Masked men rob Memphis express car in daring train heist
In Memphi s Tenn on Nov two masked robbers boarded the westbound Rock Island express near Bridge Junction. They blew open a safe with nitro caps, looted the mail car, and rifled registered pouches. Four entered the express car, three remained outside, two hundred thousand dollars believed taken though an official cites half a million in the car. A switch engine presence frightened the robbers away.
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Memphig
Tenn
Westh Rock
Blizzard Snow Fills Upper Midwest and Missouri Valley
Blizzard conditions spread across Minnesota and Michigan while snow covers Upper Lake Superior. Three inches in Calumet, two inches in Houghton, four inches in Summit. Freezing temperatures follow as snow and cold grip Missouri Valley from Bismarck to Kansas City.
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Duluth
Minn
Calumet
Houghton
Mich
Summit
Lake Superior
Missouri Valley
Kansas City
Bismarck
N. C
Kansas
Missouri
MRS STEVENS RE-ELECTED AS W C T U PRESIDENT
Milwaukee dispatch reports Mrs Lilian M N Stevens of Portland Maine re elected president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In New Jersey Joseph Warren Scott of Mount Salem is sentenced to thirty years in state prison for killing his wife, after a history of alleged abuse. Scott also confessed to prior attacks and bigamy.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
National
Woman's Chrisian Temperance Union
Newton, N. J
Joseph Warren Scott
Mount Salem
Scott
Buffalo Bill Retires to Wyoming After Frontier Fame
The famed Indian fighter Buffalo Bill Cody plans to spend his remaining days in western Wyoming. His career, starting as a pony express rider, included numerous Indian battles and 28 years as a showman. He earned the nickname Buffalo Bill in the 1860s while supplying buffalo meat for Kansas Pacific railroad workers.
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Red Man
Buffalo Bil
Colonel Cody
Kansas Pacific
Death by own action pact shocks Wooster community
In Wooster Ohio Coroner King rules death from self inflicted poisoning in a double case. Mize Cermen Humphrey 19 and Rufus Billiard 21 died within hours of each other after a quarrel and a demanded marriage. Billiard left a note to his mother asking forgiveness and burial together with Humphrey. Also, 13 year old William Cook was critically wounded by a pistol shot while playing with a friend in Dillsburg.
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York
William
John Cook
Dillsburg
Dewey Nesbit
Farm Hand Fessler Death In Reading Pa
Reading telegram reports farm hand John Fessler son of Henry Fessler employed at Grand View Sanitarium south of Wernersville killed himself with a gun. The notice notes his death by self act and gives no additional motive or details. A separate medical ad praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy from Mrs. Francis Turpin of Junction City Oregon as best for whooping cough cold and croup with druggists carrying it.
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Reading
John Fessler
Henry Fessler
Grand View Sanitarium
Wernersville
Chamberlain
Francis Turpin
Junction City
Ore
Seizure of Unfit Food by New Jersey Bureau
Deputy Tice reports six barrels of paprika and other meat products seized at a Trenton butcher shop as unfit for food. The action follows a cable from China Council stating missionaries in the province faced no disturbance amid the current revolutionary activity.
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Trenton
Tice
Bureau
Waa
China Council
Paotinefu
Chin
NEW CARDINAL POWERS AND AMERICAN PRELATES DISCUSSION
Debate rages over how much jurisdiction American cardinals will wield after being honored. Seniority would decide presiding at future councils, not supremacy. Rumors say Cardinal Rampolla could be the next pope, though not seriously considered.
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United States
Bat
Farley
New York
HY Wal
Boston
Diomede Filiponio
Rome
Baltimore
Pal
Cardinal Gibbons
Dee
Imay
Cardinal Rampolla
No Honest Man in Business, Says London Preacher
Rev Reginald John Campbell of City Temple London told Philadelphia listeners that no successful business man can be honest under today s system He warned that competition forces sharp dealing and said socialism offers the only real hope for the world The address also noted his past heresy trial and recent reception by American clergy as shocking to some.
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Reginald John Campbell
City
Temple
London
First Baptist Church
Philadelphia
New York
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
John D. Rockefeller
Son
Lee
John D
Dr. Added
Evan
Doctor' s Prescription For Eczema Favilifcall At My Store
Fragmentary notice describes a skin remedy sale at Ishson North Market Street. It mentions a $1.00 bottle and a 25 cent tile or mat as proof of merit, offering free ring directions for bath care and a D D D pamphlet.
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Blizzard
Minnesota
Buffalo Bill
Wyco Osterhaus, A
MacFarland
Fliegende Blaetter
R. J. Campbell
H. George
Iamson, North Market ‘St
Athletic
Trolter
Gorman
Harringtonthe
Steoho'e College
Ade
Alty
Mate
Manly
Athle
Frederick City
Footer’s
America
Footer’s Dye Works
Cumberland
Kate Gittinger
East Patrick Street
Frederick
Haller & Newman
Maryland
Drs
D. Fahrney
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