Beggars in Hoboken House Illegal Mutilations Alleged
Neighbors recount Austrian matron Tucia Miskulin who runs a Hoboken boarding house where about 14 professional beggars allegedly maim themselves to gain sympathy and money. Witnesses describe finger injuries and burns used to secure aid as she defends her residents and their acts.
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New York
Tucia Miskulin
Hoboken
Recorder's Court
Adams St
John J. Fallon
Miskulin
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Hoboken House
Mato Modric
Madric
Modric
Assemblyman Fallon
Austria
Hoosierisms and local tales mixed in Indiana notes
A collage of items from Indiana communities including Chalmers Hadley joining the Philadelphia Record staff, a Rossville school board rule holding parents responsible for damage, Pineapple crop issues, Wabash coroner candidate using bold campaign cards, Chesterton carrier concerns, East Chicago lawsuit, humor about Indiana politicians, and the death of Posey County native John B. Craig, veteran journalist and St. Louis policeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossville
Worner Jones
Wabash
Wabash County
John B. Craig
Posey County
St. Louis
Greek Youth Driven to Insanity by Debt Letter
Georg Czvara a young Greek of Mahanoy City Pennsylvania was driven insane after being dunned for a debt owed by his mother in their native land. A board of examiners ordered his removal to the county alms house following the distress and loss of reason.
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Mahanoy City
Georg Czvara
A Mistaken Vocation The Rose Darrell Story Ends in Engagement
In a Darrel home Rose, a 23 year old determined to become a physician, faces Frank Gordon’s scorn for women doctors. After a theater fire scare leaves Frank injured, Rose tends him and they grow close. Though she abandons medicine, their bond deepens, and three weeks later they announce their engagement.
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Darrel
Rose
Frank Gordon
Rose Darrel
Dr. Selby
Shakespere
Frank
Miss Darrell
Rose Darrell
Old Guard Scattered as Taggart Era Ends
A retrospective on former city officials once central in Taggart’s regime now living ordinary lives. Taggart runs a hotel at French Lick while aides like Nels Hyde, Mahoney, McMillen, and Bert Spencer drift into new jobs and towns. Other ex-officials pursue varied careers from sculpture to crockery sales and legal work as the old political machine fades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taggart
French Lick
Nels Hyde
Mahoney
McMillen
Columbia Club
Albert Sahm
Myron King
Plainfield
Bert Spencer
Board of Works
Bert
Taggart’s
Jacob Dunn
Bookwalter
John Geckler
Indianapolis Paint and Color Company
August Tamm
Geckler
Old Wheel Horse
Indiana Tribune
Zearing
Old Health Board
J. M. Sullivan
Terre Haute
Jake Buennagel
Tom Harrold
Harrold
Buennagel
Jerry Kelly
Controller's Office
Denison
Ed Davis
The
Safety Board
Court House
Judge Daly
Stubbs
Frank Ross
E. D. Clark
George F. Kuhns
Chicago
Jim Quigley
Tom Hedian
George Herpick
Jeup
Jeup, Moore & Minor
William Hall
A. H. More
John Merrick
Conshohocken School Board Votes by Phone
In Norristown Pennsylvania February the school board chaired by President Stiles issued monthly salary orders for Conshohocken teachers using a telephone vote from an absent member. The member, though at home, was considered present once connected, allowing the board to pass the payroll actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Conshohocken
Stiles
Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup Promoted As Superior Remedy
An advertisement touts Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as highly effective for coughs colds and both adults and children. It claims particular value for croup and whooping cough.
Merchants' Lunch and Price Book Covers Offered
Itemized list notes Merchants' Lunch at 25c at Union Station Restaurant and loose leaf price book covers with flat opening in all sizes. WM. B. BURFORD of Indianapolis, Ind. markets these goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Try Merchants
Union Station
WM. B. Burford
Indianapolis, Ind
The Indian and the Northwest book review
A handsomely illustrated 115 page volume on settlement history of the great northwest. Features half tone engravings of Black Hawk Sitting Bull Red Cloud and other chiefs plus ten colored map plates tracing tribes back to 1600. priced 25 cents postpaid by W B Kniskern Chicago Illinois.
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Great Northwest
Black Hawk
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Custer
W. B. Kniskern
Fifth Ave
Chicago, Ill
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Monticello
Mls
Chas
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Henry J. Huder
Washington-st
Frank H. Carter
Massachusetts Ave
Alabama
Illinois
McLean Place
Eagle Pharmacy
Fletener-ave
Occidental Pharmacy Linois and Wash
Occidental Pharmacy Linois and Wash-sta, 7, Ed. Hoshour
College-ave
Erdelmeyer & Son
Chas. G. Mueler
Virginia-ave
Chas. F. Koch
W. G. Merrill
L. A. Gable
Dlinois
Sixteenth-st
Lambert's Drug Store
E. Washington-st
Wm. F. Werner
Eenth-st
Chalmers Hadley
Earlham College
Philadelphia Record
South Bend
Chesterton
Lake Michigan
Ottelia Sxrebs
Case Chapman
Crown Point
Indiana
Sam
Sue
Frank Love
Bedford
Love
Johann Maria Farina
EAU DE Cologne
Europe
Japan
India
South Africa
Australia
Ann St
N. Y. Iy
H. P. Wasson & Co
Four Winds
Fenner
Hc. Cine
Boston
Pennsylvania St
T. P. Emerson
Golden Monitor
K&k
K&km
Manv Selle Acey and Company
Elphia
George R. White
Troubadour
Toulousains
Sisters Gilmore
McPhee and Hill
Gardner & Maddern
A. O. Duncan
Amelia Pepe Caren
Dancing Dawsons
Biograph
SUN
Empire Theater
Matinee Dalily
the Devil’s Daughter
REILLY @ Woods
Telephone
Madison Avenue
A.b.meyer&co
Madison Ave
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