Jim Wilson and the Turkey Night Capture
Jim Wilson, a lifelong thief with a game leg, plots a holiday theft to buy a turkey for his daughter Alice. After a tense encounter with Capt. on the NYPD, he faces a choice between six months’ help or jail, and the captain offers a plan to protect Alice while Jim faces trial.
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Jim Wilson
Jim
Wilson
New York
Chicago
Alice
Limpy
Cap
York
Sing Sing
Jan
Liberty
Grand Old Man of Japan hailed in diplomatic history
Hirobumi Tto is described as the Grand Old Man of Japan, akin to Peter the Great for Russia and Richelieu for France under Louis XIII, in the era’s diplomatic history.
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Hirobumi Tto
Japan
Peter the Great
Russia
Richelieu
France
Louis XIII
Woman who died in Pennsylvania left twenty five children
Mrs Samuel Smartwood died in Pennsylvania at age 47 leaving a large family. She married at fourteen and her first child was born shortly after she was fifteen. The family included only two sets of twins.
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Alice
Jim
Mississippi
New York
Chicago
State Street
Sing Sing
Apa
Samuel Smartwood
Pennsylvania
Women Rally in Richmond to Oust Corrupt Mayor
A Richmond Indiana election center stage saw women marching to end eight years of machine politics. Mrs G A Krollenberg led 1200 women demanding honest governance and decency, contributing to the incumbent mayor's defeat and inspiring similar activism in New York for Jerome’s reform campaign.
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G. A. Krollenberg
Richmond
Indiana
New York
Jerome
Reform
The
Boston Herald
Iits
Justice Jewer
Grover Cleveland
Women in Philadelphia mobilize for reform in wards
The text highlights Philadelphia women organizing across forty two wards to promote honest city administration and anti graft reform. It cites speakers Mrs Rudolf Blankenburg Mrs Owen Wister and Miss Jennings and cites Toledo comment praising women's public role. It then covers federal military anthem provisions and flag observance guidance for official occasions and actions at forts and coast defenses.
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Philadelphia
Rudolf Blankenburg
Owen Wister
Miss Jennings
Weaver
Toledo
Quaker City
Eart
Massachusetts Milliners Warned Over Song Bird Plumes
The State Game Commission warns milliners across Boston and Massachusetts that laws prohibiting the use of song and insectivorous bird plumage in hats will be vigorously enforced. Possession or display of such birds or feathers will lead to arrest, with penalties set by the new law.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Commonwealth
State Game Commission
Notos
HEWES
Potter
Lincoln St
Mass
We Are the Greatest Letter Writers
The United States sent 4109 million letters in 1904, about the total of Great Britain and Germany combined. France sent 844 million and no other country surpassed 500 million. Germany led in postal cards with 1161 million compared with 70 million from the United States.
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United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Medical note on a fatal anaesthetic trial in a hospital
A medical note describes a black patient in a hospital who agreed to a free treatment and anaesthetic trial by a local physician. The patient died about a minute before the operation began. the procedure was stopped. Physicians concluded death would have occurred under any anaesthetic, with or without surgery.
Poem Echoes On Aesthetics Of A Mustached Lips
Prentice remarks that the poetry a handsome girl favors is the one written with a moustache on her lips. The remark frames beauty and wit with a lighthearted, social tone.
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Prentice
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Dian
Wuaanm Reginald Mackrille
Sual
Woman IN Politics
Army
Columbia Novelty CO
Dept
East
Holiday Presents
Marlin PireArms Co
New Haven
Conn
National Photographic Chemical Company
St. and Penn Ave
Washington, D. C
Ernest
Haskell
Eugene P. Lyie, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Maximilian
Mexico
Jacqueline
St. Louis Republic
N. Y
Globe
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
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