The Church Entertainment Capers a Daring Heist
In Denver Jack and I stage a fraudulent performance at Trinity church. Disguised as English baronets, we abduct Sir Arthur Hornbrooke and his associate, then pocket 375.85 from the improvised box office. Police close in after the escape, as Hornbrooke frees himself and signals danger.
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Enry Dickinson Hashton
Tommie
England
Brown Palace Hotel
Rotunda
Jack
eayLer
Sir Arthur
Belding
Hornbrooke
Jack Sauvely
Baronet
Ashton
Trinity Church
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Republican
The Cold Friday of 1810
A long article notes January 19 1810 as Cold Friday when a warm day gave way to a violent storm and freezing temperatures. Thunder snow squalls struck western Massachusetts and New England, followed by temperatures plunging to minus 20 degrees in spots and overall extreme cold across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
New England
New York
Canada
Gage Converts to Theosophy at Point Loma Colony
Lyman J. Gage, former U.S. treasury secretary and Chicago banker, settles at Prospect cottage near Katherine Tingley’s temple at Point Loma. He seeks a simple life, attends Raja Yoga lectures, denies official ties to Theosophical society or military, and has provided for a permanent home amid the Universal Brotherhood community.
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Point Loma
Cal
Lyman J. Gage
Theosophical Society
United States Military Reservation
Raja Yoga School
Katherine Tingley
Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society
Mr. Gage
Prospect Cottage
Col
Mrs. Brainerd
Universal Brotherhood
Treasury
Gage
Tingley Domain
New York
Mme. Tingley
Brainerd
Theosophical Brotherhood
Raja Yoga
Tingley
Gerry Society
Ellis Island
Brotherhood
Chicago
Great World Society
First National Bank
Auditorium Hotel
Vineless potatoes scheme ends in fraud order
W D Darst of Chicago promoted vineless potatoes grown in bins above ground with a 60 day yield claim and licenses to grow. Government investigations by agriculture justice and post office revealed a bogus plan selling licenses for 25 and rights for 100 with a fake compound “potatine” at 4 50 a package. The fraud order blocks him from using the mails.
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Washington
Wineless Potato Company
Pullman
Department of Agriculture, Justice and Post Office
W. D. Darst
Chicago
Darst
Agricultural Department
Poison reunites Tolman couple in crisis in Logansport
In Logansport Indiana the two year old son of Mr and Mrs Charles Tolman was in critical condition after eating paris green. Mrs Tolman fled home to consult her lawyer and was later found. The accident prompted a tentative reconciliation and the divorce will be dropped. The note on plant care discusses soil chemistry altering flower colors.
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Logansport
Ind
Charles Tolman
WRECK OF PA FAMOUS PAINTED ROCK
In Washington Pennsylvania Joseph Horner blew up the Painted Rock a historic bowlder on his farm near Millsboro. The altar shaped stone had drawn thousands yearly for its carvings of Indian figures including a kangaroo. It stood for over a century as a key North American Indian writing relic.
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Washington
Painted Rock
Monongahela River
Millsboro
Joseph Horner
Horner
The Silk Hat as a Ridiculous Custom
The Paris Gaulois mocks the silk hat tradition calling it a shining funnel that will seem monstrous to future generations akin to bone through the lip or nostril ring today.
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Paris
Getting Back On The Beach And A Spinster’s Tale
A vivid seaside scene describes wind from the sea and sunlit waves as girls in pale outfits walk the shore. Mothers gather on the hotel piazza lamenting the shortage of young men and a spinster claims girls lack charm. A mother asks what reward was offered.
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Russia
Poland
Women Workers and the Global Labor Market in 1906
A Bowles essay argues women play a key role across industries from mills to shops and editorial rooms. It notes regional diversity in employment, fewer strikes among women, and shifts in home life, marriage, and motherhood shaping labor markets and economics worldwide.
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Bombay
Calcutta
New Hnegland
South
Middle West
Sakeswomen
Senate
Mother
Joseph B. Bowles
Travelers' Guide to Packing Essentials
The piece lists practical travel items such as medicine, sewing materials, pocket flasks, a clothes brush, and a fan as inexpensive and wise additions for an emergency or comfortable journey.
Ostriches or angels in DeAuber painting prompt joke
In a playful exchange, the artist DeAuber corrects a critic who mistakes ostriches in the background for angels. The critic’s quip about imagination triggers DeAuber’s witty rebuke and clarifies the artwork’s celestial motif.
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DeAuber
Duffer
Sorry He Didn t Post the Letter and The Stork Argument
A man hides guilt over a letter to his mother as his wife discovers it was not delivered and suspects the truth. He prays for misfortune as guilt haunts him. In Pittsburg, Rev George D Lind appeals for higher pastor salaries arguing low pay blocks ministry and stifles church prosperity.
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Tommie
Reading Man
Mr. Gage
Gage
Haze
John
Stork
Pittsburg
George D. Lindsay
Greensburg
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Market Street
Arthur Hornbrooke
Horn-brooke
Dan
Henry Dickinson Aston
The
Mrs Tingley
Ld Gage
Piks Katins Rive
Unversal Brotherhood
L. J. Gage
the Treasury
Madame Tingley
California
Thomas Hudson
Hudson
Zaidkel
London
WY Finene
Poison
Furre Magazine
the Traveler
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