Boy May Have Killed His Two Companions
Arthur Humphrey, 14, is in Keokuk police custody and may be charged with murder in the disappearance and death of brothers Paul and William Stice. He initially denied aiding them but later confessed that the trio crossed the river, Humphrey knocked William down, and the two Stice boys drowned after falling into an air hole.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Arthur Humphrey
Paul
William Stice
Humphrey
Stice
Stices
William
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Endorsed For Wounds
A remote family relies on Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for burns cuts ulcers and other injuries. The ad claims it is the best on earth and available for 25 cents at Houseworth Bros. drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Houseworth Bros
Louisiana legislature backs canal treaty with senators voting yes
Baton Rouge December 23 The Louisiana legislature adopts a resolution directing the two United States senators to vote for the Panama canal treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
United States
Prisoner Confesses in Elm Grove Attack Case
James Lucas, in Wheeling, admits a full confession to the brutal assault on Sister Alma at Elm Grove, following his arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
James Lucas
Alma
Elm Grove
Dr Kings New Life Pills Promising Cure For Headaches
An advertisement claims Dr Kings New Life Pills relieve throbbing headaches and nervous ailments by purifying blood and boosting health. Sold by Houseworth Bros druggists for 25 cents with a money back guarantee if not cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Houseworth Bros
Cody to Fund Wyoming Canal and Development Plan
Col. W. F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill wires from New York that he has secured 3 500 000 dollars in cash to build a large canal and irrigation ditch in the Big Horn basin. The project aims to establish mercantile houses breeding farms hotels hunting lodges and an auto line between Cody and the Yellowstone park. The canal will irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of rich Western land. Construction to begin early next spring and be pushed to completion.
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Cody, Wyo
Col
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
New York
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Cody
Yellowstone Park
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Blood Remedy
An advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as an internal treatment affecting the blood and mucous surfaces, not a quack medicine, and supposedly prescribed by top physicians for years with strong testimonials.
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Mhall
Hall
Tabulated Statement Reveals Stock Assessment Outlook
Receiver projects stock assessment to yield between 50000 and 60000 dollars with other figures in tabulated statement. The document outlines anticipated returns and related figures for the ongoing evaluation across departments.
Indiana National bank receiver reports large withdrawals
The bank’s receiver estimates around 25 cents on the dollar for depositors. He notes Walter Brown and J L Brodrick took over $400 000 for themselves, with total securities realizing about $20 000. Deposits total roughly $620 000, and real estate, loans, and stock assessments form the liquidation outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana National Bank
Brown and Brodrick
W. L. Collins
Messrs
Walter Brown
J. L. Brodrick
Beardsley Avenue Home and Properties Transferred
Cashier Wilson L Collings transferred his property including a Beardsley Avenue home and three adjacent lots to Receiver Bosworth of Indiana National Bank for depositors. Attorneys Dodge & Dodge arranged the formal transfer, estimated value about $12 000, made around 4 PM yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson L. Collings
Bosworth
Indiana National Bank
Dodge & Dodge
Beardsley Avenue
Collins appoints new attorneys in Brown-Brodrick camp stir
Mr. Wilson L. Collins has changed attorneys to Dodge & Dodge. The move signals a shift in the Brown-Brodrick faction and will affect many quarters as the legal landscape shifts.
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Collins
Wilson L. Collins
Dodge & Dodge
Guardians sell Crane hardware block at 913 South Main
W and G B Pratt guardians sold the business block at 913 South Main Street housing Crane hardware stock. Mary Pratt conveyed rights to George E Compton for nine thousand five hundred dollars in a formal transaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Main Street
Crane Hardware
Mary Pratt
George
E. Compton
Upper Mississippi improvement memorial to Congress
Thomas Wilkinson of Burlington heads a committee to visit Washington. Gov S B Van Sant of Minnesota chairs, with Ellis Usher Alonzo Bryson Lewis Boswell and Frank Gainnie. They will press a memorial urging $15,000,000 for a six foot channel from St Anthony Falls to the Ohio River to aid upper river navigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association
Davenport
Thomas Wilkinson
S. B. van Sant
Minnesota
Ellis B. Usher
la Crosse
Wis
Alonzo Bryson
Lewis B. Boswell
Quincy
Ill
Frank Gainnie
St. Louis
Washington
Congress
Wisconsin
Ilineis
Iowa
Missouri
Mississippi River
St. Anthony’s Falls
Ohio River
Electric Bitters Healed Decatur Woman After Illness
Mrs. S H Newson of Decatur Alabama suffered three years of indigestion stomach and bowel trouble with death seeming inevitable. After doctors and remedies failed she tried Electric Bitters and rapidly recovered. The cure claims to help liver kidney stomach and bowel ailments. 50c guaranteed by Houseworth Bros. druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. H. Newson
Decatur
Ala
Houseworth Bros
Woman Robs Husband's Bank in Scotland S. D.
In Sioux City Iowa a bank president's wife stole 2400 dollars from the First National Bank of Scotland while the cashier was away at the post office. She fled with their 4 year old son, was captured in Jefferson South Dakota, money found sewn in her clothes, and was returned to Scotland where the husband later said she would not be prosecuted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
Dr. C. King
First National Bank of Scotland
S. D
Minneapolis
Jefferson
Scotland
Miners to Resist Wage Cut Near Ira Pa
Thomas L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers urged Jamison & Co. coal miners to oppose a 7 cent per ton price reduction near Ira. He said wages should rise and that Mitch ell authorized all funds to defeat the cut, with thirty national organizers to operate in Westmoreland County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Thomas L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Jamison & Co
Ira
Mitchell
Lewis
Westmoreland County
Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Testimony
Startling evidence pours in as testimonies claim Dr King’s New Discovery cures bronchitis lung and throat troubles and is effective against consumption pneumonia and grip. T J McFarland of Benterville Virginia says three years of bronchitis vanished after using the remedy. Trial bottles are free with regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar backed by Houseworth Bros. druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Colby
T. J. McFarland
Benterville
Houseworth Bros
Ferryboat In Collision In New York Harbor
A ferryboat collided in New York Harbor on December 23 causing damage and delays to service. Authorities inspected the vessel and investigated the incident for potential injuries and required repairs.
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New York
Birds liberated for migration watch upheld by German notices
Notices sent across Germany request that when any released birds are shot the attached foot bands be returned to the Vogelwarte Rossitten director. Some birds may migrate to Britain. records will log liberation dates and return locations to draw conclusions from the data.
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Germany
Vogelwarte
Rossitten
Great Britain
Calomel Doctor Defies Patient With Sixteen Grains
In the British West Indies a calomel and quinine practitioner dismisses a dying planter with a harsh retort and orders sixty grains of calomel. The patient begins to recover after the shocking directive.
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British West Indies
Sonnet on the Irish Setter from Westminster Review
A verse portrait of an Irish Setter scout across moors and fields. The red coated hunter moves with statue like stillness until scent stirs him to pursue, then returns to calm when the quarry escapes, while the shooter’s aim and restraint mark the scene.
Corrosion by Sea Water Study by German Engineer Diegel
The corrosion of metals in sea water is examined by engineer Diegel. Copper nickel alloys resist corrosion poorly when zinc is high. adding 15 percent nickel prevents leaching. Copper copper alloys and adjacent copper or iron masses provide protection, though the protectors corrode faster.
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Diegel
Value of Education and Its Impact on Achievement
An uneducated child has a 1 in 150 000 chance of distinction. A common school education raises this nearly fourfold. High school education multiplies the chance by 23, yielding 87 times the uneducated. College education boosts the high school student by ninefold, giving 219 times the common school student and over 800 times the untrained.
Judge Cranes Punitive View on Cigarettes in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg, Judge Crane voices harsh logic tying cigarette stains to guilt. He declares smoking as a predictor of crime and describes cigarettes as dangerous signals of future wrongdoing.
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Crane
Pittsburg
Edible Frogs Rise In European Trade
The edible frog, larger than the common frog, is rare in England but common in Italy, France, and Germany. From Vienna, 3 000 or 4 000 frogs are imported at a time and sold to major dealers with conservatories. They are captured at night in Switzerland using lights nets or hooked bait, then drawn from water.
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England
Italy
France
Germany
Vienna
Switzerland
Dinner Club Honors Each Girl With Named Courses
The meal assigns each guest a course chosen by a girl who pays for it and directs serving. The butler announces each course by the purchaser’s name and menus read Soup a la Marie Wharton or Rats a la Edith Burden. Members vote on the best course, showing keen interest in preparation and eating.
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Marie Wharton
Edith Burden
The Old Way and a Charm of Proxies
A brief dialogue centers on a staged marriage between Miss May Goelet and the Duke of Roxburghe. The couple discuss arrangements by mutual friends, proxies, and their preference to avoid European methods, revealing skepticism about the match and about using intermediaries.
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Miss May Goelet
Faith Lesson By Orange Seeds Ruse
A teacher uses an orange to illustrate faith telling students there are no seeds. The class agrees. Next day a child answers faith as an orange that has no seeds, delivering a humorous recap of the lesson.
Incompatibility and a Divorce Dispute
A man and wife visit a law office to discuss divorce. The wife laments living on 75 cents last month, the husband counters with 90 dollars, and the judge concludes they should divorce if that is their best.
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Lawsayer
Atchison Globe
Oldfield's Forty-Three Year Walk to Peterborough Fair
For fifty three years in succession the septuagenarian William Oldfield of Whittlesey Cambridgeshire England walked fourteen miles to the Peterborough October fair and back in the same boots. He refused rides offered by passing farmers despite the distance and age.
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Fenthatcher
William Oldfield
Whittlesey
Cambridgeshire
England
Peterborough
Why They Call Them Hams In The Smoking Car
Fred Ross, theatrical manager, tells Owen Westford that traveling tragedians in road companies always ride in the smoking car, joking that that makes them hams.
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Fred Ross
Owen Westford
Westford
Textual Exchange on Silence as a Weapon in Marriage
A dialog shows a husband urging silence as an effective weapon while the wife dismisses concern for military matters, highlighting domestic perspective on conflict and strategy.
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Jokn
Young St Louis Girl Endures Recurrent Leg Fractures
Subject to limb fracture Ethel Nole a six year old girl of St Louis suffers a broken leg from a fall. This marks the third fracture of her young life emphasizing medical concerns for repeated limb injuries.
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Ethel Nole
St. Louis
Stranger Declares Fearless Bachelorship Amid Slung Eye
A boastful stranger says he knows no fear while an onlooker with a slinged eye asks if he is a bachelor. The exchange hints at bravado versus vulnerability in a terse, dialogic moment.
Predatory Jaguar Stalks Peccaries With Stealthy Leap
A jaguar and a panther hunt peccaries by trailing herds for weeks. Peccaries form a tough defense and attack in force, forcing big cats to avoid open attacks. The jaguar lurks from a tree and pounces to kill a single straggler with a single crushing paw.
Old Bulgarian wedding custom survives shaving the bridegroom
The practice, traced to pre Christian days, enacts a barber shaving the groom on his wedding day while a dancing crowd gathers. Stray hairs are saved by girls for the bride’s chest, the barber is paid, and the groom kisses the girls before washing his face and wearing the wedding dress weighed by a boy three times.
Insect Foes of Mankind Debunked by Federal Reports
Dr Howard cites federal agricultural studies showing annual financial losses from insect pests at least 35 million dollars. He notes the 1874-76 grasshopper outbreak in the West ruined farm crops valued at 100 million dollars in one season.
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Washington
Howard
West
Trans-Siberian Railway Project Timeline Marks
An 1857 proposal by Collins led to Imperial approval on March 17 1891 for the Trans Siberian line from Amur to Tchita. The first stone was laid May 19 1891. The route spans 8562 miles in Russia and 1604 miles in China with 5166 miles of rails laid in 10.5 years, while Canada’s CPR built 2921 miles in ten years.
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Collins
Amur
Tchita
Canadian Pacific
New Fireproof Composite From Waste Paper Named Pollardite
A Yonkers man has developed pollardite, a thin paneer like sheet made from pulped waste paper that mimics stone in color and texture. Used as a covering on iron wood stone or brick it offers protection against fire water acids and rust and endures temperature extremes.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Arise and Face the Years to Be
A hopeful verse urges lifting sorrow and marching forward. It speaks of casting off painful memories, seeking divine protection, and finding strength to conquer sin with faith. The reflection is attributed to Margarget FE Sangster in Every where for September.
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Angels
Margarget
Sangster
Right Temperature for Work in Mental Labor
Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson concluded after long experiments that 64 deg Fahr is the optimum temperature for mental labor. Below this the mind grows drowsy and inactive, while above it there is a relaxed, unfocused state.
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Benjamin Ward Richardson
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Messrs. Brown
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Aeee
Mississippi
Gov. van Sant
Caugh
Pennsylvania Company
Calomel
Westminster Review
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