Loyal lovers find fortune through a Christmas kindness
In Brookville a bachelor, John Lane, arrives on a wintry night with a holiday basket for friends. After an accidental fall he heals with the Ward family's care, helping a widowed mother and children whose husband returns rich in gratitude. The act leads Mr Bernard to invest in John’s business and the couple’s happiness.
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Caroline Good Ridge
John Lane
Brookville
Ward
John
Muriel Ward
Muriel
Magnolia Terrace
Mr. Ward
Bernard
Australia
Ward Home
Mr. Lane
Sterling
W. G. Chapman
Darwin and Fabre Test Bees Homing Instinct in Fortnightly
Henri Fabre describes his experiments inspired by Darwin to trace the bees homing ability. Bees placed in a dark box and carried away, then released after confusing their bearings, still 30 to 40 percent found their hive.
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Henri Fabre
Charles Darwin
Darwin
Fabre
Causes of Wars Across Regions and Time
The text claims civil strife in the Pamirs and Afghanistan arose from a tobacco pipe and jigs retention. A Moor steals a Castile lady's lace petticoat sparking a long conflict. Sweden and Poland’s 1654 war allegedly began over misrendered royal titles in a dispatch. The narrative credits trifling slights with global conflict.
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Pamirs
Afghanistan
Castile
Sweden
Poland
Illinois News Briefly Told Suffrage Upholds Dry Thebes Result
Thebes election contest dismissed after County Judge W O S Dewey ruled the new women's suffrage law upheld and that 192 legal votes opposed saloons to 139 in favor. Other items: Aurora appoints Ann Forsyth policewoman. Pontiac ex Judge Fred White extradition. Aledo murder confession dispute. Decatur printer Schultz identified. Beardstown drainage progress. Jacksonville school physical exams. Crayville shooting. Bloomington farmers receive university ag courses.
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Cairo
Illinois
Thebes
W. O S. Dewey
Dewey
Aurora
Ann Forsyth
Aurora Board of Police and Fire Commissioners
Michels
Miss Forsyth
Chicago Chronicle
A. A.forsyth
Burlington
Pontiac
Fred G. White
Fairbury Bank
David S. Myers
Woodmen of America
Spokane
Wash
W. A. Patterson
White
Woodmen
Aledo
Robert Higgins
North Henderson
John M. Wilson
Alexis
Julia Flake
Decatur
Mont Schultz
Sangamon
Sharon
Pa Shultz
Crayville
Albert Spruell
Roy Upton
Walter Crawley
Spruell
Upton
Bloomington
Matthew T. Scott
University of Ilinois
Scott
Illinois brief notes mix tragedy and politics
Illinois brief items report William Farmer killed on Chicago Alton tracks near Money Creek, marriages and deaths across Pana, Galesburg, Bloomington, Danville, and Chester, a tobacco of local legal actions, and Gray township voting on single commissioner government. The roundup includes a Harrisburg arson case, a tango ban reversal at the University of Illinois, and a high school heating plant accident.
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Towsaga
Chicago & Alton
William Farmer
Money Creek
Chicago
Jacob Goetz
Spokane
Wash
Isabelle N. Sweeney
Portland
Ore
Warren
Pana
Hugo Altman
Ohiman
Hus
Galesburg
Fred Warning
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Eubanks
Carlyle
Clinton Grand Jury
Charles Wilton
Fred Miller
Wilton
Miller
Helen
W. D. Walker
Edinburg
Grayville
Gray Township
Bloomington
Central Illinois
Swedish Lutherans
Roy & N. Elvin
Granville
A. Berghuit
Attica
Ind
A. P. Westerburg
Paxton
Clifton Florence
C. W. Florence
Hot Springs
Ark
Danville
Joseph Rice
St. Joseph
Glover
Aurora
Ludwig Hansen
John P. Glase
Chillicothe (D
Hansen
Glass
University of Illinois
University
Chester
St. Louis
Lydia Read
Illinois
Joseph Babcock
Edwards
Mrs. Moore
President Trades Views on Mexico Crisis With Senate Panel
Washington January conference with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee focused on Mexico policy and arms embargo potential. President Wilson and committee members discussed arbitration treaties with Britain Japan Italy and Portugal and the Panama Colombia dispute details were reviewed.
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Washington
Wilson
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Mnat
Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
Huerta
Texas
Mexico City
White House
Senate Committee
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
Portugal
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Colombia
Panama
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Illinois News
Springfield
Dunne
Hillis Hubbard
WW. C. Hubbard
Harrisburg
Jackson County
Arkan
Hubbards
Hilliss
W. C Hubbard
Committee On Foreign Relations
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