Famous Evangelist Samuel Jones Dies in Oklahoma Incident
Samuel Jones, famed evangelist and temperance lecturer once known for recovery from drink, collapsed and died near Kirtle Rock Oklahoma while en route from Little Rock to Memphis. Born in Alabama, he later pastored Methodist churches, led revival tours, and authored several books.
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Atlanta
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Little Nock
Memphis
Samuel Porter
Nervery
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Alabama
Georgia
Usgy
Methodist Church
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Georna Frmadoaits
Telsmna Saa Hicenn
America
Postoffice Deficit Cuts In 1906 Report
Postmaster General Cortelyou releases figures showing postal receipts rising to 15.1 million for the year ending June 1906, while expenditures reach 178.4 million. The annual deficit falls from 14.57 million in 1905 to 10.51 million in 1906, a decline of about 27.8 percent.
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Cortelyou
Will of Kansas City millionaire leaves most to charity
unsigned paper purporting to be the will of FE Schoelkopf of Kansas City leaves Arlington and Kemper buildings to Grand Avenue Methodist Church and a forty acre park site to the city. a large estate is designated for religious groups, with other details unclear from the fragment.
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Schoelkopf
Kansas City
Grand Avenue
Trapped Miners After Wingate Colliery Explosion
An explosion at Wingate colliery near Durham England killed twenty five miners and entombed about two hundred others. Only a small portion of the thousand men employed were underground. Officials state the cause was likely fire damp and a firefighting effort followed.
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Wingate
Durham
England
Convicted official in mails fraud case in St Paul
Walter C. Cunningham, president of the North American Land Company, was found guilty in the U.S. District Court at St. Paul Minnesota of using the mails with intent to defraud regarding fees from people who listed land for sale. Also notes regional trade and a tropical hurricane impact in Central America with property damage.
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Walter C. Cunningham
The
North American Land Company
United States District Court
St. Paul, Minn
Thief sued by Omaha farmer who pursued burglar alone
John Wipf of Omaha sues a burglar for damages after pursuing him unarmed and alone. The farmer was shot at near his home as he chased the intruder, bound him with clothesline, and prepared to escort him to town.
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Omaha
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David
M Wipf
Dispute Over Newfoundland Fisheries Escalates
The article discusses long standing tensions over Newfoundland cod fisheries linked to a modus vivendi by the United States and Britain. It notes Newfoundland’s 60 000 fishing population and recurring disputes primarily with France, with the U S involvement over the past decades.
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Newfoundland
United States
Great Britain
Honeymoon Suicide Pact Ends in Smithville Tragedy
Mr and Mrs Jesse Webb reportedly agreed to die together due to tuberculosis. In Smithville Missouri the bride shot her husband then, believing it fatal, killed herself with a brain shot. Webb, 25, son of a prominent farmer, may live. The couple had been on their honeymoon. the motive centered on illness and despair.
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Jesse Webb
Smithville
Fairfar
Banker’s Son Held for Manslaughter in Frisco Fire Shooting
Ernest A. Denicke son of a wealthy banker was held for trial on manslaughter charges after shooting an Italian man on the San Francisco waterfront during the April 19 fire. Superior Judge William P. Lawler called the act wanton reckless and the result of bad judgment. Denicke had been freed in police court but was re-arrested and examined before Lawler as committing magistrate.
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Frisco
Ernest A. Denicke
San Francisco
William P. Lawler
Ndenicke
Shortall
Lawley
Two Players Die After Collision in Rolla Baseball Game
In Rolla Missouri two teammates named Clark and McKee collided while attempting to catch a ball. McKee died almost instantly and Clark was knocked unconscious. Report says Clark’s upper teeth embedded in McKee’s forehead and broke off in the skull.
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Rolla
Clark
McKee
Rockwood Gate at Imperial Dam Fails Prompting Delayed Colorado Project
A Rockwood gate near Imperial Gal failed unexpectedly as a dredged section rose and floated down the Colorado River. The incident halts part of the Colorado turning project with a delay of under a month. The gate and related works cost the Southern Pacific Company about 1 million dollars.
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Imperial
Gal
Ont Hendred
Colorado
Southern Pacific Company
Broken Rail Wrecks Wasego Train Wreck Injures Seven
Seven people were seriously injured and many more lightly in a Union Pacific wreck two miles east of Wamego Kansas. Four cars on the Overland Limited west bound were derailed by a broken rail and scattered for a quarter mile. A lone bandit robbed a Nevada stagecoach near Round Mountain stealing $5000 from the express box. The corner stone of a new Methodist church was stolen. Adelaide Ristori died in Rome after a long illness.
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Wamego
Kan
Union Pacific Railway
Overland Limited
East Toledo gun battle ends in officer’s death
In East Toledo Ohio a deadly encounter between police and three holdup men left Patrolman Schlagheck dead and two holdup men wounded. Officers Deaumnee and Schlagheck pursued the suspects who opened fire as they were cornered, with Meyers wounded and captured after a fierce struggle.
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Tuen
Toledo
Ohio
Joseph “Scahlagheck
Schlagheck
Peter Deaumnee
Dearance
Meyers
Peterson
Wrecks His Auto to Save Most at Risk on Hill
Louis Lieber, driving a runaway car on Snake road in the Ramapo Mountains New York, swerved to avoid a collision with an ascending vehicle carrying Miss Cutting, daughter of R Fulton Cutting. He crashed his machine and was crushed and unconscious, while bystanders reported the impact prevented a likely deadly crash.
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Miss Cutting
R. Fulton Cutting
Snake Road
Ramapo Mountains
New York
Lieber
Tieber
Upton Bindair
Thomas
Manila
J. Lusk
United States Army
Bandy Hook
N. J
Missouri farmer confesses to mass murder and river disposal
Jodie Hamilton a Missouri farmer confessed to killing Barney Parsons his wife and three children ages one to twelve. He admitted shooting Parsons and clubbing the family before placing bodies in Parsons wagon and dragging them to Big Pine Creek where they were dumped into the river. Fishermen found the bodies the day after.
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John Hamilton
Parsons
Houston
Isaohing
Carthage
Woods
Texas County
Vamuilton
Contesses
Jodie Hamilton
Barney Parsons
Tarsons
Fee Arenntinoner
Eway— Bee
Hamilton
Yvhem
Big Pine Creek
No Eligible Men Declared by Le Sueur Maidens Club
Unmarried women in Le Sueur Minnesota aged sixteen to teach join a Five Hundred Club after a conclave on scarce eligible men. They vow gay evenings this winter to show men are not indispensable to happiness amid social celibacy.
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le Sueur
Minn
Milk Poisoning Affects Findlay Orphans
Fourteen children at the Findlay Ohio orphanage were poisoned after supper and milk. All but two recovered. the remaining two are in serious condition. Authorities say the illness followed consumption of the meal and milk.
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Findlay
Ohio
White Sox Win World Championship in Four Straight
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cubs in four games to win the baseball world championship. Total receipts for the series were 106 550 dollars with the Sox receiving 25 051 dollars as their share and the Cubs 8 850 dollars.
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White Sox
Chicago White Sox
Cubs
Sox
Fire Sweeps Summerside Station Area Destroying Forty-Two Buildings
A blaze that began at the Summerside railway station in P E I spread rapidly, drawing aid from Charlottetown and gutting forty two structures including the post office the English and Baptist churches and four hotels.
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Summerside
Charlottetown
Felker Pleads Guilty in Newburyport Embezzlement Case
James W. Felker former City Treasurer of Newburyport Massachusetts admits theft of eighty six thousand five hundred dollars from city funds. Judge postpones sentence to next January at defense request for further proceedings.
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James W. Felker
Newburyport
Mass
Embezzler Henry Wampole Suicide Linked to Death
Reported death linked to Henry K. Wampole an embezzler whose $500 000 theft was noted. Body found in East River New York reportedly connected to the case as manhunts and embezzler alerts circulate for Manuel Silveira accused of $1 000 000 theft from Juan M Ceballos.
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Henry K.wampole
Philadelphia
East River
New York
Manuel Silveira
Juan M. Ceballos
Cook
Floods, Landslides Ravage Jalisco Colima States Mexico
In southern Jalisco and Colima heavy floods and massive landslides caused by rainfall destroyed homes and dislodged earth from river valleys. A steel railway bridge near Toxpan collapsed and a twenty six ton steam shovel was swept away. The floodwater reached about sixty feet in one area and fifteen people drowned while crossing the Turxpan river. All victims were local residents.
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Jalisco
Colima
Mexico
Toxpan
Cleveland teacher slain by rejected suitor in school
Miss Mary Shepard, 22, was killed before her pupils in a South Euclid Ohio school. Terry Smith, 25, then killed himself behind his home as police moved in. Motive cited as love rejection. Smith was a fourth cousin of the teacher.
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Terry Smith
Mary Shepard
South Euclid School
Ohio
Smith
Om Young Smith
Miss Shepard
Ohio Bridge Combine dissolves. several firms surrender charters
Five bridge companies surrendered their charters amid a state and federal dispute over a bridge combine led by Attorney General Ellis. Eight others left Ohio, with one exception remaining as the battle continues. Ellis seeks to oust the surviving company and appoint a receiver while the combine claims no state law violations and defends actions under the Sherman law.
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Champion Company
Wamington
King Company
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Massillon
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Eidne
Combine
Farmer Accused in Girl's Poison Death
Orson Broka a young farmer is arrested on murder charges after Miss Jennie Dicker took poison and died days later. Warrant sworn by John Miller alleges Broka bought arsenic knowing the girl would attempt self destruction. He is held to the grand jury in $2000 bond. parents opposed the match.
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John
Napoleon
Jennie Dicker
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John Miller
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Miss Dicker
Brokx
Kidnapped Buffalo Girl Susie Becker Sought After Abduction
Three year old Susie Becker daughter of Fred Becker saloon keeper of Buffalo New York was abducted while walking with a stranger described only as a gray dressed woman. Police alerted as investigators note her disappearance amid a city search efforts. Inventor Joseph S Glidden dies at 93 in De Kalb Illinois after a long career with Isaac Ellwood in barbed wire manufacture.
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Buffalo
Susie Becker
Fred Becker
Susie
Main Street
Josephs. Glidden
de Kalb
Glidden
Isaac K. Ellwood
Iron Mountain Train Wreck Near St Louis
The Mountain fast mail train, late to depart Union Station in St Louis, jumped the track near the city limits while making up lost time. Engineer Caspar was killed and ten others were injured. The derailment occurred close to a previously wrecked location last spring.
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St. Louis
Caspar
Janitor Prince Thomas Cleary Dies at Equitable Building
Former New York alderman and longtime building caretaker Thomas Cleary died. Cleary had been employed at the Equitable Life Assurance Society building, 120 Broadway, earning a salary reported as $26,000 per year.
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Prince
Thomas Cleary
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Broadway
Cleary
Murder Suspect Harry Wood Arrested After Sister-In-Law's Death
Hary Wood, suspected of killing his sister in law, was found in bed with a throat wound described as not dangerous. He was arrested on the murder charge in Wyigdscouisr.
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Harry Wood
Openly Advocating Death Sentiments Reported in Odessa Speech
A fragment notes Openly advocacy by the press Union of Russian People in Odessa urging rebels and Jews to die, reflecting violent, extremist rhetoric associated with push for exclusion. The incomplete text points to inflammatory statements tied to a suspicious political climate.
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Press Union
Odessa
Gas accident injures police officers in Columbus tenement
A sudden gas incident in an empty Columbus tenement injured three officers with one blown through a door and two seriously hurt. The report also mentions additional mob violence affecting Black individuals in Texas and Arkansas, though details are unclear.
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Columbus
Ohio
White Sox Triumph In World Series Over Cubs
The White Sox defeat the Cubs eight to three in Chicago to clinch the World Series and the American League pennant. Mordecai Brown struggled early as Doc White allowed fourteen hits. Attendance surpassed one hundred thousand as fans stormed the gates in celebration.
A Bank for Women Opens as Separate Institution
A New York bank plans a distinct women’s bank under the same directorship. It will have elaborate interiors and a vault dressing room, with a male teller. The idea arose from a female bank employee to ease deposits and withdrawals for women customers.
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New York
Trade Trends Highlight Broad Economic Activity
A December survey notes rising demand in heavy goods and construction with new projects like a S20 million passenger station on the horizon. Steel and iron ore receipts show mixed results as weather and transport bottlenecks affect retail and wholesale markets.
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Chicago
Diltvatty
Jg Dow Ae
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Senger
Sun
Review of Trade
New York
Jag
Mivtais
Bradstreet
World Market Livestock and Grain Prices Across Cities
An OCR fragmented price snapshot lists Chicago Indianapolis Cincinnati and New York figures for cattle hogs sheep lambs and grains. Prices show range shifts in cattle 41.00 to 7.30 hogs 6.70 to 6.35 sheep 5.00 to 5.40 wheat No 2 ranges around 44 to 76c per bushel oats 35 to 38c, butter 25c, eggs 0.50 to 0.75.
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