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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1893
Page
2
A Chicago World’s Fair feature details a surge of criminal activity on crowded late night streets. It highlights professional pickpockets, diamond snatchers, and trunk thieves preying near railway stations, stands, and saloons with numerous arrests and ongoing police efforts.
A fragmented OCR snippet suggests discussion of mesmerism and its claimed powers. Names, places, and dates are unreadable, but the excerpt hints at a public interest feature or anecdote about mesmeric demonstrations and claimed psychic effects.
A damaged OCR style fragment features mixed lines of poetry and street dialogue. It includes a quoted verse by Edward S Creamer and a crude exchange at a soup house where a character laments overdue attention to studies while another notes soup tickets require soap, reflecting hardships and social commentary.
George Upson of San Francisco confronted an intruder beneath his bed after a suspicious movement. A pistol duel followed with bullets and a scuffle to the doorway as police arrived. Upson and the burglar were wounded, the thief bearing an embedded cheek bullet.
A sprawling summary of incidents from a St Louis Globe-Democrat take on recent train robberies. It recounts passengers being plundered, money hidden in garments, shoes removed for theft, and a crewman murdered, with snippets about a young Indian Territory traveler and other wary ropers. An unrelated note mentions a tough chicken remedy and a deadly electrical shock from a telephone during maneuvers.
The article reports that Elisha Broadeaux known as Line Broadax, a longtime resident near Russellville Kentucky, is believed by many ex slaves to wield deadly voodoo powers. He claims to be 149 years old and says he will never die, with tales of immortality tied to blood rites and shapeshifting. A case near his cabin involved a man allegedly haunted and "inched" by the priest, leading to delirium and death. physicians cited poisoning, while locals insist on his supernatural influence.
A Chicago judge, Goggin, overruns his peers in a sensational ruling leaving Sunday services open and earning rare fame. He is described as deep reading with a vast history book collection, a bachelor who once played handball with Lincoln, yet known for biting sarcasm toward public figures.
A Paradise for Tramps reports a surge of wanderers across the United States driven by industrial gloom. Southern California is a favorite haunt, especially San Joaquin valley, where tramps ride trains by concealing in baggage cars to avoid removal, with a recent case at Saugus showing prolonged concealment on a Bakersfield trip.
A fragment describes Mic Arend of Jacksonville attempting to enter a door and a chicken. The scene shifts to feather removal and an abrupt firing. A clipping dropped by a man reveals instructions on cleaning rag carpets from a New York Weekly.
Flora Quick alias Tom King Mundis era a Guthrie resident famed for riding through streets in cowboy dress. Captured near Brighton, she rode stolen horses and escaped jail with guard keys, was recaptured near Yukon, and authorities report she sought thrills through horse theft, with two deputies' pursuits ending in a fatal shooting.
Don Allen and wife Laura Iie, a Mexican snake charmer, traveled through Memphis with 20 live snakes bound for Allen's snake farm in Christian county Missouri. The crates contained venomous and varied species for a farm that prepares oils and venom for sale in Mexico while a pet black ferret named Dan is kept. The couple has collected snakes across Arkansas since spring and recently lost one cargo when their boat capsized on the Arkansas river while bound for the farm.
A Victorian dinner feature surveys festive table decor with five separate tables in a single room each color themed using roses carnations mignonette and Watteau designs. It notes an Oriental Byzantine window affect and odd culinary curiosities including ivory dust jelly and a nourishing elderberry broth idea.
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