Cheney Solves Pullman Robbery Case With Found Soda Bottle Clue
Colonel Cheney investigates Count Rossi robbery aboard the Overland Limited. Porter Simpson hid $15,000 and jewels in a soda water bottle, dropped it west of Ogden. Lige Ferguson conspired with him. Ferguson and Simpson confess. jewels and money recovered and returned to Rossi. Cheney rewarded for the sharp, persistent work.
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Sid
Lonerzan
Guthrie
Weeks
Gener
Patier Car Company
Chéney
Count Rossi
Trals
Count
Sheney
Ogden
Signor
San Francisco
Promintory Point
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank
Italy
Cheney
Angel
County Two
Colonel Dawes
Mr. Weeks
California
Cigale
Cheney Bertared
Jolex
New York
Croesus
Campbell
Simpson
Denver
Lonergan
Paris
Amsterdam
Chicago
Chichen
Qelen
Frisco
Northwest
James Simpson
Kunnel
Jeff
Jefs
Wes
Jefy
Galler
Aly
Lige Ferguson
Dearbo'n Street
Suh
Ferguson
Lige
Jess
Mihnner
Bose
Jet
Belfast
Salt Lake
Omaha
Burlington
Salt Lake Penitentiary
Centipedes with Headlights Found by Explorers in Guiana
From Georgetown, Demerara, two British Guiana officers and an East Indian cook explored weft lands mapped after the King of Italy's award in the border dispute. They saw luminous centipedes in the forest, visited Kaieteur Falls, and endured eight months of travel with only a cold as a notable ailment.
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London Express
W. Anderson
H. P. C. Melville
Department of Lands and Mines
British Guiana
British Guiana- Brazil
Georgetown
Demerara
Kamaiwawong
Jeremiah
Ireng
Takuta
Potaro
Yakontipu
Niagara
Lincoln Farm Association to Preserve Lincoln Birthplace as National Park
The Lincoln Farm association formed in New York in February 1906 aims to convert Abraham Lincoln's 110 acre birth site in Larue County Kentucky into a national park with museums and monuments. It seeks public funding solely from donations, to dedicate the site on February 12 1909 the centennial of Lincoln's birth, and plans to transfer ownership to the United States as a national shrine promoting unity.
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Lincoln Farm Association
New York
Larue County
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
United States
Lincoln Farm
Gettysburg
Chickamauga
Missionary Ridge
Vicksburg
Kentuck
Mount Vernon
Lincoln Worm Association
White House
Washington
George Fliot
Europe
Robert Burns
Schiller
Walter Scott
Victor Hugo
King Alfred
Winchester
The
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Joseph H. Choate
England
Henry Waterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Edward M. Shepard
August Belmont
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Horace Porter
France
William ‘Travers Jerome
Demand of Labor at Massachusetts Mill
An Irish delegate speaks for mill workers seeking weekly wages instead of semi monthly payments. The boss asks what can be done and the worker requests weekly pay for all workers, stating it is the desire of himself and every other man in the establishment.
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Saime
Cabad
Satihigo
Spehters
Havana
Grins Wiimsport
Washington
Wir
Cpresuriett Thie Visensa
Aliibante Oyuen
United States
Engle
Cheney Aad
Cuba
Cervera
Santiago
Viscaya
Oquendo
Colon
Maria Teresa
Admira Cervera Jand
Toray
Sampson
Sancson
Tampa
Thevillian War Department
Miles
San Juan Hill
Spain
Cheney
Eoen
Caney E
Chaffee
Lawton
Vara del Rey
San Juan
Porto Rico
United States Army
Woodley
Chicago
Jeff
Kunnel
Lonergan
Guthrie
Lowersen
Jack
Europe
Russia
Yarmoleff
Lippincott's
Massachusetts
Michael
Mike
Neeple
Serpent
Pointed Letters and Their Witty Replies
The article notes famous terse letters with sharp replies from Wellington Scott Macdonald and Jeffrey. It cites Wellington’s “Publish and be damned” response, Macdonald’s “as soon as you can prove yourself to be my chief,” and Jeffrey’s sly finishing of a begging letter. It ends with a wry maxim about living for self.
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Duke of Wellington
Julia
Wellington
Walter Scott
Lord Macdonald
Glengarry
Macdonald
Francis Jeffrey
Wit and wisdom quips from an Atchison era column
A series of humorous, anecdotal reflections on manners, gossip, gender roles, and everyday life. Bits note pretenses, pride, and social quirks, from mothers and babies to contracts and misunderstandings, with wry observations on propriety and talk.
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Count Ross
Col
Lu Per Ewing Urady
Fantngo
Cub
Jem
Gaiswer Fe
Colonel Cheney
Parlor Car Company
Count Guissepe Rossi
Florence
Lincoln Birthplace Farm
Atchison Globe Lights
Father
Coolidge
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