Odd Historical Tidbits From Various Localities
A collage of notes describes adding sugar to cooking water for vegetables, a primitive Thompson Falls Montana refrigeration method keeping interiors around fifty five degrees, and wells with pipes delivering cool air. It also offers room layout advice and a backyard play space for children, plus a Berkshire church tablet commemorating a disabled soldier with a cannon ball inserted.
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Thompson Falls
Montana
Berkshire
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promote Health in Hartford Woman
A Kentucky woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring her health after years of illness. She suffered fever chills rheumatism digestive troubles and nervous weakness before taking the pills. After four boxes she recovered weight and returned to duties and health. The ad promises free health literature and outlines pill pricing.
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Arkansas
Dr. Williams
Mrs. Wedding
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Doctor Endorses Postum Over Coffee For Heart Health
A Missouri physician credits Postum with curing his nervous heart trouble after stopping coffee. He reports improved heart function, better energy, and plans to continue prescribing Postum, noting its superior flavor when prepared correctly and its support for patients with heart or stomach sensitivities.
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Missouri
Elven
Postum Co
Ue Creek
Mich
Wellville
Prissi
Nebraska Notes A Busy Patchwork Of Local News
Local items report James M. Hoke leasing the Ainsworth hotel W. A. Cornish buying the Shelby Sun and Eagle School gaining a new heating plant. Railways see an auction sale for 16700 dollars and regular service on the Sioux City Ashland line. Socials note marriages and church revivals while schools gain libraries and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Cornish
Shelby Sun
Eagle
Sioux City, Homer & Southern Railway
Gulf storm causes massive property damage with no confirmed fatalities
The hurricane moving through the Gulf states brings extensive property losses totaling millions, especially in Pensacola with initial reports of 3 million dollars. Communication is badly disrupted, Mobile and coastal towns have limited updates, and searches for missing persons are underway as crews await clearer wire reports.
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Louisville
Gulf
North Alabama
New Orleans
Associated Press
Mobile
Pensacola
Propery
Biloxi
Mississippi City
Moss Point
Miss
Eight-Year-Old Oscar Napier Sentenced to Reform School
Oscar Napier, eight, was convicted of murder in a December crime and sentenced to the Eldorado reform school until age twenty one. He cried aloud at sentencing, saying he acted while visiting a neighbor with his brother when a shotgun left outside discharged.
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Albia
Oscar Napier
Frank Adams
Eldorado
Oscar
Adams
Wabash Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight Near Danville
A Wabash fast passenger No. 8 derailed into a freight train at an open switch near Danville Illinois. Reports say four dead one missing and about 35 to 40 injured mostly lightly. The wreck attributed to the freight crew leaving the switch open.
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Danville
Ilc
Wabash
Here
Ienry Miller
Wabash Road
Typhoon Devastates Cagayas Valley Towns in Luzon
The Cagayas valley on Luzon suffered complete destruction in Barrios Gallaran Anlung and Baggao with four more towns badly damaged. Tobacco crops were ruined though fatalities appear low. A Laguna province typhoon caused road damage and about 150000 dollars in losses. Chinese papers estimate dead around 10000 with broader property and fleet damage potentially between three and fifteen million dollars.
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Manila
Cagayas Valley
Luzon
Gallaran
Anlung
Man Injured in Sand Barrel Fall at 30 Feet
In Arapahoe Nebraska Albert Dea Allemand was seriously hurt while sinking a well on the Pierce property. A bale and a half barrel of sand broke loose at a depth of thirty feet. He warded off the bucket with his left arm and escaped with a deep head wound and fractures to both forearm bones.
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Arapahos
Albert de Allemand
de Allemand
Arapahoe, Neb
Pierce
Albert Dea Allemand
Boise Knight Templar Commander Vanishes In Spokane
W C Burney of Boise Idaho, right eminent commander of the Knights Templar of Idaho, disappeared after being last seen in Spokane. He planned to establish a Commandery in Couer d Alene Idaho that evening but did not reach the town and no trace has been found. Burney is also a colonel in Idaho's national guard and a wealthy Boise citizen.
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Spokane
Wash
W. C. Burney
Boise
Idaho
Knights Templar of
Couer d’ Alene
National Guard
Stensland Sentenced in Milwaukee Bank Embezzlement Case
Paul O. Stensland pleads guilty to embezzlement of 400000 and violation of banking laws. He receives concurrent sentences from one to five years and one to ten years, with a $120 fine on the banking charge. He began serving the term in Joliet within hours of arriving in Chicago. He disclosed details to State's Attorney Healy after a lengthy conference.
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Chicago
Paul O. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Joliet
Stensland
Criminal Court
Criminal Cport
Healy
Tragic Crossing Death Claims Daniel Lewis in Kearney
Daniel Lawrence Lewis stepson of F A Ditmer was killed instantly at the Central avenue crossing in Kearney Nebraska. He stood with others on the south side as an eastbound freight passed. The fast mail on the adjacent track struck him as he rushed to cross. He was caught by the cowcatcher and the wheels severed his body at the waist as the train moved on.
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Anton Rubin
West Point
Fred Easley
George Wilson
Sterling
Neb
Auburn
Easley
Wilson
Daniel Martin
Milford
Velock
Kentucky
Eighteenth
Missouri Infantry
Swarengen
Havelock
F. Spellman
Cheyenne
Fremont
Northwestern Railroad Company
Montecucoli
Pliny
Kearney
Daniel Lawrence Lewis
F. A. Ditmer
Central Avenue
Lawrence
Judge rules on warrant for President Smith in Utah case
Salt Lake City Utah Judge Armstrong holds County Attorney Parley P Christensen cannot be compelled to issue a warrant for President Joseph Smith on a complaint by Charles Mostyn Owen charging a statute offense. The complaint is deemed indefinite and fails to show Mrs Schwartz Smith is not his legal wife. Owen says he will seek other means to obtain a warrant. Smith is in New York.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Armstrong
Parley P. Christensen
Joseph Smith
Charles Mostyn Owen
Owen
Schwartz Smith
President Smith
New York
Young Girl Assaulted Near Beemer
A seven year old girl, daughter of farmer John Oakel near Beemer, was attacked as she walked home. The assailant, a stranger about twenty, five feet four inches tall, wore blue and white striped overalls with a jacket and black hat, and escaped westward. The girl is badly injured.
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West Point
Neb
John Oakel
Beemer
Landowner Wins Damages Over Nemaha River Flooding
Falls City Neb Charles F Pribbene of Preston owned hundreds of acres on the Nemaha river bottom north of Preston. The land overflowed from 1302 to 1905 due to the Burlington railway grade across the valley, ruining crops. He sued the road and a district court jury awarded $1000 in damages.
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Falls City
Neb
Charles F. Pribbene
Preston
Nemaha River
Nemaha
Buriington
Fragmentary notes mix of potatoes, tests, and royal curiosities
The text preserves scattered details including baked potatoes and fried foods, a man speaking after divorce, long beards tied to Joseph Rouetey, and a King of Cry ig visiting France with attendants and gold items, all in a jumbled OCR fragment.
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Fanny
Joseph Rouetey
Ornavasse
Novara
Italy
Edward Blackwell
St 4. Golf Club
Creat Britan
Eisowath
France
Doan’s Kidney Pills Backed by Suffolk Resident
Suffolk resident J. D. Daughtrey reports three years of kidney trouble with pain and urinary issues. Doan’s Kidney Pills are praised as a tonic and sold by all dealers, with Foster Milburn Co listed as distributor. Excesses of stray shop items and decorative chains are noted in the surrounding text.
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Doan
J. D. Daughtrey
Suffolk
Dean
Adl
Foster Milburn Co
Terrible Scalp Cure Reported By Patient Testimonial
A patient describes severe scalp sores and itchiness across the head and behind the ears improving after using a Cure Ointment and other remedies. The account notes October and November symptoms and cites H. M. F. Weiss Rosen Co Illinois as supplier, with reference to teething preparation and skin ointments.
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M. F. Weiss
Rosen Co
Ill
Also Mentioned on This Page
RF. G. Douglas
Oscrog LA
Nebrasica
Vermont
Texas
California
Department of Agriculture
Postum
Nebraska
James M. Hoke
Ainsworth
Edward Richards
Tekamah
Charles Brooks
Craig Advertiser
Oakland Republican
Blair
Tabernacle
Sioux City
Ashland
Great Northern
Alfred L. Bixby
The
Lincoln Star
Nellie M. Weaver
Lincoln
Peru
Elizabeth Helmer
Beatrice
Institute For the Blind
Nebraska City
James L. Gandy
Nemaha County
Buck
Tumboaldt
Beatrice Cas Company
John Crcuti
Rule
B. &. Dill
N. 8. Elliott
Monroe
Board of Education
Crab Orchard
Postoffice
D. J. Sinclair
Omaha
Bee
H .C. White
G. H. van Horn
Unics Pacific
Rock Island
P. H. Davis
Ruey County
Chicago Medical College
Low Pine
Monaco
Bulgaria
Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen
Tufts
Madison
Mississippi
Hiawatha
Kansas
Edingen
Germany
Neckar
London
Bronx Music Co
Jackson Ave
Bronx
N. Y. City
J. B. Tighe
Santa Fe Ry
Arkansas City
Green's
Rex U
Atlanta
R. Paxton
W. L. Douglas
W.l.douglas
W._L. Douglas
Jshed
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Nouglas
Dept
Kemp
Carter
Faust
Carters
J. F. W. Metzler
Rosehill, Tex
Ladies Advisory Dept
Chattanooga Medicine Cyu
Chattanooga, Tenn
York, Nebr
Gulf States
Swerers
Fla
Adeh
Crilden
Femovds
R. V. Pierce
Ms Diay
Willy
Russi
Weer
Mrs. Winslow
FH. H. Grxsn
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