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Newspaper
Laramie County Times
Location
Wheatland, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
4
A captive prisoner and a wealthy woman conceal feelings while plotting escape from a ship. In a fogbound pursuit they break free, marry in spirit, and plan a life together as a Brazilian steamer approaches.
A Venezuelan journalist Thomas Herrera, jailed for writing a mocking pamphlet about President Gomez, is invited to a torpedo boat escape. On board he exposes the captain’s revolver, wounding the captain and two officers during a gunfight. Herrera and companions land in Trinidad amid whispers of opposition to Gomez.
In June at Fyles Abbey, F. Addington Blake claims to bring ten surgeons to Balmoral to honor a royal grant. Doctors refuse entry, citing a misread deed that named sturgeons, not surgeons, revealing a comic misunderstanding around the king’s health and a family property.
A cave on Tenerife near Orotava and Le Paz offers a view of the so called bone cave where the Guanches hid after Spanish conquest. Once a burial site, the cave now holds a huge pile of bones with access via rope through a roof hole.
A cashier laments lost time on checking customers' finances. A young man proposes and launches a service providing daily mortgage and satisfaction lists from the registry, charging one dollar monthly. The plan gains subscribers quickly and supplements the family income without leaving his job.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a joke about a preacher asking a boy if he says prayers at night. The boy replies that his mother and he do, but his father never does because he is never home until daylight.
Mrs. Brown Smith notes the couple see so little of each other while Mrs. Jones Robinson asks why they seem so content. The judge comments on their happiness despite limited contact.
London reports Father Jos Algue director of the Philippine weather bureau in Manila invented the barocyclonometer to warn ships of typhoons. His system uses cyclone danger signals and 80 native assistants to broadcast alerts, often three days before a typhoon, saving countless lives.
In Franklin, Judge George Criswell denied Laura F. Sylvester a divorce from William W. Sylvester, basing the decision on the couple's financial strains. He stressed the husband's duty to maintain family expenditures within his income to avoid humiliation and damage to business standing.
Lisbon reports the Braganza dagger, valued at about 50 000 dollars and linked to Benvenuto Cellini, has been returned to the state. It vanished during King Manuel I’s 1910 flight from Necessidades Palace and later resurfaced as authorities sort rightful ownership between royal heirs and the republic.
A New York piece examines hotel managers and staff incomes revealing gratuities and side payments. Mrs. Max Thompson alleges her husband earns 8400 dollars annually plus 100 dollars for services 600 as champagne agent 720 for Paris Berlin and London services and 1200 by steamship lines.
Fragmentary text describes eviction or shelter issues with police involvement for rough or homeless cases. Readable items suggest authorities handle harsher removals while shelter lines or lodging may be offered to those in need.
In St Joseph Missouri H H Seever of Rushville consented to marriage dinners for three underage daughters. Elmer C Seever aged nineteen married Ruby C Kelly sixteen. Florence Seever sixteen wed Roy Virgil Brown twenty. Alice N Seever seventeen wed Archie M Russell of Atchison county Kansas.
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