Oldest Texan plans 1915 Panama Pacific visit
Fort Worth's Abraham Wilcox, age 112, the oldest white man in Texas and the South, eagerly anticipates a trip to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Born 1801 in England, he has lived in the U.S. since 1831, lived in Mexico, and now resides with his son Edward. he attributes longevity to fresh air, outdoor activity, and a worry-free life. He remains mentally sharp, walks daily, and has never smoked for 30 years.
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Aeenational News Service
Fort Worth
Texas
South
San Francisco
Abraham Wilcox
Pacific Coast
Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Devonshire
England
United States
Michigan
Kalamazoo
Mexico
Mexico City
San Luis Potosi
Wilcot
Edward
International & Great Northern
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Brothers Reunite After Thirty Five Years in Hibbing
James Shaw of Webb and John Shaw of Penobscot, Civil War veterans and brothers, meet in Hibbing after 35 years apart. John found James via Memorial Day observance and shared the family link. James, of Forty second Wisconsin, lies bedridden while John stays at his bedside during the reunion.
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Pengilly
James Shaw
Webb
John Shaw
James
Forty-second
Wisconsin
John
William Goat Ate the License in Hoosier Wedding Delay
In Bennington Indiana a billy goat snatched a marriage license from an elderly groom as a wedding party waited. An auto race across the county for a replacement license followed after the wind carried the parchment away from Charles W Gribben, 70, and Anna Chance King, 30, near Lawrenceburg.
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Bennington
Ind
Charles W. Gribben
Anna Chance King
Lawrenceburg
Nurse Found Drugged in Atlanta Hospital Robbery
Miss FE C Skelton head nurse at the Red Cross sanitarium was found unconscious in her bed with a chloroform scented handkerchief on her face. A theft followed as $160 cash and a gold watch vanished, with footprints and a ransacked room suggesting a female or young intruder.
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Atlanta
FE. C. Skelton
Red Cross Sanitarium
Miss Skelton
Pauline Bogan
Debriere's Cafe Business Men's Lunch Promotion
The advertisement promotes a midday Business Men's Lunch from 12 to 2:30 p m served at Debriere's Cafe located at 12 South Royal Street. It touts quick service for short orders and claims DeBriere's Famous Java Coffee as the best in the city.
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DeBriere
South Royal
Absent minded professor crashes through Marshall Field window
A Chicago university professor, lost in thought, attempted to board a car by running through a plate glass window at Marshall Field's. An alert floorwalker stopped him and he was questioned by M. P. Ford, assistant superintendent of detectives, who also appeared absent minded.
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Chicago
Marshall Field
Wabash Avenue
M. P. Ford
Eggs broken in new Sedalia plant employ 32 girls
In Sedalia Missouri a poultry and egg corporation opened a sanitary egg breaking plant. Thirty two workers in a white uniform room break 144000 eggs daily, separating yolk and white and freezing them in 380 pound cans. The plant operates at 60 degrees and invites inspection by the US Bureau of Chemistry to cut losses estimated at $125000-600 nationwide.
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Sedalia
Poultry and Eye Corporation
Food Research Laboratory
United States Bureau of Chemistry
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Porter
William Goat
Aken
International News Service
New York
Dauphin Street
Ohio River
Harrison Mutual Burial Association
Conception Street
Gill Printing Company
Soma T Id
North Water Street
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