Secretary Dickinson visits Havana curtailed by storm
The American secretary of war Jacob M. Dickinson cut his Havana trip short due to bad weather. The Mayflower yacht carrying him and the party left Havana Tuesday night, heading directly to Washington. Maj Gen Franklin Bell and other officials visited President Gomez on Wednesday amid tense mood.
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Legiewrr Galle
Havans
Wer
Jacob M. Dickinson
United States
Mayflower
Mit
Havana
Post- Hiteboark
Wreshington
Franklin Bell
Gomen
Jury Sees Confusion In Murder Trial Of Kansas City Couple
In a Kansas City court, a man and his wife face murder charges after a policeman’s death. The defendant complains that jurors ignore his claims and questions why the proceedings unfold as they do. The transcript shows a defendant asserting faith in the legal process while expressing frustration at the trial’s direction.
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Muirilies
Kansas City
Wetetetag
Criminal Court
Sharp
Rogers Dies at 7 in New York City Home
Prominent financier Henry H. Rogers, chief promoter of Amalgamated Copper and driving force behind Standard Oil, dies of a stroke at his residence 3 East Seventy-eighth Street New York City. He suffered a prior stroke in 1907 and had since limited market activity while remaining vice president of Standard Oil. He also served on boards including Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Union Pacific.
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Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil
East Seventy-eighth Street
New York City
Friedly
Rogers
Wall Street
Btandard OM Company
Standard O11
Capitatio
Standard O11 A
Amalgamated ‘Copper Company
Hie
Voard
Atchison, Topeke
Ganta Fe
Chicago
Mil‘waukee and
St. Paul
Union Pectie
Wreck Train Loot Spurs $20,000 Reward Promise
Bandits robbed Passenger train No. 7 between Colbert and Mead Washington securing over $20,000 in loot. Great Northern offers 10,000 reward per bandit. At least twelve people injured as engine and mail car collided after the robbery. Bandits fled, detaching the mail car and fleeing down the track after opening the registry mail.
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Colbert
Meade
Waeh
Purmit
Great Northern
Aly
Twenty Killed by Dynamite Blast in New York Quarry
A premature dynamite blast at Callanan Road Improvement Company quarry near South Bethlehem, New York, killed at least twenty men, including twelve Italian workers. Bodies were hurled hundreds of feet and mangled beyond recognition as dawn neared. Relatives gathered in sorrow while Italians with shovels recovered remains for transport to the engine house acting as a makeshift morgue.
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Callanan Road Improvement Company
Bethlehem
Albany
N.Y
Two Killed in Panama Riot at Christobal Power House
In a clash between Panama police and Canal Zone workers, two Americans died a night of violence. CG M Abbott, an American electrician, and another American in a color van were killed as police crossed into Christobal seeking an escaped prisoner. Regulators faced mobs of West Indians, arrests followed, and later zonal police returned with rifles to hunt those who harmed colleagues. The unrest prompted closures as forces clashed and gunfire rang out.
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Panama
Canal Zone
M. Abbott
Christobal
Children Strangely Taken Twins Die Nearly in Ohio
Twin children Helen and Edward Koch of Youngstown Ohio died within three minutes of each other after collapsing during play. Coroner Klyne to hold autopsies to determine cause as officials fear poisoning after the siblings died in convulsions.
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Helen
Edward Koch
Justice A. Koch
Youngstown
Ohio
Klyne
Patchen Wilkes Farm prepares training at Kentucky track
The Patchen Wilkes Stock Farm will begin training operations at the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Amortation track. The Columbus Ohio team, former champions, opened the season by losing seven straight games. Jobe B. Taylor, famed horse racing and baseball magnate of Freeport, IL, injured from a buggy fall. A Goldfield Nevada crowd offered 51000 for a fight between Puck Johnson and James J. Jeffries to take place later in the session of mining congress. Dererour Morris involvement unclear.
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Patchen Wilkes Stock Farm
Kentucky
Columbus
Ohio
Jobe B. ‘Taylor
Hore
Freeport
Til
Goldfield
Nev
Puck Johnson
James J. Jeffries
Gare
Supgress
Dererour Morris
Aetos
Pashiuanicss Vow Doctors York Now Speeosow Fix Fashionable Dag
A garbled report describes a medical group in York addressing a fashionable daily routine. A woman travels from New Fors to Newport with a companion kept for a week. Details mention daily care, a queen Anne style cottage, and routines before walks.
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York
Newport
Berause
Mily
Tia
Lele
Nothing in Sight Life Had Lost Antn Mrs J O Wechwertor
An obituary style note from Mrs J O Wechwertor of Lafayette Street Murfntll Missouri describes illness and recovery. She recalls doctors saying a disease weakened her and kidney issues caused fatigue. After taking Doane Ritwny Pile twelve boxes cured her, she now enjoys better health. ad claims Foster Milburn Co. 5 cents a box. An unrelated ad promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder for corns and foot care from Allen S. Glnated le Moy NY.
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Lafayette St
Muretnll, Mo
Todd Bright
Foster Milburn Co
Buttaly
N.Y
Olives from California and curious boarder banter
A long excerptless item recounts a traveler’s tale of ripe olives from California and the peculiar process of pickling them, noting their intense bitterness and the admonition that brine should remove it. Interwoven are brief vignettes on a dining room boarder, a talky minister’s wife, and snippets of domestic humor from a period newspaper page.
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California
New York
Christmas aboard the St Lawrence unfolds a tale of intrigue
In a long naval narrative set aboard the St Lawrence, Miss Thorne faces personal trials amid Christmas preparations at sea. Crew members scheme around gifts, a Christmastree subplot unfolds, and Captain Kerr and Stewart navigate tensions as Miss Thorne bears a heavy unspoken burden during holiday scenes at sea.
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Mies
Thorne
Charlie Hudson
Coean
Raimage
Kerr
Suki Cardonord
Suki Cardonord Freukee, and Young Hudson Wert
Stewart
Mr. Stewart
Mise Thorne
Tatan
The
St. Lawrence
Seals and a Pet That Troubled a Seaside Home
A tale describes a seal found near the seaside taken home as a pet. It grew fond of the house, wandered to the rocks for water, then cried to be let in. After weeks it vanished following a dinner trip, and old playmates helped lure it away. Another note tells of seals escaping a keeper's cage and swarming the menagerie.
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Crewe Hall
Lord Crewe
St. James
Street
Crewe
Soung
Dat
Tim
Eevan
Jhow
Tricked of the Time and the Irish Gardener
A Philadelphia lawyer who spends much of his time at his country estate talks with a sturdy Irish gardener about Ireland. The lawyer notes it is dark midnight in Ireland, and the gardener replies that Ireland never got justice yet.
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Philadelphia
Ireland
Michael
Bartered Bride Opera Seats Spark Mix Up in New York
An early Metropolitan Opera House call reveals a mix up as Max Hirach jokes that two seats are reserved for The Bartered Bride. The anecdote highlights a public fascination with opera in New York despite mixed opera education.
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New York
New Opera
Max Hirach
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan 7
New York Sun
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
A newspaper notice proclaims Ila Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure known to medicine for catarrh. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offers a $100 reward for any case not cured, and instructs readers to send for materials from the Toledo address. Also promotes Wall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Adress Fo, CO
Toledo
Roth
Dengelets
Wall
Boston coffee pun sparks chatter at the counter
A customer asks why Boston coffee requires cream first and a waiter explains the tradition in a witty exchange cited by the Chicago Tribune. The joke hinges on the name Boston coffee and the cream-first method, highlighting playful language in everyday dining.
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Chicago Tribune
Fragments From A Page On Names Frames And A Lesson
A jumbled excerpt discusses Castoria branding, a discontented mother with her tall daughter, and a tale about a Chicago photograph shop owner gifting a frame. It also cites James Knox Polk’s name pronunciation and a quip about Roosevelt, hinting at accuracy standards and lessons from the past.
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James Knox Polk
Roosevelt
All Who Would Enjoy Good Health Through Right Living
The piece emphasizes healthy living and timely simple remedies. It highlights medicine use when needed but promotes the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Fig Codas Senna as a superior laxative unique to the company. It urges truthful presentation of health topics and the value of proper timing in relief.
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California Fig Byrup Co. Hc
California Fig Gyrap Co
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Marner
Promsborat
Amalgamated Copper Company
Jobs D. Archbold
Tie Shoullera
Alix John
Myumuroing
Me Hind
Montran
Bint Iving
Oarelom
Tase
Bint
Vera Lahis
Thorne Hind
War Jong
Ince Deael
Prafr
Terry
Abe
Howe
Charlie Mushon
Harily
Wyrien
Kart Ale
Mother Part
Hudson
W Amite
Todien
Steward
Promledt
Seanear
Recipient
Hustanor
Sorimtet
Alan
Misa Thorne
Mr Stewart
Miss Thorne
Charlie Hudsy
Jocko
Ortsom Swett Marden
Success Magazine
Faneen Coral Soll
Wholesale
Castoria
Wation
Winslow
Kat C. Goodwin
Afras
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