Mob Hangs Negro Who Shot Pickets at Fort Worth Yard
A mob of about 30 lynched Fred Rouse a black strike breaker at the Fort Worth stock yards after he wounded two union pickets. He was taken from the city hospital, hurried to a tree near the yards and hanged. Police seek mob members as hospital staff testified to the incident.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Fred Rouse
Rouse
Harry Hamilton
Tom Vickery
Miss Bessie Slaton
Last Lincoln Pallbearer Charles Hart Dies in San Francisco
Charles B. Hart, claimed last surviving Lincoln pallbearer, died in San Francisco. Civil War Union Army veteran and friend of the martyred president, he had lived with a son here in recent years. Hart was born in Vermont in 1842.
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Lincoln
San Francisco
Charles B. Hart
Vermont
Four Policemen Killed in Managua Street Clash
Four police officers died and one was wounded when police tried to separate a fight in Managua between American marines and civilians. Two marines were wounded in the clash.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Attempt to Slay Jap Premier Intercepted in Tokio
Police thwart another assassination attempt on Premier Tagahasai. Several suspects arrested as the premier later heads a cabinet meeting. Fatal gas blast at Southern Anthracite Mine No. 2 in Russellville Ark leaves one dead, two fatally injured, three seriously burned.
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Tokio
Tagahasai
Russellville
Ark
Southern
Anthracite Mining Company
Here
Bank Robbery in Miami Oklahoma Ends with Fatal Wounding
Three bandits robbed Cardin State Bank in Tar River Oklahoma causing one robber to be killed and another fatally wounded as a third escaped with about $5,000. Local authorities pursue suspects and investigate the heist.
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Oklahoma Bank
Miami
Okla
Cardin State Bank
Tar River
Oila
Rival Factions Clash as Belfast Crowds Stone Each Other
Rival crowds in Belfast hurled stones at each other until police dispersed the clashes. No injuries are reported in the brief street confrontation.
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Belfast
Hawkeye State News Capsule Highlights Accidents and Crime
Webster City resident James Humbert was seriously injured when a tree collapsed during cutting. Davenport saw two bandits flee with 140 dollars in cash and a 20 dollar check from a soft drink parlor. In Sioux City a clash between striking workers and plant staff left one man stabbed and fatally injured, authorities said.
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James Humbert
Webster City
William Nienstedt
Davenport
Sioux City
Otto Schaefer
Miss Grapinski
Joseph Beath
Corning
Frank
William Headrick
Atlantic
Headrick
P. J. Sheckenroth
Bennett
Northwestern Securities Company of Daven
Bort
Linograph Investments Company
William N. Gilbert
State Center
Iowa House of Representatives
Walter Lynn
Moville
M. J. Barthell
Waukon
Ferdinand Roth
Mr. Roth
Charlie Lane
William Evans
Brandon
Evans
A. E. Mullen
Ottumwa
Burlington Railroad
Adva
Boots
Emil
Chariton
Ralph Robinson
Mullen
George Smith
Iowa
War Finance Corporation
Eugene Meyer
Missouri
Aurelia
Samuel Jones
Masonic Lodge
Dudley Smith
Jones
The School Hero Changes
Arthur Chapman notes in the New York Tribune that school fiction shifts away from sensational heroics. He cites Abrartes and Tushtushville prep as examples where boys no longer win games single handedly. Libraries praise calmer plots and deeper character work to let the hero succeed believably.
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Abrartes
Paser
Tushtushville Prep
Arthur Chapman
The
New York Tribune
Measurements and the two foot rule in a Clyde boatyard
A laborer measuring an iron plate with a two foot rule misreads it. The plater asks for the size and the worker replies with a humorous description: the length of the rule plus two thumbs, a brick, and the breadth of his hand and arm to the finger. This comic anecdote comes from Everybody's Magazine.
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Clyde
Mick
Everybody’s Magazine
Just So Son Papa Exchange About Cosmetics
An abstract exchange notes cosmetics as peach preserves in a dialog. A weather aside hints that a full day of rain can turn a blue Sunday into blue-black, with no further context or action.
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Wyther
Fairies Not Mythical Says Anthropological Address
A Brit ish association talk argues fairies were a real, short swarthy race living underground. They were hunters and thieves with a language, counted by fives, and a passion for music and dancing.
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British Association
Automatic dual-water pump with double-acting valve
A single pump with a patented six-opening double-acting valve automates switching between hard-water and soft-water supplies. Three pistons within the cylinder move with pressure changes to seal ports correctly, allowing soft water to flow while closing hard-water paths and vice versa.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Old Spanish Bell Found on Copalis Beach
A 500 pound bronze bell with a partially blurred Spanish inscription was unearthed on the Copalis Beach in Washington during an exceptionally low tide. Believed to originate from a 200 year old wrecked exploring vessel bound for a Mexican or South American colony, the bell was not for mission use and remains partly gilded with traces of gold.
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San A
Copalis
Wash
Pacific
Mexico
House at Greater Altitude Than Andes Claim
Mr W Harcourt-Bath in Nature asserts a house in the Donkin pass Tibet at about 18 400 feet, occupied each summer by a Tibetan outpost of four or five men. This exceeds Professor Bowman's cited 17 100 feet in Southern Peru.
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W. Harcourt-Bath
Bowman
Andes
Peru
Donkin Pass
Tibet
Harcourt- Bath
Donetz Basin Coal Fields Output in 1921
The Donetz basin in southern Russia tops the country for coal. In March 1921 it yielded 530,480 long tons, about 60 percent of Soviet Russia's total and 75 percent of Europe’s share. By July 1921 output fell to 161,320 tons.
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Donetz Basin
Donetz
Russia
United States Department of Commerce
Soviet Russia
Europe
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs J H Meyer of Orange California says doctors warned of a serious operation for tumors and ulcers yet she was cured after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She reports restored health allowing daily work and walking miles with her husband
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Orange
Cal
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. H. Meyer
South Orange St
California
Evidently a Very Old Fashioned Couple
A brief exchange notes a long married life. The couple is described as evidently old fashioned, implying traditional values and lasting union in a compact fragment.
California Fig Syrup Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement extols California Fig Syrup as a universal remedy for constipation in children. It promises quick cleansing of the bowels and a return to a well, playful child within hours, urging mothers to ask pharmacists for the genuine product with proper directions on the bottle.
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California
Women urged to try Swamp-Root for kidney issues
The ad targets thousands of women with kidney and bladder trouble, linking back pain, headaches, and fatigue to kidney disease. It promotes Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, advises buying a bottle or sending ten cents for a sample, and notes to mention the newspaper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
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New York City
Colgate
Buckles
Nu-Way Street Suspender Co
Mfrs
Adrian, Mich
Agems
Opt Supply Co
Park St
le Mars
Fairies
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