August 1904 Explained

The following events occurred in August 1904:

August 1, 1904 (Monday)

• The siege of Port Arthur, the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, began.
• John Carr, a contractor, carried out a mass shooting at a hotel in Nebraska City, Nebraska, killing one man and wounding eight others, including two police officers.^{[1] [2]}
• Died: Robert E. Pattison, 53, American politician, former Governor of Pennsylvania, died of pneumonia.^{[3] [4]}

August 2, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Died: Jacob H. Studer, 64, American ornithologist, died of heart failure.^{[5] [6]}

August 3, 1904 (Wednesday)

• The British expedition to Tibet under Colonel Francis Younghusband took Lhasa.^{[7] [8]}
• The dirigible California Arrow, created and flown by Thomas Scott Baldwin and powered by a motorcycle engine built by Glenn Curtiss, became the first aircraft to complete a circuit in the United States. Baldwin took off from Idora Park, Oakland, California, and circled over San Francisco Bay before returning to his starting point.^{[9] [10]}
• Born: Dolores del Río (born Lolita Dolores Martinez Asúnsolo López Negrette), Mexican actress; in Durango, Mexico (d. 1983, liver failure due to hepatitis)^[11]
• Died:
  • Ernst Jedliczka, 49, Russian-born German pianist^[12]
  • William O'Connor Morris, 79, Irish county court judge and historian^[13]
  • Pierre-Nicolas "Peter" Remillard, 67, Quebec-born brick manufacturer, died of a heart attack.^[14]

August 4, 1904 (Thursday)

• The Liberal Revolution of 1904 began in Paraguay, with Manuel J. Duarte and General Benigno Ferreira leading a rebellion against President Juan Antonio Escurra's government.^[15]
• Born:
  • Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress; in The Bronx, New York City (d. 1966, breast cancer)^{[16] [17]}
  • Bill Coleman, American jazz trumpeter; in Paris, Kentucky (d. 1981)^[18]
  • Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist; in Małoszyce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1969)^[19]
  • Victor Bateman, Australian rules footballer (Sturt Football Club); in Parkside, South Australia (d. 1972)^[20]
  • Lawrence Betts, South African Olympic sprinter; in Pretoria, Transvaal Colony (d. 1984)^[21]
  • Jack Cobb (born John Blackwell Cobb), American college basketball player (North Carolina Tar Heels); in Durham, North Carolina (d. 1966)
  • Norm Davis, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne Football Club); in Port Melbourne, Victoria (d. 1966)^[22]
  • Sprouts Elder (born James Lloyd Elder), American motorcycle speedway rider; in Fresno, California (d. 1957, suicide)^{[23] [24]}
  • Marthe Flandrin, French artist and painter; in Montgeron (d. 1987)^[25]
  • Max Fourny, French publisher, art collector and racing driver, husband of Françoise Adnet; in Amiens (d. 1991)^{[26] [27]}
  • Wallace Samuel Gourley, United States district judge; in Wellsville, Ohio (d. 1976)^[28]
  • Ukko Hietala, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete; in Hollola (d. 1990)^[29]
  • Bassett Maguire, American botanist and explorer, head curator of the New York Botanical Garden; in Alabama City, Alabama (d. 1991, kidney failure)^{[30] [31]}
  • Sushila Ganesh Mavalankar, Indian freedom fighter and politician; in the Bombay Presidency (d. 1995)^[32]
  • Theodore Newton, American film and stage actor; in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (d. 1963)^[33]
  • Thomas Parry, Welsh writer and academic, Librarian of the National Library of Wales; in Carmel, Gwynedd (d. 1985)^[34]
  • Ludwig Reiber, German art director; in Munich (d. 1979)
  • Joe Tate, English footballer who gained three caps for the England national football team; in Old Hill, Cradley Heath (d. 1973)^[35]
  • Otto Tschumi, Swiss surrealist painter (d. 1985)^[36]
• Died:
  • James T. Lewis, 84, former Governor of Wisconsin, died of apoplexy.^{[37] [38]}
  • Jo Hamilton, 77, American lawyer and politician, former Attorney General of California^[39]
  • Robert Crannell Minor, 65, American artist^[40]

August 5, 1904 (Friday)

• In Red Oak, Iowa, 32-year-old Harry Heaton Salisbury was robbed and murdered by being administered knockout drops and pushed off a footbridge over Red Oak Creek. The murder was never solved.^[41]
• Born:
  • Hugh Greer, American basketball coach (UConn Huskies men's basketball); in Suffield, Connecticut (d. 1963, heart attack)^[42]
  • Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist; in Ashford, Kent (d. 1997)^[43]
• Died: Sir George Dibbs KCMG, 69, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales, died of heart disease.^{[44] [45] [46]}

August 6, 1904 (Saturday)

• Edmund (or Edmond) Bell, an African American man, was lynched from Selma, Alabama, by a 300-person masked African American mob for the August 2 murder of Houston Cruggs (or Scruggs), who was also African American.^{[47] [48]}
• Born: Ballard Berkeley (born Ballard Blascheck), British actor; in Kent, England (d. 1988)^[49]
• Died:
  • Eduard Hanslick, 78, Austrian music critic^{[50] [51]}
  • James Cox Aikins,, 81, Canadian politician^{[52] [53] [54]}

August 7, 1904 (Sunday)

• On the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Pueblo, Colorado, a flash flood caused the Eden train wreck, which left over 100 people dead or missing.^{[55] [56] [57] [58] [59]}
• Rafael Reyes assumed office as President of Colombia, succeeding José Manuel Marroquín.^[60]
• Born: Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1971, complications of heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes)^{[61] [62]}
• Died: Yamaguchi Motomi, 58, Imperial Japanese Army general and samurai, died of natural causes.^[63]

August 8, 1904 (Monday)

• A conflagration in the old quarter of Strasbourg (then in the German Empire) destroyed an orphan asylum and the Sainte-Madeleine Church and caused $1,500,000 in damage.^{[64] [65]} The church would be rebuilt in 1907, destroyed again in 1944 during World War II, and once again rebuilt in 1958.
• Paraguayan President Juan Antonio Escurra declared a state of siege as a result of the Liberal rebellion.^[15]
• Born: Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver, winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix; in Galliate, Piedmont (d. 1948, racing practice crash)^[66]
• Died:
  • Mamie Gilroy, c. 33, American actress, died of heart disease.^[67]
  • John Innes JP, 75, British philanthropist^[68]

August 9, 1904 (Tuesday)

• An earthquake with a magnitude estimated at 6.8 and 7.0–7.2 struck north of Cape Turnagain, New Zealand. The quake, the largest in New Zealand since 1888, caused one death and extensive damage.^{[69] [70]}
• Eight Moro and Igorrote leaders, who were participating in the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, visited U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House.^[71]
• Died:
  • George Graham Vest, 73, American politician, former member of the Confederate States Congress and the United States Senate from Missouri^{[72] [73] [74]}
  • Sir William Mitchell Banks, 61, Scottish surgeon^{[75] [76]}
  • Joseph David Everett, 72, English physicist, died of heart failure.^[77]
  • Friedrich Ratzel, 59, German geographer and ethnographer^{[78] [79]}
  • John F. Starr, 86, American businessman and politician, former member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey^{[80] [81] [82]}

August 10, 1904 (Wednesday)

• The Battle of the Yellow Sea resulted in a strategic Japanese victory.^[83]
• Born: Gerald Dupuis, Canadian Olympic ski jumper; in Montreal (d. 1960)^[84]
• Died:
  • Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, 57, French politician, 29th Prime Minister of France, died after surgery.^{[85] [86]}
  • Wilgelm Vitgeft, 56, Russian admiral, was killed in action at the Battle of the Yellow Sea.^{[83] [87]}

August 11, 1904 (Thursday)

• Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero people at the Battle of Waterberg in German South West Africa and drove them into the Omaheke desert, beginning the Herero and Namaqua genocide.^{[88] [89] [90]}
• A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Samos in the Ottoman Empire, with an aftershock occurring three days later. Four people were killed.^{[91] [92]}
• On the Paraguay River near Pilar, Paraguay, the rebel vessel Sojonia defeated the government vessel Villa Rica in battle. 28 government sailors were killed.^[15]
• Eight miners drowned when the Berringer gold mine near Gold Hill, North Carolina, filled with water due to a dam giving way.^[93]
• Born: Bernard Castro, Italian inventor; near Palermo, Sicily (d. 1991)^[94]
• Died: Samuel Putnam Avery, 82, American art dealer and connoisseur^{[95] [96]}

August 12, 1904 (Friday)

• Born: Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia; at Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire^{[97] [98]} (murdered in 1918)
• Died:
  • George H. Brickner, 70, German-born American politician, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin^{[99] [100]}
  • Kawamura Sumiyoshi, 67, Japanese admiral^{[101] [102] [103]}
  • William Renshaw, 43, British tennis player, winner of 12 Major titles, died of epileptic convulsions.^{[104] [105] [106]}

August 13, 1904 (Saturday)

• Ten spectators at the annual regatta on the Potomac River at Georgetown drowned when the gasoline launch Recreation capsized. Four people were rescued.^{[107] [108]}
• Born:
  • Jonathan Hole, American actor; in Eldora, Iowa (d. 1998)^[109]
  • Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor and jazz musician; in Olathe, Kansas (d. 1999)^[110]
• Died:
  • Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, 83^[111]
  • Sir Robert Samuel Wright, 65, Justice of the British High Court, Queen's Bench Division^[112]

August 14, 1904 (Sunday)

• The naval Battle off Ulsan, Korea, resulted in a Japanese victory.
• Ismael Montes became President of Bolivia.^[113]
• On August 14 and 15, 8 Paraguayan government soldiers died fighting rebels near Asunción.^[15]
• Died:
  • Eduard von Martens, 73, German zoologist
  • William Wainwright, 67–68, American real estate developer, died of gastritis.^[114]

August 15, 1904 (Monday)

• Died: John Henry Kinkead, 77, American businessman and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and 3rd Governor of Nevada^{[115] [116]}

August 16, 1904 (Tuesday)

• In Statesboro, Georgia, a lynch mob invaded a courthouse where two African-American men, Paul Reed and Will Cato, had just been convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of five members of a white family. The lynchers chained Reed and Cato to a tree stump and burned them to death.^{[117] [118]}
• Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Edward VII of the United Kingdom paid mutual visits at Marienbad, Bohemia.^[119]
• Born:
  • Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate; in Ridgeville, Indiana (d. 1971)^[120]
  • Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician; in Hiroshima (d. 1989)^[121]
• Died:
  • Prentiss Ingraham, 60, Confederate Army colonel and author of dime fiction, died of Bright's disease.^{[122] [123]}
  • George E. Lounsbury, 66, American politician, 58th Governor of Connecticut^{[124] [125]}
  • Karl Käser, 30, German track cyclist, was killed in a race crash.^{[126] [127]}

August 17, 1904 (Wednesday)

• A Japanese infantry charge failed to take Port Arthur.
• Three rebel vessels bombarded Asunción, Paraguay, for 40 minutes.^[128]
• In Chicago, a collision between a train of three trolley cars and a Chicago Great Western Railroad express train killed 4 people and injured 24.^{[129] [130]}
• A heavy rainstorm caused flooding that killed at least 8 people in Globe, Arizona.^{[131] [132] [133]}
• Born:
  • Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician; in Burke, Louisiana (d. 1984)^[134]
  • Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist; in Vienna (d. 1991)^[135]
• Died:
  • Louis Molleur, 76, Quebec educator, businessman and politician^[136]
  • Edwin M. Shepard, 60, United States Navy rear admiral, died of heart disease.^[137]
  • Henry Martyn Whitney, 80, early journalist and newspaper publisher in the Kingdom of Hawaii, died of heart disease.^[138]

August 18, 1904 (Thursday)

• Chris Watson resigned as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia and was succeeded by George Reid of the Free Trade Party.^{[139] [140]}
• In Chicago, 16-year-old James Pine died of injuries sustained when he was thrown on his head during a neighborhood American football game.^[141]
• Died: Sivert Andreas Nielsen, 80, Norwegian politician, former President of the Storting^{[142] [143]}

August 19, 1904 (Friday)

• A tornado swept through North St. Louis, killing one person, injuring over 150 and causing $100,000 in damage.^{[144] [145]} The tornado then moved on to Venice and Granite City, Illinois, where it killed two more people and injured 10.^{[145] [146]}
• Born: George de la Warr, British civil engineer and alternative physician; in Southwick, Sussex (d. 1969)^[147]

August 20, 1904 (Saturday)

• The naval Battle of Korsakov resulted in a Japanese victory. The Japanese cruiser Tsushima prevented the Russian cruiser Novik from escaping from the town of Korsakov at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, and Noviks commanding officer ordered her scuttled.^{[148] [149] [150]}

• In Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, tornadoes with sustained winds of and gusts of killed 3 people in downtown Saint Paul and caused $2 million in damage, including the partial destruction of the High Bridge across the Mississippi River.^{[151] [152] [153] [154] [155]}

August 21, 1904 (Sunday)

• Born:
  • Count Basie (born William James Basie), American musician and bandleader; in Red Bank, New Jersey (d. 1984, pancreatic cancer)^[156]
  • Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chief of the General Staff; in Skopin, Russian Empire (d. 1964, plane crash)^{[157] [158]}
• Died: Gaudensi Allar, 63, French architect^[159]

August 22, 1904 (Monday)

• "Jim" Glover, an African American man, was lynched in Cedartown, Georgia, for an attack on a 13-year-old white girl.^[160]
• Fire destroyed the town of Laytonville, California.^[161]
• Born:
  • Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader; in Sichuan, Qing China (d. 1997)^[162]
  • Jay Novello (born Michael Romano), American actor; in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1982, lung cancer)^[163]
• Died:
  • Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty), 54, American author^{[164] [165]}
  • Albert Constable, 65, American politician, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates, died four days after being shot during a highway robbery.^[166]

August 23, 1904 (Tuesday)

• During exercises off Newport, Rhode Island, the U.S. Navy submarine Porpoise suddenly plunged to the ocean floor at a depth of . The sub's 8-man crew worked desperately for 20 minutes to bring her back up. When their efforts seemed to have failed, the sub unexpectedly resurfaced.^[167]
• Born:
  • Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin; in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1970, heart attack)
  • Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Maria Mercedes Morgan), American socialite twin; in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1965, cancer)
  • William Primrose, Scottish violist; in Glasgow (d. 1982, cancer)^[168]
• Died: George Leander, 21, American track cyclist, co-winner of the Six Days of New York in 1902 and American stayer champion in 1903, died in Paris of injuries sustained in a race crash.^{[126] [169] [170]}

August 24, 1904 (Wednesday)

• Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, was christened at Peterhof Palace in Saint Petersburg, 12 days after his birth.^[171]
• The Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag was established.^[172]
• Born:
  • Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist using the pen name Mary Burchell; in Sunderland (d. 1986, cancer)^[173]
  • Aparicio Méndez, 50th President of Uruguay; in Rivera (d. 1988)^[174]
  • Judikje "Jud" Simons, Dutch Olympic champion artistic gymnast; in The Hague (d. 1943, murdered in Sobibor extermination camp)^{[175] [176]}

August 25, 1904 (Thursday)

• Died:
  • Henri Fantin-Latour, 68, French painter^{[177] [178]}
  • William Weightman, 90, American chemical manufacturer and landowner^[179]

August 26, 1904 (Friday)

• American boxer James J. Jeffries retained the world heavyweight championship by knocking out challenger Jack Munroe in the second round of a bout at Mechanic's Pavilion in San Francisco, California.^{[180] [181]}

• A major fire began in Hoboken, Antwerp, which killed 7 workmen, destroyed 40 oil tanks containing of petroleum and caused an estimated $1,250,000 in damage.^[182]
• Born:
  • Christopher Isherwood, English writer; in High Lane, Cheshire (d. 1986, prostate cancer)^[183]
  • Rouville Beaudry, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec; in Magog, Quebec (d. 1997)^[184]
  • Augustine Courtauld (aka August Courtauld), British explorer, meteorologist and yachtsman; in Bocking, Essex (d. 1959, complications of multiple sclerosis)^[185]
  • Sonny Lee (born Thomas Ball Lee), American jazz trombonist; in Huntsville, Texas (d. 1975)^[186]
  • Romain-Octave Pelletier II, Canadian music critic, music producer and violinist; in Saint-Lambert, Montérégie, Quebec (d. 1968)^[187]
  • Bogdan Raditsa, Croatian-American historian, author and diplomat; in Split, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1993)^[188]
  • John M. Schiff, American investment banker and philanthropist; in Roslyn, New York (d. 1987)^[189]
  • Michel Vieuchange, French adventurer and explorer, first European to visit the ruins of Smara; in Nevers (d. 1930, dysentery)^[190]
  • Tomo Vladimirski, Macedonian painter; in Skopje (d. 1971)^[191]
  • Joe Hulme, English footballer, cricketer and journalist; in Stafford (d. 1991)^[192]
  • Franz Horn, German international footballer and businessman; in Essen (d. 1963)^[193]
  • Georgia Schmidt, American actress; in Marion, Indiana (d. 1997)
  • Aleksander Szenajch, Polish Olympic sprinter; in Warsaw, Russian Empire (d. 1987)^[194]
• Died: Charles Woodruff Shields, 75, American theologian and Princeton University professor, died of heart disease.^[195]

August 27, 1904 (Saturday)

• The Connecticut-class battleship was launched at Newport News, Virginia.^{[196] [197]}
• Near Portal, Georgia, five men abducted Sebastian McBride, an African American man, from his house, brought him to the woods and whipped and shot him. Before dying from his injuries, McBride identified three of his assailants, all of them white men, to the sheriff.^[198]
• Died: Samuel Hole, 84, English Anglican priest, author and horticulturist^{[199] [200]}

August 28, 1904 (Sunday)

• During an auto race at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, American racing driver Barney Oldfield's car crashed through a fence, killing two spectators and injuring Oldfield.^[201]
• In a shootout on the main street of Silver City, New Mexico, Constable Perfecto Rodriguez was shot and killed and three other men, including City Marshal William Kilburn, were seriously wounded.^{[202] [203]} Kilburn died of his wounds the following day.^[203]
• Born: Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer; in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (d. 1980)^[204]

August 29, 1904 (Monday)

• In Laramie, Wyoming, a mob lynched Joseph Martin, an African American man who worked as a "trusty" in the county jail, for an alleged attack on a white girl.^[205]
• Born: Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; in Berlin, Germany (d. 1979, heart failure)^[206]
• Died: Murad V, 63, former Ottoman Sultan, died of diabetes.^{[207] [208]}

August 30, 1904 (Tuesday)

• The 1904 Olympic marathon, one of the strangest events in the history of the modern Olympic Games, took place in St. Louis, Missouri. The race was held in 90F temperatures, with only two water sources available, and along the 40km (30miles) course, due to Olympic organizer James Edward Sullivan's desire to conduct research on "purposeful dehydration". The first man to cross the finish line, American runner Frederick Lorz (who would win the Boston Marathon the following year), was disqualified due to having ridden most of the distance in a car after dropping out into the race. The actual winner, English-born American runner Thomas Hicks, was administered strychnine and brandy during the race by his support team, who ultimately carried him across the finish line while he shuffled his feet in the air. Hicks' winning time of 3:28:53 remains the slowest in Olympic marathon history. Cuban runner Andarín Carvajal finished fourth despite taking a nap in the middle of the race after eating rotten apples. The ninth and twelfth place finishers, Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani, were the first South Africans to compete in the Olympics. American runner William Garcia collapsed on the course and nearly died from hemorrhaging due to inhaling dust kicked up by race officials' cars.^{[209] [210] [211]}
• Born: Charles E. Bohlen, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1953–1957), the Philippines (1957–1959) and France (1962–1968); in Clayton, New York (d. 1974, cancer)^[212]
• Died:
  • Michael A. Healy, 64, United States Revenue Cutter Service captain, died of a heart attack.^[213] Healy was the first man of African American descent to command a U.S. government ship, but self-identified as white in his lifetime.
  • George Ridding, 76, English headmaster and bishop, first Bishop of Southwell^[214]

August 31, 1904 (Wednesday)

• Geza Mattachich, the former lover of Princess Louise of Belgium, rescued her from a hotel in Bad Elster, Germany, where she was undergoing a thermal cure as part of her 6-year internment due to alleged mental illness.^[215]

Notes and References

1. News: MADMAN SHOOTS NINE MEN.; Fires from Window Into Crowd at Nebraska City -- One Victim Dead. . . 2 August 1904 . Page 1, column 5 . 29 July 2023.
2. News: DRUG MADDENED MECHANIC RUNS AMUCK IN HOTEL Carpenter, Crazed From Cocaine, Uses Revolver With Deadly Effect in Nebraska City. . XCVI . 63 . 2 August 1904 . Page 7, column 4 . . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
3. News: Death of Robert E. Pattison.; Former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Victim of Pneumonia. . The New York Times . 2 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 29 July 2023.
4. News: BELOVED SON OF KEYSTONE STATE ANSWERS THE CALL OF DEATH Robert E. Pattison, Who Was Twice Elected Governor of Pennsylvania When His Party Was in Minority, Succumbs to Pneumonia at Overbrook . XCVI . 63 . 2 August 1904 . Page 5, columns 2-3 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
5. News: Aged Ornithologist Found Dead in Office; Jacob H. Studer Stricken While Asleep Among Books. Author and Nature Lover Besides His Books on Birds, He Had Written a History of Columbus, Ohio. . The New York Times . 3 August 1904 . Page 7, column 5 . 29 July 2023.
6. News: Ornithologist Dies Suddenly. . XCVI . 64 . 3 August 1904 . Page 3, column 3 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
7. News: BRITISH ARE IN LHASA.; Expedition Entered Sacred City Aug. 3 Without Further Fighting. . The New York Times . 7 August 1904 . Page 1, column 6 . 31 July 2023.
8. News: DALAI LAMA FLEES FROM THE BRITISH Younghusband's Expedition Reaches Lassa. Invaders Pitch Camp Near the Sacred Mountain of Potala. Appearance of Tibetan Capital Agrees With Descriptions Given by Explorers. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 1, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
9. Book: Roseberry, C. R. . 1991 . First published 1972 . Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight . . . 0-8156-0264-2 . 40 . 10 June 2024 . .
10. Web site: Thomas Baldwin . . Fact Sheets . 9 October 2008 . 10 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081009112502/http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5837.
11. News: Jarlson . Gary . Thackrey . Ted Jr. . Ted Thackrey#Family . From the Archives: Dolores Del Rio, Exotic Queen of Films, Dies . . Obituaries . 13 April 1983 . 27 July 2023.
12. Web site: Pereira . Daniel . The Egon Petri Tradition . Piano Traditions Through Their Genealogy Trees . 2022 . . 2 August 2023 .
13. News: Irish Judge Passes Away. . XCVI . 65 . 4 August 1904 . Page 4, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
14. News: P. N. REMILLARD DIES AFTER A TEDIOUS ILLNESS Long Career of Oakland's Pioneer Brick Maker Is at an End. . XCVI . 65 . 4 August 1904 . Page 4, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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30. News: Bassett Maguire, 86, a Botanist and Expedition Leader, Is Dead . The New York Times . 8 February 1991 . Narvaez . Alfonso A. . Page B5, columns 1-3 . 12 June 2024.
31. Web site: Bassett Maguire Records . . Archives & Manuscripts . . 2018 . 12 June 2024.
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37. News: WAR GOVERNOR OF STATE DEAD JAMES T. LEWIS DIED YESTERDAY IN COLUMBUS. WAS HONORED BY LAWRENCE Was in Public Life From Early Manhood and Has Served the State Well. A Friend of the Soldiers. . . . 5 August 1904 . Page 8, column 1 . 10 April 2024 . Newspapers.com.
38. News: Ex-Governor Lewis Is Dead. . XCVI . 66 . 5 August 1904 . Page 14, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
39. News: JO HAMILTON IS CLAIMED BY GRIM REAPER . XCVI . 66 . 5 August 1904 . Page 14, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
40. News: Artist Miner [''sic''] Is Dead. ]. XCVI . 65 . 4 August 1904 . Page 4, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection. This source gives Minor's day of death as August 3.
41. Web site: Nancy . Bowers . Iowa Unsolved Murders: Historic Cases . Knockout Drugs: Murder of Harry Salisbury 1904 . July 2011 . 7 June 2024.
42. Web site: Hugh S. Greer Field House . Smith . Laura . 31 August 2018 . . UConn Library . 13 June 2024.
43. Book: Daniel, Charles . https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb7t1nb4v2&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00066&toc.depth=1&toc.id= . Kenneth V. Thimann, Biology: Santa Cruz . University of California: In Memoriam, 1997 . University of California (System) Academic Senate . 1997 . 163–165 . en . 8 June 2024 . Online Archive of California.
44. News: Sir George Richard Dibbs. . The New York Times . 5 August 1904 . Page 7, column 7 . 10 April 2024.
45. News: Death Calls Former Premier. . XCVI . 66 . 5 August 1904 . Page 14, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
46. Bruce E. . Mansfield . Dibbs, Sir George Richard (1834–1904) . . . 1972 . 10 April 2024.
47. News: MOB OF COLORED MEN LYNCHES NEGRO MURDERER Takes Prisoner From Constables, Hangs Him and Riddles Body With Bullets. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 1, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 23 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
48. News: 1904 Arlington Journal . . 119 . 23 May 2024.
49. Ballard Berkeley Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards . . 5 December 2023 .
50. News: Dr. Eduard Hanslick Dead.; Austrian Musical Critic Once Was a Bitter Opponent of Wagner. . The New York Times . 8 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 31 July 2023.
51. News: Death Calls Famous Critic. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 10, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
52. News: James Cox Aikens [''sic'']. ]. The New York Times . 9 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
53. News: Former Canadian Official Dies. . XCVI . 70 . 9 August 1904 . Page 2, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
54. David G. . Burley . AIKINS, JAMES COX . . 13 . . 1994 . 2 August 2023 .
55. News: MANY DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK.; Between Thirty and Fifty Reported Dead in Colorado. . The New York Times . 8 August 1904 . Page 1, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
56. News: HUNDRED PERSONS PERISH Train in Colorado Plunges Into River. Ill-Fated Travelers Are Drowned and Crushed. Bodies Are Washed Ashore a Mile From Scene of the Wreck. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-2 . San Francisco Call . 10 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
57. News: 76 KNOWN DEAD IN FLOOD TRAIN WRECK; Cars Dropped Into a Torrent When Trestle Collapsed. . The New York Times . 9 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . 2 August 2023.
58. News: BODIES OF EIGHTY-SEVEN WRECK VICTIMS RECOVERED Only Three Passengers in Forward Coaches of Ill-Fated Rio Grande Train Survive Awful Plunge From Weakened Bridge Into Flood-Swollen Torrent . XCVI . 70 . 9 August 1904 . Page 1, columns 5-7 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
59. News: Alamosa Journal . 12 August 1904 . Over One Hundred Lives Lost in Train Wreck Near Pueblo., cited in Web site: Pueblo County, Colorado 1904 Eden Train Wreck . Adams . Louise . Griesen . Jean . Mitchell . Karen . kmitch.com . Karen Mitchell . 2 August 2023.
60. News: RAFAEL REYES ASSUMES REINS OF GOVERNMENT Succeeds Senor Maroquin as President of Colombia—New Cabinet Is Named. . XCVI . 70 . 9 August 1904 . Page 3, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
61. News: Dr. Bunche of U.N., Nobel Winner, Dies . McFadden . Robert D. . Robert D. McFadden . The New York Times . 10 December 1971 . Page 1, columns 1-3 . 27 July 2023.
62. Web site: Ralph Bunche – Facts . . Nobel Prize Outreach AB . 2023 . 27 July 2023 .
63. News: JAPAN LOSES NOTED GENERAL. Yamaguchi, Famous Since the Boxer Rising, Succumbs to Disease. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 1, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
64. News: FIERCE FIRE RAGING IN OLD QUARTER OF CITY Orphan Asylum and the Magdalene Church Are Destroyed in Strasburg. . XCVI . 69 . 8 August 1904 . Page 2, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
65. News: FIRE IN STRASBURG DOES GREAT DAMAGE Blaze Which Consumes Orphan Asylum and Church Causes a Loss of $1,500,000. . XCVI . 70 . 9 August 1904 . Page 3, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
66. Web site: Achille Varzi . The Indy 500 drivers . oldracingcars.com . 7 March 2016 . Allen Brown . 23 May 2024.
67. News: Mamie Gilroy Dead.; Actress Succumbs to Heart Disease-Well Known on Stage. . The New York Times . 9 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 1 August 2023.
68. Web site: What is the John Innes Society? . About Us . 2021 . John Innes Society . 2 August 2023.
69. News: NEW ZEALAND SHAKEN BY A HEAVY TEMBLOR Public Buildings Are Seriously Damaged and Private Firms Suffer Big Loss. . XCVI . 70 . 9 August 1904 . Page 1, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
70. Downes . G. L. . 2006 . The 1904 Ms6.8 Mw7.0-7.2 Cape Turnagain, New Zealand, earthquake . Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering . 39 . 4 . 183–207 . 10.5459/bnzsee.39.4.183-207.
71. News: IGORROTES AT WHITE HOUSE.; Present Gifts to the President and Affirm Their Loyalty. . The New York Times . 10 August 1904 . Page 7, column 3 . 2 August 2023.
72. News: Ex-Senator Vest Dies at Sweet Springs, Mo.; Had Been Unconscious Since Early Sunday Morning. . The New York Times . 10 August 1904 . Page 7, column 5 . 2 August 2023.
73. News: MISSOURI'S DISTINGUISHED SON IS VISITED BY ANGEL OF DEATH Former Senator George Vest Gives Up the Struggle Against the Inevitable and Peacefully Passes Away at His Home . XCVI . 71 . 10 August 1904 . Page 2, columns 2-3 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
74. Web site: VEST, George Graham 1830 – 1904 . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . 2 August 2023.
75. News: Sir William Banks Dead.; Celebrated Surgeon Was Born in 1842 -- A Benefactor to Liverpool. . The New York Times . 10 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
76. News: Well Known Surgeon Dies. . XCVI . 71 . 10 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
77. Newmann . Kate . Kate Newmann . Joseph David Everett . Dictionary of Ulster Biography . . 2 August 2023.
78. News: Prof. Friedrich Ratzel. . The New York Times . 11 August 1904 . 7 . 2 August 2023.
79. Book: Notice de personne "Ratzel, Friedrich (1844-1904)" . Person notice "Ratzel, Friedrich (1844-1904)" . Bibliothèque nationale de France . fr . 10 August 2022 . 2 August 2023.
80. News: Death of John F. Starr.; Founder of Starr Iron Works Sat in 38th and 39th Congresses. . The New York Times . 10 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
81. News: New Jersey Pioneer Is Dead. . XCVI . 71 . 10 August 1904 . Page 3, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
82. Web site: STARR, John Farson 1818 – 1904 . . 2 August 2023.
83. Web site: The Battle Of The Yellow Sea . https://web.archive.org/web/20161228031406/http://www.russojapanesewar.com/bttl-yellow-sea.html . 28 December 2016 . The Russo-Japanese War Research Society . russojapanesewar.com . 2002 . 2 August 2023.
84. Web site: Jerry Dupuis . Olympedia . OlyMADMen . 12 June 2024.
85. News: M. WALDECK-ROUSSEAU DIES AFTER OPERATION; Famous Specialists Tried in Vain to Save ex-Premier's Life. PRIEST ARRIVED TOO LATE Was Summoned from Paris -- French Government Desires a National Funeral for the Dead Statesman. . The New York Times . 11 August 1904 . Page 7, column 5 . 2 August 2023.
86. News: FORMER HEAD OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY DIES . XCVI . 72 . 11 August 1904 . Page 5, column 3 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
87. Web site: 309725075 . . . 2 August 2023.
88. News: HEREROS MEET WITH DEFEAT German Troops Attack the Natives Near Hamakari and Blacks Lose Heavily FIGHT LASTS ALL DAY Five of Emperor William's Officers and Nineteen Men Meet Death in the Battle . XCVI . 78 . 17 August 1904 . Page 2, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
89. Web site: Battle of Waterberg - 11 August 1904 - Pt 1 . Irwing . Keith. Namibia-1on1 . 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181016072254/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/battleofwaterberg.html . 16 October 2018 . 2 August 2023.
90. Web site: Battle of Waterberg Pt 2 - 12 August 1904 . Irwing . Keith . Namibia-1on1 . 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180916214209/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/a-northern/battle-of-waterberg-2.html . 16 September 2018 . 2 August 2023.
91. News: Fatal Earthquakes in Samos. . The New York Times . 19 August 1904 . 7 . 19 October 2023.
92. Web site: Today in Earthquake History On August 11th... . Earthquake Hazards Program . . 19 October 2023.
93. News: MEN DROWNED WHILE AT WORK Eight Miners Meet Death in Shaft Suddenly Flooded by Breaking of Pond Dam MANAGER'S LIFE SAVED Disaster at Plant in North Carolina Said to Be Due to Recent Excessive Rains . XCVI . 73 . 12 August 1904 . Page 3, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
94. Encyclopedia: Castro, Bernard . The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives . 2 August 2023 . .
95. News: Samuel Putnam Avery. . The New York Times . 14 August 1904 . Page 8, column 4 . 2 August 2023.
96. Book: Notice de personne "Avery, Samuel Putnam (1822-1904)" . Person notice "Avery, Samuel Putnam (1822-1904)" . Bibliothèque nationale de France . fr . 18 August 2020 . 2 August 2023.
97. News: RUSSIA JOYFUL OVER BIRTH OF CZAREVITCH; Church Bells Ring and Thanksgiving Services Are Held. . The New York Times . 13 August 1904 . Page 7, columns 5-6 . 2 August 2023.
98. News: FORGET WAR WHEN CZAR'S SON IS BORN Russians Wild With Rejoicing Over the Event. Birth of Heir to the Throne May Mean Much for the Slav Race. Emperor Nicholas Said to Have Promised to Give to His Nation a Constitution . XCVI . 74 . 13 August 1904 . Page 1, column 3; page 2, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
99. News: Ex-Congressman Brickner Dies Suddenly . The New York Times . 13 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
100. Web site: BRICKNER, George H. 1834 – 1904 . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . 2 August 2023.
101. News: DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Count Kawamura. . The New York Times . 16 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
102. News: Japan Loses a Noted Strategist. . XCVI . 77 . 16 August 1904 . Page 3, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
103. Web site: Materials of IJN (Deck officers, in the cradle era) . https://archive.today/20121204191935/http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/px00.htm#a003 . 4 December 2012 . Hiroshi Nishida (Misohito) . 2002 . 2 August 2023.
104. News: Renshaw, the Tennis Player, Dead. . The New York Times . 13 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 2 August 2023.
105. News: Famous Tennis Player Dies. . XCVI . 74 . 13 August 1904 . Page 5, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
106. Web site: William Renshaw's GS Performance Timeline & Stats . 20 September 2020 . db4tennis.com . 27 July 2023.
107. News: TEN DROWN WHEN LAUNCH CAPSIZES AT A REGATTA; Annual Potomac Races at Georgetown Not Delayed by Tragedy. . The New York Times . 14 August 1904 . Page 1, column 3 . 11 April 2024.
108. News: BOAT CAPSIZES AND TEN DROWN Disaster Overtakes Launch Party During Progress of Annual Potomac Regatta LIVES OF FOUR SAVED Unavailing Protest Against Continuance of the Races Is Made After the Tragedy . XCVI . 75 . 14 August 1904 . Page 28, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 11 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
109. Web site: Jonathan Hole - Broadway Cast & Staff . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . 2 August 2023.
110. Web site: Buddy Rogers - Broadway Cast & Staff . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . 2 August 2023.
111. Web site: Wellesley, Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington (1820-1904) . British Armorial Bindings . . 18 October 2023.
112. Glazebrook . P. R. . Wright, Sir Robert Samuel (1839–1904) . 25 May 2006 . 21 June 2015 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/37039.
113. Web site: 1904 - ISMAEL MONTES GAMBOA . Delgadillo Pacheco . Miguel . Delgadillo Cervantes . Miguel . www.museovirtualbo.com . es . 18 October 2023.
114. News: William Wainwright Dead.; Much of the Development of Rockaway Beach Due to Him. . The New York Times . 15 August 1904 . Page 7, column 7 . 2 August 2023.
115. News: DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; John H. Kinkead. . The New York Times . 17 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 18 October 2023.
116. Book: Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors . 3-4 . McMullin . Thomas A. . Walker . David . . . 1984 . 0-930466-11-X . 18 October 2023 . Internet Archive.
117. News: MOB DISARMS MILITIA; BURNS TWO NEGROES; Georgia Lynchers Forcibly Invade Court House at Trial. GUARDS' GUNS NOT LOADED Appeals of Minister and Sheriff Unheeded -- Two Murderers of Hodges Family Had Been Sentenced to Death. . The New York Times . 17 August 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-2 . 18 October 2023.
118. News: MOB BURNS NEGROES AT THE STAKE Murder of Hodge Family Horribly Avenged. Two Confessed Assassins Wrested From a Military Guard. Their Clothing Saturated With Kerosene Before Match Is Applied to the Pyre. . XCVI . 78 . 17 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1; page 2, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
119. News: AUSTRIAN EMPEROR VISITS KING EDWARD Monarchs Meet at Marienbad and Francis Joseph Holds a Reception. . XCVI . 78 . 17 August 1904 . Page 1, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
120. Web site: Wendell M. Stanley – Facts . NobelPrize.org . Nobel Prize Outreach AB . 2023 . 27 July 2023 .
121. Encyclopedia: ((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) . Genda Minoru . . 12 August 2023 . 18 October 2023.
122. News: 1904 Arlington Journal . Arlington, Texas . 127 . 23 May 2024.
123. News: Col. Prentiss Ingraham. . C. S. P. . The Port Gibson Reveille . 25 August 1904 . XXIX . 22 . Page 1, column 4 . 18 October 2023 . Chronicling America.
124. News: GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY DEAD.; Was Twice Governor of Connecticut, Though Born in New York State. . The New York Times . 17 August 1904 . Page 7, column 6 . 18 October 2023.
125. News: Death Calls Former Governor. . XCVI . 78 . 17 August 1904 . Page 2, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
126. News: CYCLING. The Wheel. . . . 28 September 1904 . Page 824, columns 3-4 . 11 June 2024 .
127. Web site: Carl Käser . Olympedia . OlyMADMen . 11 June 2024.
128. News: PARAGUAY'S CAPITAL IS BOMBARDED Ships of Insurgents Shell City of Asuncion. Cannonade Lasts Forty Minutes and a Truce Is Then Declared. Rebels Delay Attack for Twenty-Four Hours to Enable Non-Combatants to Seek Safety. . XCVI . 80 . 19 August 1904 . Page 1, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
129. News: FOUR DEAD IN CHICAGO WRECK.; Express Crashes Into Trolley Pulling Three Trailers at Crossing. . The New York Times . 18 August 1904 . Page 7, column 5 . 2 May 2024.
130. News: ELECTRIC CARS DASH INTO TRAIN Chicago Racetrack Crowd in Rail Collision. Four Persons Are Killed and More Than a Score Injured. Brakes Fail to Work When Attempt Is Made to Slow Down at a Crossing. . XCVI . 79 . 18 August 1904 . Page 1, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 17 April 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
131. News: EIGHT DIE IN FLOOD AT GLOBE Cloudburst Almost Destroys the Town. . XCVI . 81 . 20 August 1904 . Page 1, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
132. News: GLOBE HERO LOSES HIS LIFE Saves Girl He Was to Marry and Later Is Drowned . XXXI . 327 . 21 August 1904 . Page 4, column 1 . . 11 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
133. News: MANY VICTIMS OF THE FLOOD Globe's Known Dead Number Seven and Others Lose Their Lives in the Torrent . XCVI . 82 . 21 August 1904 . Page 35, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
134. News: Mary Cain, Mississippi Editor Who Fought U.S. Taxes, Dies . The New York Times . . 8 May 1984 . Page B6, column 4 . 19 October 2023.
135. Book: Notice de personne "Nowak, Leopold (1904-1991)" . Person notice "Nowak, Leopold (1904-1991)" . Bibliothèque nationale de France . fr . 3 November 2007 . 19 October 2023.
136. Kathleen . Lord . MOLLEUR, LOUIS . Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 13 . University of Toronto/Université Laval . 1994 . 6 June 2024 .
137. News: PERSONAL. . . . 1 September 1904 . Page 4, column 3 . 25 May 2024 . Chronicling America.
138. News: AGED PUBLISHER DIES AT HIS HONOLULU HOME Death Suddenly Calls H. M. Whitney, Founder of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. . XCVI . 91 . 30 August 1904 . Page 2, column 3 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
139. Bede . Nairn . Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) . . . 1990 . 7 April 2024.
140. Web site: In office - Chris Watson . 18 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160218184033/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/in-office.aspx#section1 . . Australia's Prime Ministers . 7 April 2024.
141. News: SEASON'S FIRST VICTIM IS CLAIMED BY FOOTBALL Chicago Youth Is Thrown on His Head During a Scrimmage, Never Regaining Consciousness. . XCVI . 81 . 20 August 1904 . Page 5, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
142. News: Prominent Norwegian Dies. . XCVI . 80 . 19 August 1904 . Page 1, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
143. Encyclopedia: Sivert Andreas Nielsen . . Magnus A. . Mardal . 1 August 2023 . Erik . Bolstad . no . 29 May 2024.
144. News: FAIR CITY IS VISITED BY TORNADO One Man Killed and Many Injured by Storm. High Wind Causes Estimated Loss of $100,000 in North St. Louis. Cyclone Demolishes Entire Buildings, Unroofs Others and Literally Covers Streets With Debris. . XCVI . 81 . 20 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
145. News: DAMAGE WAS LARGE One Hundred and Fifty People Hurt Three Killed Outright by Big Tornado Property Loss Will Amount to $150,000—Traffic on Cars Commenced and Wires Are Being Put Up . XXXI . 327 . 21 August 1904 . Page 3, column 4 . Los Angeles Herald . . 11 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
146. News: SWEEPS OVER VENICE. One Woman Killed and Many People Hurt by Flying Debris. . XCVI . 81 . 20 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1; page 3, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
147. Web site: Summary Bibliography: George de la Warr . . Al von Ruff and the ISFDB Team . 19 October 2023.
148. News: JAPAN'S GUNNERS END GALLANT NOVIK'S CAREER . XCVI . 83 . 22 August 1904 . Page 2, columns 1-5 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: Russian Cruiser, Vanquished in an Unequal Battle, Is Beached by Her Crew. . XCVI . 83 . 22 August 1904 . Page 2, columns 1-2 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
149. News: HOW THE NOVIK WAS LOST. Beached by Her Crew After Unequal Combat With Two Warships. . XCVI . 84 . 23 August 1904 . Page 2, columns 6-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
150. News: SINGLE SHIP VANQUISHES THE NOVIK Russian Cruiser Destroyed in a Duel With the Tsushima. Beached Before Second Japanese Vessel's Arrival on Scene. . XCVI . 85 . 24 August 1904 . Page 2, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
151. News: MANY PERISH IN CYCLONE TWIN CITIES ARE SWEPT BY STORM FURIOUS GALE WREAKS HAVOC IN MINNESOTA Five Killed and Many Injured in St. Paul---Heavy Casualty List at Minneapolis---Property Loss Will Reach Millions . XXXI . 327 . 21 August 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-3; page 2, column 5 . Los Angeles Herald . 11 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
152. News: TORNADO SWEEPS OVER TWIN CITIES Many Lives Reported Lost in St. Paul and Minneapolis. ALL WIRES BLOWN DOWN Reports That Property Damage Will Reach $2,000,000—Mississippi Bridge Demolished. . The New York Times . 21 August 1904 . 23 May 2024.
153. News: AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN TORNADO-SWEPT MINNESOTA CITIES . XCVI . 82 . 21 August 1904 . Page 21, columns 1-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: DEBRIS IN WAKE OF GALE Millions of Dollars Damage in St. Paul. Five Persons Dead and Two Score Injured. Great Buildings Razed and Immense Bridge Across Mississippi Demolished. . XCVI . 82 . 21 August 1904 . Page 21, column 7; page 26, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 29 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
154. News: 1904 Arlington Journal . Arlington, Texas . 126 . 23 May 2024.
155. Book: Seeley, Mark W. . Minnesota Weather Almanac . . . 2006 . 978-0-87351-554-2 . 188 . 23 May 2024 . Internet Archive.
156. Web site: Count Basie - Broadway Cast & Staff . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . 19 October 2023.
157. Encyclopedia: Biryuzov . . Mark Wade . 10 June 2024.
158. Web site: Бирюзов Сергей Семёнович . Biryuzov Sergey Semyonovich . ru . . 10 June 2024.
159. Book: Notice de personne "Allar, Gaudensi (1841-1904)" . Person notice "Allar, Gaudensi (1841-1904)" . Bibliothèque nationale de France . fr . 18 June 2016 . 13 June 2024.
160. News: MOB KILLS NEGRO AND BURNS BODY Awful Vengeance for Attack on White Girl. . XCVI . 84 . 23 August 1904 . Page 1, column 3 . San Francisco Call . 5 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
161. News: TOWN OF LAYTONVILLE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Flames Start in Hotel and Rapidly Spread, Despite Efforts Made to Check Them. . XCVI . 84 . 23 August 1904 . Page 5, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 5 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
162. Book: Pantsov . Alexander V. . Levine . Steven I. . Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life . . . 2015 . 978-0-19-939203-2 . 12 . 8 April 2024 . Google Books.
163. Web site: Jay Novello Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos . AllMovie, Netaktion LLC . 8 April 2024.
164. News: Writer of Creole Stories Dead. . XCVI . 84 . 23 August 1904 . Page 1, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 5 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
165. Web site: Kate Chopin . AmericanLiterature.com . 2022 . 8 April 2024.
166. News: IT IS MURDER NOW Mr. Albert Constable Dies Of Bullet Wounds Inflicted By Highwayman. $1,500 REWARD OFFERED Crime Arouses Indignation All Over The State. GOVERNOR WARFIELD SHOCKED Expresses His Indignation In A Dispatch To The Sun—Members Of The Bar Everywhere Incensed—Last Moments Of The Deceased—His Honorable Career And High Mental Gifts—A Fine Orator And An Able Lawyer. . . 23 August 1904 . Page 12, columns 1-3 . 23 May 2024 . Newspapers.com.
167. News: SUBMARINE BOAT STAYS AT BOTTOM Crew of the Porpoise Has a Thrilling Experience. All Efforts to Send Craft to the Surface Fail for a Time. After Hope Is Gone the Vessel Rises as Unexpectedly as She Had Sunk. . XCVI . 86 . 25 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
168. News: William Primrose, 77, Is Dead; Violist Known for Purity of Tone . Schonberg . Harold C. . Harold C. Schonberg . The New York Times . 4 May 1982 . Page D31, columns 1-3 . 10 April 2024.
169. News: Noted Cyclist Dies of Injuries. . XCVI . 85 . 24 August 1904 . Page 10, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 11 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
170. Web site: George Leander . 11 June 2024 . Cycling Archives . en . de Wielersite . https://web.archive.org/web/20220410200048/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=23306#google_vignette . 10 April 2022.
171. News: NAME IS GIVEN RUSSIA'S HEIR Christening of the Infant Son of Emperor Nicholas a Brilliant Ceremony NATION DISPLAYS JOY Crash of Cannon and Chiming of Bells Are Heard Throughout Czar's Realm . XCVI . 86 . 25 August 1904 . Page 3, columns 1-2 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
172. Web site: KÍ Klaksvík » Profile . worldfootball.net . HEIM:SPIEL . 10 April 2024.
173. News: Carpenter . Louise . Rescue mission . 14 July 2007 . . 10 April 2024.
174. Encyclopedia: ((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) . Aparicio Méndez . Encyclopedia Britannica . 26 March 2024 . 10 April 2024.
175. Web site: Olympic Gymnasts Murdered in the Holocaust . Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective . Gymnastics . . 7 June 2024 .
176. Web site: Judik Themans . Names . Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center . 7 June 2024 .
177. News: FANTIN-LATOUR IS DEAD.; Well-Known French Painter Expires Suddenly -- Some of His Works. . The New York Times . 28 August 1904 . Page 9, column 6 . 25 May 2024.
178. Book: Lucie-Smith, Edward . Edward Lucie-Smith . Henri Fantin-Latour . New York . . 1977.
179. News: Wealthy Philadelphian Dead. . XCVI . 87 . 26 August 1904 . Page 11, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
180. News: CHAMPION JAMES J. JEFFRIES, THE GOLIATH OF THE PRIZE RING, TOYS WITH JACK MUNROE, WINNING CLEVERLY IN THE SECOND ROUND "That First Punch Settled Munroe," Says the Champion . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, columns 1-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: Referee Graney Prevents Possible Tragedy by Stopping Fight. . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, columns 1-2 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: "Jeff May Retire From Prize Ring," Says His Trainer . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, column 3 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: Jeffries Punches His Opponent at Will. . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: McCoy Believes Butte Miner Was Fairly Subdued . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, column 5 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: Defeated Boxer Has Little to Say About Brief Battle . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, columns 6-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
     • News: Thousands Throng Pavilion to See Gladiators Do Battle. . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, columns 6-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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182. News: SEVEN PERISH IN AN OIL FIRE Workmen Lose Lives in Conflagration That Destroys Many Tanks Near Antwerp HIGH WIND FANS BLAZE Flames Consume 26,500,000 Gallons of Petroleum and Cause a Loss of $1,250,000 . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 7, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
183. News: Christopher Isherwood Is Dead at 81 . The New York Times . 6 January 1986 . Page B7, columns 1-4 . 10 April 2024.
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195. News: Death Calls Aged Educator. . XCVI . 88 . 27 August 1904 . Page 4, columns 1-7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
196. News: THE LOUISIANA IS LAUNCHED.; Big Battleship Slides from the Ways at Newport News. . The New York Times . 28 August 1904 . Page 9, column 4 . 25 May 2024.
197. News: BATTLESHIP LOUISIANA GLIDES DOWN THE WAYS . XCVI . 89 . 28 August 1904 . Page 21, column 7 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
198. News: NEGRO WHIPPED AND SHOT. Dying Black Gives Sheriff the Names of His Slayers. . XCVI . 91 . 30 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
199. News: DEATH OF DEAN HOLE.; Famous English Preacher, Author, and Rose Expert Was Born in 1819. . The New York Times . 28 August 1904 . Page 9, column 6 . 25 May 2024.
200. News: Dean of Rochester Is Dead. . XCVI . 89 . 28 August 1904 . Page 33, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
201. News: OLDFIELD'S AUTOMOBILE KILLS TWO A Tragic Accident Mars St. Louis Contest Blinded by Dust, Driver Sends His Machine Through Fence. Champion Scorcher Loses Control of Car Which Deals Death to Onlookers and Injuries to Himself. . XCVI . 90 . 29 August 1904 . Page 1, column 4 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
202. News: COWBOYS IN NEW MEXICO FIGHT DESPERATE BATTLE Constable at Albuquerque Is Killed, and Several Cattlemen Are Wounded. . XCVI . 90 . 29 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
203. News: BULLET WOUND CAUSES DEATH OF CITY MARSHAL Another Peace Officer Dies as Result of Cowboy Battle in Silver City, N. M. . XCVI . 91 . 30 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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205. News: WYOMING MOB HANGS PRISONER Negro Lynched Before Residence of Judge. Avengers' Victim a "Trusty" in the County Jail at Laramie. Strung Up to a Lamp Post Because of Attack With Knife Upon a White Girl. . XCVI . 91 . 30 August 1904 . Page 1, column 1 . San Francisco Call . 6 June 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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207. News: DEATH FREES FAMOUS TURK Former Sultan Murad V, Who Was Dethroned in Favor of Present Ruler, Passes Away CONFINED SINCE 1876 Eventful Life of the "Man With the Iron Mask" Ends in Constantinople Palace . XCVI . 92 . 31 August 1904 . Page 2, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 2 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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212. News: Phelps . Robert H. . CHARLES BOHLEN, DIPLOMAT, 69, DIES . The New York Times . 2 January 1974 . Page 1, column 5 . 8 June 2024.
213. News: DEATH CALLS CAPTAIN HEALY, NOTED MARINER . XCVI . 92 . 31 August 1904 . Page 5, columns 5-6 . San Francisco Call . 2 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
214. News: Aged English Bishop Dies. . XCVI . 92 . 31 August 1904 . Page 5, column 6 . San Francisco Call . 2 May 2024 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
215. News: PRINCESS FLEES GUARD BY LADDER AND IN AUTO; Louise of Coburg May Have Rejoined ex-Lieut. Mattasitch. WATCHED FOR SEVEN YEARS Daughter of the King of the Belgians Slips from a Hotel at a German Health Resort. . The New York Times . 1 September 1904 . Page 1, column 3 . 25 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240525151408/https://www.nytimes.com/1904/09/01/archives/princess-flees-guard-by-ladder-and-in-auto-louise-of-coburg-may.html . 25 May 2024.