Justice Meted Out in Eliasville Echoes of Correction
A correction letter disputes a previous report of arrest and conviction for L W Paice M D and others over egg throwing. The author claims no arrest occurred and asserts paying the fine took place before any complaint, defending personal conduct and residency in Eliasville. The piece also surveys diverse clippings from Washington Post and New York World on politics and insects.
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Squire
H. Harris
Eliasville
T Wave
L. W. Paice
Sam Jones on marriage as merchandise and social decline
Sam Jones laments marriage turning into commerce and clubs replacing homes. He claims wives become society ladies, children become nuisances, and life is eroded by fashion, schooling, and vanity. He describes girls neglecting prayer and reading, while both sexes pursue dime novels and poverty on awakening.
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Sam Jones
Washington University Law Class Headed by Daisy Barbee
In the law department at Washington University St Louis the graduating class includes thirty eight men and one woman Daisy Barbee. She leads the class by academic rank and stands at the top of her cohort.
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Law Department
Washington University
St. Louis
Daisy Barbee
Lillian Russell Seeks Advice on Riches in Papers
A note seeks guidance from Lillian Russell on methods to get rich, asking her to send several suggestions. The request appears in the periodical pages as a reader query to the noted figure.
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Lillian Russell
Lillian
Chaotic Month Foretold For Local Church Picnic Scene
An editor in another state imagines a bizarre sequence of mishaps at church picnics. The forecast includes woodticks biting, a green worm slipping behind an organist, a tired minister seeking pickles and chicken, a punctured tire, a fainting old maid, a yellow jacket, and a baby hurt on a swing as the infant class naps, all leading to a “lovely time.”
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Chicago
Oklahoma
Temple Houston
Jack Love
Love
Alexander
Texas
Andrea Tick
Senator Houston
Senator
Gen
Sam Houston
Republic of Texas
Ed Jennings
Woodward
Jennings
John
Court House
Houston
John Jennings
Booth
Shakespeare
Temple
Edgar Jones
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Bacon
Rarity and Distribution of Old U S Banknotes
The article notes a single unissued $10,000 United States note kept as a specimen in the treasury. It details three $5,000 greenbacks with two in the treasury and one possibly misplaced in a bank vault. It adds that $1,000 notes are numerous.
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United States
Treasury
American Napoleon Plunges McKinley Toward Waterloo
The cognomen American Napoleon fits McKinley as he causes the American people distress and seems to be plunging toward his Waterloo.
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Napoleon
McKinley
Cyclone Forces Roof Damage and Yard Tangled by Storm
As a scare tactic the cyclone unsettles a man by ripping at his roof and tearing a cantling through shade trees in his yard, using weather as a nudge toward new resolutions.
Letters of Love Reach Troubled Household
A daughter finds letters from her father to her mother before their marriage. She reads them aloud with swapped names and hints of romance. The mother reacts with strong disgust and forbids involvement with the writer. The house then grows unnervingly silent as the letters are examined.
Indian girl adopted to prove women outrun men
A Chippewa girl adopted at age three by a Michigan farmer for his hobby of proving women can run faster than men is now nineteen, weighs 117 pounds, and has outrun every man she has raced.
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Michigan
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