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Local column notes Charles Rook is ill a dist. Pearl Babcock visits sister Mrs McDonnell at Edelstein. Lester Rusk bets Joe Hill on a potato story. Funeral attendees for Ellen F Guyer and Angela Helen Winne from Peoria, Camp Grove, Monica, Edelstein, and Canton. John Sherman injured in hay shed accident with fork penetrating groin. prognosis hopeful.
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Miss Pearl Babcock
Mrs. M.mcdonnell
Edelstein
Lester Rusk
Joe Hill
Lester
Angela Helen Winne
C. W. Winne
Margaret Winne
Margaret
Lizzie Winne
Peoria
James H. Winne
Camp Grove
W. W. Day
Peter O’coonor
Monica
Frank O’rourke
J. D. Allman
M. J. McVenna
Anna Timmons
Keefe
J. H Fitzgerald
Canton
John Sherman
Peter Cahill
Threshing Outfit For Sale Near Brimfield Illinois
A seller offers a complete threshing outfit including a Buffalo Pitt double cylinder engine two falls a 36-56 A W Stevens separator with wing Stacker and a No 3 Adams sheller with 32 feet drag all in good running order after about one year use The seller states the buyer may operate on about 1000 acres and will consider cash or short-term terms The listing appears from Brimfield Illinois area with contact Hues Carrol four miles north of Brimfield.
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Brimfield
Tll
Hues Carrol
Annual Statement of Township and District Funds 1901 02
Annual financial report of Township 11 5 4 Peoria Illinois by the Treasurer showing cash on hand at start and end, receipts from notes land sales and taxes, expenditures including district credits and treasurer fees, with sworn certification by S. H. Winchester dated July 15 1902.
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Peoria County
Illinois
Treas
Trua
Brimfield Village approves annual appropriation bill 1902
Special Ordinance passed by the President and Board of Trustees of Brimfield Illinois appropriates funds for corporate purposes for the fiscal year starting April. Totals include 350.00 for streets and sidewalks 450.00 for police and street commissions 150.00 for miscellaneous items and salaries. Clerk Avprison Pacey attests.
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Brimpfield
Pines
Brimfield
Ilinois
Iyuz
Country papers mock personals as city papers gossip
The piece contrasts country papers with big city journals, noting readers are spared by rustic restraint while urbane papers reveal intimate household details. It predicts a tiny stranger may arrive at the White House in October, imagining the uproar if every forthcoming arrival were printed.
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Big City
White House
Nun Exposed as Man After Three-Year Convent Deception
A Russian convent in Oral town exposes a man who posed as a nun for three years after being arrested on theft charges. The Orthodox sister was living as a woman within the church community. The case highlights disguise and religious life boundaries in the region.
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Oral
Russia
Bullock With Ingrowing Horns Survives Untamed Range
A. K Blundell of Waiganui New Zealand displays a bullock skull showing a horn that grows inward four and a half inches through a two and a quarter inch hole. The other horn merely indents the skull. The beast escaped from Maoris and roamed with wild cattle until surveyors found it too weak and had it shot.
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A. K Blundell
Waiganui
New Zealand
Army vacancies in medical corps despite efforts to fill
Over fifty vacancies remain in the Army Medical Corps as the Surgeon General strains to recruit doctors. The rigid professional exam and strict physical requirements trip up many applicants, though a newly graduated doctor may have fewer obstacles. Applicants should contact the Surgeon General in Washington for blanks. An assistant surgeon begins with captain rank, pay, and life tenure.
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Army
Washington
Women’s Advance in Japan and Birds on High
Reports describe a new university for women in Tokyo completed in 1901 with 46 professors and 569 students living in dormitory halls. Departments include Japanese and English literature and domestic science, reflecting a broad instructional program. Also noted are observations on bird flight heights, with eagles reaching up to 8,000 yards and other birds such as crows larks and pigeons exhibiting varying ceilings in German observations.
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Tokio
Germany
London
Preserved Bodies After Long Burials In Limestone Soils
The text notes bodies buried in limestone regions often become stone through Limewater. In other soils, elements sometimes embalm remains, preserving form and features. Examples include Robert Burns disinterred in 1816 with features intact and John Hampden, exhumed about two centuries after burial, showing unchanged form.
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Robert Burns
John Hampden
Lord Nugent
Will Upholds $100,000 Bequest Challenging Soul Immortality
Chief Judge David Trance of Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors rules the $100,000 bequest to the Advent Christian Hablication Society of Boston is valid. Testator Sidney Hall, Hartford resident and Advent church member, died three years ago. Relatives contested, but the clause is sustained.
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David Trance
Connecticut Supreme Cort of Errors
Sidney Hall
Hartford
Advnt
Advent Christian Hablication Society of
Boston
Satirical register entry at Syracuse hotel mocks pomp
The late Henry Clay Miner, theater owner and congressman, once registered as Hon. Har ry Miner and valet at a Syracuse hotel. Delegate Daniel Donegan, a Tammany leader, followed and added Hon. Dan Donegan and valise, quipping at hotel formality.
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Henry Clay Miner
New York City
Syracuse
Harry Miner
Miner
Daniel Donegan
Dan Donegan
Valise
Concealed Weapons Barred in South Carolina Law
After July 1 no person may carry a pistol unless it is at least twenty inches long and weighs at least three pounds. The law prohibits selling offering for sale or transporting such weapons and grants an exception for peace officers.
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South Carolina
Wireless telegraph inventor hawks logic on Roanoke shoat tale
Prof Reginald A Fessenden explains a Roanoke Island shoat shooting case with a humorous geometric progression. A farmer sought $25, claiming the bullet would have grown into seven shoats each of seven shoats, a joke that undercuts the claim.
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Reginald A. Fessenden
Roanoke Island
New York Imnes
Inebriate on a crowded trolley and chivalry tested
Two women stood near a handsome, hiccuping man on a packed trolley car. He showed momentary gallantry, apologizing for not giving up his seat, then joked that his coat was too small to share, while failing to offer a solution to his intoxication.
Courtroom Jest Delights San Francisco Argonaut Readership
In Judge Murasky's court ER W McGraw whispered to several attorneys during a witness stand moment. Spectators expected a dramatic turn but the judge declined, saying the court does not chew, relieving the room of suspense with a wry remark.
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ER. W. McGraw
Judge Murasky
Murasky
McGraw
San Francisco
Strength of Mushrooms Unearths Amazing Growth in Utah
In Stockton Utah two large mushrooms were found pushing up through a concrete floor and bitumen. The owner observed the floor surface rising into two hillocks before the fungi emerged into fresh air, having grown through four inches of concrete and two inches of bitumen without prior cracks.
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Stockton
Utah
Old Arkansas justice mocks divorce testimony
In a Arkansas divorce suit, Squire Peavy questions a plaintiff about wife abuse, joking that a 200 pound man cannot be whipped by a wife under 110 pounds, while the petitioner insists a wild cat could whip forty times its weight in sheep.
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Squire Peavy
Arkansas
French Customs Sets Personal Tobacco Limits for France
The French Director General of Customs issued a circular fixing personal allowances for travelers. Passengers may bring up to thirty cigars or fifty cigarettes or one hectogramme of tobacco free of duty. Any excess will be taxed 18 francs per unit on the amount over the free limit.
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Director General of Customs
France
Reed recounts Evarts quip on deliberation in Congress
Ex Speaker Thomas B. Reed tells how William M. Evarts warned him that a deliberative body resembles a woman for if it deliberates it is lost. The remark was shared during a Washington anecdote at Reed’s expense.
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Congress
Thomas B. Reed
William M. Evarts
Senator Evarts
Washington
Mr. Reed
Don’t Fail To Try This Electric Bitters Tonic
A vintage tonic claim touts Electric Bitters as a universal cure for stomach and liver issues. It promises to tone the stomach regulate kidneys and bowels stimulate the liver invigorate nerves purify the blood and cure a range of ailments including nervousness sleeplessness rheumatism neuralgia and malaria. Sold by Wm Robinson & Co for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
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Wm. Robinson &Co
Dr Kniv's New Safe Pills Offer Gentle Cure
Overtaxed organs suffer dyspepsia with pains nausea dizziness headaches and liver bowel issues. The advertisement promises prompt relief using Dr Kniv's New Safe Pills guaranteed to cure, available at Wm Robinson & Co's drug store.
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Kniv
Robinson & Co
Longevity in Gloucestershire Family Through Centuries
A Gloucestershire woman named Mrs Kelthe died in 1772 at age 133. Her three daughters survived long lifespans with the eldest 111, the second 110, and the youngest 109, suggesting hereditary longevity within the family.
Sam Jones Getting Rich
Rev. Sam P. Jones the Georgia preacher is financially successful. He plans a $25,000 business block in Cartersville and has invested surplus income in other ventures promising independence.
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Sam Jones
Sam P. Jones
Georgia
Cartersville
Parody Biography of Abraham Draws Prize Attention
In a prize exam a schoolboy offered a satirical take on the patriarch Abraham, claiming he fathered Lot and had two wives named Ishmale and Ha gar. One wife stayed at home while the other was sent to the desert where she became a pillar of salt by day and a pillar of fire by night.
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A. A. Knapp
Henry
Abraham
Lot
Ishmale
Hagar
How Flies Convey Poison In Human Infections
Investigators from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine now in West Africa report that a fly resembling the horse disease carrier transmits malarial poison to humans as effectively as the mosquito, signaling a potential new vector insight.
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Corps of
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
West Africa
English jurist seeks European recognition of Monroe Doctrine
Sir Frederick Pollock, a respected English jurist, aims to prevent future international friction by urging European powers to recognize and endorse the Monroe Doctrine.
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Frederick Pollock
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