Mystery Omaha Benefactor Anna Wilson Leaves City a Fortune
Miss Anna Wilson, once linked to Omaha’s notorious dive, dies at sixty leaving nearly $600,000 to charity through a city-wide trust. She also bequeaths $9,000 to Dan Allen’s brothers and donates her $75,000 emergency hospital to the city. Her life, shrouded in identity, spans frontiers, a square gambler, a famed library, and an upscale Kountze Place home.
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Omaha
Néb
Anna Wilson
Middle West
Miss Wilson
Union Pacific
Dan Allen
Allen
Alien
Kountze Place
Real Home for Scotty Back of Mansion in Death Valley Style
Walter Scott known as Death Valley Scotty plans a $35,000 Los Angeles home after buying two adjoining acres to mirror a Lacineyah Hills project. He deposits cash, vows a manly residence, and features a Death Valley replica acre in the rear with his burro Bihan to be turned loose.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Walter Scott
Death Valley
Suit Over Tights in Musical Farce Reaches Court
New York appellate division hears Henrietta Lee Morrison and husband sue Hurtig & Seamon for $6815 in wages after Miss Lee refused to wear tights as an American army officer. Producers provided skirts and a larger gown but Lee claims modesty required tights. case travels up from the Court of Appeals.
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New York
Appallate Division
Supreme Court
Henrietta Teo Morrison
Henrietta Lee
Hurtig & Seamon
Miss Lee
Lee
Morrison
Worft
New York Court of Appeals
Woman with shotgun frightens flirts on train near Huntington
Miss Emeritt Adkins of Leet in Lincoln County, West Virginia, faced down several men aboard a Guvan and Coal River railroad freight train as it neared her home. A double barrel shotgun rested on her porch amid herbs and tobacco, and she fired or threatened to fire during the confrontation.
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Huntington
W. Va
Emeritt Adkins
Leet
Lincoln County
Guvan
Coal River
Train crew gunplay ends as woman fires from porch
A woman on a porch fired at a train after a flirtatious exchange with a brakeman. Small shots wounded a brakeman on the train, the engineer accelerated the speed, and the woman fired again as the train sped away.
Comic Medical Ballad Smiles Through Aesculapius Reference
Fragment from a humorous verse set in a medical scene where a patient pleads for light verse over rigid notes. The speaker requests ragtime and comic songs to lift spirits, mentions quinine and antiseptic items, and imagines the doctor eschewing formal tools for playful performance. A damsel adds a modern aside about visiting a hairdresser.
Fate of a Reformer Fires Up Street Chat
A neighbor asks who the ambulance was called for this morning. The second neighbor replies Mr Tellumwhott. He was not hurt but suffered something like sunstroke. He had compiled rules to avoid it and overheated trying to persuade old Hardhead that his rules were right.
New Styles in a Blurred Tale Henry in a Brute
Mrs Juet seeks maternal sympathy over Henry’s cruel remark about her bonnet with cherries. The daughter sobs that he called the new hat “a boiled stringer” and tainted her mood with his sharp critique.
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Henry
The Ice Trust Warning Conversation
A wary, frightened man warns of the Ice Trust with a chilling, cautionary gaze. He struggles to speak through fear, noting the danger if the unnamed power grows unchecked.
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Ice Trust
Losing the Social Instinct
Celeste and Mrs Allison discuss social changes as Celeste moves out of high society routines. The talk covers dropping false hair and bridge clubs, suburban life, and Aunt Elvira’s upcoming Florida trip. The exchange weighs social appetite against comfortable leisure in a light, witty tone.
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Letus Gay
Logical Progress Breaks Chess Match Record
Fragmentary OCR reads like a brief local item noting a chess event. Names and places are unreadable, but hints of a game or club outcome appear. No clear date, participants, or result can be confirmed from the readable text.
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Nebraska
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Susegos
Gotham Court
Lingthop
Brison
Firea
Fred
Galen
Carol
Aesculapius
Johnnie
Little Brother
Big Sister
Eise
Celeste
Florida
Elvira
Emma
A. J
Loughby’s
W. R. Loughry & Co
Indiana County
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