Smugglers Ambush on Rio Grande Ends in Death
Dick McConnell, a U S customs river guard, was ambushed while riding with his wife and two daughters near Hidalgo Texas. He fired back killing one Mexican. he was wounded by knives and bullets as the attackers fled into the Rio Grande. The incident left his hat pierced and a boat with a tequila cache found nearby.
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Rio Grande
Dick McConnell
McConnell
J. R. Clark
Clark
Husband
Famous East Texas family with 33 children in one household
A Texas family near Keéré in Adler Bratch community is noted for a large clan led by Ike Clews. He has 33 children from three marriages, with three sons named John. He owns 646 acres and often parcels land to his children without deeds. An oil lease requires sixteen signatures.
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Palestine
Tex
Texas
Ike Clews
Adler Bratch
Keéré
Ike
John
Iké
Miner Held on Bigamy Charge After Three Wives Accuse
Michael Merko of Freeland Pennsylvania faced a bigamy charge after three women, including Sandy Kunminer, claimed he married them. Merko was jailed after failing to post a $1,000 bail. He defended the situation with a defiant remark about a man’s duty to marry when a woman asks.
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Freeland
Michael Merko
Sandy Kunminer
Merko
Shifts in New York City Women’s Professions 1910 to 1920
A ten year survey shows rising numbers of women in law practice publishers writers and executives in New York City. Fewer barbers manicurists seamstresses and laundresses indicate a shift from lower paid labor to higher paid occupations though medicine saw a decline from 588 doctors and surgeons in 1910 to 27 in 1920.
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New York City
New York
Fruits and Berries Crosses and Citrus Through History
The loganberry forms from blackberry and raspberry, and peaches carry lower sugar than most fruits. Bananas top calories among common fruits, while cranberries treat erysipelas externally and internally. Apples aid digestion and hold high medicinal value, grapefruit origin traced to Spain as pomelo, lemons easing feverish thirst and various ailments, and many fruits once unknown to forefathers. The Baldwin apple emerged from a Wilmington Massachusetts seedling in the mid eighteenth century.
Pointed Paragraphs and Proverbial Thoughts from a Daily News
A mosaic of aphorisms questions wealth and luck and mocks self served justice. It riffs on rainbows slowing harvest life and marriage with a skeptical voice. The piece closes noting political vindication as a sign that people are repeatedly misled.
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Chicago” Daily News
Soliloquies Reflections on Worry and Family Bonds
A compact meditation on gender expectations and social ties. It contrasts women’s worry with mute agreement in men and notes that relatives seldom become true friends due to lack of choice. It also reflects on paternal bias and claimed uniqueness of one’s own child.
Maxims of Franklin on prudence and conduct
The fragment cites Franklin style maxims urging diligence and frugality. It warns against waste of purse and mind, notes that large vessels may venture far but small boats stay near shore, and uses a cautionary tone about sloth and fear of fire among other adages.
Trainside Texas Wedding Sees Supreme Court Justice United Says Couple
On a Texas bound train in San Antonio a romance culminated in a wedding between Weldon Bailey and Electra Wag goner Wharton. Chief Justice Nelson Phillips helped arrange license while Rev. D D South performed the ceremony at his home after a late night call. The bride heiress Electra Wag goner Wharton is daughter of Fort Worth cattleman W T Waggoner and is reported worth 10 million dollars. The groom, son of former Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey, planned a ranch near Tucson Arizona.
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Tex
Mack Sennett
Supreme Court
Weldon Bailey
Electra Waggoner Wharton
W. T. Waggoner
Fort Worth
South
Weldon
United States
Joseph Weldon Bailey
Virginia University Law Department
Nelson Phillips
Texas Supreme Court
Bailey
Judge Phillips
Waco
D. D. South
Mrs. Wharton
California
Bill's cow Lucinda milk theft by two snakes in Connecticut
Westport resident Bill Bedient found his cow Lucinda in a pasture with two black snakes sucking her milk. He chased and killed both snakes, and recovered churned butter they had produced from the milk. No market for the butter.
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Westport
Conn
Bill Bedient
Bill
Lucinda
Peter
Gothenburg plans aerial harbor with city port tie
Gothenburg prepares to build an aerial harbor linked to its free port and marine facilities. A corporation will operate the airport with city authorities, with a future option for the city to buy shares and take control after ten years.
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Gothenburg
Sweden
Sky
Bulla
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