Devastating Sicilian Earthquake Strikes Near Catania
Reports from Catania describe a powerful earthquake that destroyed about a dozen villages near the city. Dozens killed and many injured, with refugees and rescue efforts led by Prefect Minervini as troops nurses and Red Cross aid mobilize. The event follows activity from Mt Etna and previous Messina disasters. Scientists in Cambridge attribute the quake to volcanic origin based on Harvard seismographs.
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Santa Maria
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Ati Carracoa
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Marzano
Santa Tevia
Mt. Etna
Rome
Red Cross
Etna
Calabria
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Belle Plaine Auto Tragedy Kills Henry Bowers
Belle Plaine reports Henry Bowers 39 a music dealer died instantly when his car rolled over near Pickering. Passenger Charles Kruble escaped with minor injuries. The mishap occurred yesterday as Bowers drove through Marshalltown Iowa.
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Henry Bowers
Balle Plaine
Pickering
Charles Kruble
Bowers
Delivery correction notice for late newspaper service
If the paper is not delivered to your home by 6 30 phone 44 or 715. A copy will be sent by motorcycle. Call the Courier building office No 3330 up to 6 20, after that use special night telephones 443% or 2900 Blue.
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OWA Building Fund Reaches Desired in Iowa Tour
Gov Clarke leads twenty Iowa boosters from Mason City to Marshalltown and Waterloo to celebrate a successful drive for funding the Panama Pacific exposition Iowa building. The group tours Marshalltown, attends a mass meeting, and ends with speakers at the Ellis hotel.
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Waterloo
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Ellis Hotel
Military Order Suspends Liquor Traffic in Strike Districts
Washington Dispatch reports Secretary Garrison directed Major Symonds, commanding a Colorado detachment, to suspend liquor traffic in the Longville Rounder strike districts until conditions return to normal.
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Colorado
Thousands of Suffragists in Line of March
Thousands of suffragists from diverse states parade along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. They present petitions to Congress urging passage of the Brington Mondell resolution for a federal constitutional amendment enfranchising women. The event features banners, bands, a 1000-voice chorus, and colorful divisions led by notable activists and society figures.
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Brooklyn
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Apolline. M. Blair
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Mra
Juliet Barrett Rablee
Washington
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Representative Hill
Connecticut
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Church
Charles Forrest Carey
Misa Mary i Moargan
Hieca
Clifford Pinchot
Aliss Alberta Fil
Australia
Misa ‘Elizabeth Kent
Millionaire CHAS W POST Kills Himself in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara California May 9 A rifle shot ends the life of CHAS W POST a cereal magnate and anti union propagandist at his winter home. He had concealed the rifle in his apartment and died after placing the weapon in his mouth. Mrs Post and a nurse discovered him. authorities note the gun was procured by him in advance and suggest a planned suicide following a recent illness and surgery in Rochester Minnesota.
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Chas. W. Post
Cedar Rapids Editor Rides a Motorcycle Collides with Car
Pred J. Jaze commissioner of parks in Cedar Rapids and editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican was thrown from a motorcycle after colliding with an automobile. He was unconscious briefly but resting easily today with no serious injuries expected.
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Cedar Rapida
Pred J. Jaze
Cedar Rapids
Man Lost Nine Years Declared Dead Returns Home
A man reported lost for nine years was declared dead by the district court in spring while his share of his father's estate was settled. He now returns home to his brothers Edward, Matthew, and Joseph, and to Mrs. Charlotte Mead of West Liberty.
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Doras Teneyelk
Masha
Offeraly
Edward
Matthew
Joseph
Charlotte Mead
Weat Liberty
Becker Jury 19 Not Completed Two Eliminated
New York May The Becker murder trial jury for Herman Rosenthal was broken up again this morning after last night completing the second trial jury. Jurors No 4 Edward Van Eman and Robert Baxter asked to be excused for personal reasons. Their dismissal did not reflect on their integrity.
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Chas. Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Talesmen
Whitman
Justice Seabury
Jurora No. 4 Land
Edward van Eman
Robert Baxter
Ideal planting season in Iowa improves prospects
Tins Maines, Ja., May 9. An ideal planting season across the state foresees larger corn acreage than last year and generally good fruit prospects, except apples. Warm ground and good moisture support vigorous spring growth. wheat and oats are fine. drought earlier last year tempered expectations but fruit prospects remain favorable.
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Department of Agriculture
Ares
Fall of Mazatlan Seems Imminent Reported
Secretary of State released a formal communication from Raphael Zabaran on behalf of General Carranza, showing a friendly stance toward the United States. The document marks a reversal of Carranza’s early view of the Vera Cruz occupation as an affront to Mexican sovereignty, now framing the American movement as directed at Heather Muerta and not the Mexican people. Zabaran, Carranza’s minister of the interior, delivered the message in Washington to the State Department.
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T. C
Ryan
Rapheal Zubaran
Carranza
United States
Vera Cruz
Heather Muerta
Ha Baya
Zabaran
Interfor
Carranga
State Department
Bla
300 Searchers Fail to Find a Lost Child
Worthington Iowa May 9 Three hundred men scour the countryside seeking Gerald O Connell the 12 year old son of farmer John O Connell missing since Thursday morning The bloodhounds from Waterloo could not locate the trail they tracked an older child who slept with Gerald to the schoolhouse Searches cover fields woods bluffs near the Maquoketa River with hope in a wandering child rather than kidnapping.
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Spa- Sal
Gerald
John O’connell
Waterloo
O’connell
Maquoketa
Wyoming to Meet Montana With Bodies of Marines
The battleship Wyoming left New York Navy Yard to escort the armored cruiser Montana bearing U S Marines and bluejackets killed at Vera Cruz. The funeral flotilla will anchor near Ambrose Channel lightship until the Montana arrives, then proceed to Tompkinsville and Statendeland, with the bodies to be moved to caissons at the Battery under guard before Monday morning.
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Wyoming
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Montana
United States
Vera Cruz
Ambrose Channel
New York Harbor
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Tompkinaville
Statendeland
Massacre Report From Peru Reaches New York Ship
Captain Wooope Aspinalloof of the steamer Gregory arrived from Aquitos with a report of a massacre in Peru where 43 Peruvian soldiers, all Italians, were killed. The account names Capt Fernando Casa hal as the executor and notes the voyage was 2500 miles up the Amazon.
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New York
Wooope
American Brig Geneva Released After Capture
Mexican and American naval actions escalate at Mazatlan as the gunboat Morales is abandoned and the brig Geneva, captured April 26, is released on demand by Captain Magruder of the cruiser Raleigh. Reported deaths include C. BR. Helley and G. H. Williams near Hostatip quilio with refugees fleeing as fires and dynamite are used along the waterfront.
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Mazatlan
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Guerrero
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Morales
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Forder Tien
Manston
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