Mischievous Summer Visitor and Mayor Involved Romance
A summer visitor causes a tangle with Mayor Bedight involving a courtly prank, escapes, and a stormy night as arrests, travel, and a river cabin trap unfold. Key figures include May Andrews, Mabel Arne, Miss Vining, and Judge Vining amid a bluff about woman suffrage and authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fun Mayer
Pmatiatt
Woods
May Andrews
Miss Vining
Mabel Arne
Jim
Bess Winters
Ange
Judge Vining
Thorsen
Bedight and Molly Bain Sketch at La Vek Cabin
Bedight escapes a cabin standoff with a warden and deputies, ferries provisions to prisoners, and plans a final flight aided by Alice Mason. Molly McConnell and Bedight share witty banter while rowing to La Veck’s cabin for an art sketch, after which plans for freedom continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Be Dight
Bedight
Tate
Redight
Squirrel Inn
Jackie Vining
Kung
Misa Mason
Alice Mason
Lakeville
Panine
Naples
Molly McConnell
Sylvan
la Veck
Miss McConnell
From Les Miserables to a Colorado Runaway
An eighteen year old Colorado boy who fled the Golden Industrial school, built a new life in Des Moines, married a local girl, and attracted a governor’s pardon appeal, mirrors Jean Valjean’s tale. Des Moines detectives arrest him. officials debate returning him to reform school. The case sparks broader talks on reform and discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean
Colorado
Golden
Des Moines
Lows
Hugo
Inspector Javert
Rosie E. Sheldon
Glenwood Springs
Industrial School For
Nncorrigible
Sheldon
Iowa
Downie
Fred L. Paddleford
Industrial School Board
Fter
Johnson
Bishop
Shaforth
Fred GL. Paddleford
Frog Nest Fortification Described in Brart
An article describes Hyla faber building a mud wall at pond edge forming a circular tube that rises above water like a mini volcano crater. Eggs hatch in the enclosed area while young frogs remain safe from fish, with parents nearby acting as guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brart
Hyla Faber
Plan to See White Eskimos By Fry and Party of Natives
Rev W H Fry and a party of 12 natives travel toward Coronation Gulf near the Copper Mine river to visit a tribe of white Eskimos said to be discovered by Steffansson. The group, led by the Yukon diocese bishop, aims to reach the gulf before navigation ends next October. The bishop, who has spent seven years on Herschel island, has traveled to latitudes as high as 73 degrees and endured extreme cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Alberta
Stringer
Yukon
Dominion
W. H. Fry
Coronation Gulf
Steffanseon
Gulf
Herschel Island
Canada
New York Capital of Vice
Samuel H. London former El Paso prosecuting attorney testified in New York about organized vice operations. The witness, producing evidence reduced to a card index, described his role and current status as a semi-? figure in the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel H. London
el Paso
Tex
Finger Print Beat By Tooth Marks In Butter Case
Pierre Bassaud, charged with burglary at his former employer in Montreuil-Sous-Bols, left tooth marks in butter. Police matched bite impressions to marks in the butter and on a broken tooth. At arraignment, a magistrate reproduced the bite test, confirming the evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parla—Fiven
Pierre Bassaud
Montreuil-Sous- Bolts
Bassaud
Foreigners in Berlin protest new German insurance law
In Berlin and other German cities foreigners earning 100 dollars a month or less complain about the new compulsory government health insurance. The plan replaces private coverage, with costs from five to seventy eight dollars yearly based on salary. Employers pay half, insured pays half, and early departures void claims or benefits. Only one American company operates in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Empire
Germany
Orphan Harry OBrien Found Safe After Train Fall
Fourteen year old Harry OBrien, an orphan from St. Louis, fell from a moving train near Strong City. City Marshal Charlie Beach and his wife rescued him, cared for him, and may adopt him. He was en route with companion Ernest Stone toward Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Stone’s grandmother lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strong City
Kan
Harry O'Brien
St. Louis
Charlies Beach
O'Brien
Marshal Beach
Ernest Stone
Tulsa
Oklo
Stone
Burning coal field found near Haselbach
In the duchy of Altenburg engineers report a long burning coal field beneath Haselbach. Deep fissures appeared under a factory and shaft sunk. At 18 feet depth blazing coal seams were encountered, indicating underground fire has persisted for years.
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Berlin
Haselbach
Duchy of Altenburg
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Chicago
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Garden of Eden
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Eve
Adam
Boston
Board of Trade
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Tripoli
Genoa
Cleo Summers
George Gould
Helen
Shepard
Gloria
Edith
Boy
Department of Justice
Washington
Fairbanks
Alaska
London
Viel
Steffansson
France
Kansas Railroad
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