IN CELL FOR YEARS Returns Home After 14 Years Missing
Glen R. Kimball formerly of Deadwood South Dakota reappeared at his wife's Larimore North Dakota home last week after being presumed dead for 14 years. He claims to have been held against his will and alleges abuse while a man thought dead had his life insurance paid out. The tale includes a buried body, multiple exhumations and disputed identity. The case links to Deadwood and Reno Nebraska, with travel through Lincoln Nebraska and Tecumseh.
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Kimball
Deadwood
Fiven
Reno
Neh
Prosper
Minn
Lincoln
Neb
Tecumseh
New
Kimball Flowlly
Germans living cost high spur emigration to US
Imperial statistics show German families tracking incomes and expenditures to test seeings of subsistence. Examples include a childless teacher saving 30 from 700 and a two child family with incomes around 580 saving 95 amid strict thrift. The findings Come as new internal revenue taxes loom on tobacco coffee beer and gas.
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Berlin
United States
Imperial Statistical Office
Germany
Empire
Yery
Maniles Deurer
Diamonds to farmers wives stir New York trade
New York reports a jewelry surge as western farmers prosper and demand for high grade gems rises. Importers say orders flood in from the Midwest and Northwest, while supply struggles to keep pace and sell to farmers wives. Wilkeshire Pa reports a man’s fatal porch fall and a son’s recent mining death.
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New York
Maiden Lane
Middle West
Northwest
Carnegie Gives to Liverpool Libraries and Rooms
Andrew Carnegie offers 95000 to fund two branch libraries and three reading rooms in Liverpool subject to site provision. The city accepts. this brings Carnegie’s total gifts to Liverpool to about 200000 to 850000 pounds.
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Carnegie
Liverpool
Liverpoul
Eng
Andrew Carnegie
New Jag Dose for Kansas
Topeka report on the Jackson cocktail named after Attorney General Fred Jackson blends apple cider with Jamaica ginger. The piece notes drastic Kansas restrictions and hints at alcohol production challenges, with a side remark about investigators seeking alternative samples as blight affects gin and sens plants.
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Topeka
Kan
Fred Jackson
Ginseng Crop Blighted in Brown County Indiana
Columbus lawyers Ian Cox and Roy Emig, leading ginseng growers, report their Brown County holdings damaged by blight. They sent samples to the government for inspection as blight threatens near-total destruction of the crop. Government entomologists have been asked to investigate and assist.
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Antomologists
Columbus, Ind
Ian Cox
Roy Emig
Brown County
Government Department
Blind Girls Waltz on Skates at Royal Normal Festival
London reports the Royal Normal college and Academy of Music for the blind showcased varied careers and amusements at its annual prize festival. Events included organ, piano, woodwork, needlework, shorthand, typing, and singing. Two blind girls danced a waltz on skates with precise timing. Four boys demonstrated lifesaving in the swimming pool.
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London
Royal Normal College and
Academy of Music
New War Engine for London Torpedoes
London reports government plans to manufacture new torpedoes with improved speed and range. The devices, claimed to be superior to existing types, are expected to travel at 0 knots per hour and reach five miles, to be discharged mainly from submerged tubes on battleships.
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London
Gold Bricks Delivered to Seattle Assay Office
A shipment of 2,400 pounds of gold bricks valued over $500,000 arrived at the Seattle government assay office. The haul was received by mail from Wairbankas, Alaska, routed through Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Seattle
Wairbankas
Alaska
Vancouver
B.C
Opium Smoking in Chinese Society Draws Sharp Critique
Dr J H McCartney argues opium corrupts less than alcohol yet ruins trust and family finances. He cites addiction effects on Chinese users, physician endorsements gone wrong, and social costs from impoverished communities amid a broader condemnation of opium use. The piece cites Tong Kiai Sen of the Opium Commission describing widespread misery in western China.
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J. H. McCartney
Tong Kiai Sen
Opium Commission
Iroon
China
Szechuan
Yunnan
Kweichow
Kansu
Shensi
Effect of Total Abstinence
Pratt Sims Weedhead of Cambridge backs total abstinence in a Victoria Mission Hall address. He argues abstinence would lessen poverty and mortality, reduce injustice, and improve moral outlook, though notes some men should not be deprived of work during the transition.
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Victoria Mission
Pratt
Sims Weedhead
University of Cambridge
China Adopts Prohibition Laws Target Opium Users
The new anti opium compulsion laws prescribe drastic punishment for users in China. From the current year to year five, the maximum penalty applies to those of a certain group by strangulation. In the following year the punishment extends to the gentry and subsequently to the general public.
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China
Hisnan Tung
Paul on Christian Love Sunday School Lesson 1909
A compact 1909 Sunday school lesson centered on First Corinthians 13, highlighting love as the core virtue that completes faith and charity. It outlines nine descriptive ingredients of love including patience kindness generosity humility courtesy unselfishness cool temper forgiveness and truthfulness.
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Solden
Mothegns
Ananias
Carnabas
Jesus
Hfe
Belgiveth
Ketter
Rav
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