Major's Diamond Venture Ends In Ruin
Ezra Stonestone faces ruin after failed fortune chase in diamonds. He learns the trade from Stoltz and plans a private scheme with a major on St James Street. The conversation hints at a demanding, risky venture with potential for gain but ends in disappointment and moral reflecting on the peril of speculation.
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Prapsroaghs
Ezra
Edlestone
Andry
D-Ealer
Ageer Stoltz
St .Dames
Girwestane
Hera
Nelson's
Oslak
Perly Matton
Falestone
Aged Soldier Renounces Scheme Amid Tense Confrontation
Ezra resists a risky proposal in a tense family style confrontation with Major Tobias Clutterbuck. Girdlestone presses a hard bargain as the two men clash over a morally dubious plan and a potential plot to exploit others for gain.
Engagement tests family patience and business offer
In Phillanore Gardens Kate’s engagement sparks joy among elders while Dr Saker and Tom weigh a sudden career offer from a distant firm. The proposal would require seven thousand pounds and a share in the business, with promises of future profits and status in the African firm. Tom contemplates the push toward a pragmatic path.
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Ezra
Con
Hidden schemes threaten house of Girdlestone in peril
The piece follows Langworthy an unscrupulous agent plotting to use fake diamond hoaxes to panic the English market while Ezra Girdlestone sails to Cape in a bid to save the firm. Interleaved are domestic scenes at Eccleston Square with Kate Harston and Tom Dimsdale amid mounting risk to the business.
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Tom
Dale
Gilray
Girdlestone
Tom Dimsdale
Kate
Pecome
John Girdlestone
Fenchurch Street
Dimsdale
Eccleston Square
Miss Harston
House of Girdiestone
Langworthy
Paiccu
Odessa
Ural Mountains
Tobolsk
Ezra Girdlestone
Reverend James Kaye Sentenced for Counterfeiting in Springfield
Rev James Kaye pastor of the First Congregational Wheaton is bound for Leavenworth after a two year sentence from Judge Otis Humphrey for producing crude counterfeit money. Molds and dies were found in Lincoln related to the scheme and Cecil Kaye, his 14 year old son, passed some notes in a Lincoln shop.
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James K Aye
Wheaton
Churze
James R. Kaye
First Congregational Church of
Leavenworth
J. Otia-Humphrey
Springfield
Kansas
Kaye
Lincoln
Dr Kaye
Cecil Kaye
Vigilant Warden Nabs Nimrod In Hunting Without License
A man in a hunter’s coat dropped into KeHerville and was challenged about hunting. Abijah Baker admitted lacking a license after a deputy game warden’s ruse, pled guilty in Justice Syrkle’s court, and paid $25.60. The incident led to a warning about hunting without permit.
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KeHerville
Abijah Baker
Baker
Tewis A. FE. Cory
State Game Department
Cory
Court of Justice
J. J. Syrkle
Albion Business Houses Burn In Suspected Fire
A major Albion blaze destroyed the Edwards County Bank building the new National Bank building the telephone exchange two clothing stores a shoe store and a drug store. Loss estimated at 200000 with one third covered by insurance and a suspected incendiary cause.
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Albion
Edwards—County—Bank
New National Bank
Telephone Exchange
Notable Illinois Deaths and Local Incidents Highlight Era
A collage of obituaries and crime items from Illinois towns recounts deaths from natural causes and violence, including Civil War veterans, political figures, and a bank robbery. Also noted are accidents, burns, a courtroom shooting, and a mother's fatal assault with her child.
Insane Girl Burned Fatal Fire at Tent Colony
Miss Ley Anderson, patient at Bartonville insane asylum hospital, died after her clothing caught fire near a wood stove in the tuberculosia tent colony. Doctors and nurses aided, but her clothes ignited and she ran through cottages as attendants tried to extinguish the flames. A passerby finally rolled her in snow and smothered the blaze with his overcoat.
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John Hall
Champaign
Hall
Chester
Cynthia Jackson
Rotley Duc Frey Hickson
Fairfield
Lewis B. Thomas
Bloomington
Republican Party
Alfred Doughty
Atias William Doughty
John I
United States District ‘Court
United States
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
Franklin Scanland
Goodhope
Maude Crews
Arthur Nichols
Waukegan
Nichol
Judge Weiss
Flora
Gilbert
Gooseneck
McDonough
Birdie
Thompson
Les
Elmer Icenighe
Malcolm Ko Ch
Urbana
Mr. Koch
fr-Koch
Yeaes
Harvey Lickner
Tuscola
Satre
Umi
Taby
Lickner
Jas Valentine
Hort Coore
Ling
Brokaw Hospital
Bloomingtop
Ley Anderson
Bartonville Insane Asylum
George Zeller
Miss Anderson
Dr. Windsor
Fur
Illinois Tops Oil States Outside U S and Russia
Illinois ranks second in oil production among states behind California and ahead of Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. In 1907 Illinois produced about 25 million barrels, with 9 000 wells in operation from June 1905 to now. Wells are in Clark Cumberland Crawford and Lawrence counties and future fields may emerge in the south.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Hindis
California
Silhuanies
Penn
Foster_Bain
State ‘Geological Survey
Bain
Illinois
United States
Russia
Clark
Cumberland
Crawford
Lawrence
Erlenois Horse for Taft is Purchased in Illinois
A Chicago firm buying horses for Secretary of War William H. Taft purchased a saddle horse from A. T. Ewing of McDonough County, Illinois. The horse weighs 1240 pounds, stands sixteen hands high, is six years old, and was deemed in perfect condition after expert examination. The request specified a horse heavy enough to carry a man weighing 3011 pounds.
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Rockford
William Brazier
McLeansboro
Owen—Hoft
Ottawe
Ared
Leland—Hotel
Springhicla
Wiggins
van Valkenburgh Brothers
Peter J. Muldoon
Paul Rhode
Chicago
Jes Bickerson
The
Central
Ilinois
William H. Taft
Chitcago
A. T. Ewing
McDonough County
Ewing
Missouri
White Oak and Violet Win Native Tree and Flower
Illinois pupils vote for native state symbols selecting white oak as state tree and purple violet as state flower. White oak led with 24 820 votes, followed by maple 16 089, violet 15 951, wild rose 11 903, elm and goldenrod next. Rochelle officials condu...
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Pupilsa
Illinois
Hlinvis
James C. Iesler
Supt
C. E. Joiner
Rochelle
M. D. Trathaway
Susan‘ass
Josephine Barker
Burglary Night Escape Ends With Loose Change Request
Miss Steckel surprised by a burglar and his confederate in her room after a shopping trip. They claimed to borrow loose change and fled as a police officer arrived, leaping to a nearby roof and vanishing through a window.
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Tivo Bargilarx
CA Go
Attempts to Murder Family Near Elizabethtown Police Probe
A young man named Morrow attacked the Banks family in Elizabeth town area injuring Miss Banks and wounding Morrow while Mortow Banks and his brother Joe Banks were killed. Surviving Banks relatives say no quarrel preceded the assault and the motive remains a mystery. J K Dickerson of Lawrenceville was chosen secretary of the State board of agriculture.
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Elizabethtown
Goléonda
Morrow
Morton Banks
J. K. Dickerson
Lawrenceville
State Board of Agriculture
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Conan Doyle
Eeeetr
R. Nebons
aThab
Tobias Clutterbuck
Binékezuard
Taur Len
Phillanore Gardens
Kates
Grillestone
Shay
Tandon
Toni
Bepsnesh Street
Jeok
Mrs. de Style
Philadelphia_Pr Press
Miss Cayenne
Jess
Washington
Star
Raymond
Nimrod
Albion Business Houses
BURN
May Busbey
Ida Fackstrum
Inga Jurgenson
Hilda Nesse
Roral
Carmi
Lon Johnson
Herman Bingham
Johnson
Bingham
Es Bureau of Statistics
Spryfield
Helen J. Gifford
Davenport, Tows
Daven Enewsbonport
Merwe
Abollak
Pontoffice
Lowden
Holla- Wood
Nock -Falls
Sterling
Falla
Witt
Himuaelf
Glenn Selmon
Monmouth
James A. Patton
Chicago Board of
Trady Gay
Monmouth College
John Jennings
Western
Tillnoise
Biewanes
Erlenois
TAFT
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