Women in Tragedies Two Brutal Philadelphia Crimes
Two fatal crimes in Philadelphia leaving readers shaken. Annie Cassner, 27, found dead at home. her lover Robert Brown, 22, confessed to stabbing with a butcher knife. Louisa Hazel, 16, died after her husband Matthew Hazel wounded her with a razor, as police and family recount a stark case of domestic violence. Brown faced his fate in custody. Hazel fled toward hospital but remains critical.
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Philadelphia
Annie Cassner
Adams Street
George W Cassner, Jr
Robert Brown
Russell Street
Louisa Hazel
Matthew Hazel
Lancaster Avenue
Presbyterian Hospital
Hazel
Brown
St. Mary's Hospital
Cassner
Annie
G. W. Cassner, Jr
A. S. Hellar
Camden
Baltimore
Hellar
Mrs. Hellar
Bertha Hellar
Peddler’s Joke Ends With Shocking Tinware Bargain
A tinware peddler tricks a country woman into buying pauper children for $10 each, believing she will rescind. The mother reveals she has no children and sells several boys and girls to the peddler, who returns to his wagon in stunned silence, leaving behind his tins.
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England
Pittsburg Press
His Modest Request
A San Francisco Chronicle item recounts a tramp asking for lodging from a farmer and then requesting to be woken at 4 to catch the cattle train. The farmer’s wife grants permission to sleep in the meadow and to be called at 4.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Indians in Stores Pay for Items, Says Stroud Letter
A Stroud Oklahoma letter notes Sac and Fox Indians tend not to talk much and will buy goods in stores. It recalls a drug store incident where an Indian woman paid for varnish and later declined a second can saying they could not eat the first.
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Tom Hall
Tom
Stroud
Okla
Messenger
Golf Outrage at Fife Course Ends with Silly Protest
The Earl of Wemyss, accompanied by an old caddie, barely tapped a ball near the hole and then booted it in. The caddie balked, tossed the clubs in protest, and cried out that the game is golf, in Scots.
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Earl of Wemyss
Fife
Satin Ashes Puzzle In Sunday School Lesson
A Chicago News item notes a child asking what satin ashes are after a lesson about the king of Nineveh covering himself with sackcloth and satin ashes. The line prompts puzzled inquiry from the young reader.
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NelMe
Nineveh
Chicago News
Fault Finding and the Grumbling Habit
A reflective note on fault finding and complaint. The author contrasts grumbling with a genuine desire to do good, suggesting most people who complain neglect self restraint and moral effort. The passage references the familiar phrase about robbing Peter to pay Paul and advises letting go of the tract’s concluding part.
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Peter
Paul
Wide range of accidents and deaths in June across states
On June 20 to 26 a series of incidents reported include a fatal and injuries on a Meadville to Cam bridge street car line in Pennsylvania, a fatal dynamite blast near Sargent Ohio, bridge scaffold collapses in Pittsburg, drownings in Salisbury and Norristown, a duel in Albuquerque, and other casualties. Also noted are organizational meetings, rate hikes, and labor resumption across Pennsylvania railroads.
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Meadville
Cambridge Springs
Bakertown
Julia Whitaker
O2i W. Whitaker
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sargent
Denver & Rio Grande
National Tube Works
Pittsburg
International Sunday School Convention
San Francisco
Bryant
Thomas Littleton
Salisbury
N. C
R. M. Sallier
Edward Jones
Albuquerque
N. M
Plank Ridge
Thomas Coal Company
Shenandoah Pa
Women’s Wing of Lancaster General Hospital Proposed
A Lancaster hospital drive by women auxiliaries to fund and name a south wing as the Women’s Wing of Lancaster General Hospital. The wing will serve women and children with maternity and children’s wards and aims to raise $250 000 to $275 000. Contributions solicited via Mrs. J Harry Rathfon, 238 North Duke Street, Lancaster.
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Lancaster General Hospital
Quarrsville
Lancaster City
Lancaster
J. Harry
Rathfon
North Duke Street
Great Sale of Shoes at Foster & Cochran
Foster and Cochran announce a semi annual family shoe sale starting Saturday June 27. They promise the greatest shoe savings and urge customers to shop to stretch funds. A. Bachman of Farmersville Pa notes additional services including grinding garden tools and mower blades. Call for particulars.
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Foster & Cochran
A. Bachman
Farmersville
Commodity price quotes from Philadelphia and Baltimore markets
Philadelphia market reports show weakness in flour and wheat with prices around 3.50 to 3.70 per barrel and No 2 red wheat near 91. Corn and oats vary with local and western quotes. Baltimore readings list No 2 spot wheat at 95 cents and corn at 75 to 79 cents, with butter at 24 to 25 cents and eggs around 17 to 22 cents per dozen.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
City
Western
Baltimore
Southern
Maryland
Beggs
Virginia
West Virginia
Live Stock Prices at Pittsburg Union Stock Yards
Cattle markets show lower quotes with choice at 7 to 7.75 and prime 6.65 to 6.80. Sheep reach prime 4.65 to 4.75 with culls and common down to 2 to 3, lambs 5 to 6.50, veal calves 1. Hog prices list prime heavies or netas and heavy Yorkers around 6 to 6.25. light workers and pigs noted with uncertain values.
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Pittsburg
Union
Lancaster
Eternia
Dnatec
Taleady
Tobalze
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Frank Smalsky
Mercy Hospital
Toronto
Supreme Council
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Manheim
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Greensburg
Rudolf Bomboltiab
Mary Worrel
Norristown
Pennsylvania State Bar Association
Cape May
N. J
New Jersey State Fish and Game Commission
Mary Cassidy
Woodhaven
L.J
Victor Henry
Ellwood McCullan
Schuylkill River
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N. Y
James R. Hull
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
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Ohio
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Tex
Elks
Reunior
Philip Schmidt
Springfield
Charles Rench
Columbus
Thomas Burns
Newark
the General Hospital
Lancaster County
Wm. M. Stauffer
The
New Holland Clarion
New Holland
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Neers
West Phila
North Phila
Moore
Harry Moore
Blue Ball Coach Works
Blue Ball, PA
New York
S.N. Diszexs Dz Co
East King Street
Lancaster, Penna
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RIK
Pocket Books
Philip Rudy
Queen St
Both 'Phon
Rockers
N.C. Henninger
Holland
A. H. Baker
Bled
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Bliss
United States Capitol
Washington, D.C
Alonzo O. Bliss Company
Samuel Austin
A. O. Bliss CO
Washington, D. C
Jrust
Gale
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