Lost Saints From Utah Prepare To See The Fleet
A remnant of about 100 aging Utah residents long isolated from modern life plan a trip to San Francisco to view a U.S. fleet sailing around the world. They recall Brigham Young era memories while embracing a budding sense of national pride sparked by the warships in transit.
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Brigham Young
Plains
Nauvoo
Ill
Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Zion
Great American Plains
West
Brigham
United States
Albert Sidney Johnson
Sam
San Francisco
K U Boys and Their Games at Kansas University
At Kansas University in Lawrence students between classes play two diversions. Engineers enjoy horseshoe pitching on grounds near the Fowler shops while Law students play crackaloo by Greenhall. Crackaloo involves tossing a dollar toward a crack in the cement walk with five cents paid from each player to the winner when kept. The Laws recently challenged the Engineers to a tug of war but the university barred the match to avoid trouble.
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Lawrence
Kas
University of Kansas
Fowler
Laws
Engineers
Law School
Greenhall
Law
Park Commissioners urged to hire top musicians for summer concerts
A reader urges the park board to employ the best musicians for regular concerts this summer. The letter argues that union or nonunion status should not affect the contract and that high quality music, even if slightly higher, is preferred.
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Board of Park Commissioners
Oklahoma Senate Rejects Stanford Bill For Chiro Practice College
In Guthrie Oklahoma the Senate defeated Senator Standford's measure to recognize a chiropractic school of medicine. The proposal would allow a chiro-practice college to grant diplomas to graduates amid a costly lobbying effort observed at Guthrie.
Young Shawnee Girl Wins Damages Suit
May Sears aged 15 of Shawnee Oklahoma wins a supreme court damages judgment against an electric light firm for 10 000 dollars with two years interest for the loss of her leg after contact with a live wire while walking on a Shawnee street.
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Shawnee, Ok
Shawner, Ox
May Sears
Shawnee
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Shawnee Light and Power Jury Award Upheld on Injury Suit
A plaintiff burned in a press incident sued Shawnee Light and Power. She suffered severe injuries requiring amputation and later recovered. In a lower court suit before Judge Burwell she received $10,000, a verdict upheld by the state supreme court.
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Shawnee Light and Power Company
Burwell
Supreme Court of
Emaline and a Bulldog Dine on Office Friction
In a garbled office scene a boy sings about being married. The junior clerk frets as the tune shifts and hints that a big change has occurred at home, with the pair chatting about the busted housekeeping in a tense moment.
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Gwan
Marital Misadventure With Aggressive Bulldog
A newlywed story unfolds as Emaline’s prized wedding gifts spark chaos. The narrator buys a bulldog for Emaline, the dog bites, pulls the narrator into a chaotic scene with broken glass and china, ending with Emaline fleeing to the bathroom.
Goats, Guns and a Kitchen Thief in a Lively Flatroom Scuffle
In a tense scene Xenophon forces a door and Emaline pursues him as chaos erupts. A shotgun blast tears through the floor while Emaline slips, a shoe swallowed by Xenophon who chokes on it. Emaline declares bigamy as the violence ends and she plans to bring her mother to live with them.
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Xenophon
Emaline
Oklahoma Governor Weighs Booze Parties Against Law
Oklahoma Governor Haskell says no booze parties at home and would prosecute hosts. Lawyers doubt his broad zeal fits existing law. The state attorney general has not issued an opinion on dispensing liquor to guests, while the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure notes hospitality in one's own home is not an offense under prohibitions in several states.
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Gothem
Haskell
Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure
Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Iowa
Kansas
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Pennsylvania Delegates Instructed For Bryan In 1904
Warren Wirth of Johnstown announces that 51 of 64 district delegates chosen by popular vote will back William J. Bryan. Bryan Democratic League victories in James M. Guffey's district and elsewhere solidify Bryan control of the Pennsylvania convention, with instructed delegates and a pro Bryan platform. Reports of uninstructed Pennsylvanian delegates are denied.
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Warren Wirth
Johnstown
Bryan Democratic League of Pennsylvania
Keystone
William J. Bryan
Charles W. Bryan
Bryant
Bryan Democratic League
James M. Guffey
Philadelphia
Donnelly-Ryan Organization
Bryan
Guffey Teade
Pennsylvania
Denver
Italy to Intimidate Turkey With Naval Demonstration
Rome April 18. Orders issued for an Italian squadron to demonstrate in Turkish waters to protest Turkish objections to Italian post offices in Turkish territory. The plan, not connected with the Tripoli issue, involves the battleship under the Duke of the Abruzzi and his fleet.
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Rome
Turkey
Tripoli
Duke of the
Tragedy in West 154th Street Boiler Room Fire
One dead and three ill after coal gas suffocation in a house boiler room on West One Fifty Fourth Street New York. Thomas Quinn 41 his wife Alice and son John 14 hospitalized in danger but expected to recover. Younger son Joseph 6 died at the scene. The family had been dis possessed yesterday and slept in the boiler room last night.
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New York
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Street
Thomas Quinn
Alice
John
Joseph
Death of Judge Alfred Craig in Freponta Kansas
Judge Alfred Craig died in Freponta Kas after a career as county commissioner justice of the peace and panel judge in this city He served in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry and will be buried with Masonic honors tomorrow in the county town
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Jariet
Freponta
Kas
Alfred Craig
Kansas Cavalry
Kansas Supreme Court may prosecute Pittsburg saloonists for contempt
The Kansas Supreme Court may prosecute seventeen Pittsburg jointists for contempt of court over paying money to Frank Linski to cover warrants for firemen and policemen. Linski admits deposits totaling about 4600 dollars to a Pittsburg bank and issued checks to salaries, while witnesses vary on who directed the deposits. The attorney general plans immediate testimony to identify who instructed jointists to pay and to uncover further contempt actions.
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Topeka
Pittsburg
Supreme Court
Frank Linski
Linski
Soldier shot a sergeant in Wolsey barracks
London Ontario April 18 Color Sergeant Harry L Lloyd of the Twenty eighth regiment Stratford was shot and killed by Private Moyer of the Royal Canadian regiment at Wolsey barracks last night Moyer appeared intoxicated Lloyd reprimanded him and ordered him to quarters An orderly heard a noise from Moyers room and both men were found When the door opened Moyer fired killing Lloyd Then he seized a revolver and pursued the orderly who escaped Moyer fled into darkness and was not captured Lloyd died within minutes
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London
Ontario
Harry L. Lloyd
Stratford
Moyer
Royal Canadian Regiment
Wolsey Barracks
Lloyd
Acid Attacker Keeney Captured After Five Years
In St Louis on April 18 Frank Cullen Keeney, sought for five years on a charge of disfiguring his wife with carbolic acid, was recognized on the street and arrested. Hubert Estes, father of the victim and an insurer, assisted in the capture. The attack followed the wife filing for divorce. she remarried after winning the suit and plans to prosecute Keeney. Keeney made no comment on arrest.
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New York
Keeney
Move Toward Union Talk at Troy Methodist Conference
At the Troy conference session in Saratoga on April 18 a memorial was adopted urging the general conference to pursue organic union among the Methodist Episcopal and allied groups. The conference also declined to strike the ban on dancing card playing and theater from the book of discipline.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Troy
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Methodist
Episcopal, Free Methodist
New Methodist
Leaking Boat Drowns 14-Year-Old Boy in Oklahoma Pond
Oliver Veach, 14, drowned when a boat leaked during a pond outing with three Muskogee youths. Two companions escaped, but Veach disappeared after they leaped overboard and swam to shore. rescue reached him too late.
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Muskogee, Ok
Muskocer
Oliver Veach
Veach
Tenth Ward Club Attends Funeral Service This Afternoon
The Tenth Ward Republican club will attend the funeral of C. E. Burnham in a body this afternoon. Members are asked to meet at Twenty Sixth Street and Prospect Avenue at 1 45 oclock.
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Tenth Ward Club
Tenth Ward
Republican Club
C. E. Burnham
Twenty-sixth Street
Prospect Avenue
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