Man Persists on Bridge Edge as Police Rescue Across River
A Chicago man identified as H d Walker stood on the Brooklyn Bridge railing and leapt at a car near the promenade. Police officer Fitzgerald was killed in the process, and Walker resisted capture as others rushed to aid. he was finally restrained after a ten minute struggle and later confessed his name. He said he came from Chicago after a two day hunger strike and planned to end his life. Local officers searched the East River for Fitzgerald's body but found none.
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Alker
Farrell
Isinton
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Ward Conlon
Fitz
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Altoona
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Wabash Avenue
Dog Messenger Saves Woman in New Jersey Farm Case
A dog tied near Mrs. Woodbury’s farm in Rahway carried a note from a patient to Dr. C. Holmes in New Jersey. The note asked for immediate medicine as Mamma was at the well and ill. The doctor arrived and treated Mrs. Woodbury, crediting the prompt messenger dog for enabling timely care. The Woodbury dogs are trained to carry parcels and never lost a package.
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N. J
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Andrew
Woodbury
Rahway
Joe
Mamma
Rats Save Woman in Elevator Crash at Planters Hotel
Laura Wind of Dixon Missouri survived a wreck at the Planters hotel in St Louis when three rats laid across her head served as a cushion against a heavy wire cable that crushed the car roof. Wind, seventeen, was knocked insensible with a gash to the head but lived. doctors believed she would recover and she credits the rats with saving her life. She remained conscious enough to sit up later with the rats on her coverlet and vowed to never part with them.
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Mise Laura Wind
Dixon
Planters
St. Louie
Gard
Miss Wind
Capital
Traded Girl For a Job Exposed in Divorce Case
In Los Angeles Mai 49n witness Mai Judson W Coe a 50 year old man wrote letters offering a 16 year old daughter in exchange for a railroad position in 1902 with W H Smith of the Illinois Central at Waterloo. Mrs They Gora Coe brought the suit for divorce after an interlocutory decree. Coe had been married three times before and a fourth is dead. Judge Bordwell halted further remarks declaring the man a nuisance in the nostrils of the people.
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Mai
Judson W. Coe
Railroad
W. Smith
Trmnois Central
Waterloo
Gravedigger's Ill Timed Slumber at Freeland Cemetery
A grave digging mishap at St. Jerome Cemetery in Freeland Pennsylvania ends with a digger dozing in the coffin while the funeral party watches. Kiernan directs an assistant to remove the rough casket box until Bosack sits up startled, prompting questions from mourners.
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St. Jerome
Freeland
Mike Borark
Daderr
Kiernan
Are YOU a trust buster YOUR SELF
A reader scolds a critic of trusts for attacking mail order stores as harmful to small towns. He argues people should support local merchants and questions the reader's consistency for mailing from a city post office. He calls for anti trust diligence at home.
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Chicago Goat Gets a Jag On
John Aranson expelled a drunken goat from his saloon at 8911 Commercial avenue with police aid. He had sheltered the animal in a shed at the rear after befriending it when frozen. Aranson thought to tend whisky and quinine to his ill wife, but the goat toppled a glass, drank, and the police helped sober the animal before it wandered toward a drug store.
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John Aranson
Commercial Avenue
Chicago
Aranson
Aronson
Billy
Seven Lean Years and Nile Famine Tied to Genesis
An article notes Brugsch Bey deciphered hieroglyphics linking a seven year Nile drought to Genesis. It asserts 1700 B C marks the biblical seven years of famine and pestilence, depicted in deciphered inscriptions.
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Oesterreichlache Woebenachtitt
Brugsch
Nile
First National Bank of Cherry Tree Strength Quote
Lot for sale with eight rooms, city water and bath, well water, fruit, barn, buggy shed, chicken house and coal house. Convenient to school and railroad station. Inquire 218 South Tenth Street Indiana Pennsylvania.
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S. Tenth Street
Indiana
When Did the Democratic Party First Appear in Politics
The text traces the Democratic Party's roots to the republic’s beginnings with Jefferson as founder, notes its first national appearance under the name in 1828 with Andrew Jackson’s election, and explains shifts from Jeffersonian ideals to the later party structure while linking modern Republicans to Hamilton and the Federalists.
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Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson
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