Long prisoner to be released after thirty one years
George E. Gordon, imprisoned since 1866 for murder in West Albany, will be freed May 8 after Governor Morton commuted his life sentence to 52 years. Gordon, now 66, faces a lonely reintegration with a wife remarried, few resources, and a strained view of life beyond prison. His pardon followed two decades on file and a history of good conduct as Dannemora’s prison librarian.
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Executive Chamber
Rensselaer County
Gordon
Dannemora
Gardner's Queer Game Ends With Silent Los Angeles Fast
Robert Gardner a Chicago man who traveled to Los Angeles three months ago has been found in good health at the Hotel Vogel after a long fast begun January 6. He started at 127 pounds and has lost 32, sleeping about 18 hours daily while consuming only water, and he remains reticent about his purpose.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Robert Gardner
Cal
Vogel
Gardner
Careless Packing Hurts Export Trade Warns Mexican Coasts
Mexican coast trade woes prompt Consul Oliver at Merida to urge American exporters to pack goods securely for sea transfer to lighters amid rough open water. Merchants blame US packing for losses to Europe and cite long standing complaints from multiple regions. Niagara Falls water flow and New York free library funding noted in brief.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
Progresso
Oliver
Merida
State Department
United States
Europe
Poison Doomed Wolves by Inoculation Showdown at Casper
A Casper man Emil Streitz claims a yellow liquid can kill all wolves and coyotes in Wyoming. He describes injecting three drops under the skin, releasing the animal to die in 30 to 40 hours while spreading the disease as it bites others. Stockmen seek contracts if cattle safety can be preserved.
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Atsek
Streitz
Otto Courier
Big Horn Basin
New Sewers for Paris Mark Major Underground Project
Paris advances its large subterranean sewer system between the Clichy gate and Trinity place to serve districts from Menilmontant to Montmartre and the Opera area. A six by five yard tunnel rises daily by about 644 yards with shielded excavation, blasting, and a temporary rail tramway using three locomotives to remove excavated material.
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Paris
Clichy Gate
Trinity Place
Trinity Church
Menilmontant
Belleville
la Villette
la Chapelle
Montmartre
Remarkable accident train saved by one in ten million
A Lake Shore flyer from Cleveland into Chicago last Saturday survived a rare failure when a steel tire slipped from the engine wheel and, against enormous odds, fell clear of the track without wrecking the train. The Chicago Tribune notes the event as miraculous and astonishing.
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Lake Shore
Chicago
New Citrus Fruit Disease Hits California Oranges
California orange growers report a new citrus disease spreading rapidly and causing heavy losses. Orange shipments develop unmarketable condition after packing, with one firm losing 15 carloads. Specimens sent to the University of California. The disease appears as a black spot on the naval part of the fruit and ruins flavor. It also attacks lemons.
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California
Chamblin
Fruit Exchange
University of California
Petrified Indian Body Found on Atchison Farm
In Atchison county Kansas searchers digging on the Indian Farm uncovered a nearly perfect petrified human body from a buried grave. The figure, estimated to have weighed 160 to 170 pounds in life, now weighs about 634 pounds on scales with one missing thumb.
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Atchison County
Kan
Persinan
Stranger Creek
Pensinau
James Saunders
Electric lamp combine aims to crush small rivals
A large scale combine of about a dozen major incandescent lamp manufacturers has formed not by stock pooling but by cross licensing of patents to squeeze out competitors who refuse higher prices. Led by J H Rhotenhamel of Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co St Louis, the group includes Westinghouse in Pittsburgh Edison General Electric in New York and firms in Warren Ohio Cleveland Springfield Mass Chicago and other cities.
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United States
J. H. Rhotenhamel
Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company
St. Louis
Columbia
Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh
Edison General Electric Company
New York
Warren, C
Cleveland
Springfield
Mass
Chicago
Third Largest Drawbridge Linking Superior and Duluth
The bridge under construction will connect Superior and Duluth as the third largest drawbridge in the world. It spans 1,095 feet dock to dock and about 59 feet wide, with a 491 foot, 1800 ton main section. It will be the sole streetcar and vehicle bridge between the two cities, cost over $1,000,000, and is expected to open with navigation.
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Superior
Buluath
Duluth
Harlem River
New York
New York Central
Hudson River Railway
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Girl Hugger Fined by Kansas Court in Odd Case
A 14 year old girl in Douglass County was fined five dollars and costs after a local justice heard that she violently hugged the 13 year old son of a Baldwin businessman. The town lacked a lawyer and townspeople lined up with the prosecution as it was revealed the boy and others had teased the girl with snowballs. The girl was jailed in default.
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Kansas Court
Douglass
FiveYearOld Bessie Takes Credit For Pudding
In a lunch hour moment, five year old Bessie proclaims she saved the pudding by spotting it on the table and preventing Whiskers from eating it, insisting she did not actually bake or contribute to the dessert. The family gasps at her humorous claim.
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Bessie
New Mary Color Declares Dark Brown Hair Trend
A fashion writer notes the latest hair color for Mary is dark brown with a long dash of depth. The trend emphasizes rich shade and lasting tone for seasonal styling.
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New Mary
Faculty Banquet Snub Sparks Uni of Chicago Tension
Four score graduate students at the University of Chicago defied a four year custom by excluding faculty and the president from their Windermere banquet. The event turned into a festive, nonacademic gathering with songs, jokes, and cheer, as organizers shifted away from formal lectures to lighthearted toasts and sociable banter.
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University of Chicago
Windermere
Harper
Divinity
S. J. McLane
State gains windfall from unclaimed Barber estate
New York Times report from Augusta Ga notes Hancock county man Barber died intestate with no known heirs leaving $150,000. Escheat laws push the entire estate to the state treasury after two weeks of search fail to uncover any identifying documents or connections to the deceased.
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Georgia
New York Times
Augusta
Barber
Hancock County
New York
Labor in Nicaragua reported as practical slavery
The Vanama Star and Herald cites Nicaraguan advices warning of labor market misery where buying labor traps men women and children. Despite a constitution backed by military power many escape attempts fail as debt and fines drive workers to low wages. Estate owners seek Cuban labor to migrate to Nicaragua.
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Vanama Star and Herald
Nicaragua
Sheep bone graft offers limb saving hope for Niagara Falls man
In a dramatic operation at Lexington Heights hospital Buffalo a young engineer F H Mayer received a five inch bone graft from a live sheep to bridge a five inch gap in his fractured left leg after failed healing. Surgeons preserved periosteum and planned bone growth to save the limb amid possible amputation.
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F. H. Mayer
Carbide Works
Niagara Falls
William AW. Hodge
Falls
de Witt Ed. Wilcox
Buffalo
Wilcox
Lexington Heights Hospital
Enchantress and Voodoo Save Foster From Noose
The mother of Sam Foster, hanged for murder in Clayton Missouri, spent her money on Etta Taylor a famed voodoo healer. Taylor performed rites around a caldron with colored liquors as fumes overwhelmed Mrs Foster who watched in a trance. The doomed man wore a neck talisman as “witches” vowed to save him.
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Missouri
Vooe
Sam Foster
Clayton
Bertram Atwater
Etta ‘Taylor
Foster
Giant and Dwarf in One A Curious St Louis Case
A middle aged laborer, 0.8 Chaney, in St. Louis suffers a bizarre transformation. The right shoulder swells while the right arm becomes helpless, and the left side withers to a dwarf like proportion. Doctors are unable to diagnose or treat the rapid bodily transmutation.
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St. Louis
St. Luis
Chaney
Randall
North Side Dispensary
The Human Life Line and Weather Notes from Texas
The piece describes a palmistry claim that a line from the big toe predicts longevity, with variations indicating long life or sickness. It also notes a mixed Texas weather pattern with a summerlike spell in Houston followed by a heavy snowstorm in the north. It mentions the first U.S. post office in New York in 1710 and reports Japan making bicycles for sale in Britain.
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Texas
Houston
Tex
New York
Kat
Justice Blanks A Fuse Line At The Republican Office
A fragment list describes judicial actions including subpoenas warrants appeals and bonds. Mentions Venice civil and criminal cases with terms like writ of attachment recognizance and notice by publication. Provides phrases such as security to keep the peace and indictment related terms in a terse docket-like outline.
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Venice
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