Fort Sam Houston Engineers Rush Redoubt and Review
General Carter announced a division review for 4:30 PM tomorrow to display militia student officers and regular division progress. The redoubt by Company K engineers nears completion with bombproof shelters glacis and outer ditch finished, while pontoon units may move to West End lake once water is secured.
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Carter
Austin
L. V. Frazier
West End Dake
Vision
West End Lake
Fort Sam Houston
War notes and aviation progress from the Baltimore American
This morning reports describe barbed wire entanglements and rabbit trap loops to slow attackers, plus Captain Ca ples’s invention. Lieutenant Foulois piloted two flights as the aero squad trains, while nine aviators are chosen for advanced instruction by Aviator Coffyn. A Curtiss biplane is rebuilt after a fatal crash, and a zoo curator seeks $100,000 for improvements as old elephants and autos are joked about.
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W. G. Caples
Foulois
The
Aero Company
Kelly
Aero Squad
Frank T. Coffyn
R. D. Smith
Smith
E. St. J. Greble
Third Field Artillery
H. M
Elephant for sale Offered to Ringling Brothers Circus
Buffalo park officials weigh a $5000 bid from Ringling Brothers for a four ton elephant named Frank. After six months of failed attempts to find a home the city considers selling the giant to improve public safety and avoid killing it.
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Buffalo
Park Board
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
Frank
Minister Pardoned in Kentucky Bigamy Case
Rev. A. C. Pinkston pastor of three congregations, convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three years in the Marion circuit court, was granted a full pardon by Governor Willson who said he acts in the will of the people. The governor believes Pinkston thought his first wife was dead when he remarried.
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Frankfort
Marion
A. C. Pinkston
Willson
Kentucky
Pinkston
Police Called Over Baby Crying On Channing Avenue
In St Louis on Channing avenue neighbors twice called police about a two month old baby crying through the night. After the bottle quieted the infant, officers returned to investigate as humane officers joined the inquiry.
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ST. Louis
Channing Avenue
Lottie Baute
Treasure Hunt Sailors Seek Dowie Loot in Honduras
The steamer Eureka sails from Los Angeles with Captain H. Burtis and sixteen crew to Honduras chasing rumored hidden millions from John Alexander Dowie of Zion City. J. C. Mellen and five associates from Los Angeles lead the treasure expedition.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Honduras
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Eureka
Los Angeles Harbor
Amapo
H. Burtis
J. C. Mellen
Mellen
Explorers Plan Voyage Aimed at Buried Treasure
The captain and associates promised to seek a gold reef they had learned of, while several crew members asserted the voyage's true purpose was the search for buried treasure.
inventor wards off June bugs with garden lamp trap
Watson S. Huff of Flanders New Jersey uses a metal tub with water and a narrow board to support a lantern as a night trap. He places it in the garden to lure and capture thousands of June bugs before they can lay eggs.
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New York
Watson S. Huff
Flanders
N. J
Tobacco and Rye Acreage Shifts in Wisconsin 1909 Report
The 1909 Wisconsin agricultural survey shows 9390 tobacco farms representing 5.3 percent of all farms, with 40 458 acres harvested and 46 909 182 pounds produced. Rye farms total 40 170 (22.7 percent) with 339 123 acres harvested and 4 797 Yorkshire bushels produced. yields average 1 159.4 pounds per tobacco acre and 14.1 bushels per rye acre.
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Wisconsin
Truthful Man Detained Downtown By Baseball
A humorous exchange reveals a man’s confidence in his husband as he jokes that the detained person was caught downtown not for business but for baseball. The line underscores everyday wit in domestic life.
Death by Self Inflicted Wounds in St Louis Chef
Au gust Holstein, 69, former Forest Park Cottage chef, stabbed himself about one hundred times with a pocketknife in his Gravois avenue apartment. Found unconscious at 7 a.m., he was taken to City Hospital where two deep wounds threatened blood loss. he stated he was tired of living and had little known family in St Louis.
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ST. Louis
August Holstein
Forest Park
Schoenlau
Gravois Avenue
J. Youngman
Holstein
Caring for Horses Teeth From Consular Report
Horses on Prince Edward Island are praised for endurance and speed and command high prices. Breeders and farmers hire veterinary dentists yearly to keep teeth in prime condition, removing sharp points and extracting decayed or fractured teeth to prevent mouth injuries and digestive issues.
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Princes Edward Island
Dominion of Canada
Heartbreak Tied to Son's Absence Believed Cause of Death
In Danville on May 26 a broken heart said to stem from a son's refusal to return home led to the insanity and death of David McDaniels. His parents sought Elias McDaniels in Oregon for years, but he refused contact. Mrs. McDaniels' grief reportedly drove her to insanity, her last words naming her son.
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Danville
David McDaniels
Central Hospital For
Elias McDaniels
Oregon
Tarbell Become Oil Trust Millionaire Says Banker
A Chicago banker claims Ida M Tarbell will be a multi millionare due to a Supreme Court ruling against the Standard Oil trust as her father owned the Pennsylvania Oil Company. He says Rockefeller could make Tarbell a director in oil companies now holding stock without consent.
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Chicago
Ill
Ida M. Tarbell
Standard Oil
United States Supreme Court
Miss Tarbell
Pennsylvania Oil Company
The
Standard
Oil
Rockefeller
Ocean home for fish four miles from Atlantic City
Inlet skippers began constructing an artificial fishing bank four miles off Atlantic City. Tons of stone and hulls from old ships will be sunk on a former sand bar spot where weak fish and sea bass fed. Fishermen expect the ocean to finish the work before the season ends and then run fishing parties there.
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Atlantic City
Inlet
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