Unfinished World: Westminster Abbey and Wembley Tower
The article recalls Westminster Abbey’s long, halted construction spanning centuries and featuring an unbuilt central tower. It contrasts unfinished sites like Granada’s Alhambra palace for Charles I and Wembley Tower’s incomplete lower platform with St Paul’s, illustrating a half-made world and enduring incompleteness.
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Edward I
Henry VII
Knight
St. Paul's
Westminster Abbey
Alhambra
Granada
Charles I
Spain
Charles
London
Wembley Tower
Eifel
Paris
St. Paul's Cathedral
Police Charge Detectives with Conduct Unbecoming
Chief of Police O Neill filed charges with the civil service commission against Detectives J J Tracy and John Cramer and Lieutenant Peter Joyce accusing conduct unbecoming an officer. Joyce is also charged with making false reports. The case stems from reports of a clique at the detective bureau involved in obtaining state expense money for bringing back prisoners and for passes, with some accounts claimed unreal. Captain Colleran is expected to testify.
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Chicago
O'Neills
Civil Service Commission
J. J. Tracy
John Cramer
Peter Joyce
Illinois
Colleran
Desperate prison escape plans uncovered in Lake County Jail
Valparaiso Indiana August 17 A released prisoner warned Sheriff Lawrence of an escape plot by several murder suspects. The sheriff found saws and tools hidden in ventilators and bars in windows already cut through. Another night could have freed the most dangerous inmates.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Lake County
Lawrence
Botanic Blood Balm Promoted For Eczema Relief
Advert says Botanic Blood Balm cures eczema and itching through blood purification. Claims include relief of humors, scabs, boils, ulcers, and pains with a trial offer and free medical advice. Sold by Ranke Nusheam and others. note travel of Frank Safford to Oden Mich for ten days.
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Dr. Gillam
Mitchell St
Atlanta
Ranke & Nusheam
Calhoun
Frank Safford
Bursley & Co
Oden, Mich
General Botha to Surrender at Zululand Border
The Sun reports that General Botha's forces at Hondaweni near Zululand will surrender under an understanding with Lord Kitchener. It claims the war is virtually over and Lord Milner, en route to South Africa, carries a draft constitution for the annexed territories.
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Zululand
Lord Kitchener
London
the Sun Today
Botha
Hondeweni
Durban
Ing
The
Sun
Lord Milner
South Africa
Porto Rico Coffee Duty Ruling Sets Five Cent Tax
Washington reports Felix A. Reeve, acting treasury solicitor, concludes under the Foraker act that a five cent per pound duty on coffee imported to Porto Rico from the United States is a protective measure but falls under the general abolition of tariffs with the new local taxation system. He deems the omission of coffee from the free list an inadvertence by Congress.
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Washington
Felix A. Reeve
The
Treasury
Frederico Degetan
Porto Rico
United States
Degetan
Congress
Great famine threatens Russia
Advices from Moscow report Russia on the verge of a new famine with nearly a third of European Russia’s provinces producing insufficient crops. Only two of seventy provinces have good harvests. vast famine areas, heat and rain shortages, pests, and transport limits via rail hinder relief and exacerbate starvation and epidemics among tens of millions.
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London
Moscow
Russia
German fugitive Garhardt Terlinden seized in Milwaukee
Garhardt Terlinden of Duisburg Germany, accused of forging and embezzling 1 500 000 marks of securities, was captured in Milwaukee by Chicago Pinkertons and brought to Chicago for extradition. He used aliases, traded marks for dollars, and hid at the Continental hotel before arrest. Authorities expect a legal fight over extradition.
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Chicago
Paris
Scotland Yard
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Garhardt Terlinden
Duisburg
Germany
Milwaukee
Garhardt Terlinden Company
Herr Terlinden
Weaver
Terlinden
William A. Pinkerton
First National Bank of Chicago
Continental Hotel
Graefe
Stiefel
Milwaukee Pinkerton
United States
Pinkerton
Fatal poisoning at Marion home inmates
In Marion Indiana two elderly patients at the soldiers' home died after receiving a mislabeled strychnia dose. Daniel Carthers 65 and Thomas Pinkerton 91 died in convulsions after being given the wrong medication. Dr. Malloy admitted the error. Coroner to file verdict.
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Marion
Ind
Daniel Carthers
Thomas Pinkerton
Malloy
Chapman
Sturgis
Carthers
Pinkerton
Whitson
Silent powder sought inventors seek smokeless explosive
Inventors pursue a smokeless explosive that reduces noise in use, claiming quieter detonation could improve safety and practicality for military and industrial applications. Researchers evaluate performance, stability, and production feasibility for potential field trials.
Noiseless high explosive and its limitations explored
The article cites the War Department chief of ordnance arguing soundless powder is physically impossible due to inherent gas and concussion sound. It notes smokeless powder reduces smoke, but a soundless variant would offer little strategic benefit and poses grave dangers of misuse at sea and on land.
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Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Robbers Mistake On Indiana Express Heist Attempt
Five unknown men attempted to stop a United States Express wagon in Laporte Indiana aiming to steal the iron box and other valuables from the Indianapolis to Lake Erie and Western line train. The would be robbers misidentified the target and fled after the driver complied. No arrests have been reported.
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Laporte
Ind
United States Express Company
Indianapolis
Lake Erie and Western Line
Lake Shore
Chicago
Mr and Mrs Allen Return From St Claire Flats Visit
Rev and Mrs E W Allen return from St Clair Flats Michigan where Mr Allen shares remarkable fish stories supported by photographs of the catches they claim to have seen during their trip.
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E .W. Allen
St. Claire Flats
Mich
Allen
Allen's Foot-Ease in Gloves Promoted by Lady User
A reader praises Allen's Foot-Ease as a glove powder absorbing perspiration and protecting gloves. The note asks physicians and wearers to trust its purity and cites Dr W C Abbott endorsing its use. Distribution through drug and shoe stores at 25 cents with free samples offered.
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Allen
Wnrees
W. C. Abbott
Chicago Cupie Saya
Sant Free
le Boy
Sabha
Value of child saving shows real economy in states
Indianapolis Aug 17 Secretary Butler of the board of state charities released a comparison of child saving across Indiana New York and Michigan. He notes New York houses over 30 000 orphans Indiana cares for 1656 and Michigan under 200 in public schools while costs hover around 100 per child annually in Indiana. He highlights savings from family placements reduced stay in homes and offsetting public expense by keeping nearly 600 children out of state care at an annual saving over 60 000 and cites shorter average stays in homes 20.64 months versus three years in 1896.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Butler
Board of State Charities
Indiana
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Victim of Escaping Gas in Terre Haute Home
Louis Finkbiner, 63, a prominent German American in Terre Haute Indiana, died of asphyxiation last evening at his son in law Frank Connelly's house. He accidentally turned a gas valve while hanging a vest on a gas bracket and suffocated as gas escaped. His son died suddenly of paralysis a year earlier.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Louis Finkbiner
Frank Connelly
Mgr. Finkleiher
Legislature Session Marks Nicholson Law Passage
A Republican legislature concluded a session in which the Nicholson law was enacted, shaping policy and triggering debate over its implications. The period closed with party leaders emphasizing fiscal restraint and regulatory reform amid partisan tensions.
Felled with a club near Logansport
An unknown shabbily dressed man attacked a laborer with a club while threshers worked near Logansport Indiana. The victim was knocked unconscious and later jailed after the assailant was disarmed. He suffers concussion of the brain and may not recover.
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Logansport
Ind
Thrashers
Rev Meese to Quit Auburn After Reunion Parson
Auburn Ind Aug 17 Reverend W L Meese Indiana’s noted marrying parson has disposed of his personal effects and will live with his daughter Mrs Ira T Eaton of Chicago for his remaining years. His health has been failing for a year and he was famed for holding reunions of all couples married by him.
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Auburn
Ind
W. L. Meese
Indiana
Ira T. Eaton
Chicago
Woman Fooled Him in Hoax Marriage Claim
H J Patton of Rochester pursued a woman in Laporte who used the name Miller claiming realty with a 700 mortgage. After paying the debt and promising marriage they met, she fled to Chicago and Patton learned she was already married.
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Laporte
Ind
H. J. Patton
Rochester
Miller
Patton
Lagrange
Chicago
The Only Headache Cure Ad by Frank J. Baker
Colorado Springs resident Frank J. Baker endorses Krause's Headache Capsules as the only remedy that cured his sick headaches and aided many friends. The price is 25 cents and the product is sold by Dreier & Bro at the Calhoun and Columbia streets corner.
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Frank J. Baker
Colorado Springs
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