Widow of Jefferson Davis Dies in New York at 99
Jefferson Davis widow Varina Howell Davis dies in New York at 10 25 pm pneumonia from a severe cold after returning from the Adirondacks. Her long life spanned the 1860s era with a prominent role in Confederate society and later years in political and social circles.
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Get
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Bre, Davis
Jefferson Davi] Hayes
Princeton University
Charles Bategon
Istare Mebb
Tobert E. Worti
Webb
Davis
Varina Noweth Davis Wis
Natchez
Miss
Wiliam Bure Howell
Richard Howell
New Jersey
Jefferson Rome
Brierfield Plantation
Mr. Davis
United States
Mrs. Davis
Washington
National Capital
Drs. Davis
Executive
Richmond
Secon
Fortress Monroe
Death of Mrs. A. W. Esleeck in Greenfield Mass
Mrs. A. W. Esleeck wife of a Turners Falls manufacturer died in Greenfield after hydrophobia contracted from a bite weeks earlier. She had been staying in Holyoke at the time of the bite and moved with family to Greenfield recently. She was fifty years old.
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Weinnan Otter
Greenfield
Mass
A. W. Esleeck
Turners Falls
Esleeck
Holyoke
Democratic Party Ratified at Mass Meeting at Faneuil Hall
The Democratic group led by District Attorney Moran was ratified at a mass meeting held at Faneuil Hall. George Fred Williams, a dean of the party, addressed the gathering and set forth its platform and aims. The event concluded with supporters reaffirming their stance within the party limits.
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Moran
B. Moran
Faneuil Hall
George Fred Williams Dean
Hughes Tours Long Island After Speech Tour
Republican candidate Charles E. Hughes returns to New York after a two day tour along Long Island. He speaks at Greenport Mattituck Riverhead Huntington Hempstead and other towns while greeting large crowds mainly on the east side. He notes many women and children attend and expects impact on election day.
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Kew
York
Log Island
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Great East Side
Hughes
Long Island
Greenport
Garden City
Ai Hughes
Mattituck
Riverhead
Hicksville
Huntington
Miscota
Glen Core Roslry
Hempstead
Boats Follow The Fish Puts Fisheries Clash In New Light
Washington reports Captain EL G Carter of the US Morrill says American fishermen cross the boundary to follow fish, while Canadian patrol has shown leniency. He notes Captain Dunn cited from US charts and observed the boundary. Canadian fishermen reportedly do not poach on the American side due to fish location.
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Washington
Siate Department
EL. GC. Carter
United States
Morrill
Great Lakes
Chayter
Dunn
Lima
Auto Crash Near Cleveland Ends in Explosion
An automobile carrying four people struck a trolley post in Lakewood, exploding on impact. Anna Schmitter suffered arm fractures. Hilda Ackerman is in critical condition with burns. Benjamin Camra has burns on head and hands. George Hartman has a gouged eye and a fractured skull and may die.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
Anna Schmitter
Hilda Ackerman
Benjamin Camra
George Hartman
Mining subsidence ruptures pipeline at Haddock colliery
A surface subsidence over old Haddock colliery workings in Luzerne borough, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, broke a main line of the United States Pipe Line Company. Several thousand gallons of oil leaked into the mine before the break was found.
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Wilkerbarre
Haddock
Lizerne Borough
United States Pipe Line Company
Financial market summary from New York wholesale data
Closing stock quotations show money on call steady at 33.4 percent with prime mercantile paper at 66 percent. The weekly port of New York balance sheet lists an $58,771,000 balance and a general merchandise value of $22,402,000 for the week ending yesterday, based on expert reports.
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New York
Unclear OCR listing of farm market prices and produce
A garbled OCR page shows market items for wheat oats butter cream eggs and poultry with scattered prices and notes. Names, dates, and locations are fragmentary, making precise items and figures uncertain.
Live Steel Markets See Mixed Activity Amid Regional Shifts
Fragmented OCR text notes steady supply and price signals with regional shifts in markets. Analysts indicate steady demand in some sectors while others show caution amid broader market adjustments.
Mother Defends Him in Tom River Murder Trial Verdict Expected
Althea Calverley testifies that her son Dr Browwer is innocent in the murder of his wife Carrie Brouwer. She recalls the dying woman's plea and the feast that followed. Medical testimony cites ptomaine poisoning and arsenic findings as factors. The defense rests and the trial heads to closing arguments, with a verdict anticipated by late afternoon.
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N. J
Get
aMy
Althea Calverley
Dr. Browwer
Carrie
Afra
Brouwer
Dr. Brouwer
Brown
Calverley
Airs
Trevonean Hyer
J. H. Hance
Lakewood
George J. Gould
Meieane Forman
Forman
Brourier
Promeine Poisoning. Dr. Forman
Hendrickson
Murder At Utica Boarding House
Utica New York October 17 A man and woman checked into a cheap boarding house claiming to be from Syracuse The man named John White took food to a room claiming the woman was ill Neighbors heard frequent quarrels White was last seen leaving the house the room was later opened and the woman was found dead
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Utica
N. Y
Syracuse
John White
White
Widow Fannie Wayne Hopkins Marries Fred D. Le Roy
Mrs. Fannie Wayne Hopkins widow of Major Robert Hopkins a Standard Oil organizer who died in 1901 leaving a 5 million fortune marries Fred D. Le Roy of Tarrytown the guardian of her son who spent five years in court fighting the will to gain a larger share for the boy in Newton Pa on October 17.
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New York
Fannie Wayne Hopkins
Robert Hopkins
Standard Oil
Wis
Newton
Fred D. le Roy
Tarrytown
Miss Jennie Phipps Inherits Million From Baker Estate
In Chicago on October 17 a strange twist of fortune assigns Miss Jennie Phipps of Troy New York a $1,000,000 share of the $3,000,900 Baker estate. She is sixty six, sister of the financier W. T. Baker's second wife and not of the Baker line.
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Troy Womnonou
Chicago
Jennie Phipps
Troy
Nie W. T. Baker
Baker
Millonaire
Harvard Student Goes Insane Amid Overstudy
Boston October 17 William Fr Jones a Harvard Graduate School student was seized by Springfield police after going insane from overwork. He wandered city streets in a track suit and overcoat and is the son of Richard H Jones of Joliet Illinois.
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Harvard
Boston
William Fr. Jones
Harvard Graduate School
Springfeld
Amd
Richard Eh, Jones
Joliet, el
Secret rebate charges tied to New York Central trial
Evidence was presented in New York on October 17 at the trial of the New York Central and Traffic Manager Pomeroy. The case centers on alleged improper rebates and a scheme involving payments and entries.
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Agee
Grant
New York
New York Central
Trafic
Pomeroy
Hearst Campaign Tour Reaches Oswego County
William Randolph Hearst campaigned through Oswego County after Cortland with special cars, drawing large crowds at the Richardson theater in Oswego. He boasted a $26000 claim about a newspaper wagon victim and teased defense of his collars supposedly made in Paris versus Wall Street, while detailing plans to speak at Watertown Ogdensburg Blatone and Plattsburgh.
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Wy. x
William Randolph Hearst
Independence
League
Cortland
Hearst
Gewego County
Fulton
Here
Watton
Paris
Wallstreet
Watertown
Ogdensburg
Plettsbure
Military Fakir Robber in Berlin Town Hall Heist
A man in a captain's uniform duped a detachment of twelve near Berlin. He forged a cabinet order to seize Coopenick's town hall, arrest the burgomaster and treasurer, and steal $1,000 before slipping away toward Berlin. The impostor remains at large and authorities have no leads.
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Berlin
Coopenick
Coepenick
Gipsy Murder Climaxed by Robbery Near Norristown
Frank Smith thirty eight a Wells band of gipsies member was fatally shot by masked robbers in a camp near Norristown Pa. He ran to aid band chief Joseph Wells but was killed with a neck wound. Robbers fled after taking about 200 to 300 dollars found missing from Smith.
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Frank Smith
Wells Band of Gipsies
Joseph Wells
Smith
bin Wife
Peabody Denies Charges Over Mutual Life Election
President Charles A. Peabody of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. testified before Commissioner of Insurance Prewitt in Frankfort on October 17 denying violations of the law in the trustees election. He rejected allegations of intimidation by company agents seeking votes for the administration ticket and dismissed Kentucky state agent Colonel Blosee Hindman.
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Peabody
Frankfort
Charles A. Peabody
The
Mutual Life
Insurance
Prewitt
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Blscee Hindman
Louisville
Mutual
Kentucky
Plot Against Mexican Government Leads to Arrests
United States marshals in Del Rio Texas arrested Pedro Gonzales Germentina Castro Crescence Marquez and T Garcia on charges of fomenting a revolution and supplying arms for revolutionists who seized Jiminez Mexico and held the city until driven out by troops. Documents show them at the head of the plot to overthrow the Mexican government.
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San Antonio
Tex
United States
del’ Rio
Pedro Gonzales
Gementina Castro
Crescence Marquez
T. Garcia
Armas
Jiminez
Mexico
World WCTU Convention Opens in Ston With Lilian Stevens
The National and World's Woman's Christian Temperance unions began their convention in Ston. Thousands of prominent members from global chapters attended as Mrs. Lilian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Maine, opened the assembly.
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Ston
Woman's Christian Temperance Unions
Lilian M.N. Stevens
Portland
Police Capture Musuarizin Leaders in Australia Secession Vote
In Oct 17 reports from ISSA Russia and FERTH Australia police capture Musuarizin and several pauity leaders. They face court martial in Western Australia as the legislative assembly votes 16 to 8 to secede from the commonwealth.
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Musuarizin
Issa
Russia
Ferth
Australia
Legislative Assembly
Western Australia
Commonwealth
Submarine Sink Reported From Biserta Coast
Paris reports naval command at Biserta confirms submarine Lutin sank off the jetties during diving trials. Salvage efforts began, with depth readings near 440 feet and several search vessels deployed. British salvage aid offered and to be dispatched to assist in recovery operations.
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Ogt
B. Thomson
Minister of Marine
Biserta
Tupuis
Letts
Sigzals
Ings
Lutin Hag
Phoepou
Ballue
Tunis
Afalta
Harvard Student Freed in Patrolman Assault Case
Associate Justice Wentworth dismissed the case against Shaun Kelley a Harvard student charged with assaulting a Boston patrolman during an arrest attempt on Boston Common. The incident involved Theodore Roosevelt and an off campus party. a patrolman was injured. The judge praised police efforts while noting Kelley believed the arrest was illegal and his resistance was not excessively violent.
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Shaun Kelley
Blarvard
Davanlting
Wentworth
Muniicipal Court
Station 4
Harvard
Boston Common
Theodore ‘Roosevelt
Shaun
Kelsey
Kelley
Boston Murder Victim Annie McEwan Dies After Shooting
Annie McEwan died at Relief Hospital after being shot by her husband Alexander McEwan in their Boston home. The couple, not living together, argued over their child in the dining room at 2 Howard Street when McEwan fired three times and then attempted suicide before officers intervened and arrested him.
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Boston
Mrrs
Annie McEwan
Alexander McEwan
Lastight
McEiwans
McEwan
Howard Street
Meiwan
Beet En Tipheon's Track
Victorea Hong Kong typhoon wrecks widespread damage with ten thousand fives lost and seventeen steamers ruined. Over 1 000 junks battered, 86 percent of lighter craft destroyed, and many wharfs wrecked as advisory reports from the Empress of Japan detail the disaster.
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Beet En Tipheon
Victorea
Bog
Praya
Hongkong
State Supreme Court Backed Gas Consumers Rights
New York court of appeals affirms the right of gas consumers to resist higher charges by the gas trust. The ruling centers on blocking shutoffs for those who refuse to pay more than the eighty cent rate in the cases of Jacob Richman and Alexander H. Grossman.
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Albany
State Supreme Court
Gas ‘Trust
Court of Appeals
Jacob Richman
Alexander H. Grossman
Negro Artist Henry Tanner Wins Harris Prize in Chicago
Henry O. Tanner, a Black artist, receives the N. W. Harris prize of 5000 for the best painting at the nineteenth annual exhibition of American paintings opened today at the Art Institute in Chicago.
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Chicago
Henry 0. Tanner
N. W. Harris
Art Institute
Football Player Drops Read At Toledo Game
Toledo, December 17. Lewis A. Grisler of Paulding, a senior at Wesleyan University in Delaware and a right end on the varsity football team, collapsed on the field after running down a play. Heart trouble was the suspected cause.
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Read
Toledo
Lewis A. Grisler
Paulding
Wesleyan University
Delaware
Vamity
Ronning
Wedding Announcement Near Milwaukee and Chicago Area
A fragmentary notice indicates a marriage planned for December between Misses affiliated with Milwaukee and Chicago areas. The text mentions Wil loughby Jr or similar names and a Philadelphia reference, with unclear dates and spelling due to OCR errors.
Fragments of Curious Tales From a Global Sketchbook
Readable passages describe peasant women in distant Italy and their earrings, butterfly odors noted by Dr Bonn, a giant extinct bird egg on Madagascar, edible insects and cockroaches in refined dishes, a banquet centerpiece with a model railway, and a temple ceiling train powered by a delicate electrical circuit showing a playful intersection of science and spectacle.
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Italy
France
Austria
Bonn
Africa
Lahaib Island
Madagascar
Dagin
Giwailor
Wales
Jong
Fragmented Romanesque Sketch of a Bishop and Mountaineer
A garbled tale centers on Bishop Dudley of Ken tuck inviting a mountaineer to Louisville to hear him preach. The dialogue is disjointed with mock questions about preaching and a chaotic mix of quoted phrases and names, including Noah’s wife and others, amid a rambling narrative.
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Kentuck
Louisville
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