Viola Horlocker Cleared In Poison Candy Trial
Viola Horlocker is found not guilty after a nearly two week district court trial in Hastings charging her with administering poisonous candy to the wife of her employer. The verdict was delivered at 11:20 to 11:40 a.m. amid a restrained court and supportive family scenes. The jury’s decision came after a tense, rapid-delivery deliberation and was greeted by relief from Horlocker and her counsel. An unrelated advertisement for Swanson's Drops Rheumatic Cure follows.
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Viola Horlocker
Hastings
Bratton
Adams
Archibald Forbes Dies War Correspondent in London
Archibald Forbes, famed war correspondent, died in London after years of ill health. He had been unable to write for six months due to rheumatism and paralysis while residing at his London home. His wife was Miss Meigs, daughter of the late United States Quartermaster General M G Meigs.
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K Tombs
London
Archibald Forbes
Miss Meigs
the United States
Gen
M. G. Meigs
Kruger Warns Women to Flee Bloemfontein
A proclamation from President Kruger orders women and children to leave Bloemfontein within five days as he plans to bombard and destroy the city and shoot captured burghers. Also reports a sensational suicide at Niagara Falls where Hippolyte Schneider, a Pittsburg resident, leapt to his death after leaving garbled letters blaming a woman and revealing insanity.
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Kruger
Bloemfontein
Falls
Niagara‘ ‘Falls
N. Y
Goat Island
Luna
Hippolyte Schneider
Pittsburg
Lillian Russell
Infanta Dahlia
Westinghouse Company
Alan Russell
Settlement Averts General Strike Of Chicago Machinists
A conference between union officials and employer representatives produced a national settlement of the machinists strike. The agreement, described as national in scope, postpones a general strike of about 15,000 machinists scheduled for around April 1.
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Chicago
Ite
Kruger tale ends with a note on fair division
A fragment recounts President Kruger solving a property dispute between two brothers by allotting the senior a share while giving the younger the first pick of two narranet options. The excerpt shifts to an advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease, a foot powder sold by Allen S. Olmsted.
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Dcn
Fant Xs
Solaman
Kruger
Narranet
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Parliamentary Interpreters Serve Austro-Hungarian Parliaments
Fragmented notices claim interpreters are employed in Austria-Hungary's provinces to render delegates speeches understandable to all members. The page also advertises various patent medicines and household goods with dated testimonials and promotional claims.
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Austria-Hungary
Peruna Protects Homes Claims From Nebraska Contractor
A Nebraska contractor Carl T. Roberts lauds Peruna remedy for family illnesses including croup pneumonia pleurisy and stomach trouble. Letters from Roberts and others praise Peruna as a preventive and cure, urging households to keep a bottle and noting ongoing health benefits and money saved on doctors. A free work on chronic catarrh is offered by The Peru Medicine Company, Columbus Ohio.
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Nebraska
Carl T. Roberts
Mason
Hartman
James
Stracka
Charlie
John
C. T. Roberts
Falls City
William Youngblood
The
Interior
Washington, D. C
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
T. G. Walker
Carneiro
Kansas
Peru Medicine Company
Last Year’s Copper Output Sets Yearly Record
The copper production of the United States in 1898 was the largest single annual total ever recorded, marking a peak in the nation's mining output.
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United States
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure All Stages
Readers are told Hulls Catarrh Cure is a positive internal cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. The ad claims it cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces, offers 100 dollars for uncured cases, and invites testimonials. Sold by druggists 75 cents, with Hall’s Family Pills recommended.
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Hull
F. J. Cheney & CO
Halls Family
Poor Man Yes Said the Girl Marriage Proposal
Stray Stories presents a brief scene where a girl who has just received a legacy says yes to a marriage proposal. Her friend questions whether the suitor truly needs money, highlighting economic motives in a social moment.
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Swanson
All America
Express
Swanson Rheumatic Cure
Lake St
Poerebpond
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Tella
Elins
Rh Ay Eine
Pleo
Amos Kelner
Cherry Valley, Hl
Parker
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Roberts
Neb
Earth
William Youngglooa
W. L. Douglas
Thorn
W. L. Bouglas
Prockion
Saller
O’parrell
New York Avenue
Washington, D.C
Aest Lin A ml
State Street
Canada
England
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