Seven Die as Storm Ravages Charleston Harbor Area
Charleston faced a terror storm that left seven known dead and property losses surpassing 4.1 million dollars. Wreckage clogged the harbor, several key buildings damaged, and utilities such as streetcars and telephones out of service. Rescue efforts saved Sullivan Island residents, while the Cassidy family at Wahoo fertilizer works remains missing.
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Battery
Savannah
Charleston
9. C
W. H Smith
Columbia
Cutter
Ida Robinson
Rosa Robinson
Alonzo J. Coburn
Eva Myers
Tom Dooly
Cassidy
Wahoo
Sullivans Island
Lawrence
Mount Pleasant
St. Michael's Church
Secret death pact tale ends with bride spared fortune
Washington New York Aug. 22 A Mexican husband and German wife married in New York plotted death by their own deeds to keep a secret. He died first after slashing his wrists while she survived several injuries. Relatives in Mexico challenge her claim to about 100000 as she withholds the secret. Letters sent to Mexico seek resolution without court action.
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Bride
New York
Mexico City
J. Hood Wright
Sisters of the Dead Man
Elsa Muchweck Torrea
Naumberg
Germany
Hfe
West Eighty-third Street
Torren
Torrea
Lanier Blumenthal
Richard Torea Reul
Raul
Blumenthal
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Typhoid Vaccine Progress Reported for Army
The Surgeon General reports typhoid vaccination progress in 1910 with 13 771 experiments and 8 cases, 0 deaths, and a low case ratio. Vaccination becomes compulsory for all army officers and enlisted men under 45, with few exceptions, aiming to immunize the entire force within three years.
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Tornes
Army Corps
Fitzhugh Lee
Stimson
War Department
Seventh Army Corps
Jacksonville
Torney
Apache Asks Help After Ship Runs Aground On Cape Fear
The Clyde Line steamship Apache from New York to Jacksonville ran ashore downriver from Millen Georgia after losing sight of range lights. She sent an SOS claiming to be blown ashore while drifting toward the shore. The Yamacraw cutter and others went to assist. no telegraph link with Savannah. The vessel has a large passenger list and later floated free without damage and proceeded to port.
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Cape Fear
S. O S
Washington Post
Milion
Apache
Clyde Line
New York
Jacksonville
Charleston
Yamacraw
Savannah
Millen
Regas Speech Return After Fright Shrine Miracle
Antonio Zindio, who was mute after a fright sighting of a ghost linked to the July 9 murder in Berlin, began to recover at home. He visited Rev Father Sullivan at St Pauls Church and spoke for the first time since Friday night after kneeling before the Virgin Mary statue, then gave his gold watch as thanks.
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Washington Post
Berlin
Antonio Zindio
Raffaelo Detonno
Zindio
Father Sullivan
St Paul's Catholic Church
Vaccination ends typhoid surge for U.S. soldiers
Surgeons expect to treat 59,000 U.S. soldiers without delay as inoculations become compulsory nationwide. Gen Wood issues order making submission to vaccination effective at once. Medical authorities praise the program’s results at the Mexican border and elsewhere.
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U. S
Wood
Serum Vaccination Initiative Boosts Army Immunity
The Army Medical School on Thirteenth Street leads a Typhoid vaccination effort under Maj. Russell. Secretaries Stimson and Surgeon General Torney endorse the three-year immunity plan after extensive testing. The Typhoid Board including Flexner, Musser, Thayer, Lambert, and Vaughn supervised early results. Vaccinations began as evidence of success was announced in March.
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Army Medical School
Thirteenth Street
Mss Russell
Stimson
Maj. Russell
Reilly
Flexner
New York
Musser
University of Pennsylvania
Thayer
Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Lambert
Vaughn
University of Michigan
Torney
Upton Sinclair Divorce Case Amid Utopian Talk and Love Triangle
Upton Sinclair sues for absolute divorce from Meta Fuller Sinclair naming poet Harry Kemp as co respondent. Kemp recounts meeting Sinclair and Mrs Sinclair at Arden and describes a modern life poetry bond while Mrs Sinclair offers her own perspective on their marriage and utopian ideals. The trio spoke with reporters in a Broadway hotel as legal papers were prepared.
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Westerner
New York
Upton Sinclair
Meta Fuller Sinclair
Harry Kemp
Sinclair
Sidclair
University of Kansas
Battle Creek
University
Taft to Pugh Fight Tariff His Issue for 1912
Beverly Massachusetts August 28 President Taft will base his 1912 campaign on tariff revision with speeches across twenty four states including Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois Indiana Missouri Iowa Kansas Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah Nevada California Oregon Washington Idaho Montana South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin and Maryland He plans to defend vetoed tariff bills while attacking Democrats and Progressives who supported them and may defend reciprocity and discuss currency reform as well He will visit major cities such as Syracuse Detroit Chicago and Denver starting September 16 and spend time in the West while touring western states and keeping focus on tariff and reform efforts.
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Mass
Taft
Essex County Republican Club
Hamilton
Congress
Tariff Board
Mississippi
Arizona
New Mexico
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New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
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Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
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Nevada
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Oregon
Washington
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South
Dakota
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Wisconsin
Maryland
Syracuse
Iie
Detroit
Chicago
St. Laws
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Denver
Cheyenne
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Sacramento
Portland
Oreg
Tacoma
Seattle
Spokane
Wallace
Butte
Billings
Mont
Desdwood
Aberdeen
Pierre
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Pitttsburgh
Colo
Words That Staggered Beatties Defense in Murder Case
Testimony from Paul Beattie relays a cousin’s admission by Henry C. Beattie Jr. to plotting murder and concealing guilt. Beattie pleads loyalty and warns Beulah Binford against speaking to detectives, threatening lethal violence if contradicted. The dialogue exposes motives and panic over evidence like a gun with No 6 shot.
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Paul Beattie
Henry C. Beattie, Jr
Tariff Board Members Questioned by Clark
Mr Clark says the tariff board members lack expertise in tariff matters and faults President Taft for an unfair and garbled Hamilton address.
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Tariff Board
Clark
Taft
Hamilton
Suffrage Baby Report to be Mailed Across the Continent
Washington Post report states a weekly letter about the $5,000 suffrage baby of Dr. Lee Deforest and Nora Blatch De forest will be mailed from New York every Monday to San Francisco. Justice Putnam orders alimony of $50 a month and a $10 counsel fee, with exclusive custody to the mother if she mails the report, the father to see the child on occasion, amid divorce actions and suffragette support.
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Washington Post
New York
Lee Deforest
Nora Blatch Deforest
Dr. Deforest
San Francisco
Canadian Conservatives Faced With Financial Aid Claim
A Montreal dispatch reports that three weeks ago a large sum of money was handed to representatives of the Conservative party seeking to overthrow the Laurier government and defeat the reciprocity pact. Additional funds were promised as needed, according to an informant whose identity is withheld.
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Washington Port
New York
Montreal
Government Takes Typhoid Fight and Tariff Push
Army fights typhoid as Taft campaigns tariff battle while headlines note divorce actions and coast storms. The issue lists death in a coast storm, a theater panic funeral, and Maryland primary today with various society and sports items.
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Sinclair
Taft
Cousin
Beattie
White House
Togo
America
Harriman Lines
Ruebsam
Maryland
Hitchcock’s Postal Service Plan
Barbara Kershey 100th Birthday In Millersville Stay
Special to The Washington Fest Lancaster Pa Aug 2 Mrs Barbara Kershey of Millersville celebrated her 100th birthday today Her husband Joseph Kershey whom she married in 1831 died in 1855 She is said to be the oldest Mennonite in the United States and her faculties remain unimpaired She can thread a needle and spends much time sewing.
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Washington
Lancaster
Barbara Kershey
Millersville
Joseph Kershey
Kershey
United States
Bride at 96: Nancy Edey Weds Ree Indow in Tray, Missouri
Nancy Edey, 86, became a bride for the sixth time in Tray on August 23, marrying Ree Indow, 24. The groom said he wed out of love after Edey's fifth husband died six weeks earlier at the county poor farm. They received an ovation leaving for a wedding trip.
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Tray
Nancy Edey
Ree Indow
Lawson Fined for Lottery Conduct in Marshfield Fair
Plymouth Massachusetts August 28 Thomas W Lawson financier was found guilty on one count of conducting a lottery and fined $100 in a case tied to the Marshfield Fair Association. An additional count of the same nature was filed and he has appealed. The offense centered on offering a prize horse and equipment to the holder of an admission ticket to the agricultural fair.
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Washington Post
Plymouth
Mass
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
Marshfield Fair Association
Wreck imperils Kaiser as royal train wreck hits station
Special Cable to The Washington Post Berlin reports the Kaiser narrowly escaped a rail collision while on a Hamburg to Stett journey. At Lubeck station a signal error caused an incoming train to crash into a stationary train near the Kaiser’s special. Thirty passengers in three damaged cars were injured but no one died. The Kaiser's train paused briefly then continued.
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Washington Post
Berlin
Hamburg
Stett
Luebbeck
Delaware Dreadnought Wrecks San Marcos In Chesapeake Test
Hampton Roads dispatch reports the Delaware's ten 8-inch guns destroyed the sunken battleship San Marcos in Tangier Sound within about an hour. The test aimed to measure hitting power and fighting strength, with 12,000 officers and crews observing from sixteen ships. Officials praised the result, noting the Delaware could have destroyed the target with a single 8-inch shot.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Delaware
Texas
Chesapeake
Tangier Sound
San Marcos
Hampton Roads
Painter killed by elevated train at Fifty Ninth Street station
Nicholas Neyn, a painter for Interborough Company, died after a Sixth Avenue train struck him at Fifty Ninth Street in New York. Witnesses on the station platform at Fiftieth Street saw the accident as the train passed, and several women fainted. Neyn lingered under the elevated structure after the southbound train failed to stop, failing to escape in time.
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Washington
New York
Nicholas Neyn
Interborough Company
Sixth Avenue
Forty+ninth street
Fiftieth Street
Neya
Fiftythird Street
Clark to answer Taft in mass speech clash
Quincy Aug 28 Speaker of the House Joseph G Clark said he would reply to President Tafts Hamilton Mass keynote speech. He declared the insurgents can take care of themselves but he would answer for the Democrats and that Taft will hear from him.
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Quincy, Hil
uUnamp Clark
House of Representatives
Taft
Hamilton
Mass
Sam
Clark
Ex-Slave Host for Town in Massillon
Gilbert Porter, a well known local Black man, marks forty eighth anniversary of freedom with a September 17 and 18 barbecue inviting the town. Hosts plan an ox, several sheep, pigs and many fowl, aiming to celebrate a long life and future hopes despite concerns about longevity.
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Massillon
Ghio
Gilbert Porter
Beattie Cousin Witness in Virginia Wife Murder Trial
Special to The Washington Post Chesterfield Courthouse Virginia August 28 Paul Beattie testifies against cousin Henry C Beattie Jr in the wife murder case. He recalls Henry expressing remorse and pleading for support while denying responsibility. Henry shows anger as the testimony unfolds and family tension rises in court.
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