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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
7
A 1590s incident recounts W R T Jones entering a coffin dug in a mound, triggering a release to bury himself alive. The tale labels it one of the most remarkable self inflicted deaths on record and contrasts it with other items in a crowded page of notices and ads.
Indiana man Abraham Rhimes, age 75, has married twelve times after a two decade span of婚 divorcees. His wives include Emeline Gandy Martha Robbins Samantha Bergal Lavina Suraw Anna Roland Sarah Overly Rachel Magnum Stella Bloomhagen Mary Walsh and now Miss Mamie Wood. The string of marriages and divorces has left him wealthy in experience and largely solvent only in stories.
The Rev. T. W. Russell of Ottumwa Iowa swallowed his false teeth during breakfast causing him distress. The incident prompted concern but details of his condition were not disclosed.
In Muncie Indiana Patrick Billow walked on the Lake Erie and Western tracks when a bug flew into his mouth. He mistook it for a potato bug and sought potato bug killer Paris Green from P Campbell’s drug store. He swallowed poison, suffered stomach pains, and was briefly unconscious. Doctors used emetics to expel the poison and a potato bug with poison was expelled. He remains out of danger but not fully recovered.
Charles Wilson fireman on the Northern railroad of New Jersey sprang from his cab to save a woman on the track near the Bergen tunnel. As trains roared from the tunnel a New Jersey and New York bound locomotive approached. Wilson jumped, fell, then dragged the terrified woman to safety before both trains reached the scene. He was lightly injured and quickly recovered.
At Holy Family church in Omaha, Mrs Margaret Eagen was robbed during Sunday services as a man appeared near the altar and later slipped away with her pocketbook containing $21. The incident occurred in broad daylight with about 200 children present. In Brightwood Indiana, Charles Pfeifer 21 killed his wife 18 and their two month old baby before turning the gun on himself, a suspected case of sudden insanity after a long-seeming quiet marriage.
Missie Van Loan and Frank Van Gordon tied vows on a horse drawn carriage in front of the Van Loan home in Athens New York. The unconventional ceremony drew attention as the couple were married while astride their horses in a public scene.
A collage of dates and old money values notes how 1699 shillings compare to modern wages. It cites Ardens of Warwickshire annuities, then shifts to quack remedies like Hostetter’s stomach bitters and Carlstedt’s liver powder. Reports of steam threshers in Kansas and a Bible ark claim follow, ending with autumn gales hitting Coney Island summer structures.
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