Kilgallen Accused of Faking Aquatorial Fish Theories
A long letter exchange reveals Terence Whacker accusing Professor Kilgallen of fabricating fish research and using a false identity. Kilgallen denies the claims and promises a defense upon return, while Whacker alleges a past life in Cadilo and a job as a cook at Balliol College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terence Whacker
Morton Kilgallen
Balliol College
Kilgallen
Whacket
Jeremiah Killigen
Cadilo
Tony Souza
Lizzie Anne Maria
Kilgalien
Gonk
Jerry Killigen
How Advertising Rates Compare the Country Over
A summary of Printer s Ink statistics by Thomas Rees shows the nationwide minimum advertising rate per inch per 1000 circulation at .0239 cents, with Boston Post at .0116 cents and other major papers listed. The piece notes Boston Post is about half the average and identifies a few papers with lower rates, including the Portland Journal, City Times Star, and New York Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Rees
Illinois State Register
Springfield
Ill
United States
Boston Post
Boston
Portland (Oregon
New York World
New York Times
New York American
New York Sun
New York Herald
Chicago News
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago American
Chicago Examiner
Minneapolis Tribune
Minneapolis Journal
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cleveland Plain Dealer
St. Louis Globe-Dem
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Philadelphia Bulletin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Gazette-Times
Pittsburg Press
Baltimore Sun
Washington Star
Indianapolis News
Texan seeks wife by governor in 15 thousand dollar deal
Albany dispatch reports a Texas ranchman asked Governor Dix to locate a wife meeting his exact specs a woman five seven tall weighing up to 140 pounds well educated and skilled at piano with a bank roll of 15 000 dollars underscoring the money part of his request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Dix
Curious Rules for Railroad Brakemen Uniforms Reach Attention
BELLEFONTAINE OH Feb 19 The Big Four Railway Company enforces uniforms for brakemen forbidding loud shirts to avoid disturbing passengers when station names are called Trainmen are required to wear white collars and subdued ties and to avoid rubber or celluloid collars A notice warns conductors to ensure compliance and enforce the rule. The second item recounts Park 80 a man whose marriages span Washington County and multiple states with a long tale of spouse swaps and remarriage across decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellefontaine, O
Big Four Railway Company
Knife Blade Lodged Head 16 Years Then Ejected
Forsyth Georgia on February 19 Charles A White a commercial traveler for a Chicago house blew from his nose the point of a knife blade five eighths of an inch long that had been lodged in his head for 16 years The blade had pierced his forehead during a 16 year old encounter in Freeport Illinois and lay hidden until today He recovered after the wound healed without serious trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kil
Kit
Steve Quitol
Forsyth
Charles A. White
Chicago
Rats to face higher duty under wool schedule ruling
The United States General Appraisers board ruled that hair rolls known as rats fall under wool wearing apparel for tariff purposes. The Poirier & Lindeman case upheld taxing rats at 44 cents per pound plus 60 percent ad valorem, far above rates for unwashed wool, despite differing import classifications by Loeb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of
United States General Appraisers
Aldrich-Payne
Poirier & Lindeman
Loeb
Whitely Cremated in Personal Cherry Wood Casket
Cincinnati reports the funeral of William Whitely known as the mower and reaper king. His coffin was crafted from a cherry tree he cut down fifty years prior. The shroud came from his daughter twenty years ago. A sculptor carved a mask before cremation. a monument will stand at Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
William Whitely
Springfield
Whitely
Miles Death Noted in Wellington Report
Wellington Kansas February 19 among the recent deaths here was that of Miles Arden identified as Mrs Enoch Arden's husband in a terse local obituary notice. The brief item notes the late Miles Arden without additional dates or familial details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Kan
Miles
Man H about to locate cattle encounters wild bear and cubs
John McFall of Turkey Creek near Webster Springs West Virginia hunted for lost cattle with two dogs when a giant mother bear and three yearling cubs emerged from a hollow log. He fired twice to kill the mother, shot two cubs, and clubbed the last cub after his ammunition ran out while the dogs attacked it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
John McFall
Turkey Creek
Webster Springs
W. Va
McFall
Rattlesnake Captured After Hibernation Delay in Woods
Sherwood D. Van Campen, assistant postmaster, and his brother disturbed a brush heap near Milford, Pennsylvania. They uncovered a torpid rattlesnake five and a half feet long with 13 rattles that had delayed hibernation due to the cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
N. J
Sherwood D. van Campen
Milford
Penn
Sixth Tragic Death In A Single Family
In Waukegan JI Feb 19 the death of Guy Stiles a fireman on the Chicago Great Western railway was killed in a boiler explosion Friday. This makes the sixth member of the Stiles family to die in 19 years. Earlier incidents include Mrs Stiles brother A B Mead killed in 1900 Guy Stiles Sr murdered six years later and Miss Schoonmaker died after an operation. In 1909 a stepson H Mead shot himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukegon
Jil
Guy Stiles
Chicago Great Western Railway
Plummer Dies by Jumping From Chicago Chamber Building
W T J Plummer a wealthy real estate dealer of 2880 North Clark Street leapt from the 11th floor of the Chamber of Commerce building in Chicago and died instantly. His plunge narrowly spared two bystanders as they talked in the lobby. His widow says he feared the structure and spoke of a strange fascination with looking into the areaway below.
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Chicago
Jil
W. T. J. Plummer
North
Clark Street
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Plummer
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