Worldly items mix in a garbled 1900s column
A scrambled article fragment reports on a Princeton Junction group declining a $62,000 World’s Fair trip offer, notes on weights and measures, a leap year birthday anomaly affecting February 20 births, and various brief items from royalty to executions, with earlier references to buffalo, Indian delegates, neck rings, and fog annihilation devices. The piece weaves disparate curiosities and obsolete trades into one noisy column.
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Perm Buesn
Princeton Junction
N.J
Chicago
Nation in turmoil with bills and disasters described
A long mixed report details parliamentary activity including a cotton bagging free list bill, railroad ticket proposals, pensions, and river Behring Sea talks. It notes a Mormon temple cornerstone laying, stock market movements, fires, floods, murders, and various accidents across the United States. International notes cover anarchist incidents, trade, and colonial affairs.
Frat riot, fires, and disasters hit several towns
A chaotic summary of early 20th century incidents: a frat sweep in Chicago quarters left fourteen families homeless, five buildings burned, and smoke injuries among seventy evacuees. Nearby Cohoes elections ended with vote-box seizure by armed men and beatings. A Ky man died by suicide after a confrontation on a Big Four train. An Adirondack earthquake shock disrupted northern New York. A Pittsburgh official was poisoned, with analysis finding arsenic. New Jersey municipal results favored Republicans in Jersey City and Rahway. The text also mentions a tense political climate and a garbled stock of ads and notices.
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Long Island City
St. Paul White
Dix & Pavre
New York
Salt Lake City
Woodruff
Washington
Clark County
Ark
Africa
Daniel MecDaniells
Minnie Hayes
Hanging Rock
Faulkner County
Bip Paice
Rockfield
Bud Mahone
Price
Mississippi
United States
Canton
John McCurdy
L. T. Waltenbaugh
Tuer Trentdale Distilling Company
Portland
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W. T. Laker
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H. O. Edmonds
Montana
Dillon
Nebraska
Cedarbrook
N. J
Canada
Sameer Hour
Lea
David Nolasea
Ann Ss Poll
Waupacs
Wis
Masker Mead
Lees
Burixuxcy Pertze
Marx Barts
Lewis Lewenatain
New Hayes
Conn
Chester
Philadelphia
Phillis
Santon
Temple
Texwas
Sua Scott
Franklin County
Miss
Rawser Jonson
Graymont
Boston Farm School
Tas
Cheboygan
Mich
Winlock
Wash
R Hancock
Ellis Island
Howard Eccles
Jennie Harris
St. Louis
Standard Oil Company of New York
Chicago
Cohoes
N.Y
Rane Devine
Campbellsburg
Big Four Road
North Vernon
Ind
Devine
Adirondacks
Warrensburgh
Glen's Falls
Johnstown
Gloversville
Little Falls
Utica
Oneida
Gawser Weir
Pittsburgh
Greenwood Cemetery
Hugo Blanck
New Jersey
Jersey City
Trenton
Board of Freeholder
Rahway
Senate
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Frogmore
Zoological Society
London
Marquis of Lorne
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Oklahoma
Tecumseh
Upper Congo
Albany
Greece
Figaro
Paris
Constantine
M. BE. Johnson
Murray Hill Hotel
Seady Hook
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G. A
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Perm
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Mishiean
James R Young
Colorado
Utah
Tlinois
Beardstown
Freier
Sheriff's Posse
Riverside
Wyo
Waitz
Bijes Ragan
Fancher
Dubuque (In
Magantace
Freen
University of Chicago
R. J. Contra
Hamburg Packet Company
New England Methodist Conference
Huston
Oregon
Harrison
Birger Hermann
Willard Sautabuby
Delaware
Dover
Nebraska Supreme Court
John M. Thayer
Gov. Flower
L. T. Yoder
Congress
Pennsylvania
J. J. Porter
Twenty-third
Numoia
W. Forman
Rhode Island
Brown
Wardwell
Gilbert
Burton
Pep
Mattering
Massachusetts
Boston
Cleveland
John
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Tun Wiesssela
Milwaukes
Bitloulota
Mary A. Wier
Atlants
TIL
J. K. Womres
Aenior
United States Army
Astoria, Ore
Angers
France
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Hamburg
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Mexirane
Germany
Mamoa
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Prussia
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Oxford
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Japan
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Hungary
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Cunsay & Co
Propa
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Imat
Mary
Columbus
California Fig Syrup Co
George
Tar
South-West Land & Investment Journal
South-west
Texas
E B. Parker
Chastout St
Bouth- Wast
Itera
N. O. Picayune
Hale
Binghamton
Mx A.B
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Beston
Masa
B. F. Antex Co
Canal Rt
Beecham
Tue
Kovhemter Post
Easton Free Preas
York
Ohio
Timothy Clever
Kere
Usburgh
Wool—Western
Flag
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Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
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Mars
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