Murderer of Five to Die in Chicago
Herman Billik faces execution for the alleged arson and arsenic poisonings linked to the Vrzal family deaths. Prosecutors say he used charms to obtain money from the victims and poisoned Mrs. Mary Vrzal and other family members. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence after trials and retrials, with clemency pleas underway.
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Chicago
Herman Billik
Billik
Billk
Mary Vrzel
Martin Vrzal
Vrzal
Donosky
Mary Vrzal
Harder & Buckhaults Offer Stock Feed and Hay
Harder and Buckhaults advertise ready supply of alfalfa hay North Texas hay and White Wolf stock food with emphasis on efficiency saying one sack of stock food equals two sacks of bran at no extra cost and inviting patronage by phone 251.
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North Texas
Harder & Buckhaults
No Ball Game Today
The New York Giants game scheduled for this afternoon has been called off. The manager said it was impossible for the team to arrive today but may arrange a later visit if feasible. A petition on Main Street urged merchants to close, reflecting widespread disappointment.
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New York Giants
Main Street
Breaks into Girl's Room in Kansas City Aurora Murder
James Thomas Swanson twenty five breaks into Miss Irene Everett's Kansas City Kansas home Thursday. He makes a failed assault attempt on the girl, mortally stabs her mother Mrs William Everett, and drinks carbolic acid. He is found dead on his doorstep about half an hour later.
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Kansas City
James Thomas Swanson
Irene Everett
Kan
William Everett
Swanson
Miss Everett
Everett
Mrs. Everett
Surprising Sudden Flood Strikes Pittsburg Area
An unexpected flood reached twenty two feet by noon Thursday causing extensive street and cellar flooding in Pittsburg and suburbs. Homes of thousands of women and children were trapped, schools lightly attended and railroad schedules disrupted as a sand dredge broke from its moorings and went over a dam.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Tarentum
Springdale
Dutch John Shot in Quarrel Over Chuck Wagon Breakfast
Hugo Colorado March 19 John Heyman known as Dutch John famed for preparing President Roosevelts chuck wagon breakfast on his last western trip was fatally shot in a Denver bound incident at the Union Pacific station when a dispute with Deputy Sheriff Brockeway and Bert Cooke led to a revolver being drawn and a bullet striking Heyman Brockeman is under arrest for firing the shot
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Hugo
Colo
John Heyman
John
Roosevelt
Denver
Brockeway
Bert Cooke
Heyman
Union Pacific
Cooke
Brockeman
Texas Sunday School Convention Opens in Austin
Austin hosts the thirty third annual Texas State Sunday School association convention with about a thousand delegates arriving from across the state. The opening day features preliminary work, officer conferences, and preparations for teacher training records music home department and temperance activities. Saturday profiles adult Bible classes and elementary workers followed by a convention banquet. Sunday promises noted speakers to close the gathering.
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Austin
Texas
Texas State Sunday School
Hummell Released After Prison Term Reduction
Abraham H. Hummell, the lawyer convicted in the Dodge-Morse divorce conspiracy case, was released from prison after a term shortened by good behavior. Friends plan his immediate departure for Europe as his health improves.
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New York
Abraham H. Hummell
Dodge-Morse
Hummell
Europe
Whyte Eulogized as Senate Honors Late Senator
Washington March 19 The senate opened with a tribute to William Pinckney Whyte after Senator Rayner of Maryland announced his death. No formal state funeral was planned, no committee attended the services, and the chamber adjourned after six minutes. A special train was arranged to convey attending senators to Baltimore.
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Washington
Senate
Rayner
Maryland
William Pinckney Whyte
Lansdell
Baltimore
Splendid Profit Report From American Telephone and Telegraph
The annual report by President Vail shows a profit of 23,479,000 dollars, up from 17,857,000 last year. He describes a national system with millions of subscribers linked by millions of miles of circuit wire, noting the local exchanges form one large system spanning 1 664 000 miles of wire.
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New York
Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Just
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GEO. A. Adams Insurance
Wll S. Higgs
E. C. Hardei
Buckhaults
Texas Sunday Schools
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Senator Rayner
United States Government Depositary
Bryan, Texas
The
City National Bank
E. H. Astin
G. S. Parker
A. W. Wilkerson
E. W. Crenshaw
Cash
J. W. English
J.N. Cole
J K. Parker
S.H. Dunlap
CRAIN
Southwestern Life Insurance G CO
Dallas
Tex
Joe B. Reed
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