Busy Man's Corner highlights fires and reforms across nation
Altoona high school students evacuated as a building burned. Texas Governor Campbell pledges Sunday closure enforcement. Ohio official Lied jailed for bribery. Mississippi river trade figure Campbell Sweeney dies of pneumonia. Jewish Women’s Council presses press purity amid murder and divorce reporting. European reform advocate Sir Max Waechter meets French minister Pichon. Attorney General Bonaparte urges federal supreme court appeal rights after reversals and cites Standard Oil fines.
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Fred Lied
Columbus (C
Europe
United States of Europe
M. Pichon
Max
King Edward
United States
Federal Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Atty. Gen. Bonaparte
Congress
Standard Oil Company
Dramatic Testimony on Annis Slaying Trial
Flushing New York December 19 The most dramatic eyewitness account yet of the William K E Annis slaying was given in the Thornton J Hains murder trial. Bert Funke Bayside Yacht Club member testified Capt Peter C Hains Jr fired on Annis from a swinging boom as he steered the boat. He quoted a sequence of shots and described a revolver drawn by Thornton Hains. Prosecutors say Funke supports the defendants alleged preplanned killing.
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Flushing
N. Y
William KE. Annis
Thornton J. Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Annis
Herbert Funke
Bayside Vyeacht Club
Hains
Funke
Thornton Hains
Afinis
Soldiers poisoned in Philippines camp deaths rise
Manila reports eleven deaths and thirteen more seriously ill at Keithley camp Mindanao after Eighteenth infantry men drink calumba acid a vegetable extract from calumba root.
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Philippines
Manila
Keithley Camp
Mindanao Island
Flour Market Moves and Grain Prices in Chicago and New York
Chicago and New York markets show flour demand strong in Chicago with Spring wheat and Minnesota hard patent prices at 4.75 to 6.30, exports bags 3.45 to 4.80, and various grades. Wheat futures slip, corn dull, oats weak, butter and eggs quoted with standard variances. New York reports dull but steady wheat and spot corn and oats.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Inec
New York
Duluth
Chicago and South Omaha Live Stock Markets Report
CATTLE prices range from 2.75 to 7.00 for natives and westerns with cows and heifers at 2.75 to 5.00, stockers and feeders 3.50 to 5.50, calves up to 6.50, and bulls 3.50 to 5.00. HOGS show steady to higher demand with prime to heavy butchers around 5.50 to 6.80, choic es 5.50, and pigs 2.00 to 3.50. SHEEP remain steady with yearlings near 9.75 to 7.35, wethers 1.50 to 150, ewes around 4.0 to 4.0, and lambs about 5.50 to 6.75.
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Chicago
Dec. TS
South Omaha
Neb
Texas
Local Shops Advertise Cigar Sale at Multiple Stands
The report notes promotions at Roy Brave cigar store on Fourth Street and Otters Clear store on Market Street with an interurban news stand closing the listing.
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Roy Brave
Fourth Street
Otters Clear
Market Street
Papes Diapep sin Offered as Relief for Digestion Woes
An advertisement promotes Pape's Diapepsin as a safe antacid and regulator for weak stomachs. It claims indigestion results from fermentation and food rot, and that the preparation digests all foods, cleanses the stomach and intestines, and yields relief within minutes. A case costs fifty cents at local pharmacies.
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Pape
The Woman of It and the Bargain Chair
A couple argues over buying an ornate chair for $28.26 claiming it completes a parlor set. She doubts the price while he insists the chair is a rare bargain and that no similar pieces exist.
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Guinevere
Just a Woman's Way Leads Nelson Theatre Debut
Grace Bainbridge and Frank Rutledge headline the Nelson production of Lincoln J. Carter's Just a Woman's Way at the Nelson. The show opens tonight with additional vaudeville acts including The Limber Lady and the Funny Cuss and a novel act by McKennan and Cooney. Hayes the monologist closes the big Christmas bill with sharp humor.
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Logansport
Grace Bainbridge
Frank Rutledge
Lincoln
J. Carter
Nelson
Harry
Mabel Martine
McKennan and
Cooney
Hayes
Nelson Theatre
Fifty Miles from Boston at Nelson of next Monday
George M. Cohan brings Fifty Miles from Boston to Nelson of next Monday evening December 21 directed by Cohan and Harris. Sparks stars as Harrigan with Carver and King in key roles for a New England comedy with catchy songs including Harrigan Jack and Jill and My Small Town Girl.
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Boston
George M. Cohan
Nelson
Cohan
Harris
Brookfield
Tim Harrigan
Harrigan
David Harum
Josh
John E. Sparks
Louise Carver
Dainty
Grace King
Mr. Cohan
Jack and
Jill
Bertha Kalich to Star in Cora in St Louis Saturday
Manager Smyth announces the eminent actress Bertha Kalich will headline the new comedy Cora on Saturday December 26. Harrison Grey Fiske produced the novelty in St. Louis November 2 and it has since caused a sensation in Kansas City and Chicago. The piece marks Mme de Gresac’s first American project and reflects Parisian studio and theatrical life with wit and satire.
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Bertha Kalich
Cora
Fred de Gresac
Smyth
Harrison Grey Fiske
St. Louis
Kansas City
Chicago
Mme. de Gresac
America
Madame Kalich
Paris
Mme. de Gresne
Fiske
Mme. Kalich
Crystal to Offer Stellar Vaudeville Bill for Christmas Week
Logansport theatre manager Tom Hardie aims to prove Christmas week can draw crowds with a top vaudeville lineup. The Merchants' band performs on Christmas Eve with an amateur minstrel act by youths. 800 tickets sold. Headliners include the Mitchells comedy acrobats and boxers famed for continuous laughs.
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the Crystal
Tom Hardie
Hardie
Logansport
Merchants’ Band
Mitchell
Fragmentary Galveston Daily Notes From Uneven Scan
A partial OCR shows scattered phrases and garbled text from a Galveston daily report. Names and clear events are not readable, limiting concrete details or identifiable persons. The fragment resembles a casual daily briefing or column with missing context.
Market Prices For Livestock and Hides Displayed
Corrected daily by W. C. Routh, quoting bids for cattle and calves. Heifers bring 5.40 to 5.60 per cwt, calves 3.00 to 3.50, hogs 5.00 to 5.50, old sheep 3.50 to 4.00 per cwt. Sheep, goats, and hides also listed with varied ranges.
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W. C. Routh
Eta Tg
Live Stock Market Prices From Loganport Yard
Quoted daily by the Logansport Union Stock Yards the report lists pig weights from 100 to 130 pounds at 3.40 to 4.25 dollars and light hogs 130 to 160 pounds from 4.75 to 5.05 dollars with heavier hogs 170 to 190 pounds at 5.00 to 5.15 dollars and choice heavy hogs 5.15 to 5.40 dollars. miscellaneous cattle not shown.
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Logansport Union Stock Yards
Wife of Murder Suspect Hains Remains in Boston
The wife of William E. Annis’s killer stays at home in Boston as Thornton Jenkins Hains faces trial in Flushing Long Island, charged as an alleged accessory.
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Wiliam E.annis
Boston
Thornton Jenkins Hains
Flushing, L. I
Erroneous Tea Advice and Cookery Notes from an Old Column
The passage discusses serving tea with fish is discouraged due to tannic acid affecting digestion. It comments on oyster coloration, raw oyster digestibility, crumb cake serving as dessert with fruit and whipped cream, and cheese ball salads rolled in parsley with walnut accents. It offers breakfast cream maple syrup mix and a southern marmy baked parsnips dish and a beef roast with mushrooms and carrots, concluding with a cassaroele name.
Wireless warning to Kaiser Wilhelm about oncoming cyclone
A wireless message from the Deutschland warned Kaiser Wilhelm, one hundred miles away, of an approaching cyclone before the barometer began to fall.
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