Durham Briefs Spotlight City Life and Meetings
Local items note Tomas Kerr of East Durham ill with pneumonia and fined days ago. A major Durham Infantry meeting is set for tonight at 7:30, with lodge No 352 A F and A M urged to attend. Various city notices include funerals, fire company resolutions, a mayoral docket, church committees, railway schedule changes, and Polk Miller dialect recital plans for March 6 in Durham.
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Tomas Kerr
East Durham
Durham Infantry
Lodge No 352
A. F
A. M
Cunpinggita
West Durham
Burleigh
Provi- Knitting Machine Company
R. 1
Southern Railway
Durham
Keyeville Eaves
Polk Miller
Miller
South
Virginia
Southern Stock Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Greensboro
T. A. Boone, Jr
Anne
Durham Visitors Report Spread Across City
A stream of Durham visitors is listed with brief notes on where they came from and when they left. Names include R H Rivsbee, T Morgan, J S Carr, W P Whitaker, R B Proctor, Thomas Lloyd, Miss Lucy Darnall, Col Bennehan Cameron, Miss Georgia Whitaker, Mr and Mrs Watts, and others, with movements between Raleigh Greensboro Chapel Hill and surrounding towns.
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R.B. Proctor
Greensboro
Thomas Lloyd
Chapel Hill
Durham
Lucy Darnall
Raleigh
Col
Bennehan Cameron
Georgia Whitaker
Winston
W. J. Griswold
James H. Watts
Baltimore
Geo. W. Watts
Two Hundred Miles an Hour Electric Locomotive Test Planned
A Baldwin Works electric locomotive built for Westinghouse in Philadelphia heads to East Pittsburg for a preliminary high speed test. The test uses a slide rail and contact buttons to measure drawing power with possible speeds near 200 miles per hour. A separate incident reports a mother’s accidental death after a train collision near Parcaperpuia.
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Pittspura
Baldwin Works
Philadelphia
Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electrical Works
East Pittsburg
Surprised Farmer Loses Suit in River Prank
A farmer in Dawns Virginia purchased a new suit, discarded his old clothes into the Kanawha river, then returned home in a shirt. He later found the parcel missing and the wagon brake left severed as a shock set in. Also a youth named Ailis W Rangely was struck and killed by a shifting engine of the Southern Railway while crossing a track with a companion.
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Withen
Kanawha
Helga
Dawns
Ailis W. Rangely
Southern Railway
Bids for Bonds Opened in Washington Treasury Sale
Bids for 100 million dollars of 30 year 4 percent United States bonds were opened at noon in the treasury under gold payment terms. Purchasers may pay 20 percent at acceptance and 10 percent every 15 days, with 4,640 bids totaling 684 million before subtracting two bogus bids leaving 568.27 million. Expectation is the full 100 million may bring 110 or more.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Carlisle
Michigan
Texas
Feather in his cap turns into bag of feathers for a traveler
A London firm accepts a £1000 order from a commercial traveler in England but fails to acknowledge it. The firm jokes that the single feather in his cap is now the feathered baggage he must take home as they cancel the order and lose the goods.
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Hall
Es Sawes
Cheney & E
Srigulet
London
England
Strand Magazine
Roanoke Man Marries at Sixteen Then Flee after Murder Claim
Jasper J Hale wed Elvinia Adams aged sixteen and fled Roanoke on Sunday. An elderly woman later accused him of marrying her years ago and alleged he killed Thomas G Massie in December 1890. Hale was captured at Radford and brought back to Roanoke to face questioning.
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Roanoke
Jasper J. Hale
Elvinia Adams
Hale
Thomas G. Massie
Radford
Roanokes
Broad daylight holdup in Kansas City nets $545
Cashier Pauly of Standard Oil was robbed on South Harrison street by John Searcy 22 a local offender. Searcy fled with the canvas bag and money but was chased captured and the funds recovered hidden in a basement. Searcy claimed he stole to buy a license.
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Kansas City
Pauly
Standard Oil Company
John Searcy
Searcy
Harrison Street
Howeve
The Things Packed
A man in a small country calls a wealthy ally for prayer and time to consider. He doubts his light as a month passes. In the street a neighbor asks his youngest son Josiah about his father. The boy answers that paw is still praying for light but most things are packed.
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Josiah
Old Woman Redeems 19th Century Bank Savings
An elderly woman in Rat Hand Vermont returned to a savings bank with a book showing a 19th century deposit. She claimed to have placed 500 dollars over 20 years ago and, after a clerk calculated interest, she was credited with about 1300 dollars in addition to her original deposit. She chose to keep the old passbook and has not visited Vermont since the last entry.
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Vermont
Savings Bank
New York State
Boston Herald
I Don’t Know I Never Ask Unnecessary Questions
A literary exchange from the Chicago Record features lines about horses dreams and a cousin Julia with a drowned son. It reflects humorous dialogue and casual banter on law and society.
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James
Julia
Chicago
Bank Shortage Breach Reported in Fort Stanwix Bank
Rome reports a Federal source states the Fort Stanwix National Bank shortage totals 975 900 with former cashier and ex mayor George Barnard owing about 75 000 personally. Bank Examiner Van Vravkin declines to detail the affairs or confirm specifics.
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Rome
Fort Stanwix
Cure for Headache with Electric Bitters
A remedy claim promotes Electric Bitters as a permanent cure for headaches and habitual sick headaches. It says the tonic also aids habitual constipation by restoring tone and urges purchase at R. Blackwall & Son's drug store for five and ten cent prices?
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Elf
R. Blackwall & Son
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Trimicy College
M.C. A
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G. P. Watson
Anderson
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Parcaperpuia
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Sambo
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Ham
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Ark
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Here
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Home Garland
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Thas
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