The Convict Counts or Fighting for a Million
In a rough 1906 narrative, Louis Lang leads a wagon train of convicts across the plains toward the Convict City. An Indian attack tests the group, Lang defeats the chief with a detective’s dirk, earns trust, and becomes the story’s focal hero amid a crowded river voyage and roving criminals.
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Chiarles
Charles Morris Butler
Lang
Regan
Golden
Chicago
Umbrina
Louis Lang
Cowboy Charlie
Great Time Promised for Fall Days in Kansas City
In Kansas City a major festival week is planned for the first week of next month. Highlights include the Priests of Pallag street pageant P O P ball bar masque Eleppergon’s Magaphone Minstrels and Sousa and his band. Events run Oct 2 to Oct 6 with concerts at Convention Hall and tickets on sale soon.
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Kansas City
West
Eppersor
Sousa
Pallag
Elppergon
P.O
Kansas
City
G A R Veterans Call for $12 Pension Upon 62nd Birthday
At the national encampment in Denver a resolution was adopted urging Congress to pass a general service pension bill. It would grant $12 per month to every veteran who served ninety days in the Civil War and received an honorable discharge upon reaching age 62, with the same amount for widows who married before June 27 1890.
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G. A. R. Veterane
Denver
Colo
Congress
Korea Representative Comments On Peace Conference Outcome
The Rev. P. K. Yoon who attended the Portsmouth peace conference for Korea says Korea sympathizes with Japan and believes Russia would cause trouble again within ten years. He adds that Japan let Russia off too easily and the conference result was not ideal.
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Korea
New York
P. K. Yoon
Portsmouth
Japan
Russia
Reconsideration of Peace Terms Shocks Tokyo Citizens
Reports from Tokyo indicate militant disapproval of the peace terms with possible rioting and stoning of Marquis Ito and Harriman. A minister of the interior’s residence was burned in an incident that could lead to demands for an apology and a potential royal reassessment of terms.
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Washington
Tokio
Marquis Ito
Harriman
Minister of the Interior
Matsuhito
Whistling 100 Miles Sets Record on Local Rail Line
Pryor Creek Oklahoma territory report notes a passenger locomotive on the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad whistled for 100 miles due to a valve malfunction near Oswego Kansas. Steam remained on until the train arrived at its stop, costing time but causing no further delay.
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Pryor Creek
I. T
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Oswego
Kan
Fragmented obituary jumble and medical ads excerpt
A disjointed OCR fragment shows medical product claims for Dodd's Kidney Pills and Piso's Cure for Consumption. It references Cure to Stay Curey Iowa and mentions Mrs Minnie Hart and Mrs Hart, with hints of a marriage discussion and a court summons. The text blends testimonials and stray dialogue about health remedies.
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Wapello
Iowa
Minnie Fart
Hart
Dodd
Gate to the Orient and Pacific travel boom described
The article discusses American interest in travel and commerce with the Orient via San Francisco Bay, noting momentum westward from California. It mentions ships carrying goods and how households can save time with Defiance Water Starch, highlighting packaging and promotions amid broad commercial opportunities.
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San Francisco Bay
Pacific
Thnent
California
Orient
Golden Gate
Sunset
Magjacine
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Longype
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