Bank Robbery and Siege Ends in Firemen's Water Rescue
A bank raid in Helsingfors leads to a long siege with bandits holding a town hall room for hours. Firemen trap the gunman with water as police and soldiers storm the floor. two officers die and six thousand dollars are recovered from the loot. In Minsk, a separate case sees two plotters condemned to hang for an assassination bid during a cathedral funeral.
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Weishgfors
Guardian
Tammersfors
Balushin
Eralen
Dorpat
Baltic Revolutionary Committee
Revolutionary War Fund
Helsingfors
Market Quotations Chicago Board of Trade Commodities
Chicago Board of Trade quotations for May July and Sept contracts in wheat corn oats and lard with cash prices and livestock bids. East Buffalo and Chicago area live stock markets show receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle and lambs with prices for hay and poultry.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Springs
Perth
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Sankey's Home Robbed and Pittsburg Utilities Deal
A Brooklyn burglary cut from Ira Sankey's frame a painting titled the Eden of the Gods and damaged two other oils, with $1000 loss. Sankey asked police kept silent to avoid worry. Separately, Pittsburgh utilities will shift control from a Philadelphia firm to United Railways Investment Co. in a deal near $40 million.
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New York
Ira
Sankey
San Francisco
Moody
Wrooklyn
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Company
United Railways Investment Company
Neanly
Bombings Hit Store After Demand Refused
Ekaterinoslav March 2 Revolutionaries exploded a bomb in a store where the proprietor refused their demand for a contribution and summoned police. The store was wrecked and a clerk wounded.
Longworths Come Home From trip on Mascotte steamer
Bavana dispatch reports Representative Nicholaa Longworth and Mrs. Longworth aboard the Mascotte sailing to Tunipa Ila on their way to Washington. The pair were among passengers leaving Bavana.
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Longworths
Bavana
Nicholaa Longworth
Longworth
Mascotte
Tunipa
Ila
Washington
Prairie Fire Ravages Rice County Farmland
Salina Kansas reports a prairie fire on March 2 that swept about thirty square miles of Rice county greatest firm lands, causing damage estimated at six hundred thousand dollars.
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Salina
Kan
Rice County
New Brazilian President Elected in Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro March 2 reports Dr. Alfono Moreira Penna, vice president of the republic, has been elected president. The announcement confirms a peaceful transfer of power with Penna slated to take office.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Alfonso Moreira Penna
Delayed Letter at Canaan Corners Post Office
Lydia Spencer, postmistress and store clerk at Canaan Corners, endures a scorching July day as she sorts county papers and letters. The crowded shop and recent purchase of eight new sets of something noted in the scene add to the day’s bustle.
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Lydia
Jerry
Davidge
Lyddy
Walnacoting
Cananta Corners
John Butterworth
New York
Canaan Corners
Chicago
Bull's Head Hotel
Bowery
Miss
Bull's Head
New York City
Dearborn
Jack
N.Y
Lydia Spencer
Aetore
Spain
Henderson laid to rest after state funeral
The body of David B. W. Henderson ex speaker of the national house of representatives was laid to rest in Linewood. In the morning the remains were taken to St. John's Episcopal church under guard of honor by the Tiks. A military guard stood at the church while thousands viewed the body. At 2 pm funeral services featured a eulogy by ex Representative George L. Derkins of Sioux City. Members of the Town legislature attended and business was suspended. The G A R and Knight Templars accompanied the casket to the cemetery. Mrs Lennerson received condolences from cabinet ministers and Congress members.
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Dubuqee
David BW Henderson
National
House of Representatives
Linewood
St. Johan's Episcopal Church
George 1Derkins
Sioux City
Henderson
G. A. TR
Knight Templars
Lennerson
Congress
Legal friction over oil company discrimination in Kansas
Earl Evans attorney for the Standard Oil Company alleges to Governor Hoch and Attorney General Coleman that National Oil Company has violated anti discrimination laws. He claims the state penitentiary pays 8 1/2 cents a gallon for coal oil while other customers are charged higher rates. Officials are unnamed but said to be aware.
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Topeka
Kan
Earl Evans
Standard OW Company
Kansas
Hoch
C. C. Coleman
National OW Company
Standard
I Kansas
National Oil Company
Ife
Kangag
Conversation on a Winter Night in Amsterdam
In a cold Amsterdam house banker Brounker sits by the stove with a lung pipe while his friend Van Grote visits. With Brounker’s family away at a party, the pair discuss the marriage between Brounker’s son and the daughter of Birkenrode, probing Brounker’s reluctance.
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Amsterdam
Brounker
van Grote
Grote
Birkenrode
Secret Closet Plot Leads to Confession and Match
In a tale of jealousy and intrigue, Brounker admits to imprisoning a rival in a hidden closet and using a vial to poison a dog. Clotilda, revealed to know the secret, confirms consent to her husband’s plan for her ward Maurice to wed Birkenrode’s daughter. Brounker faces exposure as his own scheme backfires.
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Brounker
Grote
Clotilda
Colonel Birkenrode
Birkenrode
von Grote
Mme. Brounker
Maurice
Why She Took Him Married to Blackballed Jack Rounder
A Cleveland Leader excerpt reveals a woman wed Jack Rounder despite his blackball status, hoping to keep him at home evenings. The dialogue suggests social scorn and a spouse’s strategy to control behavior.
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Jack Rounder
Cleveland
Will of a Loving Wife Links Birth Inheritance And Portrait
A narrator recalls family secrets tied to a deathbed will and a vanished fortune. A portrait awakens hostile memories and a hidden desk yields papers revealing a long lost heir, the daughter of an English officer and a governess. Shanklin confirms the house and will place the fortune with the narrator, tying past and present in a single revelation.
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Naes
New York
Shankiin
Hfe
America
England
Society of
Thomas Barber Judson
Trip Abroad at Laat
A young American girl in a western city recalls days without rabies treatment options, noting a dull life until she bursts into a neighbor’s house with joy as Paris is finally promised. She explains her father was bitten by a mad dog, signaling the anticipated journey to Paris.
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Laat
Paris
London
Medical certificates for chauffeurs in France proposed
France considers new chauffeur regulations requiring each applicant to hold a medical certificate proving sound mental and physical health. Draft rules aim to ensure drivers are fit due to high speed cars and the need for vigilance, likening the role to operating a locomotive. In addition, an epilepsy case among drivers is cited as a warning. DeWitts Little Early Risers are recommended for stomach and bowel cleansing.
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France
Harper’s Weekly
DeWitt
Solomon Grundy and the first catechism lesson
A Washington Times quotation recalls a girl at a Sunday school failing to answer catechism questions until asked about Solomon. Hearing about Noah and Solomon, she cheerfully answers with the familiar rhyme Sol omon Grundy born on Monday and offers to recite the rest.
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Noah
Solomon
Dyspepsia in School Children Warned to Correct Lunches
The notice urges correcting lunch habits to prevent indigestion in students and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe cure. Sold by druggists for 50 cents and 1 dollar with a money back guarantee if it fails.
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Caldwell
Onexcelled Cuba Service From Cincinnati January 5 1906
Through sleeper departures from Cincinnati at 8 30 a m Fridays via Queen and Crescent Route and Southern Railway to Mobile where connection is made with Munson Steamship Line steamer Prince George at 4 30 p m Saturdays. Return through sleeper from Mobile each Friday at 7 p m to Cincinnati on arrival of the Prince George from Havana. Tickets at 65 dollars round trip including meals and berths on steamer. Special agents Frank Johnson and W C Ricarson listed for details.
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Cuba
Pullman
Cincinnati
Queen & Crescent
Southern Railway
Mobile
Munson SS Line
Prince George
Havanna
Frank Johnson
Washington, D. H
Ohio
W. C. Ricarson
Very Low Mardi Gras Excursion Rates to Gulf Ports
North Western line offers very low excursion tickets with stopover privileges to New Orleans Mobile and Pensacola during February 21 to 26 and on Feb 26 for noon arrival. Tickets also valid to principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Information via Chicago and North Western Ray agents.
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New Orleans
Mobile
Pensacola
United States
Mexico
Chicago & North- Western Ray
Very Low Excursion Rates to Louisville via Northwestern
Excursion tickets are on sale March 16 to 18 to Louisville Kentucky for the American Bowling congress with favorable return limits. Apply to Chicago & Northwestern Railway agents. There is a Homeseeker's Excursion to the Northwest West and Southwest via the Northwestern Line with greatly reduced rates. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars Free Reclining Chair Cars and The Best of Everything. For sale dates and details contact Chicago & Northwestern R'y agents.
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Louisville
Northwestern Ine
American Bowling Congress
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Homeseeker
Chicago & North- Western R’y
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Iowa Statesman
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