Beauty of Power at the World Fair in Chicago
Walter Wellman reports crowds cluster around beauty and power at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. He notes vast spaces, the grand plaza, the Japanese Palace, and the boiler house drawing throngs. Visitors chase fountains, statues, engines, dynamos, and the Japanese temple as enduring magnets.
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Grand Basin
United States
Duke of
Manufactures and Liberal Arts
Lone
Grand Plaza
Temi
Sivain
Chicago
America
Horticultural Hall
Walter Wellmas
Revival of Hillmon insurance swindle tale shocks insurers
The Times reports John W. Hillmon, linked to the famous Hillmon insurance swindle, has been found alive. Mutual Life, New York Life, and Connecticut Mutual claim to hold $40,000 in Hillmon life policies and say a murder to obtain the body tied to earlier suits. Brown’s confession faltered. the dead man proved Walters of Fort Madison, ending a murder conspiracy with Hillmon, Baldwin, and Brown. Investigations continue as insurers pursue claims and possible prosecutions.
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New York
the Times
John W. Hillmon
Hillmon
Kansas
Mutual ‘Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company
Connecticut Mutual Company
Hillman
Pacific Coast
Medicine Lodge
Kan
Hos Jary
Crooked Creek
John H. Brown
Hillmon’s
Brown
Levi Baldwin
Hillon
Baldwin
Wichita
Joe Berkeley
Berkeley
Marshall
Frederick Adolph Walters
Fort Madison
Lawrence
Walters
Hilmon
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JAS. S. Kirk & CO
North Western Line
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Er
Milwaukee
Northwestern
Miiwat- Kee
Pullman and Wagner
Twin Cites
DeLors
Superior
Duluth
Ashland
Cay
Minneadolis
ST. Pacl
City
Omaha
Kansas City
Sioux City
Omahaa
Nebraska
Black Hills
Minnesota
St. Patt
Sioux Falls
Lake Crystal
Elmore
Huron Lake
Pipestone
Mitchell
ST. Paut
Central Dakota
Kasota
Tract
Rour Station
W. Teasdale
Hathaway
Pure DR
J. N. Hathaway
Commercial Bank
Suandars
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Beauty
Walter Wellman
Thompson
Europe
Betsea
Ory
Duke
CubicaGo
Columbus, O
J. H. Outhwaite
Veragna
Vis
Crimea
William Paulet
Castoria
Pitcher’s Castoria
H. W. Kress & CO
Davison
Call and Seus
First National Bank
Geo, E. Logan
Ot Mitchell
So. Dak
South Dakota
Prescott & Bidwell
Davison County
Main St
N. Nursery and Seed CO
Illinois Central Railroad
Hainels Central Main Line
Webster City
Central Station
12Th Street
Park Row
Lake Front
Central
Luni
C.R. R
A. H. Hanson
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