Courtship and Deaths Highlight Lydia Southard Murder Trial
In Idaho and Montana a woman known as Lydia Southard is charged with murdering Ed Meyers, her fourth husband, after a pattern of suspect deaths among previous spouses. Deputy Ormsby details alleged scheme including life insurance payouts and reckless social life linked to multiple weddings and untimely deaths. The case traces Lydia’s marriages from Missouri to Twin Falls and beyond, raising questions about possible typhoid carriage and motive.
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Number 4
Montana
San Francisco
W. J. Ormsby
Twin Falls
Idaho
Lydia Southard
Tlendulu
Ed Meyers
Ormsby
Lydia
Harlem Lewis
Lyddia
Southard
Chicago
William Trueblood
Keytesville
Trueblood
Robert Dooley
Edward
Dooley
Edward Dooley
Galmon
Robert Daley
Laura Marie
Laura
Harlen Lewis
Lewis
Myers
Local Notes From Table Grove and Nearby
Table Grove notes record visits and travels of residents from Waverly to Galesburg, Bushnell to Denver, and Des Moines to Attica. Open air cinema in Central Park draws crowds Thursday evenings. local demonstrations highlight Wearever aluminum ware at Community Hall.
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N. J. Reinbach
Waverly
B. Reinbach
Lavender
Tpava
G. C. Foster
Marjorie
Vermont
V. &. Filbert
Macomb
Addie Foster
Attica
J. C. Ross
Wes King
Charles Sexton
Bushnell
M. D. Hall
Denver
Colo
Will
Webb T Herlocker
Galesburg
Wynette Herlocker
Ghlee Wilson
Astoria
Des Moines
Urban Hammond
Russell Cox
Chas Cox
Talle Grove
Central Park
Ruth Rinker
Christian Church
Alfa Abernathy
Lelon Todd
Gladys Stubblefield
Spavn
Community Hall
Woman is minus stomach removal sparks medical astonishment
Dr Vincent Pauchet reports removing a woman's stomach at age fifty led to continued health and cured cancer in a surgery praised as a radical digestive theory. He claims the stomach is redundant and digestion proceeds via the small intestine with pancreatic juice and bile.
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Paris
Vincent Pauchet
Academy of Medicine
Doctor Pauchet
Tennessee Community Notes on Visits and Health Updates
Jones and Deputy Wilson called in Macomb area Wednesday. Mrs Payne and Mrs Hoing visited the Mullen home. measles affect the Mullen children. Several locals seen at Lester Guy and Williams households as updates on health and weather. Frances Nichols named postmistress. ice cream supper postponed due to rain to next Saturday.
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Wm. Jones
Sherif Wilson
Macomb
Tennessee
Thomas Payne
Colchester
Charles Hoing
Lamoine
Tlarry Mullen
Mullen
Grandma Tawyer
Roy Beck
Maude Badger
Dr. Adams
Lester Guy
Tera Walters
Charles Wallace
Tennessee Park
Jennie Birdsall
Paris Smith
Nebraska
Mareine Smith
Plymouth
Ben Alton
Frances Nichols
Grace Newland
Charles Lowderman
Wm. Roberts
Galesburg
Bolshevik Pressure on Peasants Risks Return of White Generals
In Moscow Lenin warns railway workers of a final struggle with peasants who may back capitalism or the proletariat. Village Pravda urges peasants to back soviet rule or risk czarist forces reemerging, as tax and free trade shifts ease peasant relief.
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Russia
Nikolai Lenin
Moscow
Derevenskain Kommun
Derevenskain Pravda
Village Truth
Pin Saves Man From Death in Arctic Blizzard
Denver financier John A. Fish of Wyoming Bankers' Trust survived an 18 hour blizzard ride after jabbing a steel pin into his thigh to stay awake. Stranded near Cheyenne, he drifted into semiconsciousness with frostbite on face and feet but lived to tell the tale.
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Denver
Colo
John A. Fish
Wyoming
Bankers’ Trust Company of
Fish
Laramie
Wyo
Cheyenne
Plains
The Mountain Goes to Mahomet
Marion Kentucky Sunday school teachers learned the Marion high school track team and rooters would miss Go to Sunday School day They moved services to Blackford midway where the group assembled and attended The Marion Sunday schools reported 100 percent attendance.
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Mahomet
Marion
Marion High School
Blackford
Cure for Toothache Suggested by Swedish Journal
The Swedish Medical Journal reports that bending the head backward and inserting absorbent cotton with ether in the nostril on the aching side can instantly cure toothache. The same method is claimed to make tooth extraction painless.
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Stockholm
Marriage Causes Real Puzzle in Relationship
Spencer Massachusetts news notes a mix up in a marriage where Mrs. Catherine DeMarco marries Louis Gagner. The bride becomes sister-in-law to her son-in-law John Gagner, while the groom becomes stepfather to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Gagner's daughter. Further, another daughter of Mrs. DeMarco Gagner marries another brother of Louis Gagner, making him their stepfather through the marriage to their mother.
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Spencer
Mass
Catherine DeMarco
Louis Gagner
John Gagner
DeMarco Gagner
Ice Cream Social Delayed to July 2 If Weather Permits
Community notices from the Tennessee Dept report a rescheduled ice cream social for ASE No 2 and 3 of the M E S, now set for Saturday July 2 if weather allows. Local appointments include Miss Keetha Young acting postmistress replacing Mrs Gleason Butler who resigned.
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Ase No
Keetha Young
Alex Games of
Good Hope
Frances Nichols
Gleason Butler
Essie Nelson
Earnest White
Magnon
Sam White
Vinie Dunham
Camp Point
Asa Seiples
Tom McKone
Montecello
Wilma
Cecil Daugherty
Ralph Gloyd
Colmar
Chicago
G. W. Shango
Aaron Teel
Social visits and family gatherings across Colchester and Macomb
Nellie Stephens and Zelma visit Roll Wear in Colchester while Rosa Stephens plans a Pekin summer. Olaf Twaddle with Shirley dines with Iford Jones. Elza McDaniel and family call on Macomb friends. James Roudebush returns from Rushville visit with Nettie Davison. George Henderson family and Clyde Brown in Macomb to see Neil in Phelps hospital.
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Nellie Stephens
Zelma
Rosa Stephens
Roll Wear
Colchester
Olaf Twaddle
Shirley
Bertha Jones
Walter Duncan
Bethel
Inez Griffet
Birmingham
Hugh McDaniel
James Roudebush
Rushville
Nettie Davison
George Henderson
Clyde Brown
Macomb
Neil
Phelps Hospital
Pekin
Galesburg
Iford Jones
Elza McDaniel
Roll Near
James Harmon
Jesse Daniels
Drugists Oppose Beer Sales by Drug Stores
The Illinois Pharmaceutical Association and the Illinois Pharmaceutical Travelers Association meet in Chicago and oppose selling beer in drug stores as harming the trade. W. H. Miller of Springfield advocates a law to protect the public from incompetent pharmacists.
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Chicago
Illinois Pharmaceutical Association
Illinois Pharmaceutical Traveler’s Association
Springfield
Rain Over Blandinsville Causes Minor Wind Damage
A near inch of rain fell near Blandinsville yesterday evening and E Duncan of Blandinsville reported trees blown down by the accompanying wind. No buildings were damaged and farmers east of Blandinsville say crops were not hurt by the storm.
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Blandinsville
E. Duncan
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Lydia Southerd
Hau
Table Grove
Pauchet
Helsingfors
Pin
Man
Bertha Gloyd
Scott
Pueblo
I’uchlo
Dhe
Lafayette
Illinois
EAGLE
Eagle Pencil Company
New York
Lewis Cigar
Newark
Ciga
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