Confession of a Prosecutor on Trial Before Death
A dying French prosecutor narrates a case where he pushed for a conviction in a Paris district trial. The condemned man proclaims innocence at the guillotine, fueling the prosecutor's growing doubt, guilt, and eventual lifelong penance. He urges the teller to spread the lesson to ambitious lawyers and to honor a final bequest to aid the unfortunate under the name Tranaille.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Favart
Maitre Gernou
Pernier
Peraps
Oath
Paris
Everyody
Tranaille
Confession Revealed On Scaffold In Tramaille Trial
The dying man admits Tranaille’s guilt to the prosecutor before death. The speaker, formerly the prosecutor, reveals the truth and hopes the condemned man heard the confession before dying.
Engineer Hero of Train Held Up in Cedar Rapids
An express train No. 9 near Cedar Rapids was halted by masked bandits. Engineer Mansfield shot at the robbers after bullets struck him in the arm and fireman. The locomotive steamed to safety as the bandits fired and fled. Mansfield was taken to hospital, and authorities suspected Chicago criminals planned to seize the express car contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
D. Mansfield
Chicago
Northwestern
Cedar
Ft Mansfield
Buryime Cneibelves
Fred
Sineer
Freman
Orver
Hood
Tyne
Friaet
Tadrtrom O
Mansfield
Bert
Virginia Senate votes against co-ordinate women’s college bill
The Virginia Senate defeated the proposal to create a co-ordinate women’s college at the University of Virginia by a 20 to 14 vote after expedited consideration and a series of conferences. Senators argued for equal educational opportunities while opponents pressed procedural concerns before adjourning.
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Richmond
University of Virginia
Senate
Ayes
Blanks
Crockett
Cummings
Drewry
Early
Gravatt
Harman
Paul
Rison
Siundere
Smith
Tucker
Walker
Weet
Brook Echols
Edmondson
Featherston
Fletcher
Folkes
Garratt
Gayle
Hart
Hobbs
Holt
Mapp
Massie
Moncure
Montague
Parr
Sowder Taverner
Watkins
West
Senator Featherston
House
Clarke
Warren
Ile
Tme
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Mrs. Greenstreet
A Richmond resident credits Doan's Kidney Pills with stopping five years of kidney trouble and back pain after failed remedies. The advertisement urges readers to seek Doan's at 50 cents in all stores, Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, NY, the makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
H. H. Greenstreet
18Th St
Richmond
Buffalo
N. Y
Missouri delegates pledged for Champ Clark at state convention
Joplin Missouri dispatch notes eight Missouri delegates at large to the Baltimore convention with one vote each. The platform praises Champ Clark and criticizes Cannonism while urging home rule and tariff reform. Clark boosters sing the official campaign song and Missouri papers seek the author of the song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joplin
Baltimore
Lealt
Champ ‘Care
William Stone
Uited
James A. Eberent
A. M. Dockery
Lonie Stephens
St. Low
David K. Francis
William T. Kemper
Kansas City
Gilert & Karbee
Congress
Ireland
Champ Clark
Oun
Clark
Missouri
Former French Premier Clemenceau Ill in Paris
Special-M Georges Clemenceau former premier of France is ill with influenza in Paris. Physicians say no alarm, but he will be confined to his sick room for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News Times-Herald
Paris
M. Georges Clemenceau
France
M. Clemenceau
Editorials and Sidelights From Virginia Newspapers
A collage of brief notes from Virginia papers includes quips about the General Assembly needing guidance, Roosevelt’s ballot idea, social proprieties, a preacher’s faith in Shool, Knox’s Columbus trip avoidance, Morse’s return to business after Europe, and Judson Warnmeon set to address the Maryland Legislature on March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Maryland
Great
Southwest
Staunton Dispatch
Judson Warnmeon
Woman recounts thirty year longing and a love doomed by death
In the February Woman's Home Margaret E Sangster recalls a Virginia man who cherished a lifelong passion for a woman of rare beauty. He visited weekly, but neither marriage nor confession occurred, and the pair remained a secret until the woman's sudden death. the man sank into melancholy afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Sangster
Virginia
Mercury as another curious property
The fragment describes a link between Mercury and price movements for butter, noting that lower Mercury values correspond to higher butter prices. It reads as an odd, speculative note on commodity pricing tied to planetary references.
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Woods Hutchinson
Milam
Maurice Level
Trasse
Drerciste
Elmwood Nurseries
California
Amoor River
J. B. Watkins & Brother
Tramaille
Derreux
Monsieur la Procureur
Tutt
Br. Tutt Manufacturing Co
New Yor
Bill
E. W. Jones Nursery Co
Woodlawn
Putnam Faceless
Monrow Drug CO
Quincey, TA
Berger
Texas
Mexico
New York
Canada
Charlottesville
Washington
London
Church of Legland
Washington Herald
Lynchburg
New Orleans Item
Salisbury Post
Twin City
Bath Tub Trust
Times-Union
Agricultural Department
Huntington
Ww. Va
Lincoln
Kansas Ci Journal
Jrvensboro News
Charleston News and Courier
News and Courier
Boston
Asheville
At- Tanta Journal
General Assembly Cme
Fredericksburg Star
Fleures
Roosevelt
Mabel
Roanoke News
Atlanta
Georgia
Knox
Columbus
Alexandria Gazette
Fuerepe
Morse
Herald-Courler
Mii
Ste
Econowey
Vick
Greensbors
N.C
Gare
Norfolk and Western Railway
W. F. Culbert
Marion
Pe Borie
Aseplio
Fio
Marine Eye Remedy
W. T. Hood & Co
OLD Dominion Nurseries
Dept. “A
Richmond, VA
S.C
Rhode Island
Rowell Poultry Yards
43D Street
Newport News
Chichester
Ae Amond
ERAN
Tebe Talbott
Lantz
W. Va
Cardus
W. S. Tanner Paint CO
Pichmond
Ae Otee
Hille
Owthera Alma
Hilledirectory Company
S28 Mutual Building
Richmond, Yu
Woman’s Department
Mohamm Mendan
India
Columba
Kethr
Wos
Abu Bugisto Burna
Thomas Moore
Laila Rookh
Art
Nero
Rolle
Wier
Washington Star
Louisville Courier-Journal
George
SsSo
Puck
Thompson
Anita
Jerkins
Jorkins
Jorhang
Brecher
Binks
Woodrow Wills
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