Forbidden to Wed Relatives Bar Licenses in Chase
Frederick Renard of Oakland Nebraska 84 seeks to marry 22 year old Nellie Craig heiress of a $200000 estate. Relatives fear hidden motives and rush to block licenses by seeking guardianship paperwork to delay the union. Renard and the younger Renards have since been pursued across the countryside.
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Omaha
Neb
Frederick Renard
Oakland
Nellie Craig
Renard
Miss Craig
Knox County
Doubt Cast On Eye Testing With Atropine Use
Doctors Cannaday and Hoffman challenge the efficacy of atropine eye testing noting no clinician can gauge full cycloplegia or know when a patient is fully under the drug. They admit using atropine in about two percent of cases and suggest some equate its use to justify high fees.
Aged Suitor Faces Eight Injunctions in Omaha
The report notes a competition for licenses with several others ahead in securing court access and obtaining injunction papers. They reached Omaha today and eight injunctions have been issued against the elderly suitor.
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Omaha
Corby Parish Customs Recalled Tolls Jury Service
In Corby near Kettering residents are exempt from market tolls and jury service by an old custom dating to Elizabeth I. Once every twenty years the parishioners are placed in the public stocks and the parson with two friends kept in stocks for about an hour reviving the ancient practice.
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Fftteen
Elizabeth
Corby
Kettering
Alfred Austin Poet Laureate Career Overview
Alfred Austin, the poet laureate aged 67, educated at Stonyhurst and Oscott, took his degree in London. He was called to the bar and practiced until 1861 when he published The Season a Satire and began a literary career. He has published many volumes of verse, three novels, and numerous reviews, becoming poet laureate in 1896 and publishing England's Darling and The Conversion of Wincklemann, plus a later miscellaneous volume.
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Alfred Austin
Stonyhurst
St. Mary's College, Oscott
London
England
Wincklemann
Exposition to Sign Sunday-Closing Contract with Shaw
President Francis authorized by the exposition directors to sign a contract with Leslie M Shaw secretary of the treasury pledging not to operate on Sundays. The action follows Shaw's request to comply with the federal act providing 5 million dollars and states no vouchers for salary or expenses will be paid until the contract is signed.
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St. Louis
Francis
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Shaw
National Commission
The
Sentinel
Daily
Weekly Sentinel
Anl
Botanic Blood Balm Promises Cure for Skin Diseases
An Atlanta based Blood Balm Company offers Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a cure for eczema scrofula ulcers blood poison and other skin diseases. Free samples and medical advice are offered while the product sells for $1 per large bottle at Sedalia druggists.
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Sedalia
W. E. Bard Drug Co
W L Jones Announces General Transfer Services
W L Jones calls attention to a general transfer business offering coal and wood hauling garbage hauling moving of all kinds and serves Queen City No 444.
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W. L. Jones
Queen City No
Tax dodgers locked up rector’s far England parish crime
A historical paragraph notes American tax dodgers and contrasts them with a church rector in an English parish who went to unusual lengths. The piece highlights social tension around taxation and church authority without graphic detail.
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England
German Reader Credits Pain Balm Cure in Wife
George Schaub of New Lebanon Ohio reports his wife suffered eight weeks of back pain until using Chamberlains Pain Balm. He notes she felt renewed after a few days and the unbearable pains vanished before finishing the bottle. The liniment is sold by Mertz & Hale J L Kautzman Otis W Smith and all druggists.
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George Schaub
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volkszeitung
Chamberlain
Mertz & Hale
J. L. Kautzman
Otis W. Smith
Governor Gage Frees Notorious Prisoner as Chef at Home
California Governor Gage faces blowback after granting parole to Mah Noon from San Quentin. Described as a dangerous high-binder, Noon was recently released to serve as a chef in the governor’s residence. Noon had been sentenced to fourteen years for attempted murder and for wounding a police officer.
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Gage
California
San Quientin
Mah Noon
Mah
Rocky Mountain Tea Sells Pretty Hats in Ad
An advertisement from W. E. Bard Drug Co. promotes Rocky Mountain Tea with a playful three-girl lineup. It contrasts a pretty girl in an alpine hat, a sweeter girl with a sailor brim, and a sensible, Rocky Mountain Tea–using girl as the handsomest.
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W. E. Bard Drug Co
Rustic Missouri couple wed and seek train lodging
Rumor hot among travelers tells of a rustic Missouri couple who married recently and boarded a train for their honeymoon. In a Pullman car the groom asks for the best accommodation, joking with a sleeping car attendant about seeking a berth for the night.
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Missouri
Ham
Castoria's Trusted Formula Across Rothschild Residences
An excerpt mentions Castoria and its familiar branding linked to Lord Rothschild's properties in Piccadilly and Tring as well as other Rothschild residences, describing widespread use and traditional trust across notable homes.
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Lord Rothchild
Piccadilly
Tring
Rothchild
Eith
Unfinished Stone Marker Signaling Temporary Jewish Dwelling
The text notes a rough unfinished stone left in a conspicuous place inside a building, reflecting a rule of Orthodox Jews who have no permanent dwelling until return to the holy land. The incomplete stone serves as a token of temporary, ongoing construction.
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England
Continent
Holy Land
A Faithful Servant Retires From AP Correspondent Post
Major Charles J. Osborn, longtime AP correspondent in St. Louis since 1855, retires from the post but will stay on in advisory capacity. The piece also notes Baron Dillon Jr., a famed trotter, racing at Newton track in Cleveland with a 2:20 effort and plans for a 2:16 stake engagement, with a telegram from Sweet Springs, Missouri.
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Charles J. Osborn
The
Associated Press
St. Louis
Springs
Cleveland
Baron Dillon, Jr
Newton
Baron Dillon
Soaphorse
Herald
Good for Baron Dillon Bb F Swaggard of Sweet
A brief item notes Good for Baron Dillon and mentions Bb F Swaggard of Sweet in a compact, period tone. The readable text points to a possibly local racing or horse related line with two named individuals or entities.
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Baron Dillon
Bb. F. Swaggard
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