The Hidden Plot at the Coast Road
In a late night cliff scene the narrator and Billy thwart Captain Luke Settle’s rebels guarding Mistress Delia until a rescue plan unfolds. Delia pleads as a sloop’s lantern signals. a grim pursuit ends with a trap for the traitors as the party escapes toward the sea.
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Earl of Stamford
Cornwall
Billy
Luke Settle
Reuben
Jeremy
Black Dick
Settle
Molly
Captain Settle
Delia
R&éllers
Walter Jermyn’s Secret Inheritance Sparks Marriage Tie
Walter Jermyn secretly faced a $2 000 000 challenge to win his bride Tena Kehoe. His father John Jermyn left $10 000 000, with Walter to receive one fifth, a fortune tied to their Oswego wedding on June 2 1899 after years of parental pressure and social expectation.
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Walter M. Jermyn
Tena Kehoe
John Jermyn
Scranton
Jermyn
Miss Ixehoe
Oswego
Walter
George Ward
Vermillion
Oswexo
Miss Kehoe
Walter Jermyn
Earliest Uses of Tobacco Spread Across Europe and Beyond
A Detroit News Tribune writer traces tobacco from antiseptic use in the West Indies and Africa to Europe via Ramon Pane in 1494. It notes Nicot’s French cultivation, Catherine de Medici popularizing snuff, and tobacco’s rise after the 1660 plague.
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Europe
West Indies
America
Africa
Detroit News Tribune
Ramon Pane
Columbus
Cuba
Jean Nicot
Lisbon
France
Catherine de Medici
Charles V
Catherine
England
Box factory work labeled as a job not an occupation
A Baltimore American quip contrasts a box factory job paying $3 a week with the idea of occupation. The man explains he works in a box factory but insists that earning wages is not an occupation, illustrating a witty social distinction in labor terms.
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Baltimore American
Personal Reflection Sparks Angry Exchange
A heated argument unfolds as an angry man accuses another of scoundrel status. The reply reframes the claim as a personal reflection, triggering greater fury as the realization sinks in. The exchange mirrors a sharp clash over perception and intent.
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Chicago Post
Labor Leader John Mitchell Welcomed in Indianapolis
A crowd of about four thousand gathered at Tomlinson Hall on Monday night to honor John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, with a street parade, music, and speeches by local labor leaders and Elks officials. Mitchell received a life membership gift from the Elks, presented by Joseph T. Fanning, as Mrs. Mitchell expressed gratitude. The event closed with the audience singing Auld Lang Syne.
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Indianapolis
United Monday Night
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Tomlinson Hall
Mitchell
Coal Miners’ Union
Capitol Avenue
Washington Street
Homer
Lodge of Elks
Joseph T. Fanning
Grand Trustees
The
Order of Elks
Mine Workers’ Journal
Mr. Sexton
Mr. Mitchell
Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
Wound in Heart Stitching Saves Teenager at City Hospital
At a St Louis city hospital a remarkable operation saved 16 year old Edward Spilker after he shot himself in the left breast. Surgeons sutured the heart between pulsations and removed a lung portion while draining tubes aided recovery. The youth rapidly rallied and is believed to recover.
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St. Louis
City Hospital
Edward Spilker
Death by own action of a young woman in Logansport
Miss Ora Goff 18, daughter of Mrs. Ella Goff, died Thursday morning after taking morphine in Logansport Indiana. This is the second such death in the Goff family within four months, her brother Elmer Goff having swallowed carbolic acid four months prior. The girl had previously made three unsuccessful suicide attempts.
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Logansport
Ind
Ora Goff
Ella Goff
Goff
Elmer Goff
Locomotive Blows Up Killing Four in Ohio Collision
Four men die when a boiler explosion on an eastbound Panhandle freight near Bowerstown Ohio hurls the locomotive sixty feet onto a passing freight. The blast tears up both tracks for three hundred yards. Fireman McCurdy and Brakeman Clemens die on the engine, Engineer Ward and Brakeman Petrie aboard the other train are killed, Engineer Dan OConnell is fatally injured and not expected to recover.
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Coshocton, O
Panhandle
Bowerstown
McCurdy
Clemens
J. D. Ward
Petrie
Dan O’connell
Officer Mitchell Dies of Yellow Fever in Panama
Lieut ant Mitchell, a graduate of Annapolis and officer on the Colombian gunboat Bogota, died here Saturday night from yellow fever while in Panama Colombia.
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Panama
Colombia
Mitchell
Annapolis
Bogota
Massachsetts Turret Explosion Kills Six at Sea
Six men die and three are seriously wounded after a powder charge explodes in an eight inch gun turret aboard the battleship Massachusetts during target practice off Culebra Island. Ensign Wertman escaped unharmed. rescuers prevented further explosions while taking up charges. Funeral services and burial were held in Puerto Rico with military honors. survivors include Patterson recovering while Schert and Bassett worsened.
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San Juan
P. R
Cable
United States
Massachusetts
Culebra Island
Ward K. Wertman
Lee
Clarence Abele
Charles J. Hughes
Kuhlwein
William C. Cole
Loneman
Wright
Porto Rico
Admiral Higginson
Schert
Bassett
Seaman Patterson
Maybrick and Yon Roques Could Lose Vast Land Holdings
Mrs Florence J Maybrick and her mother the Baroness Yon Roques face losing title to about 2 552 302 acres valued at 7 590 000 if Maybrick is not released from prison to testify in a chancery court suit filed by Judge Leo D Yarrell of Emporia seven years ago. Charles O Saville, clerk of the court, said no time limit was known to be near.
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Richmond
Florence J. Maybrick
Yon Roques
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Maybrick
Chancery Court
Charles 0. Saville
Leo D. Yarrell
Emporia
Seventeen Indicted Lynchers Flee Mississippi District
In Attalla county, seventeen citizens from the Ethel district fled the country to avoid arrest after a grand jury indicted twenty eight people for lynching two men named Hall and Gaston. Eleven were arrested in Kosciusko last Saturday, while the remaining seventeen fled following word of looming arrests. Indictments were returned over a month ago with names kept secret.
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Jackson
Miss
Ethel
Attalla County
Hall
Gaston
Kosciusko
He Will Succeed Himself in the United States Senate
A brief political note proclaims a figure will succeed himself in the United States Senate, signaling an anticipated continuation of his term and influence in national governance.
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United States Senate
Fairbanks Elected U.S. Senator by Indiana General Assembly
In Indiana's General Assembly, Charles Warren Fairbanks was elected United States senator for six years starting March 4, 1903. He secured 101 votes to Shively's 46, with Republicans fully present and three Democrats absent, after a long joint-session canvass in the State House.
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Indianapolis
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Indiana
Benjamin F. Shively
South Bend
General Assembly
Hall of Representatives
Fairbanks
United States
Senate Chamber
State House
Senate
Shively
Tarkington
van Fleet
Elkhart
Lewis
Brazil
Statesman
Peru
Branch
Martinsville
Hume
Stilesville
Stansbury
Williamsport
Covington
Adair
Portland
Boyd
Greencastle
Seifers
Salem
Mr. Shively
Train wreck near Sycamore leaves engineer dead
A Des Moines and Minneapolis train on the Chicago Great Western Railroad derailed Sunday night near a bridge west of Sycamore after a broken rail. Engineer J. D. Healy was killed and about thirty people were injured as cars and locomotive overturned and demolished. Five men escaped unharmed. The severely injured, all from Iowa, were sent to a hospital.
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Sycamore, Ill
Des Moines
Minnepaolis
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Sycamore
J. D. Healy
Wasco
Iowa
Consumers Ruined the Meters in Elwood Ind
In Elwood Indiana gas company patrons faced shock as half the meters were ruined during cold weather. Fires built around meters to thaw them out burned rubber gaskets and damaged hundreds of meters, with consumers responsible for the repair costs.
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Elwood
Ind
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Caude
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Samuel E. Crumbaker
Evansville
Thomas J. Lindley
Westfield
Albert M. Burns
C. C. Lyons
Fairmount
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