The Rev John Scott in a Garrote Plot
A trusted money collector recounts a train journey with Rev. John Scott who feigned kindness and sympathy to lure him to Butternut Street. The ruse ended in a garrote attack for a laundered fortune of about $16,000, with police failing to identify the suspect over a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert McClure
Mmn
Blankville
John Scott
Jon Scott
Butternut Street
Bel
Barrow
South Africa
Voor
Harry
Tie
Trina
Ife
Mr. Scott
M. Quad
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound promotes cures for many female ailments
The advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a positive cure for all painful women's ailments. It asserts effectiveness against ovarian troubles, inflammation and ulceration, falling and displacements of the womb, spinal weakness, and symptoms of the change of life, promising consistent cures.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Female Cure
Backache and numerous female symptoms are attributed to uterine weakness. The warning claims the product dissolves tumors in early stages, relieves bearing down, and balances the female system. It also touts kidney and backache relief for all genders and invites confidential letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lord Fleming of Bay City
Fay City Michigan resident Captain Alexander Ailerson Fleming, born Aberdeen sixty seven years ago, claims the right to nobility yet keeps a plain American life with his wife in Bay City. He’s the sole living Fleming heir, though estates were lost in court battles, and he shows no urgency to press the title. Also notes Sunday dinners at Horse Shoe Cafe ending for the warm season and several low excursion rates advertised by rail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay City
Mich
Alexander Ailerson Fleming
Bay City
Scotland
Aberdeen
Captain Fleming
Provost Fleming
Rail line sale of homeseekers tickets across regions
The Chicago Great Western Railway announces multiple dates in May June for homeseekers tickets to north northwest south southeast and east at reduced round trip rates. Additional itineraries to Minnesota Dakotas Canadian northwest and Niagara Falls excursion tickets offered June for Nobles of the Mystic Shrine with favorable return terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
North-Western
Chicago & North- Western Railway
Portland
Ore
Chicago Great Western Railway
Seattle
Tacoma
Belllinghan
Everett
Wash
Victoria
Vancouver
B. C
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Cal
Western
J. P. Elmer
St. Paul
Minn
Delavan
Waukesha
Madison
J.B. Swrawr
Northwest
Southwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
Canadian Northwest
Great Western
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Chicago & North-Western R’v
HOW HE GOT THERE HOW HE GOT THERE
General Nogi approves a bold plan after Martin Bowles, an American raised in Europe, advises hiding in a rifle pit and feigning a right flank attack. Bowles helps uncover Japanese feint and Russian positions enabling a Japanese victory near Fort Arthur. Bowles asks for dispatch rights and is granted near headquarters by Nogi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogi
Fort Arthur
Martin Bowles
America
Europe
Moshy
Connecticut
Bowles
Nog
Ivan Vestlovsky
Tyan
Ivan
Dua
Fr. Bowles
Arthur D. Berwick
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John W. Fondis
Wheeling
W. Va
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Rockford & Interurban Railway Co
Rockford
Harlem Park
Freeport
WM. Neese
Agt
Freeport Gaslight & Coke Co
Uh Stephenson
A. W. Ford & Son, Jewelers
Griffin
Chicago
Lloyl
Beaver
Cole
le Griffis
B. Tanner
Oakland
Geri
Youseta
W. Wilson
W. Madison
Chicigeo
Wilson
Mindient College of Cineage
Flrulla
I. Drurfin
Hod Moogk
Wan
Sunekons
Joseph Beimvert
City
Rue
Sweets & Fleck
O. P. Guenther & Co
Rev
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cate
RB. C. Rowen
F. J. Burdett
Brown & Dollmeyers
S. Ryan
Galena St
DR. Fenner
Disea
Muncie, Ind
Bright
Jas
P. Smith
M. M. Fenner
M. D
Fredonia
Joseph Emmert
H. J. Mooge
WM. Walton
Stephenson
Wana
EL Pronto
Albert Schwarze
Roy Melnick
A. W. Place
A. H. Reiger
George Wolf
Edward Firick
Dr. Matter
George Hornberger
A. OF. Rovhe
William Keeler
Co. W. Harden
Telgdet
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