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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1897
Page
3
March 22 reports show Republican leaders shaping a five day rule plan to extend debate on key bills including the civil and general deficiency measures. The scene featured partisan exchanges, committee precedence for the open rules, and rapid moves toward final readings as deliberations continued.
An assortment of OCR fragments references individuals in distress and social upheaval. It mentions a man named Moses Lucas missing and presumed dead, a wife involved with his movements, arrests in a cathedral context, and a vague reference to agitators and a Daniel Vitroff. The text is fragmentary and lacks a coherent report.
Adam Adamicek, a Pole living in a muddy Chicago cabin near the rail line, celebrated his 112th birthday. Believed to be the oldest man in Chicago and possibly in the United States, he remains active despite near total blindness and long-term snuff and liquor use. His wife is 87 and still living.
Chattanooga reports a noon collision when a Dade Coal Company switch engine plunged from a washed bridge. Engineer Stewart died after the locomotive overturned and flames engulfed him. fireman Cagle was pinned and survived.
In St Joseph Missouri Frank Lewis 26 threatened to drink alcohol then swallowed three ounces of carbolic acid when refused another round He collapsed at the saloon and died minutes later at the police station His father is a wealthy King County business man No motive given for the act.
A daytime bay collision in San Francisco involved the sternwheeler Sunol bound for Napa and the bark Olympic from Philadelphia. No fatalities occurred as Sunol’s engine room wrecked but passengers and crew escaped via the Olympic’s bow as the Sunol was towed to the flats. The wreck was blamed on the Sunol captain misjudging the other vessel.
P H Dalidet Jr a leading local businessman and member of a prominent family was fatally shot by his younger brother John at the family home following a private dispute. The tragedy caused a sensation in the city due to the family's stature.
In Paris on March 22 in St Quen park, Chevalier Pinea head of the Italian school of arms fought M Thomageux, a French amateur swordsman. The duel followed a letter insulting Pinea after a recent arms assault. Thomageux was wounded in the face.
The Imperial Ottoman bank delayed funding by the porte for military costs. Troops suffer severe hardship with nine months of unpaid wages and officers selling arms and uniforms to buy food.
In Missoula Montana this morning Theo Beckman was shot three times by Frank Payette as Payette left a hotel after an argument over a four dollar board bill. Beckman, a former U S Army sharpshooter mustered at Vancouver, faces probable fatal injuries.
The article notes a firm yet intermittently softer week in Wheat trading with about a 1 1/4 cent advance. It cites active buying by certain interests signaling market support and warns of shrinking domestic and global wheat stocks as a key factor for continued risk and potential further declines in prices.
Portland and Seattle market quotes list prices for flour, grains, meats, dairy, produce, and poultry. Notable figures include wheat at 78 79c per bushel in Walla Walla and 79c Valley, butter at 24 40c per pound, potatoes up to 1 per cental, and hogs at 3.25 to 8.50 per cwt depending on grade.
Reminiscences of Oliver Wendell Holmes praise his constant curiosity and cheerful nature. Howells recalls Holmes as alive from head to toe, brave in old age, and prolific in both medicine and literature, finding joy in science and life up to the end.
Dispatch reports the Tenn city ending the era of the feared Georgia outlaw Billy Carter known for a long mustache and lone highway robberies. A seven man posse led by Sergt Haskins surrounded a cottage on a back street as Carter fired twice wounding Detective Brock before he was fatally shot. his dying words requested his pistols and body be sent to Georgia.
Le Page du Pratz describes early colonial Louisiana gamblers who loved the game La Perche. Desperate players would steal their wives belongings to continue playing. When bed coverings were lost they bargained with French planters for new coverings, often to no avail for the planters.
Ex councilman William Chaffin of Huntington West Virginia displayed a strange object taken from a hen egg. The solid substance resembles a fish with a formed head and near perfect eye, about two and a half inches long, preserved in alcohol and arousing much curiosity.
A would be mugger demanded money or life but the cyclist refused and coolly replied that she would hire a regular instructor if needed. The exchange ended with a courteous goodbye as she rode away.
The Pittsburg Chronicle quotes a humorous quarrel about a grocer on the next corner who insists on cash only, described as a Celtic gentleman.
In a snowbound Montana stage ranch saloon a four-person freeze-out poker game tests nerves and luck as Bill Anderson, the range-rider, bets his meager means against the harsh winter. A note from Campbell prompts a risky cattle run, and after a brutal night in the storm the rider faces a final reckoning at the Bar of Judgment.
A physician urged women’s club listeners to provide each child a separate bed and prioritize early sleep. He advised quiet, soothing bedtime routines, cool dark rooms, and fresh air, warning against letting nervous children miss rest for entertainment.
The piece defines a mutual friend as someone who ensures you hear the mean things your friends say about you. It references a Cincinnati Enquirer quotation and notes the type size is slightly under one inch.
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