Thaw trial drama and broader shocks in one week
District Attorney Jerome openly defies Judge Fitzgerald in the Thaw case as Mrs. Thaw testifies about her son's mental shift after Evelyn Nesbit's story. The week brings fires, strikes, deaths, legal moves, and a splash of foreign dispatches, with notable events from Chicago to San Francisco and beyond.
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Thaw
New York City
Jerome
Fitzgerald
Wagner
William Thaw
Harry
Evelyn Nesbit
Delmas
Junacy
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
Stanford White
May Mackenzie
Howard Nesbit
Harry Thaw
Delphin
M. Delmas
State News Happenings About Women Nurses
Harris reaffirms belief that women would excel as attendants in state hospital wards despite opposition from superintendents. He cites wartime Sisters of Charity and insists women will be successful in state institutions amid ongoing debate. Merger plans progress in Sandusky Ottawa counties as wine firms pursue consolidation.
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Columbus
State Hospital
Harris
Illinois
Potomac
Sisters of Charity
Sandusky, O
Sweet Valley
Dorn
A. Schmidt, Jr
Sandusky
Ottawa Counties
Lake Erie
James Flynn
Father of Eight Twins Sets Record in Ravenna
Ravenna resident E R Brown, father of eight pairs of twins, learns from his eldest son in St Louis that the sixth set of twins born to his son’s wife are a boy and a girl. Browns’ late wife was a Cherokee. At the 1893 World’s Fair, the twins weighed collectively over two tons, largest at 320 pounds.
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Ravenna
E. R. Brown
St Louis
Brown
Roosevelt
Woman Prisoner Mar Casseberry Seeks Early Release
Columbus state officials guard prisoners at the penitentiary while Mar Casseberry, a female inmate, presses for release before her year ends. She has been serving and working in the female department since incarceration.
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Columbus, O
Mar. Casseberry
Plot to Burn Baldwin Forging Plant Uncovered at Columbus Prison
In Columbus Ohio a suspected arson plot by convicts at the penitentiary aimed to burn the Baldwin Forging Co plant. Boxes were set near the building and already burning when guards found the scene, leading authorities to believe prisoners sought to avoid work by causing a destructive distraction.
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Columbus, O
Baldwin Forging Co
Man claims to have shot wife. Springfield detains Libby
Patrick Libby, about 50, is held by Lima police after declaring he killed his wife on Springfield streets and that a mob will lynch him. Authorities doubt any recent Springfield crime, deem him possibly insane, and report two jail escape attempts since being held.
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Lima
Springfield
Patrick Libby
Libby
Ohio board recommends pardon for William Plager
Governor Harris approves the state board of pardons action recommending clemency for William Plager who was sentenced to life in Delaware County in 1901 on a criminal assault charge. The board cites his innocence as the basis for the pardon recommendation.
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Columbus
Gov
Harris
State Board of Pardons
William Plager
Delaware County
Alimony Evasion Arrest in Warren Ohio
John Sheridan Fee sought by Trumbull County officials for nonpayment of alimony to wife Josephine Fee a former Georgetown Kentucky belle was arrested in Warren Ohio by authorities seeking compliance with support orders.
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Warren
John Sheridan Fee
Trumbull County
Josephine Fee
Georgetown
Burk Re elected President of National Millers Association
Springfield Ohio report notes John W Burk has been notified of his reelection as president of the National Millers Association. The canvassing board has completed the Chicago count.
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Springfield
John W
Burk
National Millers’ Association
Chicago
Inhaled Death Report From Toledo Home
Mrs Mary Davis aged 50 committed suicide at her daughter Mrs Delder home 1071 Lincoln avenue by placing a gas droplight tube to her mouth and inhaling fumes. She was in the best of health.
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Archie Roosevelt
Rixey
Brooklyn
Henry Leeds
Kartsas
Episcopal Church
Topeka
Kan
la Savoie
Milwaukee Gas Light Company
J. T. Haviland
New York
Scrancon
Michael Bower
Lancaster
N. Y
Salvation Army
John Turner
Charles Dickens
Paola
Danube
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Leonidas M. Preston
Peoria
Daniel E. Potter
W. E. Peters
Robert Conkey
Sherman Hunt
Robert Joes
Potter
North Sea
Robert C. George
Cincinnati
Katherine Eleanor Conway
Boston Pilot
Notre Dame University
Roscoe P. Miller
Beaver Dam
Wis
United States
Merry
Managua
Nicaragua
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
W. J. Biggy
Santa Fe
Leonidas Preston
Cumberland
Paris
Rama Oere
Henry de Burt
Prospect Avenue
Petai
Toledo
Mary Davis
Delder
Lincoln Avenue
Tampering With a Jury Reported in Bellefontaine Court
A case of attempted jury tampering in the Bellefontaine common pleas court was reported to Judge Broderick who immediately summoned Prosecutor Chamberlain and ordered an investigation.
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Bellefontaine
Common Pleas Court
Broderick
Chamberlain
Oil base boiler blast kills two workers in Woodsfield
Frank Madison and E C Douglas, pumpers on an oil base three miles east of Woodsfield, were instantly killed when a boiler exploded. A third man nearby escaped unharmed as the boiler was blown about 400 feet.
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Nathalie Dole Latham
Paris
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
Centennial
Allouez and Osceola
Michigan
Woodsfield
Frank Madison
E. C. Douglas
Here
Follows Her Daughter to Death in Ohio Town
In Kirkersville Ohio 76 year old Mrs Alice Gunder took morphine and died suicide. Her daughter Minnie had died on the street less than three months earlier due to drug use in the same town.
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Kirkersville
Alice Gunder
Minnie
Baseball Bat Defense Sparks Fatal Family Tragedy
In Cleveland, Richard Kennedy Sr., 52, was killed instantly at dinner by his son Richard Kennedy Jr., 19, a school teacher in Orange township. After an argument over the father locking out the wife, the son struck him with a baseball bat as the father allegedly threatened the wife. The son surrendered to a deputy sheriff.
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Will J. Davis
Troquois Theater
Chicago
Paris Electricians
Richard Kennedy, Jr
Solon, O
Juarez
Mexico
M.s.brundridge
A. H
John J. Esch
Wisconsin
United States
Massachusetts
J. H. Crane Furniture Company
Pioneer
St. Louis
Farmers' Savings Bank
Masonville
Helen Dixon
Bloomington
Ill
Columbus Hixon
Kansas City Medical College
Kansas City Hospital
Bonaparte
South Carolina
Spooner
James J. Hill
Cleveland, O
Richard Kennedy
Solon Township
Richard
Richard,Jr
Orange Township
Mansfield Reformatory Placed Under Quarantine for Two Weeks
An Ohio state health board member placed the Mansfield Reformatory under two weeks of quarantine after the Ammon boy illness case. No new cases have appeared, prisoners excepted those immune were vaccinated, and the disease prognosis remains guarded.
Toledo Ordinance Bans Under17s From Theaters
The Toledo City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting children under 17 from entering theaters. Mayor Whitlock allowed it to become law without his signature. Endorsed by the United Catholic Federation and Toledo Pastors' Union.
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Toledo, O
Whitlock
United Catholic Federation Society
Toledo Pastors’ Union
Will Wed Signor Mariani on March twenty third
Cleveland report Miss Bessie Johnson daughter of the mayor and Frederic Mariani of Milan Italy will wed at the Johnson residence on Euclid avenue Saturday March 23 The ceremony will be simple and quiet with only the immediate families present announced by Mrs Johnson
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Cleveland, O
Bessie Johnson
Frederic Mariani
Milan
Italy
Johnson
Euclid Avenue
Six Boys Confess in Burglary Case in Youngstown
Six boys aged 17 to 23 pleaded guilty to burglary in Youngstown police court for robbing three stores. Named defendants Jeffrey Walsh Tom McKelvey William Danks Harry Packett George Dixon and John Canary were bound over to the grand jury in $300 sureties each after regular appearances over the past two years.
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Youngstown, O
Jeffrey Walsh
Tom McKelvey
William Danks
Harry Packett
George Dixon
John Canary
Heidelberg invited to join Big Six colleges group
In Tiffin Ohio Heidelberg University has been formally invited to enter the athletic association of Ohio colleges known as the Big Six. Heidelberg has accepted the invitation and it is understood that Wooster and Denison have also been invited to join. Heidelberg's athletic association subscribed to Big Six rules last year.
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Tiffin
Heidelberg University
Athletic Association of Ohio
Heidelberg
Wooster
Denison
Heidelberg’s Athletic Association
Man Goes Insane Aboard Train From Newark To Vincennes
A telegram from Alomagard New Mexico reports James Jackman formerly of Newark became violently insane while on a train traveling from Newark California toward his home in Vincennes Indiana. The message is addressed to Frank Schimpf.
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San Joaquin Valley
California
Santa Fe
Gen. Pass
Chicaga
Newark
Frank Schimpf
Alomagard
N. M
James Jackman
Cal
Vincennes
Ind
Leisy Won't Join Independent Ohio Brewers
The Ohio independent brewers refuse to unite against the trust led by large firms. Isaac Leisy Brewing Co., the biggest independent, opposes a combination and its absence would handicap the remaining independents.
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Leisy
Cleveland, O
Ohio
Isaac Leisy
Ohio Civil War Veteran Led Third Ohio Regiment
Col A W Lawson, age 80, died at his Sunbury area home in Delaware County Ohio. He organized the first Ohio Civil War regiment and commanded it as the Third Ohio.
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United States
New York
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American Sugar Refining Company
Adolph Segal
Washington, D. C
William F. Walker
Savings Bank of New Britain
Conn
Perry Evans
Gatebo
O. T
Farmers’ Savings Bank
Masonville
Iowa
Manchester
Logan Guthrie
Fulton
Guthrie
John Cowles
Cleveland
W. B. Pratt
Elkhart
Ind
Lake Shore Drive
St. Joseph
Mich
Hugh O’brian
Michigan
United States Court
China
Orville Leonard
Nelson Ames
Marshalltown
A. W. Lawson
Ohio
Delaware County
Newfoundland
James J. Dick
Thirteenth
Wisconsin Circuit
Beaver Dam
San Andres
Exico
United States Circuit Court
St. Louis
Standard and Auxiliary Oil
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York Life
Perkins
E. H. Harriman
Columbus
Sunbury
Sauerkraut Trust Formed in Toledo Meeting
Representatives from sauerkraut makers in Illinois New York Michigan Ohio Wisconsin and Indiana met in Toledo to form a permanent organization Committees were named to draft a constitution and by laws
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Sauerkraut Trust
Toledo
Sauerkraut Manufacturers
Ilinois
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Wisconsin
Indiana
Business men form company to develop Pleasantville gas field
In Lancaster Ohio an oil and gas venture aims to tap a gas field eight miles east of town. A businessmen’s syndicate organized a company to develop the promising Pleasantville field and begin operations promptly.
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Lancaster, O
Pleasantville
Riches if every dollar matched the first earnings
A reflective line imagines how wealth would grow if every dollar held the same value as the first payment a boy earns, highlighting the appeal of financial beginnings and the fantasy of endless earnings.
Large Pew Rents Boost London Churches
Several London churches report pew rents earning between 7500 and 10000 dollars. Garfield Tea widely promoted as a remedy for constipation liver and kidney issues. Marketed as guaranteed under the Pure Food Law.
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Pew
London
Garfield
Larger Value Comes From Character Not Size
A pithy maxim compares a silver dollar to a $10 gold piece, arguing true worth lies in value beyond outward bulk. The saying cautions against judging men by stature, emphasizing intrinsic merit over apparent size.
No Man Questions Truthful Woman About Him Twice
A terse maxim suggests that a woman who tells the truth about a man does not elicit repeated requests for her opinion. The line implies skepticism toward how men treat honest judgments and hints at social friction surrounding candid commentary.
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Priceling
Baltimore
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Aterim
Liberal
The
Agricultural Presse
NEW York Tribune
Harrison News
NEWS
NEW York Tribune Farmer
Citizens’ Bank
Harrison, Ohio
Frank Bowles
the Startpeace
Walter Hartpence
Soseph Bernhard
Garrison
Alland
Sonable
Oeal
Rough Munn & Co
Scientific American
Sea Hun R
All
Broadway
Washington, D
Patenis
Bos
Acauress
G. Siggers
Washington, d. Co
Bea
Mother Gray
Gray
A. & Olmsted
le Roy
Harrison
Ollowell
Harrison Hie
Heisaleua Notary
Ali
Gregory
atGe É Talus Leah
D. R. Merrill
Ca Great Lakes
Kentes
ST. Marys
Marietta
Athens
Middleport
Gallipolis
Charleston
Waar
Ohio Central
Soulton Hour
Golden Gate
Indian Pueblos
Yosemite, Grand
Nation of
Arizona
Harvey Meals
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R'y
Oklahoma
Atchison, Iopeks & Santa Fe Railway
Globe
Voliva
Louisville Railway Company
American Shipbuilding Company
EL Caney
San Juan Hill
Gov. Sheldon
Nebraska
Nebraska House
Mayor Schmitz
Molokai Island
Senate
Great Northern
Ojata
N. D
Isaac Freeman Rasin
Democratic Organization
Danville
Levy Mayer
North
South Dakota
House of Commons
Andrew William Mulligan
Mount Vernon
H. M. Brainard
James
Philip
Culpeper
W. F. Bywaters
William Green
Smart
Honduras
Bonilla
Michigan House
Kalamazoo
Burdick Hotel
Rock Island
Wallace
Idaho
Steve Adams
Fred. Tyler
Herman W. Quernheim
Senate of Kansas
House
Albert S. Tower
Omaha
Sioux City
S. C
Saratoga
Grand Army of the Republic
Cornelia Fitzgerald
James Fitzgerald
St.Louis
Penang
Malaysia
Asia
South Sea Islands
H. V. Graybill
Harry Roberts
Pennsylvania Railway
Ionia ‘County
Chandler
Christian Science
Eddy
Andrew Carnegie
Shurtleff College
Upper Alton
Filbert Street
Philadelphia
Wested His
Mansfield Reformatory
John D. Rockefeller
John
Signor Mariani
New Ohio
W. A. Mitchell
Martin, Ga
America
John A. Salzer Seed Co
Box W. le Crosse
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Props
B.w.grove
National Lead Company
Boston
Buil
Olan
Chiseat, Bt
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