Timperley Hall Revelations and Missing Father Mystery
In Timperley a visitor recalls Lancashire industrial life and a family tragedy. Miss Lacroix reveals her father Paul Steinhardt vanished after a London Paris case, while villagers recount drownings and eerie factory smoke. The narrator vows to investigate the pond scene and the missing man.
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Tient
Miss Lacroix
Mr. Unwin
Chemical Works
Sid
London
Paris
Mhe
Bacon
Great Queen Street
Timperley Hall
Miss Lackox
Happenings of the Week Span Wars and Politics
A condensation of notable events including a possible delay of the St Louis fair until 1904 President Diaz planning a US summer visit three killed seven wounded in Alabama arrest attempt naval movements with Wisconsin in San Francisco international education grants from Rhodes and US Oxford scholarships senate and house legislation including the oleomargarine bill and sundry civil appropriation Hitchcock retirement and Danish West Indies scandal denial Oklahoma Arizona New Mexico admission unlikely fire losses at Atlantic City and Johnstown Coal mine explosion in Tennessee and Chicago election gains flooding across the South with heavy damages and cholera and plague reports in Manila and India efforts toward canal bills and naval movements in Manila transport Sheridan sails for Manila with troops
Tragedy at Ibrox Park as Stand Collapses
At Ibrox Park in Glasgow on April 8 a crowd of about 70 000 attended the England vs Scotland match. Panic and barriers failing caused a terrace collapse, killing five and injuring 125 with many suffering broken bones and internal injuries. Ambulances took the seriously hurt to infirmaries.
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Glasgow
Ibrox Park
England
Scotland
Nut
Cabe
Cruach
Lighthouse Bill Repealed by Sundry Civil Appropriation
The passage notes a North Carolina lighthouse bill enacted March 5 1901 and its repeal by the sundry civil appropriation bill wiping the statute book in one stroke. The Senate amended the general bill to limit its sweeping effect.
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House
North Carolina
Senate
Gold Consumption and Stock in United States and World
The calendar year industrial use of gold in the United States is about 16,667,500 dollars and world use about 75,000,000 dollars. US production led last year with imports surpassing exports by 12,866,101 dollars. The year end gold coin and bullion stock in the United States is about 1,124,652,818 dollars while silver coin stock is about 410,477,025 dollars.
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United States
Worth of Compliment in Friendship Praise
A reflection on how true praise should honor a friend without amplifying enemies. It argues that watching closely and resisting misgivings leads to sincere admiration rather than hollow compliments.
Familiar Stranger Identified in Philadelphia Record Quote
Two Chicago women discuss a man as they recall his face and name. One says the person is likely Jenke Henry Jenks, noting she recognizes him from her past, calling him her fret husband.
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Chicago
Jenke
Henry Jenks
Philadelehia
Consul Joshua Wilbour Dies in New Jersey
Joshua Wilbour United States consul at Dublin died in Rutherford New Jersey. A post office department probe stopped a swindler advertising a method to open cash registers without keys. Mrs Catherine Offel wife of the Pittsburgh warden was indicted on three counts for aiding the Biddles to escape from jail January 20.
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Joshua Wilbour
United States
Dublin
Ireland
Rutherford, N. J
Post Office Department
Catherine @offel
Pittheburg
Danish West Indies Treaty Debate Heats In Copenhagen
In secret session the landsthing debated the Danish West Indies sale for three hours with no result. A tomorrow meeting may yield conclusions while opponents push for a plebiscite. The opposition presses cry foul as right party shifts to favor cession with island consent.
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Copenhagen
National Tidenge
Landsthing
United States
Royal guest visit eyed as Prince of Wales may tour US
New York April 8 report says plans for a Prince of Wales visit to the United States are in advanced stages. Washington formalities push the proposal with King Edward's assent seen. advisers favor the move as state policy. Emperor William weighs inviting Germany's crown prince and France plans a distinguished envoy.
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Prince of Wales
United States
New York
Enya
London
the Times
Washingon
Edward
William
Germany
America
France
Portes complaint over Italian fishers on Tripoli coast
A Constantinople dispatch reports the porte filed with the Italian ambassador alleging Italian fishermen land geese on the Tripoli coast and Italian officers in disguise serve on sponge boats to take soundings. It cites other world data on emigration costs and U S government expenditures.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Constantinople
The
Porte
Tripoli
Royal Canadian Regiment Volunteers for South Africa Service
Halifax April 8 The Royal Canadian regiment of infantry comprising 1000 men has volunteered for service in South Africa. Colonel White, commander, offered the force to acting general Colonel Biscoe who commands British forces in North America. The regiment now does garrison duty in Halifax and the offer was cabled to the British war office.
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Halifax
N. C
Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry
South Africa
White
Biscoe
North America
British War Office
Growth and Happenings in Oregon Industries and Communities
Oregon state markets show record land office revenue for March while Salem plans a city light plant. A telephones project links Echo to Pendleton due May 1 and Oregon City notes many lines down after a live wire incident. Hapless farmers face codling moths. clambake season opens at Skipanon. clams on Clatsop beach appear abundant. Rogue River Valley growers wage war on pests with poison spray. The Western Union Telegraph Company donates 1000 to the Lewis and Clark exposition. A O U W holds supreme lodge in Portland. Marion Cunningham, pioneer of 1853, dies at 69 in Harrisburg. Oliver Grace, pioneer of 1843, dies in Silverton. Prohibitionists nominate city and county tickets. Tillamook Bank incorporates. The Dalles plans water supply increases. Baker City clerks seek Sunday closing accord.
Rhodes Will Funds Scholarships and Rhodesia Land Use
London April 7 The will of Cecil Rhodes provides colonial and American scholarships for U S states and territories and five German birth student scholarships at Oxford. It notes a 4000 pound yearly burial fund for a Matoppo rock tomb and a plan to extend a railway to Matoppo. Rhodes leaves land near Bulawayo and Salisbury to trustees for Rhodesia education and Groot Schuur as a residence for the South African Prime Minister with 1000 pounds yearly maintenance.
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Cecil Rhodes
Oxford
United States
London
Rhodes
England
Cape Town
Matoppo Hills
Matoppo
Raoden
Bulawayo
Salisbury
Matabeleland
Rhodesia
Grootschuur
South Africa
Market Prices for Wheat to Wool in Valley and Oregon
A rundown of commodity quotes across grains livestock dairy and fiber: Wheat at 4c to 65e for bluestem. Barley feeds at 20 to 21.50 per ton. Oats varying from 1.10 to 1.24 per bushel. Flour values per barrel and per hundredweight. Millet and bran and shorts price ranges. Hay timothy and clover with per ton rates. Potatoes Burbanks and Early Rose per cental with grower prices. Butter milk cheese eggs poultry and mutton hogs veal and beef prices. Wool and mohair readings for Valley and Eastern Oregon.
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Walla Walla
Valley
Graham
Oregon
Burbanks
Jaweetas
America
Wool—Valley
Health resort for invalid soldiers to be built at Fort Niobrara
Plans reveal a health resort for invalid regular army soldiers to be established at Fort Niobrara Nebraska. Overland limited trains will gain telephone service while standing in depots at Chicago Omaha and San Francisco. Mrs John McGinnia sues a Chicago tenement owner for 25000 damages after sewer gas death of her two children and harmed town health.
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Fort Niobrara
Nebraska
Chicago
Omaha
San Francisco
John McGinnia
Balkans unrest stirs as Bulgarian bands cross into Macedonia
A Sofia dispatch reports 14 revolutionary bands crossed the frontier into Macedonia in recent days. Turkish forces ambushed 200 Bulgarian outlaws in Kirza mountains, killing several and capturing the rest. Macedonians accused of severe atrocities, including a Turk skinned alive and displayed as a trophy.
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London
Exchange’ Telegraph Company
Sofia
Macedonia
Kirza
Old Servian Rebels Engage Albanians Near Kolashin
Vienna dispatch says Serb insurgents in northern Turkish gillges clash with Albanians at Kolashin. The old Servian rebels are described as well armed and supplied. Several killed or wounded in multiple encounters reported by the Neu Frie Presse.
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Vienna
Neu Frie Presse
Gillges
Turkey
Kolashin
Fire Breaks Out Again in Union Pacific Mine No 2
Carbon Wyoming April 5 The old No 2 coal mine fire at Union Pacific rekindled as workers wall up the fan shaft mouth to block smoke and flames. The blaze, which began twenty years ago, has burned steadily for five years and undermined the surrounding area within about a half mile radius.
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Carbon
Wyo
No. 2
Union Pacific
Intervala
New Jersey Gov Odell Signs Anti Anarchy Bill
Albany N J April 5 A bill to stamp out anarchy in this state was signed by Governor Odell. It imposes a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment or up to 5000 dollars fine or both on persons who advocate anarchistic doctrines by speech writings or otherwise.
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Albany
N. J
Odell
Boundary Fence Plan Reported Along Montana Boundary
Great Falls Montana April 7 word reaches city that Canada has rated ten thousand dollars to construct a barbed wire boundary fence from St Marys Lake to the Sweet Grass hills along the Montana Dominion border.
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Great Falls
Mont
Montana
The
Dominion
St. Mary's Lake
Sweet Grass Hills
Cabinet Takes It Up In South Africa Mule Camp Probe
The April 7 cabinet session focused on a Louisiana governor’s protest over a camp alleged to be run by British agents to supply mules and teams to Britain’s army in South Africa. The president had ordered an investigation into the facts and applicable law.
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Washington
Louisiana
South Africa
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President Diaz
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Echo
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Skipanon
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Rogue River Valley
Supreme Lodge of Oregon
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Silverton
Western Union Telegraph Company
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