For Sale Land and Houses in County Land Titles List
Abstract of have in office the gas set. About 195 acres one mile from courthouse with 25 acres cultivated and rest pasture. Fenced six-wire. Price 1500. One and a quarter acres near schoolhouse in southeast town with small cottage tenant house and well. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern. Price 1250. One quarter block near Allen Academy east front priced 250.09 terms easy. Half block near Allen Academy price 500.00. Lots near schoolhouse at 109 each. About 13 acres south town with 4-room house well cistern out-houses rent 9 per month price 650.00.
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Court House
Ottown
Main Street
Allen Academy
Kansas City Sees Flood Recovery Hope After Deluge
Kansas City reports a weather and flood rebound with unofficial gauges showing a six inch drop and officials confirming stationary water. Meat stocks in packing houses exceed expectations and city water and power services edge toward normal. mail losses and financial damage are still tallied.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Kan
Leaverworth
Goodwin
Waterworks Department
Allen Street
Holly Street
Topeka
Lawrence
Taft
Hanna’s Year prompts quiet Ohio Republican convention
Ohio Republicans brace for a restrained state convention as lawmakers elected this year choose Marcus A. Hanna’s Senate successor. With Hanna favorites already securing state seats and few major campaign forces present, leaders back Roosevelt’s re election and Hanna’s senate bid, while gubernatorial rivals narrow to Herrick or Douglass.
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Columbus
Ohio
Marcus A. Hanna
Senate
George B. Coxe
Cincinnati
Hanna
Cleveland
Myron T. Herrick
Albert Douglass
Chillicothe
Coxe
Roosevelt
Fears Flood Recurrence Prompt Lookout Stations on Fraser
Victoria B C June 2 Fearing a repeat of Fraser River floods this summer the Dominion government orders local meteorologist Reed to set up lookout stations along the Fraser to send telegraphic warnings to affected areas.
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Victoria
B. C
Frazer River
Dominion
Reed
Frazer
Thousand Leave Seattle for Nome in Stampede
About one thousand people departed Seattle on three steamers the Senator the Oregon and the Jeanie bound for Nome. Each boat carried freight and passengers at full capacity and hundreds were turned away seeking passage.
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Nome
Seattle
Wash
Senator
Oregon
Jeanie
Ga man killed in Chicago streetcar crash
J L McCarthy of North Dalton Georgia was killed and his companion Patrick Finlan of St Louis fatally injured in a street car wreck in Chicago. The pair, friends, had come from St Louis on a short visit.
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Chicago
J. L. McCarthy
North Dalton
Patrick Finlan
St. Louis
Morgan announces control of St. Louis and San Francisco road
J P Morgan & Co says a majority of the St Louis and San Francisco Railway common stock has been deposited with them under the Rock Island purchase terms and the plan is now operative.
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Frisco
New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Rock Island
Bullman to Ride McChesney in Harlem Handicap
Jockey Bullman has been engaged to ride McChesney, the BP Smothers horse, in the Harlem national handicap at Chicago next Saturday worth $20,000.
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Bullman
McChesney
New York
BP. F. Smothers
Chicago
Jumper Identified in Brooklyn Bridge Death
The body of the man who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge on May 24 was recovered and identified as a Mills hotel guest who registered as A. A. Much. The discovery closes the case with a definitive match to the unidentified victim.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Mills Hotel
A. A. Much
Gauss Steamer Passes Durban Safe on Way to Cape Town
A Durban dispatch reports the German Antarctic steamer Gauss, long feared for safety, has passed Durban en route to Cape Town, easing concern among observers. The update confirms the vessel is proceeding without incident toward its southern destination.
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Berlin
Durban
Natal
Gauss
Cape Town
Doctor Bissell Taken To Bellevue In Dementia
Dr. Bissell a longtime physician in New York and the first woman graduate of the New York Homeopathic Hospital in 1867 has been taken to Bellevue suffering from dementia. Overwork is blamed for the breakdown and she may be sent to Middletown state hospital. Her family includes a governor uncle of Illinois who was a contemporary of Lincoln.
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Mon Bissell
New York Homeopathic Hospital
Bellevue Hospital
Middletown
Bissel
Illinois
Lincoln
Sage to Move From Fifth Avenue Home After Forty-Three Years
New York financier Russell Sage likely will exercise an option to buy 632 Fifth Avenue and move from his longtime home at 506 Fifth Avenue. The current residence sits amid shops, causing friction with Mrs. Sage, who finally agrees to relocate.
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New York
Russell Sage
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Sage
Mr. Sage
Must Cut More Coal
Philadelphia June 2 President Baer of the Reading company orders that miners not cutting enough coal to keep breakers running nine hours a day will be discharged. He estimates the company will be at least 1,500,000 tons behind output by year end starting from April.
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Philaelphia
Baer
Reading Company
Flood Fears Rise After Heavy Cour d'Alenes Snow
Snowmelt in the Cour d'Alene mountains swells streams threatening the Northern Pacific rails near Hope Idaho. Heavy last winter's snowfall ushered floods, raising fears of disastrous flooding across the region.
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Missoula
Mont
Cour d'Alene
Northern Pacific
Hope
Idaho
Cour Alene
Jovite Plant Explosion Kills Three at Elmira Plant
An explosion at the Jovite explosives plant near Elmira kills three workers and injures several others. About 100 pounds of Jovite detonated in the screening room destroying the plant and shattering hundreds of windows within two miles. Loss estimated at 25,000 dollars. Two bodies were thrown 300 feet, limbs torn.
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Jovite
Elmira
Severe storm spoils Whit Sunday holiday in Vienna
A thunder and hail storm swept Vienna on Whit Sunday, ruining celebrations. Lightning struck a wing of Schonbrunn palace where the emperor stays but caused little damage.
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New York
Vienna
Schonbrun Palace
Fire destroys large block in Elizabethport injuries reported
Fire in Elizabethport New Jersey on June 2 swept through Second street destroying most of a business block. Loss exceeds $30,000. Several tenants on the upper floors barely escaped with their lives. Fireman Donohue suffered serious injuries.
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Elizabethport
N. J
Second Street
Donohue
Democrats Elect Fourteen in Cook County Judicial Race
In Cook County voters chose 14 Democrats and 4 Republicans in the judicial election. Turnout was light due to the weather and straight party tickets were scarce.
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Emocrats
Chicago
Cook County
Professor Assassinated Near Wooster
Prof. John Hicks assistant botanist at the Ohio agricultural experiment station died from a pistol shot fired by an unknown man as he left the home of his fiancée Miss Mary Gill in Wooster June 2.
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Wooster
John Hicks
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Mary Gill
Marriage of Ednar Telfner and Signor Gino de Martino
Married at Rome June 2 Ednar Telfner daughter of Countess Telmner and niece of Mrs. John W. Mackay wed Signor Gino de Martino son of the former secretary of foreign affairs London National Bank of San Angelo Texas authorized to do business with capital stock of 100000
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Rome
Ednar Telfner
Countess Telmner
John W. Mackay
Signor
Gino de Martino
Foreign Affairs
London National Bank of San Angelo Tex
Capital
A Draft Horse's Debut in New York City
Chieftain, a heavy draft horse from Keokuk county, debuted in New York after rail shipment east. The auctioneer hailed him as a monster prospect, noting his frosted steel coat and straw crimped tail, and started bidding at $300 as buyers craned to view the ton weight animal.
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Chieftain
New York City
Sewell Ford
Keokuk County
Indiana
Bull's Head
Portrait of the Somali as a fighting man in London Express view
A military correspondent describes the Somali as not first class in battle but fond of drill and uniform. He is effeminate in nature, anxious about toilet, curls hair with substances, loves finery and chatter, and is greedy in food yet timid before Europeans. Dancing is common, women are cowed, and religious rites are punctiliously observed but deemed hypocritical.
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London Express
Mystery of Old Violin Varnishes Raised by Dealer
A Philadelphia Record item quotes a violin dealer on the lost secret of antique varnishes. It notes that tone hinges on varnish, cites Charles Reade’s claims about gum and evaporation, and observes modern methods differ. It mentions ground amber in some varnishes and a Guarnerius whose varnish was removed to reveal amber powder.
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Charles Reade
Philadelphia
Bear Worshipers of Japan Ainos of Yezo and islands
The article describes the Ainos or Bear worshipers in Japan especially Yezo and adjacent islands Kovriles Sahkali no noting a population over 18 000 and rapid disappearance. It mentions the Ainos’ Asiatic features and claims they descended from a Great White Dog bear and a southern princess with the bear as their chief god.
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Japan
Kovriles
Sahkalino
Yezo
Homaido
South
Bear
See Under Water Lens Described In Simple Experiment
A device to view objects twenty to thirty feet below the surface uses two watch crystals joined back to back. This creates a different focus necessary for underwater sight. The effect is said to be astonishing and delightful and can surprise users who try it.
The Only Thing They Ever Did
John Bright used biting sarcasm against the nobility often challenging boasts of ancient lineage. He quipped that those ancestors “conquerors” did nothing else, reflecting his sharp wit in political exchanges.
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John Bright
Marriage legend tale recited to six year old Pauline
Pauline, six, listened to a Dana marriage story with miracle of water to wine. After the recital she asked her mother, what was the name of the gentleman who gave the party. The New York Tribune recounted the scene.
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Pauline
Dana
New York Tribune
Not Wholly Ide: Clara and Harry at the House
The Detroit Free Press quotes a domestic exchange where Clara asks if Harry assists with house cleaning and Harriet notes his method is noisy and rough, causing frustration.
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Clara
Harry
Harriet
The
Troit Free Press
His Proud Borst
A misread speech fragment shows a church member claiming to be absolutely neutral while a tenor asserts not siding with either side in a dispute. The garbled text suggests a temporary dialogue about neutrality and allegiance within a religious setting.
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Ehoiry
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Darwin & Drummond
Dorsex & Belmont
Hal
Sage
River Bulletin
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Mississippi
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Keokuk
Hannibal
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Saline River
Lincoln County
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Vernon
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Saline Valley
Jie
EYORS
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M. L. Robbins, G. P. & T
Houston, Texas
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Act
Texas Railroad
Texas
Mexico
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Fort Worth
Galveston
Waco
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Calvert
Bryan
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Noth
Grand Union Station
L. Trice
D. J Price
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D. Garrett
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