Thomas City Born Overnight in Custer County
A Missouri driven land boom created Thomas City in Custer County Oklahoma in one night with a population around 2600. The town formed on paper with lots sold at 20 dollars each and no guaranteed locations. By Aug 22 tents and shacks rose as printing offices and banks prepared, while residents met in Kansas City and awaited neighbors.
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Thomas City
Custer County
Iansan
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas City
Darth
Sits
Ships on the Watch Near Rockport Defenders Hold Line
News from Rockport Mass reports Admiral Higginson directing a watch as Pillsbury’s fleet tries to break through the defending line of Kearsarge Massachusetts and Alabama. Wireless is planned to Nantucket. A fatal accident on the Kearsarge left two dead and three injured.
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Rockport
Mass
Higginson
Kearsargo
Masseachusetts
Alabama
Thacher's Island
Pillsbury
Admiral Higgingon
Nantucket
Brooklyn
Provincetown
Bere
Iearsarge
Lipton Narrowly Escapes Injury In Auto Crash
Sir Thomas Lipton narrowly escaped serious injury when his automobile skidded at Woodgreen near London and crashed into an iron railing. The car was wrecked and railing broken, but Lipton and his secretary and driver escaped unharmed, continuing to the city office by tram.
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London
Sir Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas
Woodgreen
Lipton
Couple Seeks Immediate Marriage After Long Letter Courtship
At Fifth Street Station a widower farmer Charles Woellkers of Milford Del and widow Emma Gottlieb of 1720 Second Avenue sought immediate marriage after confessing two years of letter and regular correspondence begun with John Schmiltz of 241 East 86th Street. Captain Brown advised patience. the group left to seek a minister or alderman.
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New York
Fifth Street
Brown
Charles Woellkers
Milford
Del
Emma Gottlieb
Second Avenue
John Schmiltz
East 86Th Street
East Hampton Mail Carrier Encounters Pheasants
East Hampton on August 22 Leon Hale, a mail carrier on the local route, reported spotting a buck, a doe, and a fawn near Hop Swamp district. Further along he observed an old English pheasant with a large flock of young ones roaming the local woods, a sight linked to the area’s pheasant population.
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East Hampton
Leon Hale
East Hampton- Hadiam Neck
Buck
Doe
Fawn
Hale
Foul Play Hinted In Brother's Death In Williamsport
Reports from Williamsport Pennsylvania state Edward P. Remington doubts his brother Robert R. Remington died by his own hand. Autopsy found a mouth wound from a bullet. questions linger whether the bullet fit the revolver found by the body. Nearby Newport officials reject murder theories and cite self-inflicted death.
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Williamsport
Edward P. Remington
Robert
Remington
Seth T. McCormick
Newport
R. 1
Edward B. Remington
Robert R. Remington
Richards
Ecroyd
Reading Room
Fred
J. J. van Alen
New York
Navy officials in the dark on fleet movements
Washington reports no word from the commander of either fleet and Navy Department officials are in total ignorance of the ships' movements.
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Washington
Mno
Navy Department
Mitchel lsexpelled in New York to Visit ye Morgan
Mitchell and Morgan loom large as the anthracite strike drags on with weekly coal price increases and arbitration discussed. Morgan quietly waits for workers to return while Mitchell is rumored to visit New York for talks with Morgan. Clergy and mayors urge arbitration amid mounting public concern over price rises.
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Mitchell
New York
Ye Morgan
Truesdale
The
Cackawannua
Morgan
Bishop Potter
Hanna
Daily Page
Civic Federation
Pennsylvania
Presdent Baker
Bryan Predicts Disaster in Pessimistic Lincoln Warning
William J. Bryan warns in the Commoner that the United States faces a fall likened to Babylon with the Republican party as Belshazzar. He accuses leaders of rushing to new ties, pursuingOriental colonies, tolerating monopolies, and abusing injunctions against labor while anti trust violators go free, fostering anarchy.
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Lincoln
Neb
Babylon
United States
Republican Party
Belshazzar
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Orient
Herr Most
President Roosevelt Visits New Haven for Brief Drive
President Theodore Roosevelt arrived in New Haven aboard the Sylph and stayed about an hour. A planned speech was scrapped as he drove through the city’s main streets from 1:20 to 2:30, passing Sargent Co. and L. Yandee Co. plants, the New Haven Green, Yale campus, and City Hall amid heavy police presence.
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New Elaven
Pesident
Theodore Roosevelt
Sylph
New England
Sargent Co
L. Yandee Co
New Haven Green
Yale
Wisconsin farmer dies after eating corn in summer heat
Trempealeau Wisconsin August 22 William Hafner a farmer died after consuming a large quantity of corn over several meals. He ate 24 ears at dinner 15 more in the afternoon and 11 more during the night awakening craving for more corn before dying in the morning at his wife’s side.
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Trempealeau
Wis
William Hafner
Surprising Quiet On Russia Trust Proposals At Sugar Conference
Brussels August 22 There is surprise in government circles as Germany and Austria have not rejected Russia's trust proposals on the sugar bounty question while England and France have declined. It is feared M Witte's notes may sway Berlin and Vienna to a conciliatory stance, risking practical compromise at the Brussels sugar conference.
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Brussels
Germany
Austria
Russia
England
Jfrance
M. Witte
Balloon acrobat falls 1200 feet at Homer fair
Danville Illinois Aug 22 12000 spectators watched L W Sartell of Fairwell Michigan drop from a balloon at Homer fair yesterday. His parachute failed to open severing both legs in a 1200 foot fall. His wife died two months ago in a balloon accident near Dario Tl. parachute refused to open.
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Danville
Ill
Acronaut
L. W. Sartell
Fairwell
Mich
Sartell
Dario
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