Fainting Bertha Lebecke Railroads Through Mental Hospitals
Bertha Lebecke, known as Fainting Bertha, emerged from a life of escapes and confinement across Iowa Illinois and Missouri. Her path through Joliet Kankakee Elgin Nevada Peoria and other asylums ends with admission to South Bartonville where officials note her rare escape history.
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Bertha Jeberke
Sioux
Sioux City
George A Zaetler
Boel Bartouvillu
Earl of Bertie
Maine
Bertiat
Philsophicy
Bertha' Lebeeke
Uear
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Amd
Bertha Lebecke
Council Bluffs
Kankakee
Higin
Bertha Leberke
Gun- Hey
Wr. Zeller & Dale
Bertha
Glenwood la
Gunther
Bertha’’ Sebecke
Glenwood
Clarinda State Hospital
St. Bernard's Asylum
Connell Bluffs
Nevada
Omaha
Chicago
Iinois
Joliet
Pletcher
Kankakkee
Hhanting Bertha
Sims
Wietcnher
Podstatiu
Wigin
Berthal
T’eorla
Peoria
Peoria Tran
Zeller
Asylum For the Incurable
South Bartonville
Vodstata
Murphy
Jellet
Podstata
Elgin
Jor
South Bartonville Asylum
Atchison Globe Lights
Aoman
Missouri Teacher Faces World Speller Champion Challenge
Lancaster Missouri schoolteacher Professor J Jones holds the world spelling title and issues a public challenge yearly. Jessie Hamilton, 18, a proofreader from Macon, answers to test his skill and seeks to dethrone him with strict rules and a four hour word battle.
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Kansas City Star
Professor J. Jones
Lancaster
Jessie Hamilton
Macon
Professor Jones
Miss Hamilton
Brother Jones
Missouri
Mr. Jones
Quips and Quarrels from a 1900s Atchison Column
A breezy miscellany on manners and morals surveys common foibles about women travel and gossip. It cites social habits and urban curiosities while lampooning pretension and the clash between old and new values. A lampooned editor narrative ends with a caustic barbed notice on a society marriage.
Unlucky Month Onlooker Bet Card Luck In Games
A Pall Mall magazine excerpt explores superstition in card play via a respected club spectator who avoided cards in one unlucky month. An elderly observer watched others play and, by proximity, was said to bring bad hands to players, prompting him to leave tables when near.
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J. H. Harriman
Washington
Mr. Harriman
Jane Smith
John Jones
Pall Mall
Teachers Deserve Higher Pay Across Education Sectors
The Review of Reviews argues for better pay for teachers as essential to national progress. It links teacher quality to a strong public school system, higher institutions, and broader social reforms, urging sufficient salaries to attract and retain a permanent profession.
Lost Short Sparks Taxywise Banter
In a humorous column from Starper's Weekly a clerk laments a missing item while a customer protests having just paid 12 cents to complete a job. The exchange ends with the laundress confirming the short was washed and not yet found.
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