The Poisoned Cigar Duel Ends in Tragedy
Borge Vernon and Baron von Reitzenstein plan a quiet duel to settle a quarrel with a poison cigar. Both smoke but the plan unravels as Vernon detects the nonpoisoned cigars while their dog dies from a hidden poisoned piece, forcing a postponement and a wary handshake.
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Borge Vernon
Vioritaria
Fioritaria
Vernon
Acollege
George Vernon
Herp
Heinrich von Reitzenstein
Baron von Reitzenstein
South America
Non
Herr Baron
Baron
Patagonia
Herr von Reizenstein
Herr Vernon
von Reitzenstein
Havana
Vereingetorix
Vercingetorix
Baron von Reutgenstein
Fortune Telling Fancies and a Dream of Gold
A humorous verse recounts a wife entangled in a fortune teller’s prophecies about travel wealth and beauty. The husband muses on the foretold ocean voyage, arches of blue skies, and a future wedding to a tall, dreamy partner, voiced with playful doubt and wry charm.
Mystery Head Seen in Sicily Divides Villagers
A head found on Baron Aniello's property stirs Sicily with two daughters split over its authenticity. One daughter claims it is the brigand Varsalona’s father, while the other denies. The brigand’s sweetheart recognizes the head by a front tooth filling. Public debate swallows the island as claims of death versus ruse fuel regional tension.
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Sicily
Italy
Palermo
Varsalona
Aniello
Newton
Calaboose
Wes
Yankee farmer asks for egg in sherry glass punchline
A Connecticut tavern tale has a farmer selling two dozen eggs. When 25 eggs are counted the proprietor offers one extra egg free. They argue, then the proprietor settles for 25 eggs and payment. The farmer replies with the punchline about a “Sherry aunt egg.”
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Connecticut
Change in Relationship Dialogue Snippet
A dialogue snippet shows Harris and Barlow disputing a sister relation with shifting timelines. The exchange suggests a later switch of sister status and references a Boston Transcript line. The Yonkers Statesman notes a separate hopeful remark about Matilda singing at work and improving her performance.
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Harris
Barlow
Boston Transcript
Matilda
Yonkers Statesman
Global brief of accidents, politics and war updates
Telegrams report ten miners suffocated near Williamstown Dauphin county due to gas from a locomotive. Excursion train firing near Yellow Pine Alabama kills conductor S W Ashew and injures two passengers. Venezuelan vice consul Quivre perishes in Paris from apartment explosion. Circus tent collapse at Fort Plain injures five seriously. Governor Bailey appoints William Allen White as state accountant without salary. Illinois building at World’s Fair dedicated with ceremony. Alice Roosevelt tours the World’s Fair with the Catlin family. Russian general staff notes possible Japanese advance on Port Arthur and siege has begun. Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker elected president of General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Vatican exhibit at World’s Fair remains unseen as papal delegate stays in Washington. Tornado west of Guthrie Oklahoma damages property and crops. Japan prepares to storm Port Arthur. Kin-Chow battle reports indicate Russian victory. United States Panama extradition treaty signed. Tacoma merchant Harry Foote commits suicide. Former Queen Liliuokalani sails to Honolulu. Morgan Co transfers gold for Panama Canal payment. Anti-Jewish riot in Choism Bessarabia. troops quell. Cape May bank expected to resume. Tokio reports Japanese near Port Arthur and higher Japanese casualties. Yazoo City fire devastates 500 homes. destitution feared. Locomotive Engineers official Ingraham dies at convention. New Liberty Illinois destroyed by tornado with no fatalities. Kin-Chou captured by Japanese after Russian withdrawal.
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Susquehanna Coal Co
Wilkesbarre
Summit Branch Coal Co
Williamstown
Dauphin County
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Yellow Pine
Ala
S. W. Ashew
Birmingham
Joseph Richard
Meridian
Senor Quivre
Rue Ville Just
Paris
Fort Plain
N. Y
Gov. Bailey
Kansas
Deliven
William Allen White
Emporia Gazette
Ilinois
Yates
Prairie State
Alice Roosevelt
St. Louis
Catlin
Miss Roosevelt
Kin- Chou
Port Arthur
Sarah Platt-Decker
Colorado
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Philip W. Moore
Vatican
Washington
Guthrie
Okla
China
Liao Tung
Che-Foo
Sansuripo
Dalny
Fock
Kin-Chow
United States
Panama
William W. Russell
Senor de la Esprilla
Harry C. Foote
Tacoma
Wash
American Steel Works
Chicago
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
San Francisco
Honolulu
Sonoma
J. P. Morgan & Co
Japan
Mississippi Sunday School Convention Opens in Yazoo City
Rev. Isaac D. Borders presides over the twenty-fifth Mississippi Sunday School Association convention in Yazoo City beginning June 21 for four days. Sessions feature speeches by Rev. C. E. Cunningham Rev. W. J. Derrick Hon. Edwin R. Holmes Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden Capt. John T. Buck and W. C. Pearce among others focusing on organization training and the role of the Sunday School. The report notes Mississippi exhibits at the World’s Fair and local issues including Newton’s jail theft and legislative expenses and gaps in agricultural station funding.
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Isaac D. Borders
Mississippi Sunday School Association
Yazoo City
C. E. Cunningham
D. D
W. J. Derrick
Edwin R. Holmes
Dunbar H. Ogden
Columbus
John T. Buck. Jackson
J. H. Whitfield
Brandon
W. C. Pearce
Chicago
N. A. Mott
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
C.F. Kincannon
Lexington
L. A. Duncan
Meridian
H. L. Whitfield
Jackson
John R. Peper
Memphs
W. W. Harrison
Greenwood
Open saloon fight eyed in Coahoma County
Advocates push for legalized whisky sale in Coahoma and nearby delta counties still dry after years of prohibition. The upcoming battle is expected to be hard on both sides as the issue resurfaces.
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Coahoma County
Coahoma
Delta
Mississippi crop report notes favorable farm work progress
The weather bureau summary says conditions are very favorable for farm work, but cool nights slow vegetation growth. Cotton is generally backward with irregular stands in many areas, though the delta reports the best conditions. Lice are reported in some sections.
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Mississippi Department of the Weather Bureau
Delta
Miss Kirkpatrick Impresses In Boston Conservatory Recital
Miss Elizabeth F. Kirkpatrick of McComb was among principal performers at an organ recital by advanced students of the New England Conservatory of Music in Recital Hall Boston Mass She played Merkelas Pastoral in G and won high praise from a discerning audience.
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Elizabeth F. Kirkpatrick
McComb
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston
Mass
Recital
Gainsboro Street
Mississippi Commencements Close With Prosperous Year
Mississippi schools near annual closings as commencements proceed statewide. Confederate veterans plan to attend the Nashville reunion next month with reduced rail rates. They expect Gen. S D Lee of Mississippi to be chosen commander of the United Confederate Veterans at the Cumberland gathering.
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Mississippi
Nashville
South
S. TD. Lee
John B. Gordon
United Confederate Veterans
Cumberland
German truck farmers to settle along Liberty-White line
Land and industrial commissioner F H Latterhas reports plans to attract a large colony of German truck farmers to locate along the railroad line. He traveled to the North and East to arrange the move, aiming to benefit communities along the route.
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F. H. Latterhas
Liberty- White Railroad Company
Japanese Capture Nan Shan Hill After Fierce Kin Chow Battle
Tokio reports a brutal nine charge assault at Nan Shan hill near Kin Chow. Japanese divisions from Osaka Tokio and Nagoya stormed Russian forts amid heavy fire and a bayonet fight, finally driving back the defenders. Casualties reach about 3500 with 68 Russian cannons and ten machine guns lost. Russians retreat toward Port Arthur as Japanese navy shells assist
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Osaka
Tokio
Nagoya
Nan Shan
Palr
Woman Found Dead in Sleeping Car Berth on Train
Mrs Ellen E Gerral of St Joseph Mo died in a sleeping car berth on a Santa Fe train at Raton New Mexico. She was an invalid and was returning to Missouri from California traveling alone.
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Trinidad
Col
Ellen E. Gerral
St. Joseph
Santa Fe
Raton
N. M
Missouri
California
Farmers form stock company to build Perdueville elevator
In Perdueville Ford county farmers organize a stock company to fund a 10000 dollar grain elevator on Lake Erie Western railway grounds. In Troy Missouri a law and order league forms with about 20 members to aid prosecutors in stopping illegal liquor sales.
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Paxton, Ill
Perdueville
Ford County
Lake Erie & Western Railway
Troy
Hall body found in oil tank car murder suspected
In Whiting Indiana on May 28 the crushed body of L J Hall of Wolfs Lake was found in an oil tank car. Police believe Hall was murdered and the body was discovered when the tank was pumped out for cleaning.
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Whiting, Ind
L. J. Hall
Wolfs Lake
Ind
Hall
No Ostentation At Quay Funeral No Attempt To Disguise
Reports from St. Petersburg describe the fall of Kin Chow and the likely Russian retreat to Port Arthur. Officials warn the loss of guns would deepen the defeat while cautious notes about Japanese claims surface as news arrives from Tokio and Kin Chow fronts. In Beaver Pennsylvania the Quay funeral proceeds with no honorary pall bearers and the body to lie in state before services at First Presbyterian Church. Governor Pennypacker to attend. Roosevelt will not.
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Senator Quay
First Presbyterian Church
J. S. Ramsey
Appleton Bush
D.D
M. E
Clarkson
Port of New York
Republican National Committee
Harrison
Beaver
Roosevelt
Gov. Pennypacker
Harrisburg
St. Louis Captain Sets Mississippi River Speed Record
Capt. Tom Garrison, who piloted the torpedo-boat destroyer Lawrence from St. Louis to New Orleans, has returned and reports the destroyer broke every river speed record for steamboats on the Mississippi.
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St. Louis
Tom Garrison
Lawrence
New Orleans
Mississippi
Kidnapers’ Ransom Terms Declared Impossible
Washington May 29 The kidnappers of Perdicaris and his stepson Varley in Morocco have submitted ransom terms that the state department deems absolutely unacceptable.
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Washington
Perdicaris
Varley
Morocco
State Department
Requests for World’s Fair season tickets pour in
In St Louis on May 29 hundreds of requests arrive at the national commission for the special non stockholders season ticket book to the World’s fair grounds with inquiries from every state and territory.
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St. Louis
The
National Commission
Noted Alabama figure Col Sheats Found Dead in Decatur
Decatur Alabama May 29 Col C C Sheats a noted Alabama character and former secession convention member was found dead in his bed He was among the 27 who voted against Alabama seceding from the Union.
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Decatur
Ala
C. C. Sheats
Alabama
Pennsylvania Delegation to Quay Funeral
Speaker Cannon appoints the Pennsylvania state delegation as a committee to represent the House at Senator Quay's funeral in Beaver on Tuesday. A special Pennsylvania Railroad car will depart Washington at 7 15 p m Monday for committee members and others will join in Pittsburgh before traveling to Beaver.
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Washington
Cannon
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Senator Quay
Beaver
Pennsylvania Railroad
Houses of Congress
Pittsburg
Marines May Land If Tangier Crisis Worsens
May 30 report from Washington says American interests in Tangier could require landing U S Marines from ships abroad if the Tangier crisis with Morrocco worsens. Officials say no interior rescue plan exists and no decision has been made. In Evansville Indiana a severe storm since 1884 damaged trees fences and roofs including a mail line wharf boat and the old water plant.
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Washington
Tangier
Morrocco
Admiral Chadwick
Brooklyn
Moony
Evansville
Ind
Indiana
Mail Line
Fire Destroys Alabama Cordage Plant in Montgomery
Fire destroyed the plant and warehouse of the Alabama Cordage Co. in Montgomery on Sunday, causing an estimated loss of 400000 dollars, covered almost entirely by insurance according to officials.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Cordage Co
Bishop Horstmann to visit pope in Rome and sail for Havre
Bishop Horstmann will leave Cleveland on Monday to visit the pope in Rome. He will stay in Philadelphia until Wednesday and reach New York in time to sail Thursday morning for Havre. The trip may last about two months.
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Cleveland
Horstmann
Rome
Philadelphia
New York
Havre
Wife Shoots Husband in Jealousy Kill in Battzon Texas
Graham Jones was shot and killed by his wife in Battzon Texas. She fired four bullets into his body and jealousy is cited as the motive.
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Battzon
Tex
Graham Jones
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