The Jailer's Baby Sparks Escape Plot and Death
A jailer faces pressure over a hanging as his wife and community debate the condemned man’s fate. The jailer’s infant visits the cell, softening the doomed prisoner and prompting a final desperate plan that ends in a fatal choice. The tale unfolds with grim irony and poignant restraint.
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Tilly
Ted
Bondage
Ain
Death
Hien
Heart
Eulli
Gertrude Gunning
Nebraska to Try Automatic System of Selecting Candidates
Nebraska orders 3,200 voting machines at 500 dollars each totaling 1.6 million dollars. The largely mechanical booth uses levers and nickel plated buttons to cast straight or split tickets with three judges monitoring the enclosed counter box and vote tally.
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Nebraska
Saya
St. Louis
Chie
Cagt & Bel Rings
Thia
Hunter Jim Jenkins to found home for orphans and widows
Jim Jenkins, famed outlaw hunter now in Kansas at 65, plans to devote about $50,000 to build a home on a 5000 acre farm near Pryor Creek Indian Territory for the families of men he tracked, including 150 outlaws. The project aims to aid widows and orphans of criminals across the Southwest, with the home costing about $20,000.
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Jim Jenkins
Great Southwest
Kansas
Jesse James
Bob Ford
Bill Dalton
Bill Cook
Cherokee Bill
Dalton
Coffeyville
Kas
Jenkins
Pryor Creek
I. T
Buffalo Express
Transplanting Nerves and Medical Progress Highlighted
A report notes advances in nerve grafting after wrist injuries from saws. A young dog nerve was attached to a human median nerve, with partial sensory return in three months. The piece cites the American Journal of Medical Science on nerve transplantation.
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American Journal of Medical Science
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into Your Shoes
A collage of old ads and jokes, promoting foot powders and cures for corns and sweaty feet, plus quips about clay pipes and sardine twins. The piece imitates a newspaper page with ads and humor snippets from various sources.
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Allen
Practical Help for Suffering Women
A letter of endorsement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Stanly and Mrs Goon describe relief from female weakness and headaches after using the remedy, urging other women to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice and treatment.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Hostetter
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Hern
Woet & Traax
Walding
Innen & Marvin
Wholesiie Uta
Ohio
Jake
Indianapolis Journal
Eve
Anor
LOE and
Mammoth
Madison
Dour Hie Cape
Salt Lake
Schilling
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