Murder Confession of Kansas City Child Killer
A three year old girl is found dead in the Missouri River near Kansas City weighed down with a stone. William Carr, already arrested, confesses in detail to drowning his daughter Belle after besting his wife’s alleged command to remove her. Carr describes the route from Liberty to the river and the moments before throwing Belle into the water. The room reacts with horror as Carr reacts with chilling calm and later laughter. He awaits possible lynching while officers assess his account.
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Missouri
Kansas City
William Carr
Carr
Missouri River
Belle
Chief of Police
Martin
Liberty
Hannibal
Tragic link seen in Brightwood death of Edith Huffman
Edith Huffman 19 of 56 Gale Street Brightwood Indianapolis killed herself with carbolic acid after a crisis sparked by the suicide of her lover Harry Phillips who had previously courted her and refused marriage. Huffman had despondent spells since Phillips death and promised to marry if he recovered.
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Edith BE. Huffman
Gale Street
Brightwood
Indianapolis
Harry Phillips
Miss Huffman
Phillips
Battle Creek Adventists rally under prophetess orders
The Adventists of Battle Creek Michigan rally around Mrs White and the prophetess orders urging tithes and abstinence as 500 members fall behind. Despite tension, real estate and cattle trades thrive and marriages continue as Battle Creek remains the church's American headquarters with a renowned sanatorium.
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Advent People
Battle Cree
Mich
Jones
Ballenger
Battle Creek
Seventh Day Adventists’ Church
America
Church
Druggists as doctors blur lines of care and cost
The New York Tribune notes druggists are increasingly sought for immediate relief as regular doctors face livelihood pressure. A Broadway pharmacist recorded 10 varied callouts from eyelid twitch to malaria and hair loss, each paid per remedy with no consultation fee, highlighting improvised care and cash-only service.
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The
New York Tribune
New York City
Broadway
Births Marriages and Deaths in Queen's Reign Report
Dr Louis Parkes, medical officer for Chelsea, presents figures on births deaths and marriages during the queen's reign at the Parkes Museum London. He notes a long term decline in marriages and births and a rapidly falling death rate due to better health and town sanitation.
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Parkes Museum
London
Louis Parkes
Chelsea
Parkes
Look Out for a Cold Winter Prediction by Minnesota Trapper
J. White, a pioneer trapper and hunter in Minnesota, stakes his reputation on a predicted cold winter. He notes deer with unusually thick coats and muskrats building high, thick-walled houses, signals he says have never failed in his experience.
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Mm. J. White
Minnesota
Literary Gossip Updates on New Books and Editions
A notice lists forthcoming books from Prof. Drummond illustrated by Louis Wain and Brander Matthews year plans. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony works to be published by Bowen Merrill with multiple volumes. Mary E Wilkins releases verse for children and other works. James Whitcomb Riley heads new Hoosier dialect volume and a Scribners homestead edition of his writings.
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Drummond
Louis Wain
Quilines
Manhattan
Brander Matthews
Bowen-Merrill Co
Indianapolis
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Mary E. Wilkins
Harper's Weekly
Jas
Whitcomb Riley
Scribners
Mr. Riley
Homestead
Kipling
Barrie and Field
A Perfect Talking Machine Revolutionizes Home Audio
The talking machine becomes common in homes due to flawless records and faithful sound reproduction at lower costs. No skilled performer required, it offers songs, recitations, and personal echoes to preserve treasured voices for endless listening, with Spear & Co. of Indianapolis offering catalogs.
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Spear & Co
Indianapolis
Ind
Not a Temperance Country Scotch Hospitality Tale
A traveling Scotchman returning to Scotland from America recalls a note he kept on hospitality. In two months he made ninety two visits and was offered liquor at eighty seven homes, illustrating Scotland’s reputation for drinking.
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Scotland
America
Reindeer in Alaska and Yukon map folder released
Dr. Sheldon Jackson reports successful Siberian reindeer import for winter travel in Alaska with relay herds enabling 300 miles daily over snow and self feeding. The Northern Pacific Railway prints the best Yukon Klondike mining country map in a folder with Alaska routes and rates. send a 2 cent stamp to Charles Fee at G P A St Paul Minn.
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Sheldon Jackson
Alaska
Siberia
Yukon-Klondike
Northern Pacific Railway
Chas
Fee
G. P.A
St. Paul
Minn
State Aided Preacher in London Figure
During the general election an old laborer on a village green denounced the evils of an established church. He argued that without his book or gown the state parson cannot preach and without salary he must not preach, underscoring the perceived dependency of the pulpit on state support.
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London
Parsons
Grain-O touted as coffee substitute in stores
An advertisement extols Grain-O a grain based drink to replace coffee. It claims gentle digestion suitable for delicate stomachs and for children, costing 15 and 25 cents per package. It urges readers to ask for Grain-O.
Bismarck's Many Decorations and Miscellaneous Slogans
A collage of curiosities and advertising blurbs notes Bismarck’s 482 decorations and a joking claim about chest size to wear them all. It blends patent medicine pitches, tobacco quackery, cold cures, pain relief, and a quip about a lawyer’s cross-examination.
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Bismarck
Lop-Sided Wedding Trip At Worcester Station
A Worcester crowd met a newly married couple at the station. The husband arrived alone explaining the bride preferred a longer wedding tour and would continue the journey while he returned for business.
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Worcester
Mass
Pointed Paragraphs on Money and Social State
A compact critique notes sound money as payoff for progress over a block. It argues clothing does not define a woman though it can impact a husband, and that the poor lender of friends earns few enemies.
Five Drops Cures Rheumatism Says Swanson Co
Patients praise a remedy called Five Drops as a cure for rheumatism with claims of walking unassisted. The Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company offers 100000 sample bottles for 25 cents prepaid by mail to encourage trials, with a Chicago address for requests.
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Pike
Colville
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Ill
California described as foggy wild land with volcanic and snowy features
An 1812 geography book notes California as a damp, fog shrouded land with northern anthropophagi legends and interior active volcanoes and vast shifting snow plains. It claims these statements are credibly supported by trustworthy travelers.
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Oly
California
Deafness Cure Promoted By Catarrh Cure Claim
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Wall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, and promotes Hall's Family Pills via Toledo company PLT. Cheney & Co.
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Wall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Dogs Survive Prolonged Fasts in 1795 Italian Quakes
In Soriano during the 1795 Italian earthquakes two dogs were buried in ruins and recovered alive after forty two days though very lean and weak. A third dog there was buried twenty three days and survived.
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Soriano
Excursion Ticket Sales From Northwestern and C&O Lines
On December 7 and 21 the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio By will sell excursion tickets from points northwest one way and round trip at reduced rates to Virginia North and South Carolina and other southern states. Round trip validity is twenty one days. Write for details and pamphlet on climate and Virginia farm lands. A L Trutt Northwestern Passenger Agent 234 Clark St Chicago.
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Chesapeake and Ohio
Northwest
Virginia
South Carolina
A. L. Trutt
Northwestern
Clark St
Chicago
Molecules in Gas Reach Vast Numbers in a Gas
A calculation shows a cubic inch of any gas contains about 1e23 molecules, each molecule housing several atoms. The internal atoms move relative to each other at a speed near seventy miles per minute.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascinets
Harmful ad text promotes a laxative product with unclear dosing and refund claims. The snippet includes marketing claims and generic statements about tobacco brands and unclear sentences about babies and suggestions, lacking coherent news context.
French Women Authors and Artists in France
In France there are 215 women authors and journalists and about 700 women artists. Provinces supply most writers about two thirds, while Paris provides a similar share among artists. Writers include 1000 novelists 200 poets 150 educational writers and other writers. Artists include 107 sculptors with the rest painters in all branches of pictorial art.
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France
Paris
Trains to the South Resume Service Across Major Routes
Information from the passenger department of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad shows all trains resumed with schedules restored. The line offers a double daily solid train service from Cincinnati Chicago Louisville Evansville and St. Louis to Nashville Memphis Birmingham Montgomery Mobile Pensacola and New Orleans. A double daily Pullman buffet sleeping car service runs from Northern cities to Jacksonville Florida.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Cincinnati
Chicago
Louisville
Evansville
St. Louis
Nashville
Memphis
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
Pensacola
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Fila
Origin of a Time-Honored Phrase
The article explains the phrase Dead as a doorwall from 18th century ideas. It links the doornail to the knock plate and asserts the nail was considered more dead due to being struck often. It speculates revival of old notions and possible present use.
Galbraith named traffic manager at Cleveland Terminal and Valley
J. . Galbraith is appointed traffic manager of the Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railroad Company with headquarters in Cleveland and will also serve as general agent of the B and C at that point. He succeeds L. Rush Brockenbrough, now general freight agent of the B and O lines west of the Ohio River, based in Pittsburgh.
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J. ©. Galbraith
Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railroad Company
Cleveland
L. Rush Brockenbrough
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Nun Nears Century Mark After Eight Decades in Convent
One Ursuline nun at Boulogne stands to celebrate her hundredth birthday in a month or two. She has spent eighty years in the vowed life and has never left the convent since taking the vows.
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Ursuline Convent
Boulogne
Ancient and Modern Dolls Unearthed in Ancient Civilizations
The article notes mummies of Egyptian princesses revealing tiny dolls in their folds after 3000 to 4000 years. Babylonian and Assyrian ruins show terra cotta figures and ivory carvings likely dolls. Greek and Roman toys used clay puppets with joints dangling on threads. ivory and wax dolls were rarer and likely for the wealthy.
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Babylon
Nineveh
Pilea for Beer on Sundays Sparks Temperance Debate
A temperance convention heard an unusual argument from Coventry England advocating Sunday noon opening of public houses to let workingmen discuss morning sermons. The speaker cited a public meeting where an orator urged this plan so workers could gather after church.
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Coventry
England
Cascarets advertised as blood cleansers for blemishes
An old advertising claim markets Cascarets as a blood cleanser to improve skin by stimulat ing the liver and removing impurities. It promises vanish pimples boils blotches blackheads and bilious complexion with a ten cent dose sold by druggists with satisfaction guaranteed.
Camels Use Keen Scent to Seek Water in Desert
Camels possess a strong sense of smell to locate water sources. They can detect water from a long distance and often guide thirsty travelers to potential wells or oases. The animals’ scent-driven navigation helps guide expeditions toward relief in arid regions.
Shoes With Tongues Speak For Themselves In Congress Gaiters
A witty note argues that even footwear linked to congress gaiters deserves a voice. It playfully suggests shoes with tongues can express opinions as freely as their wearers do.
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Congress
Trying Ordeals For Women In Medical Examinations
A letter from a reader endorses Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female weakness and womb ailments. The writer, identified only by initials, describes severe prior illness and improved health after use, urging others to seek early treatment and avoid unnecessary physical examinations.
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Lydia BE
Pinkham
L. H
S. East St
Indianapolis
Ind
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Seattle
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Southern Homeseekers
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