Albany’s Wickedest Boy Ruby Goldstein Terrorizes Towns
A lengthy spotlight outlines Ruby Goldstein, a crippled 10 year old labeled the wickedest boy in America. His spree includes theft, arson, and highway theft across Albany Troy Greenbush and beyond, with multiple escapes from custody and repeated clashes with police, asylum, and railway workers. The report portrays his relentless mischief and feared reputation.
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America
Albany
Ruby Goldstein
Ruby
Max Nordau
Johannas
Troy
Greenbush
New York World
New England Thrift Wins McKinley Favor in Tea Debate
A Brooklyn tea反story reveals an elderly New England transplantee praising McKinley for his need to care for an invalid wife, calling it a nation saving factor. The anecdote notes women’s chatter on politics, husbands, and gossip at a South Brooklyn gathering.
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Maine
New
McKinley
New York Journal
Cherry Grove
The
Gazette
Bryan
Joel Sweitzer
Joel
D. L. Hartraft
Cearfoss
Albert Hamilton
Chicago
McKinley Rowland
Miss Brinkmeyer
David Rowland
M. M. Eshelman
Dunkard
Partridge King of Minnesota Faces Extinction Risk
Special Agent Gray reports an eccentric trader Stephen Gheen, known as the partridge king, operating 20 miles north of Tower. He fills large contracts for partridges, employing Indians to kill males, with shipments tied to Chicago buyers to evade state law. Concerns rise that a few seasons could devastate northern wild partridge populations.
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Minnesota
Gray
General Land Department
Tower, Minn
Partridge King
Stephen Gheen
Gheen
Chicago
Canadian
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Coxey's New Doctrine Promises 1897 Platform
J S Coxey headlines a new platform for 1900 calling for demonetization of gold and silver state ownership of railroads highways waterways and telegraph phone lines municipal ownership of streetcars water works and gas plants public works employment for surplus labor woman suffrage and direct presidential elections. He plans a January 12 1897 Lindell hotel St Louis meeting to adopt the platform and includes national banks loaning to the people at cost.
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J. S. Coxey
Commonweal Fame
Coxey
All Friends
Lindell Hotel
St. Louis
Chicago Post
Purported Cough Cure and Hair Renewer Ad
An advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as absolutely pure harmless and reliable for colds croup and lung troubles. It claims Wat Hogan Your Hair can be Saved from falling out or turning gray and guarantees Beggs Hair Renewer cleanses the scalp leaving glossy luxuriant hair. Sold by Bidlack.
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Hogans
Wat Hogan
Bidlack
Croup
War
High School Notes on Meeting and Auctions
The article reports a November high school Lyceum meeting with debates on federal noninterference, performances by students, and a note on members and guests. It also lists a public auction by David Puterbaugh farm and a separate farm sale near Lanark with terms and items including horses cattle hogs corn and hay.
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Fannie Miller
Ethel Puterbaugh
Chas
Dickens
Ira Overcash
Jacob Sites
Ben Gaff
Hattie Redline
Fred Glotfelty
Ada Ganlt
Edith Puterbaugh
Ed Renner
Harry Price
Edith Dubbe
Vera Grossman
Bertha Dickens
Miss Persons
Lyceum
Board of Education
Lanark
David Puterbaugh
Lord Lancaster
U. S
Alf Wilkes
Concord
Lester C. Morrerr
A. H. Hawk
W. L. Franck
North Dakota
Low Heath
Telegraph Road
Chadwick
Milledgeville
Towit
J. W. Pisnen
Village Gossip and Tragedy Blend in Odd Saturday Tales
An array of vignettes unfold from a Saturday morning recounting a tippling laborer, a drunk incident after an election, a foundling named Paulie Swenson, and a young man’s death after a cable car accident. The piece mixes local humor with sorrow, civic notices, and promotional notes for Thanksgiving and rail excursions. It also references Hearvenutn’s home excursions, a safety tip about medicines, and a weather bulletin.
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Logan
Colin
Jim
Paulie Swenson
Paulie
Ironore Street
Madecot
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