Life by minerals and protoplasm claims by Houghton
Report from Chicago dated December 25 details Dr. A. D. Houghton’s assertion that life can be created from chemical components of protoplasm. He explains forming a living cell via a disintegrated protoplasm solution and a motive agent, with reproduction still elusive. Also notes colleagues Loeb and Butenschill on related work.
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Chicago
Hahnemann Medical Faculty
A. D. Houghton
Andrew Lang
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Houghton
Culver
Tyndall
Loeb
Butechill
Berlin
Chicago University
America
University of Illinois , Medical School
Hahnemann Collage
Buried Treasure Sought in Russian Monastery
A Russian engineer officer heads to Klett to find about 4.4 million dollars rumored hidden in the Potchaijowska monastery. He uncovered family papers and a plan showing where treasure from Napoleon era was buried. The monastery would grant him a third if permission is issued by the bishop.
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St. Petgraburg
Klett
Potchajowska
Prosperous Illinois farmer shoots wife stepson then kills self
In Yates City Illinois last evening Aurist Iceberg a 69 year old farmer living at Farmington shot his wife through the abdomen and then three times at his 14 year old stepson who interfered He then walked to his daughter Mrs Davis home near Farmington and shot himself in the head dying three hours later The wife is dying and the boy will recover The motive cited is divorce and property disputes
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Peoria
Yates City
Aurist Iceberg
Farmington
Mra. Davis
Bop
Salt famine in the south halts shipments amid salt shortage
Knoxville reports the last sack of salt used, triggering a regional famine as cars to transport salt from Virginia cannot be obtained. Southern markets face severe strain. salt firms say supplies exist if rail service returns. Meanwhile hog killing across the region is disrupted as farmers await salt. In Columbus, Lemert and family are poisoned by dinner pork, with Lemert in serious condition.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Virginia
Columbus
Charleau
Lemert
Dennis Avenue
Nash
First U S Resident Decorated by King Edward VII
Arthur Egan, 17, hero of 23 Lake Michigan life saving exploits, is decorated by King Edward VII after being notified by the British consul of a Royal Humane Society gold medal. Egan, born in Toronto, is a British subject and the first U S resident to receive the honor. Central Labor Union Formed in Chattanooga Tennessee agrees to keep politics out of the new body as unions join.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Edward VI
England
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Wyndham
Royal Humane Society
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United States
Toronto
Ont
Central Labor Union
Chattanooga
Tenn
Central
Arizona and Mexico Form Border Rangers Coalition
Arizona lawmakers authorize Governor Murph to form a ranger company led by Captain Burton Mossman to hunt the region’s bandits. Diaz in Mexico orders rurales under Colonel Kosteriisky to patrol the border and aid the rangers. Officials say rangers and rurales will increasingly operate jointly across the border, pursuing criminals into each other’s territories.
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Mexico
United States
Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
N. O. Murphy
Burton Mossman
Diaz
Kosteriisky
Sonora
Mossman
Bisbee
Rich girl disappears after Chicago visit now missing
Miss Jessie Allen a Jersey City socialite vanished in Chicago six weeks ago while en route to North Platte Nebraska for holidays. Private detectives have searched the city without success. Relatives fear foul play or kidnapping after she arrived November 17 and used money from her watch to rent a boarding house room. She asked Eugene L Haddock of Lemley Nebraska to wire funds, but she never called for them and has not been heard from since.
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West
Chicago
Jessie Allen
Jersey City
North Platte
Neb
Eugene L. Haddock
Lemley
Northwestern
Do Not Take Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
Do not take Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin unless you have constipation indigestion sick headache or stomach trouble such as dyspepsia biliousness or heartburn these are what it is guaranteed to cure Sold by all druggists.
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Dr. Caldwell
Vatican to Washington post rumor denied by Vatican
Reports from Rome and Topeka transmit a circular rumor that Mgr. Consalibrini of Piacenza was to be appointed papal delegate in Washington and that he asked the pope to decline. The Vatican states no such promotion was intended and the Washington post remains unfilled by him.
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Rome
United States
Mgr. Consaubrini
Piacenza
Mer. Martinelli
Vatican
Mgr. Consalibrini
Washington Post
Peaceful settlement hoped in Chili Argentina dispute
Washington reports encouraging news from Buenos Ayres about the Chili Argentina dispute. US minister Lord will not press demands but allows the issue to go before the conciliation body. Argentine minister to Chili has arrived in Buenos Ayres and the legation in Santiago remains open with relations not interrupted.
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Washington
State Department
Buenos Ayres
Lord
United States
Chili
Santiago de Chili
Chill
Death mystery as saloonkeeper Bert Hutton dies suspect
Atlanta reports Bert Hutton a saloon keeper died after illness with police investigating possible poisoning for money. He sold a saloon for 1200 dollars three weeks earlier and no funds were found on him. body showed darkening, physicians cite scarlet fever possibility. case labeled suspicious. Other items note Birmingham pastor moving to Chicago, a Macon arrest with burglary tools, toll road condemnation in Scranton, a Des Moines death, and a York lawsuit over wounds.
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Atlanta
Bert Hutton
Hutton
Garibaldi Street
Srigid
National Bank of the Common Trust liquidation vote and merger
In Boston the stockholders voted to place the National Bank of the Common Trust in voluntary liquidation with William A Towst and R. M. Saltonstall appointed as liquidating agents. The bank had merged into the National Bhawmut Bank. Windfall for Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. In Chicago Judge Cutting awards a one fourth estate share to Arctic explorer Nansen from the Blessing estate. In Philadelphia prominent lawyer David W. Bellers dies. In Birmingham Jack Martin granted a new trial after gaming table conviction.
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National Bank of the Common
William A Towst
R. M. Saltonstall
Ap Inted
National Bhawmut Bank
Nansen
Chicago
Cutting
Fridtjof Nansen
Mathias Blessing
Philadelphia
David W. Bellers
Fairmount Park Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Jack Martin
Birmingham
Ala
Negro Lynching Threat Follows Wise County Shooting
A Bristol dispatch reports a drunken negro fatally shot two white men, D. H. Miller the secretary and treasurer of a large coal company at Tom's Creek, Wise County Virginia, and then killed Charles Williams a commissary clerk. He was captured this morning amid threats of lynching.
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Nashville
Bristol
D. H. Miller
Big
Tom's Creek
Charles Williams
Venezuelan Grisis Near Fort De Fiance Amid Arms Leaflet
British steamer Ban Righ arrives at Fort De France with arms for Senor Matos adherents. Venezuelan gunboat Restaurdor departed, destination unknown. Reports say fighting near Caracas and Vila do Coura, General Mendoza defeated. German railroad dispute suspends traffic Caracas to Valencia. General Matos stays at Ivans hotel. German cruiser Falberg and Dutch cruiser Utrecht seen at ports.
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Martinique
Haytien Cabie
Restaudor
Ban Righ
Senor Matos
Antwerp
Venezuela
Vila Do Coura
Caracas
Luciano Mendoza
Carabobo
Valencia
Rar
General Matos 5
Ivanes Hotel
Falberg
Porto Cabello
Utrecht
LaGuayra
Col J M Smith Not Out Of Race
A city gentleman close to Hon James M Smith of Oglethorpe County refutes an Atlanta Constitution report that Col Smith would drop from the governor race. He says Smith remains hopeful, conferring with supporters statewide while busy with farm tasks and preparations for another year.
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Col
J. M. Smith
James M. Smith
Oglethorpe
Col. Smith
Gover
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta
Christmas Cheer from Atheneans
An old Georgia teacher writes in The Banner thanking Mt. Vernon Lodge for Santa Claus packages sent through their treasurer. He says he cannot express gratitude, recalling the line What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits to me, and asks readers to thank the generous masons.
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Santa Claus
Athens
Mt. Vernon Lodge
David
Georgia
Christmas Dinner at Clarke County Farm Joyful Aid
The Christmas dinner for the poor at Clarke County Farm was one of the happiest events of the season. Miss Mamie Hilsman and her assistants organized the meal, supplying ample food from the county for the inmates. The event was noted as one of the best of its kind ever held there.
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County of Clarke
Mamie Hilsman
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