Will o' the Wisp Suspect Linked to Auburn Prison Escape
Superintendent Arnes and Inspector Barnes confront a sprawling case of robberies and a shadowy fugitive. Frank Ellison reveals a potential link to an escaped Auburn prisoner named Will o' the Wisp, offering to aid if he can seize a compromising document. The department weighs trust, leverage, and a risky meeting.
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Mac
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Will O' the Wisp
Auburn
Fersonally
Martin Frale
Frale
Will
Shos
Frank Ellison
Ellison
Beatchief
Sorrowful Mother's Sympathy For Missing Patrick
Washington Post reports Chaplain Edward Wattman returned to Washington from the Philippines with humor about an elderly Irish mother whose son Patrick is listed as missing. The priest told her Patrick was captured, strapped to a Filipino and being driven into the mountains, prompting the mother to exclaim prayers and concern for her son.
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Edward Wattman
Washington
Philippines
Matt Patrick
Hame
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Washingtonian
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Wattman
Patrick
Filipiny
Fragmented OCR Reflects Ailed Voice and Hidden Names
A garbled OCR passage presents a struggle with meaning, mentioning a governor, success, and a self serving act. Names, dates, and clear events are obscured by corruption. The fragment hints at judgment on merit versus selfish gain and references unnamed people and places in a historical newspaper context.
Park to Preserve Jumel Mansion Site in New York
New York's board of estimate and apportionment voted unanimously to create a park on the block between West One Hundred and Sixty Street and Edgecomb Ford and Jumel Terrace. The park aims to acquire and preserve the Jumel mansion once used by General Washington as his headquarters.
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Jerba
Hendricks
Job
Washington
Board of Estimate and Apportionment of
New York
Westons Hundred
The College Man Refutes Degree Claim In Puck Note
A column and a Puck reflection discuss a man who did not earn a degree yet belonged to prominent societies and led the cotillion at the promenade. The piece questions whether the diploma truly mattered to his standing among peers.
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Puck
Experimental ideas on electricity and medicine from a quirky era
The passage mixes speculative science with advertisements and local notices. It mentions heated copper wire, radium concepts, and electron speed, then shifts to a Boston Herald charity breakfast for 4,000 hosted by the Visiting Nurse association, raising funds for an emergency hospital. Also cited are backache cures and a Dewey-era drug ad for Dean's Kidney Pills with testimonials from A. A. Boyes.
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Boston Herald
Winchester
Mase
A. A. Boyes
Trenton
Boyce
United States
Lester Milburn Co
Buffalo
Kerosene Oil for Mosquitoes Mentioned in Humorous Dialogue
In a light exchange Johnny and Mamma joke about using kerosene oil to kill mosquitoes. Johnny ponders why they do not give the pests castor oil, reflecting a playful rural conversation about remedies.
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Puck
Johnny
Uncle Sam's Girl Army in the Typing Service
Chicago Tribune notes 5000 women typewriters work from early morning to near 6 pm for the U S government. Workers are paid well and can select machines, with new hires naming preferred machines for purchase. Mention of Liverpool docks and global cotton trade follows.
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Chicago Tribune
United States
Uncle Ram
Clyde Pitch
Uncle Sam
Allen's Foot-Ease powder advert claim cure for feet
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a universal remedy for painful, smarting feet and ingrown nails. It promises instant relief from corns and burning, ease in tight shoes, and reduces sweating and tiredness with 80 000 testimonials. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, trial package offered. Address Allen 8, Olm ated, Le Roy, N. .
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Allen
le Roy
Mari
Bowling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Complete External and Internal Treatment Ad Teaser
Complete external and internal treatment claims for Cuticura remedies. Promises cures for scaly itchy disfiguring humours of skin scalp and blood in infants children and adults. Includes testimonial style assurances of success where other remedies fail and a brief note directing readers to mention the ad in the Sioux City paper.
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Sioux City
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