Missouri Quo Warranto Against Terminal Railroad Initiated
Missouri Attorney General Edward Crow files quo warranto in the Supreme Court to oust the Terminal Railway Association of St Louis from doing business in the state. The writ is returnable October 1. The case centers on the legality of consolidations under the state constitution and control of Terminal properties, bonds, and stock held by the association and merchants bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Edward
Crow
Oled
Missouri State Supreme Court
Terminal Railroad Axvociaton
St. Laila
Terminal Association
Ttw
Jay Gould
Union Depot and Railway Transfer Company
Thin Terminal Association
St. Louis
Belge
St. Loita
Merchants’ Bridge
Genemrn
Ralinonl
Amdia
St. Janite Toreniniul Railway Company
Periataal Railway Association
M& Oe
Suit Aims at Pure Food Firm Dismissed for Lack of Jurisdiction
Jefferson City reports the case by Whitney Layton of Layton Pure Food Company against Emmett Newton of Springfield for recovery of 820 borrowed while boasting legislative influence. The suit was dismissed Saturday night for want of jurisdiction and drew statewide attention due to Newton’s prominence.
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Jefferson City
Mos
Whitney Layton
Layton Pure Food Company
St Lowla
Emmett Newton
Springbid
Minsourt
Newton
Sullivan
Milton
Layton
Reunion planned for Vernon and Coder counties Lake Dark week
Mos Tho confederates from Vernon and Coder counties will hold a Jantanni reunion at Lake Dark next week. Mayor Wieht and other officials delivered addresses. Officers for the coming year include J Ingram as commander J Ro Walton view commander AO Sterritt adjutant and T Wrannerk treasurer. The next reunion is set for the same location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sane Place
Springfield Suit Filed Against Milling Firm for 210000
John Caldwell sues Join Myers Bonn in Greene County Court for 210000 claiming failure to provide care for a horse sick with glanders and resulting damages. He seeks 210000 plus 10 for medicines and related expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Greene County
John Caldwell
Join Myers & Bonn
Mrs Jane A Noel 89 dies in Troy Missouri
Mrs Jane A Noel aged eighty nine died here shortly after midnight Saturday She was mother to H M Noel and Mrs Stewart Scott of St Louis Mrs A Woolfolk of Troy WD Noel of Lebanon and Doctor A B Noel of Brownwood The Rev Doctor KP Noel former pastor of the Presbyterian Church led her funeral at the church
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Troy
Jane A. Noel
H. M. Noel
Stewart Scott
St. Laue
Mra A. Woolfolk
Noel
Lebanon
A.B. Noel
Brownwood
Noe
KP. Noel
Presbyterian Church
Inmate at Armstrong Infirmary Refuses Nourishment
William Sorrell, a Randolph County Infirmary inmate in Armstrong Missouri, enters his fifty third day of fasting on July 6. He has refused all nourishment since dinner that day, drinking only minimal water. He remains bedridden, plans to outlast the fast, and continues daily routines with little appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong
William Sorrell
Randolph County Infirmary
Sorrell
Fle
Louisiana Carnival Celebrates Cement Plant Opening
The festival committee led by Judge Buckener and W J Jacquain announces a carnival in Lodisiana to celebrate a new cement plant. Events include a Kangaron Carat, fete, farm product displays, races, boating contests, and fireworks on the Misael Sippot Hower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambell
B.S. Carrick
S. Seoteney
Clem
Misael
Jefvrwen Clty Plans October Wedding
The article notes a forthcoming marriage between Mine Francona0k daughter of Jefvrwen Clty and Connie M Clay of Mexico, Mo now in Bolivar Mins with Colonel Gree Clay’s son. The wedding is to be held in a Mississippi planter room with few arrangements finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefvrwen Clty
Mus
San
Ele Elden
Mine
Trumble of Lithers Sister Spends Time in Ment to Meet Brother Carter
Miss Carter of this city travels to Helena to join her brother Carter in Montana after years apart. The three brothers are reported en route as part of a family reunion amid California ventures.
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Trumbe
Lithers
B. Fo
Carter
Hirlens
Coornme
California
Montana
Resignation by St Joseph engineer at Grand Inland line
St Joseph officials report the resignation of Moo M A blartigan Jr chief clerk to the chief engineer. He left to take a post with New York Central under H Fornetrin chief engineer, who remains head of the Grand Island engineering department as of May 1.
Vowling fireon Mae The pew Aap Kiet dedication
The assembly of about two thousand people largely descendants of the pioneer of Nhe County attended a dedication of the Ket church Dulliinge in TSA during the second 684 and third events. A basket dinner followed the ceremony as part of the ovensioin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vowling Fireon
Mae
Nhe County
Dulliinge
Tsa
Tragic crush death in Aurora Missouri
A man named Mone Mao Alpha Allman died after falling from a freight train in a switel yard last week. He was under care at the time and crushed to death in his home town of Aurora Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mone
Mao Alpha Allman
Switel
Avrora
Sedalia Woman Takes Poison After Heartbreak
Sedalia Missouri filings report 21 year old Daley Duonten ended her life by swallowing carbolic acid on Friday after being deserted by her sweetheart.
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Sedalia
Daley Duonten
Prosecution Aims at Six Home Cooperative Officers
Jefferson City Missouri reports that Luther Hick, a male supervisor of building and law associations, prepares to prosecute officers of six home cooperative associations, all located in St Louis, as part of a broader action against home building companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Luther
Hick
Home Co-Operative Company
St Louis
Hunter Named Rural Route Inspector in Missouri Division
Franklin Ind resident John N. Hunter has received an appointment as rural route inspector of free delivery in the Missouri division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Ind
John N. Hunter
Missouri
Kansas Removes Quarantine on Missouri Cattle
Announcement from the Missouri state board of agriculture states that the Kansas live stock sanitary commission has consented to lift the quarantine against southern Missouri cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Kansas Livesteck Sanitary Commission
Missouri
Death of Willis Harbison Follows Assault in Mansfeld
Willis Harbison, a young man assaulted a week earlier by Bam Goss and John Durin, died Friday night at 30 o'clock in Mansfeld, Missouri. Police investigations continue into the fatal incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfeld
Willis Harbison
Bam Goss
John Durin
New Orleans Woman Said to Have Lived 114 Years
Widow Victor Marie Deransbourg of New Orleans reportedly died last week at her home. Born to 178 in St Charles Parish, she was described as a former slave who had twenty two children and survived into ancient age, with a long, difficult life tied to planter Merre Sarto and the Deransbourg family.
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Victor Marie Deransbourg
New Orleans
St Charles’ Parish
Merre Sarto
Algier
Jalie Labatt
Louisiana
Lario
Victor Deransbourg
Dewensed
Twenteo
Nan
Dnehkaon
Palen
Han
Elaine
Nee
Man Wanders into Church During Choir Rehearsal
A prominent Brick business man woke in a pew at Presbyterian Church on East Orange after wandering inside during a choir rehearsal. He claimed amnesia and said he awoke in the church despite the door being secured. Police and sexton confirmed the man’s identity and noted no harm came to anyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speeil
Wol Ph Winey
Fitlok Presbyterian Church
Sayy
East Orange
Amd Sim
Patraolmen
Hector
Winter
Thle
Duel over article ends with rib injury after reconciliation
A fight involving Senator Provost De Launay and Vie count De Kerguesac clashed over a Parle Nouvelle Republique article. The two exchanged full shots in a duel with no serious injuries until a rib was broken during the reconciliation aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provost de Launay
Viecount de Kerguesac
Parle Nouvelle Republique
Stree
Censtors
Humeanis
Pompous Guest Seeks Rooms For Six In New York Yacht Rages
Crowds flocked to view the yacht races in New York while Howie venues struggled to handle visitors. A pompous old gentleman demanded six connecting rooms for himself and five friends and was told only one large room with a double bed and four cots could be provided.
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Howie
New York
History of Pope Leo's Pontificate Collaboration
Six years ago the late Pope Lin XIII charged Count Soderin with writing a history of his pontificate. He was given full freedom and access to secret documents and much material dictated by the pope. F Marion Crayford collaborates with Count Soderini on the Anglo American edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
Lin XIII
Count Soderin
Hie Wets
F. Marion Crayford
Count Soderini
Gold Hunters Desperate as Protest Famine Strikes Tanana
Despatches from Dawson to Tacoma report that many Americans on the upper Tanana River face starvation due to scarce provisions amid a rush to new digs. Captain Perking ordered a relief expedition. estimates say about 200 people need aid. Bratnaber and others survived after days without food.
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Tanana
Dawson
Tacoma
Wath
Harry Tramober
Tannaona
Tanana River
Capt
Perking
Port Egbert
Dletriet
Bratnaber
Moa
Rettig
Seattle
William Krubmo
New York
Henry Bohrens
Baltimore
Uratnober
Cap
Poenking
Washington
Critique of American Architecture by Jules Hore in Paris Figaro
Jules Hore continues his Paris Figaro series on the United States. He surveys American ornamentation and finds beauty scarce in U S buildings beyond the aquarium in New York. He notes contrasts with French taste and comments on American architectural appliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jules Hore
Paris Figaro
United States
America
Foweven
Aquarium
New York
Five Thousand Dollar Bequest to Daniel Prime of Aston Pa
Daniel Prime of Aston Pennsylvania reportedly learned of a $5000 legacy from Jonathan Moore of Michigan in a will. Moore, who served as a lieutenant in the Eleventh Michigan and as a captain in the Fifty Fourth Colorado Massachusetts regiment, was wounded at Charleston. Prime, a former sergeant in company F, Fifty Fourth Colorado Massachusetts, rescued Moore by wrapping his own blanket around Moore’s leg to stop bleeding and carried him to the rear. The two never met again, until learning each other’s names later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Prime
Aston
Charles
Moore
Viscount Valentia Fails to Qualify as Irish Peer Voter
The Irish representative peer election sees Viscount Valentia of Oxford never meeting the qualification to vote. He mirrors Lord Palmerston who was said to avoid voting for a fellow Irish peer to prevent Tory enemies from electing him to the House of Lords for life.
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Viscount Valentia
Oxford
Lord Palmerston
Woman Enters Mississippi Politics for State Librarian Post
Miss Ethel Balley of Crystal Springs Mississippi sister of Senator Balley of Texas enters the race for state librarian. She has broad influence and is regarded as a capable campaigner on the same heroic mold as her brother with equal oratorical power and magnetism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Balley
Crystal Springs
Miss
Senator Balley
Texas
Mississippi
Miss Balley
Ruth Bryan seeks Hull House staff post in Chicago
Ruth Bryan daughter of William Jennings Bryan has asked Jane Addams to hire her as a settlement worker at Hull House in Chicago. Mrs Bryan in Lincoln says Ruth a nineteen year old University of Nebraska junior has applied and may be given favorable consideration.
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William Jennings Bryan
Ruth Bryan
William J. Bryan
Hull House
Chicago
Miss Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
Miss Addams’ Settlement House
Jane Addams
Famous Center
Lincoln, Neb
Bryn
Miss Addams
Miss Brean
Miss Mryan
Tweed Mixes Addams
Hall House
Miss Ryan
School to Teach Happiness by Dr Valentio Opens in Paria
Dr. Paul Valentio launches a school of happiness in Paria with a lecture course and a new magazine titled the Normal tile. The program aims to teach both men and women the art of happiness including conjugal felicity, via courses on circumstances, cerebral balance, and character compatibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Valentio
Paria
Change McKinley Tomb Guard Detail in Ohio
Maj. Gen. Bates orders relief of the current guard at the McKinley Tomb in Westhawn Cemetery Canton Ohio The shift on the specified date will place two officers and thirty six enlisted men from Fort Brady Michigan in charge replacing the present detail
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McKinley
President McKinley
Westhawn
Canton
Ohio
Bates
Department of the Lakes
Fort Brady
Mich
Helen Gould Adds Libraries to Gifts for YMCAs
Miss Helen Gould continues her philanthropy by funding libraries in YMCA buildings along the Wabash rail line in Indiana. Her previous endowments to YMCAs across several cities now extend to furnishing library spaces in those facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Gould
Young Mén's Christian Associations
Indiana
Young Woman Appointed Professor
Miss Elen Douglass of Cape May New Jersey has been appointed professor in Romance languages at the University of Missouri to replace Prof Bassett who recently accepted a similar post at Kansas University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elen Douglass
Cape May
WN. J
University of Missouri
Bassett
Kansas University
Prayer Restores Sight in Cottage Grove Patient
Dr L W Trown of Eugene recounts a case in Cottage Grove where Mrs Huontoutt, blind in one eye for 35 years, canceled an planned eye removal as prayer ended in her sight return. After prayers, the injured eye recovered and she correctly named objects seen with the formerly blind eye. witnesses testified to the miracle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Trown
Eugene
Ore
Cottage Grove
Van Horne Opposes Pure Rail Route For Grain Trade
Sir William Van Horne argues that funding a transcontinental Canadian railway from Quebec to Vancouver will not divert North American grain trade from water routes. He states Canadians will not willingly haul grain to the Atlantic by rail alone and that only water routes via the Great Lakes can be affordable without forceful conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William van Horne
Quebec
Vancouver
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Lakes
Doctor recounts charged patient over coin rescue fee
Dr Francis McNarmara relates a patient’s complaint after being billed two dollars for a saved life. He says a child swallowed a fifty cent piece and he extracted it to prevent choking, yet the man refused payment claiming the fee exceeded his expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis McNarmara
New York Times
Labouchere’s Clever Bible Bet At Truth Office
Henry Labouchere, founder of Truth, bet an old friend ten pounds that a Bible existed among his books. He arranged for an assistant to fetch a Bible from a bookstore and, while receiving it, muttered with relief that he had not cut the leaves, revealing the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Labouchere
Truth
Labby
Dowager Duchess of Argyll Prepares Memoirs of Her Husband
The dowager duchess of Argyll, third wife of the duke, is arranging publication of his memoirs. Parts were written by Argyll and align with his will. She completes the work from diaries and documents left to him for that purpose.
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Duchess of Argyll
Argyll
Odd Century Quip on Metals and Future Riches
A cheerful speaker notes lack of mass discovery of new metals like radium and polonium, joking that such goods would fetch high prices. A wary respondent counters that future visionaries could squander wealth by crafting yachts, automobiles, and airships from these natural metals.
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Seiitists
Fuire Risionaires
Wlrug
Now They Are Strangers
A dialogue recalls Edyth praised by a handsome Weekly Zazoo reporter and Mayme notes the reception described as among the most beautiful for the event. The exchange confirms recognition and memory of the era's social scene.
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Edyth
Zazoo
Mayme
A Fish Dinner
A short reflection notes Charlie’s claim of preferring a fish dinner and hints at his future fate, suggesting irony in his self view as he becomes the one destined for such a dinner.
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Charlie
Charle
As Good as His Word Sultan Delivers Harsh Judgment in Tale
A sultan in Jingjang vows to enforce justice with a grim display. He declares punishment for a disobedient subject, proposes a transfer of wealth as metaphor, and proceeds to divide the subject as a stark example.
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Jingjang
Merely Amuning in a Solitary Moment
A terse exchange unfolds as a self confident man defends his grip on events while a plain speaker asserts the masses are keenly interested in public doings and a good joke alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepiled
Quote on college graduates from a father and son
An elderly man boasts about college output of chefs while his son laments a graduate who failed exams and missed a future prize. The dialogue hints at disappointment and irony regarding academic success and awards.
Investment for a rainy day yields surprising peril
A wife questions her husband about a suggested investment and reveals a humorous twist as the plan backfires with an unexpected purchase of a jewelers item. The exchange satirically mocks prudent saving versus flashy spending.
Herod’s Daughter’s Request for John the Baptist’s Head
A classroom dialogue recasts the Bible scene with Herod’s daughter asking for John the Baptist’s head. The pupil and teacher discuss the request and whether a charger refers to a horse, ending with the student’s joke about the charger.
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Herod
John the Baptist
Not Yet Fairly Started Automobile Venture Claims Reliability
A man claims to be self employed in automobile manufacturing asserting all his machines have never broken down on the road. The interview notes he has not yet sold any vehicles.
His Acknowledgment of Age From Dinsmore Speech
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes Dinsmore claimed he feels as young as ever, despite aging. The quote contrasts his aging with his asserted vigor.
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Dinsmore
Detroit Free Preas
Boyhood's Hopes and Family Resolve
A young boy Bennie declares ambition to master his house while his mother and father discuss similar hopes and family authority in a domestic scene. The dialogue shows intergenerational perspective on control and independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mttle Bennie
Bennie
So Many Kinds. Well I declare Turkish atrocity remark
A fragmentary quote suggests a reaction to a Turkish atrocity. The source text includes emphatic exclamations and a mock foreign phrase attributed to Puck style humor. No further context or names are provided.
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Bug
Elearette
Massa Cra
Puck
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