Accident at Waite Home in East Canon injures resident
Rev Waite Sr of Cottonwood avenue suffered a painful accident when a cow charged through the Waite garden, throwing him and injuring a rib and hand horn. He is recovering as well as can be expected. Other notes report Hazely Marten hosting a party with phonograph and games, Mr Kingsley returning from Denver, Harry Parker's near-drowning incident, and the Engleman family returning from Europe to Chicago.
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Rev. Waite
Cottonwood Avenue
Mr. Craig
Garden Park
Waite
Mr. Waite
Hazely Marten
Central Street
Mr. Kingsley
Denver
Harry Parker
Paton
Pear Street
Harry
Remarkable tuberculosis test shows healthy dairy cows
Pure Food Inspector Richard Houle completed a thorough tuberculin test on seventeen dairy cows at A T Richardson’s dairy at 1307 Harrison avenue. Temperatures were taken ten times over 32 hours with no fever rise after injection, proving the cows in perfect health and earning a commendatory letter from state veterinary Charles G Lamb.
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Richard Houle
A. T. Richardson
Harrison Avenue
House
Houle
Charles G
Lamb State Veterinary
Like a Potato
A reader recalls a Sunday School moment where Mary explains God looks like a potato and Bert asks for a description. Mary says God has eyes on all sides, and a potato is the only thing she knows with such eyes. The anecdote appears in The August Delineator.
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Mary
Bert
A Little Dorothy’s Surprising Confession in The Delineator
A wife recounts Dorothy’s playful remark to her father about loving him more than her mother. The girl explains she wants to keep her secret from mama because papa laughs at what she says. She muses that if mama died she would like to marry papa, a sentiment shared in a candid family moment from The August Delineator.
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Dorothy
Warned by specters the spirit of his sister
A civil engineer recounts three encounters with apparitions guiding life decisions. A Brooklyn boy sees his sister at a grave, a Dedham boarding school friend appears after death, and a Boston lawyer sees a dead sister behind him influencing a legal choice. He questions science and speculates on unseen vibrations shaping perception.
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Brooklyn
Greenfield Hill
Conn
Annie
Maggie
Dedham
Mass
Charlie
Boston
New York
Man volunteers to inoculate himself for tuberculosis research
Frank Merritt a middle aged former book binder from a western state offered to surrender his body for science. He traveled to New York where Dr C C Carroll inoculated him with tuberculosis germs to test a possible preventive and cure. Merritt said he wanted to die if it aided humanity and science and he remains hopeful about the project.
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Frank Merritt
Merritt
Salvation Army
New York
Chatham Square
C. C. Carroll
Broadway
Perfect Gentleman Burglar Entertains Chicago Girl
An eighteen year old Miss Evelyn O Malley in Edgewater Chicago recounts a two hour home invasion by a suave burglar who conversed and drank bourbon with her he drew a pistol and demanded valuables then left after apologizing for the intrusion the incident ends with a fainting spell and police seeking the thief.
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Magnolia Avenue
Edgewater
Chicago
Evelyn O'Malley
Miss O’malley
Helen
Miss O'Malley
Dog Lands Large Pickerel In Waterlogged Yarn
A humorous Iowa tale features Monk the St Bernard diving into a lake after a pickerel. The dog’s tail tangles on a fishhook as he tows the line and struggles, prompting a dramatic, improbable rescue reported with tongue in cheek.
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Iowa
Clare BR. Tinan
The
Kimball
Circus Gambling Scandal At Open Show Causes City Action
Report on Hagenbeck Wallace circus where open gambling tilted the odds in a shell game and wheel of fortune. Authorities halted the games after crowds urged arrests, with critics noting law violations and insufficient enforcement by the city marshal. Also notes homeward travels and a birthday gathering at Rudd Avenue.
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Hagenbeck & Wallace
Republican Campaign Opens in Colorado Springs Plans
Washington reports Chairman Frank Hitchcock of the Republican National Committee will open the 1900 campaign with Taft and Sherman as candidates. A July 20 21 conference in the Antlers hotel Colorado Springs gathers Western state leaders to coordinate campaign plans and regional headquarters.
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Washington
Frank Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
William H. Taft
James 8. Sherman
Colorado Springs
Colo
Antlers
Hitchcock
Missouri River
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Idaho
Utah
Arizona
Nevada
Oregon
California
West
Middle West
East
Chicago
New York
Committee
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Clyde Warner
Everett Bancroft
Frank Batchelor
Elton Woodford
Gunnison River
Gwen Younger
Mary Baker
Latters
Rudd Avenue
Basil
Gladys Benson
Harold Sprinkle
Ruth Porter
Helen Shumway
Elsie Miller
John Quick
Hitch
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