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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
6
In Omaha a sensational account portrays Dr Frederick T Rustin guiding a nurse Abbie Rice to murder him. He allegedly trained her with fiction and scenes of sacrifice to fire the fatal shot, detailing a plan involving life insurance and a staged burglary in a complex, chilling narrative.
A West doctor, famed and prosperous at 34, faced a planned murder by a confidant after hints of suicide. The survivor recalls how insurance concerns and a chilling training shaped the killer’s mindset, with three insurers challenging expectations and public interest in the mystery growing as the plot unfolded.
Chapter II details a physician’s unraveling after a failed case, declining mood, and alcohol use. He travels to Chicago claiming business reasons, then returns with two vials containing germs of typhoid fever and tetanus, disclosed to trusted friends in confidence.
A doctor reported being bitten by a dog during a night visit and cauterized the wound. He then fell ill with typhoid fever the following day, worsening the situation.
Mrs. Austin endures heartbreak from her husband troubles and decides her path forward, seeking a practical response to the family crisis amid emotional strain.
A physician persuades Abbie Rice to kill him to avoid suicide and satisfy an insurance clause. She refuses, but the doomed man presses the plan, claiming intoxication and drugs excuse his actions while aiming for another to die for him. He insists on a third party performing the act.
Chapter VY describes Abbie Rice consenting to a murder plot with Dr. Austin. They purchase a pistol at a pawnshop and plan to kill in the doctor’s office but a broken spring delays the deed. After a week of dissipation they renew the plan and return to the office at night.
In Omaha a doctor Dr Rustin is killed in a staged crime pact. Charles Davis agreed to kill the doctor in exchange for morphine and gold chloride to aid a suicide plan. Abbie Rice confessed involvement with the scheme as police closed in.
Charles E. Davis exits the police station amid an unfolding incident concerning a woman described only as “the woman in the” with further details not captured in the readable text.
A dramatic scene unfolds as a man orders a woman to kill him after a planned murder. She resists, pleading love, while a police officer arrests him for murder in the first degree. The tale centers on a fatal shot at the Ruskin home and a grave pursuit.
The article recounts St Pauls as an old Foundation church begun after the 1136 fire and finished by 1498. It describes a 520 foot spire crowned by a ball cross and eagle, twin west towers with a Lolards tower lock up, the bishop’s palace, and the choir church on the site of Christ Church Newgate. It notes a 1332 addition of a dean garden and choir school, enclosures for monuments to Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Christopher Hatton, a tomb once thought for Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, and the transition from canons with prebends to modern endowments before the 1666 fire.
In Topeka a weekly poker game ends with a man named Jones winning $1.85 after four hours. A neighbor's taunting remark suggests he also claimed $45, while his wife believes the larger sum, leaving the couple in dispute as the poker club laughs.
A young housekeeper learning to cook laments the vast array of cookbook recipes at the public library. She contrasts her simple creations like cream tomato soup biscuits and scalloped potatoes with thousands of others she must master, feeling both pride and inadequacy.
A historical note urges mothers to teach children early to dress themselves and gradually grant responsibility. It advocates letting girls manage money to buy clothes and dress within prudent bounds, developing self style as they mature.
A garbled snippet describes an embarrassed man in a fashionable restaurant reacting to the menu and wall writing. The text is incomplete but conveys social discomfort and a quoted exclamation.
Advertises Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a pleasant gentle laxative. Claims it cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or increased use, with components approved by physicians. Warns to buy only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
A Tennessee town welcomes a new water system but an elderly resident rejects baths any time day or night. The mother-in-law insists she has lived honestly for 50 years and deems modern fixtures indecent, preferring old customs over modern convenience.
F A Rippy of Depot Ave Gallatin Tennessee details a fifteen year battle with kidney disease and gravel with severe back pain and blood passages. After using four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills he reports rapid improvement and no relapse. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A frightened child appeals to the drowning rider asking him to look for Willie’s whistle in the water. The scene notes the horseman having been thrown into a pond and the child’s urgent request.
Our baby boy developed eczema on the face at one month old with a raw nickel sized sore. After three months of other treatment the condition persisted until Cuticura was tried. Using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent the child recovered. now two and a half years old, the skin is smooth. Mrs. M. L. Harris Alton Kansas May 14 and June 12 1907.
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