Destructive fire devastates town store district
Mayyué Nov 6 report details a major blaze that swept through Portis bringing extensive damage. The fire damaged a dozen buildings near the company store area, with estimated losses around 40 000 dollars. Firefighters battled high winds as thieves attempted to break into safes, but fled as flames spread through the block.
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Mayyué
So di
Mae
Cititords
Firav
Insu Patoe
Bukoler
Silver and Copper Strikes Reported in Butte District
In Butte Montana on November 6 reports describe extraordinary strikes of silver and copper in new localities within the district. At the Amma mine a large silver bearing vein yields over 1,000 tons with gold values and high copper content. The veins are native copper rich and promise to outshine older ore bodies. Claim owners and miners grow excited as prospects expand.
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Peon
Batie
Butte
Mont
Amma
Ativar
Anaconda
Boston
Montana
Youngest Northwest Grandmother Revels In Early Marriage Record
Mrs James P Carleton of Iowa Falls Iowa is noted as the youngest grandmother in the Northwest at twenty nine. Her husband Mr Carleton married when she was eleven and he was thirteen. Their daughter married at fourteen and last week became a mother. The Carleton family shows a pattern of early marriages and large families.
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Cixime
Northwest
Des Motes
James P. Carleton
Iowa Falls
Iowa
Carleton
Cio
Adrift on Lake Michigan Claims Two Lightkeepers
Charles Peterson and Ralph Higgins, lightkeepers at the government station on Lake Michigan near Kewaunee Wisconsin, were blown from shore by a westerly gale Sunday twilight. Search efforts continued through the night and into the following day with no trace found. Conditions were near freezing as a schooner or boat was sighted adrift and authorities fear the men may have perished.
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Harve
Kewaunee
Wis
Lake Michigan
Charles Peterson
Government
Hght
Higgen Ralph
DROWERD IN CLEAR LAKE MEN BELIEVED LOST
Nov. 6 in Mason City Iowa two prominent Plano Manufacturing and Simmonds Hardware men disappeared after going on Clear Lake. Decoy ducks and the boat were found yesterday. authorities fear they perished. The missing are George L. Montgomery and N Baird, noted business figures.
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George L. Montgomery
Plano
Mason City
Iowa
Baird
Simmonds Flerdware
St. Louis
Clear Lake
Moth
Illness Ends for Mrs William Pulier in West Union
Mrs William Pulier of West Union Iowa aged sixty wife of United States Assistant Attorney General Puler died at home after seven months illness. Daughter of William Harper of Mediapolis she left nine children seven living. Other items note a canning factory project in Cumberland Wisconsin and legal cases in Moorhead Argyle and Bollett.
Oxford Postmaster Faces Theft Confession in Local Case
Nov 6. Dwight Carpenter of the state university was arrested after confessing to trying to obtain money via two $100 money orders stolen from a trunk held by Postmaster Wright of Oxford. He said he pushed two orders and had eight more intended for Minnesota Wisconsin and Town towns. Authorities pursue the remaining orders.
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Dwight Carpenter
The
State University
Jer
Win
Carpenter
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Wright
Oxford
Fire Hits Wisconsin Central Flour Warehouses in Manitowoc
Seventy three carloads of flour on track and two carloads in the warehouse of the Wisconsin Central Railway company were destroyed by fire last night along with the warehouse and dock property. Loss is expected to reach 100000 dollars, covered by insurance. Origin of the blaze is unknown. The fire lasted long enough to be the fiercest in the city’s history, but was confined by the combined efforts of the entire fire department.
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Monitowee
Wis
Wisconsin Central, Railway
Warshouge
Eighteen injured when bus veers off road near Pewapkee
A bus carrying eighteen passengers returning from a social at Supt. MacCotlom's place near Pewapkee Wisconsin broke an evener and slid eight feet down an embankment. The vehicle overturned, upper portion crushed. All occupants suffered bruises and minor injuries.
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Cen Ue
Pewapkee
Wis
Alleged Attack Attempt Sparks Mob at Sheriff’s Office
In Miller S D a nine year old Anna Fenton was allegedly assaulted by Tunano Alley. A mob dragged him from the sheriff with intent to hang or feather him, but the crowd was dispersed. Ten or twelve were arrested and fined for interference.
Boynaped in Great Falls Man Recovers Child After Letter Threat
Theodore Ryan, six, was abducted by James Southwick who left a ransom note demanding $1600 and gold. The boy was found unharmed after Southwick tied him to a telegraph pole, wrote the letter, and led police to his own hideout. Southwick confessed, showing no remorse, saying he would have harmed the father for eight dollars if he thought he would pay.
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Brial Yards
George W. Ryan
Missouri River
Young Ryan
Ryan
Montana Central
Po Hee
Southwick
Plot to wreck North Coast Limited investigated
Northern Pacific secret service men investigate a suspected plot to wreck and rob the North Coast Limited near Deer Lodge Montana. Reports say a mail and express safe robbery was planned. The late westbound train derailed near Deer Lodge after a bridge timber obstruction. Two men were connected to the plot. no arrests yet.
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Northern Pacific
Secret Service
St. Paul
North Coast Limited
Deer Lodge
Mont
Lmited
Butte
Rush
Sentenced in Butte for counterfeit ring ties to coast crimes
William Daugherty, in a United States court before Judge Knowles, received five years in the penitentiary for his role in a counterfeiting ring said to operate along the coast and Northwest. Ezra R. Goon was captured in eastern Oregon. Daugherty has a long criminal past including murders and a ten year Idaho sentence. One gang member escaped eastward.
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Helena
Mont. Noy
William Daugherty
Butte
United States Court
Knowles
United States Secret Service
Ezra R. Goon
Oregon
Daugherty
Idaho
No Cars for Murphiesn in Potato Season
Princeton Minnesota reports an unprecedented car shortage during potato season. For a month only about one third of required cars were secured as warehouses and cellars fill up. Farmers haul tubers home unable to unload. Joss will be enormous and orders from Southwestern states cannot be filled, leading to countermanded shipments.
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Princeton
Minn
Adams Express auditor Renken freed in wardens' search ruling
Warden Henry Schultz accused Adams Express auditor William Fr. Renken of ejecting Schultz from a car believed to illegally ship game. In Judge Brindley's court Renken was released as he pledged that Schultz and other wardens may inspect any Adams Express car in future searches for lawbreakers.
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Adams Ixpress Company
Wattertaker & Co. Ltd Claim World Leading Cocoa Brand
Dorchester Massachusetts firm Wattertaker and Co Ltd touts itself as the largest cocoa and chocolate maker in the world. It says it won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition last year and three gold medals at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, claiming their goods are the standard for purity and excellence.
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Wattertaker & Co., Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
Buffalo
Suit Over Sidewalk Replacement In Faribault
Mrs Olive R Weld sues Faribault street commissioner for 100 dollars damages claiming a wooden sidewalk in front of her home was replaced with cement as part of a test case to enforce the city ordinance requiring sidewalks to be cement brick or stone. The suit challenges the legality and the city’s compliance with the spring ordinance.
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Faribault
Minn
Oliver Weld
Reform scheme for Jiminy in Mont gives hearing
Helens Mont November five James Southwick twelve year old Great Falls boy faced a preliminary hearing on kidnapping extortion and incorrigibility for abducting six year old Ryan boy. He is likely to be sent to reform school.
Wisconsin Man Shot In New Richmond Wis
Intel received here of a shooting at Elmsburg Washington involving John Heffron son of Patrick Wottron of this city. Heffron a railroad man about twenty four years old.
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New Richmond
Wis
Elmsburg
Wash
John Heffron
Patrick Wottron
First Mikinely Monument at Tower Minnesota
Captain John Pengilly of Ely visits Puluth to discuss the planned McKinley memorial shaft in Tower. Dedicatory exercises are set for Sunday November 10 with claims it will be the first memorial to the late president in the United States. Pengilly expects Governor Van Sant to attend.
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United States
Pengilly
van Sant
Alleged Safe-Blowing Arrest In South Dakota
In Brookins South Dakota on November 3 a prisoner captured in Aurora after a Minneapolis man tracked him down. The stranger, who called himself Frank Meeks, was jailed in Wareen county. Sheriff Frank Col Ina of Wareen identified Meeks as the alleged safe blower at Wastca a year earlier, and escorted him back to the scene.
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Waseen
Drockings
Brookins
S. D
Minneapolis
Aurora
Meeks
Frank Col Ina
Wareen
Minn
Wastca
Burglary Waves Hit Salix Elk Point Bank Ring Fire
Intruders on bicycles drilled a safe at J C Currier & Son Bank in Salix going undetected after a dynamite blast. In Elk Point S D a burglary netted $2.78 in silver a diamond ring and $120 in bank notes, with a pocketbook left behind. A fire near New Paynesville destroyed about 190 tons of hay on Meadows land.
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Nusy Dorwlaern
Lioux City
Salix
Fewa
J. C. Curerier & Son
Elk Point
C J. Fox
New Paynesylila
Minn
Court of Inquiry adjourns as Hanna cites Schley naval history
In Washington yesterday the court reconvened with Hanna presenting part of the case. He recounted the Spanish American War naval campaign led by Commodore Schley from Key West to Havana, noting preliminary orders and voyage times. Witnesses Tigneh and Richards testified, but Judge Advocate Lemly sustained objections to their material relevance.
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Behley
Hanna
Temly
Neal
Ha Hha
Schley
Key West
Clenfuagon
Havana
Gclenfuages
Texas
Brooklyn
George Tigneh
London Chronicle
I J. Richards
New York World
Blesbee
Commodore Celley
Stayner
Richards
Mr. Rayner
Lynch
Markets Report From St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago Prices
Latent Quotatiown Frain Grain and Live Stock centers report grain and livestock prices across St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago. Wheat and corn futures show varied quotes by grade while cattle and hogs move on regional markets with mixed gains and declines noted for futures and cash trades.
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Northern
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Wis
Onis
Tler
Sioux City
Town
Cattla
Reeves
Ecalyen
Hous
Chicago
Booth St. Paul
Schley Needs Test Declines Knoxville Invitation
In Knoxville on November 6 Admiral Selucy declines visiting Knoxville explaining fatigue from the prolonged investigative season and requests rest, stating it would be agreeable under favorable circumstances to accept the invitation.
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Neeline
Knoxville
Tenn
Adminal Selucy
Belles of Early Day Beauty Practices and Myths
A reminiscence of eighteenth to early twentieth century beauty trends detailing methods used by earlier grandmothers and Parisian influences. It notes facial care myths, powdered complexions, and various potions and masks, highlighting social norms that valued restraint and a pale, refined look.
Peculiar Beauty Practices of the Past
The article describes old beauty regimes including vitriol washes, strong dilutions, and harsh exfoliants. It notes dieting, coarse breads, and unusual foods as believed aids, plus extensive use of plaster, patches, wax figures, rouge, walnut juice and chalk. It paints a portrait of Washington women applying powders and starches, shaping cosmetics for public appearances.
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Silva
Traely
Miladi
Washington
Orchid hunting a dangerous, costly treasure hunt
An Harmsworth Magazine article warns that orchid hunting mirrors dangerous big game chasing. Explorers face climate perils, wild beasts, and hostile natives while seeking rare blooms in Madagascar, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Sierra Leone. Dealers fund expeditions hoping for large profits, but fortunes are often lost as market values collapse quickly.
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HarmswWorth
Tamatuve
Madagagear
Madagascar
Mexico
Brazil
Ecuador
Verezuela
Sierra Leone
API
Elf
First Torpedoes In War History
In the Revolutionary era torpedoes deployed by American forces against Britain were derisively called American turtles and deemed infamous, fit only for savages according to contemporary reflections on warfare.
Fragmented warning in Somerville Journal headline
A garbled excerpt discusses a young man taking a girl to the city and undoing a necktie as a troubling moment, reflecting a site’s dubious tone. The blurred line between moral judgment and coarse language hints at local sensationalism in the Somerville Journal's stance on social behavior.
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Somervills Journal
Oldest postmistress Mary Paschal faced trials under Lincoln
Mrs. Mary Paschal of Trenton Indiana, appointed by Lincoln, at 90, reflects on early mail service fights by men who opposed a woman in public office. She recounts guarding bags with a gun, surviving robberies, and sleeping under the counter. By year end telephonic links were planned between Italy and Switzerland.
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Mary Paschal
Trenton
Ind
Lincoln Nd
Atlony
Convas
Rufian
United
West Virginia
Hostilies
Hess
Washington
Lincoln
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