Pickpockets Steal Honeymoon Funds in Manitowoc
Frank Pritchard of Manitowoc reports four men in the Chicago and Northwestern depot stole his purse as he and his wife prepared to depart on a delayed wedding trip. The haul totaled 550 dollars, including 280 cash and two checks for 250 and 20. Pritchard had just finished at Cornell University and the couple married three months ago in Chicago.
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Manitowoc
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Chicago and Northwestern
Elks
Frank Pritchard
Young Pritchard
Cornell University
Chicago
Pritchard
Cornell
Three Floor Dive Kills Silk Thief in Milwaukee
Abraham Itzgorovitch a 36 year old tailor died at Emergency hospital after leaping from a third floor window during a department store silk robbery. He struck cement casement and landed head and shoulders suffering skull fractures and internal injuries. A companion who escaped was not yet arrested as Patrolman Pritzkow pursued the thief two blocks after the theft.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Abraham Itzgorovitch
Pritzkow
Weavere w.etul Is Coined and Mint System
The article explains a four-mint system with parent mint in Philadelphia and branches at New Orleans San Francisco and Denver. It notes one and five cent coins are struck in Philadelphia which also handles gold and silver coinage. Congress fixes coin denominations fineness and value while the Washington mint director regulates issuances. Paper money is designed and printed by the Bureau of Engraving in Washington St Louis Times.
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Philadelphia
New Orleans
San Francisco
Denver
Congress
Washington
Bureau of Engraving
St Louis Times
Golf In Scotland The sport of kings and early international match
The text traces golf as a mid seventeenth century Scottish pastime promoted by James VI and the “clubmaker to his hienes.” It notes Charles I learning of the Irish rebellion while on Leith links and the first recorded international match where the Duke of York later James II and a Edinburgh shoemaker beat England’s best golfers.
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Scotland
James VI
Hienes
Leith
Charles I
Duke of York
James Ir
Edinburgh
England
A Champion’s Gift Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Tale
A proverb-like anecdote claims a champion’s sole gift to his wife on their twenty-fifth anniversary was four yards of cotton cloth to make him a shirt, illustrating the line between grand rhetoric and practical action.
Bodies of Two Teens Recovered Near Chippewa Falls
The bodies of Leslie Favell aged 16 and Kenneth Martel aged 17 arrived in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. They died when their steel boat capsized on Chain Lake twenty seven miles north while a high school senior class party fished during a weeklong outing.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Leslie Favell
Kenneth Martel
Chain Lake
Man Marries Man in Rome Annulling Quick Divorce
Anna Mirozzi a man, married Giovanni Sharaglia after a months long ruse. The union was annulled by court order and "Anna" must shave the long tresses and work as a farmhand until all legal costs are paid under Italian law.
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Rome
Anna Mirozzi
Giovanni Sharaglia
Anna
A Long Look Ahead
A humorous quip on domestic life from Somerville Journal noting a young couple fretting over a future boxing baby. The cartoonish remark highlights family life and parental nerves with a playful tone.
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Mabel
Tom
Somerville Journal
Prosperous Year Predicted By Leading Financiers View
A 1913 outlook from the Fourth National Bank of New York reports bankers across multiple cities foresee general prosperity and business development. They cite solid crop prospects, increasing money demand, currency reform needs, tariff unsettlements, and cautious borrowing. Also notes notable optimism despite tariff revisions and geopolitical tensions.
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Fourth National Bank of
New York
Batavian National Bank of la
Batavian Bank
United States
East
France
Japan
Amusement notes on dull day and girls baseball team
A Chicago Tribune quip notes the amusement world dullness while joking about a girl’s baseball team having a better excuse. A street car conductor complains about passengers, and a passenger mentions microbes in a car, illustrating light city humor.
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Chicago Tribune
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Frank Kohn
Elliott
Loeffler CO
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Silk
J. E. Willing, JR
South Fourth
New York National Bank
Europe
Pacific Coast
City of
Balbriggan
India
Ade
Men’s Athletic Union
Krotch Union
Stein-Bloch
ARROW
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Gotzian
McDonald
Summit
Bellmont
Nell Thompson
South Fourth Street
Poehling’s
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