Murder in Horseshoe Creek Sparks Townwide Turmoil
The body of mail carrier John Hunt is found near Horseshoe Creek after a storm delays rescue. Gerard Blair claims involvement in the murder to divert a lynch mob, while Allen the telegrapher and others expose a bank fraud motive tied to Howard & Co. of Denver. Jerry Starr is arrested as the real culprit, with a web of suspects and shifting alibis emerging in the mining town.
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WWE
John Iunt
Horseshoe Creek
Thunder Mountain
Horseshoe
Hunt
Tren
Stevens and Conway
Min
Stevens
Conway
Ifty
Morsestioe
Terminus
Cacrey
John Viant
Gerard
Blair
Tetertarey
Carey
Erie
Currey
Finn
Jesse
Cacey
Tiny
Nate
Denver
Cate
Jobn
Ferry Starr
Pam
Allen
Leig
Some
Howard & Co
Howard & Cots
Blur
Howard &O
Frank Blair
Jerry Starr
Warren
Pre
Jaen
Lum
Layent
Jerry Stare
Starr
Peter Unrey
Bern
Peter Carey
Wits Express
Jerry
Mall Carlier
John Flint
Contemporary Comment from Baltimore papers
Snippet cites editorials from the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore American noting industry, temperance goals in Hawaii, and a quip from the Chicago News about women and men’s baldness, plus a line from the Annapolis Hospital.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
Chicago News
Annapolis
Doerenian Norath and Odd Descriptions of a Singular Woman
A fragmentary piece describes Doerenian Norath and Tuerezut Borgia as singular individuals. It notes peculiar conversational skills, distrustful eye contact, and a talent for repartee, with references to tense social dynamics and a lighthouse storm tale from Skerryvoce on Scotland’s west coast. The text ends with a dialog on marriage from Chicago records.
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Borgia
Skerryvoce
Seothuod
Modern Seeker for Gold and the New Prospector's Tools
The yield from gold mines has risen sharply due to advances in geology chemistry and mining equipment. Prospectors now use drills explosives chemical analysis portable laboratories and quicksilver tests to locate ore assay and extract gold with far greater efficiency than in the past.
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Scientific American
California
Oregon
United States
Rocky Mountain
Quicksiiver
Celery as Remedy for Rheumatism in Market Bounty
The article extols celery as a remedy for rheumatism suggesting daily consumption. It recommends boiling stalks to drink the water or serving stewed celery with milk and butter. It claims celery’s camphorlike apium effects dilate blood vessels and act as a diaphoretic and diuretic for rheumatic patients.
Decline in English Birth Rate Studied by Eugenics Group
Dr. Galton outlines eugenics as a new science to study heredity and national decline via birth rates. The Sociological Society plans to systematize the field, aiming to determine factors behind thriving families and how social bans on suitable marriages might shape reproduction.
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Engileh
Galson
Lawa
Galton
New Sociological Society
George Barnard Shaw
Benjamin Kidd
H. G. Wells
Death Mask Stamps Spark Balkan Controversy in Belgrade
A Belgrade dispatch reports Servia planned coronation stamps showing King Peter, King Alexander, and Karageorge. French engraver Moucheon allegedly hid Alexanders’s death mask in the design. Authorities fear popular superstition and stamp speculation. officials seek to buy back the labels abroad. Savage furs among women and Streetcarville, a Revere Beach suburb, appear in unrelated notes.
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Belgrade
Nathalie
Servia
Balkan States
Lindoo Daily News
Peters
Karageorge
Mouchon
Alexander
Peter
France
Germany
England
Bank Adopts Thumb Mark as Identification in Chicago
A Chicago bank considers adopting thumb mark identification for depositors, replacing signatures for proof of identity. Depositors ink their thumb on a ledger page, receive a number, and a classified system determines their thumb print type, with experts matching prints to confirm identity. A second note discusses Dr. Claparede's sleep theory, proposing sleep as a positive nervous function to avoid conditions rather than mere exhaustion.
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Chicago
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Claparede
Harpee
Churchill and His Storied Career and Eccentricities
A compilation of remarks on Winston Churchill detailing his campaigns in Soudan and South Africa, his imprisonment and daring escape, his writings, and his role as a fierce opponent of Chamberlain. The piece also notes Churchill's blunt or rude style in Parliament, parallels to Disraeli, and various unrelated social observations from medical and cultural spheres.
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Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
England
Soudon
South Afric
Chamberlain
Disraeli
Caull
All Classes Affected by Heart Disease Rise
Dr Henry P Loomis discusses growing heart disease mortality in the city since 1868. He links rheumatism high living mental strain and exposure to outdoor work with heart trouble and urges temperance rest and fresh air as safeguards.
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Henry P. Loomis
New York Sun
Health Board
Bright
Loomis
The Mexican Cactus and the Cholla Legend
A brief descriptive note on the cholla cactus famed as the most hated in America. It recounts Mexican beliefs that its joints jump at passersby, pierce when touched, and drop spines into boots. The piece notes cattle browse despite spines and that deer skeletons are left after drought.
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America
Arizona
New Cunard Liner Serves Germanized Sea Menu
The menu lists meals from before breakfast through supper on the Cunard liner with items like bouillon, sandwiches, oysters, venison, and toast. A buffalo herd in Oklahoma's Ponca reservation, purchased from a halfbreed Indian, is described as perhaps the USA's largest fullblood buffalo at 2,200 pounds, bought from Pawnee Bill.
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Oklahoma Ranch
Ponca Reservation
Missoula
Mon
United States
Kansas City Journal
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Frederick BR. Toomba
Ory House
Owie Wild
Losell
Tim
Tibn
Jerry Arr
John Blunt
Ble
Contemporary Comment
Hawaii
Moat
Baltimore American
Chicago Record Herald
Gruneman
Treenlander
Columbia
Fraser Rivers
Streetcarville
Revere Beach
Masa
London Lancet
South Africa
London
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