Lanky Bob Strikes In Scandal After Stage Kiss Fight
Washington April 17. On Tuesday night during The Honest Blacksmith at the Academy, Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons punched Miss Jesse Ralph after a onstage kiss and caress scene. Police arrested Bob Fitzsimmons. his manager arranged for Mrs. Fitzsimmons to depart by midnight train to New York to avoid court.
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Washington
Robert Fitzsimmons
Honest Blacksmith
Academy
Jesse Ralph
Miss Ralph
Five Affidavits Target Royal Hammer in Police Court
Police court prosecutor Collins filed five affidavits against Royal Hammer known as the ice man. Four allege he acted as an agent for lotteries and one accuses him of advertising lotteries in a weekly paper. Collins gathered 136 tickets and monthly lottery reports, citing the same advertisement listing Hammer as agent for Mexican based hay firms and dock companies. Hammer is represented by Marshall and Seyfried, Pierce Norton, and David K. Partlow.
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Collins
Royal Hammer
Birice Hammer
Hammer
Marshall &Seyfried
Pierce Norton
David K. Partlow
New York Snow Drift Traps Deputy Sheriff in April
Deputy sheriff Penshall drove to Bristol on a snowy April day and became stuck in snow drifts. His vehicle was abandoned, forcing him to walk two miles in the wintry conditions.
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New York
Canaidainga
N. Y
Penshall
Bristol
Pocketbook Lost After Thirteen-Block Walk in City
Philadelphia report notes R. E. Hyman lost a pocketbook containing $18 on April 13. He walked 13 blocks to a newspaper office and placed a lost advertisement of 18 words. The book has not been recovered.
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Philadelphia
R. E. Hy- Man
City Life Notes From Unclear Era
A busy city page reports Mrs Snider a smallpox patient on McIntyre alley apoplexy Tuesday afternoon. Supt Quigley orders bicycle police to halt all vehicles and issue final license warnings before Monday amid looming arrests. Mrs Anna Dinkins of Duncan street attempted suicide at the White river and was held at the police station after leaving the insane asylum twice. Attorney John G Milburn, Buffalo exposition president, says Indiana legislature’s funding gap won’t stop the expo from dedicating Indiana day with the governor present and the event opening May unknown.
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Snider
McIntyre Alley
Quigley
Anna Dinkins
Duncan Sr
White River
Manning
Griffin
John G. Milbur
Indiana
Coffee ruins and Postum cures claim by Topeka man
Chas Worrall of Topeka declares coffee harmed his health causing headaches nausea and fatigue. He credits quitting coffee and using Postum with recovery, noting improved weight and clearer thoughts after avoiding coffee.
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Harvey Worrall
Wood to Meet With President on Cuban Affairs
Gen. Wood will visit Washington to confer with the president and Secretary Root on Cuba. The Cuban commission will likely be given little consideration unless exceedingly submissive as the president pushes responsibility onto Congress and insists only a new act of Congress can modify the Platt amendment.
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Commission
Congress
Perms Co
Washington
Gen. Wood
Root
Tle
Cuba
St Louis & San Francisco Buy Mexican Central
On Wall Street newsrooms stated that the St. Louis and San Francisco Company has acquired the Mexican Central company. The Standard Oil interests are believed to have engineered the deal and were linked to the purchase.
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New York
Wall St
St. Louis & San Francisco Company
Mexican Central Company
Standard Oil
Tehuantepec Rail Line Aims Interoceanic Freight Route
London April 17 report: a new Tehuantepec extension across Mexico from gulf to Pacific is under construction by S Pearson & Co under a Mexican government lease for 60 years. Two thousand workers, completion in four years, with two new harbors at each terminus. Freight priced at ten shillings per ton, claimed cheaper than the Nicaragua canal’s projected rates to yield 4 percent on investment.
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London
Mexico
Gulf
Pacific
S. Pearson & Co
Atlantic and Pacific Termini
Nicaragua Canal
Lake Shore opens apprentice school in Elkhart shops
The Lake Shore railroad has established a school for apprentices at its Elkhart shops. The Columbus Y M C A marks its silver anniversary on May 1. Nationwide railroad mileage totals 187 781 miles with J Pierpont Morgan controlling 86 100 miles.
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Lake Shore
Elkhart
Columbus, O
United States
J. Pierpont Morgan
Paris Girl Exposes 125 Needles from Body
Miss Julienne Landrieux, a servant in Paris, had 125 needles removed from her arms, hands, feet, chest, ear lobe, and eyelids after a physician used forceps. She recalls swallowing needles as a child, and doctors note the unprecedented nature of needles entering the body through the stomach area and near the skull. Two newspapers corroborate the tale.
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Nedles
Julienne Landrieux
Births and deaths in local records with multiple names
Birth notices list Robert and Lizzie Ritchie as parents of a boy at 241 W Morris St and several other couples with newborns. Death notices name Fuseli D Caffey of 12 W McCarty St with pneumonia and Katie Russell with aortic trouble. Numerous marriages listed among residents in the area.
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Robert
Lizzie Ritchie
Fuseli D. Caffey
W. McCarty
Local Repair and Addition Jobs Listed Across Several Addresses
A list of residential work and additions with associated costs appears for multiple homes in locations such as 2911 N Capitol Ave, 2421 Talbott Ave, 2208 Depot, Downey Street near East Street, 922 S East Street, 23 W Thirteenth Street, Twenty first and Bellefontaine Streets, 1011 13 S Minois Street, 2538 N Delaware Street, and N Capitol Ave between 33rd and 34th Streets. Projects include additions, repairs, and frame-house work with prices ranging from 75 to 1950 dollars.
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D. F
R. B. Ringer
Jacob Kirch
Downey-st
East-st
Louis G. Ruth
S. East-st
William L. Higgins
W. Thirteenth St
Robert H. Matheson
Twenty-first
Bellefontaine Sts
Former president Cleveland seeks Tyringham trout spot
In Winsted Connecticut on April 17 former president Cleveland, a keen fisher, is negotiating for Callahan place in Tyringham Massachusetts where a fine trout stream offers quiet angling. He is expected in Tyringham this week. He warns others not to blame the press for any trouble.
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Winsted, Conn
Cleveland
Callahan Place
Tyringham
Mass
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted as Cure for Catarrh
Authorities claim catarrh is a blood disease and local applications fail. A constitutional remedy, Hood's Sarsaparilla, purifies the blood to reduce mucous inflammation and halt discharges from nose throat stomach bowels and more. Endorsed by sufferers like Maup Dean of Indianapolis who says it cured his nasal catarrh.
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Hood
Clearance sale prices on wool and leather goods in 25c format
The listing presents a dense catalog of fabrics and footwear with clearance sale prices. It highlights various wool textiles such as 25c per yard items like crepe de laine and chantillys, along with all-wool plaids and Persian stripes. Footwear and leather accessories including dongola lace, patent leather, and satin calf are offered at reduced rates.
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Botany
Lyons
Smyrna
Axminster
Guardians' Sale of Real Estate in Marion County Indiana
Guardian of John Moore announces at Harding Hovey & Wiltsie office a private sale of Moore's Marion county real estate. Six parcels include sections 16 21 15 22 and Moore subdivision land totaling about 118 acres with specific tracts and erosion. Sale begins April 23 191 at 10 am, continues daily until sold, with mortgages subject to approval and 1901 taxes.
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Circuit Court
Marion County
Indiana
John Moore
Harding, Hovey & Wiltsie
Law Building
Indianapolis
Ind
Eagle Creek
Moore
Moore & Taylor
Haughville
Union Trust Company of
John F. M‘clelland
Japanese Matings and China Matslin inlay details
The note describes Japanese matings with fine weaving and inlaid stripes and mentions China matslin as very heavy with quality indicated.
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China
Grain and hay prices in market listings
Market notes show wheat steady with No 2 red at 70c and 70c milling freight. Corn prices list various white and mixed types mostly 34% to 45c, oats steady with No 2 white around 29 to 34c, hay steady at 12.75 to 13.25 per load, and repetitions mentioning Wheat No 3 and a Ted car shipment.
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Timothy
Ted
Mixed No 2 oats and timothy hay cars total
The report lists oats No 2 mixed one car total and hay No 2 timothy one car plus No 2 prairie one car totaling two cars.
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Hay
Timothy
Prairie
Market notes on lambs and sheep prices
The document lists price ranges for lambs and sheep across categories from good to common and medium, including stockers and feeding sheep, with figures in dollars per hundredweight and per head. It notes Bucks prices and various price lines, indicating fluctuating values and market activity.
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Jesse
Bob Smashess Boor
the Ice Man
Jonah
City Life
Bruiser
Chas. Worrall
Topeka
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Wood
Exican Central
Railroads
Lendrieux
Paris
Deatas
Oscar J. Barthel
Minnie J. Taylor
Harry Plotkein
Esther Praskofsky
Rudolph Murath
Louise C. Bossert
Michael J. Sweeny
Agnes McAndrew
Martin J. Cain
Grace M. Janison
Aaron L., Buchanan
Sarah E. Fleener
John Fisher
Myrtie Harlan
William J. Russell
Minnie Schmidt
Pembroke W. Welsh
Florence P. Smith
Frederick Kinley
Priscella Rogers
H. A. Adams
Margaret DeMotté
Hilliard R. Bassett
Mary O. Bale
Charles McDaniel
Lillian M. Short
Frederick W. Kipp
Lena CC
Jacob Kirsch
N. Capitol-ave
BE. C. Perkins
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Louisine Mervillieux
Nena
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Peerless
India
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WM. H. Block CO
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Guardians
Hes
Sea Island
Monarch
Ise Air Lease
Wwe
GEM
Leader
Srethse Steres
Pike Partienound
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W. Washington Street
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Pillsbury
California
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Massachusetts Ave
Noble
Indiana Ave
Senate
Washington St
West
1St Cor. Wass
New Jersey
Delaware
Ohio
E. St. Clair
Mass.ave
Shelby St
Fountain
L. A. Jackson
Nded
H. Lieber
City Grain Market
Chicago
Young Americas
Union Stock Yards
Union Stockyards
Alvean
Lee
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Interstate Stock Yards
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