Knight Pleads Guilty In California Case
Stockton dispatch reports Mrs. Knight pleaded guilty to criminal operation involving Emma Taylor, a 20 year old, on August 24. Judge sentenced her to four and a half years in San Quentin. Other cases dismissed. district attorney suggests further charges possible if new evidence emerges. Knight’s history and social impact noted.
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Stockton
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Iags
Mra
KB Knight
Emma Taylor
Jelock
Taylor
Fimmedi
San Quen
San
Knight
Horney
Tite
Ire
Mra Knight
John
Eureke
Nevada
Weight
Wright
Woo
Stocktoo
8. E. Knighs
Kunowo
Central California
Mecun
Wgl
Sign boards to mark transcontinental route from Moline to Pacific Coast
Ely Expositor reports a motor track from Midland Automobile Works Moline Tlinots will haul five tons of sign boards along a route via Ely Hamilton Eureka Austin Pallon Rono to the coast and eastward. The signs aim to aid tourist travel, reduce roadside digging for directions, and encourage future auto travel in the West.
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Midland Automobile Works
Moline
Tlinots
Pacific Coast
Trans-Continental Tourste
Ely
Hamilton
Eureka
Austin
Pallon Snd Rono
Disjointed 1900s Briefs On Notable Figures And Oddities
A scattered 1900s style digest reports Notre Dame bans smoking for students with expulsion as penalty, a New York suffragist opening a beauty parlor, European animal disease warnings, a Stanford bank with no deposits, Jack Johnson’s finances after big fights, George J. Gould’s costly ocean voyage accommodations, mass duck deaths near Webst River, a Lebanon Oregon woman who lived as a man for 49 years, George Whitehead’s confession about false testimony, Annis Crawford's murder plea tied to insured relatives, and unresolved deaths of other insured family members.
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Webst River
Ogden Examiner
Usals
Ray Leonard
Lebanon
Oregon
George Whitehead
Portland
Denver
Colorado
Board of Pardons
Lee
Annis Crawford
New Orleans
Klair
Elain
Phil Mighels Shot Wounding in Nevada Wilds
Philip Vorrill Mighels, known Nevada writer, was accidentally shot on his right side while out with George Bliss near Bliss ranch. The weapon discharged after he shot a quail, the load entering his side. physicians call the wound very dangerous but potentially non fatal, with outcome depending on internal injuries.
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Philip Vorrill Mighels
Loos
Warne
Mighels
Bliss Ranch
Wingemucos
George Bliss
Nevada
Sam P. Davis
Darwon City
Admiral Schley and the navy department clash over victory claim
The Salt Lake Telegram editorializes on the Schley Sampson controversy after the Battle of Santiago. It notes Sampson's boastful dispatches and rival claims of credit, while highlighting Schley’s more measured stance and the bitter public dispute that followed the Spanish-American War engagement.
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Winfield Scott Schley
New York
Washington
Arlington Cemetery
Salt Lake Telegram
Santiago
Saya
Spain
Foot
Sampson
Calis
Havana
Mensage
Cervera
America
Atlantic
Santiago Harbor
Schley
Ganlly
Lobley
Brooklyn
Texas
Iowa
Oregon
Indiana
Massachusetts
Saxnpxon
Feot
General Shafter
Towa
Viscaya
Colon
Bob Brava
Mysterious cattle disease strikes Nevada farms
Reported by the Carson Appeal the mystery illness is killing cattle across many Nevada sections. Small dairy owners and large cattlemen suffer as cattle become paralyzed or die within hours after appearing sick. In Onraon valley seven of ten cattle on a small farm died in two weeks amid farmer frustration and calls for answers.
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Nevada
Carson
Onraon Valley
Armera
Modern hoopskirt on display at New York store exhibit
A modern hoopskirt in captivity debuted at a New York department store drawing a large crowd. Unlike earlier versions it does not flare from waist to hem, featuring a single whalebone extender above the tunic and a round, slightly wider skirt for ease of wear.
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New York
Nickel sheets as book material proposed by Edison
Edison proposes nickel as a superior substitute for paper in Nashs Magazine. He says nickel absorbs ink and a sheet 0.0001 inch thick would be cheaper tougher and more flexible than paper. A nickel book two inches thick could hold about 40 000 pages and weigh one pound at five shillings per pound of nickel sheets.
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Nash
London
Thomas A. Edison
Treatment of prisoners by British Navy praised by Mayer
George Von L Mayer, Secretary of the Navy, recently returned from Britain where he observed humane desertion and leave-breaking penalties. He notes England keeps offenders at drill and useful work all day, avoiding brutal prison effects, and says the system benefits both the man and the country. Meyer intends to implement similar practice here.
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George von L. Mayer
Navy
Haw
Meyer
Great Britain
England
Cheap Schlitz Beer At Lovelock Sparks Local Frenzy
Lovelock now claims the distinction of selling Schlitz beer at one cent a glass. Manager J C O Breckenridge of the Big Meadows hotel and the Owl Saloon recently cut the price from 12 4 cents to five, then to 2 5 cents, with the latest drop bringing it to one cent per glass. The rapid reductions drew notice in the Lovelock Tribune.
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J. C O. Breckenridge
Big Meadows
Owl
Schlitz
Lovelook Tribane
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