One of God's Innocents Finds a Hidden Pain
Paxley, a steady office worker, adores a baby he adopts after his cousin’s death. He fashions a life around the child, earning admiration for the boy’s wit, until coworkers doubt the stories Paxley tells. A doctor reveals Paxley’s secret sacrifice to shield the child from pain, calling Jim one of God’s poor innocents.
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Paxley
Flossie
Jenkins
Pax
Haines
Mear
New York
Hanes
Doc
Donald McArthur
Aly
James Chesterley Braden
Min
Cummins
Jim
Is Club
Vail Cummins
Drift On Raft At Sea In Peril For 80 Hours
Two seamen from the schooner Nelson E Newbury John Koerber and Karsten Berntsen survived 80 hours adrift off the Virginia coast after their ship was lost in a hurricane. They floated on wreckage and plank fragments for days before rescue by the steamer Egda. They described thirst hunger and near death with only three small fishes sustaining them at times.
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Norfolk
John Koerber
Karsten Berntsen
Nelson E. Newbury
New York
Bernard
Egda
Newbury
Port Royal
Charleston
Beliere
Koerber
Bernsen
Postmaster Fouts Survives Robbery After Liver Cure
Riverton Ta postmaster Robert G W Fouts nearly lost his life in a robbery. His letter recalls a 20 year chronic liver complaint that caused severe jaundice and yellow nails before he used Electric Bitters. He credits the tonic with eleven years of good health and relief from biliousness and rheumatism. Sold at C J Raydon’s drug store for 50 cents.
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G. W. Fouts
Riverton
C.J. Raydon
Rivers flood Kentucky turning logs into havoc across six rivers
Reports from across Kentucky detail severe flood damage as Cumberland Licking Red Kentucky and Big Sandy rivers surge. Bowling Green notes the Barren river rising 26 feet washing away thousands of logs railroad ties and fencing while Green River near Morgantown climbs 15 feet with logs lost at Ford Clark County. Ohio River at Maysville boats logs filling waterways and threats loom at Morgantown bridge.
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Lexington
Cumberland
Licking
Red
Kentucky
Bowling Green
Morgantown
Ford
Clark County
Maysville
Ohio
Mountain
Legal actions span assault suit and copying costs
Lexington broker David Ketterer seeks 60 000 against the Eastern Kentucky Insane asylum for injuries to Freu Ketterer. Frankfort court of appeals allows copying pay from the Attorney General case, while Wexington grand jury holds J W Walters in the Henne murder case with 2000 bail.
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Frankfort
Clark el Wit
B. FP
French
Felix Feltner
Witesses
James
B. Marcum
James Hargis
Court of Appeale
Lexington
David Ketterer
Freu Ketterer
Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum
J. Franklin Wallace
Court of Appeals
Louis Renscher
Attorney General
Renscher
Wexington
J.W. Walters
William Henne
Hanna House
Seventh Street
Bullock
Walters
Mysterious Woman Captured Near Murder Site
A well dressed woman claimed as Mrs Margaret Melvin was arrested while skulking about the home of Mrs Virginia Euly, the scene of a prior murder in Louisville Kentucky. She boasted of being a great female detective and had solved the Pearl Bryan case, was restrained after a stop in a ditch, and placed under $20 bond for confinement pending holding. In Covington Kentucky pool room cases, three men charged with unlawful assembly were dismissed after defense argued jurisdiction and police evidence failed.
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Lexington
Thomas Stout
Sherif
Stout
Etta Griffiths
Nolan Griffiths
Mra. Griffiths
Sim Lay
Louisville
Margaret Melvin
Virginia Euly
San Francisco
Etty
Siesley
Pearl Bryan
Fowant Reins
Central Porter Station
Covington
Jona Kelley
Thomas Cameron
Joseph Herbert
3 Pont Room
Covingtos
Jom B. Read
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Main Street
Opera House
THE
Blue Grass Manufacturing Company
God’s Innocents
Mary A. Dickerson
Econced
Ip & Omal
Rouse
Turrod
Haan
Ted
Mr He Jim
God Fils
Jad
Norfolk, Va
Barbourville
2Hackelford Miller
Evelyn Brown Rodman
John,m. Rodman
Rodman
John Youpe Brown
Chamberlain
Robert
Washington
St. Louis
Luther Martin Shreve
Mei- Newville
Mra
J. W. Dowler
West Belle Place
Mra. W. Ro Mason
Bakersville
Cal
Harvard University
Chicago
Cleveland
William Shreve
Cloyd’s Landing
Newport
Newport Board of Education
J. G. Hermann
York
H. Russell
Mysterious Woman
Mra, Etly
Daily Herald and
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