Sheplar Gets Eighteen Years in Federal Case
James Sheplar pleaded guilty to six counts of personating a United States officer and was sentenced by Judge Allen in Springfield to eighteen years in prison. He targeted women with forged warrants and seized them for immoral purposes, then pleads for mercy which failed as the law hit its maximum.
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United States District Court
Springfield
James Sheplar
United States
Allen
Carnegie
Homestead
Pirrspuran
Carnegie Steel Company, Limited
Union
Beaver Falls
Lomestead
Associated Press
Black
Prrrspuren
Sylvester Critchlow
Critchlow
Magee
Hugh O'Donnell
William Close
Heat Scorches Cities As Cold Wave Follows Across North
July reports describe a severe heat wave with dozens of deaths and prostrations in New York Cincinnati and other cities. A cooling trend follows as temperatures drop into the sixties in the Midwest and frost is noted in Minnesota.
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Fort Aoslanthorne
Cisicag
New York
CineaGo
Corn Belt
Indiana
Illinois
PwmnapetLrata
Cincinnati
Minnearonis
Minn
Fort Assiniboine
British Columbia
St. Pavurt
Minnedosa
B. C
Calgary
Winnipeg
St. Vincent
Prince Albert
Swift Current
Haskinos
Neb
Mercury
Orrumwa
Waucoma
Iowa
Drunkenness in House Sparks Privilege Fight over Watson Book
In Washington the house erupts as Rep. Watson accuses members of drunkenness, prompting a move for a House committee to investigate the charges. A preliminary session leads to closed investigations and a partisan debate over the campaign book Not a Revolt It Is a Revolution by Thomas B. Watson with excerpts alleging misconduct and abuses of the day.
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Washington
Mr. Wheeler
Ala
Congress
Wheeler
Mr. Watson
Tracy
N. Y
Indiana
Georgia
Watson
McMillin
Boatner
Louisiana
Wolverton
Pennsylvania
Buchanan
Virginia
Grant
Vermont
Simpson
Kansas
People’s Party
Thomas BE. Watson
Belshazzar
Cyrus
Daniel
Republic
Eight Perished In Capsizing Of Sailboat Near Canada
A violent thunderstorm off Kingston Ontario capsized a large sailboat with nine aboard. Six drowned, including a man and five women. three were rescued, one of them clinging to the boom. A second report describes the Kate Oakville wreck near Thompson Point with Captain Dewitte and five sailors aboard. two drowned, Mrs Pappa of Kingston and James Salmon of Belleville.
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Kingston
Onn Tononto
Ont
Coppy
Cape Crother
Kineatox
Johnston
Hero
Kate Oakville
Thompson Point
Johnson
Dewitte
Pappa
Cook
James Salmon
James Lamon
Belleville
Kate
Capt
Deadly Thunderbolts Strike Amid Wedding Party
A thunderstorm at Rodney's island near Bertin Wisconsin during a wedding celebration killed two sons of John Evan and fatally injured a boy named Bazing. Three women and three children were badly shocked. Separate storms in Baldwin and Green Bay caused deaths and crop damage, including a beer peddler struck by lightning and a train worker killed on the Winona Southwestern line.
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Bertin
Wis
Labbitt
Rodney's Island
John Evan
Bazing
Joseph Lang
C. van Dycke Brewing Company
Lang
Osace
Iowa
U. F. Vanness
Winona Southwestern Railroad
Four Die in Bagley Shingle Mill Boiler Explosion
A boiler explosion at Hartnell & Smith’s shingle mill in Bagley Otsego county Michigan killed four men Irwin Hutchins L B Parker Andrew Swedock and John Thompson. Fireman Swedock lost an arm and a leg. William Small and Frank Davis injured. Foreman EB Berry in charge. engineer unnamed. Cause undetermined.
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Gaytona
Mich
Bagley
Otsego Lake
Hartnell & Smith
Irwin Hutchins
Parker
Andrew Swedock
John
Indiana Jurist Dies After Sunstroke at Anderson
Judge Milton S. Robinson of the state appellate court died at his Anderson home from sunstroke suffered Tuesday. He was sixty, recently nominated by Republicans to seek another term. This marks a second appellate court vacancy this month after Judge New’s suicide and follows two recent Supreme Court deaths.
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Indiana
Anderson
Indianapolis
Milton S. Robinson
State Appellate Court
New
Supreme Court
Vacation routes and rail promos across the Midwest and East
The notice highlights travel and tourism advances with promotions for the Michigan Central's “Niagara Falls Route” and Santa Fe through cars to Colorado resorts. It lists rail paths from Chicago to Denver Manitou and other resorts, mentions battles and historical routes, and includes quips and ads about travel, literature, and medicine.
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White Mountains
New England
Michigan Central
Niagara Falls
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Pueblo
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Santa Fe
Great Colorado
Ute Pass
Cascade Canyon
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Buena Vista
Glenwood Springs
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Chiemro
J. M. Connell
Clark Street
Words of Warning on Cold and Kidney Ills
A historical notice warns that heat opens pores allowing morbid matter to stress skin and organs, causing cholera morbus and kidney complaints in summer. It promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a sovereign remedy for cold related maladies, selling at twenty five and fifty cents per bottle from Sylvan Remedy Co.
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Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
Ill
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