Life is Hard for Siberia Settlers
St. Petersburg reports claim prosperity for Siberian colonists but private observers recount severe hardship. Many settlers arrive with only $40, lack ploughs or horses after two years, live in mud huts, face exile fees from natives, endure eight months of winter and four harvests in ten years, and suffer poverty without tools or clothes while some prefer their misery to factory work back in European Russia. The Daily News cost is 35c a month.
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St. Petersburg
Elysium
Irkutsk
Russia
Did She Poison Her Husband
Little Rock Arkansas August 10 Mrs E fel Hancock awaits a hearing on a charge of poisoning her husband The young wife recounts eight years of toil and a child lost while she and a neighbor recall delivering coal and running a small restaurant Hancock claims strychnine vanished and suspects his wife Meanwhile the doctor cites secondary strychnine poisoning and the case draws on local social ties and a Governor's past pardons of white women in penitentiaries.
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Little Rock, Ark
E‘fle Hancock
Hancock
Mary Snow
Pulaski County
Gov. Donaghey
Dr Martell's Female Pills Advertises Longstanding Remedy
The standard female health remedy Dr Martell's Female Pills is described as scientifically prepared and proven for women's ailments with quick and permanent results. Sold at all drug stores. 0, d, 10mo.
Chicago Runaway Jack Wilson Reveals True Identity
Fifteen year old Sarah Wilson of St. Joseph Missouri admitted to impersonating a boy as Jack. She dyed her hair, wore pants, smoked a pipe, and carried tobacco. Tearful, she described fleeing to Chicago to see her sister and planned return after notifying her father. She will be sent home after contact with her father.
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Chicago
Jack” Wilson
South Clark
Jack
Sarah Wilson
St. Joseph, Mo
Jacek
Northwestern Station
South Clark Station
Sarah
South Clark Street
Allen Gerbsey
Stockton
Kan
Lillie
Oldest Indian Patsy, 128, Dies in Hadlock Bark Cabin
Patsy, reputed to be the United States oldest Indian at about 128, dies at his bark cabin near Hadlock Washington. He claimed twenty five wives during the first eighty years of his life and once told his history to the Mayor of Seabeck.
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Hadlock
Wash
Patsy
United States
Itsg
Seabeck
Small Want Ad in The Daily News Classified Column
A compact classified notice announces a small want ad in The Daily News's Classified Column. It signals readers to place brief personal or ad requests with concise details for prompt response.
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Daily News
Longest Beard in the World Brings Western NC Pride
In Bristol Tennessee a man identified as G. Brinkley of Magnetic City North Carolina displays a beard length once six feet two inches, trimmed to five feet four. Brinkley, age fifty two, has worn the beard since age twenty three and recalls being mocked as a youth. He is a farmer and teacher who has taught twenty four schools in Western North Carolina.
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Bristol, Tenn
G. Brinkley
Magnetic City
Brinkley
North Carolina
Mitchell County
Price Scale From West China Hints Cost of Living
New Yorkers can glimpse West China prices via U S Consul Arnold of Amoy. Nine hen eggs cost 1 cent, a good sized chicken 5 cents, mutton 3 cents a pound, a pigeon 1 cent, brace of pheasants 6 cents, coal $1 per ton, flour 1 cent for two pounds, wheat 25 cents per bushel, pork 5 cents per pound, corn 20 cents per bushel, a mule or horse listed without completion.
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Washington
West China
U. S
Arnold of
Amoy
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