Son of Bandit Wins Honors at Kansas City Law School
The son of a notorious bandit graduates with summa cum laude from Kansas City School of Law after earlier passing the Jefferson City state bar exam. He began studying law over four years ago while running a pawnshop and later a cigar stand in the county courthouse. He says law has room at the top but is crowded at the bottom, and he intends to stay in the city amid publicity from his father’s career and his own arrest record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bandit
Kansas City
Duke of Manchester to work as railroad laborer
Eugene Zimmerman announces that the Duke of Manchester will become a laborer in Detroit railroad shops to learn the trade, starting at the bottom. He is expected to arrive soon from England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Eugene Zimmerman
Duke of Manchester
England
Young Maine boy premeditates murder for pleasure
Sidney Preble a Bowdoinham youth about to turn 15 confessed to killing Norris Heath of nearby Bowdoinham in a staged attack. He described torturing animals, gnawing threats, and luring Heath into a wood road before shooting with a modified shotgun then concealing the body. He planned to surrender but was seized by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Sidney Preble
Norris
Heath
Bath
Judge Staples
State Reform School
Heaths
Prebles
Norris Heath
The
World
Exyme
Remarkable Story of New American C A Smith of Sweden
A Swedish immigrant in Minneapolis rises from coachman and grain dealer to multimillionaire timber baron. C A Smith arrived in 1867 at 14 with no English, grew through Pillsbury’s hardware, formed a partnership, opened a country store, then established lumber mills in Minneapolis by 1884 as he expanded to log cutting and mass timber production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Mian
C. A. Smith
Smith
Northwest
Pillsbury
Herman, Minn
Applications for License. Liquor licenses sought in Indianapolis
A series of notices from multiple Ward residents in Marion county Indiana announcing July 1907 applications to the Board of County Commissioners for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in various wards. Each notice specifies the applicant, ward, business address, building details, and requests pool table privileges where applicable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
Shelby Street
Munson
Berkenmeyer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Gustav Doebber
Ilinois Street
Square 45
Illinois Street
CHAS
Egerton
Board of County Commissioners
State of
Henry Street
Kentucky Avenue
Eckert
Fred Metzheiser
Morris Street
West
Karl Weinerth
Minois Street
Illinoia Street
Henry Roell
Tenth and
Helen Streets
Jefferson
Tnaianspeka
Marton County
Lwest
Helen
Alvin’ EK Haines
Roosevelt Avenue
Alvord
E. T
K. Fletcher
Ben Wernee
Svnscriner
Nereby
Massachusetts Avenue
Indianapolis Center Township
Edward Foster
Washington Street
Washington and Blackford Streets
Blake & Ray
Thomas Deveney
McCarty
McKernan & Pierce
Missouri
Cornelius Shine
Maple Street
Maple and Wilkins Streets
Albert Ledig
Shelby and
Grove Streets
Grove Street
Pletcher Et al. Sub
Julius E. Emhardt
Columbia Avenue
S. A. Fletcher, Jr
Sixteenth Street
Frank Rogers
Kaufman
White River
Maurice Krauss
Center Tonship
Hasel Street
Fletcher
Oak Hill
Kittenbach
Marion
Hazel Street
August Nolting
Smith Timber Empire Grows in Pacific Northwest
The article traces C. A. Smith who built a vast timber empire after acquiring Pillsbury interests in 1899. He now owns more standing timber than any individual and aims to leave enough to sustain generations, promising never to sell timberland. In 1878 he married Johanna Anderson of Wermland, Sweden, and they have five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Smith
Pillsbury
C. A. Smith
Minnesota
Wisconsin
North American
Johanna Anderson
Wermeland
Sweden
Revised U S cotton plantings and crop condition
The department of agriculture revises last year s cotton planted area to 32 049 000 acres and this year s planted and to be planted area to 32 060 000 acres The average condition of the growing crop on May 25 is 70 5 percent
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Spook specialist Mrs Pepper secretly marries Vanderbilt
In New York on June 5 it was disclosed that May Scannell Pepper known as the spook specialist of Brooklyn secretly wed Edward Vanderbilt a 65 year old lumber merchant and widower last Saturday. Pepper Vanderbilt is a longtime public figure who rose from milkmaid origins to a celebrated spiritualist with a large following and considerable fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Edward Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Pepper
Pepper- Vanderbilt
Providence
Sun Offers Free Want Ad In Three Day Trial
The Sun invites readers to use its free want columns for three days. If seeking a girl for housework, ten words can be inserted at no charge.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hardy Food
As Hardyfood
JIVE
Mary
WWE
Roosevelt L
Theodore
Son OF Bandit
Jesse E. James
Kambas City
Manchester
the Sun
Auburn
Sidney F. Preble
Norris W. Heath
Bowdeinham
Preble
George F. Preble
Bowdoinham
George F
Dexter Preble
Adams
Reform
OF New American
C. A
Tive
Scrippe-McRae Press Association
Weds Spook Spiritualist
Scrippe-McRae Prees Association
New York
May Scannell Pepper
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!