Boy kills mother then himself in Pottsville attic crime
George Simons a civil engineer and only son killed his mother, then shot himself when police approached his sweetheart Miss Viola Hartram's home. The body was left in the attic under lime and five screws sealed the door. Authorities suspected motive as a trifling dowry to cover marriage hopes.
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Pottsville
George Simons
Viola Hartram
Simons
Hi Mother
Mahanoy City
Davies
North George Street
Ex-Shah to Quit Persia Under Pension Deal
In Teheran a protocol agreed with Russian and British diplomats fixes the ex Shah of Persia’s annual pension at 180000 dollars. He will leave Azerbaijan Province three days after the protocol is signed.
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Teheran
Persia
Azerbaijan
Judge Clarkson Takes Job At Sabula Brass Bed Plant
Kenosha special report notes Judge Joseph B. Clarkson pursued a common laborer life by taking a job as an assembler of brass beds at a local Sabula plant. He arrived in overalls a golf cap and with a tin pail for his dinner, echoing a recent public choice to shed status for work.
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Kenosha
Wis
Joseph B. Clarkson
Sabula
Father of 38 Children Dies in Indiana Pa
John W. Miller aged 76 dies in Indiana Pennsylvania after four marriages. Thirty eight children mourn him and one wife survives. The obituary notes a large blended family and his long life in the area.
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Indiana
John W. Miller
Mr. Miller
Youngstown
Lusitania Sets Four Day Transatlantic Westbound Record
The Lusitania arrived in New York at 7 30 P M completing the first four day western passage. From Daunt's Rock to Ambrose Lightship the voyage took four days 11 hours 42 minutes, surpassing the liner's previous best by over three hours.
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New York
Lusitania
Daunt’s Rock
Ambrose Channel
Victims Named in Double Murder and Insanity Plea
An insanity defense was entered after Emil and Mildred Christie and Michael were killed on July 3 in a hold up near the Christies' farm. Victor, a farm hand, was charged in the killings. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived Plymouth from New York and collided with a sleeping 70 foot whale, impaling it on its bow.
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Emili
Ata Thae Hae Chriide
Ind
Ee Mildred
Michael Mur Dee
Victor
Christie
Christies
Ronayne
Plymouth
New York
Newfoundland
Dr Cook Reports North Pole Claim Backed by Method and Observations
Dr Frederick A Cook arrives in Skagen aboard the Hans Egede and says his North Pole feat rests on daily observations and Eskimo methods. He asserts reaching the pole at 7 a m with two Eskimos, notes the 30 000 square mile new ground opened, and offers to submit his records for scientific testing.
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Pole
Skagen
Denmark
Hans Egede
Frederick A. Cook
Cape Skagen
Copenhagen
Hans Egedesg
Cook
Greenland
North Pole
North Sea
Am. Drup
Welcoem
Dr. Cook
Watermelon Day Crowds Consume Ten Thousand Melons
Rocky Ford Colorado reports a massive melon day with ten thousand watermelons eaten and cantaloupe also served. Excursions arrived from many points and hundreds of attendants handed out melons to all attendees, each person eating at least one. The event mirrors Colorado farmers’ pumpkin pie and strawberry day traditions.
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Rocky Ford
Col
Variou
Colorado
American Locomotive plans 35 million five percent notes
The board of American Locomotive Company authorized an issue of 35,000,000 five percent notes. The Pattons of Chicago, profiting from old wheat, forecast much lower prices for new wheat. United States Steel anticipates record pig iron use and ore shipments this month, though some doubt the steel trade.
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American Locomotive Company
Pattons
Chicago
United States Steel
Incubator Baby to Be Returned as Court Disputes Reach End
The incubator baby in Topeka will be turned over to mother Mrs. Charlotte Bleakley in Kansas City within days. Attorneys for Mrs. Stella Barclay of Buffalo New York seek dismissal of habeas corpus proceedings started in Kansas City as part of a kidnapping case.
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Topeka
Kansas
Marian Bleakley
Charlotte Bleakley
Kansas City
Stella Barclay
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr Miles Nervine touted for nerve relief and health
An advertisement asserts many illnesses arise from weak nerves and promotes Dr Miles Nervine as a cure. A testimonial from JO JAMES of Riverton Nebraska claims rapid improvement after starting the remedy and urges consumption through local druggists with refund for first bottle if no benefit.
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Miles
Dr. Miles
James
Riverton
Nebr
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Chesapeake Line Steamers Offer Daily Baltimore to Norfolk Service
Chesapeake Steamship Company operates the Chesapeake Line with elegant passenger steamers Columbia and Augusta. Depart Baltimore Hall at 6:30 P M except Sundays, sail to Old Point Comfort at 6:00 A M and Norfolk at 7:00 A M, connecting with rail lines for all southern destinations.
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Chesapeake Line
Columbia
Augusta
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk
Batimore Hall
Baltimore
West Point
Richmond
Gloucester Point
Clement’s
Clay Bank
Ailmond’s
Light Street
Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Robson
T. H Die
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S. P
Nottingham
Casa
L. E. Mumford Banking Co
Mathews C. E
Ita
Methodist Church
Virginia
James Cannon, JR
Blackstone
Rural Supply CO
S. Third St
Richmond, Va
the Journal
Journal
Pvr
the Mathews Journal
Bechsee
Boy
Sweetheart
Murderer
Barents
North Polar Region
A. M. Marchant
Journal Building
Old Virginia Mountain
Reia
Modelo
Geo. W. Wright
SON Wholeasle Liquor Dealers
Light St
Baltimor
Chesapeake Steamship Company
RK River Line
Atlanta
Richmond VA
M. S. Foster
Lib.ey Bros
Mathews C
HM. VA
Leslie C. Garnett
Mathews, Va
Couns Mathews
Widnes and
Gloucester
Tennyson
Frank T. Clark
Randolph Sts
Old Diminion Steamship Co
Mathews
Gloucester Counties
Norfolk, Co’s
North St
Norfolk, Bay Line
East River
Philpot
Williams
Wi Hicks
Auburn
Dixondale
Severn River Severn
Old Point
O. D
Norfolk, Co
Doe North St
Philphot
Willam
Hick
Digg
Ware River
Roane
Smith
Hockley
Jamies River
Berkeley
Brandon
Park
A. Ernest
Blavan Owenness
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