Pretty farmer's daughter thwarts wager over suitors
Marie Cook of Platte City area rejects five suitors after a blind pool bet to win her hand. James Judson, William McIntyre, Elmer Connett, Ralph Dale, and John Avery courted her. each received a marked letter ending the romance, leaving all five men silent about the wager.
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Matte County
Marie Cook
Platte City
Womman
Miss Cook
James Judson
Misa Cook
Tie
Judson
William McIntyre
Cook
Elmer Connett
Ralph Dale
John Avery
Marie
Matie
Jim
Mari
Prankster's wake hoax shocks Chicago friends
James A. Ryan, a Chicago saloon keeper, learns a cruel joke by Phil Rose ends in a waking hoax. Rose tells Ryan’s friends he is dead, they hurry to the bedside in costume, only to find him alive and leading to a comic, remorseful finish as laughter returns and Rose vows to quit jokes.
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Stevena
James A. Ryan
Chicago
Phil Rose
Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Gus Anderson
Ile
Jim
Rose
Tyan
Man
Montana Wolves Costly to Keep From Increasing
Montana spends about 400 000 dollars yearly to keep wolves and coyotes from increasing. A record state payment of 50 006 dollars balances on 16 696 wolves and coyotes killed in 1807. Total 85 650 dollars for 1807, with over 150 000 dollars in claims filed. counties and stockmen pay similar amounts.
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Yelena
Mont
Montana
Watchfulness in May Sunday School Lesson on Matthew 24
The lesson dated April 4 40 on the Mount of Olives overlooks Jerusalem focuses on the duty to watch amid signs of upheaval. It discusses reasons to watch the immediacy of Christ coming, dangers of spiritual sleep, and rewards for faithful watchfulness, contrasting earthly promotion with heavenly reward. It cites Jesus parables and notes dangers of oppression and self-indulgence among leaders.
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Peloubet
Jesus
Temple
Mount of Olves
Jerusalem
Bethany
Olivet
Sis
Ihanna
M. R. Vincent
ITI
Joseph
Potiphar
Broailus
Alford
Abbott
Lange
Dante
Cluny
Frederich
Frederick
Prof. Norton
Applications to Temperance Watch
Watch against intemperance by daily duties and striving to be good. Observe temperate and religious people you know and the effects of liquor on others. Note the actions of saloon keepers and law abiders, and guard against the smallest beginnings of drinking before you start.
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Hsiaut
Eighty Years a Mason William Earle Cook Claims Oldest Member
William Earle Cook of Portsmouth New Hampshire contests a California dispatch claiming the oldest mason died there. Born January 26 1797 he is now 101. A former blacksmith and horse shoer he spent two years in Cuba with De Wolfs of Bristol. He joined Freemasonry in 1819 and has been active for about 80 years. He lives with his family and has eight grandchildren. He has suffered a recent stroke and his health declines.
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William Arte Cook
William Earle Cook
Portsmouth
Newport
California
Mr. Cook
Tie
Cuba
de Wolfs
Bristol
Eunice Sherman
New Bedford
Freemasonry
St. Albans Lodge
Eureka Lodge
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cook
Wedding Up in the Wind at Chicago’s Tower Top
A man and woman wed 280 feet above ground in the weather bureau office atop the Auditorium tower in Chicago. Groom H. Allen La Faunce, a retired opera singer, and bride Libbie Mall, 20, of Michigan, were joined by Justice George LT. Foster as gusts and storm roared overhead. Attendees included T. S. Hesse and wife, Samuel Arend, and Lova Grant, with curious locals, after a jest prompted ceremony draped in wind and rain instruments.
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Auditorium
Chicago
Weather Bureau
H. Allen la Faunce
Libbie Mall
George LT. Foster
T. S. Hesse
Samuel
Arend
Harrison Street
Lova Grant
Michigan
Woman 87 Regains Youthful Look After Teeth Regrowth
Limestone county Alabama reports Mrs Polly Emry once aged 87 with white hair no teeth and frail, now after a dentist removed all teeth 27 years ago health improves rapidly. In a year she regained dark hair stronger teeth and vigor, appearing around 40 again. Neighbors praise her refined character and renewed vitality.
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Alabama
Limestone County
Ala
Atlanta Constitution
Polly Emry
Woman Photo Journalist at Gainesville Hanging
An unknown richly dressed woman, believed to be a tourist, photographed the execution of Richard James in Gainesville Florida. She pressed through the crowd on the trap room steps with a Kodak and captured moments before and after the trap sprung, including the meeting between Father Lynch and the condemned man, the swinging body, and guards. Her identity could not be determined.
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Richard James
Kodak
Gainesville
Fla
Father Lynch
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