Detective Identification by Carrier Pigeons in Yardley Case
A veteran on the Yardley secret service recalls solving a mutilation murder by using a carrier pigeon to identify the victim. He traces the body to a farmer, notes lack of identifying marks, and discovers the murdered man's son’s attendance via a pigeon message carried to Gerretsville. The tale ends with the murderer unmasked and the pigeon proving the link. Canton, the DeNoyer & Dante sisters vaudeville company, finished a Kelth circuit engagement at the opera house.
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Billy
Secret Service
Yardley
Bowers
Dox
Anstance
Brother
Abd
Sud
Bowers Farm
Gertetsville
Gerretsville
Canton
DeNoyer & Dante
Shakespeare and His Plays Controversy Revisited
The Shakespeare Bacon dispute endures with no proof Bacon wrote the plays or Shakespeare did not. Yet the debate intensifies the mystery surrounding the historical Shakespeare versus the author of Lear Hamlet and Macbeth, as noted by the New York American.
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Shakespeare
Hamlet
Macbeth
New York American
Way of New York theater pricing and bribery tale
A Louisville Courier Journal fragment satirizes New York theater costs with paired prices for tickets and food bribes to a waiter and innkeeper. It suggests paying a horseman to haul you home, joking about two fares and a harsh ride, reflecting urban theater expense humor.
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New York
Loulsriire Courier Journal
The Man With Tact and the Casual Caller
A fragment from the Baltimore American recounts a story about a tactful man who carried a woman, mentioning Mrs Gomebets in a bemused tone. The passage hints at social intrigue and a casual, perhaps dutiful, act by a quiet figure in a bustling scene.
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Ted Leired
Mra
Plainfield High School Holds First Graduation Ceremony
Graduation exercises at Plainfield High School were held Friday evening at the opera house with a large turnout of parents and friends. The class of seven included Robert Ross Gale, Mark Perkins Morse, Delta Caroline Parkins, Evelyn Mary Perry, Bessie Marion Flood, Madelia Shorey, and Hessie Shorey. The program featured essays, orations, and diplomas as part of a formal ceremony.
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Plainfield High School
Opera House
Plainfield
Robert Ross Gale
Mark Perkins Morse
Delta Caroline Parkins
Evelyn Mary Perry
Bessie Marion Flood
Madelia Shorey
Hessie Shorey
Viviane, Bennett
Creay
Japan
Paul Revere
Delta Perkina
Evelyn Perry
Mark Morse
Marurka
Moon Winks
Stevens
South
Bessie Shorey
Bessie Flood
Cate
Dem Democratic Possibilities Igray for President Nomination
Delaware press sketches George Gray as Democratic hopeful for the presidential nomination, praising his age, health, education, and public service. It notes his tariff opposition, stance against protected privilege, and farmer support, detailing his Senate tenure and career as a reformist judge.
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Wilmington Dela
Delaware
George Gray
Tray
Jouligst
Gray a Prominent Statesman and Railroad Advocate
The biography outlines George Gray’s rise from a youth familiar with ships and engines to a prominent statesman. It details his father Andrew C. Gray’s railroad and canal promotion, his role in indicting and fining the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for obstructing a public highway, and Gray’s service as attorney general, U.S. senator, and judge. It highlights his opposition to tariff protection, views on trusts and labor, federal–state relations, civil liberties, religious liberty, and reciprocity in global trade.
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Andrew C. Gray
George
George Gray
Lana
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Gray
Wilmington
Pita
United States Senate
Penneyvivanie
Hoowrett
Alabma ¢Eal
Maraell
Lane
Fae
Anil
Uniesa
Philippines
United States
Live Agents Wanted Build 700 Cars of Popular Type Wayne Astornebiiee
Owing to rising demand we announce 700 additional cars of the Wayne Astornebiiee line. Deliveries possible for the first fifty in ten days. The cars are sold in four or five large cities as before. Other ideas and aims are shared.
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Wayne
Gompers Attacks Labor Plank in Republican Platform
Washington January 29 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor issues a statement assailing the labor plank of the Republican platform. He says that the laboring man asked the party for bread and it gave him a stone. He calls for equality before the law and argues that labor organizations protest and advance personal rights, while trusts deal in products and affect personal freedoms. The piece ends with a Harvard Lampoon mock remark about a new face food.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Republican Party
Gompers
Supreme Court
Danbury Dattars
Labor Organizations
Republican Convention
The Average Man's Ides and Self Help in Rhetoric
A garbled excerpt references Real Optimiam and a cheerful song drift. It quotes a Chicago Record-Herald piece about Self Help and a provocative line from a Woman Hater piece. The text hints at dialogue on love, guidance, and male folly without clear context or full sentences.
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Mart
Chicago Recond-Herald
Notable Women and Local Comebacks in Society News
Miss Mary Haden chosen to senate of Dublin university. a Belfast university council member. Serah Bryant, ninety, active in Stonington daily. Grace O Connor now registered pharmacist in Holyoke. Mrs Ray Matshak funds surgical department at Vanderbilt Clinic in New York. Mrs John Jacob Astor occupying Adair home in Mayfair. Mrs Elbridge Clatborne first woman to vote in Philadelphia Trades League director elections. social notes and brief quips from era.
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Mary Haden
New Dublin University
New
Belfast University
Are
Serah Bryant
Stonington
Grace O'Connor
Holyoke
Mass
State Board of Pharmacy
Sammuel Matshak
Ray Matshak
Vanderbilt Clinic
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
New York City
John Jacob Astor
New York
Adair
Carwen Street
London
Mayfair
Louis Seize
Elbridge Clatborne
Trades League of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
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