Boy Killed by Shark in Lake Pontchartrain Fight
In New Orleans details of a seventeen year old Turk swimmer at Lake Pontchartrain who battled a man-eating shark for minutes as spectators watched in horror. Despite efforts by rescuers, the youth died from blood loss and exhaustion before help arrived.
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New Orleans
Peter Kontpowlas
Lake Pontchartrain
Hontpoulis
Aeen
Neal
Shara
Butalo
N.Y
Pistes
Relics Found From Mexican Imperial Executions
Constitutional authorities in Queretaro recovered grisly relics from the Cerro de las Campas executions including the heart of Gen Tomas Mejia and portions of Emperor Maximilian and General Miramon. The artifacts, once preserved by Dr Liceaga, were found in the Garcia Pimentel library and may be donated to a museum.
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Tomas Mejia
Maximilian
Miramon
Cerro de Las Campas
Quertaro
Maximilan
Jagrez
Luis Garcia Pimentel
Calle de Conceles
Garcia Pimentela
Davyd Sanchez
Constitutionaliaw
Mejia
Liceaga
Garcia Pimentel
le Sild
Mexican Herald
Cuticura ad and wartime women in France note
An old newspaper item combines a Cuticura patent remedy testimonial from Caldwell Ohio with a brief wartime scene about three women, Miss Anna Morgan Miss Elizabeth Marbury and Miss Bisle Da Wolfe driving into rural France to observe French women harvesting grain at the agriculture minister’s urging.
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Anna Morgan
Misa Elizabeth Marbury
Misa Bisle da Wolfe
France
Misa Morgan
Distinguished Political Career of Elbridge Gerry Lapham
Elbridge Gerry Lapham, born in Farmingham New York about a century ago, was a civil engineer before turning to law. He served New York in the constitutional convention of 1867, represented Congress from 1875 to 1881, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1881 to succeed Roscoe Conkling, as a Republican. He died at Canandaigua Lake in 1890.
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Elbridge Gerry Lapham
New York
United States Senate
Farmingham
Mfe
Congress
Roscoe Conkling
Senator Lapham
Canandaigua Lake
Also Mentioned on This Page
Belgium
Havre
Federal Reserve Banks
Thie
Charles J. Rhonda
Philadelphia
Oscar Wells
Houston
Tex
Alfred L. Aiken
Boston
Benjamin Strong, Jr
Archibald Rains
San Francisco
D. R. Faucher
Cleveland
George J. Seay
Richmond
Joseph A. McCord
Atlanta
Dstrict
Theodore Wold
Minneapolis
Charles M. Bowyer
Topeka
Defenne
Antwerp
Folkestone
Nuras
Ostend
Greseee bin
German Scouting Party
Boy
Shark
Young Turk
Centaur Company
Castoria
Bears
RF. D
Caldwell
Ohio
Shea
H. BE. Smith
Dept. L
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Dean Kidney
Illinois
Om Police Witiid
J. Henderson
Dean
Doann
Carter
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