Albion files for Carnegie library grant amid Nebraska notes
Nebraska notes report Albion seeks $6000 Carnegie library funding while Blue Hill votes against $75,000 bonds for a new courthouse. Local items include new school officials in Niobrara and Seward Band director, railroad incidents at Pleasant Dale and Howe, a Beatrice carp record, a Beatrice woman on the Woman's Relief corps staff, and other town updates.
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Maggie Dorn
Beatrice
Woman’s Relief Corps
Funny sayings on money remorse and company strength
The passage offers aphorisms about money and remorse, noting that money cannot buy everything. It observes that remorse is tied to a dark taste and that a strong company can make a weak week endure. It also contains practical tips about draining water after use and lamp cleaning with steam.
Farm Sold for 50 000 and Move to City
The speaker Mary communicates that the farm has been sold for 50000 dollars. The couple plans to relocate to the city and live in comfort for the rest of their lives.
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Abbie Mendenhall
Elk City
Mary
Bond Crisis Forces Family Toward Poverty
The speaker declares they must pay John Brown's bond, demanding all they own and foretelling ruin for Mary and themselves as they face possible homelessness.
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Mary
John Brown
Do Not Sign a Friend's Bond and Buy Your Own
Warning to readers about bonding practices advises not to sign another's bond. If you need a bond, purchase one and seek details from the agency at the County Seat.
Surety Bonds and Witty Observations
The item notes a surety bond issuance by The Title Guaranty and Surety Company with figures cited as 490 000. It then pivots to a string of aphorisms about human folly and social observations on money marriage generosity and language.
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Guaranty & Surety Company, Home Office
Scranton, Pa
Capital and
Surniis
Postum Cited As Remedy In Coffee Ailment Letter
A St Paul Park reader reports relief from chronic heart and stomach issues after quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. She cites testimonials from other women including a former state WCTU president and a dyspepsia sufferer who improved after switching. The letter ends urging readers to read The Road to Wellville and note there’s a reason.
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St. Paul Park
Wellville
Rising of the Hindooos Riots in Rawalpindi Target Europeans
Riotous anti European violence breaks out in Rawalpindi Punjab with a Hindu mob burning two bungalows looting a mission church and post office destroying a power plant and cars. Armed police restore order as a Hussars squadron patrols the town amid incendiary speeches blamed on agitators. Rawalpindi, a fortified town with about 90 000 residents, is the division capital in Punjab.
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Rawalpindi
Punjab
British India
Wandana
Hussara
Lahore turmoil as editor and proprietor jailed after race hate case
A Lahore court jailed and fined the proprietor and editor of a native newspaper for stirring hatred against the government and British community after a report about an English driver killing a Mohammedan policeman. Crowds of Hindu protesters denounced Europeans as sentences were announced.
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Lahore
Gas poisoning claim ties Jersey City tragedy to home
In Jersey City a family of four, William Cross his wife and two sons, were found dead from inhaling illuminating gas in their top floor home. Cross a stationary engineer failed to report for duty prompting a messenger to force entry after a strong gas odor. The parents were found in bed near the kitchen and the two boys in an adjacent room with a gas leak from an unconnected pipe in the kitchen.
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William Cross
Jersey City
Cross
Fatal Ore Mine Car Accident at Riddlesburg
Three foreigners were killed and six injured, three fatally, when a ore mine car derailed on a trestle at an ore mine in Riddlesburg Bedford County Pennsylvania. The car slipped thirty feet into the creek as engines backed to the main track during unloading.
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Riddlesburg
Bedford County
Americans Cooke and Wilkinson Detained in Cabrera Attempt
Among those arrested in Guatemala City on suspicion of involvement in the April 29 plot against President Cabrera are two American railroad contractors named Cooke and Wilkinson. Wilkinson occupied a house near the explosion site where police found an electric detonator apparatus and blasting materials.
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Guatemala City
Cabrera
Cooke and Wilkinson
Body in Barrel Clears Up Cleveland Missing Boy Case
Police find badly decomposed body of three year old Alexander Hoeing in a large barrel near his Cleveland home. The child was believed kidnapped but the discovery leads authorities to conclude murder and notes a prior city hunt and reward for his return.
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Alexander Hoeing
Cleveland
Whs
Cooking Tip for Aromatic Smoke Use
A quirky instruction suggests sprinkling salt over hot coals and shaking damp ostrich feathers above the fumes to make the tendrils curl up neatly. The text reads like a playful, old fashioned kitchen tip.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Blood Purifier Remedy
Local ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It touts a physician approved formula, combining tonics with blood purifiers, and offers testimonials. Also promotes Hell's Family Pills for constipation and lists J. Chenry & Co. of Toledo as proprietors.
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Hall
J. Chenry & CO
Toledo
Peice
Postum Contest Offers Gold Boxes for Honest Letters
A vintage advertisement invites readers to submit truthful letters about Postum experiences. It promises 325 cash prizes from $1 to $10 and outlines topics on toffee drinking, Postum usage, and preparation methods. Contest closes June 1, 1907, with judges from outside the company.
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Postum
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd
Postum Se
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Addreay
Pastor and fiancée flee Hempstead church turmoil
Shock hit St George’s Episcopal Church when Rev Jere Knode Cooke and Miss Floretta Whaley disappeared after letters suggested elopement plans abroad. Bishop Burgess of Long Island called Cooke mentally unfit, noting a trolley collision years earlier and a recent European leave, with a vacancy to be filled immediately.
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St. George
Hempstead
L. I
Jere Knode Cooke
Mies Florettal Whaley
Brooklyn Parade Supports Idaho Labor Leaders Indicted
More than six thousand socialists and laborists marched from Brownsville to East New York in Brooklyn showing sympathy for Moyer Haywood and Pettibone suspects in the murder of Idaho Governor Steunenberg. They wore badges and banners praising the accused and conducted a orderly meeting at Congress Hall. A speaker criticized President Roosevelt over his letter to Representative Sherman of New York.
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Marseillaise
Brownsville
New York
Brooklyn
Moyer
Haywood
Pettibone
Steunenberg
Idaho
Congress Hall
Roosevelt
Sherman
Trial of Garland Moore in Springfield First Degree Murder
Testimony opened here in Missouri as Mrs. Lewis West, sister-in-law of Clara West, testified Moore had threatened the deceased. On cross examination Moore cried, hiding his face as the witness, and Moore wept as the question about harming Clara West was asked.
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Springfield
Garland Moore
Clara West
Lewis West
Moore
Miss West
Mrs. West
Record-breaking emigration arrives at New York port
In the twenty-four hours ending 8 PM May 2, fourteen steamships carried 20 729 emigrants into New York Harbor, led by Naples and the Bulgaria with 8 267 and 2 732 steerage passengers respectively, surpassing the previous single-day record by about 5 000.
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New York
Naples
Bulgaria
Seeding Commenced in Western Canada
Seed comes to Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as heavy winter snowfall leaves ground ready for seeding. Spring weather promises large acreages of wheat oats barley with farmers loading stock and equipment to begin lasting operations before May 20. Canadian Government agents in the U S advise on new districts and low rates for settlers.
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St. Paul
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Western
Canada
Western Canada
United States
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