Baby on Train Car Draws Curious Gaze of Six Women
A Chicago Tribune reporter recounts a curious incident on an Indian Avenue streetcar on May 6. A fashionably dressed mother, reading a morning paper, held her baby across her lap provoking astonished glances as the child’s wool booties touched her cheek. After a moment she turned the baby, then rode to the next car rather than face the crowd again.
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Xen
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Twentieth Street
Indiana Avenue
Wabash Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Nnsiana Avenae
Nest
Absent Minded Spat Over Hat at City Store
In a Chicago Daily News item a blonde and brunette clashed on State Street outside a large department store. The brunette scolded, the blonde claimed a hat forgotten, and amid shoppers the two headed toward the millinery department as the crowd grew restless.
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Lali
State Street
Chicago Daily News
Aal Ploat
Real Ostrich Hunt at Lincoln Park Ends in Aerial Escape
A Chicago report details an ostrich at Lincoln Park Zoo leaping from a high death by own action bridge into the lagoon after a dogged chase led by Animal-Keeper Cy De Vry. The bird then eluded pursuers before being captured with a rope lasso and returned to the zoo. Also noted is a case of a Reading pa woman legally dead since 1883, with a San Francisco lawyer seeking recognition of her alive status.
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Chicago
Ubronese
Lincoln Park
Sahara
Cy de Vry
de Vry
Alreays
Somerset
Leake Michigan
Zoo
Josk
Hut den
Margaret Cunnins
Reading
Berron
San Francisco
Cunniis
German Volunteer Swaps Guard Duty For A Thousand Dollars
A Cleveland volunteer nicknamed Louis, beloved by comrades, deserts his post for sleep. In a rain soaked night he negotiates with a colonel to cash in on his guard duty, offering a thousand dollars to end the task. The colonel, impressed by Louis’s sacrifice, accepts his terms.
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Wisconsin
Louis
Snake Still Legends In Tennessee Yard Hen Nest Tale
In Harteville Tennessee James L Dalton recalls four large snakes six feet long roving a hen’s nest, coiling around the bird to steal eggs, only to be slain by Dalton with a hoe and later by his wife’s alarm. The yard saga is said to have driven the snakes from the area. Also notes a muzzle loader snipe shooting record in Ceylon and typical daily gunning rates.
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Harteville
James L. Dalton
Willard
Datlen
Ceylon
Tronohell
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Henry Menger
West Commerce ST
Hamilton Brown
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Tellte Aten Cir
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N. Plorea
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Houston Street
N, Mackey
ELITE
Cabo Open Air
Main Plaza
Soledad Sts
San Antonio
Texas
Tetas Pi
M. Herweck
Wertzberg, Opsigian
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Kampmann Building
W. G. Wagner
Leal
San Marcos
Jonn Hambleton
Daily Light Building
Tpar Commerce Street Bridge
Jay
Edith
Toulse
Millinary Department
Hegan
Nepin
Chicago's
Bird
Dex
Tennessee
Coled
John T
Hambleton & Co
Home Circle
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the Daily Light
Addrons
T. B. Johnson
Nonoge
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