Gift of 10000 Silver Service to Illinois on Newport News Visit
Assistant Secretary Hackett accepted a silver service worth 10000 dollars for the battleship Illinois at Newport News on a Saturday. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony at 2 15 pm with notable attendees including Senator William H W Mason and Mrs Mason, ex representative George J Adams, General H L Thomas, and others from Illinois and Nebraska. The ten piece service was a gift from the people of Illinois and was presented by Senator Mason.
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Ren Battionkip
Newport News
Hackett
Navy
Ilnois
Illinois
Thomas Keefe
William HW. Mason
Mason
William Perm Nixon
Chicago
I. W. Peck
G. P. Palmer
George J. Adams
W. D. Boyce
John M. Clarke
John Shortall
H. IL. Thomas
Nixon
Peck
Miss Peck
Jesse Holden
C. C. Wells
W. S. Stratton
Roy Tatterson
L. W. Bushey
Thurston
Nebraska
GATHMANN GUN FAILS AGAIN AT SANDY HOOK TEST
New York reports that on Saturday at Sandy Hook the Gathmann aerial torpedo and an eighteen inch gun fired two shots. The first torpedo failed to damage the plate or backing significantly while the second shattered the plate top to bottom and damaged the supporting bracing. Each shell held 500 pounds of wet gun cotton and 216 pounds of powder. Guthmann and his son inspected and repacked the torpedo for about an hour before the test.
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New York
Gathmann
Proving Ground
Sandy Hook
Guthmanno
Glaze on Coffee Ruled Not Pure Food Violation
In Toledo on November 16 Judge Pugsley upheld a ruling that glazed coffee produced by the Arbuckle company does not violate pure food laws. The case began with a grocer arrested on state deputy grounds, the sugar trust accused of backing the prosecution, and a lower court ruling reversed by the judge who upheld the coffee as lawful.
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Buckeyee Binley
Toledo
Tudge Pugsiey
Common Pleas Court
Pure Food
Arbuckle Company
Pugsley
Arbuckles
Sugar Trust
Kansas Doctor in Trouble Over Garden City Case
Chicago dispatch reports Miss Erma Brown of Garden City Kansas ledging at Cook County hospital after an operation. Dr Gray, also of Garden City, is charged with performing it and has been arrested. Police seek a Garden City nurse and the son of a Garden Ballooner minister. Also ships Marine City and India tale from Lake Huron. Havana Cuba Maso leads in province majorities as Estrada Palma splits.
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Arrese
Chicago
Nurae Aldo
Erma Brown
Garden City
Kan
Cook County Hospital
BR. Gray
Miss Brown
Clark Street
Garden
Marine City
Goodrich
Ont
Lake Huron
India
Havana
Bartolome Maso
Democratic Party
Cuba
Santiago
Puerto Principe
Santa Clara
National Party
Hevina
Seno
Ounas Estrada Palma
Maso
Bank Thieves Fireraze in Iowa Bank Robbery
Bank robbers struck Greenville nine miles north of Bionx Rapids in a Friday night heist at the Bank of Sioux Rapids. A posse encountered them at Albert City. exchanges of gunfire wounded C. J. Lodine and John Sundland, one robber was killed, the others fled east with a farmer guiding their escape until the team exhausted.
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Greenville
Bionx Rapids
Bank of
Sioux Rapids
Aid
Wick Island
Albert City
Pesse
C. J. Lodine
Agrehial
John Sundland
Robbers Captured After Bank Description Sparks Shootout
A posse from Taurens six miles east of Albert City pursued and captured the robbers after a bank description given by a Spencer telephone operator led to their apprehension. In the field Toa hna Sindland died of his wounds while Constable Todine remained in critical condition. Gen Wallace and Shiloh comment on Army action after Shiloh.
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Taurens
Albert City
Stormlake
Spencer
Tohna Sindland
Todine
Wallace and
Shiloh
Bates the Bigamist Freed After Three Years Nine Months
Chicago report states David Bates the Chicago bigamist has been released from Joliet penitentiary. Term began February 1808 under an indeterminate sentence up to five years. He received good time and served three years nine months, now traveling with one wife to Englewood. New York story notes N N Stranahan says President Roosevelt offered him New York collector post with April 1 start.
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Winns
Chicago
David Bates
Jolet
Engle
Navy
Ilis
New York
Washington
N. N. Stranahan
Oswego
N. Y
Roosevelt
Flatt
Wawel
Lemont Alderman Accused in Car Wreck Plot
Alderman Frank Baduik of Lemont surrendered to fellet authorities on charges of being implicated in an attempt to wreck a car loaned to fifty people on the Chicago and Toler Electric railway near Lemont last Sunday. Accompanying him were V Slobozewski and Mike Nowaski, also wanted, while Branislaw Nowakowski was arrested Tuesday night. The four are tied to a Lemont secret society. The case was continued for ten days with bail set at $1,000 each.
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Joliet
Frank Baduik
Lemont
Feliet
Beine
Chicago ‘and Toler Electric
V. Slobozewski
Mike Nowaski
Aurora Mining plant swallowed by mine collapse at Joplin
In Joplin Missouri on November 16 a cave near Gronogo swallowed the Aurora Mining Company plant including a 100 ton mill, office, engine house, six gravel cars and a tall pile. Workers heard cracking before the fall and the last man surfaced minutes before timbers gave way. No lives were lost.
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Playa Hivoe
Joplin
Gronogo
Aurora Mining Company
Miss Millie Cooper Dies Self-Inflicted at Moore Farm
Miss Millie Cooper postmistress at Manson Indiana took a rifle to her mouth and shot herself at the Moore farm near Manson. The act followed recent insanity notes including a jump from a bridge over the Des Moines river at Fort Dodge as doctors hoped a change might help her failing intellect.
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Yvort Dodge
Millie Cooper
Manson
Moore Farm
Visitor’s witty remark sparks playful talk in Meekton home
An effusive visitor tells Mrs Meekton she believes her husband is the best ever. Meekton sighs and replies he isn’t sure his wife feels she has the beat husband. The scene unfolds in Washington Are.
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Meektons
Meekton
Ty Avery
Washington
Indian whitefish fishing myth explained by Sault guide
A New York Times article recounts an Old Guide Garrou debunking the legend of Indian whitefish netters in the Sault Ste. Marie rapids. It describes the two Indians in a canoe performing routine netting, the glistening catch, and the misleading mystique built around the “magic eye” seen by tourists and locals alike.
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Sault Ete
Marie
Great Lakes
Garrou
Garron
Lake Fioron
Lake Superior
Florca
Susan Mary
New York Times
Anecdote of Genius By Leigh Hunt Recited by Orion Horne
An odd tale from Leigh Hunt related by Orion Horne describes Torne entering a cold winter room to find Trant warming by a large hearth. Trant has his plane on the fire with only space for himself and his ecbhaly, cheerfully insisting the heat is delightful despite the risk to the tool.
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Leigh Hunt
Orion” Horne
Torne
Trant
Ecbhaly
Horne
Lint frightful gorge yields curious creatures and rodents
The Kangaroo Mare and a party of adventurers explore Black Canyon finding a katygaroo house mouse that stands on hind legs and mock intruders. A pack rat, thiefly rodent, carries spoons and forks from camps. A long jumping mouse, akin to Calvas county’s jumping frog, is said to leap with feather-like fall. The tale, from Los Angeles Herald via Frank Asalyain and Washington Star, blends odd natural lore with a remark about Wagner in music.
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Siso
Black Canyon
Calavas County
World of Difference. Perkins a true gentleman?
Barelay and Dibdin discuss Perkins character in a clipped exchange from a Boston Tran script, noting a prior loan and a later request. The dialogue hints at a test of manners and a possible misstep by Perkins in a casual street scene.
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Barelay
Perkins
Dibdin
Boston
Tuata Theory Sees Grass Widows Attract Men
Curio notes a columnist questions why a lone widow stands apart while others draw attention. He blames the exhusband for the divorce and wonders at social norms, reflecting on public perception in a Chicago Record-Herald fragment.
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Tuata
Chicago Record-Herald
Engagements Reconsidered in Humorous Exchange
A playful dialogue in Chicago News depicts a couple debating breaking off their engagement. The man hesitates while the woman agrees, and they discuss kissing family, including the fiancé’s mother, in a lighthearted scene.
Gender of the B word in European swords
A historical note discusses how the gender of the weapon varied by region. In Britain the sword was masculine or neuter in Germany while in the south it was feminine. The northern mind valued force and cruelty. the southern admired grace and elegance, with the weapon symbolizing different traits for each culture.
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Europe
Britain
Germany
Meekton recalls moonlit proposal in amused exchange
Poor Meekton recalls the moment FE asked to marry him during a moonlit evening, while Frenvietta cautions Leonidas against sentimentality. Meekton reflects on how he spoke familiarly without seeming impertinent, as noted in the Washington Star.
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Meekton
Frenvietta
Mr. Meekton
Leonidas
Washington Star
There They Were and The Prisoners Dialog
A Kansas City Independent excerpt presents four inmates speaking to each other. The pickpocket admits his presence stems from a momentary abstraction while the incendiary jokes about disdain for danger. The forger cites a basic urge to craft a name, and the burglar claims opportunity arose from a wide mercantile opening in town.
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Kansas City
Balloon teases parachute over drinking habit
A playful line from the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows a balloon telling a parachute it would not encourage drinking in the young and innocent, but joking that a drop would not hurt. The parachute then drops, delivering a comic visual.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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