Unpunished Russian Officer Trusts German Protection
Fragmentary report outlines Captain Schmidt formerly of Russia now protected by Germany amid treason suspicions and plans for Berlin. War-time diplomacy links Russia and England in discussions of a triple alliance. Turkish incidents prompt passport threats to German envoy. Experiments with American cotton seed in Turkestan noted as Russia and England back seed cultivation.
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Germany
Schmidt
Russia
Siberia
Cornstad
Berlin
Margaret
Prussia
Constantinople
von Badowitz
Turkestan
Egypt
Asia
England
Cyclone Kills and Destroys Towns Across Hood County Texas
A deadly cyclone struck Sutt Creek Hood County trapping residents at the Rhodes home where 12 were inside. Several deaths reported Delia Carmichael aged 17 Mary Carmichael infant. Dozens injured including Mrs Rhodes Nora Gibbs Tillie Gibbs. Acton Robie Greek wrecked homes. eight killed at Robie Greek many from Dr George Griffin’s family. Hailstorm wrecked crops. fruit crops ruined across the region.
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Texas
Sutt Creek
Porton
Hood County
Lee Rhodes
Delia
Carmichael
Mary Carmichael
Gibba
Rhodes
Nora
Gibbs
Tillie
Fall Creek
John Manley
Charles Houston
Rushing
Campbell
Serkley
Parker
Hoad
Robi Greek
Hodd County
George Griffin
Lewdness In South Carolina Mob Threatens Attorney Family
Gov Richardson of South Carolina was notified that John T Graham, attorney for lynched man Lesppart, fled Lexington amid a mob threatening his life. Drunken locals surrounded Graham's house housing his wife and children. The governor ordered the sheriff to guard the house and protect inmates, with the sheriff held responsible for any harm to Mrs Graham and her children. Graham reportedly left Lexington for Columbia earlier in the afternoon.
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Graham
Lexington
Columbia
Italian Masons Demand Commission to Probe Ken
Ion was created in the chamber at Rome by Deputy Imbriani who demanded a commission to investigate the Ken. The event reflects ongoing parliamentary actions and political tensions surrounding inquiry efforts. Names and precise context are limited in the fragment but indicate governance and reform debates in Italy.
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Ion
Rome
Imbriani
Italian Masons Influence Alleged in Tobacco Contracts
A rumpled report claims the Italian Free Masons led by Adriane Lemmis, Rome grand master, steered tobacco supply contracts to Hatten-Toal Socopany, stifling cheaper American bids. Bignor Imbrian promises documentary evidence, and the finance minister approves a serious inquiry into the allegations.
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Tucky
Italy
Hatten-Toal ‘Socopany
Rome
Adriane Lemmis
Free Masons
Lemmis
Tranca
Bignor Imbrian Saya
Pouriest
Imbriani
Gen Fremont's Debt Reversed After Errors Found
A Washington accounting mix up revealed that Lt Fremont had been charged $19,000 as a debt to the government while a missing voucher showed $21,000 owed to him. Second Comptroller Gilkerson ordered payment, and Fremont, who had faced years of financial strain, fainted upon hearing the corrected result.
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Beth
Washington
John C. Fremont
Lish
California
Bremont
Liaut
Fremont
the Treasury
Gen
Gilkerson
The
Treasury
Col. Gilkerson
War Department
Col
Gilbernon
Eldorado prospects: North Dakota to sugar beet and barley
Senator Gilbert A. Pierce in Chicago spoke of two new North Dakota industries. German farmers are trialing sugar beets with favorable moisture and temperature for high saccharine content. Soft coal beds in lower North Dakota bolster potential expansion. Beet sugar may be produced at scale, while barley could reach large markets.
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Gilbert A. Pierce
North Dakota
Chicago
Lower
Nun of Kenmare Mystery Reaches Pittsburg Lectures
Nota Christian reports many Pittsburgh residents seek Mise Mary Frances Cusack known as the Nun of Kenmare. She arrived for winter lectures, collected subscriptions for a book on Reasons for Leaving the Catholic Church, but the volume never arrived by January and her reputation allegedly suffered after claims of scandalous remarks about priests nuns and converts.
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Nota Christian
Satan
Pittsburgh
Mise
Mary Frances Cusack
Kenmare
Mise Cusack
Pittsburg
Pitteburg
Prohibition Bill Introduced by Representative Boutelle
Report from Washington states Representative Boutelle of Maine has introduced a prohibition bill in the House. The measure seeks to curb alcohol use and expand enforcement across states. No further details on sponsors or expected votes are provided.
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Ttia
Washinton
Boutalle
Maine
Bill to amend interstate commerce act on intoxicating liquors
The bill aims to repair damage from a Supreme Court decision in the OAN package case. It takes the form of an amendment to the interstate commerce act. It states that nothing in the act shall be construed to authorize sale or traffic in intoxicating liquors in any state contrary to that state's laws.
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Supreme Court
Honored in Death at Renard Beck Obsequies
The obsequies for James Burnie Beck, United States senator from Kentucky, were held with a large ceremonial procession to the Capitol. Senators, pall-bearers, and dignitaries gathered as the casket lay in state, with floral tributes and remarks by officials including President Harrison’s entourage.
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Renard Beck
James Burnie Beck
United States
Kentucky
Breckinridgs
Capitol
Senate
Blackburn
Evarts
Senate Chamber
James Burnie Bock
C. R. Breckenridge
Onone
Pro Tom
Ingalls
Mesers
Morrill
Sherman
Hale
Allison
McPherson
West
Pugh
Gibson
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Marshal Wright
Clerk McKenny
Julian Paunce-fote
Harrison
Noble
Miller
Butler
Bullock
Deaths and accidents haunt Minneapolis in a grim week
A farm hand August Kal kenberger, noted as morose, killed himself after being discharged on August 12. In another tragedy a boy named Ander son fell from a moving lumber wagon on Nineteenth avenue and Sixteenth Street, his skull crushed and brains spilled, the driver jailed. Separately Webster, Holly flouring mill proprietor, faces attach ments on notes involving G A Smith, with Webster having purchased the mill last November for about fifty thousand dollars amid questions about net worth and milling knowledge.
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Minneapolis
Minn
August Kalkenberger
Thomas Turry
Lincoln Park
Nineteenth Avenue South
Sixteenth Street
Anderson
FB. Webster
Holly
George H. White
Smith
Webster
G. McC. Reeve
Busines
Devastating Rainstorm Hits Jefferson City Missouri
A violent storm struck Jefferson City Missouri on the 12th with hurricane force winds up to sixty miles per hour and heavy rain. The statehouse roof blew off flooding the office below while the penitentiary hospital roof was torn away causing patient disruption. A stone section near St Patrick's cathedral toppled, crashing through the roof and damaging the altar sacristy.
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Jefferson City
Jeferson City
Penitent Ary Hospital
St. Patrick's Cat
Southern Clay-Eaters And Their Strange Mountain Life
Describes isolated white families in northwestern Alabama around Marion County who live in single room log cabins, subsist on corn and beans, and eat clay from streams. They lack schooling, rarely travel, and depend on moonshine trade. a visiting writer observes their habits, poverty, superstition, and interactions at a local store.
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Alabama
Marion County
North Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Tennenses
Pittsby Dispatch
Thehbille
Cay Entera
Arera
Emnicos Twins
A passenger recalls a summer plan to rent rooms, expecting profits from boarders. The house fills with visitors including family. the narrator’s spirits lift as his daughter Eunice reveals the family has twins, ending with a hopeful note about the bustling household.
Green-eyed Monster Marriage Tragedy in Dec ember Story
A distraught wife May Hartman pleads with her husband George before being cast out with their child. After three years of happiness the couple drift apart as she, pursued by a heartbroken plea and a dangerous longing, roams with their baby toward a bleak riverbank. A final sharp scene closes with domestic turmoil and a cold dismissal.
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George
Menage
Hartman
Bride
Thera
Tessep
Grant's blunt request ends grand headquarters banquets
A Washington letter recalls General Grant at Brandywine station when he arrived amid pomp. He rejects luxury, insisting soldiers’ rations matter, banning lavish banquets and the four in hand car from headquarters into field use.
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Grant
Granta
Tra
Teaver
Army
Brandywine Station
McClellan
Halleck
Burnside
Trais
Fort Donelson
Hera
Gen. Ingalls
Ingalls
Washington
Egent
Ingalla
Army of the Potomac
Rufus
Bosou Travellar
Hardy Flowers That Will Pay For the Trouble of Care
A nostalgic catalog of cut flowers from Vick's Magazine notes snowdrops and a large narcissus family, with daffodils under apple trees and in garden lanes. It praises primulas, carnations, delphiniums, phlox, pyrethrums, and roses, plus everlasting peas and lilies, as ideal for large displays and seasonal cuttings, while warning some fade faster than ideal.
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Rom Vick
William
Thwiris
Justice Duval and the “Carp” in a Philadelphia tale
The Cleveland Leader recalls a humorous Stanley Matthews marriage anecdote about Justice Duval on the Supreme Bench from 1811 to 182? and his Maryland representational stint. Duval and William B. Giles once lodged with Mrs. Gibbons in Philadelphia, where Jennie Gibbons’s transformation to Mrs. Dayal sparked a strained exchange during Jefferson’s era.
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Justice Duval
Carp
Cleveland
Stanley Matthews
Ogle Taylor
Isse
Udge Duval
Maryland
William B. Giles
Virginia
Philadelphils
Gibbons
Giles
Duval
Washton
Jefferson
Treasury
Jennie Gibbons
Piura Edian Training School Bill Advances
The bill introduced by Mr. Pettigrew two months ago authorizes the interior secretary to spend up to 5000 dollars to buy no more than one hundred acres of farming land near the Indian training school as an industrial farm to be used in connection with the school.
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Pettigrew
Piura
Secretary of the Interior
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