Local Classifieds Offer Real Estate Loans and Goods
A dense string of ads lists real estate loans and sales propositions from Bubeck Gallagher and others, plus farm land for sale near Marshall Illinois and farm equipment, livestock, and household items. Numerous notices include 80 acres for sale near Orange township, a 115-acre farm west of Marshall, and stoves, furniture, and a mint of everyday goods. Community services mention cider production and a golf show, with rental housing and banking hours adjusted.
Robbers Strike Trimble Post Office in Early Tuesday Burglary
The Trimble post office was entered Tuesday with the safe blown open and about 400 dollars in stamps and cash taken. Five shots were fired during the burglary as four to five men fled. An attempt to enter the Flat Rock bank occurred the same night while residents watched the event.
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Trimble
Flat Rock Bank
Old Friends Return to Brave Dog's Grave in San Francisco
Jack Nearing, once a Pinole powder worker, visits the grave of Bob Evans the bravest dog in the mills. Evans died in a powder explosion after a train incident left him injured but loyal, honored with a $100 funeral fund. Nearing last saw the city eight years ago, leaving in 1901 for the Boer war. He later became a railroad man in Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Jack Nearing
Bob Evans
Pinole
Nearing
Powder Works
Dewey
Manila Harbor
Bob Frans
Los Angeles
Offer to Drafted Brother Sparks Letters to President Wilson
In Terre Haute Robert Copeland asks President Wilson to substitute him for his drafted brother Rea. Officials reply the selective service act bans substitutions. Copeland explains family hardships and vows to serve, urging a favorable review.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Robert C. Copeland
Wilson
Hugh 8. Johnson
Crowder
Smith
Indiana
Robert O
Copeland
Young Copeland
Caurtis
Pittsburgh
Indians in autos attend Meskwaki harvest powwow at Tama
Several Nebraska and Oklahoma Indians traveled by automobile to the Meskwaki harvest dance near Tama Iowa. The party, formerly part of the Iowa and Fox tribes, came via La Crosse and Kansas City trails to meet Wisconsin friends after the celebration.
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Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa
Mareballtown
Longfellow
Jawatha
Tama
Hidden bicycle aids an eloping couple
Northumberland, Pa. Miss Mabel Merlo helped elope Lydia Kirkendall and George Onwalk. Kirkendall’s father Samuel Nuns chased them by bicycle to the station but could not stop the train before it pulled away.
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Northumberland
Mabel Merlo
Cupid
Lydia Kirkendall
George
Hirkendall
Samuel Nuns
Mise Merle
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The Human Skin and Heat Tolerance in Tropical Climates
An article asserts white races die out in the tropics due to fewer sweat glands. It cites comparative counts per square centimeter for Americans, African Americans, Filipinos, Moros, Negritos, and Hindus, arguing higher gland numbers allow more evaporation and cooler bodies.
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Tropics
New York World
Turned the Tables. Two Incidents in Careers of Hoover and Belgian
A young American mining engineer later known as Herbert C. Hoover briefly shared management with a burly Belgian in China after a surprise appointment. They quarreled, and the American resigned. Years later Hoover helped lead relief for Belgium, prompted by the American ambassador in London.
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China
Herbert Clark Hoover
London
Page
Belgium
Herbert C. Hoover
Correction issued after death report mix up
The Morning Star ran a death notice for William B. Jones then issued a correction in the Evening Post, noting it was the first to deny the report. Simeon Strunsky references the sequence as a media misreport and timely retract.
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Morning Star
William B. Jones
Simeon Strunsky
New York Evening Post
Firht
Pestilence As a Weapon in War Causes Outrage
The Chicago Tribune notes a German plan to use anthrax and glanders as weapons against horses, cattle, and possibly humans. It decries the proposed method and calls the plan a sign of German war cruelties and moral collapse amid the ongoing conflict.
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Bucharest
Roumania
France
War Office
Tyere
Fis
Germany
First
Chicago Tribune
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Lakeland
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Walnut Prairie
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