Ischia Earthquake Leaves Casamicciola Wrecked
The Italian island of Ischia endured a devastating quake Saturday night July 28, destroying Casamicciola and damaging Forio and Lacco Ameno. Reports place up to three thousand dead or missing, with many injured evacuated to Naples.
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Lacceameno
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Cagliari
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Cassamicciola
Mont San Niccolo
Italy
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Palmieri
Mount Vesuvius
A Woman's Vim in New York A North Carolina Alumna's Rise
A vivid portrait of Miss McRae, granddaughter of Louis D. Henry, who became chief director of a downtown typewriter office in New York. Despite misfortune, she built the citys largest type writing business, owning a dozen machines and serving as principal agent for machine sales. Her father, General D K McRae, once a gubernatorial candidate and Paris consul general, praised her enterprise.
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Washington Capital
New York City
Louis D. Henry
Washington
D. K. McRae
North Carolina
Buchanan
Paris
Ostend
New York
Miss McRae
Dillon
Paul
Lynching, law and order and a Detroit reporter's irony
The Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a Greenville, South Carolina editor rushing to a suspected lynching, only to find the crowd prepared to pause the hanging. A brash verdict attempt is thwarted by reason and the editor mocks the spectacle with a costly three liner in the News. Also cited are medical opinions on women's health and assorted advertisements.
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Greenville
S. C
Williams
Blood for pay in NY court case tests value of eight ounces
In Justice Kelly's court Edward Banks seeks $260 from Gracer Okenberg claiming compensation for eight ounces of Banks's blood used to save Okenberg after a gas accident at the Hotel St. Andre. Doctors testify blood has no ready market value while noting Banks was paid little, and the judge reserved decision after testimony from multiple experts. The piece also reports on self made men and a bogus book selling scam analysis.
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Okenberg
West Eleventh Street
Mr. Okenbere
Banks
Taylor
Ferdinand Charles Valentine
Henry J. Garrigues
Valentine
Dr. Garrigues
Mr. Okenberg
Mr. Okag
Justice Kelly
Buffalo
United States
Snake Snippets From Odd Encounters Across Several States
A pot oven reveals a black snake in Mifflin townPa. A Lynchburg Virginia boy is struck by a snake lash. A Missouri brush heap fire spawns writhing rattlers. A giant booneville Indiana viper stands upright. A Hagerstown Maryland woman is bitten by a copperhead as she steps from bed. A Lynchburg Virginia moccasin raids a bird nest. A Meekville Pennsylvania man dies from a copperhead bite. Dr Kinner in St Louis handles an egg in a rattlesnake finding a sparrow with poisoning symptoms.
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Lynchburg
Booneville
Ind
Gotleib Hetzel
Hagerstown
Peior Strausse
Meekville
Kinner
St. Louis
Absent minded people and social slips in Paris and Cambridge
A series of light anecdotes about forgetfulness and social mishaps. A French actor seeks an ear from a deceased manager, a bereaved widow and a duchess share a fraught moment, and a chocolate fundraiser note is signed Viscountess of chocolate. A Harvard professor in Old Cambridge forgets his name, a Cambridge man misremembers his home route, and a neighbor’s door mix up leads to an awkward incident.
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Arnal
Crateubrand
Gryer
Laborde
Louis Phillipe
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