Big real estate swindle unearthed in St Paul
A major real estate swindle is uncovered in St Paul as schemes involve sales by individuals. The report notes several arrests and ongoing investigations.},{"title":"A big real estate swindle unearthed in St. Paul","summary":"A major real estate swindle is unearthed in St. Paul involving sales by individuals. Police make seven arrests as investigations continue."}
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Dunbar
McDonald
Penn
Johnstown
J Bradley
Supreme Court of the
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Miller
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Stanley Mathews
The Pacific Coast News Highlights Across Regions
A wide spread of items from California to Oregon and Washington. Notable notes include the Oregon Penitentiary death of a boy convict, a Black Bart rumor in China, and several regional infrastructure and crime updates. Reports cover weather, fires, road and rail events, and notable deaths.
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Home and Far From Chinch Bugs and Kitchen Tips
A miscellany of home remedies and gardening notes including disinfectants for poultry, color-preserving prep for peaches, citrus and vinegar spice ideas, and new methods for seedling protection. Also instructions on making lobster dishes, salt as a pest check, and a log clod-crusher for yard work.
Portland Market Reports Mixed Wheat Prices and Steady Provisions
The Portland market notes speculation on wheat prices amid expectations of a large Northwest yield. Provisions stay steady while fruits and vegetables are plentiful and cheaper. dried fruits and chickens show steady to good demand. Sugar, coffee, and some meats display minor unsettled or variable movements.
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Inland Empire
Notable Figures and Society Gossip From an Era
A patchwork of portraits and anecdotes paints public figures from politics, literature, and society. It notes Stevenson’s earnings, Bismarck’s fame, and fashion by dignitaries, with mentions of poets, judges, and foreign ministers. A playful vignette closes with a Berlin anecdote and a Philadelphia locale.
Bill Nye's Woes in a Sleepy Hotel Memoir
A humorous reminiscence recounts a sleepless night in a hotel where a locked room, a nosy chambermaid, and a comic cascade of misadventures unfold. The narrator endures awkward interruptions, odd dreams, and a chaotic scene involving Mayor Weston and Julius Cavvyo, ending with Nye signaling a comedic departure via a New York World piece.
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Train Misrouting Sparks City Confusion
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London day by day in a crucible of vice and ruin
Poem portrays a grim London landscape with smoke, sewers, and crowded streets. It laments poverty, profanity, and social decay while contrasting faith and justice with rampant vice and hostility. The speaker follows Robert Miles on his beat through a troubled city.
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Confidence Game Misfire Catches The Wrong Man
A young man in a Detroit house claims a caller sought a suit for brushing and fixing. He is startled to learn the man he saw go out is his supposed dead brother. The exchange hints at a long running confidence game and a mistaken identity.
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Influence of Parent Ages on Child Vitality
A memo presented to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences based on 24 000 cases finds children with fathers under 20 years show weak constitution while those with fathers aged 9 to 40 are strongest and offspring of over 40 year old fathers are weaker. Mothers under 35 yield healthier children with later age gradually reducing vitality. parents of similar ages tend to have less robust children.
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Revue Scientifique
What's in a name at the hotel Pugh causes debate
The Chicago Herald reports a naming dispute centered on Mr. Pugh an English iron broker described as a cockney whose speech drops the letter I a mutual pair discuss his nickname and pronunciation with a punchline that he is known as Pug among a local clique due to his habit of dropping I sounds
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Surprising Street Incidents Highlight Selma Oddities
In Selma Alabama a famed young woman named an elegant Miss Celia Childs from Seattle was splashed with cold water in a drug store when a firelight sparked a millinery blaze. A bystander in Washington offered a polite rescue and a rat was knocked off a lady’s bustle prompting a quick foot race.
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Simple test for diamond authenticity by dot inspection
A St Louis Globe Democrat note explains a quick at home test for diamonds. Place a dot on paper and look through the stone. one dot indicates genuineness while multiple or scattered marks suggest a fake. Blue stones may be tested with alcohol to reveal treatments.
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