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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
6
Philadelphia wife Bridget Carey faces trial for the murder of her husband and two children amid alleged insurance fraud. Reports tie additional deaths to arsenic in Auburn and reveal a broader pattern of insurable victims linked to Carey and household staff.
In Auburn New York a string of deaths from arsenic poisoning tied to Mrs Carey and others in the Walt household. Children May and Anna Carey died after eating candy while adults including Patrick Coyle and Celia Covick perished earlier. Insurances ranged from 200 to 215 dollars. A county investigation linked rat poison and arsenic to the deaths as detectives pursued the deeper mystery.
Haltmore correspondent reports a freedman Amos Amis claims rheumatism stems from the ghost of Jeune Winder, a hanged mulatto murderer. Amis, once spiritual adviser to the criminal, asks Marshal Farnan for a Sunday school parade permit and inspects crime photos, insisting Winder torments him nightly with cold hands and spiderlike sensations.
The text extols the apple highlighting diverse varieties and their distinct personalities. It lauds Baldwin apples for their palate-pleasing contributions and notes apples serve raw, sauces, pies, and other uses. It proclaims apple day at last with a note on history poetry economics and celebration.
Francis Marks of 1381 East Thirty seventh street in Flatbush found a woodcock in his hen house after mistaking it for a stray chicken. The bird entered through an apparent misplacement of the flock, was caged and fed, but was found dead the next morning. The source notes the mystery of how it arrived.
Mrs Rebekah Baker widow of a Civil War veteran keeps several large ava shells on her Foster Avenue front porch in Sayville The shells cradle a tree toad that had been imprisoned for three months inside the shells neighbors recall one shell opening revealing the live creature The scene unfolds as Mrs Baker and a neighbor discuss the odd incident.
A philanthropic visitor asks Mrs. Raggerty about her husband in the slums. She replies, diplomatically, that he is now making his tuning at the pen Baltimore American.
In a spirited exchange, speakers defend or deride aristocratic lineage. One asserts common labor roots and daily toil, while the other counters with pride in being part of established families. The dialogue highlights social class tensions and family status in the community.
In a humorous remark Farmer Corntos wel answers a question about his son at cal laget. He notes uncertainty whether to moplinent Kit or fuss as the boy frets in class yet finished last in a foot race.
Miss May Hunt, a schoolteacher from Horse Creek, left her ranch to visit Laramie. A severe snowstorm, deep drifts, and a washed-out ditch left her stranded and nearly frozen. After a long struggle she reached the stone quarries two miles from town and contacted family. her horse was rescued and she survived with only swelling in hands and feet.
F Coleman proprietor refused to close the snake show at Chutes Park in Los Angeles. During a night performance R E Andrews, a snake charmer, was bitten by a Gila monster while freeing a finger from its jaws. He pleaded for help but the show continued to protect box receipts.
An elderly Seville policeman, long attached to successive governors, is discovered to be a Frenchwoman named Fernando Mackenzie. Born 1836 in Paris, she wore male dress since girlhood, served in the French army, then entered Madrid police, later moving to Seville as cook and orderly at the governor's palace. Now discharged, destitute, she clings to a Christ image as her sole treasure.
N Y farmer Henry Ransome raises a leg horn hen living near his horse Dobbin. The hen forms a close bond with the animal, following it on work trips and through daily labor. When the road mare went lame, the hen pursued Dobbin to the village and has since accompanied the horse both on road and in the field.
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