Eyewitness account of Lincoln assassination at Ford's Theatre
A 19th century witness describes attending Lincoln's 1865 theatre visit with Grant present, Booth’s attack, the chaotic aftermath, and the explosive mood in Washington. He recalls box details, Miss Laura Keene’s role, bloodstains on a program, Booth’s retreat, and early theories about conspirators and Johnson.
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Ford
Fifth Street
Washington, D. C
Washington
Chicago
Relay House
Baltimore
Lincoln
General Grant
John Danser
Trenton
N. J
Louisiana Avenue
Mrs Lincoln
Miss Harris
Major Rathbone
John Wilkes Booth
Lohg Alfletta
Portrait of John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln Assassination Suspect
Harper's Weekly piece from April 29 1865 portrays John Wilkes Booth as the killer behind the Lincoln assassination. The illustration and caption reflect contemporary public reaction and the chaotic aftermath of the event.
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Joan Wilkes Booth
Itu Mor
Lincoln
Harper's Weekly
Lincoln a Boy of Promise
A young Lincoln showed latent ability in early life. At fourteen he memorized Henry Clay's speeches and became deeply interested in history. When his stepmother fell ill, he attended church each Sunday and preached the sermons back to her. He loved to argue and engage strangers in discussion. Months later Mrs. Lincoln noted these traits and believed her stepson would become a great man.
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Henry Clay
Abe
Philadelphia
George Amann
Egg Harbor
What Became of It The Value of U S Gold Mines
The New York World reports that last year the gold produced by United States mines was valued at 94 million 560 thousand dollars, a figure reflecting the nation’s mining output and its economic role. The article places the value alongside domestic candy and confections consumption as a contrast.
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United States
New York World
Lincoln’s Struggles with Education and Waste Notes
A historical vignette recalls young Lincoln studying by a fire, unable to afford paper for school tasks. He used scrap boards and makeshift exercises, shaving off work to begin anew, reflecting a brilliant yet stunted early education due to lack of basic tools.
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Lincoln
Taft Reflects on White House Isolation and Workload
President Taft privately addressed 150 reporters at the Press Club in Washington. Disguised in casual wear he spoke on pedestrian life, the rarity of visitors, and the constant engagement that defines White House labor. He described executive work as draining energy rather than sustained mental effort.
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Washington, D.C
Taft
Press Club
Washington
White House
Ane
Treaty on White Slave Traffic Declared Worthless
Washington report says the 1905 treaty to curb white slave trafficking is practically useless for stopping alien procurers and prostitutes. Commissioner Keefe cites lack of cooperation from signatory powers and insufficient immigration laws to curb entry and root causes in the United States and Europe.
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Washington,d. C
Keefe
Bureau of Immigration
Senate
Taft
England
Germany
Austria- Hungary
Belgium
Spain
Russia
Portugal
Sweden
Denmark
Holland
Canada
Bermuda
Brazil
Bureau
Am International Organization
Europe
United States
Maryland Racetracks Face Gambling Legislation Proposal
Baltimore racing men fear a proposed bill to ban wagering at tracks modeled on New York’s new law. Pimlico, once hampered, hopes the measure may restore its former prominence as recent meets recall Pimlico’s glory days.
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Maryland
Baltimore
Hughes
New York
Pimlico
Prominent Figures in Early 20th Century Politics
The article notes Senor Sanguily’s oath as Cuban Secretary of State. It questions Herbert Parsons’ ambitions regarding New York Governor Hughes. Rabbi Charles Pleischer praises early marriages in a Benton sermon. James Br. Gapfield rebuts a land entry validation plea from a Congress report. France’s flood crisis worsens per Premier Briand. Keene Richard A Ballinger defends himself amid accusations. Taft plans a special message on high living costs. Nicholas Monparrat, leader of rail lines, injured in a car crash.
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Senor Sanguily
Herbert Parsons
Hughes
New York
Charles Pleischer
Ben«ton
James
Gapfield
Congress
Interior
France
Briand
Columbus
James BR
Keene
Richard A Ballinger
Hig
Wilamstown
Mas
Washington
Taft
Nicholas Monparrat
Hocking Valley
Passenger Dies After Jump From Train In Gibs on
A youth Edward Lil of Gibson Pa was struck and killed by a coal train after jumping from a Delaware Lackawanna and Western passenger train at New Milford. His mother and sister witnessed the tragedy and fainted.
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Wilkes-Darre
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Edward Lil
Gibson
New Mitford
Newsy Gleanings Highlight Global and National Events
The American Plaingoers honor Clyde Fire memory while Naval Academy dismisses three midshipmen for intoxication. China to Long Island duck shipments. Revolt thwarted in La Libertad. Hamilton fames at San Diego flying show. Taft seeks Senate action on Chicago platform pledges. Comet sighted from Johannesburg viewed in New York briefly. Floods sweep Vrance and Parle endangering sewerways and foundations.
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Clyde
Taft
Senate
Germany
Innes
Johannesburg
New York
Vrance
Parle
Witness Identifies Senator Allds in 1901 Bribery Case
In Albany a witness says he paid Senator Jotham P. Allds $1000 to aid bridge legislation. Moe, Croton resident and Frank Conger ally, testifies envelopes with funds were passed to three Assemblymen, with Allds receiving one. Moe describes the meeting and Allds's reaction.
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Albany
N. Y
Jotham P. Allds
Senate
Henn Conger
Allds
Isitham G. Moe
Croton
Tompkins County
Congers
Moe
Frank Conger
Conger
Bridge
Inisiness
Benn Conger
Joe
Frank
Allis
Moes
Assemblyman
Alls
Senator Allds
Mr. Moe
Mr Moe
Woman saves three children from blazing tenement
In Cleveland Mrs Solo mon Klein, with head wrapped in a man’s coat and bonnet ablaze, enters a burning tenement at Scoville Avenue and Fast Twenty-eighth Street to rescue three small children. Firemen had evacuated thirteen residents and reported all safe when Mr Klein joined.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Solomon Klein
Scoville
Avenue
Butety
Tom Burns Declared Innocent After Alibi at Holcomb Robbery
Tom Burns, who served part of a ten year sentence in Wauoon for the Holcomb bank robbery in November 1899, has proven an alibi and is declared innocent by the State Board of Control. Governor Davidson has issued a pardon.
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Wauoon
Holcomb
Wis
Tom Burns
State Board of Control
Davidson
Nurse Testimony Links Capsule to Colonel Swope Death
Miss Pearl Keller testified she gave a capsule to Colonel Thomas A. H. Swope on a doctor’s direction. Within twenty minutes he convulsed, and Professor Hektoen testified to finding strychnine in the body, tying the capsule to the lethal outcome.
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Miss Pearl Keller
Thomas AH. Swope
Kansas City
Hyde
Professor Hektoen
Roosevelt’s Return Planned For Historic U S Reception
President Roosevelt is expected to land in the United States on or about June 25. Preparations are underway for what backers promise will be the greatest reception in history.
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Roosevelt
United States
Feminine Nate Volunteers as Meal Inspectors to Fight Trust
Miss Alice Paul of Morristown New Jersey a suffragette and Swarthmore graduate leads women volunteers who inspect meals without pay to oppose business trusts. Sophie Kritehman a Waterbury Connecticut music teacher is charged with murdering her sweetheart. Cherry County Nebraska elects Miss Gertrude Jame as County Treasurer after years as deputy. A Pennsylvania pastor refuses marriage unless groom earns two thousand dollars a year. Sculptor Mie Mounies to wed daughter of late Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. Adelina Patt marks Aldeth anniversary at seventeen on stage. Mrs Wreda Wanda Sommerer of New York City detains fiancé Prank A. Gelse after stolen jewelry and bad checks are uncovered.
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Alice Paul
Morristown
Swarthmore College
Sophie Kritehman
Waterbury
Conn
Cherry County
Nebraska
Gertrude Jame
Pennsylvania
Miem
Paper Board Pool Guilty in Sherman Law Case
In New York City Judge Hough fined the forty members of the Paper Board Association 2000 dollars each after a federal indictment for restraint of trade. The organization, tied to the wrapping paper industry, faced similar charges to a prior case, with aims to dissolve the pool and bar future participation.
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New York City
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Paper Board Association
Federal Grand Jury
James M. “Becky
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Manufacturers of Paper Board
John H. Parks
Parks
Paper Board
Parka
Senate probes cost of living and anti trust shocks
Senate finance discussions center on cost of living with use of Agriculture and Commerce departments to compile price data from farmers mills retailers and middlemen. Proposals for federal incorporation face House and Senate opposition while Supreme Court cases cloud action on major trusts and tax law timing.
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House
Congress
Senate
Spur
Mrs Ricker Seeks New Hampshire Governorship
Dover New Hampshire Mrs Manila M Ricker a lawyer and suffrage leader announces her candidacy for Governor on a woman’s rights platform. She was raised on a New Hampshire farm married in 1868 widow since 1874 and has traveled extensively including a planned world tour she will abandon for the campaign. She was the first woman to attempt to vote in the United States in 1870.
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Dover
N. H
Manila M. Ricker
New Hampshire
Germany
France
Ricker
No Trust Status Blocks Harvester Suit in Michigan
Judge Clement Smith in Eaton County Circuit Court ruled Inter national Harvester Company has no standing in Michigan courts unless it proves it is not a trust. The case, over a note and back account with Grand Ledge dealers, was dismissed with the jury discharged and may go to the state Supreme Court.
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Congress
Supreme
Charlotte
Mich
International Harvester Company
Michigan
Clement Smith
Eaton County
Glarvester Company
Grand Ledge
Allorness
Tam
Supreme Court
John J Sullivan Weds Katharine Hartnett in Roxbury
John L Sullivan the former heavyweight champion married Katharine Hartnett a Sharon real estate holder in Roxbury at her sister Miss Mary Hartnett’s home. The couple sailed on the Ivernia for England after the ceremony. Sullivan had obtained a divorce from his first wife a year earlier.
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Boston
Mass
John L. Sullivan
Katharine Hartnett
Sharon
Mary Hartnett
Roxbury
Ivernia
England
Sullivan
Professor Ekenburg Dies in Brixton Jail
Swedish scientist Professor Martin Ekenburg, arrested in London last fall for bomb outrages in Sweden, was committed for extradition and died in Brixton jail from apoplexy.
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London
England
Martin Ekenburg
Sweden
Brixton
Suicide by Self Inflicted Gunfire in San Francisco Home
In San Francisco Roman Pritschom died at his home after firing eleven bullets into his head then reloading a public safety item. Doctors reported six bullets entered his brain and a cloche line was found tied around his neck as he died during a personal crisis.
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San Francisco
Cal
Roman Pritschom
Alameda
Pyuzgles Physicians
Pittsburg Bankers Indicted For Bribery and Perjury
True bills returned by the Grand Jury charge conspiracy bribery and perjury against President Jennings and former VP Griffin of the Columbia National Bank. Also named are Charles Stewart former Select Councilman County Delinquent Tax Collector Max Leslie and others as witnesses before the Grand Jury.
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Pittsburgola
L- 11
Jennings
FP. A. Griffin
Columbia National Bank
Select
Indianapolis man kills wife then shoots himself
Police report a man identified as C. Cope shot his wife May Louie C3 George and then killed himself with the same weapon after a separation dispute. The incident occurred in Indianapolis, Indiana, as investigators review the motive and sequence of events.
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Wie
Lee
Komer C. Cope
Indianapolis
Ind
May Louie
George
Cope
Epa
Shire Waist Manufacturers Dined At Belmont Event
In New York Mrs. O. Li. P. Belmont hosted a ten o’clock dinner for a group of shirt waist manufacturers who have resumed talks on wages and union terms as part of ongoing labor discussions.
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O. Li. P. Belmont
New York
Bishop Foss Dies in Philadelphia Amid World Events
Telegraph items report Methodist bishop Cyrus D. Foss dies in Philadelphia. News from Korea notes a massacre of twenty Japanese settlers in South Phongan. Prices drop at a New York milk firm reducing to eight cents a quart for hospital contracts. Paragraphs mention flood relief for Paris and political reshuffles in Britain and Ireland.
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Cyrus D. Foss
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
South Phongan
Korea
New York City
Borden Condensed Milk Company
la Bretagne
Seine
Champ
Jail Names Two John Wilsons From Trenton Inmate System
New Jersey state news reports two prisoners named John Wilson at Atlanta Federal Prison. One Wilson from Trenton faced sentencing after pleading not guilty to entering a Union post office. The other Wilson is already serving time there for a post office break-in on the same date one year earlier.
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United States District
Harry Jordan
Fairton-Gimberland County
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