Smallest Indianapolis Attorney Fred W Sheetes
Fred W Sheetes, four feet nine inches tall and weighing about 90 pounds, is noted as the smallest attorney in Indianapolis and the smallest man graduated from a U S law school in recent memory. Born in Parke county near Rockville Indiana he attends Rockville High and earned a law degree in June. His size subjects him to jokes, yet his big heart and humor won friends. he serves as sergeant at arms of the Marion club and once campaigned for state legislature, stumping the county and delivering a beer-keg speech amid crowd laughter.
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Fred W. Sheetes
Indianapolis
United States
Fred
Parke County
Rockville
Ind
William Sheetes
Rockville High School
Indiana Law School
Felow
Marion Club
Sam Shutts
Awakening of Love Poem by Reeves Aldrich
A reflective verse where the speaker notes love forgetting and sleeping through time. The narrator recalls love breaking its dreamless slumber on a night of all nights and whispers of quiet resolve. Reeves Aldrich anchors the piece with poetic imagery and a lucid, hushed tone.
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Reeves Aldrich
Maybrick to be freed from prison in 1904
London reports at the Home Office that Florence Maybrick will be released next year. The 1889 murder trial aroused vast American interest with petitions for clemency and calls by officials, presidents, and the public, but the pardon was denied and the sentence commuted to imprisonment. Maybrick may return to the United States after release, with potential claims to large estates in Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia. her mother Baroness da Roques is named in fraud-related land disputes.
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London
Home Office
Florence Maybrick
Maybrick
Liverpool
United States
Florence
James Maybrick
England
Brierly
Stephen
Hoe
Muybrick
Ste
Acmaican
Iepreasion
Tfe
Nooner
Engiteh
Englsh Homs
Ollie
May Trick
Americ
E. da Roques
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Virgina
Tin Ring in tongue of a Little Girl
Chicago May 20 After ten days of severe sore throat Lillie Perti a girl of 11 or 12 found to have a tin ring around the base of her tongue The ring embedded in the taste buds was removed by Dr A A Whammond The candy ornament with tin rings was given two weeks ago possibly slipping over the tongue
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Chicago
Lillie Perti
A. A. Whammond
Mary O Rourke Saves St Johns Church by Alarm
Six year old Mary O Rourke warned of smoke and fire at St John s Catholic Church in St Louis and alarmed the fire engines. She said she ran to tell her papa and found the scene fun rather than fear.
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ST. Louis
Mary O'Rourke
St. John’s Catholic Church
Young Woman's Party Was A Nice Man
Ex Senator Walcott recalls a Colorado town registration scene where a woman sought to qualify to vote on the school question. Asked for party, she hesitated and asked if she must answer. She then described the candidate as a fine man she had met, avoiding party naming.
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Walcott
Colorado
Old Nurse for Children Teething Syrup Ad
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslows soothing syrup for teething children claiming 1 cent price for soothing and gum effects and 25 cent pack as best remedy for wind colic and diarrhoea with ParoNey mentioned in text.
Skinniest skyscraper planned for Exchange Place corner
New York reports Henry A Havemeyer and F Savin plan a 17 story slender skyscraper on a 1.08 foot plot at the northeast corner of Exchange Place and New Street. Also noted is a dramatic social thread about Miss Baud Wayne seeking a visit to her Navy sweetheart in Boston after hiring a messenger boy, and a run of local crime and social notes including a drowning death and speculation of a waterfront robbery.
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New York
To Square
Henry A Havemeyer
F . Savin
Exchange Place
New-s
the Western Union
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