Tunnel Plot Foiled At Riverside Prison In Pittsburg
Pittsburg July 27 a planned tunnel from Sterling street into Riverside penitentiary to free inmates was thwarted by accident. Police suspect the target was real estate swindler J. Boyd, with Berkman misidentified as a possible target. The tunnel runs over 200 feet long and used a silent digger tool, with signs of a signal system and a possible message in cipher. Authorities fear a hidden death from toxic gases and plan to dig to the tunnel end to recover any remains.
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Pittsburg
Riverside Penitentiary
Alexander Berkman
H.C. Frick
Homestead
Muth
Alleghany Police Department
J. ©. Boyd
Troyd
Union
Riverside
Sterling Street
Phiin
Tygein Ital
Tygein Ital,” “Federation of Social,” “Corner ”, and Roby Stree
Alleghany
Dietrich
Spring Garden Avenue
Alleshany Dietrich
Jacob Bauer
Karl Knold
Berkman
Emma Goldman
City Street
Forest Fires Rage in Swan Lake Country Montana
One of the worst forest fires ever seen in north western Montana sweeps the Swan Lake area on the western edge of the Lewis and Clarke forest reserve. The blaze threatens timber and nearby communities as firefighting efforts mobilize.
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Montana
Kalispell
Mon
Swan Lake Country
Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve
Poem Excerpt by Carmen Sylva in North American Review
An excerpt presents a woman's tender insight and noble purity as healing the watcher's sorrow. It speaks of lilies as a guiding beacon and a life of selfless strength, shining like a crystal gate of heaven.
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Heaven
Carmen Sylva
North American Review
Marooned on Wakes Island A Tale of Westall
A Pacific island tale recounts the 1861 voyage of the Restless owner Robert Westall who was marooned on Wakes Island after a mutinous plot by the captain and crew. He endured three years among giant crabs and raw fare before rescue by a whaling ship, losing memory then regaining it to reveal his name and fate of the ship.
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Wakes Island
Pacific Ocean
Honolulu
Yokohama
Restless
San Francisco
Japan
China
Robert Westall
Lindsiman
Westall
Tie
Jules Verne
Jonathan
Philippines
A Good Snake Story From North Glenwood Farm Md
A large black snake near an ice pond at North Glenwood Farm in Talbot county Maryland was killed after a protruding midsection revealed a porcelain turkey nest egg. Mrs. Robinson had previously lost a similar egg from a nest nearby, matching a mark on the recovered egg. The tale notes the egg spent 14 months inside the snake before being found.
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North Glenwood Farm
Easton
Talbot County
Captain Noble Robinson
Robinson
Countries That Teach Gardening in Public Schools
Belgium established school gardens long ago and their success is linked to greater prosperity for the local rat population due to increased truck gardening. After France introduced agriculture into public schools by law in 1885, school gardens grew there. Switzerland has committed annual appropriations to expand the system since.
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Belgium
France
Switzerland
Indiana heroine survives wreck saves passenger train
Miss Cora M. Wise, telegraph operator and tower tender at Sands Indiana, signals an oncoming freight safely before a car derails, tower is toppled, she is injured, climbs embankment to summon aid, then is rushed home for medical care. The incident highlights her courage and modesty in a crisis. Also notes the Woman Lawyers' Club season, officers, and Nastartiumum care tips.
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Cora M. Wise
Sands
Ind
Miss Wise
Cora Wise
New Point
Legislative League of Women Forms Under Blake and Stanton
The Legislative League of Women, led by president Lillie Devereux Blake and honorary president Elizabeth Cady Stanton, aims to secure equal rights for women in legal, civil, and industrial matters. It highlights state gaps where wives lack property rights, lack child custody rights, or lack earnings protection, and points to pervasive employment and compensation discrimination nationwide.
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New
Legislative League of Women
Lillie Devereux Blake
Elizabeth Cady $Xunton
Tegal
League
Be My Sweetheart and Other Verses
A collage of verse selections by Field, Whittier, Craik, O Reilly, Woolson, and others. Poems celebrate spring love, faith, memory, peace, and personal growth with vivid imagery of nature, harvest, and moral strength.
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Eugene Field
Freeland Tribune Promises Local News at Low Cost
The Tribune describes itself as the leading Freeland paper offering all local news and world events in a condensed form for busy readers. It emphasizes truthful reporting, family friendly content, and suitability for reading aloud to children.
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Kim H
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IL. C. Frick
Homestead Works
Carnegie Steel Company (Limited
Mr. Prick
Hussey
Firth Avenue
Mr. Frick
Berlin
Dr. Wiegand
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
New York
Moeller
New York Harbor
Hoboken
Rio de la Plata
A.W. Campbell
London
Toondon
W. Campbell
Princess San Fasting
Italy
Allen’ Watson Campbell
Teoine
George W. Campbell
Rough Riders
Colonel Roosevelt
Rockaway Huot
Cabinet Clubs
Jane Campbell
M. Quad
C. B. Lewis
Indiana
Woman Lawyers’ Club
West Forty-second Street
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rosalie Loew
Philip Cartreasurer
Griswold
Broadwa
Gail Laughlin
Louise Fowler Gignoux
Mary G. Potter
New York Post
GEMS
Whittier
Dinah Maria Craik
John Boyle O'Reilly
Valhalla
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Tribune
Freeland
the Tri
Bune
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