Convicts’ Dash From Jefferson City Prison Ends in Capture
Five heavily armed inmates staged a dramatic breakout from the Jefferson City Missouri penitentiary blasting a steel gate with dynamite and forcing a wagon to aid their escape. They wounded two guards and killed two others before a lengthy street battle with guards and police ended in their surrender. several convicts and officials were injured.
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Jefferson City
Mat W. Hall
Gimin
Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
Vaughn
Ray Maud
Blake
Ryan
Zeigler
Lee
See
John Clay
Allison
Gaiemin Clay
Penitentiary
Placig
Zeisler
Missouri Pacific
Tone 2 Jnst
Lane
Vaughan
Dane
Aran
Raymond
Dumecon
Historic Timeline Touches Monarchs Wars and Treaties
A fragmented chronicle lists events from 1218 to 1909 including parliamentary milestones at Oxford, executions like Perkin Warbeck, Henry VIII proclamations, naval actions on the Delaware and Hudson, royal births and deaths, battles such as Leipsic, treaties with Denmark and Prussia, and notable political shifts in the United States and Europe. The piece weaves politics, war, religion, and diplomacy through centuries with scattered dates and names.
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Oxford
Tieban
Charles XM
Great Elector
Peter of
Thussia
Augustus TL
Poland
Duke of Hamilton
Gord
Mohun
United Siates
Silas Deane
Paris
John Adams
Delaware River
Lee
Hudson
Upper
New York City
David Wilkie
North Carolina
United States
Catherine al
Notre Dame
Melbourne
Cracow
Austria
Count Bossi
Pius OX
Rome
Louisiana
New Orleans
Lakes Islands
Pelice Beteen
Denmark
Prussia
Sherman
Decatur, Til
Duke of Aosta
Spain
East of the
Rocky Man
Greenwich
Paci
Chester Alen Arthur
Cai
Chariwin
Union Uival Fet
Milan
Buchant
Whorassan
Persia
Ose Salvador
Fircelon
McRkbier
Universal Postal Contreg
George Bendricks Honchten
New York
Michigan State Supreme Court
Washington House
Gagerett
A. Hobart
J. Teffries
Gus Rubin
Negic O
Panama
Antia
Dougherty Sentenced in Long-Running School Fund Theft
Newton C Dougherty once Peoria city superintendent and board secretary pleaded guilty to five forgery counts and received concurrent terms of one to fourteen years in Joliet prison His sweeping scheme drained school funds over decades with forged notes and fictitious payments, potentially totaling around two million dollars as auditors probe remaining books.
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Newton C. Dougherty
Peoria
Joliet
Worthington
D. Dougherty
Dougherty
Newton
Peoria National Bank
Herty
Chicago
Weil Tan
Sojoara
Memorial to McKinley and football harvest at Woodlawn
A Canton memorial complex for William McKinley rises on a hill above Woodlawn Cemetery, funded by 3,000,000 people and $500,000 in total. The mausoleum, 106 feet high with a white marble dome, will include a plaza, staircases, a lake, and a heroic statue. work to finish by September 1907. The piece also lists high school football fatalities in 1905 and notes a push to reform rules to protect younger players.
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Canton
Woodlawn
Ohio
William Bec- Kinley
Pulic
Sciiniey
Cant
Sitcon
Laentelal
Stéet
Mausole
Vile
Se McKinley
Dywells
McKinley
Bryant
James Edward
Canon City
Col
Florence
Decker
Bernadette
Cumberland
Dondero
Solin
Tewett
City
Conn
Willimatic
Enright
Horatio T
Phillips
Exeter Academy
Norgaard
Herman G
Council Bluffs
Towa
Harlan
Squires
James
Aiten
St. Louis
Summergill
Johan
Franklin College
Chester
van Bokkalen
Clarence
Santa Clara
Cal
San Jose High School
Wise
Lestiey
Milwaukee
Vernon
Oak Park
Oak Park High School
Hyde Park High School
WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN SLAIN NEAR INDEPENDENCE
A Towns County family tragedy unfolded six miles south of Independence as Mrs William McWilliams and five children were found murdered at their farm home. The husband and father was arrested amid brutal findings including hammer blows and knife wounds. Evidence shows the mother was killed while cooking with food on the stove. children aged 3 to 18 were slain in sequence. A milkman reported the crime. bloodstained clothing tied suspect Me Williams to the scene. He denies guilt.
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Town Faroer
William McWilliams
Tndependence
Towns
Saunders
Oriests
Efe
Williams
Ventilating Corn Shocks And Hog Housing Ideas
A historical farming note describes a corn shock ventilator using four ten foot uprights and cross pieces to improve storage near barns. It also discusses hog feeding floors and bedding, wagon-road costs, and methods for wintering calves plus tips on selling farms with photos.
Feeding Floor and London Show Churn Innovations
The article describes a feeding floor for grain and roughage, with a durable design that should last for years. It also reports a London agricultural show novelty churn that produces butter in about sixty seconds using a “Washer” in the counter and a 144 inch deep boat, detailing a rapid method to wash and rank the butter.
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Bovelty
London
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Missouri
Michigan City Penitentiary
Ebort News
Ishor
Hoosevelt
Lge
Bougherty
Richmond
M'Kinley
Ng Football Harvest
Ray
Portland Oregonian
Ter
Ealf
Ada
Havera
Themael Suttae
Eugnek Frese
Gwlture
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