Forged His Pardon and Notorious Forger George Lewis
The Leavenworth authorities hunt George Lewis a noted forger once a war department messenger. He forged pardons and raised a $2 draft to $20 000 by faking a bank draft and department letterheads while imprisoned at Lansing Kan. His daring plan involved a warden in Washington and a forged secretary of war signature. He skills at penmanship made his fraud convincing before discovery and arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lewis
War Department
Leavenworth County
Kan
Topeka
Lewis
France
America
Providence
Virginia
George
Ninth Cavalry
Washington
Lansing
John H. Smith
Leavenworth National Bank
Lynchburg
Leavenworth Bank
Portland Oregonian
Grover Cleveland A Sprinter Dog And Other Tales
A South Portsmouth man reports his yellow dog Grover Cleveland is a famed sprinter along the Chesapeake and Ohio line, racing trains into the depot with a flawless record at the yard's edge. Also noted are North Carolina judges ruling Peter Ney is Marshal Ney beyond reasonable doubt, little Billee’s stage rise, a dog barometer at Eagle Mills, Chauncey Depew’s witty train pass, Nevada senator Stewart’s silver-coin club, and the shuttle between shade trees and summer happiness ending the caterpillar threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Taylor
South Portsmouth
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Grover Cleveland
Chicago Tribune
Divorce Mill in Oklahoma Turbulence and Reform Readings
A long analysis notes Oklahoma’s divorce boom with attorneys profiting from four week stays, the probate judge issuing licenses and decrees, and a Buffalo husband incident. It highlights a Baltimore plan to fund a domestic service school for 1000 women at 24 dollars yearly for three years, aiming to train girls for cooking, serving, and housekeeping. The piece reflects period views on divorce, gender roles, and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas City
Kan
Oklahoma
Tam
New York
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Buffalo
Golden Gate
Territorial
New York Sun
Baltimore
Baltimore Plain
Chicago
Fireworks Trade Booms with Massive Output and New Designs
New York manufacturers report over 1 million dollars spent on fireworks this year in the state alone. One firm sold 7,500,000 packs of fire crackers, with 70 buildings in operation since January to meet demand. Prices drop as tariffs fall, while novelties like Trolley Wheels and Magic Fountain attract buyers. Offhand orders include Columbus and Capitol reproductions, with sets priced from 5 to 1200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
Capitol
Washington
New York Evening Sun
Reunion and Remarriage at Niagara Falls After Wealth
A long separated couple reunites at Niagara Falls. Regina Comedion, 20, married Edward Doyle, 40, in 1888. He left for Colorado prospecting for gold, they divorced, he returns with wealth, and they remarry at the falls with Rev. R. C. Brownley in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
Regina Comedion
Edward L. Doyle
Doyle
Gould
Colorado
Buffalo
The
Falls
R. C. Brownley
Methodist
New York Recorder
Finance books and mining tale pop up in odd page mix
The page blends a chaotic sales pitch for finance books with a Boise gold strike tale. A newsboy hawks finance works while a mining discovery near the Payette river yields rich ore. A Baltimore car incident shows a hen protecting her brood as a motor glides by. A vaccination note and Buffalo drinking contrast close the jumble.
Eloped on a steer to wed ends in violent custody clash
Lonella Regal 16 and Burton Preston 18 of Tuscola Va rode a steer 42 miles to Coeburn on a quest to marry without funds for a license. Unable to find a minister they raised money to travel to Bristol Tenn where they wed. Three masked men and the girl's father then halted the couple’s return and injured the girl in a dispute, while she fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscola
Coeburn
Clinch Valley
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Lonella Regal
Burton Preston
Bristol
Tenn
Thoma
Wise County
Pre
New York
Last of Her Race The Aryan Launch and Builder
The Aryan the last wooden sailing ship, launched July 18 from Charles V Minott yard in Phippsburg Maine. Owned by James W Elwell Co New York and Captain W R Dickinson. Length 245 ft 6 in beam 42 ft 2 in depth 21 ft 1 in net tonnage 2017, gross 2128. Crew 26. Built by M Minott who supervised. Ship to sail from San Francisco April 21 bound for stock and wharf cargo due mid August. International canal and steel ships noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles V. Minott
Phippsburg
James W. Elwell & Co
South Street
New York
W. R. Dickinson
Shipentine Rappahanpock
Erie
M* Minott
United States
Canada
Elwell
San Prancisco
Nicaragua Canal
Mr. Elwell
Aimerteah “Lipbuilder
BORN ON WHEELS AND TALES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY LEGEND
A long obituary style reminiscence honors John Coser Cicero Gustavus Darling, a famed Sullivan County hunter famed for yarns at Sand Pond. The piece recalls his odd feats, including a two wheeled cart for a hog, straw parlor scenes with creatures, and a whimsical tale of a straw stack collapse ending in a cyclone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Coser
Cicero Gustavus Darling
Sullivan County
Sand Pond
Tonee
St. Louis
Gilbo- Democrat
Tow Oil by Atlantic to Europe Experiment
Reported move by Standard Oil to tow oil barges from Atlantic ports to Europe starting July 15. Lachkawan na to land 21,000 barrels of petroleum in New York and sail to Southampton with barge 58 loaded with 500,000 gallons of naphtha and coal oil products under Captain Rudolph Rabell. Longest tow on record could spawn transatlantic barge fleet and new oil trade routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Atlantic
Europe
New York
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Southampton
Rudolph Rabell
New York Recorder
Little Robinson Crusoe at Schiller charms Chicago crowd
Reviewers hail the burlesque at Schiller as original and uproarious with Faldie Fay in The Devil Willie delivering masterful comic study. Marie Dressler and J ina Cruger headline in Ophelia Crigie with special matinee cabinet photos and a long-distance box office phone option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Schiller
Foy
Marie Dressler
Tom
Jina
Systein
Cheney and Co oath and advert for catarrh cure
Frank J. Cheney of Toledo swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co promising payment of one hundred dollars for each uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notices of medicines, tonics, and several regional adverts appear, including Kidney and liver cures, Chamberlain ointment, and various railroad excursion rates and land sales in Mississippi and Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Ohio
Toledo
le Lions
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleason
Cheney & Co
The
Roquet
Westmoreland Co
Chamberlain
E. M. Frye
Boquet
Wm. Hogan
City Drug Store
How and When Northern travel promises safe line
A fragment discusses choosing Northern transport as reliable and safe with new cars on a smooth track. It urges readers to act now, promising easier access to information from WM Curte and agents in St Paul, Minn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adamses
Samuel
John
John Quincey
United States
Field Brothers
David Dudley
Stephen J
United States Supreme Court
Cyrus W
Atlantic
Henry M
Chicago
Murlington & Quincy
Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Burlington & Missouri River
Burlington & Western
Murlington & Northwestern
Hannibal & St. Joseph
St. Louis
Keokuk
Joekenn
Chicarn
Waitsny
G. P&t. A. St Paul
Minn
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Peter
Marshal Ney
Superior Court of
North Carolina
Philips
Connor
Battle
Brown
Ixlar
Congress
Peter 8S. Ney
Pike's Peak
London
Little Billee
Mr. du Maurier
Mr. Tree
Moses
Brunswick
Eagle Mills
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Thoughtful Chauncey
Chauncey Depew
Albany
Depew
Minneapolis Journal
Silver Knights of America
Stewart
Nevada
Order of the Supreme Temple, Silver Knights of America
Washington Star
Ine Law Firm
Mariposa
Hawaii
Marsden
San Diego
H. P. Wood
Japan
Government
King Street
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
William T. Harris
Republic
Waite
Guy Wetmore
Munsey
New Light Community
Arthera
Ill
Kate Miller
Grant Hacker
Indianapolis
Chapin & Gore
Monument Blakce
Hacker
Chicago Times Herald
Stroudsburg
Henry Bragger
Washington Post
Sam Jones
Peter King
Grass Valley
King
Cal
Connecticut
New York Tribune
John W Foster
Harvard
Yale
Stories OF the Day
Horace White
Stanley Waterloo
Stanley Wood
Bulwer Lytton
Prine
Eli
Act of Finance
Btest
Bertha M Clay
Laura Joan Libbey
Cain
Horace
Atlanta Constitution
Payette
Nick Stienfeld
Walter Moore
Louvre
George Bell
Dick Fraser
Fraser
Bell
Boise
Boise City Statesman
City and
Baltimore Sun
Leverson
Antivaccination Society of America
Boards of Health
New York World
Buffalo Enquirer
Huxley
Born ON Wheels
Earth
Jay
Spiter
Eugene Field
Chienvo
Standard Oi Company
Republic of Brazil
Floriano Peixoto
Firkhulz
Masonic Temple
Chicagra CH
James L. Francis
Alderman
Dr. King
H.S. Paterbaug Drug Store
C. A. Snow & Oo
U.S
Mount Morris
W. Radley
Sandwich
Purop
J. C.F. Sehenek
Moline
Schroeder
Tinsea
A. Stansel
Yorkville
W. H. van Deervoort
Champaign
Monona Lake
Madison
Wis
Excurson
Goml
Onis
Gruneil
Rockford
Lorillard
A. D
Fred Miller
Irving
Dr. Cady
Mississippi
Ava Dama
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Mobile & Ohio
St Louis
Mobile
F. W. Greene
General Avent
North Broadway
E. EB. Posey
Mobile and Olio Railroad
Ala
United Societies of Christian Endeavor
Boston
Mass
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
American Pharmoneceutical Association
Denver
Colo
St. Paul
M.M. Otay
Peterbaugh
Climax Pius
Tobaco
Colli
Ginsville, Oo
Mikgrave
Pri
Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Company
Manufacturing Chemists
la Croass
Wisconsin
Ang
Ain
Ou Huy
Jour Ornce
Fur
Uae
IC. A. Snoweco Cer Petent
J. G. Sheller
Lower Broad Street
Lanark
Patate
Phillip Ripper
Tevmn
Pee A
Carroll County
Mount Carroll
Mary K. Rippei
Adiiinivirateix
Freeport
Cinaky
de Maine
Walton
Loa
Siemenson Sr
Breedels
Gui
Nutwood
Sutwouk
Kirkwood
le Sam
Tod
Gen
Paton
Ty Rang
Ciewoon
F.H. McCoy
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