church Press
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Conre
Cransey
Protestant Episcopal Church
Dr Cransey
Mberry
O'Brian
Washington Art Galleries
Weber
San Francisco
California
Gen Greely
Capitol
Spooner
Batley
Duke
Womaa
Judge North Affirms Objection On Witness Testimony Counts
In a ruling on the counts decision, Judge North sustains the objection and warns that witness testimony should not substitute the court or church judgment. He notes expert testimony could flood the record with opposing views but would not resolve the count. After adjournment Dr Crapsey declines to challenge the exclusion of evidence, saying clergy testimony on theology supports his stance and pledging no complaint.
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Crapsey
Tanke
Paris Officials Say May Day Quiet With No Disorder Warned
The Figaro argues decisive election results may save society from anarchy and that order will be maintained May 1 with a full police force reinforced by 23 000 troops. An American embassy view says Americans need not fear leaving Paris as fears diminish across the city bar miners disturbances in Pas de Calais.
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Paris
the Figaro
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Chamber of Deputies
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Bloc
Remai
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Department of the Pas-de-Calais
Tortured Victim Found Dead Near Springfield Wood Lot
Cincinnati April 2 A Springfield railroad worker Andrew Heyl was found near Dr Burckhardts wood lot north of Springfield with a bullet wound, skull fracture and burns on limbs. He died without light on the crime. A revolver with three shots lay near the brush fire as investigators pursue a motive tied to a wronged woman's revenge. A couple was seen entering the area. a possible arrest is anticipated.
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Weahington
Cincimnati
Oho
Otis L Cameron
Andrew Heyl
Rairoad
William
Heyl
Aty
Reading
Cincinnnati and Welnity
Hia
Burckhardt
Peter
Tornado Strikes Bellevue and Stoneburg Towns
Fort Worth April 26 reports say a tornado swept Bellevue away and damaged Stoneburg with twelve to fifteen feared serious injuries and many missing. A special train from Bowie started toward the scene as Bellevue, a 1500 population town, is reported destroyed and Hamilton also affected.
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Bowie
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San Francisco Resumes Business
A brief item notes San Francisco returning to business activity with resumed commercial operations and ongoing labor and relief efforts.
Explosion injures two in Ninth Avenue basement
A basement explosion at 771 Ninth Avenue injured two partners of Supman Postal, Julius Shipmen and Harry Postal, both burned and shocked but expected to recover. Fire and police responders contained the blaze with damage estimated at $800. The West Side district from Forty-ninth to Fifty main and Nimth avenue to the riverfront has warned residents to avoid naked lights as investigators probe for sewer gas or gasoline vapor as the cause.
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Supman & Postal
Juius Shipmen
Harry Postal
Havana Sinking Miraculous Recovery At Halifax Harbor
The British steamer Havana sank in Halifax Harbor but was rescued tonight by the steamer Stratheon. The captain and seven crewmen were saved. The incident occurred in April near Halifax New York.
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Havana
Stratheon
Battle Ship Peril Forces Temporary Repairs After Storm
The battleship Texas, damaged while scuttling a derelict off the Florida coast, limped to Charleston for patchwork then sailed to Boston. A gale worsened a bow hole and flooded the berth deck, but pumps held and she reached dry dock for permanent repairs.
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Boston
Apri
Texas
Florida
More Troops For Egypt Reinforce British Garrison
Cairo April 25 a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery and three companies of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers now serving with the British contingent in Crete have been ordered to reinforce the garrison in Egypt. The first battalion of the Inniskillings is expected from Belfast. London April 26 Foreign Secretary Grey said the Egyptian garrison is being strengthened at Lord Cromer’s suggestion due to unrest over the Turkish government’s Tabah boundary incident.
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Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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House of Commons
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Acton
Turingh
Tabah
Twenty Years for Murder In Quarrel at Philadelphia Boardinghouse
Joaquin Alvarez a Spaniard who shot Herman Pian Ss Busch during a February quarrel at a Philadelphia boardinghouse was sentenced by Judge Staples to twenty years for second degree murder. Alvarez had been in America only three months and served in the Spanish army in the war with the United States. Horatio Newcomb urged clemency on his behalf.
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Herman Pian
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America
United States
Horatio Newcomb
Labor for Canal Two Styles of Foreman
Woodworth Clum reports from Tabernilla Canal Zone on contrasting foremen approaches to Jamaican and Caribbean labor. One humane supervisor drives diligence, while another allegedly tolerates harsh treatment and graft. The piece argues humane leadership yields faster pipe laying and higher morale among a cosmopolitan, multilingual workforce.
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New York
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