Death at the Ninth Avenue Elevated Window
Richard Harvey, a 57 year old iron roofer, died in his apartment near 645 Greets Street after leaning at a window as guards and bystanders on the Ninth Avenue elevated railyway teased him. Dr Donlin noted the corpse after viewing the scene. Harvey had lived alone since his wife moved to Reading last May and had planned a reunion for Christmas. His will and notes indicated funds in two banks and substantial property.
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Wich Street
Donlin
Richard Harvey
Lizzie
Reading
Mes
Tiarvey
New York
Larvey
Alice
Daring Women Decorated for Heroism and Courage in India and New York
Queen Victoria awards the Royal Red Cross to several women in India led by Lady Roberts for improving nursing and founding the Lady Roberts fund and an officers hospital at Murree. Mrs Dor mant and Mrs Cawley aid siege defenses after a frontier murder, while Miss Lickford Welchman Catherine earn praise for relief expeditions. In New York Miss Sadie Maton chases a burglar, pursued by a brave but clutching Miss Eaton. A social portrait follows on fashion trends and new promenade costumes in biscuit colored cloth and satinlike textiles with elaborate trims.
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Joan of Arc
Grace Darling
Order of the Royed Red Cross
Frederick Roberts
East
Lady Roberts
Robes
Catherine
Edith .Welchman
K. Lickford
St. Barbiole Men’s Hospital
Winchester
England
Loch
Lawrence
New York City
Sadie Maton
West Thirteenth Street
Miss Maton
Miss Eaton
Dark Lantern
Eaton
Youthful band of thieves unearthed in Long Beach City
Thirteen year old Charves Blackhaim led a gang that stole horses and loot, including a revolver and powder, from a Brooklyn pasture. Police raided his Jackson Avenue den finding two older accomplices, food loot, and burglary tools. they await reform school placement.
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Long Belant
Bestain
Charves Blackhaim
Kesha
Brooklyn
Blackham
Jackson Avenue
Fred Woerner
Woerner
Charles Desmond
Thomas Clark
Blackburn
A Clever Gang of Thieves in Kovuk Earthly Style
London prepares for the trial of a skilled thieves gang led by Mr and Mrs Clarke who lived well in the suburb. They scouted empty houses by day marking them then robbed by night in carriages. If homes were occupied they offered photos and albums instead. A cyclist noted target houses.
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London
Kovuk
Clarke
New Cure for Epilepsy Reported After Belfry Fall
An epileptic bellringer was swung by a heavy rope, fell to the belfry floor and walked home. He has not had an epileptic attack since the fall, prompting a newspaper to suggest the event might illustrate a potential epilepsy cure.
Prosperous Vanlue Town Fails to Find Needy After Fund Rise
A union religious meeting raised relief funds for the poor in Vanlue Ohio but a women’s committee reports no eligible recipients in the village or surrounding area. They state they do not know how to use the funds.
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Vanlue
Unnecessary Smuggling Foiled Skeleton Smuggler Tale
Charles Allen a Leamington Ontario medical student faced police scrutiny after smuggling a human skeleton across the Detroit River to Canada. He hid the skeleton in clothing with a blue veil and rode a Windsor ferry, passing customs who missed the contraband. Canada taxes on articulated skeletons reportedly do not exist.
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Charles Allen
Leamington, Ont
Detroit River
Canada
Windsor
Irregular Surgery Ends in Death in Irving Wisconsin
A young man Bolger in Irving Wisconsin broke his leg above the knee while turning in bed. Surgeons removed splinters and set the ends, but he deteriorated and died shortly after. William Jackson of Ellsworth, Maine is noted for having endured illness, losing six wives in fifty five years, the last passing recently.
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Irving
Wis
Bolger
Willian Jackson
Ellsworth
Mera
Novel Wooden Towel Rack With Floral Decoration
A towel rack described as an improvement over ring-based racks uses two yard-long round wooden bars coated in pale enamel. They are suspended a foot to eighteen inches apart by ribbon bands, allowing towels to hang and spread out more than ring versions, suitable above a washstand or behind a door.
Pretty Gift Envelope Craft Tip from a Linen Square
A simple gift idea uses a square linen envelope filled with scented cotton wadding and sealed. Decorate the lower right with violet rose or heliotrope designs matching the powder scent and tie with colored ribbon. gilding fragments provide a decorative background.
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Paull
New York Ninth Avenue
TNE
India
Whya
Queen Victoria
the Royal Rep Chess
Mother Lawrence
Spamant
Cawley
Sicu
Hone Wean
Dra Afor
Astrakhan
Sadie Eaton
Long Island
Ayers
Ayer
J. Av Adams
St. Augustine
Texas
A. J. Osment
General Merchant
Indian Head
J. C. Butler
Spencer, Mass
A. Lacombe
Opelousas
A. K. Prescott
Lower
Montana
Buttemont
Welena, Mont
James Twiford
Lower Main Street
Hennia
New Merchant's Hotel
Broadway
Helena
Monttana
Dillon Tribune
Merchant's Hotet Co
Joan G. Vawter
See’s and Treas
Fti
Elena
N.ewing ST
Mozay Mares
Cerry
C. H. Dogge
Eugene
Ee - Baily
Lima, Montana
John A. Clinton
Lima, Mont
Boys Alwys
Wetoone
Joseph Bourret & Co
Joe Bhipped
Cata
Toveen
Gand
Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Etha
Common Sense Mining Machinery Co
Denver
Colo
Wyncoop Srs
Colorado Iron Works
O. E. Morse
Ened Flome Suing Machine CO
Orange
Chicago
Square
X. San Francisc
MMARS
Atlanta
Dallartfg O. E. Morsz
Dillon
Scientific American Agency For
Mann & CO
America
Scientific America World
Weeks
Nee Ear
Blishers
Dillon, Argenta and
Bannack
Pacific Express
RR Depot
F. L. Graves
Anderson Bros
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