A Judge’s Story of Ambition and a Murder Trial
The judge narrates a Western New York murder trial from 49 years earlier and reflects on ambition. A young suspect faces a panel where Mary Peterkin’s motives and the pistol with initials M. P. emerge, signaling a shifting tale of guilt and memory.
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of EnoWa
New York
New York City
John Peterkin
Peterkin
Mary Peterkin
Hascall Renidder
Widcew
Judge Blank
Horace Dash
M. P
Cash
Yves
Maury Peterkin
Dan
Horave Disk
Deafness Cure Claim and Kruger Family Link
Continued on seventh page presents an advert claiming Hall’s Catarrh Cure can restore hearing, offering a $100 reward for an uncured case. It also details a humorous note on President Kruger’s marriage to the Du Plessis family, referencing General Joubert and the Kruger lineage with 16 children by the second wife.
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Hall
F. J. Gummy & Co
Toledo
Druggiste
Richelieu
Dom Pral
Cardinal Richelieu
Kruger
Cardinal
du Plessis
Skruger
Capa
Dutch East India Company
Sar
Joubert
Kruge
London Academy
Grain-O Advertisement Emphasizes Health Benefits
A vintage ad urges coffee drinkers to switch to Grain-O claiming it tones the stomach aids digestion and strengthens nerves. It asserts Grain-O contains nourishment and contrasts adverse coffee effects. Packages priced 15 and 25 cents.
Still Waking Pilgrims Stranded After Palestine Quest
A Missouri led band of religious enthusiasts who sold possessions to witness Christ's second coming in Palestine are now penniless, sick, and crowded in a single house. Led by Mrs Ida Dickinson and her husband, they followed a tract titled The City of the Great King, drawing farmers from Belham township Missouri and Michigan. They remain hopeful despite hardship as they await the Lord's return, per a New York Tribune report.
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Missouri
Palestinas
Christ
Ida Dickinson
Great King
Belham Township
Michigan
Jerusalem
Whitewash dispute sparks sharp rebuke from patron
An irate patron berates workers for whitewashing while another quips about needing sackcloth and ashes. The reply admits willingness if coal funds the effort, reflecting a humorous exchange captured by the Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Advertisements Dominate Manila Freedom Paper Ads
The Manila Freedom paper highlights liquor ads as dominant, with Saddlerock restaurant advertised as premier and staffed by American chefs. Other venues include Japanese restaurants, a $4.50 tailored suit offer, a painless dentist, a typewriter repairer, lawyers, tattooists, a jewellery dealer with English, a soap works selling brandy, and English and stenography schools. Amusements show the Manila museum offering a three-legged, five-toed living woman as a draw.
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Manila
Freedom
Greater America
Archipelago
New England States
Saddlerock
P. Blane
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal congress opens in St Louis with open discussion
Bishop John H. Vincent opened the church congress in St Louis with devotional exercises led by Rev. Horace E. Warren of Denver. The open parliament covered The Twentieth Century Fund The Message of the Church to Men of Culture Ordering of Public Worship and The Religion of Childhood. Attendance was small. Ex Postmaster F T Anthony of Promise City Iowa touts Mystic Cure for Rheumatism as a top seller.
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St. Louis
John H. Vincent
D. D
Methodist Episcopal Church Congress
Horace E. Warren
Denver
Twentieth Century Fund
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Old Peterkin
Mary
Misa Peterkin
Axel Kier
Gordonville
E Girardeau Co
Wei
Millwood
Anderson
Millwoon
James Anderson
Inprana
Mas Firances Campbell
Wwe
Daugherty Bro’s
Indiana
W. Moore
Homer City
Cascarets
Wingsnt
M. E. Church Congress
F. T. Anthony
Promise City
W. L. Stewart
Stewart & Clark
Philadelphia Street
Jjant
Indiana, Pa
C. Watson
Ferane Keener
Watson
G J. Feit
Farmers’ Bank
Jrom P. Elkin
Elkin
Ohn H. Pierce
J. M. Cunningham Building
Philadelphia Streat
Ljand
J. Telford
Sutton Building
Fernest Stewart
Oan L. Getty
George W. Hood
Betrick
Hand
Ohw
N. Banes
Attorney-Atlaw
Hanss Samuel Cunningham
John &. Fisher
M. Maran
Court Place
Farmers Bank Building
Asanly Indians
Farmera Bank
NEW
C. H. Moore
Indiana House
John Houe
Central Hotel
John W. Wray
Prop'r
Clawson House
W. H. Clawson
James
Clarr
Isaac Geirrira
Corner
Fifth
H B. Buterbaugh
N. F. Ehrenfeld
South Sixth Street
Crossman
Justice OF the Peace
Farmers Bank
Court House
Amadé
Sapolio
Tam
Elgin
Waltham
Hammond
Edison
Jeweler & Optician
A. W. Wilson
D. M. Caldwell
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Frantz Bros
Rossmoyne
Penn’a
Dr. Peal
Daugherty Bros
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