Dual Personality Man Marriages Shaped By Dead Friend Identity
Horace Robbins an English immigrant living in Rochester New York reportedly lived as another man for years marrying a local woman under the name of a dead friend. Doctors traced his episodes to dissociative identity effects with shifts in memory, personality and claimed histories including a scantly verified family past.
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Rochester
N. Y
Horace Robbins
England
Robbins
Horace Morrins
Sodus
J. H. Vary
Edward E. Angell
Musselburg
Scotland
Canada
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Edinburgh
New York
Said
McGill University
Montreal
Manitoba
Horace Rawlins
Finchingfield, Essex
Girl on Palace Roof Plays Triangle for Fame
Delia Gladman, 19, formerly of rural Kentucky, climbed to the Palace hotel roof in Cincinnati and walked along the seventh-floor cornice while playing a triangle. Onlookers and hotel staff rushed to assist. she returned to her room unassisted.
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Cincinnati
Delia Gladman
Delia
Kentucky
Palace
Ots
Discharge Complete Negro Soldiers Out of Army
El Reno Oklahoma November 27 Officers at Pt Reno finished discharging the Twenty Fifth Infantry Negro soldiers with few remaining. The Twenty Sixth Infantry battalion was sent to Fort Sam Houston Texas. Maj Penrose praised the unit calling it the best disciplined battalion in the U S Army and a Constitutional League representative indicated plans to press Roosevelt for action or seek Congress investigation.
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Pt. Reno
Twenty-Fifth Infantry
Twenty-Sixth Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Gilchrist Stewart
Fort Reno
Constitutional League
Roosevelt
Maj
Penrose
United States Army
Stewart
Representative Stewart
The
Congress
Boy Kills Stepfather in Texas Outburst
In San Antonio Isaac Green a 14 year old negro boy shot and killed his stepfather Mitchell Williams after Williams allegedly abused his wife. The youth fled on horseback but was captured after a twelve mile chase by Sheriff Tobin and jailed.
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San Antonio
Tex
Isaac Green
Mitchell Williams
Williams
Tobin
Land Deal Secures 20 000 Acres in Hidalgo County
J P Campbell of Concordia Kansas with two Missouri partners contracted for 20000 acres along the St Louis Brownsville line near Ebenezer Station Hidalgo county. Price 3 60 per acre. An irrigation plant will be installed and land clearing starts at once with much of the land to be cleared and ready for cultivation next year.
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Brownsville
Tex
J. P. Campbell
Concordia
Kan
Missouri
Hidalgo County
Ebenezer Station
St. L
Dead Negro Captured Confesses as Mob Evidence Appears
Wharton Texas reports a captured black man who confessed to a suspected assault on a prominent white woman in Arnima on November 19. He was reportedly frightened away, later found dead with indications of mob involvement. Officials say the scene is quiet with few details available.
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Wharton
Tex
Arnima
Disease and the Hair Findings from a Japanese physician
A Japanese physician notes that general illnesses reduce hair diameter. He finds hair becomes thinner along a portion of its length, with the length of thinning proportional to illness duration, and the effect is more evident in people with coarse hair.
Hunter Shot During Daybreak Birdhunting in Liano
John Frazier, a local merchant, was accidentally shot by fellow hunter Grover Walker while hunting yesterday in Liano Texas. He received fifty birdshot pellets from knee to chin with one shot near the heart and another in the lip. Doctors report he is out of danger.
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Liano
Tex
John Frazier
Grover Walker
Mrs Schmidt Found Dead At Home In Victoria County
Victoria Texas Mrs John Schmidt wife of a farmer near Bission Valley was found dead on the premises of their home Sunday from heart disease.
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Victoria
Tex
John Schmidt
Bission Valley
Peruna Promises Relief for November Climate Ailments
An advertisement explains that changing temperatures require the body to adjust and claims Peruna prevents toxin buildup from reduced perspiration. It touts Peruna as a long used remedy supported by Dr. Hartman and widespread European and American use for a hundred years.
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Europe
America
Hartman
North Carolina Woodworking Growth Declares High Point Leader
C J Field of High Point says North Carolina is rapidly becoming the nation’s top woodworking state, second to Michigan, with monthly shipments of about nine hundred solid carloads of furniture. He notes global trade extending to China, Japan, Australia, Cuba, England, France, Germany, and beyond.
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North Carolina
C. J. Field
High Point
Michigan
United States
China
Japan
Australia
Cuba
England
France
Germany
Washington Post
Legal Grant to Defend Thaw in Murder Trial
Delphin Michael Delmas, a leading Pacific coast lawyer, has been retained to defend Harry Kendall Thaw, indicted for the murder of Stanford White in New York. Delmas will handle the case entirely, will practice in New York, and move his residence to New York City after the trial. He is noted as a resourceful, aggressive, magnetic attorney with a striking Napoleonic facial likeness.
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Thaw
Delphin
Michael Delmas
Pacific Coast Bar
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
New York
Delmas
Empire City
Napoleon
Allcock's Porous Plaster Dominates External Remedies
The Original Porous Plaster first introduced sixty years ago now boasts the largest global sales. It remains unmatched by imitators as the standard external remedy for a weak back chest cold or local pain from cold or over strain.
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Allcock
Vanderbilt advances in New York National Guard ranks
Cornelius Vanderbilt rises from second lieutenant in the Twelfth regiment to senior first lieutenant and captaincy of a company, with peers noting the promotion earned by merit and no jealousy among the unit. Also mentions Hunt's Cure claims and aspirin naming, plus Garfield Remedies and the Pure Food and Drugs Act.
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Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
National Guard of
New York
Turn Flattery Upside Down and Slander Follows
A terse maxim notes that praising someone falsely can amount to defamation as praise inverted becomes harm. The adage warns against weaponizing words to damage reputation or provoke legal claims through deceptive compliments.
Lost Baby Found in a Wolves Den in Minnesota
Four year old Margaret Schweitzer of Brockway Township Minnesota was found safe inside a wolf den after being separated from her siblings during a nutting trip. A search party of about twenty men tracked the child to a pine knoll where a wolf den lay. Inside sat Margaret on a rock, being cared for by a young wolf and his mates. The man who found her carried her to safety while the wolves scampered away. The child described her rescuers as friendly and said she hoped to play with the dogs again.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Margaret Schweitzer
Brockway Township
Margaret
Schweitzer
Little Margaret
Uutte
Margy
Marwareh
Calf Triggers Well Dynamite Blast Killing Hazard
James Tatman, a Kansas farmer, and a hired man left three sticks of dynamite near a well on Tatman’s farm. The calf chewed the dynamite cap, causing a blast that knocked Tatman into the well and seriously injured him. the hired man escaped. Tatman expects to recover.
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Waverly, Kas
James Tatman
Here
Mr. Tatman
Woman Eaten by Wolves in Yukon Horror Tale
An American woman, Dr. Emily Chambers, disappeared in 1900 while exploring Yukon frontiers for a travel book. Her brother, Prof. W. C. Hewitt of Oshkosh, returned to Dawson with the bones and clothing that proved her fatal fate as wolves had devoured her body after a July 24 1901 departure.
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Ottawa
Ont
W. C. Hewit
Oshkosh
Wis
Dawson
Emily Chambers
Mrs. Chambers
Yukon
Mounted Police
Professor Hewitt
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