Tragedy of Jones Ends in Public Charity and Scandal
The former Florida senator Charles W. Jones dies in Detroit after a meteoric rise and fall from fame to public charity. His passion for Miss Palm of Detroit led to relentless pursuit, huge expenses, and social downfall. He drifted into insanity and was confined as his finances and reputation collapsed.
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Charles W. Jones
Florida
Pensacola
Detroit
Fleamnton
Tampa
Palmetto
Congress
Duces
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Senate
Chamber
Riggs House
Senator Coke
Texas
Justice Harlan
Kentucky
Coke
Jones
Senate Chamber
Miss Palm
National Capital
Michigan
Miss Palm Ane
New York
Thomas W. Palmer
Tallahassee
North
Senator Palmer
General Alger
East
Samson
Delilah
Anthony
Cleopatra
Sardanapalus
Ione
Boulanger
Dejon
Dilke
Crawford
Parnell
Kitty O'Shea
James
Evans
Profits of Monte Carlo Winnings and Gambler Folly
The article contrasts Monte Carlo winnings with gambler losses, noting last year’s bank winnings reached £800,000 and warning players against risking funds on luck. It condemns gamblers and book makers while urging sympathy for the losing public.
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Monte Carlo
Warrant issued for Judko Kaplan surrender to Russia
The state department issues a warrant for Judko Kaplan to be surrendered to Russian authorities. Kaplan, once jailed in Atlantic City for abusing a young woman, fled to the United States after eloping with her. the case reveals the woman’s claim of mistreatment and the elopement with a fugitive from Russia. The warrant follows a long pursuit and Kaplan's use of a similar name to cash a 20000 ruble draft.
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Atlantic City
State Department
Judko Kaplan
Kaplan
Russia
John Kaplan
Kiev
J. Kaplan
Judko
America
Europe
Boston
Butterflies and Wandering Summer Dreams
Fragmentary verse recalling childhood summers and butterflies. The speaker longs for home while wandering, imagining familiar wings, meadow memories, and a return to an old garden as the world fades toward dawn. The poem blends nature imagery with nostalgia and yearning.
Bushmen possess remarkable homing instincts
The passage notes that er cannot find his own home, yet a bushman, when blindfolded and released far away, will head straight back home. It asserts bushmen have a strong homing instinct, surpassing civilized man in this ability.
Youngest US lawyer Homer Millsap leaves Iowa Law College
Homer Millsap 16, born Prairie City Iowa, youngest lawyer in the United States, graduates from the Iowa College of Law in May 1897 with top grades. He spent early years in California, studied in Des Moines, and is praised for energy and success in city court cases.
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United States
C. C. Cole
Iowa Supreme Bench
Iowa Law College
Cole
Iowa
Homer Millsap
California
Prarie City
Los Angeles
Cal
Homer
Publc
Ashland
Daniel Sheppard
Prairie City
Iowa College of Law
Supreme Court
Supreme
Des Moines
Wells Drive Offshore Oil along California Shore
The narrative describes oil wells drilled into the sea along California beaches with pumps connected by rope to offshore tanks. Engineers endure surf and sea spray while maintaining operations above the high rollers. A side note covers Korean Minister Ye Pool-Chin’s family adapting to American life in Iowa circles.
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California
Neptune
Nests Like Birds Formed by Australian Bushmen
The piece describes Australian bushmen building nest like huts from grass and twigs. Families sleep together in these crude shelters under bush canopies with little protection from rain, illustrating a primitive living style observed in the remote outback.
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Africa
Australia
Thunder snakes of the New Mexico plains
The article describes the thunder snakes seen on the bare San Diego plains of New Mexico. They emerge before and after storms to watch lightning and listen for thunder, forming a curious, quarrelsome, aggressive yet nonpoisonous serpents with striking markings.
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New Mexico
Oldest Known Doll Found in Egyptian Princess Carriage
A wooden doll believed the oldest in existence sits in the British Museum. Found in the sarcophagus of an ancient Egyptian princess who died as a child about three centuries before the Christian era, the doll’s tiny fingers clutch the wrappings as they were unfolded.
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British Museum
Five Drops Rheumatic Cure Offered by Chicago Firm
A Chicago company Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co advertises Five Drops claiming immediate relief from rheumatism neuralgia catarrh asthma lagrippe and related ailments. They offer sample bottles by mail prepaid for 25 cents and larger bottles with pricing of 300 doses for $1, plus multi-bottle 30 day deals.
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Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Extraordinary English Townships and Remote Villages
The piece notes Skiddaw in Cumberland as a one-house township where the occupant cannot vote due to lack of overseer and no church or assembly. It cites Farleycum-Pitton as England’s most distant village thirty and a half miles from a railway. In contrast Ystard near Cardiff has two main roads two railroads and two large rivers.
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England
Skiddaw
Cumberland
Farleycum-Pitton
Ystard
Cardiff
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
The advertisement declares Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, builds up the constitution, and offers 100 dollars for any case it fails to cure. Testimonials available by mail from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo.
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Creanee
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Novel Use for X Ray Reveals Genuine Mummy
A Vienna museum tested a so called daughter of the Pharaohs with Roentgen rays to detect amulets hidden beneath wrappings. The scan showed ancient Egyptian amulets, confirming the mummy’s authenticity and quashing doubts about its origin.
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Vienna
Birmingham
Reindeer Aid Seen Solving Alaska Travel Woes
Dr. Sheldon Jackson, after two decades in Alaska, calls Siberian reindeer import trials a success and says winter interior travel can reach 300 miles per day with relays. He notes the reindeer forage for themselves. Also promoted is a US railway folder detailing Yukon Klondike routes with Alaska travel info.
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Sheldon Jackson
Alaska
Siberia
Yukon-Klondike
Northern Pacific Railway
Chas
Fee
St. Paul
Minn
Tom Reed Praised for Clarity in Brief Prose
In a Boston address Congressman J. H. Walker lauded Tom Reed as the best man to rewrite the Proverbs if destroyed. He said Reed cannot be matched for stating a proposition or any fact with extraordinary brevity and clarity.
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Tom Reed
Boston
J. H. Walker
Tom’ Reed
Mr. Reed
Cascarets Promote Beauty by Purging Impurities
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a blood purifying candy that cleans the liver and removes pimples boils blotches and a bilious complexion. It promises visible improvements and offers 10c 25c and 50c sizes with satisfaction guaranteed from all druggists.
The English Needle Trade Gains Global Reach
The craft of needle making, once secret until around 1630 taught to the English by Christopher Greening, now exports English needles worldwide. In Redditch alone, 20,000 workers produce over 100 million needles annually.
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Christopher Greening
Redditch
Free trial offer for Kiine Great Nerve Restorer and No-To-Bac
An advertisement claims the Great Nerve Restorer cures fits and nervousness after one day’s use and offers a free triad bottle and treatise. It also promotes No-To-Bac for tobacco habit cessation at fifty cents and lists Dr. Kiine’s address in Philadelphia. The ad ends with a quip about postponing lost friendship.
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Kiine
R.M. Koirns, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Grain-O: A Grain Drink Supposed to Replace Coffee
An advertising notice promotes Grain-O as a pure grain beverage to replace coffee. It claims easy on delicate stomachs, similar taste to coffee, lower cost, and suitability for children, with packages priced at 15 and 25 cents.
Safety Pins Take Aristocratic Pinning Role This Fall
A New York Times note says safety pins worn as scarf pins this autumn are unique yet remain lower in the pin family. The articles are now used as ornamental masculine accessories and crafted from precious metals, elevating their status.
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New York Times
Kipling story leads Tar You Ttu volume 1898 compaston
Rudyard Kipling contributes a stirring tale The Burning of the Larch Lands to Tar Your’s Compaston for 1898. Subscriptions include a free paper for the rest of the year and the Companton’s twelve colored calendar.
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Rudyard Kipling
Columbus Ave
Hoston
Mass
Too Convenient. Telephone Curbs in a Domestic Plot
Quotation from Detroit Free Press recounts a domestic anecdote where Wiggins keeps his phone removed after telling his wife to cut expenses. She calls him every afternoon to check if he has gone to baseball, highlighting a comic yet telling domestic tension.
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Wiggins
Detroit Free Press
Tobacco and remedy ads from a late 19th century page
The text combines multiple product promotions and quotes, referencing No-To-Bac Cure for tobacco, Cascarets candy for constipation, Star Tobacco branding, and miscellaneous ad copy. It includes marketing claims, testimonials, and the Sterling Remedy Company contact notes in Chicago or New York.
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
A Witty Horse Outsmarts Stable Locks in Me
An East Hebron Maine horse shows wit by slipping its head stall, pushing an inner door, and sliding the outer rail road door with its teeth to reach the field and graze. Detectives found tooth marks on the door cross-bars as evidence.
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Hebron
Advertisers Offer Reliable Goods and Bargains
Read the advertisements for interesting studies and excellent bargains. Advertisers are reliable and ship what they advertise.
Life in Tombs: Egyptians Live Among Mummies and Carcophagi
Thousands of Egyptians inhabit ancient tombs, carrying out daily life among mummies and sarcophagi. They eat, sleep, woo, love, laugh, dance, and perform household tasks in the sunken, timeworn resting places.
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Aly Berry
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Hyannis
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Mothers of America
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Centaur Company
Chas. H. Fletcher
Chautk
Murray Starrett
New York City
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