Cowboy 35 Years From Cowpuncher To Millionaire Oil Baron
Ed L Doheney once rode Texas cattle trails to Wichita now drives a private car and banks millions in California and Mexico He controls a southern oil company selling 600 barrels daily to the Mexican Central railroad His rise spans a cowboy past and a high finance present with ties to Col umbia oil and former employer Lee & Reynolds
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Denison
Tex
L. Doheney
Texas
Wichita
Kan
Lee & Reynolds
Indian Territory
Old State
Doheney
California
Mexico
State
Columbia
Capt. Lee
W. C. Hoggard
Brazos River
Los Angeles
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Ripley
Mr. Doheney
Sing Sing to be abandoned for insanitary conditions
New York state Prison commission report says Sing Sing will be abandoned and a new 500 acre site on the west bank of the Hudson near Iona Island approved by the governor. It notes higher costs for female inmates, a peak inmate count of 12,277, and progress in educating illiterates within prisons.
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Albany
Sing Sing
United States
State Commission On Prisons
Special Commission
Hudson River
Iona Island
Highland Lake
State of
New York
Commission
Old Whisky Treasure Tale Aims for Lost 1859 Cargo
Gen Adna R. Chaffee and Gen W H Sherman head a expedition tracing 150 barrels of Kentucky whisky sunk since 1859. They journey from Yuma along the Colorado River to the Cocopah mountains seeking remains of the sunken schooner Anna and its $100,000 liquor cargo. The tale mirrors Frank Norris’s Blix.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Kentucky
Adna R. Chaffee
W. H. Sherman
Gulf of California
Hardy River
Colorado
Cocopah Mountains
Anna
Colorado River
Frank Norris
Log Wrecks Miner’s Home in Idaho Mountains
Spokane report says John Bernard, master mechanic of the Success mine, and his family escaped death when a 7 foot by 18 inch log rolled down a mountain and plowed through their Wallace Idaho home burying ten feet of its length. The log tore a bole from end to end but the family of five, including Bernard’s wife and three children, avoided serious injury.
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Spokane
Wash
John lGernard
Success
Wallace
Idaho
Bernard
Boat and airship hybrid patent touted by Brooklyn inventor
A. Perry Bliven of Brooklyn claims to have patented a combined boat and balloon that can sail days on water and rise like a bird by releasing ballast to drop lyddite shells on enemy ships. He describes an egg shaped hydrogen filled balloon in an aluminum frame atop a wide hull with side propellers and a stern drive. Bliven asserts US Canada Great Britain France and Italy patents exist with others sought and notes potential sale values up to millions. He also details ballast management and a kerosene reserve to guard against gas loss.
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Brooklyn
A. Perry Bliven
Bliven
Avro
United States
Canada
Vitain
France
Italy
Buchanan Romance Reveals Presidents Bachelor Era
Lancaster report details a romance of James Buchanan, Pennsylvania’s only bachelor president. The tale cites a Philadelphia legal case, a Jenkins household, and Miss Grace Hobley’s note triggering an engagement break. Ann Coleman’s sudden Philadelphia trip and reported suicide followed, with her burial in St James churchyard.
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Lancaster
Lancaster County Historical Society
James D. Landis
James Buchanan
Pennsylvania
Buchanan
Willian Jenkins
Supreme Court
Philadelphia
Jenkins
Grace P. Hobiey
Buehanan
Cane
Itves
St. James’ Churchyard
Man Old as His Arteries in Chicago Retirement Plan
Chicago health officials propose a new retirement method for policemen based on arterial hardness. Health Commissioner Fivans explains that aging varies by vascular condition, with a device testing arterial rigidity to determine retirement order. A rubber band cuff and pump measure arterial pressure against a mercury standard.
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Chicago
Fivans
Widow buys back petrified husband for gate-post plan
A Tennessee widow, whose husband’s body was turned to stone after years in the ground, sold him to a showman for cash. She contemplates offering to marry a rich man to repurchase his body and place it as a gate-post for years to come, reflecting community ambivalence about the deed.
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Tennessee
Isso
Jim
Corn Like Centuries Ago In Wild Form Discovered
Des Moines readers report a remarkable corn ear showing a four inch sprig and a head resembling small grain with cups containing grains, claimed by agronomists as the original corn form seen in wild centuries ago. A second item notes a Maryland tramp narrowly missed a $400 holiday gift when a widow found the money in her husband’s coat and gave the suit to him.
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Des Moines
Aden
Worton
Farm auction notices and divorce petition in Mills County Iowa
Advertisements note a farm sale near Glenwood with horses cows and other stock plus farm implements to be sold by J McGarry and Frank Wright on February dates. Also a district court divorce petition filed by W J Hamilton against Dora J Hamilton with a notice to appear by April 14 1908 in Glenwood Iowa.
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J. McGarry
Glenwood
District Court of the State
A.D
Mills County
Fire at Her Funeral in Brockton Mass Causes Scare
During Mrs. Fannie Meisel’s funeral a curtain near the coffin ignited from a candle as mourners gathered. A bystander yanked box 24, which had summoned the fire department earlier, extinguishing the blaze as firefighters arrived while attendees left and the coffin was carried downstairs.
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Brockton
Mass
Fannie Meisel
Size of Oregon Mosquitoes at Skinner's Butte Campout
The late Col. L L Hawkins recalled a Mazama campfire tale of enormous mosquitoes near Hu gene at Skinner's Butte. He claimed to have seen clouds of bite sized insects so large they weighed a fraction of a pound, a story shared as a roadside humor moment among Oregon explorers.
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Oregon
Col
L. L. Hawkins
Mazamas
Snow Mountains
Rodney Gilson
Skinner’s Butte
Hugene
Col. Yawkins
Tellne
Portland Oregonjian
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