Death Story of Horace Jackson in Minnesota Woods
Horace Jackson, a 63 year old Chicago businessman, recounts five days and four nights lost in northern Minnesota forests. He survived exhaustion and a phantom with a scythe, returning home with a frozen toe and tales of a perilous hunt with friends and a Finnish guide near Nameless Lake.
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Chicago
Horace Jackson
Minnesota
Aackson
Ely
Northwestern Station
Jackson
E. C. More
Mr. Jackson
Sheridan Road
Howard Jackson
Arthur Jackson
J. J. Bagley
Ms Health
Lost Woodsman Endures Four More Days of Harsh Survival
A woodsman woundedly recounts marching through dense brush and marshes after losing camp. With dwindling shots and meals, he built fires to signal, slept near coals to avoid freezing, and faced freezing darkness while searching for shelter. He damps fear with stubborn resolve as marshy ice complicates the trek.
Wisconsin hunter recalls struggle with frost and survival
An elderly woodsman shares a perilous trek in the Wisconsin frontier. After days of hunger and hypothermia, he finds a sliver of sustenance from cranberries and narrowly survives a fatal trapper encounter. A hunting party is planned as he vows to return.
Signals for game hunters in Marquette Michigan
Thomas B. Wyman, secretary of the Northern For "Dotective association of the Upper and every hunter will be ith them that necessary we rendered as soon 18 pos re are the signals. Helpall in quick succession. In shot, pause, two shots, pause. Lost-Three quick shots, pause. Man found-One shot, pause, quick shots. Call heard-Two ' k shots, pause, two quick shots, large placards have been placed in 1 woods by Mr. Wyman to keep the signals ever before the minds of the hunters.
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Marquette
Mich
Thomas B.wyman
Northern
Mr. Wyman
Army prepares winter huts for Pershing campaign in Mexico
Troops of General Pershing’s punitive expedition convert tent camps into adobe dwellings and mud huts as winter approaches. Officers, infantry, and cavalry men build one room residences with fires, baths, and wood stoves while workmen supply roofs and windows. Pershing favors a tent but will have a bungalow. a full camp village will remain after withdrawal.
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Pershing
Mexico
el Valle
Tiye Service
General Pershing
Sibley
Quartermaster's
Burglary Tools Found in Auction Chest
Edward Betson bought a chest at an auction of unclaimed express packages for 25 cents. The chest, bought as likely empty, contained burglar tools, $27 in cash, a dozen automobile caps, and two new suits, with loot wrapped to silence jingling. Betson fears trouble from the find. Mrs Davis sent jewelry to a laundry in Kansas City Kansas and the pillow slip with a half carat diamond ring and matching earrings disappeared.
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Kansas City
Kan
William Davis
Sandusky Avenue
Woman earns sixty eight a week doing five wash loads
Georgianna Cuthbert testifies she earns $68 weekly handling five wash loads without using bleach or acids in Norristown. Marie Lusson sues to stop a rear yard laundry in Ardmore, arguing it violates restrictions. experts deem the small operation unobjectionable with no dirt noise or smell.
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Norristown
Georgianna Cuthbert
Equity
Marie Lusson
Cuthbert
Swartz
Miss Cuthbert
Ardmore
Woman's Wardrobe Stock Leads to Public Sale
In Mount Holly New Jersey Walter I Dill of the Union National Bank was authorized to sell Miss Eliza McHenry's large wardrobe to raise funds for her maintenance. The sale displays 17 trunks and dozens of clothing items including over 200 pairs of shoes 50 hats eight fur coats and numerous pocketbooks and furs.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Eliza McHenry
Walter I. Dill
Union National Bank
Germans Have Cash for Art in Dresden Auction
Berlin reports a sale of 144 paintings from the estate of Hugo Schmell of Dresden totaling 235000 dollars. Max Liebermann lead prices at 14570 dollars for a Rembrandt style girl at work, with Letl portraits at 10000 and 5460 dollars, while a Lehnbach portrait of Bismarck fetched 2300 dollars. Segantini's peasant scene sold for 5500 dollars and Courbet works brought 11800 dollars in total.
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Berlin
Hugo Schmell
Dresden
Max Liebermann
Rembrandt
Letbl
Lehnbach
Bismarck
Segantini
Germany
Courbet
Army Seeks Women Recruiters In San Francisco
Lieut. Col. John H. Gardner announces a campaign to hire twelve women to aid army recruitment in San Francisco. Recruits will be paid one dollar each, with an exhibit planned on Market Street to show soldier life from cooking to drill.
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San Francisco
Cal
United States Army
John H. Gardner
Gardner
Market Street
Kaiser’s wine agent jailed for wartime contraband
Chalons sur Marne France a Reims wine merchant named Goulden convicted by a court martial of shipping 860 cases of chatapaque valued at 42000 francs to the German emperor via Buenos Aires. He was once the emperor’s champagne merchant before the war and received five years in prison a 20000 franc fine and ten years loss of civil rights.
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Chalons-sur-Marne
France
Reims
Goulden
Buenos Aires
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