Convict leaps from fast train on way to life term
Ed Adams Kansas City rode with 80 convicts and four deputies when he cut handcuffs with a hidden saw, leaped from a Missouri Pacific train at 35 miles an hour toward timbered cover, escaping custody en route to serve a life sentence for murder. Deputies searched the area. Adams was last seen unhurt, fleeing into heavy woods.
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Jefferson City
Ed Adams
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Adams
Freezone Corn Remedy Promises Quick Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Freezone for corns and calluses claiming instant relief from pain and easy removal by fingers. It markets a small Cincinnati invention with a few cents bottle sold by druggists. A separate note jokes about Australians using telegraph wires as fashion jewelry.
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Diamond Dyes Promise Rich Fadeless Color for All Fabrics
Advertises Diamond Dyes as a universal fabric color for wool silk linen cotton and blends. Claims guaranteed rich fadeless results with a direction booklet and a color card to match any material. Includes a quip about a man in rehearsal.
Swamp-Root Kidney Remedy Ad and Paris Chinese Paper
A jumble of old clippings mentions Swamp-Root touted as a premier kidney remedy with a sample offer. It also notes a dark night car ride misheard as thank yous, then reports a Chinese weekly newspaper started in Paris to aid laborers, produced photographically due to lack of Chinese type.
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K. C. Kyle
Swamp-Root
Thenande
Sina
Binghamton, N
James
Mrs. Bilthers
France
Paris
Daniel Fu
Bueau
Slight Sympathy and Snippets of a Fragmented Tale
A collection of clipped dialogue and remarks features Mr Rafferty and Mr Dolan debating calm and control. Other lines ponder electricity lighting, Sicily potash finds, an author drafting a sentence, and a Solon quote about reproach and vendetta.
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Mr. Dolan
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