Bunko King Dead and Oddities Parade in Headlines
A jumble of quips notes Bunko King is dead while bunkoers linger and Finland pursues a mystery man. Cats adopt motherless rabbits shock boarders as New York loses twenty two millionaires but none are mourned. London club calls themselves the oysters and whistling is blamed for cures and crimes. Washington considers a new team name after discarding Senators. Treasury reports debts around seventeen and a half million. A Chicago ad pegs a wealthy man seeking a poor but honest wife. An anti trust drive aims to bust the golf ball trust as meat trust fights loom.
Advertising Advice From a Quotation Fragment
A clipped quotation suggests a paradoxical tip about advertising. It implies claiming wealth and a desire to marry to attract attention and then hiring a secretary to manage correspondence. The fragment presents a dated, ironic marketing notion without context or follow up.
Ingenious Inventions and Oddities in Brief
A column of quirky notes includes turning a buggy into an automobile, fast fixes for awkward drivers, New York inspectors adopting coats with fifteen pockets, and a judge who presided from a hotel bed while nursing rheumatism. Also, Extra Smith fined in Pottstown for failing to support his wife and a Chicago woman awarded $999 after a railroad conductor squeezed her hand.
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New York Custom House
Supreme Court
Extra Smith
Pottstown
Chicago
Untold Opinions Stir Breakfast Club Remarks
Mrs Philip Carpenter voices views at breakfast praising the idea that a deaf man should stay back within a club circle. The remark touches on aging ideas about women and prompts thoughts on a New York physician’s controversial stance against idiots.
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Philip Carpenter
New York
Supreme Court Decision on Beef Packers Sparks Interest
Public interest grows over a Supreme Court ruling affecting beef packers. Reports suggest the decision could influence beef prices and steak costs, though exact impacts remain debated among observers.
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Supreme Court
When a New York Man Was Fined $25
A New York man faced a $25 fine and his wife along with eight aunts and female cousins swooned. The joke ponders what would have happened if the fine had been $25.49, implying greater shock at the higher amount.
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New York
King Leopold Returns to Horse power in Eccentric Shift
King Leopold of Belgium calls a halt to cars and rides a horse again, signaling a whimsical return to traditional transit. The dispatch notes no clear reason, suggesting perhaps a simple change of pace or a “in the machine shop” transformation.
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Leopold
Belgium
Woman cites egg loan in divorce plea as odd reason
A divorce case centered on a peculiar claim that the mother-in-law refused to lend a single small egg. The defense speculates the egg might have been coal, highlighting the unusual argument in court.
Sioux Falls Girl Impresses With Psychic Feats Fraud Revealed
A 16 year old in Sioux Falls showcases table movement and mind reading as psychic feats while skeptics question how the acts are performed. The article notes she remains unexplainable and suspected of fraud.
Protests Against Football Fail to Rally in Fall
The most emphatic protests against football are rarely voiced in autumn when earnest protesters are occupied with work or attending games. The observation notes that critics lack time to organize amid schedules and routines.
National Solons Will Work Hard This Week
Washington will see the Senate push seven major appropriation bills to finish before adjournment. The Swayne impeachment, naval, Indian, post office, pension, and sundry civil bills dominate a week expected to extend daily sessions and even run all night. The House also begins its final week with sundry civil and deficiency bills, while conference reports on statehood and Panama canal measures loom.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Swayne
Post Office
Gorman
House
Cannon
Sea Level Canal Plan Approved for Panama Channel
Washington reports the Isthmian Canal Commission endorses a sea level canal with a 150 foot bottom width and 35 foot depth, twin Udal locks at Mira Flores, 1000 by 100 feet, at an estimated total cost of 230.5 million dollars. Construction expected to take ten to twelve years using American steam shovels.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Burr
Parsons
Davis
Commission
Miraflores
Panama
Colon
River and Harbor Bill Under Consideration in Senate
Washington February 27 The river and harbor appropriation bill was under consideration at two meetings of the Senate committee as leaders debated funding and project scope.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee Approves House Bill Amendments
The Senate committee on commerce has considered the senate amendments to the house bill. Nearly all proposed amendments have been adopted, increasing the total bill by more than 10 million dollars beyond the house passed version.
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Senate Committee On Commerce
Senate
House
To Pay Indian Award
Washington February 27 Justice Anderson in the equity court refused to refrain the government from paying any award of 750000 dollars in connection with the recovery of Indian lands from legal claimants under an award of the fee to them by the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizenship court.
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Washington
Justice Anderson
Equity Court
Strikes End in Rio Grande Porto Rico Says Governor
Secretary Tray reports from Porto Rico that strikes in Rio Grande ended in January per cable from Governor Winthrop, countering representations of a serious strike in the village.
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Porto Rico
Washington
State Department
Rio Grande
Tray
Winthrop
Regulation of Private Car Lines Backed by Georgia Growers
Representative Bartlett of Georgia introduced in the house a resolution endorsed by the Georgia Peach growers association urging regulation of private car lines. The measure seeks oversight and standards for privately operated carrier services affecting Georgia agricultural shipments and commerce.
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Washington
Bartlett
Georgia
Georgia Peach Jrowers’ Association
British Ambassador signs Zanzibar rights treaty in Washington
Washington February 27 Sir Mortimer Durand the British ambassador signed with Secretary Hay a treaty that ends the United States extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar transferring jurisdiction to local authorities and marking a shift in colonial diplomacy.
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Zanzibar
Washington
Mortimer Durand
Hay
Uus
Quarles Nomination Withdrawn By President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt will withdraw Senator J W Quarles Wisconsin nomination to be United States district judge. Quarles requested the move citing constitutional limits on appointing a current senator to a post with increased emoluments during his term. The Hoar bill had raised judge salaries to 6000 dollars, making the plan plausible after March 4.
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Washington
Roosevelt
J. W. Quarles
Wisconsin
United States
Quarles
Congress
Senate
Spooner
Hold Two for 50000 Theft at Boston Department Store
Boston police arrested John R. Keefe age 34 and Charles H. Gretsinger age 51 on warrants charging larceny of 50000 from Jordan Marsh over five years. Dennis H. Carroll was arrested weeks earlier. Authorities say the pair in shipping forged fraudulent invoices to obtain checks and split proceeds, part of a larger conspiracy.
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Boston
Jordan-Marsh Company
John R. Keefe
Charles H. Gretsinger
Dennis H. Carroll
Body in Paris cemetery misidentified as John Paul Jones
A lead coffin bearing an Englishman's name plate misleads researchers into believing it was John Paul Jones. Under Ambassador Porter's supervision, the deciphering continues to locate the correct remains near the Protestant cemetery, linking excavation sites to Jones' era.
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Paris
John Paul Jones
Jones
Ambassador Porter
Woman Throws Carbolic Acid at Republican Leader in St Louis
In St Louis on February 27 Jeptha D Howe, chairman of the Republican city central committee, was attacked when a young woman named Miss Mamie, previously employed as his stenographer, splashed carbolic acid into his eyes in his office.
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St. Louis
Jeptha D. Howe
Republican City Central Committee
Mamie
Fatal Accident Ends Young Lovers Playful Shooting
Adimore Illinois February 27. Miss Bessie Irby 18 daughter of Marshal J P Irby accidentally shot and killed Clarence Morgan her sweetheart. The couple were handling a gun believed unloaded when the tragedy occurred.
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Adimore
I. T
Bessie Irby
J. P. Irby
Clarence Morgan
Japanese Gain First Victory In War News Flash
News from St. Petersburg reports Russian forces under Gen. Kouropatkin suffering heavy losses on the left flank as Japanese troops advance beyond Da pass. The intervention of Nogi’s gunners near Port Arthur adds to Russian fears, while Russian and Japanese forces contend at pivotal passes southeast of Mukden.
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St. Petersburg
Kouropatkin
Nogi
Port Arthur
On Pass
da Pass
Mukden
Taitse
Gripenberg
Hun River
Fushun
Tsinkhetchen
Sanlunyu
Papin Pass
Sanlunya
Vladivostok
Rojesivensky
Confederate reunion sponsor chosen in Louisville
General Stephen B. Lee announces Miss Carrie Peyton Wheeler daughter of General Joseph Wheeler as sponsor for the south at the Confederate reunion to be held in Louisville on June 14 15 and 16. Wheeler selects Miss Lena Swift of Atlanta and Miss Clara Hall of Louisville as maids of honor.
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Louisville
Stephen B. Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Carrie Peyton Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
Wheeler
Lena Swift
Atlanta
Clara Hall
Zionist Colony Planned for Mexico Sugar Cane Project
Mexico City on February 27 reports Prophet Dowle of Zion City is expected to arrive from Cuba. A Zionist colony is believed to be planned in the hot country, focusing on growing sugar canes and coffee.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Bank President Is Arrested in Embezzlement Case
Sidney Ohio February 27 John H Waener president of the defunct German American bank which failed last August with liabilities around 800000 has been arrested charged with embezzlement.
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Sidney
Ohio
Johnh. Waener
Citizens Resent Appointment In Pike County
Evansville Indiana February 27 T W Basinger county auditor Pike county was hanged in effigy by protesters over his appointment of Theodore Gladish township trustee.
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Evansville
Ind
T. W. Basinger
Pike County
Theodore Gladish
Pittsburg Farm Sale Sets City Real Estate Record
Pittsburg February 27 reports what is described as the largest real estate deal in the city’s history. The gate to the Schenley farm, located in the center of the deity, is sold for about 3 million dollars.
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Pittsburg
Schenley Farm
New Orleans Fire Destroys Illinois Central Terminals
Fire swept the Stuyvesant docks destroying vast Illinois Central freight terminals including two modern grain elevators and vast cotton and sugar stocks. Losses may exceed 5 million dollars with injuries to firemen and dock workers. export business across the docks halted as trains and ships faced wreckage and removal efforts.
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New Orleans
Hinots Central
Stuyvesant
Illinois Central
Louisiana Avenue
Napoleon Avenue
Floods In Italy Leave Bari City Homeless
A severe flood in Bari, Italy, has left twenty thousand people homeless and many families missing. Authorities fought through the night with torchlight to rescue those trapped by the rising waters.
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Italy
Rome
Bari
Murderer Sentenced in Macouyn County Circuit Court
Hines Suthin pleaded guilty to murder for the April killing of John Fel lerton in Girard. In Carlinville the Macouyn county circuit court sentenced him to an indefinite term at Chester penitentiary.
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Springfield
Hines Suthin
John Fellerton
Girard
Macouytn
Carlinville
Chester ‘Penitentiary
Daly Promoted to Passenger Traffic Manager on Vanderbilt Lines
A reorganization affecting three Vanderbilt east of Chicago roads has promoted C. F. Daly from Assistant General Passenger Agent to Passenger Traffic Manager for Lake Shore Michigan Central and Lake Erie and Western. Daly joined Chicago from Lake Erie & Western three years ago and is praised as a capable railroad operator. No one has been displaced, with further changes expected but not yet announced. The article also features a humorous inserted quote about money from the Washington Star.
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Chicago
C. FE. Dnly
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Lake Erie and Western
Mr. Daly
Lake Erie & Western
Daly
Vanderbilt
Baron Graham’s Epic Cure For Appetite
Baron Graham asked an epic cure how many oysters to eat to improve his dinner appetite. He was told to eat until he became hungry. He ate ten dozen oysters and, in a rare moment of humor, lamented that he did not feel hungrier than when he began.
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Baron Graham
Virginia Justice Lectures Boy on Petty Larceny
A Virginia justice of the peace leniently scolds a young boy charged with petty larceny. Despite conclusive evidence, the elder official hesitates, then warns the trembling youth to stay away, exclaiming a mix of mercy and stern indignation as he contemplates harsher punishment.
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Virginia
Judge Peckham’s Dental Misadventure With Hickory Plug
A tale from earlier dentistry recalls Judge Peckham visiting a dentist for a crude hickory plug biding in a tooth space. As tapping intensified the judge swore violently. after the final blows, he fainted while the dentist admitted he enjoyed the judge’s expressive diction.
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Peckham
Cured Diabetes Claim For Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs L C Bowers of Halo Indiana says Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her diabetes after doctors failed. She details weight loss, excessive urination and tooth loss before relief, claiming three years of no relapse and a return to health. The ad touts the pills as cures for kidney ailments from backache to Bright's Disease.
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Ind
Dodd
Mre
L. C. Bowsers
Drighit
Bright
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