Trial in Mason City over missing funds in cattle deal
In Cerro Gordo county Judge Smith heard Col. Londergran of Mt. Pleasant Valley accused in a long cattle and hog sale involving A. Mott. About $9 thousand vanished after June 1 as he transported proceeds to Chicago and Buffalo. The case was dismissed after the money surfaced with friends seeking to teach him a lesson about drink.
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Mt. Pleasant Valley Township
Cerro Gordo County
A. Mott
Yampton
Brown Brothers and
Ballinger
Chicago
Andergan
Molt
Buffalo
Londergang
First National Bank
Londergran
Thornton
Clear Lake
Mr. Mott
Will
Laren
Ondergra
Government expedition to explore Alaska with $60,000
A government geological survey plans next summer to explore Alaska, backed by $60,000 from Congress. The project aims to discover new mining districts and mineral deposits in western and north central Alaska, with routes reaching the Arctic Ocean and Kotzebue Sound. Parties will map Copper River, trace streams to the Arctic, and push toward Kotzebue Sound.
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Alaska
Government
Geological Survey
Congress
Alasia
Arctic Ocean
Bergman
Koyuktk River
Kotsebue Sound
Copper River
Bilakaki
Divide
Ocean
Kotzebue Sound
Sign of Littlejohns Sons and Tittle in City Business
The New York Tribune notes a sign reading John Littlejohn's Sons & Tittle and explains the naming, showing how the three generations named after family and partner lines. The London observer affirms the sign is accurate and not a joke, reflecting succession in the business.
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The
New York Tribune
London
John Littlejohn
Sons & Tittle
Little Little John
Doolittle Littlejohn
John Little
Littlejohn
Little
Doolittle
Norrs
Pangerson Economy Through a Faded Envelope Tale
A New York dealer who left about two million dollars kept by tenting off fly sheets of foulscap letters for scribbling. Envelopes not yet used. a signed letter missing a sheet altered the order. The court ruled the letter incomplete, changing the case outcome and ending the practice in the merchant’s office.
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Pangerson
Broadway
New York
Acfendant
Allice
New York Press
A Novel Alarm Clock Idea Awakens Silently
A London Optician reports a novel alarm clock design using two small electric lamps hidden behind a sectoral shutter that act as the balance wheel. The lamp turns on at a set hour and shines on the sleeper’s head, waking them quietly yet surely, according to the inventor.
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London Optician
A Great Country Is Australia
A passage from Alinslee's Magazine extols Australia as a vast desert yet highly productive. It cites sheep numbers exceeding 100 million, cattle and horses between 80 million and 35 million, and asserts exports to England of over 40 million pounds annually in metals, grain, wool, beer, tallow, hides, and mutton. It highlights Ballyrut Bendigo gold output of 100 million pounds and Tambaroora and Lam Bing flat as further gold sources.
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Australia
Ballyrut
Bendigo
Tambaroora
Lambing
New South Wales
England
Alinslee’s
Meat and Heat in Warm Climates
An army surgeon argues that hot climates rapidly oxidize meat and that substantial meat intake is necessary to compensate for sun-induced waste. He notes carbon from meat changes with sunlight and that blond individuals are more affected by sun exposure.
Remedy Divides a Philadelphia Doctor’s Quinine Whisky Cure
The Philadelphia Record tells of a city physician advising an old Irish couple with colds to take quinine and whisky every three hours. The husband jokes he followed the letter, dosing himself so the wife could rest, while the doctor questions how much quinine remains.
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Philadelphia
Ban on alms prompts the poor woman to plead for work
In a dialogue titled 4 Bosy Ban, a beggar woman explains she has four husbands but they are too busy to work. The man questions her, and she replies one husband trains to Providence. The scene appears in a cuicngo News transcription.
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Providence
sCuicngo News
Major Crofont Finds Laundress at Last in Comic Debacle
Major Crofont, grand promoter and organizer, dodges a debt chase when laundress Mrs. Hastings confronts him about $3.50. He brags of loans and jokes about a half million for two weeks as he unveils a spoof scheme for a Great American Hygienic Pillow company amid comic ineptitude and farcical business pitches.
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Major Crofont
Kent Hig
Mim
Leni
Tore
Mrs. Goodlenrot
Meyer
Apostles
Crofoot
Marth Frastings
Martha Hastings
Neo
Crofcot
Great American Hygiene
Sam
Inspector of ticking and patent plans unfold
A dialog reveals a proposed factory venture with a salary for ticking inspector and a bold plan to order a million yards. Talks of patent, incorporation, and the Great Ny giente Pillpy company precede plans for a factory. Subplots include scenes with Miss Prin and boarders and a Norwegian maid’s quirks.
The Meanest Yet In This Neighborhood
A humorous exchange mocks Mrs De Blank as the meanest, noting she once owned the only house telephone and had it removed. Friends joke she “threw herself at her husband’s lead,” wondering how she figured in the tale.
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Chicago Record-Herald
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