Cyclone Hits Baton Rouge Penitentiary and City
A July cyclone at Baton Rouge wrecked the Louisiana Penitentiary destroying walls and killing several convicts. Two city blocks were leveled and fatalities are estimated between thirty and forty with about twenty four wounded rescued from the ruins. Reports say a passenger train near the city escaped unharmed as locals gathered for updates on the disaster.
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Louisiana Penitentiary
Baton Rouge
Seveal
Western Union
St. Charles
Mississippi Valley Road
B. Steele
Steele
Tulare County to Exhibit Redwood Giant at World’s Fair
Tulare County plans an exhibit of a California redwood tree at the Chicago World’s Fair. The 800 foot giant will be cut into a 90 foot log, built into a palace car, and moved in sections to Tulare. Two cars are planned a dining car and a sleeper with an observation room. Iron bands will secure the tree sections for travel. The delegation will reside in the car during the fair.
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Tulare County
Tulare
Man ills at 91 seeks bride and property deed
Adam Stuart, born 1800 in Detroit, famed for wealth and age, tried to marry 22 year old Miss Smily Mhanter after her rejection he offered to deed his estate but she refused. He attempted suicide twice and was declared insane, sent to an asylum in Saginaw after a July incident.
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Detroit
Stuart
Two Captains Duel Over Miss Tone Of West Point Days
Maj. Oscar Bell recalls a duel challenge from 1868 between Captains Bell and Henry Poor in Lexington Missouri. The staged duel using baseball bats was thwarted by a female observer who teased resolution and invited both to dance. Poor later pursued life in the Sioux country while Bell found a wife. the tale ends with a light note on spider poison affecting insects.
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West Point
Loyal Legion
Maj
Oscar Bell
Albany
Mhiloh
Missouri
Lexington
Henry Poor
Poor
Wuld
Capt. Poor
Sioux Country
Denver Republican
Forgeries Committed in Jail at San Quentin Prison
A California convict Bachman and two allies exploited deputy warden mail envelopes at San Quentin to forge and cash a large order on the warden. Investigators traced the scheme to Bachman, who forged both the signature of a life-term inmate and an officer's approval, revealing a rare jailhouse crime spree at the prison.
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California
San Quentin
Gaborian
C. R. Bachman
Bachman
Fat Jack" Riley
William Phelps
Phelps
Buchman
San Francisco Examiner
The Gentle Sex and Notable Figures
A column notes pearls favored by Mr Astor and a fox terrier owned by Mrs Cleveland. It mentions Mrs Worth, Mrs Lanztry, and Matilda Sewell of Augusta as a piano prodigy, plus Sir Trenry James being elevated to the House of Lords. Harriet Lathrop, M D, pathsologist at Norristown State Hospital, is shaping policy in the women’s ward.
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Astor
Willing
Trenry James
House of Lords
Mr. Gladstone
Harper’s Weekly
Harriet E. Lathrop
State Hospital For the Insane
Norristown
15 Per Cent S.S.S Remains a Great Blood Remedy
Claiming to cure every form of blood poison disease S.S.S. is touted as the great remedy of the age. The advertisement asserts it treats over seventy five percent of mankind's maladies. The copy emphasizes broad efficacy and claims widespread health benefits.
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S.S.S
Swift's Specific Cures Child's Unknown Disease
A mother from Deshl Peru Ind writes that her five year old son suffered three years with a nameless disease mutating nails to the middle joints. After starting Swift's Specific, he improves. Free books on blood and skin diseases offered by The Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga.
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Swift
DESHL
Peru
Ind
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Gallipolis
C. Yell Arles Huffman
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Jasper Daugherty
New Maysville
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Midway
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Kenawa
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Liaison City
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Scranton
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London
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Miss Wilson
New York
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John Kiefe
Jamaica
the Herald
Loxpox
Switzerland
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Berlin
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St. Pach
Park Theatre
Harris
Hicumore
Bedgwick
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, Ga
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Det
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Lowell, Mass
J. F. Kric Hgler
Conway, Ark
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M. D
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Brooklyn
Children’s Department
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the Centaur Company
Murray Street
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Cop Sellin Genee
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