Five Victims Shot and Beaten at Apache Dance
In Lyric hall a gunman handed a revolver to a girl then opened fire during a Joseph O Neill association ball. Five men injured, including Joseph Ryan who died later, as police trace gang involvement while the shooter and others refuse to cooperate.
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New York
Joseph O'Neill Association
Lyric Hall
Weat Thirtieth Street
Joseph Ryan
New York Hospital
Sidney Well
John Matthews
Frank McGowan
Joseph Devine
West Side
Tanne
Smith
The
Gopher
Ryan
McGowan
Devine
Mary Weil
Sidney Weil
Matthews
Bounties Proposed to Boost Illinois Population by Senator Beall
Illinois lawmakers push a plan to pay mothers for children and fund premiums through a bachelor tax. The scheme includes $100 for a first child, $200 for twins, $500 for triplets, and $100 per additional child, with a $10 annual tax on bachelors 36 and older to source the fund.
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Springfield
Ill
Edmound Beall
Tiinois
Stork
Alton
Riddling exchange leaves speaker unable to grasp message
Fragmentary dialogue shows a confused speaker saying you are riddie to ma while another retorts perhaps you should give up. The archaic phrasing and unclear context hint at a domestic or personal quarrel conveyed in compact, stage-like dialogue.
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Tom
Demagogic Notions challenge morality of wealth
Judge B H L Gary at a Chicago dinner rails against demagogues who claim a rich man is morally worse than the Altoona schoolboy. He cites a boy named Tommy who fails to distinguish right from wrong and jokes about stealing his brother’s cake.
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New York Tribune
B. HL. Gary
Steel Men
Chicago
Clana
Altoona
Tommy
To Fit the Machine
A decisive exchange notes a judge and editor discussing how a machine the reporters describe alters perception. The fragment hints at a debate over media manipulation and technological influence on truth.
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Judge New Repepial
Terrary
Shine Juet Where You Ars
Poem urging humble deeds and self improvement by light where you stand. It suggests not chasing distant glory but brightening small spaces with simple acts, since every good deed ennobles and fulfills a daily mission.
Old Yankee Farmer Requests Cake Before Death
A dying farmer wished for a rich fruit cake with nuts and currants. His daughter kept the cake unwheed for the funeral after admitting they could not bear to cut it.
Salt invention claims $5 million sale and world impact
James Hodgkinson of Salford unveils a new salt production method sold to an American-Canadian syndicate for $5,000,000. The process uses four single fire heat pans, yields multiple crystal sizes, and aims to cut coal use by about 75 percent. Canada and Britain secure rights while the United States market is seen as most affected. Hodgkinson, aged around 70, argues the smokeless plant marks a major factory advance since Methuselah.
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James Hodgkinson
Salford
England
United States
Hodgkinson
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Canada
English Salt Union
Great Britain
Chicago
Hr. Hodgkinson
The Modern Bohemianism in a European and American Scene
The essay contrasts bohemian life in Paris New York and distant studios. It notes Rus sian Asiatic artists in studios near the writer's room and the Latin quarter students who work hard while others seek pleasure and money, a trend the periodens philosophers dub Anglo-Saxon energy.
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London
Toklo
Philosophera
The Laughter of Dickens Address by Lord Sosebery
The speaker discusses how laughter in Dickens differs from earlier writers and argues that true laughter from reading a novel is rare and a luxury, noting that only stage comedy may provoke real laughs. He places Dickens around Queen Victoria’s coronation era and comments on changing tastes and the physicality of laughter.
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Dickens
Lord Sosebery
Pickwick
Queen Victoria
Jonas
Bearron
Fielding
Goldsmith
Beneconsfield
Bill In Poney from Life
Fragmentary life note mentions a plan to build a concrete use and a discussion about architecture. The text includes a quoted exchange with names such as Miggles and Glugeins, but the overall meaning is unclear due to damaged wording and missing context.
King George Sought To Bar Libel In Grand Family Suit
Baron Arnold de Forest sues Lady Gerard and Henry Milner over alleged slander linked to his wife’s elopement with Lieutenant H. C. B. Ashton. The case cites royal interest in suppressing the scandal while detailing adultery rumors and social commentary amid English society.
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London
England
Arnold de Forest
Gerard
Iniaw
Henry Milner
H. C. B. Ashton
Life Guarda
George
de Forest
Baron de Forest
Baron Gerard
Lady Rosebery
Baron Hirsch
Francis Joseph
Austria
Menier
France
Frdward
Ashton
Lady de Forest
Lady Gerard
Henry Miller
Mr. Miller
Will
Woman sues Decker for $15000 after alleged kiss assault in Kansas City
Nellie Etheridge owner of a manicure shop at 116 West Eleventh sues Charles R. Decker a Milwaukee Bay salesman for $15000 damages alleging he forcibly kissed her four times on February 16 after driving up with two men. She states no provocation and recounts bystanders and police were alerted.
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Kansas City
Nellie Etheridge
West Eleventh St
Charles R. Decker
Milwaukee Bay Company
Miss Etheridge
Decker
Mr. Decker
Mariel
Mabel
Elopement Sparks Happy Life in Subway Banter
Two married men ride a New York subway and debate Betsy Buntuff's elopement column. One recalls eloping with his wife and being happy. the other says the opposite, while a playful bystander echoes the tale with a grin.
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New York Times
Betsy Buntuff
Betsy Bumatuff
Disfigured with eczema child improves with Cuticura remedies
A Nebraskan family recalls Gilbert three years old suffering from eczema that disfigured his face. After consulting two Chicago doctors with no results, they used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Within four weeks his face cleared, and observers noted the return of a normal appearance. They recommend Cuticura to others.
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Gilbert
Chicago
H. Albrecht
West Point
Neb
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
Which do you prefer life in the country or the city
The speaker weighs living in rural versus urban life and notes mood affects experience. They joke about being attacked by a cow or a motor car, illustrating humorous misgivings about rural and urban dangers.
Learning Love in Heaven in Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird
Tybyl travels to a distant heavenly realm and learns love abides at home as Mother Love explains that heaven is where they kiss. There are not two mothers, and every child has only one, the most beautiful, whom Tybyl must recognize and understand.
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Maeterlinck
Tybyl
Mother Love
Tyltyl
Tuberculosis Efforts Grow in Italy for Emigrant Health
Italy wards off disease by appointing seaport examiner boards to report tuberculous arrivals from America. Exposed individuals are placed under observation where they settle. The country pushes new sanatoria expansion and more beds for consumptives across multiple locations.
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America
Italy
Elming plans school boys garden program for next year
An admirable scheme to have a school boys garden next year has been planned by the authorities of Elming New York. Last summer a hundred boys made good as farmers of vacant lots, and it is now proposed to place practically all such unused property in the city under cultivation. The pupils of the public schools would be the gardeners and reap the profits from their products.
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Elming
N. Y
Something In a Name
A playful dialogue contrasts Ella and Stella on traits and pride. Stella notes a flat man’s limits while Ella recalls a boyhood moment of whistling through teeth, hinting at curiosity and small discoveries shaping identity.
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Ella
Stella
Hot in Hragil Coffee Tales from a South American Trip
A Chicago Daily News reader recounts heat in South America with coffee trees roasting sounds at day and rubber trees cracking at night. The traveler describes after dinner siestas disrupted by peculiar noises and the rubber trees stretching.
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Hragil
South America
Chicago Daily News
Mr. Hings
Enoch's Death Paraphrase Stumps Church School
An instructor in a church school focused on the phrase And Enoch was not for God took him. He quizzed students to quote the Bible exactly but heard a pupil answer Enoch was not what God took him for. Brooklyn Life.
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Enoch
Brooklyn
Facing the Future and the Ballot Reform Debate
Mr Meekton doubts Henrietta will be satisfied with suffrage and suggests reorganizing the ballot to allow him to handle errands while she votes. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant promotes digestion and stimulates stomach liver and bowels with sugar-coated granules.
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Henrietta
Mr. Meekton
He Was a Judge Geraldine and the Verdict
The piece presents a dramatic line with Geraldine at twenty two and a verdict set aside. It interlaces archaic phrasing about time and a promotional note for Garfield Tea, urging readers to consult druggists for the product advertised.
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Geraldine
Gerald
Free sample of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin cure claim
A drug advertisement urges readers with chronic constipation to try Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It promises a free sample by writing to Dr W B Caldwell at Caldwell Building Monticello Illinois and cites past users endorsing the remedy as a permanent solution.
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J. J. Petty
Unionville
George W. Zimmerman
Harrisburg
Caldwell
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell Building
Monticello, IL
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John Hay
Hi Ike
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Brigge
A Diamu
Skarat
Kidder
Loeb
Julius
Lett
Diogenes
Mr. Callow
Revenge
Pest
Pillabury
Hercules
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry
Los Angeles Times
Him
Tess
Father
the Blue Bird
Neally
Gings
Dean
Ackaci
Regel
Colunies
Caice
Imilabous
Siuslaw
Oregon
Facts Publishers
Florence
Thompson
Sioux City
Alfred J. O'Brien
Sterling Cole
Baltimore Marine Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
Omaha
Washington
Enos Shearer
Centralia
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Buffalo, N.Y
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