Magistrate Weighs Repeated Chicken Theft Case
A Philadelphia Record item reports a rural scene where a magistrate admonishes Abe about his son’s repeated chicken thefts. The father insists he has shown the boy the right way, yet the boy keeps being caught with chickens, prompting humorous conceding from the magistrate.
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Fine Seegar Echoes In Dinner Party Tale
Casey, now wealthy, hosts old friends for dinner and passes around cigars costing 40 cents each. Hogan bites off half and jokes that his long habit of smoking a pulp blurs the line between a five and a tin, as Casey protests the loss of a fine seegar.
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Hiawatha Man Alters Crowded Coach Grips
A Hiawatha man requests removal of two traveling grips from a crowded coach. A hog nearby is asked if he saw the act and confirms with a brief exchange. The Kansas City Journal records the odd interaction between man and animal aboard the train.
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Kansas City Journal
Baseball Fan Dreams of Victory Turns on Umpire
A baseball enthusiast and his wife attend a ball game. That night she shouts in her sleep Kill the umpire. Startled, he wakes and topples a washstand, then responds No, but I smashed the pitcher.
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John
Success Magazine
Indispensable Qualification in Urgent Clergy Call
A caller pressed for quick clergy service after his uncle died yesterday, insisting the responder officiate at a Deacon Jones event. The responder initially expresses surprise, but the caller remains insistent, framing urgency as the decisive criterion.
Balkan States Scrapping Forfeit for Free Advertising
The Louisville Courier Journal notes that Balkan States face a forfeit before further free advertising, following official notification. No additional details are provided regarding the parties, dates, or proceedings.
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Balkan States
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Mines And Mining Hints Of A New Idaho Camp Boom
In Murray Idaho the Monarch mine, largely owned by EF Spaulding of Spokane, ships a car of high grade galena ore weekly amid heavy snow. About 300 people already crowd the Jarbridge old camp area as a rush to new fields continues. December bullion from Round Mountain Mining Co. totals 2,566.26 ounces worth about 35000 dollars, while Putte district output dropped nearly 40 percent due to railroad switchmen strikes. A Leaching mill test is planned by a Timmins syndicate near Green River Utah. Reports link Giroux and Nevada Consolidated to Utah Copper merger talks. Chafey Nevada shrinks as mine shuts three months back. workers seek salaries. Goldfield Consolidated posted 194,479.67 tons at 37.98 a ton, netting 6,832,652.46. Idaho pension records note two engineers retired by Oregon Short Line. Utah coal mines near Price employ about 3500 miners, wages averaging over 3 dollars daily. Good springs zinc-lead and Ninety-Nine copper show strong ore developments. Le Roy tunnel stope expansion widens ore bodies at Silver Island Coalition. Uintah Treasure Hill directors re-elected at Provo meeting. Utah Mines Coalition near Alta reports widening high-grade ore finds. White Pine county expected two new major producers, with Ely district’s bullion value rising. Senate approves 7500 dollars to classify land in Coeur d’Alene Indian reservation, repaid from sale proceeds. Lewiston school district bonds 55000 dollars for land and buildings. Stockton mines merged into Bullion Coalition Mines Co. plans for development are anticipated.
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Northwest notes mix of crimes and trials across frontier towns
Reports from Nevada, Colorado, and adjacent regions detail arrests for jewel thefts in Ely and McGill, a Reno murder trial set for January 20, arson conviction in Nevada, a Denver billiards world title, and geologist Dr. Weed arriving in Ely. Other items note elk starvation in Wyoming, a Montana editor jailed for criminal libel, and a large Nevada land deal by Salt Lake capitalists.
Boy Detective Bill Butts on plain names
In a humorous reflection the Boy Detective Bill Butts argues plain names aid his crime work. He jokes that if his ancestor Archibald Willmington De Graken Reid Butts had the flamboyant name Archibald he would be laughed at and caught by the suspect, underscoring the value of plain identity.
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Archie Butts
Taft
Archibald Willmington de Grakenreid Butts
Bill
Period of Joy for Casey Wife in hospital after serious operation
Casey reports his wife was in hospital undergoing a serious operation days earlier. Mrs. Kelley called to check on Mrs. Casey and asked if she was resting. Casey replied that he was resting, not his wife.
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Casey
Chicago merchant makes statement about Peruna
Chicago merchant J G Becker of 134 Van Buren St declares after thirty years of catarrh and failed remedies that Peruna cured him permanently and that his wife was also cured, with ongoing use to treat colds. He spent thousands on doctors and medicines before finding relief.
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Chicago
J. G. Becker
van Buren St
Peruna
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