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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
4
A distressed tramp in New York receives a forged $1000 note and pockets the bill after a theatre worker, Mrs T. Edwin Ward, helps him. He fears banks and change, hides the bill with a safety pin, and wanders the city rather than exchange it. Ward suspects the man remains at large, moving through streets and alleys.
Report from Attleboro Massachusetts notes a giant chicken egg laid by Preston D. White's brown African hen. The egg measures 11% inches around and 10 inches long with a weight around 19 pounds, the largest seen in town. The hen began laying in January 193? and this egg is its ninety ninth.
Rose Chamberlain aged 16 domestic servant testified at the West London police court that chef Leon Thebout of Fulham produced a brass door knob and claimed it would put her to sleep when she looked at it. The magistrate doubted the claim and the case was adjourned. In Indiana Wanatah a local club named Crushers seeks a motto to align with Roosevelt race policy and plans an appeal to the president.
A New Yorker, reportedly a multi millionaire, distributed large sums from his office window in Baltimore drawing a crowd of newsboys. He claimed to give at least 11000 daily as part of creating a commercial navy while arranging supplies of wine cigars and luxuries for 4000 sailors. He also issued drafts for sums up to 100000 and spoke of expanding his venture.
Rahway New Jersey authorities disclose that Joseph Robinson a Black inmate labeled trusty and a white prisoner used a plan to escape. The white man sick with diphtheria chose Robinson as a companion. Robinson previously jailed for murdering his cousin in Linden. The keeper discovered both men absent at breakfast and located them asleep after breaking open the doors.
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