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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
5
A chronic invalid recounts six years of sickness and nervous trouble with stomach distress eating and drinking issues. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength and health, urging other women with female ailments to obtain the remedy.
An incoherent exchange recalls a man praising rest and delay while joking about a theater cabaret ring and theater visits. The text notes a rising reach of telephone lines in the imagined Waited Kingdom, claiming a ten year trebling.
Captain Wilson of the Idaho National Guard medical corps was wounded Sunday afternoon near the Southern Pacific station while returning home. Witnesses claim the shooting was deliberate, while Mexican accounts say the guard fired at an escaping prisoner who crossed the international line. Captain Wilson, a Twin Falls surgeon, is hospitalized with non serious injuries. police report an escaped Mexican prisoner with a bullet hole in his clothing.
Neighbors found Agnes and Alice Smellers aged 48 and 60, and visitor Mary Stretton aged 20, dead in a Lancaster, Ohio home on Sunday. No violence or gas leaks detected. Coroner investigates cause of death as mystery surrounding three fatalities.
Yonkers on Sunday saw rioting as Yonkers Railroad workers on strike attempted to run surface cars to the subway system. A motorman and conductor were severely bruised, car windows broken, Yonkers police—about 200 strong—were deployed, and twenty arrests were made amid injuries to several bystanders.
A switch engine collided with a crowded street car at Purest Avenue and Dequinder Street in Detroit killing thirteen and injuring over twenty two as panicked passengers fled through doors and windows. The street car carried more than ninety riders returning from theatres and most fatalities occurred as victims were crushed after jumping from the vehicle. The switch engine was moving around twenty miles per hour when the crash happened.
United States Senator James P. Clarke former president pro tempore of the Senate, died at his Little Rock home Sunday after suffering a stroke Friday. Born August 18 1854 in Yazoo City Mississippi he trained as a lawyer and rose from Arkansas legislator to US senator elected in 1885 1909 and again reelected. He served as president pro tempore in 1915 and 1916.
Salt Lake City four hours after deliberations the jury found local and out of town plumbers guilty of conspiring to restrain trade under the Sherman act with a mercy recommendation. Maximum penalty one year’s imprisonment and a $10,000 fine or both.
Operations along the Anglo French front north of the Somme are hampered by rain as British forces push into German trenches near Levers and Lestouets. Paris notes activity between Frégicourt and Morval toward the Peronne Fapaume road while fighting continues around the Stuffredoubt. In Transylvania Austro Germans repulse Revnaniacs at Hermannetadt as Russia sees prisoner increases. Macedonia sees Entente forces withstanding Bulgarian attacks and Serbian offensive actions on the Kaimakealan plateau.
Two African American men accused in the killing of Deputy Sheriff James Gideon were seized from Nowata jail by a mob and hanged in front of the courthouse. A minister intervened to suspend one lynching attempt, pulling the man down alive but unconscious. The mob later dispersed and did not return.
The United Workers of America district convention ordered a work stoppage in Washington on Saturday to allow a referendum among members regarding a five percent wage increase.
A fragmentary account details a tiny improvised pistol shaped like a pocket knife. The text describes assembly steps and components such as a cartridge, barrel, and firing mechanism, noting danger and concealment. Details name an improvised fuse and pin, with mentions of close range firing and potential harm.
Health depends on the condition of the pow kadorye. The article notes that in most chemical analyses the other organs cannot readily check health and strength. It mentions New York state attention to kidney health and remedies offered by practitioners.
Regulations are outlined to curb purchases by American reporters of cetansedtitie destined for Russia. The policy, set to take effect May 14, aims to limit transactions and identify who bears the cost as enforcement moves forward.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe gear and assembly steps for a device or mechanism with parts named in unclear form. Mention of Gee cheeky, pieces, bevels, a rock tag, and a gate suggests workshop or production details, but the text is garbled and hard to interpret.
The prompt provides fragmented text about a Geet step and a question on how to proceed with Selene and a guttural phrase. The readable portion hints at a procedure or instruction in a sensory or vocal context without clear names, dates, or places.
The University of Warsaw, reopened after German occupation, reports 1,520 students enrolled including men and women. Of total enrollment 44 percent are women and 1,400 are foreigners, with ties to the old Buland institution suppressed by the authorities.
The Department of Agriculture experiments with wire grass as a pulp substitute for paper. This grass grows on the Pacific coast and western Mexico, offering toughness and potential as a substitute for poplar or liriodendron pulp. Early tests show promising physical properties, but processing yields and market prices require further evaluation.
An incomplete note describes a woman at a theatre event where fringe details and a referenced expiry mark create a cryptic scene. The fragment hints at a dramatic or symbolic moment but lacks clear person, place, or outcome.
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