Abandoned Ocean for Chelsea Boy Lured to Sea Scam
A 12 year old Dimmock Smith of Spruce Street Chelsea answered a newspaper ad seeking a bright boy to go to sea. A man convinced the parents and the boy to travel to Boston, claiming a sailor cap was needed. The man vanished after Smith paid a dollar for a cap, and the boy returned home unresolved and misled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curry Smith
Dimmock Smith
Spruce Street
Chelsea
Young Smith
Boston
Atlantic Avenue
Mabel McKenzie Found In Post Mail Bag
A Charlestown girl, Mabel McKenzie, sends a letter via the Post indicating she is earning a comfortable living and has no desire to return home. She claims her home life was made unpleasant, prompting her to leave voluntarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Charlestown
Mabel Mc
Delber
Missing girl prompts police inquiry in Boston notice
A fragmentary notice asks for information on the whereabouts of a girl. Readers are directed to contact H. S. R., Box 6, Station B, Boston, for tips or details. The text mentions facial scarring and prior injuries but lacks full context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Station B
Boston
Admiral Dewey Hosts U S Officials At Olympia
Admiral Dewey entertained Mr. Frederick W. Hoesfeld the United States consul and several Americans aboard the Olympia. The informal gathering included discussion of naval matters and plans for future sailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Dewey
Frederick W. Hoesfeld
United States
Pee Nasies
Funeral of Robert G Ingersoll without clergy music or pallbearers
Dr Ridpath read Ingersoll's last poem at the service held in Walston on Hudson. The ceremony had no clergy, no music, and no pallbearers as Mrs Ingersoll and relatives endured a quiet, emotional farewell with cremation planned for Thursday at Fresh Pond. Relatives, friends, and distant admirers attended, including Colonel Ingersoll's longtime friend Charles Broadway Rouss. travelers from Chicago, Syracuse, and Buffalo sent telegrams of sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert G. Ingersoll
Walston-on-Hudson
John Clark Ridpath
R. G. Inre
Cree
Gereoll
J. Reuss
Wwe
Long Island
Chicago
Syracuse
Buffalo
Battle of Norwich Vermont Won by Daughter of Capt Converse
Repulsed burglars attack in Norwich Vermont is linked to a local history tale about the battle of Norwich. The narrative centers on the daughter of Captain Converse driving a rapid fire battery against assailants fleeing toward the Canadian border and comparing her feat to wartime leadership.
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Battle of Norwich
Capt
Converse
Norwich
Manila
George ‘Washington
Uncle Sam
Montgomery
Canadian
Vermont
Captain Conve
Miss Converse Defends Estate in Dawn Gun Battle
In a Vermont dawn clash, Miss Converse repels would be burglars at the Converse mansion using a revolver, firing as if in a war scene. Mrs. Converse halts the assault after a breakfast pause, citing the Dewey precedent.
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Ican Navy
Sousa
Attar
Dewey
New Kissing Bug Spreads in Boston
A new variety of kissing bug has appeared in Boston and is as dangerous as the common type. Fireman Charles Sweet of Elmo Spring Brewery in Roxbury was bitten on duty and used a fat pork cure from the Post. He captured the bug and described it as similar to the June bug but black and much smaller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Charles Sweet
Elmo Spring
George Street
Roxbury
Sweet
Wedded in Haste Amid Wedding Mixup at Town Event
A rushed ceremony connected to local residents led to a hastily arranged wedding between two individuals, with confusion about the principals and place. Reports describe the couple’s brief vows and rapid departure, followed by a return home as onlookers observed the unexpected union.
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Hester
Curry
Tewn
Governor Dispatches Militia to Quell Bainbridge Mob
Governor Candler ordered State militia units from Valdosta and Thomasville under Captains Littleton and Smith to Bainbridge after Sheriff Patterson reported a town in the hands of a mob and urged urgent aid.
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Atlanta
Candler
Patterson
Decatur County
Bainbridge
Valdosta
Littleton
Smith
Thomasville
Lynching Mob Threatens Five for Ogletree Assault
A mob surrounds a barricaded cabin near Prichard Alabama to lynch five Black men tied to the Ogletree attack in Safford. Reports say three men have already been killed and bodies left on railroad tracks. Charles Mack and Louis Sammons were captured and hanged after confessing to the assault, while a crowd displays their scalps.
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Baimbridge
Pinchard
Ala
Charles Mack
Louis Sammins
J. L. Ogletree
Safford
Prichard
Jim
Iron City
Sammins
Ac- Charles
Mack
Ogietree
Bafford
Early
Decatur
Bainbridge
General Uprising Feared in South as Armies Rise
A sensational, inflammatory call warns of a coming race war across the South. The piece asserts blacks are arming and whites eager for blood, predicting an imminent massacre if either side strikes first. It cites Georgia South Carolina Texas and other states as flashpoints and notes a possible insurrection in progress.
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Atlanta
Georgia
South Carolina
Texas
Love Tales of a Day: Couple Split as Family Drifts
Nineteen year old James McKnight faced abandonment charges from his wife Dorothy in Lee Avenue Court. He earned seven dollars weekly as a post office substitute and handed wages to his father. Magistrate Kramer urged him to support his wife and two children, noting he had not sent any money in twelve weeks and that the couple once lived with his parents before being cast adrift with the infant.
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New York
James McKnight
Dorothy
Lee Avenue Court
McKnight
Betrayed by a Glove. Hart a Brooklyn Deserter
Alfred William Hart, 83, of Brooklyn, has deserted his wife and five children and disappeared with Mrs. Edward Corwine, 35, leaving their families in want. Hart took all money, including $465 found on his wife, and fled to live with Corwine’s mother while threatening to forfeit if she does not join him. Mrs. Hart, shocked by deceit uncovered after her husband’s drinking on pay night, plans to send the children to a home.
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Louis Sammins
Mack
New York
Alfred William Hart
Brooklyn
Edward Corwine
Hart
Corwine
Engaged for 14 Years in Brooklyn Blackmail Case
Miss Annie F Edwards, engaged fourteen years to Rev Emil Perhacs, reports a series of threatening letters from Viennese Mrs Carlotta De Brinde living in Brooklyn. De Brinde is arrested on charges of attempted blackmail and menacing Edwards over an inheritance of 500000 dollars.
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New York
Mrea Carlotta de Brinde
Brooklyn
Annie F. Edwards
Miss Edwards
Emil Perhacs
Perhacs
de Brinde
Huri+garian
Eloping couple from France denied landing in New York
Emanuel Boriez, a Brenc man, and his fiancée Martha Viaminck arrived in New York with no funds after fleeing France to marry. They wore Paris fashions and carried a bamboo cane as they ended at the dock before immigration restrictions stopped their landing.
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New York
Emanuel Boriez
la Gascogne
Emanuel
Martha Viaminck
France
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Mabel M’kenzie
the Olympia
Washington
Dewey Neave
Ingersoll
Bob Ingersoll
Rueter & Company
Highland Spring
Dr.ridpath
Dewsy
Tyler
Susan An
Dolan
Pnesbury Ae
Pinokard
South
Alfred W. Hart
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