Mind of Murder: Gunness Hypnosis Suspected
Chicago column reports Dr. Charles E. Jones of Austin states Mrs Belle Gunness, later Mrs Sorenson, may have been driven to crime by hypnotic influence and sudden wealth after her first husband’s death. Anton Olson supports the theory of a captivating power over children.
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Chicago
Ill
Belle Gunness
Charles E. Jones
Austin
Anton Olson
Jennie Olson
Sorenson
Sixty Years a King Celebrated by Emperor Francis Joseph
Emperor Francis Joseph marks sixty years on the throne with ceremonial events and public observances reflecting his long reign and authority across the Austro Hungarian realms.
Sixty Years of Francis Joseph Golden Royal Gathering
In a Vienna palace ceremony marking Francis Joseph I’s sixtieth accession anniversary German Emperor William II and other rulers saluted the Austrian monarch. William lauded the Hapsburgs and decades of Franco-Austrian friendship as a hall of mirrors formalities unfolded. The event ended with a luncheon in Maria Theresa Hall.
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Vienna
Cable
Teror William
Ofrozen
Emperor Francis Joseph
William
Vassel
Francis Joseph
Hapsburg
Germany
Austria
Bavaria
Maria Theresa Hall
My Mama Killed My Papa Secret Report
Police disclose a week before a house fire Myrtle Gunness told a playmate that her mother killed her father with a meat cleaver. The child’s name remains confidential due to the family’s wish for privacy.
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Chicago
Gunness
Myrtle Gunness
Myrtle
Teenager in Brooklyn Slays Five at Barbershop Hideaway
Sixteenth year old Carmello, employed in a Brooklyn barbershop, fatally wounds Antonio Peraso and his wife and mortally wounds three other barbers as they sleep in their Fulton Street apartment. The assailant flees. police suspect Black Hand gang connection.
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New York
Carmello
Brooklyn
Antonio Peraso
Mollycoddle Rooster Mends Brood After Egg Subterfuge
Maplewood Missouri owner N D Kitchell reports his mollycoddle rooster hatched twelve Plymouth Rock chicks from fifteen eggs after three weeks of sitting. To prevent aggression, he removed the chicks to a hen, then placed fifteen new eggs under the rooster, who resumed incubation and remains on the job.
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St. Louis
Maplewood
N. D. Kitchell
Kitchell
Mr. Mollycoddle
Wisconsin papers urged to switch to black paper to cut costs
Wisconsin manufacturers propose a national shift to black paper for newspapers to save pulp wood and lower prices. They argue black paper can be made from old newspapers and junk stock, reducing reliance on spruce and hemlock. Colored supplements would remain on white paper. The plan aims to halve overall paper costs and preserve forests.
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Appleton
Wis
Wisconsin
Colored plates and tonesoa reduce eye strain in ads
The piece argues that tonesoa and colored plates offer the same effect as the existing illustrations. It notes foreign publications increasingly use this novel advertising form and claims the black background is easier on the eyes than white paper glare.
Frisco Cheers Jackies Parade of Navy and Army
In San Francisco a record crowd welcomed eight thousand bluejackets and marines aboard the fleets now in the harbor. A 4.5 mile parade followed from Market Street with Rear Admiral Evans, 7 rear admirals, and 25 hundred soldiers escorting about 15 thousand riders. Governors, mayors, and the Secretary of the Navy joined the salute.
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San Francisco
Cal
Evans
Market Street
Metcalf
Gilett
Cathornia
Taylor
San Franciste
Oil Trust Sidesteps Appeal Fight in Court
The Oil Company of Indiana seeks to escape a $29 240 000 fine imposed by Judge Landis. Attorneys appeared before the United States Court of Appeals arguing against the lower court’s judgment in a special Chicago filing.
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Chicago
The
Oil Company of
Indiana
Feee Mate
Landis
United States District Court
United At Circuit Court of Appeals
Murderess linked to Hoch and Gunness escape tale
Reports in Laporte Indiana connect Belle Gunness to the Hoch case and suggest she fled LaPorte by feigning illness. A cabman’s loaned laundry check and a sworn statement from a Decatur cabdriver bolster claims of Gunness alive. Sheriff Smutzer opens inquiry amid coroner’s doubt.
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Smutzer
Drs
Cabman
Erie
Grand Rapids & Indiana
South Dakota
Grand Rapids
Indiana
Berne
Ind
Gunness
Womer
Identity of Gunness Farm remains linked to Loeffler kin
Through a partial identification by Elkhart residents, the blond-haired woman exhumed at the Gunness farm is believed to be Miss Loeffler. Authorities connect the identification to a man named Crizazo and his alleged marriage to Johann Hoch, suggesting a potential tie to the case.
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Johann Hoch
Elkhart
Gunness
Miss Loeffler
Divorced Wife of King of Saxony Bears Royal Child
Florence dispatch reports Mme Toselli formerly Countess Montignose and Crown Princess Louise of Saxony has borne a son she will nurse herself. She is divorced from the King of Saxony who has five children with her and who courts reconciliation with her amid royal intrigue and public scandal.
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New York
Florence
Italy
Mme. Toselli
Montignese
Louise
Saxony
Enrico Toselli
London
Giron
Europe
Monica Pia of
Countess Montignoso
Monica Pia
Breach of promise suit filed by Miss Marie Smith
Miss Marie Smith, 26, sues Robert J. Gunning, millionaire club man and head of the Gunning advertising system, charging breach of promise and seeking damages totaling $106000 for wounded affections in Chicago.
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Chicago
Marie Smith
Robert J. Gunning
Gunning
Fatal quarrel leads to boat tragedy at Quincey
Adam Wagner drowned in the bay near Quincey Illinois after a quarrel on a boat with his wife and another man. Wagner attempted to strike, fell overboard, and drowned. The survivors were arrested but the coroner's jury ruled the death accidental and they were released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincey, Ill
Adam Wagner
Wagner
Montgomery Fire Kills Five of Black Man’s Children
Montgomery police report a well known Black man named Jim Kergedy locked seven children in his home and burned the house. Five children perished before rescuers could arrive. Authorities investigate motive and safety lapses in the incident.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jim Kergedy
Burglar Flees After Nightie Raid at Y M C A
Pittsburg police report a burglar broke into a Y M C A room and fled when confronted by specialty girls in night gowns. He appeared terrified, mistaking the setting for pursuit by white robed figures.
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Pittsburg
Caesar
Y. W
Atlanta Fire Destroys Two Blocks in Downtown
A major blaze in Atlanta Georgia left two solid business blocks in ruins and threatened downtown. Estimated loss tops 1.5 million dollars. The Terminal Hotel, among the city’s largest, lay in ruins but all guests escaped. it housed about 200 guests when the fire began nearby.
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Atlanta
Terminal
Joseph G Cannon Celebrates 72nd Birthday
Washington special notes Joseph G Cannon Speaker of the House is 72 years old as he marked the seventy second anniversary of his birth on Thursday.
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Joe Cannon
Washington
Joseph G. Cannon
House of Representatives
Brewers to Form Allied Trades League in Wisconsin
In Waukee Wisconsin a new league of allied trades will form June 8 to 10 alongside the United Brewers Association convention. It aims to resist the prohibition wave and will include 60 000 members from brewing machinery makers dealers in supplies real estate builders and other trades possibly including barley farmers.
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Waukee
Wis
United Brewers’ Association
Allied Trades
Explosion threat shocks Las Vegas schoolchildren
In Las Vegas New Mexico authorities warn of an unknown amount of dynamite and dynamite caps in local schoolchildren custody after a warehouse theft. Much of the explosive has been recovered though enough remains to threaten the city.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Fairbanks Urges Schools Over Battleships in Chicago Speech
Vice President Fairbanks at St Stanislaus School dedication banquet condemns socialism and anarchy as enemies of organized government. He argues for simple defense needs and praises schools colleges and universities as future victory engines while opposing large standing armies and naval pomp.
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Chicago
Fairbanks
St. Stanislaus
Japan Awaits Full Report On Timber Factory Attack
Paris demands full explanation from Tokyo over mob attack on a timber factory owned by French citizens in Llino Japan. Miyazaki prefecture cites about $50 000 in damage, no deaths, French owners in hiding, 40 arrests reported, and Tokyo expresses regret while promising to sift the affair.
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Paris
Japan
Llino
Tokio
Miyazaki
Tokio Foreign Office
Marriage in Kentucky: 15-year-old groom weds 12-year-old bride
The notice reports in Upper Rock Creek County a wedding between Leonard Hall aged about 15, son of Elder Joe Hall, and Annie Profitt aged about 12, daughter of Mrs Sarah Profitt. The bride’s father officiated.
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Tee Aetiete Ky
Upper Rock Creek
Leonard Hall
Joe-Hall
Annie Profitt
Great Canals Opened in Basin Wyoming
Water flowed through the fifty four mile Big Horn county canal for the first time last week allowing irrigation of 30000 acres on the west side of the Big Horn River. The project cost 400000 dollars and took three years to complete.
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Basin
Wyo
Big Horn River
Fire Bugs Held For Grand Jury In Norfolk Arson Case
Four Jamestown exposition firemen and two Powhatan guards are jailed for arson after two men confessed. They claim the blaze, which destroyed Philippine villages and other buildings ten days ago, aimed to prove the fire department’s value following a proposed force and salary cut urged by Fire Chief Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Norfolk County Grand Jury
Miller
Quiet push for Roosevelts renomination at Chicago
Washington report outlines a covert movement within the Republican party to force President Roosevelt's renomination at the Chicago convention. A prominent anonymous insider predicts delegates will be pressured by allied candidates to join in the effort, despite Roosevelt's repeated pledges not to seek a second term.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Chicago
Jonathan Bourne
Oregon
Taft
Mr. Taft
Congress
Republican delegates face choice amid Roosevelt clash
The piece notes thousands of candidates from multiple states attending Chicago to push delegates toward nominating Roosevelt. It discusses fears Bryan’s strength could threaten Taft Fairbanks or Cannon, and questions the President’s willingness to seek renomination while hoping Taft gains on the first ballot amid party divisions.
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Congress
Chicago
Taft
Roosevelt
Colonel Bryan
Fairbanks
Cannon
Republican Party
Dumber
Pwo Slain at Card Table in Apple Island Fire Island?
The text reports a fatal shooting during a card game on Apple Island in Black Lake near Watertown New York. A buckshot window break wounded Jerry Apple weltering, then Albert Crowder, a son-in-law, sprang up and was killed by a second shot.
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Watertown
N. Y
Jerry Apple
Cabfir
Apple’s Island
Black*Lake
Applefeh
Albert Crowder
Crowder
Appropriation Bill Advances in Washington House
The House passed the sundry civil appropriation bill on Friday totaling 106,966,369 dollars, about 1.241 million more than the committee’s earlier tally. The action reflects finalizing funding for government activities.
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Washington, Special
House
Great Conspiracy In India
A plot uncovered in Calcutta allegedly reveals a nationwide plan to overthrow British rule in India. Authorities seized documents and explosives suggesting a campaign to kill high officials including Lord Kitchener as part of a royalist revolution. Prominent men implicated. sensational arrests expected.
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India
London
Calcutta
Lord Kitchener
Diamonds Reported Found Along Nottaway River in Quebec
Toronto reports a new diamond field on the Nottaway River between Lakes Mattagami and Shabogama in Quebec. American John MacKenzie and guide Indian Joe located pockets of first water stones across 20 miles. They endured a harsh winter in a dug-out near Lake Mattagami before reaching New Liskeard and Toronto with stones valued at about 10 000 dollars.
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Toronto
Ont
Nottaway River
Mattagami
Shabogama
Quebec
South Africa
John MacKenzie
Joe
Lake Mattasami
New Liskeard
MacKenzie
Hope Diamond Sold in Paris for 400000
The famous Hope diamond now sold in Paris for 400000. Reported buyer is Joseph Frankel's Sons Company of New York. The sapphire blue gem weighed 4414 karats and was once owned by H. T. Hope. It is linked to a 112% karat rough cut said to have been owned by Tavernier and Louis XIV.
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Paris
Joseph Frankel’s Sons Company
New York
Turkey
H. T. Hope
Tavernier
Louis XIV
Death by own action stuns New York fiancee at cathedral wedding
Isaac Frazier Williams a Fidelity and Casualty solicitor and former cotton broker killed himself two weeks after the T. A. McIntyre & Co. collapse. Williams was to wed in the Cathedral of St John the Divine with twenty five guests and his fiancée waiting in the crypt.
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New York
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Isaac Frazier Williams
Fidelity and Casualty Company
St. John the Divine
Taft on Home Stretch
Washington Special reports Thursday boosted Secretary Taft with twenty new delegates including four Alabama at large fourteen Connecticut and two from Alabama district one. Taft now holds about five hundred delegates toward the nomination with Hitchcock claiming four hundred fifty secured or within forty-one of victory.
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Washington
Taft
Alabama
Connecticut
Frank A. Hitchcock
War Aeroplane Makes Flight at Kill Devil Hill
Manteo North Carolina special Wright Brothers aeronauts have built a war aeroplane and made a first flight near Kill Devil Hill. The machine proved successful in every respect and traveled about 1000 feet with perfect control and easy landing.
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Manteo
N. C
Wright Brothers
Aeronauts
Kill Devil Hill
British Triumph Over Afghans at Khyber Pass
An official report from Peshawar states 300 Afghans were killed and many wounded in two days of fighting with British forces led by Gen Wilcocks at the west entrance to Khyber Pass. Native Indian troops in English service credited with victory.
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London
Peshawar
India
Wilcocks
Khyber Pass
Statesman to Be United States Minister in Foreign Service
James F. Statesman, formerly of Peru and later of Indianapolis, will be appointed by President Roosevelt as minister in the foreign service. He will serve at a salary of $10,000 a year and is designated as minister to Nicaragua or Honduras.
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Washington
James F. Statesman
Peru
Indianapolis
United States
Roosevelt
Foreign Service
Statesman
Nicaragua
Honduras
Bryan Jr Bests Crowe in Kidnapping Plot
Houston police report a plot by Pat Crowe to kidnap W. J. Bryan Jr. for ransom was foiled when Bryan changed plans after spending a day at a Bayside resort and escaped with close guards.
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Houston
Texas
Pat Crowe
Kidnay W. J. Bryan, Jr
Bayside
Fire devastates towns in Morong province Philippines
A deadly blaze in Antipolo Morong Province of Manila territory destroyed about four hundred houses leaving hundreds homeless. The fire started by lightning and the shrine survived. Antipolo with 3500 residents faced heavy losses.
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Philippines
Manila
Cable
Antipolo
Morong
Fames Shrine
Bank cashier arrested for embezzling $429000
William Montgomery longtime cashier of Allegheny National Bank in Pittsburg is arrested on a charge of embezzling 429000 dollars of bank funds.
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Pittsburg
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
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