Beavers Island King Strang Town and a Noted Roaring Era
James Oliver Curwood sketches the life of James Jesse Strang, who ruled Beaver Island as a self-styled king after leaving Nauvoo. The narrative previews The Courage of Captain Plum, a serial detailing Strang’s rise, reign, and downfall amid a small Mississippi frontier community.
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Captain Plum
James Oliver Curwood
Beaver Island
Mackinac
Lake Michigan
St. James
United States
America
James Jesse Strang
Cayugs County
New York
Burlington
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Joseph Smith
Mississippi
Nauvoo
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Carethage
Smith
Joseph
Voree
Wisconsin
Con Mars
Mr. Curwood
King Strang
Captain
Plum
Taper
Baltimore Doctors Denounce Smoking Among Women Hopeful Tone
Physicians uniformly condemn tobacco use, with Dr. William H. Pearce calling smoking especially harmful to women and lacking any redeeming value. The piece notes women patients rarely reveal smoking, while some artistic and musical circles, including foreigners, openly indulge.
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Kellys Told They Descend From Irish Kings for One Dollar
Chicago readers receive letters from a Philadelphia firm claiming Kellys are lineal descendants of Heremon the first king of Ireland. For one dollar, recipients can obtain a framed coat of arms and a pamphlet tracing the ancestry based on “research” in Dublin Cork and Belfast libraries.
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Hicago
Chicago
Philadelphia
Kellys
United States
Kelly
Ireland
Dublin
Cork
Belfast
Heremon
A Kelly
Electric farming in Lake county sparks humorous vision
A Chicagoan, Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison, plans to electrify Lake county gardens joining Cook County. The piece imagines electric radishes onions pumpkins potatoes and cabbages powering farmers into a bright future with diners tasting the shock and glow of edible electricity.
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Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Lake County
Samuel Insull
Cook
Insull
Commonwealth Edison Company
Lake County Electrical Enterprises
Vinegar Helped Woman Foil Burglary in New York
Mrs. Nathan Jasper, wife of a contractor, saved her husband from a burglar by throwing a cup of vinegar into the intruder’s eyes. The man, claiming hunger, attacked them after being fed and later subdued until police arrived. The burglar was a former employee.
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York
Nathan Jasper
Jasper
Jaspers
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