Detective Felts Speaks on Allens in Carroll County
Detective Tom Felts of the Jadwin Feltn agency outlines the Allens' dire plight in Carroll County mountains. He describes shelter under flat rocks and leaf cover, food drops via a whistle signal, continuous posse patrols, and Jack Allen's cautious stance. Felts portrayed Floyd as dangerous yet persuasive and teased forthcoming evidence tying Floyd to the Hillsville killing.
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Tom Felts
Jadwin- Felten Agency
Acti
Carrol
Felts
Ponce de
Allens
Mr. Felts
New Gap
Carroll County
Claud Allen
Jack Allen
Floyd
Hillsville
Friel
Sililaville
Jack
Floyd Allen
Carroll
Mt. Airy
N. Co
Allen
Edwards Boys
Mt. Air
Edwards
Commonwealth
Foster Fm Carroll
Foster
iMsville
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Sidna Ogie
Description of a Furnished House Interior and Carpeting
The text describes hard wood flooring in maple and oak, and a non elaborate carpeting and furnishings scheme. It notes the furnishings are not elaborate and mentions a well kept but modest pet access. The overall tone suggests a simple, mixed wood and fabric decor with no single unified design plan.
American mine owner charged with slander in London
Charles Henry Unveragt, a wealthy American mine owner living at the Waldorf Hotel, was brought before Bow Street Police Court on a charge of maliciously libelling a woman, Winifrede Alice Smith, who testified that he made slanderous remarks about her. The case highlights his prominence in the American colony.
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London
Charles Henry Unveragt
Bow Street
Winifrede Alice Smith
Unveragt
Waldorf Hotel
King George Postpones Visit and Aintree Race Plans
King George canceled his proposed visit to Knowsley due to state anxieties from a coal strike. He also abandoned attending the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree scheduled for March 29.
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London
George
Lord Derby
Knowsley
Aintree
Bequest of 2 Million Dollars to Rothschild Heirs
Samuel Rothschild and his sister Rose Rothschild of New York inherit a 2 million dollar estate from Abraham Rothschild, a wealthy railway magnate who died recently in England. The notification arrived in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburg
Samuel Rothschild
Rose Rothschild
New York
Abraham Rothschild
England
Violin maker Arthur Thomason commits death by own action
In Brooklyn on Thursday noon, Arthur Thomason a 50 year old violin maker who played at the Fulton Street restaurant for years was found dead in a closet with his violin across his lap. Police say he died by his own hand, troubled by deafness and a brief separation from his wife.
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New York
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Arthur Thomason
Hemason
Frederick B. Thomason
Millwood Street
Thomason
Arthur
Degraw Street
Famous Monkey Case Heads To Court Over Trained Monkeys
United States Judge A L Van Valkenburgh issued a temporary restraining order blocking prosecution in Jackson county of a $10,000 damages suit against the Chicago Great Western Railway for the death of three trained monkeys. Miss Belle Hathaway of Bangor Maine alleges an express cage position caused suffocation. Depositions have been taken in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
United States
A. L van Valkenburgh
Jefferson City
Belle Hathaway
Jackson County
Chicago Great Western Railway Company
Frank Hagerman
C. W. Prince
Judson C. Eubank
Miss Hathaway
Bangor
Orpheum
Duluth
Minn
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Kanezas City
Wellesley Peeper Uses Spy Glass Brings Police Chase
Wellesley Massachusetts Special. A recurring "Peeping Tom" has returned to stalk college girls at the campus area using a spy glass to peep from a distance. Constables tailed him from a college tower and located him by the glass glare, but he fled when officers moved in.
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Wellesley
Mass
She Writes by Schedule Mary Johnston on writing habit
The Popular Magazine quotes Mary Johnston author of The Long Roll stating she does not rely on spurts of inspiration. She writes a fixed daily word count and completes it regardless of mood or ink color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Johnston
Popular Magazine
Foreign Powers Demand Tang's Removal Over Belgian Loan
Diplomatic note from the United States Britain Germany and France urges China to depose President Tange Shao Yi citing his role in securing a 750000 dollar Belgian loan. Chinese leaders accuse foreign financiers of seeking control through Beijing finances. The crisis follows tensions over foreign influence and economic leverage in the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PEKIN
United States
Tange Shao Yi
Four Nation
Police Put Lid on New York Gamblers
Rival factions sparred over open gambling in Manhattan's Fourth and Third Inspection districts causing a shutdown. Plainclothes officers stand at entrances to deter entry at venues like the Broadway House and others along West Forty-fifth Street and nearby corridors. Below Forty-second Street activity continues with rising business as doors tighten uptown. Runners and cappers flood streets and subway stations, keeping gamblers in business at select spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Forty-second Street
Gaynor
Haynes
Haxsard
Klondike
Southwari
Knickerbocker
Tobin
Sam Emery
Canfield
Delmonico’s
East Forty-fourth Street
Billy Coe
Lou Ladium
West Forty-fifth Street
Lou Betts
Rosenthal
Rachael
Elliott
Elliott's and Others In Forty-sixth Street and Right Up To Fiftty-ninth Street
Men of Chance
Mbling
Waldo
Gamling
Broadway
Surgeons Perform Remarkable Brain Transplant Feat
William Buckner, a Cincinnati real estate broker, recovered at Johns Hopkins after surgeons transplanted a newborn baby’s brain tissue into his head. Dr. Harvey Cushin led the operation, claiming the transplant’s success marks a historic, contested breakthrough that moved Buckner from coma toward health after seven months of decline. Buckner had arrived in Baltimore on November 22 and briefly woke at Intervale before losing consciousness again.
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Wis Brain
Buckner
Cushing
Mr. Buckner
Charlottesville
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
William Buckner
Cincinnati
Harvey Cushing
Boy Goes Blind After Heavy Study in Atlantic City
Atlantic City New Jersey special reports that sixteen year old Hobart Bray awoke blind after a night of six hours study and late telegraph messenger work. He was taken to Will's Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and is described as a hardworking, ambitious boy from a large poor family.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Hobart Bray
Bray
Will's Eye Hospital
Philadelphia
Blindness Follows Long Candle Study For Poor Boy
A poor pupil in a small town, who studied by candlelight, suddenly loses vision after a difficult night of prep for an exam. Taken to the hospital, neighbors and telegraph company colleagues contribute to expenses. The boy bears the burden bravely, hoping to ease his family’s plight.
Call for Virginia extra session on redistricting struggle
Richmond special report details the Virginia General Assembly stalemate over district redrawing. Gov Mann refused to call an extra session citing $100,000 cost, while senators clashed over timing and votes. A two-thirds petition from elected members may trigger a late assembly convening amid public pressure.
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Richmond
General Assembly
Virginia
C. Harding Walker
Senate
House
Mann
Legislature Sees Extra Session Pay Debate Rise
Members advocate an extra session with pay of 260 dollars plus travel expenses if called. Counting clerks pages officers and printing raises total costs. If sessions last ten days no extra pay beyond 269 dollars, six months yields nothing more. Some top lawyers say constitutional language is plain and mandatory, warning acts could be invalid if redistricting is not done this year.
80 Miners Entombed by Explosion at Jed Coal Mine
Roanoke dispatch reports a gas caused explosion at Jed Coal and Coke Company mine in Jed West Virginia at 7 30 AM. Eighty miners were trapped with fate unknown early today. Rescue parties moved in. three workers were badly injured.
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Roanoke
Jed Coal and Coke Company
Jed
W. Va
Min
U. S. Abell Co
Baltimore
Maryland
Suffragettes Open Chicago Quarters In La Salle Hotel
Chicago suffragists have opened quarters in the La Salle Hotel to support the campaign. The space hosts campaign aides and materials as women fervently push for suffrage, with a public event window and promotional items noted in early reports.
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Chicago
Ill
la Salle
Taft
Textile Strikers Return to Work at Lawrence Mills
After two months the gates of all mills at Lawrence Mass opened and about 35 000 workers returned to duty. Wages rise 16 to 16 percent and mills operate at full force marking the end of the great textile strike that expanded wages for 275 textile workers in New England.
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Lawrench
Mass — Speen
Sret
New England
Piusbi Auction Notice From Warr Virginia Text
Fragmented OCR note from Warr Virginia mentions sale of stock and layers of birds. Names include ODGEN and Moya with scattered phrases about rescue and lighted follow. Content is garbled but implies an for sale context and partial place reference.
Wireless Steamers to Baltimore and Old Point Comfort
Old Point Comfort to Baltimore steamers Florida Virginia and Alabama depart 7 30 P M daily and Sunday with wireless telegraphy aboard Through tickets sold from Matthew and Gloucester Counties to Baltimore. Mine disaster near the scene of an explosion resulted in several deaths and entombed workers amid dangerous after damp conditions with rescue efforts delayed by gas and collapse.
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Florida
Virginia
Alabam
Old Point Comfort
Baltimore
Baltimere
Boa
Mathews
Gloucester Counties
Baltmore
Davis testimony now completed in Davis trial
In Petersburg Virginia at 12 30 this afternoon John Graves the bookkeeper at Old Appomattox Bank testified for the final time as Commonwealth's Attorney Mann announced the case against Charles Hall Davis former bank president charging him with making false statements on bank condition. The defense requested a recess for conference and the court granted it after six days of trial with Graves on the stand three times totaling nearly two days of testimony.
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Petersburg
John Graves
Appomattox
Commonwealth
Mann
Charles Hall Davis
Appomattox Bank
Javes
Drawing to the four card flush in poker tale
Harris Dixon argues poker skill favors drawing to the right cards and warns that chasing a four card flush leads to bankruptcy. He recalls an old Mississippian losing three plantations by drawing to flushes that failed or beat by full houses, illustrating risky draw decisions.
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Harris Dixon
Dixon
Mississippi
Popular Magazine
The Food of the Arab Daily Routine
A Chicago News summary describes an Arab day from dawn to night, loading camels and traveling long hours, with dates and water for breakfast, warm bread and onion or dates for supper, and bread baked in ashes. Coffee follows the feast, and butter from skin-bag churns supplements fat.
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Arabia
Chicago News
Diplomatic stance puzzles suffrage supporters in outdated dialogue
A fragmented note discusses diplomacy and suffrage, noting that supporters seem to like the speaker. The author questions how they manage it and suggests delaying talk about voting until the supporters are older, then sending them away.
Negro Woman Robs Aged Man In Richmond Court
Elizabeth Stokes alias Big Lis, a Black woman, was arrested by Detectives Bailey and Belton for assaulting and robbing 65 year old white man W. T. Williamson. Williamson, who is palsied, lives alone on East Main Street. The alleged theft totaled 76 dollars from about six to seven hundred on his person. Stokes was sent to the grand jury. John Teamster, allegedly assisting, was also detained. Williamson is unmarried.
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Richmond
Elizabeth Stokes
Big Lis
Mulatto
Bailey
Peter c. Belton
W. T. Williamson
Williamson
East Main Street
Tne
Stokes
John Teamster
First
Inventor’s case asks court to curb Wright ownership
Dr Edmund Myers Boston surgeon seeks equity in Suffolk Superior Court for 3600 dollars for removing 2000 pieces of stone from B F B Wright Newtonville inventor of a smokeless powder. Myers alleges injury from an explosion on May 10 1911 during demonstration and asks injunction to restrain Wright from assigning ownership to patents.
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Edmund Myers
Boston
Suffolk Superior Court
B. F. B. Wright
Newtonville
Wright
Myers
Speak Only on Invitation in Boston Train Car
In a cushioned train car speeding toward Boston Josiah White and his wife Abbie share a sly plan to remain silent, joking that polite talk is only allowed if invited. The scene hints at New England culture and a politely tense ride through expectations in a city famed for refinement.
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Massach
Josiah White
St. Lawrence County
Boston
Josiah
Abbie
Fragmentary church sermon excerpt on effects discussed
An incomplete Sunday sermon references Dr Hedge Dr Summer and Dr Bartol. The text hints at discussing effects on salt and men but is garbled and few details remain. The partial lines indicate a religious discourse but lack clear events or conclusions.
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Hedge
Summer
Bartol
Lergely
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Hobart
Petraxing
Gvernor
W. Odgen
Warr, Va
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OLP Bay Line
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