Abolish Breathitt County Move Grows In Kentucky
Lexington business and professional leaders advocate abolishing Breathitt County and redistributing its precincts to Lee Wolfe Magoffin Knott Perry and Owsley counties. Lawyers say legislature could act easily. Sentiment crosses party lines as Lexington suffers reputational fallout from Breathitt troubles.
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Breathitt
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Magoffin
Knott
Perry
Owsley
Fayette County
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Breathitt County
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Jackson
Anchorage
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Divorce and pensions touch a clerk at the circus day
In Justice Stone's court Edgar Young helps a boy see the parade. A woman asks if a divorce gives half her late husband’s pension, learning a widow’s pension depends on remarriage. A county clerk, John McGregor, pacifies anxious clerks and admits many seek circus attendance.
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Justice Stone's Court
Wallnon
Dave
United States
Indiana
Ale Anid
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Jim Ther
Peaches and Cherries Not Killed by Late Frosts
Reports of widespread crop damage from late frosts are disputed by Blatchley who just returned from southern Indiana. He says peaches apples and cherries are not destroyed and that yields may be abundant in the southwest. Strawberries were destroyed in lowlands, while wheat in lowlands suffered flood damage though higher ground shows good prospects.
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Indiana
Blatchley
Hittchley
Atale
A Window Across the Street Reveals a Comic Misread
A bachelor narrator in St. Louis observes his pale-eyed neighbor through a window each day as he writes. He misreads a tense moment with a man in the room, triggers a dramatic rescue, and learns the scene was a rehearsal for a naval charity performance with his neighbor’s brother. Six months later he reconciles with the real romance.
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Eden
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Jone
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Jrelhend
Misa Malcolm
Court House Banter and Circus Tales From A Sketchy Page
A fragmentary reminiscence mentions a young lady at the court house with many admirers and a joking plan to gift tickets, while a Rineling brothers circus acrobat aged about twenty, left home young, learned of his mother’s death, and sought his wandering father. The narrative shifts to a Persian clerks inquiry, a police record search, and a soldier’s fate in Blaron with a baby and a delayed return.
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Ciowa
Induamueim
Peratun
Motorman Found Dead in Home Kitchen Questioned
In St Louis May 1 a 62 year old motorman named Wek shin was found dead Thursday morning in the kitchen of his wife’s residence. A buffet hole in his chest suggested suicide but police view the case as unclear suspending immediate ruling.
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Ienre Wekshin
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Masked Robber Slays Patron in Des Moines Restaurant
On Thursday in Thomas McCarty's West Alberty restaurant a masked robber held two waiters and five patrons. Arthur Meade tried to pull the mask off and was shot dead. The identity and motive of the highwayman remain unknown.
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Thomas McCarty
West Alberty
Arthur Meade
Pwede
Alia Alba
Interurban notes push toward Indiana city line
A late 19th century Indiana column notes the Terre Haute theft report and a dog food mix up, plus plans for an interurban line from Princeton to Evansville with the power house erected and grading done. The Michigan City route carried 3002 passengers as a Sunday crowd heads to a circus.
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Nye
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Terre Haute
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Jad
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Jin
Evanaville
Princeton
Automobile Plows Field Versus Horses Demonstration
In Springfield on May 15 an automobile pulled a plow in a field to test motor power against horse labor. Owned by H. T. Raser of Eric, Po., the trial drew curious onlookers as a grass fire near the Nickel Plate railroad was controlled. Col. Stephen N. Winslow marked his sixty first year in journalism with a Philadelphia Inquirer career spanning all of the years.
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Ashtabula
H. T. Raser
Eric, Po
Raser
bin Mother
Nickel Plate
Pyar
Maner
George
Stephen N. Winslow
Phiadriphia
Journaliam
Tnquirer
Forest Fires Rage Across Multiple Towns in New England and Canada
Fires sweep large tracts of forest from Bangor Maine to Sandwic, damaging homes and forcing plant closures. May reports describe walls of flame near West Bebels and Cotuit road, with lumber plants halted and crews sent to fight the infernos in Mamonek Coungy and nearby Adirondack areas.
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Great Tower
Mamonek Coungy
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Cotuit Road
Biratford
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Plattsoorg
SN. H
Fores
Colby Pond
Paul Smiths
Ayen Jake
Adirondacks
Train wreck claims engineer and fireman El Bloominburg
An accident on Thursday left the engineer and fireman dead after a B and D train wreck near here. A mail car overturned while another car stayed on the track. No passengers were killed.
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