Wonders of the World at St Louis Exposition
Visitors to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis find a nearly complete display with grand machinery and the notable Pike feature. The power plants and turbine engines draw crowds, while the World’s Fair aims to educate through realistic displays of cultures and technologies.
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ST. Louis
St Louis
Ing Sue
Desiies
Chicago
Palace of Machinery
Staunds
Cascades
Komparina Bild
Palace
Women Buck the Tiger in Montana Gambling House
In Butte a luxurious gambling house targets women, with dealers and attendants facilitating play. Patrons, including middle class women, wager chips and cash while maintaining secrecy as losses mount. a waiter girl’s luck shows the house still profits from the game, where the tiger wins more often than players.
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Butte
Mont
Broadway
Denver
Hutte
Rome
Butie
Ceater
Beacon Lights Guard American Coasts At Sea
The United States maintains about 9000 larning lights and signals along coasts rivers lakes and waters with over 3000 lit at night. A maintenance crew of 4000 and a fleet of 50 vessels support the lighthouse service. First class lighthouses cost 160000 to 290000 dollars with one third for electric lighting gear.
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United States
American
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Pacific
Egyptiam Canopus
Rhodes
Mizralm
Debated Causes of Premature Death in Prosperous Society
The item distinguishes two groups among aging elites: unrestrained appetites leading to decline and self medication versus restrained living and seeking relief by correcting root errors. It frames these as signs of decadence and deceleration as life extends into older decades. London Lancet.
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Ildy
White
London
Big Man and Little Woman in Public Car Ride
A demure woman with a child sits in a crowded vehicle beside a fierce-looking man with a newspaper. The child kicks its feet as the trio rides, prompting the man to remark that the carriage is not a private vehicle.
Vagowld Eee I Oy and the Best of Five Wok Phrases
Fragmentary text presents garbled phrases with unclear subject and no definite event. No identifiable people, organizations, places, dates, or outcomes are discernible from the readable portion.
Cripple Creek District Turmoil and Deportations
Federal soldiers tense Cripple Creek as Citizens Alliance pushes for union ban. 71 union miners are deported under military order after clashes and threats, while Denver and Denver-adjacent officials vie for arrests, legal action, and federal intervention amid escalating labor strife.
Alex colt wins Grand Prix de Paris at Paris race
Edmond Blanc's bay colt Alex by Flying Fox Amic won the Grand Prix de Paris claiming a purse of 40 034 francs. The one mile and seven furlongs race crowned the big stable with a notable victory amid a day of major events in Paris.
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Edmond Blanc
Alex
Flying Fox
Amic
Acreage Of Spring Wheat Sown Reports Paris Data
Washington preliminary returns from the chief of the Bureau of Statistics show spring wheat sown acreage near 800 acres with an estimated value about 116 100 francs. Paris dated June 1 reports Mrg Frank Martir in Paris.
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Tit Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agri‘culture
Wéima Rho Bed
Paris
Frank Martir
New Mining Camp Planned Near Tres Piedras New Mexico
Denver reports a new mining camp to aid deported Union miners from Cripple Creek. The Western Federation of Miners will manage cooperative claims near Tres Piedras twenty miles south of the Colorado line, with federal support and a starter carload of supplies.
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New Mexico
Cripple Creek
Western Federation of Miners
Federation
Tres Piedras
Colorado
Ling
A. Royal
Pelle Royal Mining and Milling Co
Sur Acres
GREAT NAVAL BATTLE REPORTS DISTANT ENGAGEMENTS NEAR PORT ARTHUR
Naval dispatches describe Russian forces at Port Arthur and the Liao Tung peninsula. Admiral Togo reports bombardment on the west coast near Kai Chat and a military train driven back. Casualty tallies and burial reports from Kin Chon and Nan Sian hill are noted, with a flank movement near Hai Cheng repulsed but costly for the Japanese.
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Thut
Port Arthur
St. Petersburg
McCormick
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Japan
Geveral
Tokio
Toga
Liao Tung Peninsula
Kai Chat
Togo
Nan Sian
Kin Chon
Hai Cheng
Manchuria
Sudden Summons Shocks President's Brother Abner McKinley
Abner McKinley brother of the late president was found dead in his Somerset home on Saturday due to Bright's disease. His wife discovered him as the family prepared for the game hour. Floral tributes were arranged at Canton Ohio for the late president and at Springfield Illinois for Lincoln by the Lincoln McKinley Memorial association. The death ends a yearlong illness, though he was reported well Friday after a long drive.
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Abner McKinley
Canton
President Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Lincoln-McKinley Memorial Association
Bright
Train Strikes Auto Near Van Cortlandt Park
A Yonkers division train veered off at Van Cortlandt Park and struck George Nokes's car. Frank B. Read was killed. Nokes's 16 year old daughter lost a left foot. driver John Spencer was badly hurt. Mr and Mrs Nokes and their 6 year old son escaped with minor injuries.
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New York
van Cortlandt Park
Yonkers
New York & Putnam Railroad
George Nokes
Riverside Drive
Frank B. Read
Mrs. Nokes
Gas jug mix up causes fatal blast in Kansas City home
A grocer misfilled a jug with gasoline instead of vinegar, triggering an explosion at Antone Schoen’s home in Kansas City. One person died and three were injured, with investigators focusing on the mistaken contents in the perilous incident.
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Kansas City
Antone Schoen
Senator Cockrell Improves After Bicycle Incident
Washington June 13 Senator Cockrell of Missouri who was badly injured Saturday when knocked down by a boy on a bicycle is considerably better Sunday The wound in will yield readily to treatment Five Members of a Sant Drowned
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Senator Cockrell
Washington
Missouri
Sonora Mining Co. Title Declared Good by Mexican Supreme Court
Indian and Illinois owners of 740 acre Sonora copper mine holdings win Mexican supreme court ruling. The court upheld their title against challengers who called on Diaz era military aid. Key figures include Hugh J. McGowan Thomas Taggart Harry S. New and others. An option to Phelps Dodge for 53 percent of stock valued at $500,000 was set to expire June 25.
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Ind
Mexican Supreme Court
Indiana and Niinoig
Sonora Mining Co
Mexico
Supreme Court
Indiana-finoismen
Diaz
Hugh J. McGowan
Thomas Taggart
Harry S. New
Henry
Kennedy Freed After Triple Conviction for Guard Killing
William Kennedy, convicted three times for the alleged killing of a guard at a southern prison, walked from the governor’s office in Indianapolis on Friday a free man. He had served 17 years of an assault and battery sentence and was paroled for ten years.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William Kennedy
Kennedy
Gov. Matthews
Robbery and assault hit Logansport man in Adams township
Jeremiah Landis a bachelor in Adams township was assaulted and bound in his home after robbers sought a large hidden sum. He says they tormented him with kerosene on his feet and a fire. Sheriff and posse returned unsuccessful after the night search.
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Logansport
Ind
Jeremiah Landis
Adams Township
Poss
Hearse Meet Turns Out To Be Miss Leazenby Return
Miss Lizzie Leazenby of Burnettsville returned to Logansport Indiana from a visit to find a hearse and sorrowing relatives awaiting her believed death. A misinterpreted long distance telegram had caused the grave to be prepared and funeral arrangements to proceed.
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Logansport
Ind
Lizzie Leazenby
Burnettsville
Maenner chor leader receives German golden jubilee medal
The president of the Indianapolis Maennerchor has been awarded a German emperor's gold commemorative medal through the German embassy in Washington. The medal honors the society's golden jubilee celebration from June 28 to 25. The Maenpercher also hosted Prince Henry during his Indianapolis visit.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Destruction of Voice After Acid Incident in Indiana
Jessie Davis, recently from Chicago, quarreled with Clarence Autching in Terre Haute on Friday and drank carbolic acid. Physicians say she will be speechless for life as the acid destroyed her vocal cords. A Lafayette bank cashier Thomas J McCoy was arrested there on embezzlement charges connect to McCoy Co. in Rensselaer. In Frankfort Mrs Get. Appenzellar hanged herself from a cherry tree limb, found by her husband.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jessie Davis
Chicago
Clarence Autching
Lafayette
Thomas J McCoy
McCoy & Co
Rensselaer
Here
Woshan
Frankfort
Get
AL Appenzellar
Jutena
McCoy
T. J. McCoy
A. McCoy & Son
Wealthy stock buyer Adan Schauer adjured insane
Evansville Indiana reports Adan Schauer aged 62, a wealthy stock buyer, was adjured insane Friday amid rumors of jealousy. His wife is described as prominent socially. In Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county bar members announced they would not hold further court in the current courthouse after the term unless repairs are made, in a notice to the board of commissioners.
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Evansville
Ind
Adan Schauer
Schauer
Lawrenceburg
Dearborn County
Bar
Board ‘of Commissioners
Largest Known Strawberry Crop Ripens in Southern Indiana
New Albany Ind June 9 strawberry growers once despondent over low prices learned of hopeful sales in Indianapolis and Chicago as fruit arrived. The crop is the largest in Southern Indiana history and ripens around New Albany. Prospects rose briefly, but packing and shipping difficulties may leave farmers ending near even for the season.
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Ind
Indianapolis
Chicago
Indiana
Arrests in Indiana Lynching Threat After Assault Case
In Milan Indiana on June 9 a 28 year old man Thomas Warner was arrested for the assault of 12 year old Mary Lyons. A mob demanded lynching of Warner and Mary Lyons mother before authorities moved prisoners to safety.
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Ind
Thomas Warner
Mary Lyons
Warner
James M. Spencer
James Conneley
Nicholas
Faith and Prayer Aids Woman’s Return of Speech in Indiana
Alma Sellers of Ilishawaka region had not spoken for over a year. She began writing on paper and pencil three weeks earlier. Jennie Grove a Goshen healer was brought in and within five days Sellers regained normal speech through faith and healing.
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Indl
Alma Selters
John Krepp
Here
Miss Sellers
Farmer’s Son Dies After Forgery Arrest in Lebanon
Lebanon Indiana June 10 After being caught in the act of cashing a forge check Wilburn S Abbitt 23 son of Joan W Abbitt a prominent farmer shot himself with a shotgun blowing the top of his head off Thursday morning He had recently been released from Jeffersonville reformatory after serving two years for stealing a horse and buggy
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Ind
Wilburn
S. Abbitt
Joan W. Abbitt
Young Abbitt
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Man Acquitted Murder of Miss Schafer Fled Bedford
James McDonald, acquitted of murdering Sarah Schafer a Bedford teacher, fled town after notice from a vague agency. He left his wife behind but will reunite later. Other items: Father and son Arraigned in Jasper on licenses and perjury, Heilbroner named Grand Rapids manager, embezzlement arrests in Rensselaer, secret marriage revealed on deathbed in Kekomo, 91 year old Franklin Keyes died in Wabash, absconder John Watts to be returned to Marion, Thompson banquet in Terre Haute with 200 guests.
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Ind
James Mc Donald
Sarah Schafer
Kekomo
Fred Hamilton
Young America
Terre Haute
State -Normal School
Thale
Marion
John. Watts
Rockford
Larion
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