Lost Mine Legend Lures Seekers in Baxter County Arkansas
Narratives recount a hidden silver mine along the Missouri line in Baxter County. Joe Deatherage pursues a cave opening below the Second Brother in the North Arkansas mountains, with landowner's share promised on discovery. The tale ties to Spanish exploration near the White River and a long family hunt, including Will Slocum's postwar quest.
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Weencher
Hy Tea
Atherake
Arkansas
Baxter County
Missouri
Ree Brothers
Joe Deatherage
White River
Thisse
Salin River
Slocum
Will Slocum
Unluckiest man real Mark Tapley
Chicago reports Charles Langsman a packing contractor at 332 South Desplaines Street tells how faith and gratitude steady him through years of losses. Fires destroyed his barn with horses and wagons, he faced arson charges, his fiancée broke their engagement, then a judge directed a not guilty verdict.
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Chicago
Charles Langsman
South Desplaines Street
Bible Rescue Mission
Congress Street
Tuthill
Aew
R. Glendinning
S. M
John Stewart
Granddaughter to Receive Gift From Elkins Estate
Marie Elkins de Guigne, granddaughter of late William I. Elkins, will receive 354646.67 dollars from his estate as a Christmas gift. The estate set aside one million for her and allowed only income needed for education and maintenance until she reached adulthood, now she is of age.
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Philadelphia
Marie Elkins de Guigne
William I. Elkins
Solly
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Offers Free Help to Cambridge Poor
Harvard Law School students run a Legal Aid Bureau in Cambridge providing free legal advice and attorney services. In about three months last year the office handled around seventy cases. The 25-student organization includes fifteen third-year and ten second-year members and mainly handles wage collection and domestic relations cases with enforcement actions when reconciliation fails.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Law School
Charlies B.rugg
Harvard Law School
Rugg
C, ST. L and N O Establish Quarters in Alabama
Walker Percy of Birmingham is designated as authorized agent for the Chicago St Louis and New Orleans railroad in Alabama with Birmingham named as principal place of business. The railroad organized under Kentucky Louisiana Tennessee and Mississippi laws and filed papers with the Alabama secretary of state. It records an agreement dated November 7 1877 creating the railroad from the consolidation of the New Orleans Jackson and Northern and the Central Mississippi Railroad Company.
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Montgomery
New Orleans
Lithuanian Homicide and Dynamite Fear Shocks Rockdale
In Joliet Illinois police planned a raid on Alexander Tamasaukis a Lithuanian political leader. Aidikas Tamasaukis roommate confessed to killing him with an ax in self defense. Police found hundreds of pounds of dynamite at the residence fueling concerns of a hired gang. Authorities suspect treachery rather than Ardultas and note a mob gathered at the jail prompting relocation to Will County.
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International News Service
Joliet
Rockdale
Alexander Tamasaukis
Charles Aidukas
Tamasaukis
Ardultas
Aidikas
Will County
Mount Meigs Planter Reported Dead From Self-Inflicted Wound
Lawrence Judkins a prominent planter of Mount Meigs was found dead in bed with a bullet hole in his head. Police believe he took his own life after periods of ill health and despondency. He was 65 and had lived in Mount Meigs for 25 years.
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Montgomery
Lawrence Judkins
Mount Meigs
Bishop Tuttle Backs Local Option Against Prohibition
In Montgomery Missouri on December 16 Bishop Tuttle the eldest Episcopal bishop in the United States expressed support for local option while opposing statewide prohibition.
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Montgomery
Tuttle
Episcopal Church
Forty two thousand people work in musical instrument making
About forty two thousand persons are engaged in the manufacture of musical instruments in this country.
Women of Society Cooks for Charity at Downtown Parishhouse
In Providence on December 13 the parishhouse of a fashionable downtown church, located in the heart of the shopping district, becomes a charity cafe. Women of society serve as cooks while pretty girls act as waitresses in white lined costumes with red silk trim and white caps.
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Providence
Ping
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Mountain Preacher
Mark Tapley
Barn Burns
Hoosier
Dauphin and Claiborne
Alabama
Bishop Tuttle
City Bank & Trust Co
JAS. McPhillips Co.’S
McPhillips
QUE Liquor Department
Jas. McPhillips Grocery Co
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