Thio-go Fiends In Custody After Forty Crime Days
A Kanaka elder and 18 year old Louis Dabner terrorized San Francisco coast city with three murders two near-fatal assaults and a midday bank robbery plus hold-ups over forty days. They overpowered victims used a gas pipe and stole about 2700 dollars. Siemsen and Dabner lived with a German jeweler’s family before Dumper seized Bedrend’s shop.
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San Francisco
Kanaka
John Siemsen
Louis Dabner
Siemsen
Gas pipe gang plot ends in brutal bank murder tale
The narrative centers on Dabner and Siemsen as chief suspects in a brutal prison of crimes. Dabner confesses after family pressure while Siemsen remains composed, aiding a case tied to the Kimmon Ginko robbery in Japan. Police intervene as mob impulses clash with justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Behrend
Siemsen
Dabner
Johan Pfitzner
McAllister Street
Pfitzner
Jack Siemsen
Dowdall
Kimmon Ginko
M. Munakata
Munakata
Sasaki
Bessie
Will Brown
Greenbacks
Kanaka
Farming Advice On Livestock Stock Feed And Horse Care
A long list of farm guidance covers ventilation in poultry houses, stable cleanliness, and feeding strategies for horses sheep cows and hogs. Topics include milking tips, grain and root balances, green feed in winter, beets in silos, and methods to prevent dampness and distress in animals. It also notes scarce help in the south and recalls incidents of illness and injury from a thunderbolt.
Farmers and engines spark new ideas for farming life
A long column blends agricultural science and social notes. It discusses railroads replacing light engines, night harvesting with acetylene, barnyard manure trials at Indiana and Oklahoma, a German dry farming compound, stock judging courses, and a Paris fly threat to apricots. A comical train scene ends the piece.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma
John Hamilton
A. D. Shamel
Agricultural Department
Joseph Wing
A. P. Grout
Paris Academy of Sciences
Figure Nine Folly and the Nine Trick in Mystic Math
A foreign “professor” of the occult claims fortune telling via the digit nine. He shows that multiplying any nondecimal number by 9 yields a product whose digits sum to 9 or a multiple, citing examples like 9×2=18 and 9×545=4905 with digit sums. The piece notes the entertainments and tricks surrounding the number 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eng
He Tai
Vast Water Power to Transform the Southern Economy
The South holds a vast water power potential exceeding coal in Great Britain and Pennsylvania combined. It could require 250 to 300 million dollars to develop and would employ about 6 million men, enabling interurban electric roads and cheap power for mines and factories while boosting skilled manufacturing in the mountains.
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Great Britain
Germany
Pennsylvania
Switzerland
Postum Cereal Co. assures purity under Pure Food Law
The Postum Cereal Co Ltd and C W Post pledge that their Postum G Nuts Elijah's Manna goods sold through jobbers and retailers are not adulterated or misbranded under the National Pure Food Law of 1906. Signed in Battle Creek Michigan with sworn affirmation and notary dated December 1996, asserting continued purity.
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Anne
Elijah
Benjamin F. Rem
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Thiogo
Man
Union Street
Filmore Street
William Friede
T. B. Leland
Hulda
Hulda von Hofen
Oakland
von Hofen
Henry A. Bedrend
Steiner Street
James Dowdall
Leland
Ols Setien
Petizner
Smellienes
Louis D
Ong
State Experiment Station
St. Louis
Leadville
Col
Keith
England
Central States
Indiana Experiment Station
Ferdinand Luerick
Colorado
Postum Cereal.co., Ltp
Postum Cérrat Co
Lap. C
W. Post
Battle Creek, Mich
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