Nickel Plate trains offer comfortable service from Chicago
Plan your trip from Chicago to Buffalo Boston or eastern points with Nickel Plate road express trains. Colored porters attend coaches and meals in dining cars range from 35 cents to 1 dollar. All trains depart LaSalle street station Chicago. Contact John Y. Calahan at Adams street Chicago for details. Also mentions sleigh painting and Quaker Doctors ad inserts.
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Chicago
Buffalo
New York
Boston
Nickel Plate Road
LaSalle Street
John Y. Calahan
Adams Street
Forger Confesses Bank Theft theft over securities
Henry A. Leonard a 24 year old clerk at Halle Stieglitz brokers confessed to robbing 805000 worth of securities from National City bank. He claimed the plan was to prove how easily banks can be beaten and his employers supported him. Leonard mailed 300000 in securities to Dyer Fears Sr. of Tenr Co. before arrest. He said he did it on a bet.
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New York
Henry A. Leonard
Halle & Stieglity
Broad Street
National City Bank
Leonard
East One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Street
Mabomte
Phi
Dyer Fears
Tim of Tenr & Co
Pearl Sunday
Halle & Stieglitz
Wombs
Johm Mitchel
United Mine Workers
Washington
Roosevelt
Mitchell
Jessie Farris
Elisabeth, Ky
Preas Governor Acts Mobilizes Texas Troops
Adjutant General Hulen orders mobilization of local military companies in Austin and Houston area amid growing alarm in Edna Texas. About 160 men to deploy by special train to scene of trouble as rangers rush to Edna to pursue Monk Gibson, the alleged killer of a woman and her children.
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Austin
Tex
Hulen
Dna
Trouston
Houston
Edna
Monk Gibson
Crises and Scandals Mark Oct 8 News Across Nations
Budapest reports a developing political crisis with Interior Minister Kristoffy meeting the king in Vienna amid suffrage reform rumors. In the U S Greensboro and Salisbury cases unfold in whisky ring prosecutions, while Mitchell visits Washington for a personal talk with Roosevelt. September federal figures show a small surplus and a three month deficit. A German naval gift arrives, and a Milwaukee bishopric declines. A Pat Crowe arrest rumor circulates while Mason assumes Gowdy’s post in Berlin. A Paris duel ends with injuries, and Pattle arrives in Washington from the Philippines. Baseball scores and weather notes accompany the day’s briefs.
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Budapest
Hungary
Kristoffy
Vienna
Reservary
Francis Kossuth
Independence Party
Scheme of theft detailed by Toonard and accomplices
Toonard admitted devising the plan months earlier and selecting targets at Hanover National and National City banks. He described obtaining a rubber stamp, forging a check for 379,000 dollars, routing securities via a mailbox, and mailing 800,000 dollars worth with about 50,000 dollars negotiable remaining unaccounted for. Pearl received the next day the portion delivered, while others were missing or unrecovered.
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Toonard
le Sud
Hanover National Bank
National City Bank
Leonid
Bowery
Heck
Wien
Wis Street
Awas
Leonard
Easton
Leonand
Securiies
Ecessigy Saud
West Ninety
Second Street
Dyer Peart
Fim
Pearl
Leon- Wat
Endowment Gifts Boost Missionary Education Funds
Prominent donors, including D. X. Pearsons and John D. Rockefeller, seed Congregational and general education causes. Pearsons provides 50000 for Marsovan Turkey's Antolia College to form a memorial fund, while Rockefeller pays 10 million in cash via eight checks to the General Education Board for broad educational support.
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Wissetter
Aunteliy College
Marsovan
Turkey
Pearsons Memorial Endowment Fund
Tenn
Roosevelt too strenuous for Miss Blondel at circus
Miss Aimee Blondel, a contortion performer, was attacked and severely mutilated during a circus act. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen protecting the show fired on the enraged lion, saving Blondel from immediate death. The lion nearly ripped off her arm and wounded the tamer in the back.
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Gihnun
Aimee Blondel
Roosevelt
Blondel Willdle
United States
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Diamonds
A. W. Ford & Son, Jewelers
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Taylor's Park
Greater Smith Amusement Co
The
Freeport Base Ball Club
Forger
PREAS
Paris
Kossuth
Greenshoro N. C
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Federal
J. BE. Boyd
D. L. Arey
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Cinedmnnaiti
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St. Paul's Cathedral
Milwaukee
Dean Maatthews
LE Fond
Pat Crowe
Otuaha
Neb
Toe Lite
Donahue
Isutte
Mont
Tie
Crowe
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Gowdy
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Geken
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Guyote Cassignine
M. Novlens
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Patt
Philippin
Leupner
St Louis
Detroit
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cleveland
Dr. Pearsons
Congregationalists
Roeckesfetter
Get. B
IX. Pearsons
Congregational Church
Anatolia College
Pearsons
Gentlemeon
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board
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George Foster Peabody
Gion
Thallist
Bateman
Jes Moines
Demonine Tenper
Charles Hester
Les Moines
Tam
Hateman
Milwaukee American Associaion
Titeman
Gost
Allen
Manta
Qoet
Interishind
Vicksburg
Pensacola
Mit
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Port Gibson
Chicago Athletic Association
National Debt Statement
Hamlins
Wizard Oil
H. J. Moogk
Dorman & Go
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State Bank of Freeport
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Frea W. Hoeler
A. Antrim
Mocessora
Hettinger
Collmann & Co
Collmann
Prés
D. F. Graham
V. Pres
L.r.jungkunz
Caab
B. Schulte
Wm. Trembor
Aug. Bergmann
M.gund
W.N. Cronkrite
John
First National Bank OF
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B. Elson
Berenldent
H.& Age Waters Cashier
V.B. Elson
L. Z. Farwell
W Rence
Reuben Blowtrica
J. F. Fair
Burchard
L. H. Burrell
Bubrrell
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Freenoot 'Tols
N. Cronerite
Stephenson
Freeport, Il
A, L. Babcock
North
Galena Avenue
J. Burdett
Brown & Dollmeyers
Union Loan & Building Association
Rice
Mayer, Ses
John S. Harpster
Savings Department of
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F. A. Schulz
Cash
Geo, Smith
Oak Place
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Oland Limited
California Express
Chic
R’y
Springfield
Chicago & Western Railway
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