Father Abraham quote on thrift and industry sermon
Benjamin Franklin recalls a plain old man teaching thrift and self-reliance at an auction. The speech urges industry, frugality, and avoidance of debt, citing Poor Richard maxims to argue that hard work and prudent living improve times and national prosperity. Franklin notes the crowd’s temptation to buy extravagances after the sermon.
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Times
Jay
Father Abraham
Richard
Indies
Spain
Richard Saye
Quit The Game Just in Time Kansas City Card Sharks Confronted
F R McHoonan of Pitburg recalls a Missouri encounter at the Coates house where four suspected card sharks pressed him into a game of pitch. He says he held three queens then four eights and later four aces, won, and left before losing more, leaving the strangers ten dollars out.
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F. R. McHoonan
Pitwburg
Coates House
Missouri
Joplin
Denver
George
Fellows
A Kansas Girl Falls to Death at Gold Quartz Mine
Miss Mabel Crummer a 20 year old school teacher from Lawrence Kansas was killed near Cripple Creek when she fell over an overhanging cliff on Gold Quartz but nest. The accident happened as her sister who accompanied her looked away the drop measured twenty five feet and Crummer died instantly. She was visiting her father who had recently started mining in the district.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Mabel Crummer
Lawrence
Kan
Miss Crummer
61 Babies to the Southwest
Sixty one infants formerly in the New York Foundling asylum crowded Union Station in St Louis causing travel disruption. A three year old, Joseph Brown, fell from a car window and died before reaching St Louis. Five babies crawled under trains but were saved. The infants are to be sent to Texas for adoption.
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St. Louis
New York
Blind Macon boy ends life with poison note
Will Rowland, 20, a blind resident south of Macon Missouri, killed himself with strychnine. He left a note for his mother saying he could not earn money and preferred death over the poorhouse. This marks the third local death by own action within a week.
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Macon
Will Rowland
Grave Trouble Foreseen: Mrs Young Warns of Liver Disease Cure
A Clay New York woman warns of liver and stomach weakness and claims a medicine cured her after a period of great illness. The ad emphasizes the remedy as especially effective for women and notes it is sold locally.
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John A. Young
Clay
N. Y
United Confederate Veterans close meeting in Louisville parade
In Louisville on June 19 the United Confederate Veterans ended their annual meeting after electing officers for another year and selecting New Orleans as next year’s reunion site. A large military parade marked the close as veterans and Sons of Veterans prepared to depart. Officers chosen include Commander-in-chief Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, Army of Northern Virginia Department Lieutenant-General Clement A. Evans, and South Carolina head C Irvine Walker. Lee’s re-election faced no opposition, and others were similarly chosen with little contest.
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Louisville
New Orleans
United Confederate Veterans
Armies of the South
Loulaville
Sons of Veterans
Stephen D. Lee
Mississippi
Irane-Mississippi
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
Army of Northern Virginia
C. Irvine Walker
South Carolina
Gen. Lee
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promise Modern Cure
Greatly in demand a medicine for blood and system cleansing. Dr King’s New Life Pills claimed to cure stomach and liver troubles. Sold at Frank T. Clay’s drug store for 25 cents with guarantee.
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Dr. King
Frank T. Clay
Boy Punch Kills Mare Rider in Oklahoma Territory
Guthrie Oklahoma June 17 three fatalities occurred in the territory today all deaths resulting from accidents. In Cantonment an eight year old son of James Morris reached a revolver and unintentionally shot his three year old sister. In Stillwater eleven year old Charles Kirkpatrick struck a mare expelling him to pasture and the horse kicked him fatally. Near Bridgewater Bud Carr a cowboy roping and riding expert with medals was killed by a bucking broncho.
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Bridgewater
Baptist leader chosen to address London Congress
Columbia Mo June 123 E W Stephens of Columbia appointed to deliver the Baptist North America address at the World Capital Congress in London in July. He sails June 24 from New York. The congress will include Baptist representatives from every country where churches exist.
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Columbia
E. W. Stephens
World’Capital Congress
London
Baptists of North America
New York
Baptist Congress
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