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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1907
Page
3
Marcia Brooks rides Bonnie Belle to Kiowa opening in Nebraska amid registration chaos and lawless fever. She renews love with Charlie Keith as they stake claims, plan marriage, and face a harsh cattle frontier.
The wooden and iron leg of General Daumesnil, lost at Wagram and later fitted with timber and iron springs, rests in the Paris Military museum. After his death in 1832 it passed from smith Broy of Vincennes to his family, then to Vincennes municipality, and finally to the war department as a prized relic of French military history.
The article traces gloves from possible biblical references to shoes, through Xerophon and Homer, noting Romans and Laertes. It traces ceremonial use from the ninth century, church rites, land transfers, and titles. It notes single combat dove challenges, and that women began wearing gloves after the Reformation.
In a short diary style exchange, a patient reveals disappointment after an examination, with the doctor noting “tan in” as the trouble. The fragment reflects conversational reporting from the Milwaukee Sentinel’s society notes.
A sensational tale claims Charles S. Meller is forming the Greater Pennsylvania railroad uniting lines east of the Mississippi and west to New Orleans with the New York New Haven Hartford Louisville and Nashville and other feeders. Officials deny plans, saying the report is baseless though the motive and secrecy surrounding the project attract attention.
A thief seized the baptismal party near Cairo on the Ohio River as 15 worshippers were baptized. The stolen clothes were to be worn after the rites, including some women. Fearing pneumonia, a local merchant opened his shop to sell dry garments to the shivering converts.
Abraham Hummel, housed at Blackwell’s Island, has begun serving his sentence after a week in the penitentiary hospital. Doctors say he is physically able to work and he told the warden he is ready to break stone or hoe cabbage. In Hutchinson, Kansas, talk grows that a Farmers’ Union movement could spawn a new political party, echoing the 18 year-old Farmers Alliance history.
Citizens watched as four burglars blew open the post office safe stealing about 400 dollars in money and stamps. An explosion roused townsmen but they kept their distance, while the burglars used three blasts of dynamite to access the safe and escape.
Mr and Mrs William Cores arrive in London and inquired at a West End hotel that no newspaper reporters be allowed in the hotel during their stay. The notes describe efforts to control press coverage in a staged arrival.
Harrisburg May 28 The total cost to the state for furnishing the 64 basement rooms of the new capitol reached 636 879.01. Twenty six rooms serve as storage and posting areas with furnishing costs totaling 627 938.79, including 614 365.18 paid to Pennsylvania Construction for metallic furniture. Every room contains at least one thermostat at 79 each and up to 15 white metal chandeliers at 36 each. Thermostats and chandeliers were supplied by John H. Sanderson, general contractor. The table shows 38 trolley ladders from Pennsylvania Construction at a total of 5 700.
Following a legislature inquiry that Pittsburg is the nation's costliest city to live in, cemetery officials announce a June 1 price hike for single graves. Undertakers report a $2 increase per grave, a burden to poor buyers. lot holders remain unaffected. The cemetery rise cites crowded burial grounds and rising land valuations as reasons.
The body of Armenian priest Rev. Father Kaspar Vartianan was identified in the morgue. Police pursue chemical tests on the priest's organs to determine if drugs were used before he was placed in the trunk. Robbery is suspected as the motive. investigators seek to learn where and by whom the crime was committed and whether a secret society is involved.
Three fires in Elkton Maryland's business district sparked fear of arson as kerosene was used in each blaze. Residents stayed vigilant overnight while a dozen special officers were sworn in and the town offered 259 dollars for arrests and conviction of the firebugs. A prowler near the railroad freight house was shot at but escaped.
Railroad workers in Cumberland report conditions resembling late fall with two mornings of snow indeed. Leaves have fallen and general weather mirrors an ordinary winter pattern for the area on May 28.
Meats in Chicago are set to rise as the beef trust plans payment delays on livestock until after a government post mortem, unless the plan is halted. A separate item reports James F Farrell, a Newark letter carrier, convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to three years by the U S District Court.
A garbled OCR item mentions William Urkie of Kalamazoo draggist wife despondent from financial officials, a lashimne strike at a post office in Atlantic City, Joan Sharp injuring several people, and Dallas Sanders a Philadelphia lawyer and board member. It also notes a man named Vietnamese and a Philadelphia mint silver delivery order at $12 per ave vue.
A Washington-backed plan seeks to strip Havana of its capital status, fund repairs and severance through a contract managed by a U.S. provisional government in Cuba. Objections cite costs and necessity, but officials cite Cuban treasury support and potential island funding. Cockfighting will be banned under the American regime, while financing details remain unresolved.
In December 1774 Major Sullivan led sixteen patriots from Durham to Fort William and Mary in Dover New Hampshire. They captured powder and arms, buried powder under a church pulpit, and sent powder to Boston, a move described as precipitating Revolution. The account quotes Rev. Quint and Rev. Gregory praising the daring assault and framing Sullivan as the first rebel leader against British rule shaping Lexington’s fate.
A science note cites Professor A G Maret describing jellyfish movements driven by ringlike disks that pulse in response to stimuli. When jellyfish sense organs are removed the disk stalls, but electrical or mechanical shocks cause sustained rapid pulsations like clockwork.
A fragment from a London Standard report discusses camel use and breeding, noting trials by Professor Lontinuse and Italian experts. It mentions dispatch, specialist designers, and observations on the adaptability of camels to various tasks.
A damaged OCR fragment references pots or porkets and a svecage pan with sixteen, mentions letters and interest, and a possible Montre or Star element. The legible parts show no clear event, date, or names, making a concrete summary difficult beyond noting a garbled message about items and relationships.
G W Cloud, a Pinak merchant, recounts escaping a severe four year old injury. He nearly faced amputation, but trusted Beck Len's Arnica Eve and says it cured the dangerous wound, praising Modern Pharmacy for the medicine.
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