Death of Maria Fox Smith ends era of Fox sisters mystique
The Newark New York area death of Mrs. Maria Fox Smith at 85 marks the passing of the last of the Fox sisters, once world famous as spiritualist mediums. The article recalls their rise from Hydeville to New York and Europe, their rappings claimed as divine power, and the later exposure that the sounds came from toe snapping and other tricks.
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Fox Sisters
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Desville
John Fox
Montreal
Canada
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Quiry
Horace Greeley
William Cullen Bryant
J. Fennimore Cooper
George Bancroft
Alice Cary
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bayard Taylor
Benffied
Margaret Fox
Fox Shane
Hydeaville
Last of the Fox sisters dies in New York
The passage notes the death of Mrs Maria Fox Smith, marking the final end of the famous Fox sisters trio once famed for spiritualist manifestations. It recalls their rise to fame, public demonstrations, and the deaths of Katherine Fox Jeneken and Margaret Fox Kane in 1892 and 1893 respectively.
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Margaret Fox
Academy of Music
New York
Katherine Fox Jeneken
Margaret Fox Kane
Brooklyn
Maria Fox Smith
Tracewell Emerges as Judge Candidate in Indiana Politics
Robert J. Tracewell, Indiana treasurer controller, gains strong support for U S district judge appointment to replace Judge Joan H. Baker. Backers tout his forceful mind and party influence while critics flag his age under 45 and Indianapolis ties. Tracewell home Corydon echoes Judge Gresham legacy. Griggs endorses him with a warm letter to state senators.
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the Treasury
United States
Joan H. Baker
R. O. Hawkins
Tracewell
Judge Gresham
Indiana
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Hawkins
Indianapolis
Indianapolia
Griggs
Congress
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Zenor
Alice Roosevelt to furnish a Maine coon cat for White House
Miss Alice Roosevelt joins White House renovations by adding a Maine coon cat to the mansion's pet collection. She encountered the kitten during a Lincolnville visit last summer after becoming fond of the gray feline raised with a piglet family in cooperative housekeeping.
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Alice Roosevelt
White House
Maine
Miss Roosevelt
Patent medicine promotes cures for female ailments
An advertisement extols Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription for curing female weakness and related pains by treating disease of the womanly organism. It includes a patient testimonial from Annie Stephens of Belleville West Virginia praising relief from headaches backache side pain and bearing-down pain after using Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. The ad also notes a free 1008 page medical adviser book offered for mailing costs.
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Annie Stephens
Belleville, Wood Co
West Va
People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
Notices to voters to apply for liquor licenses in Indianapolis wards
Public notices by Philip Ungar Douglas Barnes and Jos F Keating announcing they will apply at the December 1902 term of the Marion county board of commissioners for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises consumption. Ungar lists a 17 by 48 foot room at Russell and McCarty streets. Barnes lists a 14 by 60 foot room at Twelfth and West streets. Keating lists a 20 by 20 foot room on Wabash Street behind 13 North Pennsylvania Street. each includes building details and ward designations in Center township Indianapolis.
Notice of a Liquor License Application in Marion County
Voters of the Twelfth ward Center township Indiana apply to the Marion County Board of Commissioners at the December 1902 term for a license to sell intoxicating malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premise drinking. The business is a 22 by 24 foot room fronting River avenue on the first floor of a one story frame building on lot 31 in Bybee and Pratt's first West-side addition to Indianapolis, River avenue ward 22. August Huber.
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Board of Commissioners
Marion County
State of
Indiana
Russell-ave
McCarty St
Norwood
Outlet 122
Indianapolis
Philip Ungar
Fourth Ward
Board of
County Commissioners
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Douglas Barnes
Seventh Ward
Board of County Commissioners
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Pennsylvania St
Jos. F. Keating
Twelfth Ward
State of Indiana
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Bybee and Pratt
Riverave
August Huber
Eleventh
Washington St
Metzger & Robinson’s
Louis Brown
License Application for Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
Frank A Heidrick seeks a Marion county Indiana license from the December 1902 term to sell intoxicating drinks in quantities under five gallons with on premises consumption. His business at No 17 East Pearl Street in Indianapolis lies in a 26 by 29 feet ground floor room in a two story brick building between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, Ward Ten Center township.
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Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
State of
Indiana
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Meridian
Pennsylvania Sts
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