Murderous Boxers End Romance in China Tragedy
The Boxers massacre in Paoting Fu near Pekin cut short the romance of two young Philadelphians. Dr Cortlandt Hodge and his wife Elsie Campbell Hodge, childhood sweethearts, had married on St Valentine’s Day and, after missionary work, faced a sad ending as the Boxer turmoil struck their lives in China.
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China
Tove
Young Hodge
Princeton
Bonnie Sinclair
Honoes
Bryn Mawr
St. Valentine's Day
Nso
Hodge
Paoting Fu
Pekin
Kaiser Prayers and War Sermon on Imperial Yacht
Emperor William on the royal yacht delivered a fiery sermon urging prayers and mobilization against China and Amalekites. He calls Brethren to strike into wild chaos with sword in hand and to rally volunteers and trained citizens for Europe’s defense. He frames God’s command as guiding a holy war and asserts prayers can cast the dragon banner into dust.
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Berlin
William
Amalek
God
Endless calls for mercy haunt a city judge’s days
Police judge Daly finds his work never ends as families seek releases from bonds. He is repeatedly approached at dawn downtown, at his law office, at the police station, and even at home by women asking him to influence or obtain clemency for husbands, sons, and brothers. The strain grows as cases and pleas pile up.
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Daly
Mitchell the Bowery Booze Thirst Monster
New York August 4 Thomas Mitchell on Blackwell's Island for 30 days for intoxication. He boasted of disposing a three gallon demi john and many quarts of wine in one night and planned a 380 day fast from alcohol. He joked the magistrate might have sentenced him to more to last the period.
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New York
Thomas Mitchell
Blackwell's Island
Mitchell
Bowery
Jim Jeffries
August Hummer
Rohrs, Meyer & Co
Boy Blown To Pieces In Dynamite Explosion
In Waterbury Connecticut on August 4 14 year old Joseph Phelan found a dynamite stick in a sewer trench. He tried to whittle and strike it with stones and a match, causing a massive blast that shattered windows three blocks away and reduced the boy to scattered remains near a telegraph pole.
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Waterbury
Conn
Joseph Phelan
Joseph
Orte
Was She Dreaming? Burglary Report At Baraboo
Miss Crissie Wright, a Wisconsin State university junior and railroad family daughter, awoke to see a man at her dresser taking money and jewelry. Police found no intruder. valuables remained untouched. She wonders if the event was real or a dream.
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Baraboo
Wis
Crissie Wright
State University
A. R. Smith
Miss Wright
Whistling Farmer Survives Bees While Plowing Oxen
Henry Fitch a young farmer in End Missouri invited danger by whistling as his two oxen plowed. A swarm of bees settled on the team and Fitch kept whistling until his mother used a tin pan to drive the bees away. The bees moved into a ready hive and the trio remained unharmed.
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End
Henry Fitch
Death
Fitch
Mrs. Fitch
Bride Waited 39 Years For Civil War Romance
In Mount Vernon Ohio a long delayed wedding unfolds after John Smith, 62, and Lucy Howard, 61, convert a wartime promise into marriage. Smith, a Confederate subaltern from Virginia, and Howard, Ohio sweetheart, kept correspondence and visits through 39 years of upheaval, famine and loss. The couple married after his mother’s death removed the barrier to their match.
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Mount Vernon
John Smith
Culpeper County
Virginia
Thomas Howard
Fredericktown
Lucy Howard
Smith
Miss Howard
Missouri
Ohio
Boy recalls abduction attempt after river boat lure
James T. Anderson, 14, of Chester, Pa., vanished for hours along the Delaware River after a stranger invited him for a boat ride. The man offered candy as lozenges, forced two into the boy’s mouth, and he later woke at home after stomach pumping and emetics.
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Chester
James T. Anderson
Charles Anderson
Anderson
Delaware River
Swindle over Chicago sidewalks unearthed on South Side
Police stopped a small force of men women and children tearing up plank sidewalks on Chicago's south edge. They had paid $5 to Wilson Mc Arthur for the right to use the walks as kindling. McArthur claimed to represent the owners who planned cement walks and wanted the planks removed.
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Chicago
Wilson McArthur
McArthur
Wild man with long hair haunts New Jersey woods
Police search Montclair area near New York for a giant wild man described as tall with long streaming hair. Evidence includes gnawed bones, animal remains, fire embers, and a crude club found near ashes as a posse combs the woods for the terrorizing figure.
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New York
Mont Clair
N. J
Virginia and Maryland Debate Negro Disfranchisement
In a Virginia meeting the push to disfranchise Black voters is described as excessive and violent rhetoric. The piece notes moblike excitement in cities, fears among Black residents, and rising white political fervor in the South. Washington’s Black community reacts with worry as whites imagine a solved race problem with lost ballots.
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Washington
Virginia
South
Maryland
Auto in Wild Race Beats Horse on West Side
In Chicago on August 4 a runaway horse pulling a delivery wagon sped through Adams Street while John E F Scully in an electric runabout halted his car, saved a woman and child, and chased the horse. He stopped the buggy, grabbed the bridle, and the wagon wrecked behind them.
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Chicago
Adams-st. John
Scully
Bull Treed Golfers at Lake Mahopac Links
A bull charged the Lake Mahopac golf club while New York players in red coats played. Lee Fink, a law student, freed himself by discarding his coat and cap, as others climbed trees to escape. J Lester Wallach waved his coat to deter the animal, while Louis Kalvin fled over a fence. Players plan to change clothes before resuming play.
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Lake Mahopac
Lake Golf Club
Lee Fink
Fink
J.lester Wallach
Brooklyn
Wallach
Louis Kalvin
Snake in Flour Bin Triggers Fatal Kitchen Encounter
In Sharon Pennsylvania on a hot day Mrs Isaac Jones lifting the flour bin cover released a yard long black snake into the kitchen. The reptile fled as she fought it with a club and killed it after a fierce struggle in the panicked home.
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Sharon
Isaac Jones
Little Hero Paul Smith Saves Three Boys in River
Paul Smith, 12, son of a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor in Trenton New Jersey, repeatedly rescued boys from drowning in four weeks. He dove into the Raritan canal and Delaware river to save a boy Floundering near Scarborough, another near a canal bridge, and a heavier companion. The Life-Saving Society of New Jersey may award him a medal though he is not eligible for membership due to age.
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Trenton
N. J
Paul Smith
William Smith
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coalport
Dewey
Paul
Raritan Canal
Charlie Scarborough
Tucker
Delaware River
Goat Blown Up by Dualin Cartridge at Lehigh Shaft
At Lehigh Valley Coal No 4 shaft Hazelton a widow Mrs Kitty McGlory herding goats saw a goat pick up a small package and begin chewing it a loud explosion followed and the goat was blown to pieces Investigators found the animal had bitten a dualin cartridge which discharged after being crushed in its jaws The incident occurred while goats grazed nearby and underscores the danger of unexploded cartridges in the area
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Hazelton
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Kitty McGlory
Floral Parade Promises Flowers On 50 Automobiles
Max Hyman promotes the floral parade at the fall festival promising 50 horseless wagons will join the celebration. He urges all four hundred residents to attend in decorated sky-scraper Stanhope bicycles and vehicles. Fresh flower samples arrive and smell nearly fragrant.
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Max’ Hyman
Hyman
Notice of license to sell on premises in Indianapolis Ward 7
Jacob Crone gives notice to Seventh ward voters that he will apply at the September term 1900 of Marion county Board of Commissioners for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premise drinking rights. The business place is 218 E Wabash St in a four story brick building on part of lot 10 square 43 Smith heirs subdivision Center township Indianapolis Indiana.
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Seventh Ward
Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
State of Indiana
Wabasi St
Smith Heirs
Indianapolis
Indiana
E’ Wabash St
Jacob Crone
Liquor License Request for Indianapolis Premises 524 E Washington St
A notice from a Marion County township seeks Board of County Commissioners approval at the September 1900 term to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises consumption. The business is 524 E Washington St in ward 7, Center Township, Indianapolis, in a first floor room fronting south on Washington St. The applicant also seeks pool table privileges in the same room.
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Seventh Ward
Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of
County Commissioners
Washington St
Outlet H
Indianapolis
Liquor License Application by William F. Kleis in Indianapolis
Voters of the Eleventh ward Center township Marion county Indiana report he will apply to the Board of Commissioners at September term 1909 for license to sell spirituous malt and intoxicating liquors in less than five gallons with on premises drinking allowed. The business premises are 325 Capitol Ave S in a two story frame building lot 14 Griffiths subdivision square 95 Ward 11 Indianapolis.
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Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Capitol Ave
Griffith’s
Indianapolis
WM. F. Kleis
Fragmented schedule item shows mixed times and initials
The readable portion lists a sequence of time slots from 7.00 am to 10.35 am and 7.20 pm to 10.5 pm with initials C and Mich ex, vt, D, Chi, Mpm, and L porte, indicating a damaged timetable segment with unclear context and entities.
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Mich
Chi
L’porte Sp
City Ticket Office at No 1 E Washington Street
The route city ticket office for C C and St. L R Big Four operates from No 1 East Washington Street, serving passengers and coordinating train tickets and schedules.
Cleveland line schedule details and connections
Train times and connections for the Cleveland line show Anderson accommodations from 6 45 am to 2 50 pm and 4 50 pm to 9 25 am for Clev and N Y Bos routes. Additional listings include Benton Harbor and Wabash accommodations, St Louis services, and various transfers with limited and express runs.
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Anderson Ac’mdat
Anderson Ac
N.Y
É Bos
Bos
Boston Sim’t
Boston “Knickerbocker
Benton Harbor Line
Benton Harbor
Wabash
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SNG
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Peterson
N. Peensylvania
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Addreags Depurator Medical Institute
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Delaware St
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College-ave
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Julian & Dick Ohberg
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Chicago Express
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway
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Decatur & Western Ry
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Cleveland Line
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St. Louis
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Champaign
Peoria & Bloom
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Columbus & Spring
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Lafayette
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