Odd Advertisement From Alpine Man Markets Body For Hire
A Colorado man in Alpine announces in a local paper that he is willing to sell his body after death to anyone desiring such an investment. He claims mining property value but no credit to fund it and seeks a skeleton as a sale outcome. The piece sits amid other statistical and philosophical remarks about trade, travel, and memory.
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Alpine
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W. & Coburn
Mr. Buchanan
Fault in New Zealand submarine cable blamed on fish bite
A fault in the New Zealand submarine cable, recently troublesome to locate and repair, is attributed to a bite by a large fish. A broken tooth about half an inch long, embedded in the strands nearly 180 fathoms below the surface, indicates the cause. Large fish rarely descend to such depths, making the incident notable.
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New Zealand
Census Bureau Be Permanently Established By Congress
A coming Congress session will consider making the census office a permanent government bureau. The proposal is backed as common sense and would unite experts and trained clerks for ongoing statistical work rather than rebuilding each decade.
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Congress
Census Office
Abediene
Man branded wife with hot tongs in All pore case
Shatk Ozer of Bus- Tatolla was charged before a deputy magistrate with brutalizing his wife. He allegedly branded her with red hot tongs, leaving permanent disfigurement after she fled to her father. He received one year of rigorous imprisonment.
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Shatk Ozer
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Pin Found in Brook lyn Boy After Appendectomy
A three inch rusted portion of a hatpin was recovered from the intestines of Alfred Phillipe a four year old boy of 733 Wythe avenue Brooklyn who had undergone an appendectomy. The pin seemed to have been in the boy for some time perforating the intestines and causing months of severe pain. Doctors fear for the child’s life as the injury is grave after the operation.
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Alfred Phillipe
Wythe Avenue
Brooklyn
Tess
Germans Lead Beer Drinking World Despite British Stats
The British Board of Trade reports Germans averaged twenty seven gallons per person last year while Americans consumed less than half that amount. Brits are among the latest beer drinkers, with Belgian rates as the only exception. beer taxes funded 26 percent of Britain's net revenue, signaling a potential budget shift should abstinence rise.
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British Board of Trade
United States
Germany
Great Britain
City faces $10000 suit over fall on a porch beam
Andrew Foy, a stoneman, demands ten thousand dollars from New York City for injuries from a Sept. 17 fall on a new cement sidewalk near Kedzie and West Taylor. He says three front teeth were driven into a scantling and could not be reset. The beam will be shown at the forthcoming damage suit trial.
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Andrew Foy
New York
Foy
Kedzie Avenue
West Taylor Street
Along the Kentucky Pike I Find a Romance Dream
A narrator travels by ox wagon near Cadiz and meets B Degro and Miss Fannie. He assists at a mill, contemplates oil dreams, and falls for Fannie before a humorous epilogue reveals no lasting romance.
Velvet vest and Waterbury watch spark church joke
After Morning, a young preacher named Bishop says the bishop mocked his fine apparel. The bishop plays along, joking that the preacher’s velvet vest is cotton and his watch a Waterbury pocket watch, lightening the exchange with humor.
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Atlanta Constitution
Worse Looking Than He Felt
Dialogue captures a playful exchange about appearance and rheumatism as characters Crinkleton and Harlem Lite joke about health and fashion in a Harlem setting.
Greyhounds seen as cure for rampant coyotes on plains
Ranchers across the west report success training greyhounds to hunt and kill coyotes. Clinton E. Worden pioneered the trials showing dogs can run down single coyotes or pack quarry, delivering swift, decisive victory. Packs are being trained on many ranches, bringing sport and reducing livestock losses.
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West
Clinton E. Worden
Plains
Princess Died in Illinois After Banished Court Life
Mrs. Schroeder wife of Doctor Schroeder who fled Waterloo era royalty died in Bloomington Illinois She was the only princess of the German royal blood to die in the United States Her father Prince Von Buchan adjutant general to General Blucher Her marriage led to royal banishment and their escape to this country Where Dr Schroeder laid out Gilman and El Paso and built businesses The widow left a rich estate about 500000 and two children survive her.
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Misomington
Herman Schroeder
Bloomington
Rerval
Germany
Prince Baron von Buchan
Blucher
Waterloo
South American troubles and ancient wars
The National Review notes perpetual quarrels among South American states and outlines major conflicts. From 1865 to 1876 Brazil Argentina and Uruguay fought Paraguay under Lopes, decimating Paraguay’s population. Subsequent wars include Peru Chile 1879 80 civil wars in the 900s and ongoing unrest in Colombia Venezuela and Uruguay.
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Lopes
Paraguay
Peru
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Chile
Colombia
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