Bride Renounced Then Rewed for Heir to Fortune
In Wabash Indiana a rural mail carrier known as George C. Eckman plans to annul his recent marriage to the same woman and remarry under the name Everhault to claim a grandfather’s will. Officials urged a legal annulment and a new ceremony to secure a farm and bank funds. Elsewhere a Malvern Arkansas dynamite blast near a gas main disrupted gas across Hot Springs Argenta Benton and smaller towns leaving thousands without fuel as cold weather looms.
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Wabash
Ind
George C. Eckman
Everhauit
Pennsylvania
Eckman
Everhault
Middletown VA Poultry Club Ships 1500 Egg Settings
The Middletown high school poultry club sent 1500 settings of purebred Barred Plymouth Rock eggs to farmers for hatching this season. The project aims to build a community purebred strain, with eggs sold or exchanged, overseen by a school janitor and aided by a USDA specialist.
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County High School Club
Middletown
Plymouth Rock
Aingle Rock
Plymouth Rocks
Tis
United States Department of Agriculture
Poultry Club
Fcolks
Pork Promise Turns into Cold Porker Tale
A West Congress representative recalls his Missouri teaching days when farmers “boarded” teachers for taxes. Tim Moor asks if the teacher likes pork. the farmer promises meat, but the pig dies and no pork arrives, a story framed as a rural mock-lesson.
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Congress
West
Missouri
Tim Moorhead
Tim
Harper’s Weekly
Solvine Baths Advertises Rheumatism Relief
Rheumatic sufferers are urged to mail 25 cents for samples of Solvine Baths offered by the Solvine Company based in Cincinnati Ohio. Station B promotes relief and a potential profit through sales.
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Solvine Company
Cincinnati
Local Jeffersonville Endorsement for Doan's Kidney Pills
Jeffersonville resident Tennis Donovan of 417 W Maplett testifies his back pain headaches and dizziness eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He reports a prompt and permanent improvement and urges others to buy the 50 cent remedy from dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y distributes the product.
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Jeffersonville
Dean
Donovan
W. Maplett
Doan
Schiffmann’s New Concentrated Expectorant Half-Price Offer
M. F. Doherty promotes Schiffmann’s New Concentrated Expectorant offering a 50c bottle for 25c with a one-bottle-per-person coupon limit. The remedy targets bronchial ailments, coughs, colds and related conditions, claiming no narcotics and promising safe use for children. The coupon requires name and address to obtain the discounted bottle.
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M. F. Doherty
Schiffmann
M. F. Doherty's
Instructive Childs Drawings and Witty Observations
An illustrated classroom moment recalls a pupil drawing a well and three buckets from The Old Oaken Bucket with dots for infancy memories. A Harper’s Weekly quip list adds humor about politicians packing trunks and sly sayings on marriage and optimism with brief maxims.
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New York
Maimy
Harper’s Weekly
Youth Confesses Crime In Brutal Chicago Murder
Paul Rustam a twenty two year old Persian youth confessed to stabbing and killing Clarence Guinan a 60 year old hotel janitor. He was captured less than three hours after the discovery and walked 20 miles through the city before arrest.
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Chicago
Paul Rustam
Beacen
Clarence Guinan
Rustam
Attempted Bank Robbery Leads to Arrests in New York
Police say three men William Eliott 27 Charles Hoffman 29 and William Clark 24 attempted to rob the New Netherland Bank cashier by hooking a bag of bills on a cane. The trio described themselves to officers as the suspects in a string of thefts totaling 125 900 dollars over recent months. One man enraged the cashier during talks while another pushed the cane through cage bars to withdraw money before arrest.
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New York
New Netherland
William Eliott
Charles Hoffman
William Clark
Widow Starves To Death In Chicago After Hoch Case
Mrs. Mary Hoch Wernke, widow of Johann Hoch and part of the Hoch bigamy and slave network, died in Chicago County Hospital after being found near death at 658 Rees Street. She had suffered long starvation and pneumonia, and doctors failed to revive her due to extreme malnutrition.
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Chicago
Johann Hoch
Hoch
Mary Hoch Wernke
Rees Street
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Indiana
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Evanswelle
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Happy
David Eckman
Everhaul
Arkansas Cities
Little Rock
Ark
Malvern
Caddo
Louisiana
Hot Springs
Argenta
Benton
Smaler
Fred K. Dunlevy
Jeffersonville, Ind
Gust A. Schimptt
Spring St
Little Pig
United Gas & Electric Coh. M. Frank
Frank’s
Bie Meer
U Stes
Persia
Willian Jackson
Omar Khayyam
Bank Cage
Trio
Ried
State Street
New Albany, Indiana
Commercial School
Aes
Spencerian Commercial School
Encorporater
Matin Streets
Louisville, Ky
Market
Broadway
Monarch Lump
Pittsburg Lump
The
West Side Doal & Teaming Co
Market & Broadway
W. J. Stirr, Mer
Nashua
Custome
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