Thief Loots $63,000 From Mexico Train
Wells Fargo Express reports $63,000 stolen in Mexican currency from a through train between Mexico City and Torreon. No arrests yet, one agent allegedly boarded the moving train at a station after the secure box was opened. he knew the safe combination and remains at large.
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Safe
Wells Fargo Express Company
Mexico
Larado
Texas
Wellsfargo Express Company
Torreon
City of Mexico
Chihuahua
Strikers to Be Evicted as Open Shop Policy Move
Butler Pennsylvania May 1 miners living in company houses at Nellie Standard and Lochrie mines in Hillard district face eviction if they do not return to work by Monday. Papers have been served notifying vacate. Mine owners plan to hire new men to replace strikers and push a general resumption of twenty five mines in the Butler Mercer district under an open shop policy.
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Butler, Pa
Nellie
Standard
Ohio General Assembly Nears Final Adjournment After All-Night Session
Columbus Ohio May 1 The 77th general assembly nearly closed after an all night session on conference resolved appropriation gaps. More than eight million dollars is provided in the bills the largest annual appropriation in state history. A recess until May 9 allows inspection and correction of any errors in the funds.
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Columbus
77Th General Assembly
Collision near Norderny claims life during transfer
The North German Lloyd liner bound for Baltimore and Galveston collided with the Hamburg tank ship Emperor Nicholas II near Norderny. The Pfeldmarschall rescued 180 passengers from the Koein, but one child drowned during the transfer.
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Bremen
Baltimore
Galveston
Emperor Nicholas II
Norderny
Pfeldmarschall
Koein
Harvard Wins 20th Annual Yale Debate on Cuba Policy
New Haven Conn May 1 Hervood won the 20th annual Yale debate. Harvard argued the United States should cease involvement in Cuba within the next two years for the island's best interests.
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New Haven
Conn
German four masted ship Peter Rickmers stranded at Zachs Inlet
New York dated May 1 reports the four masted German ship Peter Rickmers stranded at Zach’s Inlet. The vessel flies a distress signal meaning send assistance as seas run high and life savers have not yet boarded.
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New York
Zachs Inlet
Peter Rickmers
Jewel thieves steal $5000 in diamonds from Hart store
Three unknown men robbed the Frank C. Hart jewelry shop in Tacoma yesterday. While attendants were in a back room, the trio took a wallet with diamonds and other precious stones valued at $5000 and fled the scene.
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Tacoma
Wash
Frank C. Hart
Snow Depth Reaches Ten Inches in Jamestown
Ten inches of snow were recorded in Jamestown as Buffalo, N Y. saw seven inches yesterday into today. The day opened bright and the snow melted rapidly.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Jamestown
Rap Daly
Pennsylvania Railroad Declares Semiannual 3 Percent Dividend
Philadelphia May 1 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company declared a semiannual dividend of 3 percent.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Virginia and Southwestern Railway Rate Increase Granted
The Virginia State Corporation Commission has decided the Virginia and Southwestern Railway Company may raise passenger rates to three cents per mile for intra state travel. The order notes the railway operated under a two cent rate in good faith and faced losses, and directs that prior orders on maximum passenger rates in this case be observed.
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Virginia State Corporation Commission
Virginia and Southwestern Railway Company
Commission
Virginia and Southwestern Rail
Virginia and South Western Railway sets three cent mile limit
The Virginia and South Western Railway Company is authorized to implement a maximum fare of three cents per mile for interstate passenger transportation in Virginia starting May 15, 1908. It remains unlawful to charge more than three cents per mile for Virginia lines until further order by the state corporation commission.
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Virginia and South- Western Railway Company
Virginia
State Corporation Commission
Little Great Men and a Curiosity on Sabella Soup
A Chinese scholar versed in Confucius seeks European fame only to find it elusive as he asks a Amsterdam bookseller for Nixofon. The tale notes Europe’s villages and universities brim with such “little great men.” It also mentions the sabella worm used by shorepeople to make a true vermicelli soup. An exchange ends with a quip about lingering audiences awaiting a speaker’s finish.
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Confucius
Europe
Amsterdam
Nixofon
China
Oliver Goldsmith
Florist and Plant Ads And Health Remedy Note
Local ads list fall planting items including roses geraniums hardy vines and herbs from Fallon Florist Roanoke Va with plant prices. Also mentions DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Balm as a stomach aid sold by druggists.
Love Across Class Lines in a Dresden House
An aristocratic governess narrates her bet that she can secure a position with the Countess von Bertheim. She falls for Hans the coachman, confesses love, contemplates leaving, and learns Hans is actually a wealthy American with noble ties, revealing a sudden, lasting happiness.
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Laura
Hans
Fraulein
America
Holland
Mary D. Pritchard
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Xtragood Clothes
Ederheimer, Stein & Co. Makers
E. S. Pedigo
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Watraction Ussr
Intoriy Proprietor
Ohio
Harvard
Virginia and Southwestern Railway
India
Strand Magazine
Thames
Pearson's Weekly
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Ve.hel
Cincinnati Tailoring Co
Pallon, Florist
DeWwitt
Kocol
Ife
Hians
Tie
Artistic Stieff
Ghas. M. Stieff
Stieff
Shaw and Stieff
Main Street
Lynchburg, VA
C. W. Whitmore
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Holmboe & Lafferty
Bluefield
Higginbotham and
Princeton Aves
Clarksburg
Empire Building
Athens
Hotel Dennis
Atlantic City, N. J
Ocean
Board Walk
Walter J. Buzby
B. M. Cohen
D. P. Grockett
Raleigh Terrace
Crockett's Drug Store
Dr. King
Wytheville, Virginia
Wytheville, Va
the Home Furniture Co
R. L. Morris
Dal
City of
the Pioneer Real Estate
W. VA
First National Bank
Baldipa
Bluefield Bottling Co
Bluefield, Www
A. D. Wood, M.D
Har
Ww. VA
Thornton Building
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