Night Riders Warn Price of Tobacco Manager
Letters threaten violence to R. W. White, sales manager for a farming machinery firm in Night Riders warnings from Caldwell County. White, visiting relatives, received a final warning to abstain, with letters mailed from Cobb Cerulean Springs Wallonia and Princeton. Separate dispatches discuss Japanese views on Port Arthur and Stoessel, noting estimated Russian and Japanese losses and predicting acquittal despite potential court-martial verdicts.
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Hopkinsville
R. W. White
Caldwell County
Farmers’ Association
Cobb
Cerulean Springs
Wallonia
Princeton
White
Signing Petitions in a Western Town
A town debates petition signing and tests public trust. A petition asks Judge Petrie to leave town for alleged moral and civic unfitness. Nearly 40 leading citizens sign, including Petrie himself, and the doubter concedes the power of petitions.
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Judge Petrie
Petrie
Wanted Man to Sell Patent Medicine Ad
An English ad seeks a gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine. The advertiser guarantees profitability to the undertaker.
Talks of reviving guillotine echoes Paris crime rise
Paris experiences a surge in attacks on women and children akin to New York’s crime wave. Police report multiple assaults, abducted girls, and near fortifications, with offenders often beaten or driven away by revolvers in response to cries. One girl kept prisoner for three days but unharmed, though shaken.
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Paris
New York
Rockefeller Security Belts Against Robbers At Home
The Cleveland Leader reports John D. Rockefeller maintains a near fortress like home defense. A complete burglar alarm and signaling system are tested nightly with experts ready to repair any defect. Guards patrol grounds under bright arc lamps while two trusted bodyguards, one Irish and one Swiss, accompany him. Rockefeller avoids back to window seating and prefers secluded rail stations when traveling. He also reportedly chose a famous wig to avoid recognition.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller House
Rockefeller
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Sold in Fleet Street Deal
The Fleet Street hostelry once frequented by American visitors and linked to Dr Johnson has changed hands. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, long owned by the Moore family, was acquired by a small syndicate led by a nobleman. Offers of 120000 were once mentioned, but the sale concluded for under half that price amid reports of aristocratic connections.
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Fleet-street
London
Johnson
Chancery
Moore
The Best Man
Pat attends a wedding and bursts into the hall in a startled stumble, claiming to be the best man after entering a dressing room upstairs. The scene unfolds with shock as guests discover the mix up and the groom’s party reacts to the chaotic entrance.
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Pat
Bachelors Taxed by City Assessor in Absecon
Atlantic City Aug 18 Assessor Henry Alexander of Absecon imposes a $100 tax on each bachelor. Wealthy Frank Hamill faced a $100 rise, asked if singledom caused it. Alexander says yes, bachelors should not escape expenses of not marrying. Rich bachelors faced similar levies as protests loom to state board or courts.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Henry Alexander
Absecon
Frank Hamill
Board of Assessors
Hamill
Alexander
State Board
Rural Delivery Service Report Summary
Washington August report shows 54 774 petitions for rural service with 14 048 adverse reports. On Aug 1 27 730 routes existed, rising to 7 887 on Aug 1. Five hundred routes were discontinued and 1 899 petitions remain pending. Rural carrier employment reaches 37 735, with each carrier paid up to 900 dollars per year.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Carmack Lectures for Old Soldiers in Lynnville
Hon E W Carmack will lecture in Lynnville Tennessee under United Daughters of the Confederacy for the Giles county soldiers Confederate monument project. The talk occurs in the Robert B Jones high school chapel on Monday night August 26.
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Lynnville, Tenn
E. W. Carmack
Lynnville
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Giles County
Robert B. Jones High School
Parental Advice Warns About Marriage Choices
A father counsels his son on prudent marriage, stressing that love alone is not enough. He urges selecting a wife who will support the husband in his established lifestyle to avoid unhappiness or hardship.
Life Story Reads Like Romance in a Bank of Lies
San Francisco Aug 18 W P Morgan taken to city prison after passing bogus checks. Once chief attache in U S ambassador’s Tokyo service and owner of Buffalo blocks he was also a Tonopah mining operator and large Nevada stock holder. The Davis divorce case links him to Mrs BE Kaufman. he is a Princeton graduate gobe trotter and clubman. The reasons for his downfall remain undisclosed.
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San Francisco
W. P. Morgan
Morgan
United States
Tokyo
Japan
Buffalo
Tonopah
Nevada
Davis
Kaufman
Princeton
Gobe Trotter
Millet's Poverty and Diaz's Generous Aid
A short tale in which Millet the famed painter faces hunger until Diaz offers to sell two drawings in Paris. That night Diaz returns with sixty francs in gold, lighting the room as Millet muses on earning such sums weekly. The story hints whether suffering spurs genius among Barbizon artists.
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T. P.O
Millet
Angelus
Diaz
Paris
Long Nickel Ride Through New York City Streets
A 37 mile city ride for five cents promises a varied tour of Manhattan and the Bronx. The route crosses Fulton, Duane, Grand, Spring and Houston streets then ventures uptown to Kingsbridge, offering a cheap, seven hour expedition with plenty of street car views and city life. A brief anecdote about a politician’s lengthy speech summary and a joke about household Standard Oz caps the piece.
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New York Times
New York
Broadway
236 Street
Fulton
Duane
Grand
Spring
Houston
Clinton Place
Kingsbridge
Miracle Working Priest Neglected in St Petersbu rg
Aug 15 St Peters burg Father John of Cronstadt, famed miracle worker and prophet, says the faithful ignore him now. Once feared across the empire, gifts faded. he ages, lives on porridge, and seeks solace in daily church service. Authorities here view his decline as a relief from a thorn in Cronstadt’s religious leadership.
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ST. Petersburg
Father John of
Cronstadt
John
Mecaar
Russia
Ike Hirsch the newsboy jailed for defaulted fine in Cincinnati
Aug 14 Nashville reports Isaac Hirsch a newsboy with $12,000 in a local bank held in Cincinnati jail for nonpayment of a small fine on loitering and nuisance charges. He travels Nashville Louisville Cincinnati and sleeps in alleys. His tragic family fire ruined his mind, but locals still buy papers and pity him.
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Nashvillle
Tenn
Nashville
Isaac Hirsch
Cincinnati
Hirsch
Louisville
Ike
Tle
Bever Ormi
Jack London Sails On In Snark Toward Mau
Honolulu Aug 16 Jack London continues his world voyage aboard the Snark sailing toward Mau. The famed author set out from Honolulu after resuming his circumnavigation and keeping to the planned Pacific route.
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Honolulu
Jack London
Mau
Doan's Kidney Pills End Backache Linked to Kidney Ailment
A Columbia reader praises Doan's Kidney Pills for backache tied to kidney trouble. After using the product obtained at Adams & Martin's drug store, pain subsided and strength returned. The ad notes Doan's as the sole U S distributor via Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. Price 60 cents.
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Doan
Eighth Street
Columbia, Tenn
Dean
Adams & Martin
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
New York
United States
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