Organ Dedication Sparks Turbulent Church History
The piece recounts the dedication of the S29 pipe organ to Kirkwood Avenue Christian Church by Andrew Carnegie amid a troubled period as organ music entered worship. It mentions nearby Bloomington and a long, blurred narrative of conflict, reform, and community response.
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Wroomington
Kirkwood Avenue
Andrew Carnegie
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Iet
Bloomington
Mpich
Benewofeatt
Tegan
Sassafras
Regen
Prag
Drala4ian University
Edo Tinal
Fragmented OCR Passage From An Unclear Local Text
Readable snippets reference a place and people but lack coherent events. The passage mentions names and locations in a garbled form, with no clear action, dates, or outcomes to summarize into a distinct news item.
Third Husband at Silly. Sue Neely's Secret Marriage
Mrs. Sue HE Neely, famed local widow, secretly wed BS. OM. Highlands in Clinton Tal on February 13. Neely, nearly sixty, previously married twice, with Cyrus Neely’s death last year, and Galey Maddy fired by a train. Highlands, once mayor of Muncie, plans a Lucania voyage in April. the tale sparks a sensational local divorce suit.
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Maarmere Speedan
Sue HE Neels
Severay
BS. OM. Highlands
Clinton
Tal
Joliet
Neely
Cyrus Neely
Galey Maddy
Muncie
Mr. Highlands
Herbert Maddy
Chicago
Thys
Mrs. Highlands
Lucania
Europe
Missing Tragic Duel Sparks Bitter Water Test
A disputed duel between John Kane and a rival, described as a deadly and unequal struggle, drew referees and spectators as the two men battled for hours in treacherous water. Both suffered severe injuries with scant signs of relief as the crowd watched in shock and concern.
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Phintinity
Osperdal
John Kane
Aren
Plass
Piesimon
Peth
Hans
Varian Tinade
Time Lock Heist Ends With Silent Heap of Clues
A bank robbery ends in confusion as Reed and a masked gunman clash. A tense standoff unfolds with silent actions and a 60 minute chase, leaving investigators to piece together how a $20 bribe and missing details shaped the case.
Half Million Mark Reached in Post Office Proposals
A garbled historical notice describes a shift in post station finances and staffing around Newark and St Paul areas. It mentions a Postmaster, an assistant, and planned increases in stamps or routes, with references to city names and uncertain dates.
Young Montana student faces charged fraud in Ohio and Illinois
Andepean steedad a student of Hiram citor Misti Scheel was arrested on a tele from Chief of Police Corner Cheveland on the charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He is the son of a wealthy Montana ranchman who deposited $1,000 in the Hiram bank. He spent time at Hittle, then traveled the country. Two weeks ago he passed a $2 check at the Hotel Hollenden, then a similar check at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago on Feb 12, both cashed and later protested for lack of funds.
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Andepean Steedad
Gilibert
Hiram Cibor Misti Scheel
Ar Cheveland
Meoney
Allits
Montana
Hiram
Emaht
Mills
Hollenden
Auditorium Hotel
Chicago
Hiram Bank
Governor Durbin’s Duck Hunt Trip Reported in Illinois
Indianapolis Special notes Governor Durbin returned from a duck hunting trip in Illinois. Hosted by the Thompson Gun Club near a lake by the Illinois River, he bagged seven mallards and fourteen black ducks across two days, using decoys from a hidden boat. He sustained a bruised arm from a kicking gun after hunting about an hour each day.
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Indianapolis
Durbin
Mlinois
Thompson Gun Club
Illinois River
Havana
Boers Meet Kitchener as Pretoria Leaders Arrive for Talks
Pretoria acting President Schalkburger F W Heitz with Lucas Meyer Krogh and aides arrived Balmoral on a special train under a flag of truce. They met Lord Kitchener at his headquarters before traveling to Kroonstad under safe conduct amid reports of a collapse at Rhenester Kop and ongoing pursuit by British forces.
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Pretoria
Schaikburger
F. W. Heitz
Transvaal
Lucas Meyer
Krogh
Balmoral
Here
Kroonstadt
Schalkburger
Rhenester Kop
Boer peace talks hoped as Schalkburger party moves toward Britain
London papers view the Boer delegation’s entry into British lines as a sign of possible peace talks. The group including Schalkburger Reitz Meyer and Krogh seeks permission to move and consult with Steyn and Boer generals. Delarey may resist negotiations despite recent successes.
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London
Messrs
Schalkbureer
Reitz
Meyer
Krogh
Mr. Steyn
Joe Wet
Delaney
Steyn
Mr. Schalkburger
Schalkburger
London cable on Pretoria figures in peace overtures
London papers note Mr Schalk Burger and companions on a mission to Pretoria with Teucas Meyer linked to Louis Botha. They discuss peace terms, crediting possible settlement if Boers are treated as civilised combatants while insisting on conditional surrender conditions.
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London
Pretoria
Whesv
Schalkburger
Penes
Teucas Meyer
Louis Botha
Dachy Chronicle
Botha
Tuad Witchener
Bertha
Tuitio
Peace Declaration and Chinese Reaction Across Nations
Diplomats discuss the Franco Russian declaration seen as promoting peace. Chinese press decries humiliation and inferiority to other powers. The foreign office plans independent ministers to establish delegations in Italy, Austria and Spain. Chinese envoys to Britain Russia and the U S have been accredited to these missions.
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Yekin
China
Cored
Se Foreiga
Italy
Austria
Spain
Great Britain
Russian
United States
Mexico City Gold Standard Appeal Amid Cotton Trade Shifts
The Mexico City report notes a broad move toward a gold standard in cotton trade with importers urging government alignment. Planters and manufacturers back the continued silver standard, while exports rise with a gold premium. The Mexican Herald cites gold pricing for rents provisions and clothing as evidence the silver era cannot persist. General business remains strong and orders for machinery from interior points grow.
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Mexico City
Mexican Herald
False Hair Sparks Breach of Promise Suit Reversal
In Emmetsburg William Strong wooed Jennie Amsler, proposed, and after learning her hair was false, the couple's engagement was broken. Jennie won the breach of promise suit, but the Iowa Supreme Court reversed, saying love based on a false pretense justified him refusing marriage.
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Dez Moines
Emmetsburg
William Strong
Jennie Amsler
Strong
Jennie
Supreme Court
Netvizan Officially Joined Russian Navy at Cramp Yard
The battleship Netvizan, completed for Russia at Cramp’s shipyard, was officially added to the czar’s fleet on Sunday. A simple ceremony led by chaplain Father Ratskowfsky preceded hoisting the St. Andrew cross. Captain Et nesnovitch commanded as the ship was moved by four tugs toward Cronstadt, with sailing targeted around April 17.
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Philadelphia
Cramp
Father' Ratskowfsky
Et Nesnovitch
Retvizan
Cronstadt
Manila Dispatch Details Moro Attack and Transport Loss
Brigadier General W. O. Davis reports a 17 man signal corps detachment attacked by 200 Moros near Paran Paran Mindanao. one signal corpsman killed and four pack mules captured. The US transport Buford arrives with a detachment of the 27th Infantry, a squadron of the 11th Cavalry and 3 pack mules. Cholera cases rise with five cases in the provinces and two more deaths. General Chaffee moves the Third Infantry aboard Grant to avoid epidemic risk.
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Manila
W. O. Davis
Zamboanga
Island of
Mindanao
Signal Corps
Paran-Paran
United States
Buford
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Elevenith
Chaffee
Third Infantry
Grant
San Francisco
Trade totals for nine months show imports rise 27 percent
Exports and imports for the nine months ending September show imports at 24,819, with merchandise exports at 66,788, and an overall import rise of 27 percent while exports rise 6 percent. Gold and silver imports totaled 2,042,644, with 1901 exports at 736,167 from 1900. United States merchandise imports for the period rose to 2,712,190 and exports to 2,737,059, with notable year‑over‑year increases.
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SIS
United States
Jade Tablets From China Await Return to Emperor
Ten jade tablets engraved about two centuries ago by a Chinese workman for Shun Che are secured in J. T. Dare's customs office safe in San Francisco. The one foot by six inch by nearly an inch stones were found with embroidered silk and suspected as loot from the Forbidden City. They await Washington authority through the Treasury and State departments to be returned to the Chinese emperor or his representative.
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San Francisco
Shun Che
China
J. T. Dare
Washington
Forbidden City
Grand Rapids Headache Powder Murder Case
William Klump, jailed on suspicion in the death of his wife who died after taking poison in headache powder at Lowell two weeks ago, was released as no case was made against him though officers suspect murder. Anna Hull survived a headache powder sample in Grand Rapids and is out of danger.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Willam Klump
Lowell
Anna Hull
Rebels Capture Kam-Chou in Kwang Tung Province
Rebels seize Kam-Chou prefectural town in Kwang Tung and take the arsenal and granaries. Garrison mandarins flee and seek Canton reinforcements. Canton viceroy refuses further depletion of troops and urges General Ma to crush the rebellion at any cost.
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Hong Kong
Kam- Chou
Kwang Tung
Canton
Senate Repeals War Revenue Taxes and Protects the President
Washington special report notes three Senate measures approved including repeal of war revenue taxes and a presidential protection bill. The river and harbor bill passed the House at $60,638,267 with minor amendments. Senator Tillman defended tea duties arguing benefits and a “baby industry” rationale. The debate featured Fairbanks on the presidential protection bill and Sulzer attempting a record vote on final passage.
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Congress
Senate
House
Fairbanks
United States
Secretary of War
Regular Army
War Revenue
Tillman
Bond
South Carolina
Sulzer
New York
Messrs. Smith
Iowa
Fitzgerald
Cochran
Missouri
Woman shoots husband in drunken assault at Washington
A Washington woman visited police Sunday evening with a revolver hidden in her dress and confessed to shooting her husband Lib erty Kempf, a prosperous local businessman. Officers found Kempf dying from a bullet wound to the brain after a struggle in which Kempf allegedly choked his wife.
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Washington
Ind
Liberty Kempf
Kempf
Huronian Missing Near Ice Floes Believed Lost
St Johns Newfoundland reports no sighting of the Allan Line steamer Huronian from Glasgow February 11. Captain Brodie’s vessel is about a month overdue and maritime circles fear it foundered with all hands or sank after a collision with ice. A rescue by a sealing steamer is considered unlikely.
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St. Johns
N. F
Allan Line
Brodie
Glasgow
St. John's
North Atlantic
Gorki Denounced From Academy Honor Amid Political Trials
The election of Maxime Gorki as an honorary member of the academy of sciences is annulled. He is summoned to appear before a tribunal over political offenses. Gorki was banished from the capital years ago and the paper he led was suppressed.
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St. Petersburg
Maxime Gorki
Academy of Sciences
Gorki
Topeka Mayor Attacked by Miss Boise in Office
Miss Blanche Boise a Nation protege slashed Mayor Parker with a horsewhip in the city building. Parker wrestled the whip away and threw Boise into the hall after she declared she would horsewhip the Governor. Boise, a 35 year old nurse, accused him of tolerating open joints and a recent murder in a saloon.
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Topeka, Kas
Blanche Boise
Miss Boise
Topeka
Neely and two others sentenced in Cuban postal fraud case
Audiencia court in Havana imposes ten year terms and heavy fines on Co. F. W. Neely W. H. Reeves and Estes G. Rathbone for embezzlement involving Cuban postal funds. General Wood confirms the sentences and notes appeals limited to trial errors. Reeves testified for the state.
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Havana
Audencia Court
Co. F. W. Neely
W. H. Reeves
Estes G. Rathbone
Heavy sentences in Neely Rathbone and Reeves cases
Washington post office officials were amazed by the severity of the sentences for Neely Rathbone and Reeves. Heavy fines are expected to keep them in prison for most of their terms unless they can pay. Neely’s old newspaper friend reportedly supplied money to aid lawyers.
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Washington Special
Post Office Department
Neely
Rathbone
Reeves
New York
Bigamy charge hits railroad contractor in St Joseph
Christian C. Nelson a railroad contractor and horse man is jailed in St Joseph Missouri on a bigamy charge. He was brought from San Antonio Texas where he was arrested. The woman pressing the case, Mrs Mary A Parker of Plattsburg Missouri, was married to him here last September. Nelson admits three wives but claims ten others are myths.
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Moses Plathey
Helvie
Miss Batley
Oteyw
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Christian C. Nelson
San Antonio
Tex
Mary A. Parker
Plattsburg, Mo
Nelson
Lynching of a porter in La Junta shocks town
In La Junta Colorado a black sleeping car porter named W H Wallace, accused of assaulting a white woman, was hanged to an electric pole by a mob of about four thousand after Sheriff Barr kept him from town. Wallace did not resist and died claiming he was innocent. The assault occurred on a Denver to La Junta Pullman car. victim Mrs Henrietta H Miller 76 from Los Angeles to Denver visited relatives after the attack.
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Col
W. H. Wallace
Court House Square
Megro
Wallace
Barr
Henrietta H. Miller
Los Angeles
Cal
Denver
Santa Fe
Choate denies Maine conspiracy report in London
The U S ambassador Joseph H Choate dismisses a U S agency story about a man Griffiths delivering a confidential urgent package to the U S embassy claiming documentary proof of British government involvement in the 1898 Maine explosion in Havana harbor.
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London
United States
Joseph H. Choate
Griffiths
Maine
Havana Harbor
Macedonia crisis sparks Ottoman troop move reports
The Vienna Abendblatt reports serious troubles in Macedonia with the Porte ordering 35 000 troops to Macedonia and Albania. It blames Boris Saranoff, ex Macedonian committee president, for agitation using Miss Stone ransom. Saranoffi bands alleged to commit murder arson and bully Bulgarian peasants. Five county convicts in Kosciusko Mississippi attempted to burn out of prison. five men died in the blaze while awaiting transfer to Robert Campbell, a county contractor.
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Neues Winer Abendblatt
Macedonia
Porte
Albania
Boris Saranoff
Miss Stone
Saranoffi
Abendblatt
Kosciusko
Bob Burt
Phil Newell
Jim Culberson
Amos Railford
Jim Jones
Robert Campbell
Wanted English Home by Wealthy American Millionaire
A wealthy American seeks to buy a stately English residence near London. Must have at least thirty bedrooms, stabling for twenty horses, a fine timbered park and expansive land. Good shooting is essential and the property should be within two hours of London. Address Millionaire.
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London
the Times
Mandarins Driven Out In Kamthe Canton Garrison Action
Mandarins were driven out and the Kamthe Canton garrison was captured while urging General action.
Stanislaus La Croix Hanged in Hall Jail Yard
In Hall Quebec Stanislaus La Croix was hanged for murdering his wife and an elderly protector Thomas. The condemned man had threatened to kill himself rather than be hanged but was subdued and declared he was perfectly happy as the execution proceeded in the jail yard.
Will of a Rich Map in Boston Probate News
Public bequests total 900000 and private bequests 600000 as the will of Robert C. Billings of Faulkner Page Company is offered for probate. The estate inventories at 2355804 with 10 percent gifts to Harvard College MIT and the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Boston
Robert C. Billings
Faulkner-Page Company
Harvard College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Museum of Fine Arts
Record Stamp Sale Sets Chicago Post Office Milestone
A Chicago post office reports a record stamp sale totaling 1,000,000 stamps bought with a single $25,000 check. The package includes 300,000 four cent and 300,000 five cent stamps, marking the largest individual stamp purchase in Chicago postal history.
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Chicago
Chicago Post Office
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