Jealous husband shoots wife in Chicago murder suicide attempt
Victor Roland O Shea killed his young wife Amelia Hogenson in the Hogenson home after secret marriage to Min s Anne Wal f. The mother intervened, O Shea shot himself twice, one bullet lodging in his lung. Amelia died from two bullet wounds including a heart shot. The couple had wed secretly a year earlier in Waukegan.
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Victor Roland ‘O'Abea
Chicago
Ife
Young O'Shea
Mins Anne- Walf
Hoxenson
Waukegan
Patrick J. O'Shea
O'Shea
Patrick O'Shea
Unity Build
Lla Deed
Miss Sarah Biddle Defends the 400 in New Paper Book
Miss Sarah Biddle of the Philadelphia Biddle family writes Letters of an American Concerning Love and Other Subjects to be published in November. She counters Henry Watterson’s attack on the 400 calling it unjust. She defines the true 400 as refined, cultured individuals through gentility and brains with virtue and intellect as the badge. She argues no nobler set exists, anywhere.
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Sarah Biddle
America
Philadelphia
Lng
Miss Biddle
Henry Watterson
Society of the East
Evils of Spite Lawsuits
The New York Law Journal laments spiteful litigation as unprofitable and humiliating. Suing for revenge offers brief satisfaction from newspaper notices of suits but lacks merit, becomes costly and irksome, and ends with costs if no judgment is won.
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New York Law Journal
Longer and Easier Lives in the Modern Era
The piece reflects on the census finding that people live longer than ancestors. It credits medical and sanitary progress and notes that life extension is not fully captured by age at death. It discusses comfort, time, space, and provision shaping modern existence.
Ideal American City Mount Cory Peaceful Life
A Mount Cory Ohio hamlet ten miles from Findlay is described as a peaceful utopia by the Kansas City Star. It has seventy five houses with seven preachers, no saloons, and a mayor who serves as notary for uniting separated families. Winters see residents swapping stories by a grocery stove and summers spent whittling sticks and carving initials in pine.
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Mount Cory
Findlay
Ohio
Kanyas City Star
Szore
Saula
Calahoose
Energy of naval guns could lift Great Pyramid
The text compares gun discharge energy to locomotives and fleet firepower. It states a twelve inch gun’s blast equals nine forty ton locomotives at sixty mph, and ten minutes of battleship and cruiser firepower would produce at least 100,000,000 foot-tons of energy, capable of lifting the eight and a half million ton pyramid twelve feet.
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Lasyp- Ulan Sands
St Louis Boodle Combine Confession Revealed
BB Maerill former speaker of the St Louis city council made a full confession of his role in the boodle combine. John K Murrell, brother to Maerill, returned from Mexico to speak of his part and the motives that drew him back to disclose all. He said the penitentiary could not scare him as much as fleeing justice and the distress of his wife left in St Louis by those who pledged aid in his absence.
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Maerill
House of Delegates
St. Lowia
J. K. Murrell
Mexico
John K. Murrell
St Louis
Youthful College Professor Named Greek Instructor
Prof. J. Anderson Fitzgerald has been named by the State Board of Regents as instructor in Greek at Marshall College. The appointment marks a notable rise for the youthful scholar amid the college’s expanding humanities program.
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J. Anderson Fitzgerald
State Board of Regents
Marshall College
Death of mining magnate Winfield Scott Stratton in Colorado
Winfield Scott Stratton died in Colorado Springs after a brief illness. Born in 1848 in Jefferson County Indiana, he moved to Colorado at 24 and struck it rich with the Independence mine in Cripple Creek. He became a millionaire, sold to an English syndicate for 11 million, invested in Colorado real estate, and was known for charity.
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Winfield Scott Stratton
Winfield
Stratton
Colorado Springs
Colo
Jefferson County
Ind
Colorado
Independence
Cripple Creek
Tabor
Senator Tabor
Unclear Fragment on Shadows and Blunders in Afterlife
The text speaks of a land of shadows where wrongdoers repent and a corner reserved for blunderers such as a trolley man who ignored danger, a boy who left an elevator door open, and a person who rocked the boat. It portrays a hopeful yet somber outlook on collective guilt within a future judgment.
Invention of an Actress Prompts Railroad Bolt Patent
Miss Gertrude Arden, a show girl from Foxy Grandpa, has patented a bolt for railway rails that locks the nut and holds plates, hoping to earn fortune. She is a widely traveled, well read Southern society figure who once owned an Florida orange grove before frost truncated her trees and led to a stage career.
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Gertrude Arden
Misa Gertrude Arden
Florida
Miss Arden
War Statistics Quick View From South African War
Hospital data in an English medical journal reports 6 776 officers and men killed in action 2 010 died of wounds 18 272 died of disease. In action one officer killed per 10.15 men and one officer wounded per 11.34. Disease deaths yield one officer per 38.5. About 70 000 invalids sent home, over 6 000 died or left service. Hospital cites Battle of Gravotte to show war was not large.
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Hospital
The
Honpitel
Gravalotte
Odd St Petersburg tale shows car troubles and sly reply
In St Petersburg a brief, quirky anecdote recounts a car repeatedly failing and prompting opposing opinions among a crowd. A participant calls someone an idiot, and a calm reply from the car’s owner agrees with the sentiment in a lightly humorous exchange.
Letting Him Off Easy In Arctic Sacrifice
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer quote a father tests a promise from a man who boasts of brave sacrifice and a polar mission. The speaker jokes about sending him into the harsh winter to prove his commitment. The family contemplates a severe but playful challenge to gauge loyalty.
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North Pole
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hibernians to Incorporate State Divisions
National board of directors of the Ancient Order of Hibernians decides to incorporate each state division. President Dolan is authorized to act as president of the order in the United States, Canada and Mexico to arrange details of similar character.
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Hibernians
Ancient
Order of Hiberniana
Order
Dolan
United States
Canada
Mexico
Beyond Even Morgan's Reach
First Citizen Morgan declares his one wish is to keep his name out of the newspapers. He notes happiness lies in desiring what he can obtain, a sentiment that echoes his public posture amid ongoing coverage.
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Morgan
Dewnpapers
Pasteur Institute Treatment Gains Popularity in Calcutta
The Pasteur Institute in Calcutta treats bite victims and shows strong uptake among locals. In eight months ending May 31, 352 persons were treated with a mortality of 0.5 percent, a notable outcome for public health efforts.
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Pasteur Institutes
India
Pasteur
Calcutta
Remarkable Cure for Child's Spell by Kidney Pills
A Mes A Le Smith of West Pembroke Maine describes her thirteen year old daughter’s years of recurring spells. After trying Dodd's Kidney Pills the girl recovered after one box and remained well, using five boxes last fall and four more in March. The mother credits the remedy for the health restoration and warns of the spells returning if untreated.
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West Pembroke
Mes
A. le Smith
Apelle
Theygl
Dodd
Joax
Indian ruler allows widow remarriage decree in Englanded education link
An Indian native ruler educated in England issues a decree permitting widow remarriage. Observers note India has over 20 million widows, many under ten, living in virtual slavery. The move is seen as a potential change in social status and a gain for reformers.
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India
England
Endorsement for Peruna and systemic catarrh cures
A Denver reader endorses Peruna after her husband recovered from nervous prostration and poor sleep. The letter links nervous prostration with systemic catarrh, urges Peruna to preserve mucous membranes and stop discharges, and invites readers to consult Dr. Hartman for free advice at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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Grant Avenue
Denver
Colo
Ida L. Gregory
Antia
Peroni
Hartman
Fii
Gratia
Adiress
Dr. Hartman
Uthe Hartman Sanitarium
Calwalius, Oy
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