Weekly Short Story 5ting the Test by W F Bryan
An excerpt in a convention town shows Robert Woodham facing a two thirds rule stalemate as reform versus ring factions clash for governor. Woodham plots to swing delegates, weighing Crosby county’s 11 votes and Graves leading the Crosby delegation amid graft exposure and party upheaval.
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W. F. Bryan
Robert Woodham
Dudley
Reform
Foster
Ring
Graham Bailey Ws
Bailey
Crosby County
Woodham
Crosby
Howard Graves
Blood Balm Co. Promises Energy Revival with Free Samples
An advertisement from Blood Balm Co. of Atlanta Ga. offers free samples and testimonials claiming to restore strength and vitality to normal. bottle priced at $1.69. It targets tired feeling and lack of energy, urging readers to contact druggists.
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Election Bribe Test Creates Union of Father Daughter
In a heated convention, Howard Graves faces a crossroad as a bribe to influence his vote is revealed. Marion Woodham confronts him, and he chooses duty over wealth, securing her hand and a new alliance as Woodham accepts the outcome.
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Marian
Woodham
Graves
Crosby
Marion Woodham
Maple Street
Woodham, Calla & Creagh
VSEA
Crosby County
Marion
Dudley Foster
Danton County
Foster Rooters
Mr. Bailey
Dad
Robert
Clarton
Howard
Man Acquitted in Disturbing the Peace Case
John Hansel fifty years old faced a disturbing the peace charge in St. Louis. Judge Pollard dismissed the case after Dr C A Meberscht of City Hospital testified the defendant becomes temporarily unhinged whenever his wife's name is mentioned and was under observation since December 14.
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ST. Louis
John Hansel
Pollard
C. A. Meberscht
City Hospital
Hasael
Richmond officials tout conventions to lure trade
In New York, Col Dabney Major Carson and Col Grundy push for national conventions in Richmond. They cite unrivaled hotels climate accessibility and water transit facilities to attract American Druggists and American Street Railway meetings, arguing conventions bring industries and growth to the South city.
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Mills
Darbney
Carson
Grundy
New York
Fr. F. W
Richmond
W. T. Dabney
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
J. Preston Carson
Chamber of Commerce
M. R. Milla
Dabney
Waldorf
Ourse
United States
Major Carson
Colonel Dabney
South
Fruit Growers Hold Big Meeting in Staunton
Augusta County Horticultural Society met to hear Dr. S W Fletcher Professor J Le Phillips and J L Dumas speak. East versus West market prospects drew attention as leaders discussed future fruit-raising potential. New officers elected: William A Pratt president J N McFarland vice president W A McComb secretary M F Gileson treasurer.
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Staunton
Augusta County Horticultural Society
S. W. Fletcher
J. le Phillips
Blacksburg
J. L. Dumas
Washinton
Woshington
The
Tool Association
Wiliam A. Pratt
J. N. McFarland
W. A. McComb
M. F. Gileson
Denial of Bribery Attempt Involving Journal of Commerce
Washington A Dods worth of the New York Journal of Commerce alleges a Spanish government representative tried to influence publication in 1898. Rep Olcott reports a telegram denying the claim and the committee has subpoenaed Charles A Conant and John Dodsworth for hearings next Monday.
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Washington, D. C
A. W. Dodsworth
New York Journal of Commerce
Charles A. Conant
Journal
Washington
Olcott
Olcott. As A Result of the Issue Raised By Mr. Conant’s Denial of Mr. Dodeworths
Mr. Conant
John Dodsworth
Alfred W. Dodsworth
Journal of Commerce
Clifton forger remark muffled death after coffee
E R Smith of Craigsville Va a colored man went to a doctor for health advice then left after being warned not to drink coffee. He ate supper and drank two cups of coffee and soon after died. His body was sent home to Craigsville with few other details available.
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Clifton Forger
E. R. Smith
Craigsville
Confessed to Stealing Clothes in Richmond Court
Willie Wallace and Pearl Weisiger, both described as white girls aged seventeen, confessed in the Richmond Police Court to stealing clothing from a colored woman named Pattle Brooks. They admitted prior work at Patterson tobacco factory but provided differing stories. detectives say they are familiar street figures under surveillance. Bonds set at 300 dollars for sixty days, then pending good behavior. parents summoned.
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Richmond
Willie Wallace
Pearl Weisiger
Pattle Brooks
Siria
Patterson
Wasiaerd
Virginia Court Upholds 18-Year Sentencing in Child's Death
The Virginia Court of Appeals affirms the Westmoreland County verdict that Johnson a 24 year old Black school teacher who beat a seven year old child to death must serve eighteen years in the penitentiary. Olingon’s counsel argued many errors but none altered the judgment.
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Richmond
Circuit Court of
Westmoreland County
Johnson
the Commonwealth
Virginia Court of Appeals
Olingon
Jury convicts Johnson in brutal 1909 child abuse case
The article notes a teacher sent Mary Thompson home with her brothers after a serious incident, leading to her death days later. It also discusses prior whipping of the children, trial arguments about the Commonwealth's Attorney opening statement, and that the crime occurred on March 23, 1909.
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Johnson
Mary Thompson
Commonwealth
Supreme Court
Auto Crash Victim Identified as Miss India Carroll in Richmond
The body of Miss India Carroll was identified by about a dozen people after being struck by Dr Tyler Handleys car at Broad and Sixth Streets in Richmond. She lived at 8 East Clay Street worked in the Virginia Carolina Chemical bag department, about 65, no relatives here. The inquest set for tomorrow at 10 am, Coroner Taylor to guide witnesses. Handley posted 1000 bond and awaits court next Tuesday.
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Richmond
Sixth
Broad Streets
Tyler Handley
India Carroll
Mise Carrol
Charles T.stroll
Monticello
Fla
Handley
Miss Carroll
Broad Street
Hundley
Broad
City Hospital
Dr. Handley
Acree
Griffin
Bai
Smithfield
Ernest Harris
St East Clay Street
Carrol Beet
Mirimahues Pantist Church
Rimmarielbie
Antil
Harrix
S&8hie Inge
North Twenty-first Street
Inge
Ince
Pliley’s
Misa Carroll
Panic After Erie Road Train Collision in Hackensack
Panic spread through Hackensack as two passenger trains on the Erie Road collided on State Street. About a hundred people were panc inked, more than twenty seriously bruised, and traffic delays lasted roughly two hours.
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Hackensack
N. J
Selfridge Delayed By Fog On World Travel Test
H Gordon Selfridge the London millionaire merchant aims to set a 12 day London to Chicago trip record aboard the Mauretania. Fog forced delays across the lower bay and prevented tugs from venturing out while the ship held near Ambrose Channel lightship. The voyage covers about 9000 miles with a 676 knot 24 hour record set before the delay. Rosalie Selfridge awaits at Chicago.
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New York
H. Gordon Selfridge
London
Chicago
W. R. Holt
America
Washington State
Mr. Selfridge
Selfridge
Rosalie
Ambrose Channel
Bubonic Plague Ravages China Tien-Tsin and Pukow
Report from Pekin and Shanghai describes at least eighteen deaths and more than twenty plague cases in the city over seven days. Districts are isolated and quarantine delayed, exposing hundreds as railway traffic is halted.
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Pekin
Tien-Tsin
Pukow
Cundiff Plans Election Contest After Defeat
Danville Virginia special says W D Cundiff defeated by Joseph G Cannon plans to file a contest to the Speaker seat if investigation reveals sufficient fraudulent precincts to warrant action. He alleges vote selling and fraud could overturn the result.
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Danville
W. D. Cundiff
Joseph G. Cannon
Four Days Aboard Sinking Schooner Helen Shaffner
Six British crewmen clung to the sinking Helen Shaffner for four days off Nova Scotia before rescue by the Josie and Phoebe. Captain Isaac A. Hopkins of Halifax and five others survived after leaking, gale damage, and mast failures forced them to live on condensed milk and heated meat.
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Boston
Helen Shaffner
Josie
Phoebe
Seal Island
Nova Scotia
Isaac A. Hopkins
Halifax
William Green
George Harpell
Stephen Verge
William McGrath
Bruce Austin
Hopkins
Port Hastings
N. S
Shelburne
Doctor Morris Weds Clifton Forge Society Woman
Dr H H Morris a Philadelphia physician married Miss Frances W Jordah of Clifton Forge Va The ceremony was led by Rev J P Morris and Rev Ivan M Green The couple then dined at the bride’s home and departed by private car for Washington and Philadelphia en route to China where Morris will serve five years as a medical missionary
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Clifton Forge
H. H. Morris
Philadelphia
Clifton Porge
Frances W. Jordah
J. P. Morris
Ivan M. Green
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
Chesapeake and Ohio
Washington
China
Dr. Morris
Man Dies From Curtain Weight Accident in Lynchburg
Fréd Dabney, stage foreman at the Academy of Music, died at City Hospital in Lynchburg after a curtain weight of sixty pounds fell on him three weeks earlier. He had been under federal indictment for operating a blind tiger when the accident occurred.
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Lynchburg
Fréj Dabney
Academy of Music
City Hospital
Wedding Riots Leave One Dead and Several Injured in Chicago
A fatal stabbing and multiple injuries occurred at a wedding riot on Seventeenth and Wood in Chicago. Rival factions clashed during celebrations, prompting arrests as officers dispersed the crowd.
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Chicago
Ill
Seventeenth
Wood Streets
Blond hair color changes through evolution says Missouri professor
Dr Charles Elwood of the University of Missouri told a Columbia audience that the blonde type results from a long selective process in which men favored lighter over darker skin. He claimed women are generally lighter skinned than men and that birth skin is lighter than adult skin, noting primitive humans were not strictly black or white.
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Columbia
Charles Eliwom
University of Missouri
Elwood
PRESERVED FREESTONE PEACHES RECIPE NOTES
Instructions describe preparing freestone peaches with coarse towel rubs pits removal and sugar ratios. Process includes draining juice to a kettle, boiling and skimming, cooking fruit until clear, cracking pits and preparing kernels, then adding pits back before final canning steps.
Mrs Laura L Drew Dies En Route To Norfolk
Mrs Laura L Drew died aboard a Norfolk and Western train leaving Richmond this morning en route to Norfolk. Her body will be buried in Norfolk. She recently dived at Wakefield, Virginia.
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Richmond
Norfolk
Laura L. Drew
Norfolk and Western
Wakefield
Woman's Department Cookie Dough Mix Recipe
A vintage home recipe lists ingredients for a soft loaf dough to be baked in a moderate oven. It includes half cup butter one cup sugar one cup molasses three eggs one teaspoonful saleratus one to two pounds seeded raisins one cup very strong coffee and spices.
Coffee Jelly Recipe with Cream and Galad Dressing
A vintage style recipe describes boiling a mixture of water gelatine egg whites and strong coffee. After boiling strain through a bag and serve with cream. Use yolks to make a galad dressing and add one whole egg.
Creamed strawberry mixture recipe steps
Mix one and a half cups sugar with half cup butter until creamy. Fold in crushed strawberries gradually until desired consistency is reached.
One Egg Cake Recipe Summary
A simple cake method combines sugar and flour with baking powder, then adds an egg and milk. Melted butter and chopped raisins mix in, with optional raisins, baked in jelly cake pans or with jelly as desired.
Chocolate pudding with secret sauce recipe list
A recipe item describes chocolate pudding using bread crumbs milk butter sugar egg and grated chocolate. A separate sauce is formed from butter powdered sugar egg yolk and white vanilla is added for flavor.
Indian Delight Cornmeal Pudding from Homemade Batter
Beat 2 eggs and 1 pint milk with 1 to 2 teacups molasses. Stir in 1 cup cornmeal 5 teaspoons baking powder then add milk eggs and molasses plus 1 cup boiled cooled rice. Mix to a thin batter, bake in a shallow pan until hot, cut into squares and serve immediately.
Vanilla Extract Recipe From Ts1TOON MOUSEKEEPER
Instructions mix true vanilla beans tonka beans and alcohol with water and aging steps. Describe quantities for 1 to 4 ounce vanilla beans 1 to 2 ounce tonka beans 1 to 2 pint alcohol and water, plus a two week and one week rest before final strain.
Boston Housekeeper's Lemon Extract
A home recipe describes placing rind from three lemons in a glass jar with one pint of alcohol for four days. After standing, pour into a bottle and add one ounce of lemon oil to yield a pint of lemon extract at a fraction of typical price.
Traditional Raisin Sour Milk Pie Recipe Note
Simple baking note lists ingredients and steps for a two crust pie. Use one cup sour milk one cup chopped raisins one to two cups sugar as needed butter walnut size egg and spices nutmeg and cinnamon. Prepare with two crusts for baking.
Beverages and Mixes From an Old Kitchen Notebook
A collection of drink and dessert recipes including tea muffins plain iced tea pineapple lemonade iced coffee iced chocolate grape juice punch fruit punch ginger punch and soft drink ideas. Instructions cover ingredients quantities methods and serving suggestions with notes on chilling serving and garnishes.
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