Historians plan Lincoln centennial events across state
Illinois Historical Society officers were elected at Springfield. General Alfred Orendorff of Springfield was named president with Chirk B. Carr of Galesburg as first vice president and Cronerm Smith as second vice president. The group listed celebration sites from Aug 2 to Oct 18 including Orway, Fort, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, Aston, and addressed inviting other state historian societies to participate in the Springfield February 12, 1900 Lincoln birthday centennial.
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Springfield
Wh. Dan
San Mual
Tllinois State T Historical Society
Alfred Orendorff
Springfeld
Chirk B. Carr
Galesburg
Cronerm Smith Ph Atkins
Preeperty
Lauwrence Y. Sherman
Macami
Carr
Charmian
Mie
Orway
Pree
Jonesboro
Charleston
Quincy
Aston
Jessie Piadmer Weber
Societs
Abraham Lincoln
Forty Years For Clark In Murder Case
Peter Clark of Girard, NL, pleaded guilty to murdering Mrs. Ollie Gibson on a trolley car near Virden on March 25, 1907. He was sentenced to forty years in Chester penitentiary. Once a church choir leader and Mason deputy grand master, he was expelled after charges of immorality. Mrs. Gibson belonged to the chair. her husband obtained a divorce at the same court term as Mrs. Clark. Clark had been prominent in politics.
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Carlinville
Peter Clark
Girard
Ollie Gibson
Virden
Chester
Clark
Christian Science Church
Gibson
Coal Mine Tragedies Claim Two Men Near Creoksetown
Albert Green of Sharon Coal and Brick Company mine near Creoksetown died after igniting a fuse and waiting for results as an explosion occurred. Justin Duques of Kelly mine No 4 was killed by falling slate.
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Danville
Albert Green
Sharon Coal and Brick Company
Creoksetown
Justin Duues
Kelly Ming
Young woman jailed for forging four checks in Evans ton
Stella Taylor twenty a student of haw with a decal firm said an irresistible impulse drove her to forge four checks totaling fourteen dollars and pass them in Evans ton. She lived there for a time and has been sent back to Kvana.
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Galesburg
Dau
Stella Taylor
Eyvansten
Owerman
Kvaneto
Democrats Nominate Endicott Curl for County Judge
Democrats nominated Endicott and Curl for White County judge seats. The article notes a call for a special election on February 20 to fill the late Judge Parker’s vacancy, with details on who ordered the election and whether successors to the bench are named.
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Endicott
Curl
Jan. B
Eaddeatt
White Couuty
Invert
Benecen
Parker Wall Ie
Safety Clutch Stops Elevator Incident in Danville Building
An elevator in the Diels building in Danville failed due to a broken guide, causing nine passengers to escape. A safety clutch engaged, pausing the descent as responders investigated the fault and the lift was brought to a halt on several floors.
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Danville
Til
Saag
Gd -Ag
Diels
Feu
Pasengers
Whae
Interstate Wage Pact Talks With Miners Group
Coal operators and miners in Indianapolis discuss with national UMW officials and district directors the proposal to establish an interstate wage agreement in effect until two years ago in the central competitive field comprising Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and adjacent districts.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Weeterm
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Winds
Indicus Nettee
United Mine Workers
Miners and operators seek April meeting to settle talks
National convention of miners adjourned after routine business as operators arrived. A plan to present terms failed, leading to another adjournment until negotiations resume in April. Workers to continue labor, while agreed wage terms set to take effect April 1.
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Ips
Cateus
Hazardous material plot tied to Mrs Palmer residence
A police sweep followed an anonymous letter claim of three men plotting hazardous material at Mrs Potter Palmer’s home 1000 Lake Shore Drive. Mrs Talner is confined at home while city officials inspect the area for danger and verify the threat.
Mull Hafsid Plans Large Tax Levy in Moreces City
Advices from Moreces City state Mull Hafsid is short of funds and has decided to levy tribute totaling about 1,000,000 on inhabitants. The move would force the dows to pay heavy speck taxes.
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Tanviet
Dan
Moreces
Mull Hafsid
Supreme’ Court of the United States
House Committee On Naval Affairs
House of Lords
South Carolina
Hcause of Representatives
Metz
New York City
J. Co. Wmartzell
Methodist Episcopal
South Africa
Cape Town
Oriental Bank
New York
Beell Outwrestles Stuler in Chicago bout
Beell of Wisconsin defeated August Stabe in a local wrestling match. Beell won the first fall with a headlock and scissors, and the second with a creteh and bay arty hold. Stabe, called Iron Belgium, represented a strong challenge in the event held here.
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Chicago
Fred Peell
Wisconsin
August Stabe
Iron Belgiuim
Beell
Cold Snap Aids Coal Trade In Superior Wisconsin
A cold snap cooled demand worries in Superior Wisconsin as docks report improved cash demand after a discouraging period. The low of two below zero marked the chill as coal men note better activity amid frigid weather and constrained supply.
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Superior
Wis
Edie
Waring Hat Co Closes Yonkers Plants, 2000 Job Losses
The Waring Hat Manufacturing Company of Yonkers, a leading U S hat maker, shut its four plants causing about two thousand workers to lose jobs. The move leaves many idle amid a New York plan.
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New York
Waring Hat Mfg. Co
Yonkers
United States
Markets report from Chicago Board of Trade prices
Quotations from Chicago on January 30 show May wheat at 81.00 to 81.25, July at .07?. pork futures around 12.65 to 12.80, lard near 7.00 to 7.60, and short ribs about 6.00 to 6.40. Cash sales list grain and oats values, with No. 2 red wheat around 1.03 and No. 3 hard near 1.08. Live stock and poultry prices included for hogs, cattle, sheep, and fowl with range figures for prime and choice grades.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Hess Ty
Willy OY
Hliness
Indiana
Wisconsin
eChoice
ST Nee Tao
Freeport man credits Doan's Kidney Pills relief
A Freeport resident, Jerry Driscoll, describes chronic back pain and kidney trouble. He reports taking Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co. and says the pain and abnormal kidney secretions vanished, with no further trouble since. Sold by all dealers for 60 cents.
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Freeport
Jerry Driscoll
Cherry Street
Dawn
Hardney
Fillmert
Daan
Doan
Price
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Bryan urges publicity for campaign contributions in elections
William Jennings Bryan argues before a House committee for full disclosure of campaign money before election day. He says secrecy hides motives and allows manipulation of government, stressing timely exposure protects voters and prevents bribery or influence by donors.
Campaign finance kerfuffle sparks partisan dustup
Bryan defended campaign contributions as patriotic support for public causes while condemning tight limits on funding. He argued that many donors exist, yet feared a few magnates could wield disproportionate influence after the election. The piece notes Democratic and Republican contrasts and cites guests at a Vanderbilt wedding voyage to Europe.
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Bryan
Cortelyou
Beven
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Fy Psoyte
Bevan
Bryan Sidie Owas
Othe Repiblican
Jade mining claim touted in Iskoyu County California
A fragment notes a Jade discovery in Iskiyou County California claimed as unique in the nation. Tests reportedly verified the mineral met all standards and a time period around 1000 is cited. The text also includes garbled dialogue about Johnson and a cook.
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Iskiyou County
Cal
Maud Gonne Loses Absolute Divorce Appeal in Ireland
Paris reports the Superior Court affirmed a lower court decree granting Mrs. Me Bride Maud Gonne McBride only a judicial separation from Major McBride. The suit, begun in 1900, cited cruelty, but the court ruled Irish national law limited divorce to an act of Parliament, denying an absolute divorce. The decision emphasizes Ireland’s prevailing law over English practice.
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Ireland
Mrs. McBride
Ice Stops Navigation on Upper Ohio River
Gallipolis Ohio January 31 navigation halted for first time in three years as heavy ice floes stop upper Ohio river traffic. Packet boats suspended, Pittsburg coal fleet of about three million bushels drifts with the ice toward Cincinnati and southern markets. If weather does not moderate, river may close here.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Apparition Leads Brooklyn Clerk to Morphine Death
Alfred Moeller a Brooklyn drug clerk believing he saw an apparition of his daughter and that it foretold the death of a nine year old girl with fever took morphine and died in a New York hotel. He vanished after the vision Sunday and was found dying later in the hotel.
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New York
Alfred Moeller
Brooklyn
Moeller
Torpedo Boats on the Wing to Magdalena Bay
Buenos Aires reports the flotilla of United States torpedo boats under Lieutenant Hutch TF Cone sailed from port at 9 o clock for Punta Arenas after four days here. They are en route from Hampton Roads to Magdalena Bay.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Hutch TF
Cone
Stampton Roads
Magdalena Bay
Punta Arenas
Fire Destroyed Village Business District
A night blaze in Alanthus rove Missouri on January 31 wiped out the village business section. Three general stores the Christian church and a blacksmith shop and their contents were burned.
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Alanthus
Rove
Gener
Christian Church
Nine Killed in New River Colliery Explosion Near Iank's Nest
Nine men died in an explosion at the New River Colliery near Iank's Nest West Virginia. Fire losses included Dodds paint warehouse and Walters hardware in Montreal totaling 125000 dollars. Carnegie Here Ponch Commission donated 25000 pounds to widows and orphans of miners killed last month at Darr mine disaster. Weather turned severe in Central and Northern New York with subzero readings. Thomas I Fishback president of First National Bank of Rockings died at home in Rochester Minnesota. Roosevelt hosted a White House event as winter deepened across the nation.
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New River
Iank’s Nest
W. Va
Dodds Paint and Varnish
EE. P. Walters’ Hardware
Montreal
Moses
Carnegie Here Ponch Commission
Darr
Jacobs Creek
New York
Big Stone Gap
Wise County
Vin
Thomas I. Fishback
First National Bank of
Roosevelt
Electric light and power usher a new era of invention
The passage extols electricity as a swift, profound revolution surpassing fire. It notes electricity unites mechanics, chemistry, engineering, and art, enabling tasks fire could not achieve. Citing F Nelson Tracy of Illustrated Sunday Magazine, it envisions broad, yet unseen fields opened by electric power.
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Earth
F. Nelson Tracy
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Symbolic meanings in Japanese art by Yatsu
A Japanese artist named Yatsu expresses themes through color and design. He combines April evenings moons nightingales and plum trees to convey happiness and victory symbols like iris and willow for grace and patience. The dragon weaves through art. tiger fights symbolize religion, and a dragon in clouds signals life success.
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Yatsu
Lfe
Suspicious Visit as Baron Hubner Encounters Thiers
Baron Hubner went to the president of France Thiers in a tense moment at the head of the republic. He found the door open and a stranger approached him, claiming to be Thiers’ butler. The baron revealed his identity while the butler confirmed his own, sparking a relief reaction as the visitor realized the encounter was not with an assassin.
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Baron Hubner
President Thiers
M. Thiers
Indiana
Dent
From the Beginning Money Learns to Talk
A Chicago News piece notes money learning speech early in its life with a quirkily phrased goodbye. The story hints at money’s nascent habit of saying farewell as its career begins.
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Chicago News
Descent of Zenith balloon at 28000 feet deadly voyage
In 1875 three aeronauts ascended in the Zenith aiming for extreme height. Sivel and Croce-Spinnelli died on impact, while Tissandier survived after a perilous descent from about 28,000 feet. He recounts freezing, loss of strength, ballast releases, and a crash landing near Paris, with bodies recovered in a barn. The report cites Latson in the Minneapolis Journal.
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Tissandier
Sivel
Croce-Spinnelli
Croce
Croce- Spinnelli
Siver
Paris
W. BR. C. Latson
Minneapolis Journal
Stilt marks on old china and their limits
Hunting for stilt marks on old china can be fun yet unreliable. Three tiny glaze defects on both sides arise from cockspur stilts used during firing. These marks may appear on modern wares and are not a foolproof sign of age, making authentication tricky.
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Staffordshire
America
Weighing Common Air and its Weight Variations
The article describes experiments showing air has weight when compressed in vessels. A cubic foot weighs about 536 grains, just under 1.25 ounces, with air at 50 degrees Fahrenheit at the earth's surface. Heated air or air at high elevations is lighter.
Deferred Call in Wexford Town Leads to Hatchet Ruse
In Wexford County a house with a door that needs lifting to open becomes the scene of a curious ploy. A night visitor cries out it is Mrs Murphy, prompting a boy inside to shout for the hatchet. Mrs Murphy, hearing the ruse, apparently flees before the door is opened.
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Wexford
Mrs. Murphy
He Wouldn't Wake Dream Sees Ancient Chest Full of Silver
A traveling man Mr Poindexter dreamed of an old attic in his house and uncovered a chest containing cold and silver. He felt the dream so vivid he chose to stay asleep and not wake the narrator, continuing in slumber as the vision persisted.
Controversy Over Slur in Sports Comment Sparks Debate
In a heated exchange, critics condemn a misquote about a young athlete named Golightly. The error involved swapping an article that altered the phrase into insulting terms, prompting calls for accuracy and fair reporting in sports commentary.
An Exception in a Boarding House Gossip
A Baltimore American note jokes about overheard gossip in a boarding house. The speaker comments that the walls hear everything except the dumb waiter, implying hidden chatter and prying ears in shared living spaces.
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Baltimore
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