Curious travelers in rail yard loom into odd case
Elizabeth Carr a 19 year old from St Joseph Missouri traveling as a hobo with four men was arrested in Rosedale near Kansas City while attempting to reach her ill sister in San Francisco. A man named John Smith from St Joseph described as her protector accompanied them.
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Kansas City
San Neisco
Elizabeth Carr
St. Joseph
Rosedale
Here
Crabrick
San Francisco
John Smith
Widow and Nephew Wed Under Dare in Indiana
In Lawrenceburg Indiana Mary Porter Batchelor a 20 year old widow and Walter R Batchelor her 23 year old late husband’s nephew marry after a dare beside the courthouse. The couple says they want to keep him in the family and twenty minutes later the ceremony was performed.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Mary Porter Batchelor
Walter R. Batchelor
Mar- Tiel
Great-Grandmother Weds Man of 45 in Renton
Mrs Mary Pratter aged 74, a great grandmother, married George Kelly aged 45 this afternoon in Renton. Her first husband died six months ago. she says she marries for love and recalls a first honeymoon five years before the Civil War when her former husband was a veteran and her present husband was born.
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Renton
Mary Pratter
George Kelly
Calf Born With Skin Inside Out At Bolivar Farm
A remarkable calf born on the Zede kiah Johnsonville farm in Bolivar New York exhibits skin turned outward with fur against the body and the red interlining exposed. The farmer plans to raise the animal despite the abnormal condition.
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Bolivar, N. Y
Zedekiah Z. Johnsonville
New York Association to Publish Searchlight for Blind Children
The New York Association for the Blind will issue Searchlight, a magazine for blind children. Printed in raised letters, it will include juvenile material, letters from children, and a puzzle department, and will be distributed free in the city.
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New York
All Our Own
New York Associate For the
Searchlight
Aldren
New York Association
Blizzard Flings Coach Top On Rock Island Train In Topeka
A Kansas blizzard blew the top from a passenger coach on a Rock Island train near Topeka. Passengers felt a chill but no injuries occurred. The damaged coach was abandoned as the train arrived two hours late.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Newspapers to Be Carried by Airship
The Los Angeles Times reports plans for the first newspaper delivery by air. On January 7 Dider Mason will fly a biplane from Los Angeles to San Bernardino, delivering papers 60 miles away along the air line.
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Los Angeles
Cal
The
Los Angeles Times Today
Dider Mason
San Bernardino
Pinex and Sugar Syrup Cough Remedy Recipe
A home cough syrup recipe claims to outperform store products. Mix one pint granulated sugar with one fourth pint warm water, stir two minutes, add Pinex to make a pint, then take teaspoonful every one to three hours. Also noted are tonic, laxative, and hoarseness benefits with a money back guarantee. Pinex is described as Norwegian pine extract.
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United States
Canada
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Twelve Squirrels Trigger Canal Washout Losses
Washington reports that twelve ground squirrels burrowing into a canal embankment in Stanislaus County California last May caused a washout and more than 500000 dollars in damage. Henry W Henshaw chief of the biological survey notes the incident required rerouting the canal at a cost of 25000 dollars and three months of rebuilding that deprived ranchers of irrigation water.
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Washington
Purlock Canal
Stanislaus County
California
Henry W. Henshaw
Government Bureau of Biological Survey
Henshaw
Potter Recovers After Skull Repair With Leg Bone
Augustus Potter of Routerville is back home in Waynesboro Pa after a Baltimore hospital operation. Dr Joseph Bloodgred used bone from Potter’s right leg to fill a half dollar sized skull hole after a January skull fracture. Trephining previously relieved paralytic conditions and the new procedure aims to restore full use of his limbs.
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Waynesboro
Augustus Potter
Routerville
One Little Lie Cost His Life
Los Angeles 88 year old W A Perry killed himself by gas Sunday night and left a note to his brother warning that lies cause trouble. The body was found today. The note read Never lie Willie Lying will get any body into trouble no matter how good they have been Just one little lie cost me my life.
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Los Angeles
W. A. Perry
William Perry
Watts
Willie
Mill Grey Injured In Cotton Gin Accident In South Carolina
In Spartanburg South Carolina Mill Grey a Black man received 240 stitches for wounds after a cotton gin accident. Doctors say he will live despite the severity of injuries.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Mill Grey
Grey
Robbers Use Towns as Base Said to Evade Law
Joseph M. Dolley state bank commissioner urged Governors of Nebraska and Oklahoma to cooperate with Kansas to round up robbers who rendezvous across those states. He cited a Wymore Neb businessman and a sheriff who admitted fear and reluctance to pursue the gang.
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Peka
Kan
Joseph M. Dolley
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Kansas
Dolley
Gloucester 1910 Fish Landings Mark A Downturn
Gloucester closed its 987th year as a fisheries port with 121,984,355 pounds of fish landed in 1910, about 3,000,000 pounds less than 1909 and seven and a half million less than 1908. Despite the drop, prices for cod and mackerel rose sharply with mackerel hitting $42 per barrel at times. 3395 barrels of salt and 20,000 barrels of fresh mackerel were landed as fishermen faced an off year with no clear explanation.
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Gloucester
Cambridge mayor Brooks ends re election bid
Mayor G. F. Brooks of Cambridge announced at a New Year reception that he will not run again. For the Democratic nomination, Edward B. James Edward J. Barry and James Barrett are listed. For non partisan nomination Jeremiah J. Donovan Charles Lake Julius Meyers and W. M. Davis are named.
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G. F. Brooks
Cambridge
Cambriige
Board of Aldermen
Edward B. James
Edward J. Barry
James Barrett
Jeremiah J. Donovan
Charles Lake
Julius Meyers
W. M. Davis
Republican City Committee
Smart West Newton Cat Romps Into Limelight
Louise Estabrook of West Newton sends a photo of Jack a 26 pound cat known for tricks. He follows occupants to the car line then returns home alone after each departure and greets returning cars in the evening. Residents say Jack also enjoys posing in sunlight and can fight.
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Smart West Newton
Limelight
The
Post’s Hall of Fame
Louise Estabrook
Fountain Street
West Newton
Jack
Boston kite expert escapes as plane slices tether in Los Angeles
S. F. Perkins of Boston, exhibiting man carrying kites in Los Angeles, was 200 feet high when aviator Charles Willard in a bi plane collided with and cut the kite cable. Parachutes of the kites kept Perkins from a fatal fall, the telegram from S. E. Perkins in Boston said. Willard landed safely with front control smashed as New Year meet saw record kite flights and wireless messages first time on the Pacific coast.
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S$. F. Perkins
Boston
Los Angeles
Charles Willard
Young Perkins
Willard
Cal
S. E. Perkins
Tremont Street
Kansas City
St. Louis
Wireless
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
S. F. Perkins
Nearly shares Hoxley fate at Los Angeles aviation meet
English aviator James Radley escaped a fatal drifter during the Los Angeles air show when gusts battered his Bleriot monoplane. He landed safely and soon sold the machine. Fellow flyer Venn Curtiss faced similar gusts and was forced down.
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Los Angeles
James Radley
Radley
San Francisco
Venn Curtiss
Water faucet shock kills St. Albans man
An investigation began today into the death of Edward D. Sweeney who was electrocuted at his home in St. Albans Vermont. He turned off the water and electric light at the same time to get a drink of water and received an instant fatal shock. Several residents reported severe shocks while turning off electric lights during the same night.
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ST. Albans
Edward D. Sweeney
Sweeney
Port Arthur College Gift To Methodist Church
The Port Arthur Business College in Texas was transferred to the Methodist Episcopal Church board in a gift valued at 250000 dollars from John W. Gates. The church will raise 50000 dollars in five years for buildings and equipment and to maintain the college. Rev. J W Lagrone of Port Arthur accepted the property for the church.
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New York
Business College
Port Arthur
Tex
Board of Education
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
John W. Gates
J. W. Lagrone
Lynn Coal Drivers Win One Dollar Weekly Increase
In Lynn on January 2, about two hundred coal teamsters from 24 firms received a one dollar per week raise after negotiations with dealers. Current wages rise from thirteen to fifteen dollars and fifty cents weekly, following a demand for a fifteen dollar raise over time.
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Lynn
Jan
Brandeis urges efficiency over higher freight rates for railroads
Boston counsel for Atlantic seaboard traffic committee argues before the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads should cut costs through scientific management rather than seek new revenue. He cites potential annual savings of at least one million dollars daily and lists lines deemed self-sufficient versus those needing higher income.
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Washington
Jan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louis Brandeis
Boston
Traffic Committee of Commercial Organizations
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi
Ohio
Potomac
Brandeis
Congress
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Philadelphia & Reading
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Lehigh Valley
Delaware & Hudson
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Rules Woman Not His Wife in Vermont Divorce Case
Mrs. Patrick J. Farrell sued Patrick J. Farrell for non support but the judge ruled she was not married to Farrell. Evidence showed she had an earlier marriage to a Vermont man named Dupree that had not been dissolved. The woman claimed Dupree hypnotized her into marriage and that the ceremony may not have been legal.
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Patrick J. Farrell
Dearie
Parmenter
Dupree
St. Johnsbury
Farrell
South End
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Grippe Relief
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for colds and grippe without quinine. Claims two hourly doses up to three doses end grippe and relieve neuralgia pain, feverishness, and nasal symptoms. Notes three years of research and a 25 cent price per package.
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Pape
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