Fearful self torture of Penitente crucifixions in the west
Major E H Cooper recounts in the Indianapolis Journal dramatic accounts of Penitente crucifixions in New Mexico Colorado and Utah with four witnessed cases three deaths. He describes the self inflicted punishments the cross bearing and the ritual culminating in crucifixion as part of a fading but enduring local practice once widespread among Mexican communities near La Loma Del Norte and Tierra Amarilla.
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E. H. Cooper
Indianapolis
Far West
New Mexico
Colorado
Major Cooper
Europe
India
Oberammergau
Christ
New Mxico
Utah
Arizona
Darling
Mexico
Penitente Brotherhood
la Loma
del Norte
Col
Conejos
San Louis
Huerfano
Tierra Amarilla
San Mateo
Navajo Springs Station
Santa Fe
Autos and Honeymoons
Sleeping cars on railways have been perfected and inventors now focus on automobiles to be usable day and night. The concept involves a framing and mechanism enabling night travel as well as daytime use.
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Paris Messenger
Drive Nails as Well as Men at Maryland Normal School
Girl Floyd students at the Maryland State Normal School in Baltimore demonstrate carpentry skills. They drive nails, handle saws and planes in a sloyd room turned carpenter shop. After initial training in folding and cardboard geometry, the pupils progress to working with hard and soft woods, shellacking and shaping with various tools while the middle and senior classes participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Floyd
Maryland State Normal School
Baltimore
Fashionable girl overburdened by studies and beauty trends
The piece condemns overloading young girls with fine arts and languages while neglecting health. It cites mothers pushing 12 to 17 year olds into excessive enrichment causing anaemia, nerves, and fragile vitality. The warning links such strain to poor outcomes in marriage and organic troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Insect Plagues Face Civilizational War Says Entomologist
The article quotes the St. Louis Globe Democrat on how summer insect plagues threaten wheat, grain, cattle pastures, forests, and streams. It emphasizes that man fights the Hessian fly, weevil, army worm, tent caterpillar, and borers to protect crops, feed and ecosystems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Fishes in Dublin Bay Hit by Harsh Shark Presence
In Dublin bay the little fishes struggle as numerous sharks prowl the area. A bottle-nose gentleman was caught measuring five and a half feet long.
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Dublin Bay
The Lost State of Franklin and John Sevier’s Rise
The piece chronicles the historical “lost” state of Franklin carved from North Carolina and Tennessee. It highlights John Sevier as a central figure, his leadership during early frontier wars, the Watauga settlement, and Franklin’s evolution into Tennessee, ending with Sevier’s complex political career and legacy.
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Franklin
The
Southern Society
South
Virginia
Tennessee
State of
Southwest
Bancroft
Theodore Roosevelt
James XN
Gilmore
Edmund Kirke
John Sevier
Great Britain
North Carolina
Sevier
Morgantown
Court House
Washington
Alleghenies
Federal Congress
Appalachian Range
Watauga River
Virginia Line
King George
Old Dominion
Lexington
Bunker Hill
Watauga
Ramsay
Ferguson
Isaac Shelby
John, Jr
King’s Mountain
de Peyster
New York
Tarleton
Yorktown
Sovier
Benjamin Franklin
Washington College
Caswell
United States
Jonesboro
Washington District
North Caroline
State Senate
Congress
Decatur
Ala
Legislature
Court House Yard
Knoxville
New York Times
England's Trade Abroad and the Anchor Line
The piece urges official records of British flag vessels trading year round between foreign ports. It highlights the Anchor line of Glasgow with large steamers carrying cargo and Italian laborers from Italy to the United States and back. Italian workers depart the Mediterranean in spring and earn funds for their return voyage in autumn.
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Glasgow
Italy
United States
Mediterranean
Mrs McKinley Hears Reading Of Her Husband Will
Mrs Ida McKinley faced the reading of her husband’s will in Canton Ohio as the estate valued around 225000 to 250000 includes real estate and 67000 life insurance. The will directs annuity payments to her mother and sister and leaves remaining assets to family while Day and Cortelyou are named administrators.
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Canton
Ohio
Ida S. McKinley
Helen McKinley
McKinley
Washington
Cortelyou
Judge Day
Misappropriation case and liquor charge in France court
In France's court Montford W Fay was arrested on an affida v it charging misappropriation of 630 dollars with bail set at 1200 dollars. The Rice consignment delivered July 26 1900 involved 100 barrels and 600 dollars from sale. The case linked to Ezra Perry for selling liquor without a license remains largely unresolved. The Sentinel notes the Fay embezzlement matter may be settled as an account dispute rather than a misdemeanor.
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John Green
New Orleans
France
Montford W. Fay
Stout
Greene
Fay
Ezra Perry
Perry
Main
Calhoun Streets
Sentinel
Marriages Recorded In Local License Lists
Marriage licenses issued for William Hagerman with Matilda Walda Peter Spindler with Sophia Mess mer Oliver Clark with Dorothy E Shearer John F Weatherford with Pearl L Parker Clyde A Duguid with Linnie Wilkinson Frank Gebert with Alice Emrick Charles C Gump with Gertrude Mc Bride Stephen Cotton with Monlona Carpenter William Schaaf with Lena Miller George F Eisenhut with Carolina Meschberger John Ryan with Roan Girardot
Fugitives Seeks Requisition From Durbin in Indianapolis
Arthur Goebel of Cincinnati arrive with Frankfort police chief and two attorneys for a two hour meeting with Governor Durbin. They aim to obtain a requisition for W. S. Taylor and Charles Finley as he seeks to have them surrendered.
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Indianapolis
Arthur Goebel
Cincinnati
William Goebel
Kentucky
Frankfort
Durbin
Purdue Scrimmage Erupts in Lafayette Fight Injures Students
Early today a general brawl broke out after a rush between Purdue University sophomores and freshmen in Lafayette Indiana. Clubs were used and several injured. Edward Owner Quinn of San Antonio Texas and James Hudson of Pittsburgh are feared not to recover.
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Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Edward Owner Quinn
San Antonio
Texas
James Hudson
Pittsburg
A Tough Youngster Percey Bigelow Sentenced
Nine year old Percey Bigelow faced Judge Louttit on theft charges for stealing zinc from Nickel Plate used in telegraph battery cells. He was fined thirty dollars plus costs with sentence suspended on a warning that a future mischief would send him away. Repeat offenses mark him as a notorious youngster in police records, having broken into buildings and stolen pipes before.
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Percey Bigelow
Louttit
Nickel Plate Company
Telegraph Department
Younster
Bigelow
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Parvo
Society For the Prevention of
Union
England
AETNA
C. C. Schlatter & Co
E. Columbia ST
Fort Wayne, Ind
Husband
Mrs. McKinley
Probate Court
William R. Day
George B. Cortelyou
William Hagerman and
Matilda
Walda
Peter Spindler and
Sophia Mess
Purdue
M. N. Plumadore
Occa
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