Notable conference plans mark treaty centennial cross-border arches
A national peace conference in New York City proposed grand memorials to honor the 1812 Ghent treaty. Suggestions include a Niagara River bridge memorial arches at crossing points and granite shafts at historic sites. The Ghent signature on Dec 24 1814 and ratification on Feb 16 1815 are noted with plans reflecting cross-border cooperation among Britain Canada United States and Ghent city officials.
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City Hall
New
Ares
Great Britain
Aua- Canada
United States
Ghent
Niagara River
Ghentia
Id Weardale
Brit- Widelegation
Feandale
Earl of Stanhope
Philip James Stanhope
Mth
The General's Picnic Suggestion at the Poor Farm
Miriam imagines a homemade old soldier's picnic with the town’s aging general at the poor farm. The shy scene unfolds as the old veteran contemplates letters and pensions while Miriam envisions a shared, hopeful outing as a bright respite from their ordinary days.
Hoaxed the Book Collectors and Other Vignettes
A collection of scattered anecdotes and hoaxes from book lore and stage life. It recalls a French Belgian hoax sale at Binche for a non existent Forting collection and a Boston artist who offered a painted Spartacus portrait to Edwin Forrest. Also notes witty exchanges and Christmas giving cautions about prudent generosity.
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France
Belgium
Biache
Mons
de Forting
Nationa
Binche
de Fort
Edwin Forrest
Boston
Brent
Winthrop House
Morrest
Spartacus
Fatal burns from boiling oil in Webster City home
Mrs. Frank Webb of Webster City Iowa died at St Josephs Mercy Hospital after a kettle of burning oil toppled while she mixed paint. She tried to lift the pot, oil spilled over her, she fled to the yard and was carried to a watering tank where she fell in. Her skin burned severely and she died in agony at the hospital.
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Webster City
Frank &. Webb
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Driver survives tractor plunge into Iowa River near Rath
N Woodmaney, agent for a Des Moines implement house, drove an air tractor off a ten foot bank into the Iowa River near Rath Iowa Falls in May 2001. The machine hit a telephone wire, plunged into ten feet of water, and Woodmaney freed himself, was rescued on a rock downstream, and later found to have four broken ribs in hospital.
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H.N. Woodmaney
Rath
Iowa Falls
N. Woodaney
Des Mote
Iowa River
Woodmaney
Tramp Shot At Carroll Residence Wounds Woman
In Carroll on May 26 a tramp attempting to enter a house was shot at by Mrs. Relff Carroll Pink. The revolver bullet missed the tramp and ricocheted, striking Mrs. J. B. Carpenter in the leg. Carpenter was hospitalized as the intruder escaped.
Lightning Kills Belle Plaine Teacher Miss Ella Stuckenbrook
Miss Ella Stuckenbrook, 24, of southeast of Belle Plaine, was struck by lightning as she closed a door during a storm at a rural school near Lazerne. She died instantly. Four children at the arrival house escaped unharmed, while others fled to nearby homes. The event disrupted the scene as residents and students reacted to the fatal strike. The victim had attended Highland Park College.
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Ella Stuckenbrook
Lazerng
Belle Plaine
Ana Stuckenbrook
Herman Stuckenbrook
Ashtning
Lazerne
Stuckenbrook
Heroes of the Stokehold in Ocean Liners Fire Digits
The article portrays stokers aboard giant liners as fearless workers facing searing heat and death threats. It describes their four hour shifts, brutish exertion, and readiness to die rather than quit. It notes a lack of reward and the stoic pride of surviving beyond age forty. It ends with a short note on a makeshift cheap marine telescope built from wood and a glass.
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Areman
Fragmented Recipe and Ancient Diving Bell Tale
A garbled recipe for pineapple sherbet mixes fruit pulp sugar and gelatin with lemon juice then shifts to a historical note about a sixteenth century diving bell exhibition before Charles V. Descriptions include a burning event and descent into depths with an inverted kettle and return without water contact.
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Lane
Tee Creo
Charles V
Platz Sent to Asylum and Homicide Reported
A fragment notes Platz was sent to an Ingane asylum on December 24 due to hallucinations and mentions a person named Mun Op Laag Mee Yours dying in an incident. No clear dates, locations, or full names are provided. The text is fragmented and lacks verifiable details.
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Alla Vistala
Levi Plats
Ingane
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Bra Weardale
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McClellan
R. Mitchel
New Fe City
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le Iso
Taito
Mitchel Box
Tamiwany Bull
Jobw Pubroy Mitchel
Jacksonville
Miriam
Bour
Norm York Weekly
KING_CONSTANTINE
Bulgaria
Constantine
Alexander
Ataft
Balonik
Grask
Bolt
Walline
Phe Dafortea
Herpolls
Caup
Catalina Islands
Christian Borald
Te World
Chicago
Star
American
Chicago Sunday
Chicago, Sunday Tribune
Cage Sunday Tribune
Chis
America
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sunday Tribune
S. Y. Eggert
S. S
Cashier
Fred Eggert
Firstational Bank
Transactis
Ackley
Iowa
Sobn Rath
Plgesivert
Arvin
Bleeker, Cushing
Ben
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