Heilprin Predicts North Pole Discovery This Century
Philadelphia geologist Professor Angelo Heilprin argues the North Pole will be found within 25 years or by century's end. He cites Arctic exploration advances, richer data from explorers, and potential breakthroughs in meteorology and ocean currents as key reasons for an early discovery.
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Polar exploration risks and methods toward the pole
The author weighs methods for reaching the pole by ships and sledges with life support knowledge. He notes polar deaths are few relative to expeditions, questions whether a single or multiple expeditions will succeed, and cites Andree’s balloon fate as discouraging aerial polar ventures.
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Andree
Will Rejoin Husband After Long Estrangement in War
Mary and William Whitney of Green Bay will reunite on a South African battlefield after seven years of separation. He left Green Bay as a locomotive engineer, later joined British forces in the Kaffir rifles during the Boer War, while she remained in Green Bay eking out life. Reconciliation came by mail and she set out alone to join him overseas.
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UGLY PRISONERS HAUNT LOCAL JAIL
Police report a spree of “in sanity” prisoners this week. Geo Mar cy, 28, attacked Officer Schroeder with a knife and was sent to the asylum. Fred Russ, 38, a harness maker, arrived with a long harness knife and warned he might act if provoked. James Jordan, 48, from Richmond, drunken and noisy, was confined downstairs. doctors blame chronic ugliness worsened by drink, noting his long police and workhouse record and desire for asylum placement.
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Schroeder
Fred G. Russ
Jas. Jordan
Richmond
Remarkable pension case in Toledo involving widow of cavalryman
In Toledo on January 18 a remarkable pension tale emerges. C Z Anderson, Sixth United States Cavalry, died by a leather watch chain accident alleged to have been worn by his wife. The coroner's verdict cites death by choking, while Mrs. Anderson claimed a drunken frenzy led to the action and she protected her life.
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Toledo
Pension Department
Sixth United States Cavalry
C. Z. Anderson
Unintentional Strangling Ends Soldier’s Life
A wife clutched her husband’s chain, then phonetrailing events led to his death. She released him after exhaustion, and neighbors found the soldier dead minutes later. Authorities determined the wife unintentionally strangled him.
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Degradation of great cities and remedies discussed in talk
Felix Adler, speaking at Carnegie Hall to the Society for Ethical Culture, labeled New York Philadelphia and Chicago as sites where burglars run banks and city law is controlled by those who profit from crime. He argued reform must depose corrupt power including bosses, corporations, and crime networks, and end the supply lines that sustain the boss system.
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Red Light
Chicago Faces 36 Inches of Smallpox Cases, Wears Masks
Wire notes whispers of a smallpox case count reaching 36 inches in Chicago, prompting health warnings. Reports say the American League struggles to secure a Philadelphia ballpark site while social democrats eye bus tours to spread socialism. G. C. Lockwood of Terre Haute is authorized to receive contributions for machine purchases.
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Death of South Broad Way business man Marsh
MifMin Marsh of South Broad Way Island dies at age eighty three after illness. founder of the Wheeling stogie, he built a country wide tobacco business with son William M. Marsh and son in law Charles H. Watkins joining M Marsh & Son. A Methodist, his golden wedding in April 1899 united his children grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Louisville
Million Dollar Hawaiian Heiress Marries Texas Foreman’s Son
Miss Mamie Smith of Honolulu worth a million dollars wed Emmet Burke son of a Texas Pacific section foreman in Clarksville near Paris Texas. Smith’s father David Smith helped push annexation to the United States and died last year leaving her heiress to the estate. The Rosalie born bride arrived a month ago and soon fell for the penniless groom after a brief engagement with a San Francisco lawyer.
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Opened grave photo shocks Hartford crowd
In South Manchester a mother had a grave opened to photograph her infant daughter buried a month earlier. A photographer disinterred the coffin with town approval and produced a lifelike composite portrait, shocking onlookers.
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Saloonist Sues Jung Brewing for Malicious Prosecution
In circuit court Charles Borman sues Jung Brewing Co for damages alleging malicious prosecution. The company claims it believed he planned to move his property out of state to dodge a debt and had him arrested.
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Jung Brewing Company
Remarkable Cure Alleged for Stomach Trouble by Stuart's Tablets
A physician reports a man with chronic dyspepsia improving after using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. After four boxes, the patient regained weight and lost acidity and bloating. The tablet claims include harmless fruit and vegetable essences with pepsin and Golden Seal, sold widely for 3 cents a package.
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Stuart
Marshall, Mich
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Stuart Co
Marsahl Mich
Train Schedule Fragments for Benton Harbor to Chicago Area
Fragments show multiple train arrivals and departures with destinations like St Louis Peoria Bloomington Champaign and Chicago. Times include early morning and late evening services, with notes on accommodation and limited services.
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