Innovation Fair at Tilligan's Hall in Oklahoma
Reverend Jack Jenks announces a church fair and festival at Tilligan's hall next Thursday night. The event will feature square planning and fair games supervised by Curly Conroy of the Blue Ruin parlors, with proceeds benefiting the church treasury and a public collection to follow.
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Brethren
Jack Jenks
Oklahoma
New York
Tilligan’s Hall
Curly Conroy
Blue Ruin
Conroy
Gutter Warning Sparks Snowy Rivalry in Brooklyn
A Brooklyn resident, Blucher, defies a police warning to clear his gutter by nine. He cleans four inches of snow, then learns neighbor Smith’s sidewalk is blown clean by wind. Smith later finds his sidewalk buried under a three foot drift, framing a comic clash of civic chores.
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Brooklyn
25Th Ward
New York Mail and Express
Smith
Blucher
Ancient Tools From Egypt Span Assyrian Origin Findings
An explorer uncovered a bronze bowl and iron tools in Egypt, likely from an Assyrian armorer around 650 B C. The collection includes three pulling sangs, a rasp, a file, chisels, a scoop-edged drill, two center bits, and more, indicating forms earlier than thought. Potentially the earliest evidence of certain tool types and Assyrian origin.
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Egypt
Death Bed Marriage on New York Slums Tale of Mary Queen
In a grim East Side saga, Mary Queen a 17 year old beauty with a troubled life marries milk driver Timothy Sullivan after a string of hardships and near ruin. She drinks carbolic acid in a final act, and Father Donohue marries them at St Vincent's Hospital before her death the next morning.
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Mary Queen
St. Vincent's Hospital
Timothy Sullivan
Sullivan
Harlem
Tim
New York
Timmie
Mary
St. Vincent’s
Father Donohue
May
Mary Queen Sullivan
Fickle Maidens and the Westphalia to Baltimore Love Plot
In Westphalia two Indianapolis lovers wooed Minnie Stein and Minnie Fiesgrabe who sailed for the United States with plans to wed. After landing in Baltimore they sought a minister and license, but the maidens refused the match. Immigration officials noted the lack of legal remedy, and the couples traveled on to Texas.
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Westphalia
Germany
Finis
United States
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
William Tempelmeier
Christopher Niermann
Indianapolis
Ind
Minnie Stein
Minnie Fiesgrabe
America
Manders
Otto Apitz
Christ German Evangelical Church
Lou Robinson
Texas
Physician Murder Shocks Vineland NJ Community
Dr Giles R Chambers a leading Vineland physician was found dead in his office with fatal head wounds. The body was discovered by his son. valuables remained untouched and no weapon was found. He was separated from his wife and father of S R Chambers Jr, a familiar newspaper correspondent.
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Giles R. Chambers
Vineland
N. J
Richmond minister disciplines man who insulted wife
The Rev. John McD. Hervey, pastor of United Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA, punished a stranger who accosted his wife. After Mrs. Hervey returned home alone and claimed the man grabbed her arm, she notified her husband, who found the assailant and whipped him without mercy.
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John McD. Hervey
United Presbyterian Church
Richmond
Speedy Firing Rifle Improves Mauser Lock
Captain Cei of the Third Regiment of Italian Sharpshooters has devised an improvement on the Spanish Mauser rifle that increases firing speed to seventeen shots per second and 300 shots per minute, enabling rapid engagement with targets.
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Cei
Court Case Hears Of Cows And Hay In Nutley NJ
In Jersey City Chancery a case seeks to compel Margaret Kingsland executrix to furnish hay and pasture for two cows as per a 1878 will. The will required sons to provide hay and pasture for a horse and a cow per daughter during their lifetimes. Since 1895 the executrix allegedly refused this provision, prompting a legal attempt to recover $1,000 spent on hay and pasture since 1895. The case puzzled editors of legal forms for a fitting declaration. The chancery suit returned before Vice Chancellor Pitney when court reconvened.
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Court of Chancery
Jersey City
England
Pitney
Margaret E. Kingsland
Nutley
N. J
Joseph Kingsland
Margaret
Martha
Richard
Joseph
Margaret Kingsland
Miss Kingsland
Supreme Court
Kingsland Sisters
James D. Cockroft
Cockroft
Dying man asks to go first for last word at scaffold
A crowd gathers in a market square to witness a murder verdict as a man begs the masked hangman to let his wife die first. He explains a wish to have the last word, revealing a rare moment of emotion before the execution. The scene juxtaposes social classes amid the grim spectacle.
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New York Journal
Varieties and oddities from a bygone era
A collection of short items noting a Idaho mine shipping bullion, Zulu donations, Indian soldiers treated with opium, every girl over eighteen in Brookstown Ky. marries, Mormon missionary numbers, timber removed in Boyne Valley, artists to decorate Paris Opera Comique, barbed wire affecting fox hunting, heart rate differences when sleeping, a playful quip about patience, Grain-O cereal ad highlighting mocha flavor and economy, daily newspaper promotion, sayings on wealth and perseverance, Fall’s Catarrh Cure, Parker’s hair product, and Maple City Soap promoting laundry ease.
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Africa
India
Brookstown
Boyne Valley
Mich
Popular Resorts and Health Lands Promoted in Minnesota
An advertisement highlights fishing and boating at Lake Totonka and Lake Minnetonka accessible by the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. It promotes hotels at Maple Point and Tetonka Park, plus resorts at Waconia and Deephaven and urges readers to contact A. B. Cutts for schedules and rates. Additional notices push government land sales in Washington and Oregon, and offer health books from the Peabody Medical Institute. Also mentions Allen’s Foot-Ease and a quip about girls who chew gum in streetcars.
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Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R
Waterville
Minn
Lake Totonka
Maple Point Hotel
Tetonka Park
Waconia
Clear Lake
Coney Island
Lake Minnetonka
Minneapolis & St. Louis
R. R
Deephaven
Cottagewood
Excelsior
Lake Park
A. B. Cutts
G. P
Minneapolis
Washington
Oregon
United States
St. Paul
Third and
Rosabel Streets
R. E. Wereman
Women Find New Life With Pinkham’s Compound
A Arkansas woman describes a decade of weakness leucorrhea and womb trouble. After doctors failed, ten bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and seven Sanative Wash treatments restored her health. She now works, sleeps well, eats well, and recommends the remedy to others.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
DMRI
Thompson
South Hot Springs
Ark
Telephone links for infectious patients in French hospitals
Telephones have been placed in French hospitals for infectious maladies so that patients may converse with friends without risking disease transmission.
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Chaurch Fair
China
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Lane
Siam
Crown Prince
Trarrow
Ile
Ayer
Uigkingham
Tommy
Thomas
Detroit Journal
Philadelphia
Idaho
Benjamin Constant
M'M. L. O. Merson
Paris Opera Comique
Ey Citizen
Des Moin Daily 4
Des Moines
Fall
Price, Toe
Parker
Batsax
Maple City
Heaven
Dee
Kemp
Eve
Adam
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
Putnam
Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch St
Boston
Masse
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Rissa
South Africa
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Lydia I. Pinkham
Charles E. Hires
Malvern
W.N. U
Kansas City
Nature
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
Santos
Santo
Golden Rio
Java
Spechia
M. Rober
Parean
Specia
T. Fi. Roberts
Mina
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