The Stranger Hampton and the Sioux Pursuit
A detachment of the Eighteenth Infantry trapped by Indians in a gorge ends in a three day siege. Hampton and a girl escape with help from a Seventh Cavalry scout. Hampton moves north stalking Silent Murphy across the plains, using plains craft to outmaneuver danger and plan a night crossing toward the Fourche.
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Eighteenth Infantry
Fort Bethune
Hampton
Gillis
Seventh Cavalry
Lieut
Brant
Glencaid
Duffy
Red Slavin
Phoebe Spencer
Miss Spencer
Naida
Rev. Wynkoop
Bachelor Club
Leutenant
Silent Murphy
Bob Hampton
Slavin
Murphy
Robert Nolan
Maj
Brant, Sr
Mute
Buck Mason
Mason
Hamp
Cheyenne
Seer
Fourche
Haunting of a Crime on the Powder Trail
Murphy and a mysterious scout evade a ghostly vision in Cheyenne and the Fourche country. A tense midnight ride ends with a vow to continue north toward the Powder valley, as fear and suspicion test trust and resolve.
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Cheyenne
Hampton
Murphy
Fourche
Te Glass
One Use for Catalogues at Nankin
The American consul at Nankin cautions fellow countrymen against lavish illustrated catalogues. He notes Chinese buyers prize them, but leaves are used as inside soles for shoes due to limited English among locals. This harmless domestic repurposing highlights intercultural exchanges and material reuse.
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Nankin
Illinois Mayor in Tocula Faces Naturalization Question
Toluca mayor D Turiigitti admits he was never naturalized and will resist ouster. An agent found thirty Tocula Italians claiming citizenship without naturalization, including the mayor, suggesting a possible government error. Opposition seeks removal. Mrs Harriet Wilcox Bartlett in Quincy dies by self harm at 25, leaving a social circle grief stricken. she suffered melancholia. husband Charles L Bartlett, a rising attorney, is son of a Clayton banker.
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Toluca
D. Turiigitti
United States
Commerce and Labor Department
Tocula
Quincy
Harriet Wilcox Bartlett
Charles L. Bartlett
David F. Wilcox
Clayton
Deposit Insurance Criticized by Joliet Banker at Meet
George E Roberts of Commercial National Bank of Chicago attacked W J Bryan's deposit insurance plan calling it a makeshift with potential for mischief. He argued postal savings banks fail to fix the monetary system and favored Germany's currency system.
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Joliet
George E. Roberts
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Northeastern Illinois Bankers’ Association
W. J. Bryan
Germany
Carlyle Contractor Missing Near Aviston and St Louis
Carlyle contractor J. C. Fink vanished after leaving home three weeks ago saying he would finish work in Aviston. Later reports place him in St Louis and since then no word has come. Local authorities and family seek information about his whereabouts.
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Carlyle
J. C. Fink
Aviston
St. Louis
Threatening letter sent to Germantown prosecutor Apke
Germantown Theodore Apke, active in prosecuting local saloonkeepers, received a threating letter warning him against filing more complaints against saloon men. Body Found in Creek Hands Tied. Springfield John Luedke of Butler's body found in Cahokia Creek near Black Ridge with hands tied behind his back after three months missing from home. Mule Causes Mine Wreck One Dead. Marion Miner James McGill killed in No 3 Pea body coal mine when a mule dragged a string of cars off the track.
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Germantown
Theodore Apke
Apke
Creek
Springfield
John Luedke
Butler
Cahokia Creek
Black Ridge
Marion
James McGill
Peabody Coal Mine
Bond Given in Poison Case Names O Neal and Pierson
Champaign Leasure O Neal and Mrs James L Pierson were arrested in connection with the death by poison of a woman's husband. They were released on bonds set at 5000 dollars each.
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Champaign—Leasure
Boy Killed By Freight Train Near Hudgens
Marion Lewis Grimes aged 19 died when he tried to board a moving freight train near Hudgens five miles south of here and was crushed by the wheels. Authorities reported the incident as a fatal accident with no foul play suspected.
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Boy
Marion
Lewis Grimes
Hudgens
Here
Grimes
Ends Life in Hotel Room
Melvin Edwin Cole aged 21 secured a hotel room and died by swallowing carbolic acid in an apparent self inflicted death. Police reported the incident as a suicide in the local hotel setting with no other persons involved.
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Melvin
Edwin Cole
Klindisan Killed by Train Near Here
Olney Charles Gertch age 38 is killed by a B and Q passenger train near here. Chicago board of education rules bar Greek letter fraternities and sororities from attending Chicago high schools after the current school year ends.
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Klindisan
Olney
Charles Gertch
Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Old Soldier Found Dead in Home
Aged veteran Dixon Dennis Connelly, who had returned from the soldiers home at Quincy, was found dead at his residence here by a mail carrier. The death is reported as a likely natural cause given his age.
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Murphy
Nolan
Dixon
Dennis Connelly
Quincy
Tex Wears of Backache Thousands Suffer In the Same Way
Mrs Thomas Dunn of Columbus Ohio describes years of backache misery and exhaustion before using Deans Kidney Pills which she credits with quick relief and lasting cure The product is sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York at 50 cents a box.
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Thomas Dunn
Vine St
Columbus
Ohio
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Tongue Twisters from The Sunday Magazine
A playful verbal puzzle by Charles Putnam questions how a Hottentot tot should learn the sounds t aught or naught and if a Hottentot tot taught by a tooter would upset the tutor. The verse-style query riffs on pronunciation challenges and linguistic whimsy.
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Charles
Putnam
The
Sunday Magazine
Seed catalog offer from Salzer Seed Co announces 12c deal
Illinois recipient offered 12c for a seed catalog with 1 pkg Quick Quick Carrot and other varieties plus postpaid seeds valued at 37.76 dollars revenue. доп 16c adds Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. John A. Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis. K. & W.
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Illinois
la Crosse
Peerert
John A. Salzer Seed Co
Wis. K
Papa's Pet in Cribbage Parlor Exchange
Subbubs claims a fifteen-two pair adds to four in a cribbage game with Popley. Popley, distracted, blurts that he has in his crib “the sweetest little ocotsum cotsums girl in the world.”
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Papa
Subbubs
Popley
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming it cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, with the product also promoted for constipation via Hall's Family Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Catarra
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Lydia E Pinkham's Compound Endorsed by Women's Letter
A reader from Columbus Ohio testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased her change of life symptoms including headaches and weakness. The ad extols the remedy's long history of helping women with displacements inflammation and other ailments and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
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Mangal Parrish Auther
Terry
Yellowstone
Maj. Brant
Bethune
Illinois News
Peoria
Winnie Fielder
Supreme Recorder of the
Royal Neighbors of America
Chaddock Military School
Indian Mound Park
Medford Lee
Bond
Tex
Anakesis
Tuanakesis
Edgar M
Kitehin
Ouray Building
Washington, W. C
Coasks
Perignes Sault
Victour Company
New Yorks City
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