Rochford Land Co Want Column Promoters Offer Lands
For sale and rental notices advertise inexpensive properties in Dakota and local upgrades. Descriptions include a 7 room house on Winona Street with barn, a two lot Lansing Avenue site, a 6 room cement-walk home, Bridge Street houses, an 80 acre farm near town, and a request for a 3 to 4 room rental. Excursion rates offered for Dakota trips.
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Winona St
Dakota Lands
Dakota
Lansing Ave
Bridge
Bodies Found May Shed Light On Guinness Farm Murders
Laporte Ind May 7 four more bodies were discovered in the Guinness farm barn. Evidence indicates the nine dismembered corpses were shipped to Laporte from Chicago, with two trunks bound for Mrs Belle Guinness. Investigators seek Chicago police help as Lamphere faces murder charges and letters link him to the crimes.
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Laporte
Ind
Guinness Farm
Chicago
Draymen
Guinness
Belle Guinness
Confessed dynamiting of Burlington Overland Flyer
Lewis Ferris a 23 year old Jefferson county rancher confessed at St James hospital to dynamiting the Burlington Overland Flyer last Friday night causing three deaths Engineer Bussey Charles Ming and Fireman George Ehle The confession was given to County Attorney James Murray in the hospital room with Jerry Murphy and North ern Pacific Detective James McFetridge Archie and James Reynolds present He had previously evaded arrest on suspicion of involvement in a North Coast Limited hold up and had been a nuisance to police with numerous petty crimes The confession shows no hope of immunity and explains he fled after the explosion hoping for loot
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Jerry Murphy
Northern Pacific
James McFetridge
Archie
James Reynolds
Ferris
Chicago police fail to prove crimes by Mrs Guinness
Investigators found no evidence linking Mrs. Guinness to crimes related to trunks shipped from Chicago to the Guinness farm. The death of her first husband P. A. Sorenson was recorded as cerebral hemorrhage, later reclassified as heart enlargement after exhumation prompted by an $8,000 life insurance policy. No missing person report tied to the period was found in town records.
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Martin
Laporte
Guinness
Smultzer
Chicago
Sorenson
House votes against reestablishment of canteen at Soldiers' Home
Washington May 7 the House records against reestablishing the canteen at the National Soldiers' Home by 167 to 46 after two hours of debate. George F Gridley of Providence R I unfurled a flag and spoke from the gallery on temperance. Bar nett of New York admitted under old immigration law he railroaded naturalization of many foreigners in one day. Apart from this, the sundry civil appropriation bill moved slowly with few completed sections.
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Washington
House of Representatives
National Soldiers’ Home
George F. Gridley
Providence
R. I
Barnett
New York
Immigration Commission
Tittle
Ten Are For Taft Delegation Chosen At Hartford
Hartford May 7 The Republican convention chose fourteen delegates to the Chicago convention with ten instructed to vote and work for Secretary Taft and four uninstructed. The body rallied pro Taft though some opposition faded as Taft strength became clear. Senators Bulkeley and Brandegee withdrew their names as delegates at large.
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Hartford
Conn
Chicago
Taft
Bulkeley and
Brandegee
Publishers Testify on Print Paper Price Increase
Washington readers heard publishers and newspaper managers describe rising print paper costs. They urged passage of the Stevens bill to repeal duties on wood pulp and mechanically ground wood pulp and on print paper valued at two cents a pound or less. Norris of the American Newspaper Publishers Association explained the request and Mann praised the testimony.
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Washington
House
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Association
Congress
Mann
Norris
Johnson Victory in Minnesota Delegates Calculated for Denver
Minnesota delegates to the Democratic National Convention favor Governor Johnson with about 100 Bryan delegates contesting districts. Johnson is expected to receive the solid state vote on the first ballot, amid party realignments led by Frank A. Day and F. B. Lynch. County results vary as Bryan and Johnson factions claim gains in Carlton Louis and other counties with county conventions forthcoming.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Denver
Johnson
Bryan
Carlton County
Louis
Frank A. Day
F. B. Lynch
T. T. Hudson
Duluth
Olmstead
Lyon
Morrison
Jackson
Rock
Renville
Wright
Norman
Chippewa
Mille Lacs
Harmon Nominated for Ohio Governor at Tumultuous Dem Convention
In Columbus the Ohio Democratic convention nominated Judson Harmon of Cincinnati for governor and endorsed Bryan for president. A full state ticket was chosen with James E. Campbell for U.S. senator. Mayor Tom Johnson fought Harmon but lost amid dramatic scenes and near-riot conditions as delegates clashed over nominations and platform planks.
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Columbus
Democrats
Ohio
Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
United States
Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
James E. Campbell
Denver
Tom Johnson
A. T. Lee Pomerene
Canton
A. C. Sanles
Ottawa
Taft favored by Alabama Republican convention delegates
Birmingham on May 7 reports that the state convention of the Thompson administration wing endorsed William Howard Taft for the presidency. Delegates were instructed to vote for Taft at the Chicago national convention.
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Birmingham
Ala
Thompson
Republican Party
Taft
Chicago
Night riders dynamite engine of W E Wall in Montgomery county
Nashville May 7 night riders dynamited and wrecked an engine owned by W E Wall of Fredonia Montgomery county A letter addressed to Wall was found near the wrecked engine Wall an independent tobacco grower has suffered heavy losses his store house and barn were burned previously and he was forced to change his residence location
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Nashville
Tenn
W. E. Wall
Fredonia
Montgomery County
Wall
Former Congressman Smeyer Dies at Home in Wooster
Former congressman Martin L. Smeyer died at his Wooster residence after an apoplexy attack. He was 57 and served in the Fifty first and Fifty eighth Congresses.
Convention complexion may shift after all counties report
Reports suggest the final convention complexion will differ from early returns once all counties are heard, indicating the present picture may change as remaining results come in.
After weariness come rest quotes Newman
A brief aphorism attributed to Newman on the sequence of rest peace and joy following weariness, emphasizing worthiness as a prerequisite for tranquility.
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Newman
Senate Passes Child Labor Bill and Miscellaneous Measures
The senate approved a DC child labor ban for under fourteen in many workplaces and hours. It also directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to explain commodity clause compliance since May 1, 1908 and reasons for any proposed two year extension. The army appropriation bill conference report was adopted, totaling 95,377,246. Brownsville remarks concluded with debate over a letter about guilt of the Twenty-fifth regiment.
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Washington
Senate
District of Columbia
Foraker
Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Culbertson
Warner
Missouri
Brownsville
Senator Foraker
Smith
Michigan
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Envious of the Immune Comic Exchange
A brief cartoon caption shows Little Henry wishing to be like the visiting guest who dines with clean hands. Henry envies the guest because no one scolds him for eating with his fingers, highlighting a humorous social contrast.
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Henry
London
Flowers as terrestrial stars inspiring beauty and fragrance
A poetic meditation elevates flowers as earthly stars that pull heaven toward the earth, translating divine beauty into fragrance and the verses of creation into tangible contact with the sky.
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Heaven
Earth
The Kind He Bought Exchange Dialogue
A brief stage exchange between Edwin and his mother shows a child asking about liquid air and the mother deferring to the father who leaves “between the acts” to get some air. The fragment hints at a theatrical interlude rather than a full scene.
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Edwin
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Cassie Capital
Thomas Rochford
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Andrew Heigelein
Ray Lamphere
Lamphere
Ole B. Budsberg
Iola
Wis
Sheriff's Office
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Mrs. Guinness
Roy Lamphere
Andrew Helgelein
South Dakota
Helgelein
Ole B. Budschberg
Tola
Laporte Savings Bank
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Connecticut
Harmon
Ohio Democrats
Alabama
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