Reading Pa fur farm plans and odd notes from the era
A collage of brief items: Austrian views on murder trials in ten years. capitalists buying land near Reading Pennsylvania to raise fur bearing animals. a Paducah mechanic who builds scaffolds with expert skill. Frank Leverett studying surface geography near Ann Arbor. Italian and Tunisian army promotions. a contested New York will noting heavy liquor use. the duke of Argyll memoirs and Autobiography. a western senator who keeps a gun ready and faces Congress with vigilance.
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Reading
Absinthe ban shocks through French deputies and art lore
The French chamber of deputies prohibits absinthe manufacture and sale amid a drink crisis with moral panic and famed casualties. In Palestine a new discovery near Jerusalem reveals ancient vats possibly linked to fuller's work. Rev Dr William Jones uncovers civil war documents tied to Lee and Johnson. Pompeii excavation yields a four foot bronze Grecian lamp support statue worth £20,000, hailed as a key find.
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Chamber of Deputies
Guy de Maupassant
Alfred de Murset
Baudelatre
Chambers of Deputies
Rhong
Jerusalem
Palestine Exploration Bund
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Ben-Hassan
Joshua
William Jones
Army of Northern Virginia
Lee
Washington and Lee University
Dr. Jones
Johnson
Pompeii
Syracuse
Florence
Pompeil
John Marshall’s Life and the Revolutionary War Service
Chief Justice John Marshall grew up amid strong influences from his mother and a family devoted to duty. He fought in the American Revolution, gained early military distinction, befriended Washington and Hamilton, presided over Burr’s trial, helped secure ratification of the U S Constitution, and later contributed to American legal and political life while remaining active in social clubs like the Richmond Quoit Club.
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Marshall
Virginia Volunteers
Thomas Marshall
Minute Men
John
Trent. Marshall
Tie
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Hamston
West Virginia
Bia Ife
Aaron Burr
Centennial Anniversary of Chief Justice Marshall Appointment
Centennial observances mark John Marshall the fourth Supreme Court chief on 1765 Virginia birth. Early education under parents, private tutors, and William and Mary lectures led to law license. He practiced in Richmond, served in Virginia politics, then national service as secretary of state and chief justice. His 35 years on the bench produced landmark reports and influential international law views.
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John Marshall
United States
Virginia Bar
James Monroe
France
Adama
Marshall
Supreme Court of the United States
Virginia
Colonies
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Robwrt Kelth
Bruce
Thomas Marehall
Fpanaquier County
Westmoreland County
Tames Madison
Burt
William and Mary College
Wiliam and Mary College
Leslie
Almont
Ife
Virginia Hones
Buigoanes
Executive Council
Mary Willia Ambler
Atnte Treassurer
Thomas Jefferson
Ttaculos
Cary
George Washington
Richmond
Executive Council of the State
Congress
Adams
Supreme Bench
Supreme Court
Princeton University
Madison
Monroe
Eupreme Court
Philadelphia
Architect of Dewey Arch Refuses Commission for Buttons
The lineage traces Charles Rollinson Lamb, famed architect of the Dewey Arch in New York City, noted as a prominent steel engraver of his era. When a committee urged him to engrave a gold button set for the oath ceremony of the first US president, he declined, saying the honor was sufficient.
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Dewey Arch
Charles Rollinson Lamb
New York City
Charles Rollinson
United States
Cora
Almanac 1901 Weather Forecast by Royal Baking Powder Co
A copy of the 1901 almanac from the Royal Baking Powder Co is described as useful for housekeepers. It features daily weather predictions by Prof DeVoe, claims Galveston cyclone accuracy, and offers free copies upon request. Also notes Prof C W Stiles on distinguishing Anopheles malaria mosquitoes by their voice.
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Royal Baking Powder Co
DeVoe
Galveston
William Bt
New York
Jangercun
Mrimlese Afosiantoes
C. W. Stiles
Oldest Yacht in the World Royal George at Tilting
The Royal George, Queen Victoria's first yacht, lies at Portmout h as a depot ship for royal yacht crews during refit. She is the oldest yacht in the world and last saw service in August 1852 when Victoria and the Prince Consort visited Scotland.
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Portamouth
Royal Yachts
Scotland
Prince Consort
Prophetic remark on governorship claim by Kentucky candidate
John W. Yerkes, commissioner of Internal Revenue, recalls an acquaintance among new mountaineers who called him governor before the election. When asked why, the man said it was because after the decision he would not have a chance to call him that.
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Jake
John W. Yerkes
Internal Revenue
Kentucky
Talented Talmudist Lectures in New York and Chicago
Talented talmudist Europe’s famed luminary Veraton of Talend Mabbi Jacob David Wilowski lectures in New York and will speak in Chicago. He led a large congregation in Sluzh Russia and earned literary fame with eighteen volumes on the Jewish talmid commentary.
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Ontal
Talend
Mabbi
Jacob David Wilowski
Europe
New York
Chicago
Sluzh
Russa
Tenant and Landlord Exchange in Balom Store Case
Randinsd entered a Balom Mass store and ordered the tenant to vacate. The tenant, displaying a police badge, demanded the landlord leave under threat of arrest for trespass. The startled landlord fled the scene according to the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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Wenant
Police Officer Rescued and Exalted in Danish Society
Ottis A. C. Swanson of the Cotman Hutte Force Folly au Tutorent Ing Wters Connell Bluffs Jan. 19 1901 Special Kindhearted Officer Swanson popular here has served the city seventeen years and held many offices. He is Vice-President of the Dannebrog Brotherhood the largest Danish secret society in America. He suffered kidney and liver trouble from exposure and long hours on duty but recovered after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He credits the remedy with a complete cure after about two months and notes the pills help with many ailments including rheumatism and bladder trouble. sale is large via local drugstores.
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Ottis A. C. Swanson
Cotman Hutte
Ing Wters
Connell Bluffs
Jaws
Swanson
Dannebrog” Brotherhood
America
Hoa
Dodd
Iowa
Spartan mother seeks papers over her son’s golf linked disorder
A Spartan mother on Long Island applied to a police court for papers to compel her son to answer before a magistrate for disorderly conduct. She says he refuses to work and spends daylight hours playing golf.
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Lary Fon
Long Iatand Hau
A decisive test for blood origin in crime trials
A method to determine if stains are human or animal blood using sera prepared with red blood cells from sheep, cattle, or fowls. If the serum dissolves the stain quickly, the stain originates from that animal. The procedure, proposed by M Ladislas Deutsch of Budapest, could aid many criminal trials.
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Regent
M. Ladislas Deutsch
Buda
Peat
New York Sun
Boy Silcote Refused Penitentiary Sentenced to Reform School
A youth known as Doc Silcote faced a criminal court over stealing 24 pounds of bullion from a freight car near the Union Pacific smelter. After voir dire and expert testimony from a veterinarian and a crowd barber, the court ruled he is under legal age and not eligible for the penitentiary, sentencing him to four terms in the reform school. The judge questioned the boy’s age, while attorneys and witnesses offered uncertain clues.
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Harber
Criminal Court
Doc” Silcote
Baker
Union Pacific
Sileote
Ag Ale
Hero
der Teelive Wisward
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Sicote Ting
Silcote
Siicote
Porto Rico Judge Sulzbacher Reforms Constitutional Reach
The Chicago Record notes Judge Sulzbacher, a New Mexico native who learned Spanish and befriended Senator Hykins, as a diplomatist with resources. It credits him with a controversial view that the constitution follows the flag, remarking on the speed of that process as the policy toward new possessions evolved.
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Becuse
Chicago
Senator Carter’s Opportunition and Montana Politics
The Friends of Thomas Henry Carter, U S senator from Montana, seek a professorship for him at the Catholic university in the city, while Carter contends he has not yet been defeated for re election. He is a former school teacher and knows how to teach. A Washington letter discusses Montana politics and party strength.
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Carter
Thomas Henry Carter
United States
Maritana
Catholic University
Mr. Carter
Cn Eldorphia
Montana
Ar. Carter
Washington
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