Discoveries Edge Gunness Case as Victims Named
Coroner's jury hears post mortem reports on bodies from the Gunness home ruins. Physicians fail to fix death manner, opening prospects for an open verdict. Three potential victims named: John Moe of Elbow Lake Minnesota Henry Gereit of Scandinavia Wisconsin and Geo Brady of Tuscola Illinois. Proceedings move toward transfer to the courts amid mixed prosecutions and defenses.
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Laporte
Ind
Belle Guiness
Gunness
Socialist Convention Deliberations Slow in Chicago
Delegates at the Socialist national convention in Chicago worked to reconcile policy and candidate disputes. Western state delegation arguments dominated the session as Debs and Haywood remained central figures, with a likely outcome that neither will head the Socialist ticket when voting resumes after a one day lull.
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Debs Or
Haywood
Chicago
Ill
Debs
Miners in Indiana Vote to Suspend Work
Terre Haute Indiana May 12 following a report by the scale committee of failure to agree with operators mine workers of district No 11 voted to suspend work. The convention adjourned. Sixteen thousand miners in Indiana will lay down their picks Thursday. National President T L Lewis advised against a cessation of work.
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Terre Haute
Ind
District No. 11
Indiana
T. L. Lewis
Taft Delegation Chosen at Michigan State Convention
Michigan delegates gathered in Great Rapids this mid May to select four delegates at large two presidential electors at large and a new state chairman to cast the undivided vote of the state for William Howard Taft at the Republican national convention.
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Michigan
Great Rapids
Mid
Wallace elected senator in forty-seventh district
Republican William C. Wallace won the forty-seventh district senate seat in Lockport New York with a 248 vote plurality over Democrat Henry A. McMahon. Wallace totaled 7601 votes to McMahon 7253, about two thirds of the district’s normal strength.
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Lockport
N. Y
William C. Wallace
Henry A. McMahon
Wallace
McMahon
May Days and Health Remedies Advertisements
A collection of old advertisement blurbs cites Dr Kings New Life Pills for constipation and malaria, Bucklen's Arnica Salve praised by a California user, a clock repair offer for $1 with a one year guarantee, and a May 14 Rolle Rink event. Mentions of Carter's bankruptcy sale and local merchants Cedar View Mississippi and Banks & Rosenheim.
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Cedar View
Miss
Bucklen
Chas. F. Budalon
Tracy
California
Home of the Doll in Thuringia Dollmaking's Rise and Craft
Rene Bache recounts how Thuringian toymakers transformed wax head dolls in the mid 1800s after a London introduced Chinese model inspired innovation. From crude wax to moving eyes and lids, Angora wigs replaced hair, and a dipping process perfected the craft. Dressmaking became a large female labor industry with simple chemises and lace for tiny dolls.
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Thuringian Mountains
Sonnéberg
London
China
Rene Bache
Land and Water Boats Move Through Timber Lands
In Canadian and northern U S lumber districts, hybrid boats combine steamboat and winch power to climb hills, creep through swamps, and cross portages. A 1 mile steel cable aids warping, with pulleys guiding lines to trees on either side for straight travel. Logs and skids form rudimentary plus, allowing 1 to 2 miles daily over rocky grades.
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United States
First Come First Served Bazaar Sermon Tale
A minister recalls a dark street encounter where a pistol wielding thief pauses to consider his actions. The robber asks if being held up is rough, only to be reassured that the victim is on his way to a bazaar and that the thief is first, so an end to it follows.
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London ‘Telegraph
Modern Plays and Players Reflect on Casting Fit
A critique notes that modern theatre should match roles to actors rather than seek likeness. Managers, it claims, push impersonation and likeness over suitability, asking candidates if they have a father and rejecting if the match is off by years. The Argonaut attributes this to casting desires and historical expectations in productions.
Impossible Combination and Reforming a Husband
Quotation pair from two papers contrasts reforming a drunk husband after marriage with a witty remark about unlikely perfect matches. The Houston Post line notes a man’s drinking before marriage is softened by a spouse’s reform, while the Louisville Courier Journal quips on the rarity of ideal timing, place, and partner.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Hunter Are You an American Citizen Pat
Quotation from Harper's Weekly and Philadelphia Record notes a humorous exchange about nationality birthplace and a joke on fashion and marriage. The brief cites Donegal birth and the Fourth in July, reflecting period humor.
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Hunter
Pat
Donegal
Harper’s Weekly
Cincinnati Tailoring Co Suits to order at fifteen dollars
Cincinnati Tailoring Co advertises suits to order from 15 dollars. The Barker ad appears in the Bee with a 1961 date noted as 5-10-61 and references Carter's bankrupt gate ad on page 8-22-15.
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Chucknwati Tailoring Co
Cincinnati Tailoring Co
Bee Carter
Banks & Rosenheim
Buried in Cement: Geronimo’s Undying Faith and Fate
The article recounts the life of a 13th century Arabb boy Geronimo captured by Spaniards in Oran. He escaped at age eight, lived as a Mohan medan, returned to Christianity, raided with Spaniards, was captured by Moorish corsairs, and executed by being sealed in concrete in Fort des Vingt Quatre Heures. His bones were exhumed later in 1855 from the concrete block and reburied in a cathedral sarcophagus.
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Geronimo
Oran
Algiers
Fort Des Vingt Quatre Heures
Unconquered Peak in San Juan Domes Over 14,000 Feet
The San Juan mountains of northwestern Colorado show grand, jagged peaks higher than most of the northern Rockies. Mount Wilson rises to 14,250 feet with Liz ard head nearby a 14,169 foot obelisk. The Lizard Head pinnacle measures 290 feet and remains unclimbed, its sheer sides thwarting attempts to summit.
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San Juan
Colorado
Rockies
Ebbert
Blanca
Mount Wilson
Rocky Mountain Range
Lizard Head
Mountaly
Triios
Telluride
Rico
New York Post
Albanian tale of a flood and a horse tied to a bridge
An Albanian man recalls a flood era horse tied to a brook crossing to keep the bridge from drifting. The flood swept both horse and bridge downstream, later the bridge lodged against the bank with the horse calmly on it. A bystander quips of seeing something similar.
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Albany Journal
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Keystone
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