Destructive St Louis Tornado Leaves City in Ruins
Terrifying storm sweeps through St Louis and East St Louis on May 28 causing widespread destruction. Hospitals, factories, and the city’s electric system are ruined as dozens are killed or missing and hundreds injured. riverfront wreckage includes ships, wharves, and levee devastation with extensive property losses anticipated.
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St. Louis
Broadway
Dureau
Elby
iChotean Avenue
Mnd Gratiot
Mill Creek
Storm wrecks multiple Lafayette park churches in total ruin
A severe hurricane left Lafayette park churches in semidemolition or total ruin and caused extensive property damage nearby. Mount Calvary Episcopal on Jefferson and Lafayette avenues was a total wreck, while Lafayette Park Methodist Episcopal, Lafayette Park Presbyterian and Lafayette Park Baptist were semidemolished. The Methodist roof and Presbyterian walls were blown into the yard, and Annunciation church lost its spire with the Madison school branch unroofed. St Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gutter Co plant was partly destroyed by fire with several lives reported lost, and nearby Aluminum bicycle factory sustained severe damage from roof and wall loss. Estimated property damage approaches $200,000, with interplay of further losses in the district.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Papin Street
Caronde
Eads Bridge
South St. Louis
Sclede Gas. Co
Fourteenth
Poplar Streets
Scullin
Geyer Avenue
Liggett & Meyers
Tower Grove
Mount Calvary Episcopal Church
Jefferson and
Lafayette Avenues
Lafayette Park
Annunciation Church
St.Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gutter Co
Hood
Adj
Main
Park Avenue
Gartenn Company
Lake region resorts near Chicago offer varied summer stays
The article notes Wisconsin Lower Lake regions and nearby Northern Michigan Minnesota Iowa and Dakota host hundreds of lakeside resorts easily reached by rail on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It promises a description of principal resorts with summer hotel and boarding house listings and rates, available free from Gro Hartford Chicago. The text also includes a humorous dialogue exchange about former husbands from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Iowa
Dakota
Chicago
Milwaukee
Chicago, Milwaukee,& St. Paul
Gro
Responsive Nervous System Tonic Shifts Opinion
Harsh and sweet sounds describe nerves in pain and the advised remedy is Hostetler's Stomach Bitters as a superb nervine. It claims benefits for dyspepsia bilious and malarial ailments along with rheumatic bowel and kidney complaints. Regular use with a wineglassful at retiring is recommended to aid sleep.
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Hosteter
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Front Row Seats Address Theater High Hat Nuisance
In a Roxbury Gazette quip two speakers discuss a solution to the theater high hat nuisance. The plan is simple buy a seat in the front row, ensuring visibility and interaction. The exchange preserves local newspaper tone with concise, witty framing.
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Bruzim
Bilzim
Roxbury Gazette
Reading passion cited in witty London Fun quip
Mrs Prosy notes reading as a passion shared with her husband while Mrs Dresser jokes about reading miliner’s bills in London Fun. The brief exchange highlights light social banter and domestic humor in early 20th century periodical style.
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Hun
Fair
City Hospital
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
Bell Telephone Company
Telegraph Tire Alarm Company
The
Electric Light Company
Union Depot Railroad Co
Jefferson and Geyer
Chamber of Commerce
Bedlam
Union Club
Biddle Street
Chouteau Avenue
Illinois
Spruce Street
Mon‘roe
New Orleans
Uppper
City of
Cairo
Arkansas City
Chouteau Avenua
Carroll Street
St. Louis & Mississippi’ Valley Transportation Co
Exporter
Harvester
Arsenal Street
Henry Lourey
Rescue No. 2
Wiggins Ferry Co
Olive Street
Dolphin Transportation Co
Car Street
Cass Avenue
Vinton
Jack Frost
Charlotte Boeckeler
Washington Avenue
Quincy
Calhoun
Rescue
Locust Street
Monroe
O’fallon
Huntington Towboat Co
Ellendale
Maplewood
Benton
Sutton
Freight Org
Lindenwood
St.Louis
Caroner Wall
Cert de la Mode
Morse-Broughton CO
Amt
Bet Ne ‘Ave
New York
BIC
Toledo
Detroit
Gindasatt
Coughiss
Wagner
Cincinnati
Detro
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