Nebraska Items and Notices From The State
A collage of Nebraska items reports artesian well progress near Niobrara with a 450 foot depth and hint of more. a Howells Journal note on a 24.5 pound weight. a Greeley stock company forming to build an acetylene gas plant. a Union Pacific train fatality at Gilmore. poor Fremont potato yields. state banking condition call. repeated fires in Minden. a new Minden M B church worth 10000. golden wedding celebration at Grand Pacific hotel with 400 invitations. Stokes store struck by lightning. J W Door returns from west. Lincoln ministers set September 23 for day of prayer. Saline county wins 300 county exhibit prize. Grand Island incident with a bridgedeathless boy. Normal school chapel plans cost 43500. Graf Island schoolboard educ records. Hastings debate funding for state normal vs Hastings college. a patient escapes Lincoln insane asylum then recaptured. Jernberg to Geneva. Tillman and Frewont convicts at city comfort. Congress date November 9 for Roosevelt extraordinary session. opposition to October session due to campaigns. uncertain financial legislation pending.
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Niobrara
Howell’s Journal
Greeley
Union Pacific
Gilmore
James Hogan
Fremont
Royse
State Banking Board
Minden
M. B
J. J. Hochstettler
Nebraska
Grand Pacific Hotel
James G. Stokes
McCook
J. W.door
Albion
California
Oregon
Idaho
Lincoln
Saline County
Howard
Washington
Grand Island
Wood River
State Board of
Odusangp
Normal School
Fowler
Grafid Island School Board
Ths
Hastings
State Normal School
Hastings College
the Tribune
Normal
W. J. Morris
Insane Hospital
Jacob Jernberg
Nence County
Geneva
A. M.tillman
Hooper
City of Comfort
New Canal Bill from Colombia Advances Canal Terms
Cable from Bogota reports Colombian committee proposes canal concessions including a 100 year lease with 150000 annual rent, private company transfers to Colombia, and $20000000 to be paid on ratification. Debates to begin December 7 with high tensions and questions over sovereignty and neutrality.
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State Department
Beaupre
Bogota
Anama Canal
Senate
Hay-Herran
Panama Railway Company
Colombia
Canal Company
Government of
Canal
Panama
Colon
Mr. Beaufre
Rtment
House of Representatives
Senor Teran
Senor Obaldia
Congress
Pament
Marroquin
Dynamite Explosion Kills Three in West Bay City Yard
Clarence D. Hopper and Roy Bucher were instantly killed when dynamite in a freight car exploded as a switch engine backed into a train in West Bay City Michigan. Engineer Robert Roblin and fireman William Noble were injured and conductor John Cradle died from his wounds. The blast destroyed a thousand pounds of dynamite along with rifles and shells, wrecked a hundred freight cars, shattered nearly 300 houses and was felt as far as Jessep ville.
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Clarence D. Hopper
Roy Bucher
Michigan Central Road
West Bay City
Mich
Robert Roblin
William Noble
John Cradle
Bay City
Lee- Metford
Jessexville
Miners to Resume Work Under Union Wage Accord
The Novinger miners, after a Kansas City district 25 convention, must resume work pending a wage scale decision with operators. A committee travels to inform locals, with a Tuesday start for operator scale sessions and President Mitchell aiming to finish within the week.
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Novinger
District 25
Kansas City
Mitchell
300 Dead Soldiers Return From Philippine Islands
United States transport Kilpatrick arrives in San Francisco from Manila with 300 bodies of soldiers who died in the Philippine islands. This marks the largest single return of fallen service members from the area to date.
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Phillippines
United States
Kilpatrick
Manila
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
Islands
Woman Guards Prisoners in Sheriff’s Absence at Paris Ilk
Mrs Summers wife of the sheriff at Paris Ilk prevented an escape by Frank Adams and Bert Check who were jailed for burglary. They soaked beds with cleaning gasoline and started a fire. she locked the doors and marched the men back to their cells, averting a breakout.
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Summers
Paris
Ilk
Frank Adams
Bert Check
Terre Haute
Ind
Texas court approves record probate fee for Rice estate
The Harris County probate court grants Baker Bott and Lovett a $100000 fee for legal services on the W M Rice estate. This marks the largest single case fee in Texas.
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Harris County
Texas
Baker, Bott and Lovett
W.M. Rice
New York
Albert T. Patrick
Insane Adjudications in Cass County
Mrs B Sturennegger and Mrs Lena Weaver of South Bend Neb adjudged insane by Cass county in sanity board. The former is wife of a well known merchant of South Bend. Patients were taken to Lincoln asylum by Sheriff McBride.
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B. Sturennegger
Lena Weaver
South Bend
Neb
Insanity Board
Cass County
Lincoln
Sheriff McBride
Old Defenders Day Closed Baltimore Offices and Units
Baltimore observes Old Defenders Day with chamber of commerce stock exchange and public buildings closed by legislative act. Events recall the 1814 Battle of North Point where Maryland militia repelled a British invasion. New York Rubers wins national one mile title setting a new American record at Travers Island. London notes progress toward a European steel trust. An airship sighting over Indianapolis attracts hundreds. Utica welcomes Sir Thomas Lipton on his route southward.
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Baltimore
Mdé
Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, Stock Exchange
North Point
Maryland Miliia
New
York
Les Rubers
New York Athletic Club
Travers Island
London
Brussels
Daily Telegraph
Germany
Belgium
France
European Steel Trust
Indianapolis
Ind
Utica
Thomas Liptom
Swinging Song Fragment Describes Graceful Movement
A fragmented poem voice depicts a figure on a swing moving toward the sky. The cadence evokes lightness and joy as the swing arcs and the heart feels buoyant and free.
Elijah's Conquest in a Teacup Romance
Edith Wentworth faces rival suitor and stern preacher Elijah Strong in a tense social hour. Edith fends off his insistence as Dick Haskins arrives for a garden escape, revealing a triangle of desire, jealousy, and moral tension.
Edith and Strong's Quiet Evening Foray Ends in Union
Edith shows inner conflict but yields to affection as Mr. Strong declares love. Dick Haskins withdraws with good humor after Edith and Strong acknowledge forthcoming marriage. Mrs Wentworth approves and Elijah jokes about a hopeful future. The scene blends tenderness with decisive commitment.
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Edith
Mr. Strong
Miss Wentworth
Dick Haskins
Dick Haskin
Mrs. Wentworth
Haskins
Elijah
Elijah Strong
Paradise
Strong
Promised Land
Cobra Abscess Treated By Expert Surgery At Zoo
A 10 foot king cobra at New York Zoological Park underwent a remarkable surgery to remove an abscess near a fang. Curator Ditmars led five keepers in restraining the snake while a long instrument was threaded into its mouth to extract the infection, preserving the cobra for the collection.
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New York Zoological Park
Ditmars
Naigina
Whistler Brandished Anger Over Ten Pound Picture Offer
Gossip surrounds the artist James McNeil Whistler as a London model reports a £10 offer for a painting. The model owed 165 shillings for sittings and recounts Whistler’s fury at the prospect of selling a major work to a rival French artist.
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London
James McNeil Whistler
Whistler
The Differences in Races and Death Reactions
The piece recalls R H Stoddard contrasting English and French workers. It recounts Dickens death and a Dickensiana anecdote about a waiter mishearing dialogue. It then contrasts Mirabeau's death with a waiter’s reply about the day being fine.
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R. H. Stoddard
Dickens
Mirabeau
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