Old World Oddities and Oddball News From Abroad
A Roermond church visitor stood on one leg atop the pulpit through a service. A London suburb house number 13 is changed to 12A. authorities require the 13 replaced. A retired lieutenant arrested at Nauplia for predicting M Delyannis’s assassination on June 18. A dog defies coal as a luxury, and a fortune telling teacup sells in London. Portsmouth passes cock crowing suppression with perches and swinging boards proposed as remedies.
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A Atork
Roermond
Holland
London
Coor
Westminster Gazette
West End
Portsmouth
England
London News
Odd Queries and Outlandish Claims in Publicities
A series of short anecdotes capture curious remarks from 1920s era public life. A Union Dime Savings Bank president discusses deposits by nonmembers after a telephone exchange. A St Joseph guest flaunts a personal fire escape at a hotel, only to face cash-in-advance terms. Actor William H Crane recalls love lessons sparked by overheard banter between a couple on a porch.
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Sprague
Union Dime Savings Bank
New York
St. Joseph
William H. Crane
Southern guest misreads whiskey as cider in comic tale
Abe Gruber recalls hosting a southern friend who filled a water glass to the brim and prepared to drink it. The host says one would not drink cider from such a glass, prompting the guest to quip that he would not drink that much cider from a glass anyway.
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Abe Gruber
New York
Unclear inquiry prompts no clear event or context
The text presents a series of provocative questions about happiness race age relationships and consumption without a coherent news event or identifiable subjects. It reads like a stray OCR fragment offering exploratory prompts rather than a reportable item.
Heart health tale prompts life insurance rethink
A Colorado man credits coffee cessation and Postum Hood Coffee with curing heart trouble and restoring digestion and nerves. After abandoning coffee he was able to pass a second life insurance exam, with Postum promoted as the cause of his recovery and acceptance.
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Colorado
Postum Hood Coffee
Life Insurance Co
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Iowa Crops Outlook Boosts Oats Corn. Apples Waive Prospects
Iowa director Sage reports oats at 97 percent of normal, forecasting a bumper corn season if weather holds. While oats show strength, apples lag with an estimated 40 percent of normal, and other crops like spring wheat and potatoes run near or above average as observers expect 1905 yields to outpace 1904 with favorable conditions statewide.
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Russell Woodard
Bes Moines
Sage
Iowa
Pythians in Convention Elect New Iowa Grand Officers
Several hundred delegates of the Town grand lodge Knights of Pythias met in Davenport and praised a successful year with seven new lodges and larger membership. James W. Hunter of Newton elected Grand Chancellor. officers named include J R Stewart Diagonal and F D O Uting Center Point. Iowa City awarded next meeting.
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Knights of Pythias
Davenport
Waud
Iowa
Elect
Sion
James W. Hunter
Newton
J. R. Stewart
Diagonal
F. D. O’'Uting
Center Point
H. D. Walker
Mt. Pleasant
Waterloo
H. N. Dilly
Grundy Center
H. L. Carr
Blockton
H. N. Weaver
Spencer
Supreme Representatives
B. J. Salinger
Carroll
Frank Porterfield
Atlantic
Trustees
Grand Lodge
W. M. Clark
Marshalltown
A. C. Savage
LeClaire
Iowa City
Iowa Becoming Good Iowa Turning “Good” State, 1898–Today
The report by Warden Hunter of Anamosa prison claims Iowa is becoming more orderly. Since 1898 the prison population dropped over 40 percent. The average sentence has risen from two years and two months to a twelve month longer term, suggesting stricter penalties rather than lax courts.
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Iowa
Hunter
Anamosa
Illiteracy in Iowa Highlighted by Census Figures
Illiteracy is shown in Iowa with Hamilton and Adair counties cited as examples. The census reports 12 illiterates in Hamilton and 161 in Adair, suggesting a regional literacy problem tied to education and access.
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Iowa
Hamilton
Adair
Hamilton County
Adair County
Curtiss Urges Livestock Feeding Over Grain Export
Prof Curtiss of Iowa State College argues the farm policy should feed grain to cattle and ship live animals. He warns current tenancy and export of corn deplete soils and threaten fertility, urging stock farming with better stock and improved methods to sustain the land.
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Curtiss
Iowa State College
Middle West
Mississippi Valley
America
Iowa Probes New York Life Insurance Powers
Western insurance commissioners plan a joint examination of major New York life firms. Auditor B F Carroll attended a Chicago conference where action was endorsed to uncover truth and report findings to the public with recommendations. The inquiry follows criticism of the New York department over the Equitable affair.
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Iowa
New York
B. F. Carroll
Chicago
Equitable
Western Insurance Commissioners
Carroll
Mount Ayr Candidate Enters Eighth District Race
A. L. Smith of Mount Ayr plans to run for Congress against W. P. Hepburn in the Eighth district after careful consideration. He argues voters favor progressive policies deserve a primary ballot to express views on railroad rate regulation tariffs trusts railroad pass abuses and primary election law.
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Des Moines
A. L. Smith
Mount Ayr
W. P. Hepburn
Washington
Eighth
Congress
Wilder to Boom Industry in Iowa Peat Beds
State Geologist Frank A. Wilder returns from St. Louis to northern Iowa to map and assess peat beds in Wright county including Dows. He will study coal gas experiments and report on potential commercial peat fuel, signaling a possible new Iowa industry.
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Iowa
Wilder
Ncerthern
Roosevelt urges federal supervision of interstate corporations
President Roosevelt delivered a major address asserting a hard line against Chicago packers and calling for federal oversight of all companies engaged in interstate commerce. He warned that leniency has ended and stressed that laws may need strengthening to prove violations of antitrust rules.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
Roosevelt
Chicago Packers
United States
Chicago
Lynching of Tom Williams in Sulphur Springs
A mob of several hundred men hanged Tom Williams a mulatto after an attempted assault on a white girl near Sulphur Springs Texas. He was tied to a stake in the public square, saturated with oil, and burned following the identification by the victim. The town returned to normal after the four hour tragedy.
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Sulphur Springs
Tex
Tom Williams
Mary Childs
Williams
Fires on Hoboken Piers Wreck Depot and Ships
A Monday blaze on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western piers in Hoboken destroyed the main depot and 600 feet of train sheds, the ferry house, Dukes hotel, street railway terminal, an immigrant station, two ferry boats, and threatened North German Lloyd and Hamburg American docks. Loss about 500000. Chicago centenarian dead and other brief notices follow.
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New York
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hoboken
Shx
Dukes House
Lloyd
Hamburg American Lines
Myers department store collapse in Albany kills many
The John G. Myers company department store in North Pearl street collapsed Tuesday. Over 100 people were in the building. 14 to 20 died. Twelve hours of rescue work saved 60 people, six of whom died. A special commission will investigate the disaster.
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Albany
N. Y
John G. Myers Company
Pearl Street
Thhem
Gans
William A. Cattell
New York
William ¥. Hanrahan
Schenectady
John Magill
Troy
Explorers Rescued After Two-Year Polar Ordeal
New York reports the Fiala Ziegler polar expedition survivors rescued after over two years marooned on Arctic ice. All but one of 38 men reached Honningsvaag Norway aboard Terra Nova relief. 82 degrees 18 minutes north marked their farthest reach. One Norwegian seaman died during the ordeal.
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New York
North Pole
Jong
America
Honningsvaag
Norway
Fearful Run Forces Bank Closure in Denver
The Western bank in Denver failed to open as a run threatened. Henry M. Beatty was named assignee after no formal statement from officers. Deposits near 1,000,000. about 800 people queued. Denver Savings Bank run resumed with 10 percent payout.
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Denver
Col
Western Bank
Henry M. Beatty
W. G. Brown
W. T. Perkins
L. A. Imboden
Denver Savings Bank
Wesern
Western
Oldfield Narrow Escape At Grosse Point Race
Detroit Aug 9 Bar ney Oldfield had a miraculous escape when Dan Wursgis collided with his car in the first mile of a five mile open event at Grosse Point track Oldfield and his car went through the fence into the infield leaving Oldfield with a badly lacerated scalp and a bruised right arm Wursgis car also went off track but neither driver was hurt In Minneapolis Aug 8 a tank burst with carbonic acid gas at A B Crowell drug store killing clerk W Hughes and injuring another The man was in the basement attaching a gas cylinder to the fountain apparatus and the explosion tore his body to pieces
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Oldfield
Detroit
Mich
Barney Oldfield
Grosse Point Track
Dan Wursgis
Lansing
Vargis
Minneapolis
Mlnn
A. B. Crowell
WY. Hughes
Hughes
Rear Admiral Benham Dies in New York Lake Retreat
Rear Admiral Andrew I. Benham, retired, died at Lake Mahopac New York. The death was reported to the Navy Department today.
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Washington
Andrew
K. Benham
Lake Mahopac
N. Y
Navy Department
Sriday
Attempt on Quintana as he motored to the presidency
An assailant with a revolver charged President Manuel Quintana's carriage in Buenos Aires as he rode toward the residence. The man was seized before firing and jailed.
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Buenos Ayres
Manuel Quintana
Suiday
Lus ter Arrests After Guthrie Wife Death Mystery
Ogden Utah Aug 12 Perry J Lus ter formerly Cumberland Telephone manager Guthrie Ky who disappeared July 29 after his wife was found dead in her room with a bullet through her brain is under arrest here. Locomotives Destroyed LaPorte Ind Aug 12 Pere Marquette engine house at New Buffalo burned Thursday night two engines and one CC L locomotive destroyed. Ten Injured in Wreck Evaporia Kan Aug 9 a switch engine crashed into a way car attached to an east bound stock train on tracks here ten injured, one probably fatally.
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Ogden
Utah
Perry J. Luster
Cumberland Telephone Company
Guthrie
Laporte
Ind
Pere Marquette Railway
New Buffalo
Here
Pere Marquette
Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville
Eviporia
Kan
Matr on Elopes with Tramp in Chicago Marriage
Mrs. Eliza beth Dent matron at the Bureau county almshouse fled with Charles Crocker a tramp she knew five days and they married in Chicago.
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Sterling
Elizabeth Dent
Bureau County Almshouse
Charles Croker
Chicago
Two Die After Lightning Strikes Near Cushing Oklahoma
Guthrie Oklahoma reports two men named George Johnson and William James were killed by lightning near Cushing on Thursday. They were standing under a tree which was struck by the bolt.
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Guthrie
Okla
Aug
George Johnson
William James
Cushing
Trolley Collision Kills One Near Norwalk
One man died and fourteen were injured in a head on trolley collision eight miles from Norwalk Virginia on Tuesday night.
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Norwalk
Reflections on Rome Ruins Stir Passengers on Train
An artistic man recalls three months in Rome admiring the Colosseum and Rome’s ancient power. A fellow passenger connects the mood to his own memory near a childhood well, then shifts to selling cotton hats back home as war news distracts them.
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Rome
Coliseum
Amy Boyhood
Parrot Quirk Overshadows Vacation Tale
The Vittles boat scene reveals a tense moment as a young woman whispers a cautious yes while a grim suspicion grows in Jack. In Chicago Tribune story, Roman’s family leaves him with a parrot that quips what it wants, adding a dark, humorous note to the family’s absence.
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Vittles
Jack
Tin Chica Tribune
Gratitude for Dodd's Kidney Pills in Mich Pain Case
Gratitude from Santi St. Maaie of Mich expresses how Dodd's Kidney Pills and Pohegan helped him recover from severe pains described as lead poisoning or rheumatism after using the first box to free himself from cane use. He reports walking without pain after the second box and credits the medicine with complete cure, while noting broader notes from the Washington Star about petroleum.
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Santi
Dodd
Pohegan
Lowa
To Destroy Slugs on Roses by Suds At Roots
A reader cites a simple method to keep rose bushes slug free using plenty of strong soap suds around the roots and on the foliage. The note credits Eleanor R Parker and adds a quip about laws on the statute books.
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Eleanor R, Parker
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Female Health
Thousands of women report restored health and vigor through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims unmatched effectiveness for menstrual and uterine troubles, urges letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, and invites physicians to endorse its benefits.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lydia
Inkham
Lydia EB. Sereham
Angrray
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