Death by Own Action Leaves Hartford City Father Rich Farmer
J P Rawlins president of the First National Bank of Hartford City Indiana and Archie Wolverton of Bluffton Indiana arrived to claim the body of Abner D Wolverton Hartford City who died Sunday by drinking carbolic acid. Wolverton left a 200 acre Hartford City farm and other Missouri holdings valued at forty to fifty thousand dollars. Archie, administrator, took charge of cash and securities totaling over two thousand dollars. He had separated from his wife years ago and five children survive.
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J. P. Rawlins
First National Bank
Hatford City
Ind
Archie Wolverton
Blufton
Abner D Wolverton
Hartford City
Wolverton
Indiana
Mobile
Archie Wolvern
Archie
Inventor brings flood plan to Congress for Mississippi
John Bryan of Yellow Springs Ohio unveils a canal based flood control scheme to the House flood control committee. He argues a straight level canal across river bends would divert excess waters and reclaim millions of acres, opposing dams and reservoirs.
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Washington
House Committee On
John Bryan
Yellow Springs
Ohio
William Jennings Bryan
Mississippi River
Bryan
Mississippi
Ohio Valley
Dayton
Lake Erie
Mr. Bryan
Unstable Individual Seeks Help After Pensacola Letter
A man wrote from Pensacola asking his relative to care for his money after acknowledging mental unbalance. He had gone south to rest and later moved from Pensacola to Mobile, prompting police intervention.
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Pensacola
Mobile
Mail Robbers Net 20000? Value Unclear in NY Heist
New York March 1. The robbery of four valuable registered mail packages in what appears to be an attempt to steal at least $1,000,000 in currency consigned to New York banks became known Tuesday. The robbery occurred Saturday morning when a United States mail autotruck was entered while it was on
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New York
United States Mail
Ferry shipment theft hits Newark hub mail pouches
Packages stolen from mail pouches aboard a Central of New Jersey ferry route from Communipaw to Liberty Street New York involved three Washington and one Baltimore pouch. Unofficial reports say one Washington package carried 200000 dollars.
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Central of
AID PROMISED IN BOLL WEEVIL FIGHT
A Montgomery conference of business leaders planters and farmers ends with plans to bring a government expert to assist local planters against the boll weevil. Government will fund the expert while local business men cover salary. Message urges caution, tenant support, steady cultivation and aggressive weevil destruction to save the cotton crop.
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U. 5
Montgomery
Knapp
Court notes from Chancery and Law sessions
Tuesday business includes motions to suppress depositions in Russell v Bohlin and related cases, judgments by default and by court in several suits, demurrers sustained against Gulf Coast Fair Association and Goslin v Morris, and trials in Williams v Morris and Odd Fellows Building Association v Mobile Auto Co.
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Chancery Court
Thomas H. Smith
Marshall T. Russell
C. W. Bohlin
M. T. Russell
Norvelle R. Leigh
J. A. Bances & Co
Vinegar Bend Lumber Co
Manuel del Rio
Law and Equity Court
Safford Berney
Co. J. Gayfer & Co
Carrie W. Gordy
J. C. McDaniel
John Kimbrough
R. G. Anchors
Gulf Coast Fair Association
Fred O. Goslin
Richard Morris
B. J. Williams
Odd Fellows Building Association
Mobile Auto Co
Rail Delivery From Cuba to Philadelphia Begun
For the first time railroads compete with steamships for Cuban sugar cargoes reaching Philadelphia. A 22 car train arrived at the Franklin sugar refinery after transshipping from Havana to Key West on the Henry M. Flagler ferry. The trip was enabled by a new ferry boat allowing the entire train to move to Key West in six hours.
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Philadelphia
Franklin
Havana
Henry M. Flagler
Key West
Cuba
The
Shipbuilding Company
Florida East Coast Railroad
Secret agents probe Nicaragua plot in New Orleans
New Orleans reports say Nicaragua agents investigate a supposed revolutionary plot aimed at blocking Nicaragua's ratification of a new treaty with the United States. Also notes German steamers arriving at Malmo to ship ten thousand horses to Germany and an advertisement for a cold remedy.
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New Orleans
Nicaragua
United States
Stockholm
London
Malmo
Germany
Whistler Notes and Local Updates from March News
Whistler society reports a Maccabees meeting scheduled for Wednesday at Odd Fellows Hall. Barn theft on St Stephens Road saw four buggy wheels stolen. no suspects named. Community chatter includes births, birthdays, relocations, and local officials’ activities in Whistler and nearby Mobile.
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Whistler
Ala
Whistler Lodge of the Maccabees
Odd Fellows Hall
Nellie Lyle
Nellie
Lou Alice Shoemate
Lillian
Wilmer Goleman
James Lakas
Margaret Smith
Clinton Harris
James
Joel Taylor Vaughan
Stark
Jesse Roberts
Wallace Smith
Mechanics Lodge No
Carr Street
Mizpah Lodge No
Sheet Metal Workers
Barnes Hotel
Roy L. Jensen
J. Parnell
Julius Facie
Arthur L. Savage
William Stutz
Grace
Mobile
M. D. Jackson
Alice Delahunty
Ed John Delahunty
William Giblin
Frank W. Eckford
John Horn
J. W. VanBoyum
Amos Rehberg
Jonesville
Bulgar King at Vienna Arrives for Francis Joseph Visit
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria arrived in Vienna to visit Emperor Francis Joseph, announced from Vienna via Amsterdam and London on March 1.
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Vienna
Amsterdam
London
Ferdinand of Bulgaria
Francis Joseph
Dr King New Life Pills Offer Spring Cleansing
An old fashioned laxative promises quick relief by moving sluggish bowels stimulating the liver and cleansing body poisons. The ad urges readers to clear winter toxins and mentions the product’s price of 25 cents at the druggist.
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Dr. King
Inside Bath Habit Promoted For Healthier Looks
A pamphlet extols an inside bath using hot water and limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the liver kidneys and bowels. It claims clearer skin and more energy, urging those with headaches rheumatism foul breath and constipation to try the regimen and a remedy advertised as inexpensive.
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Bath
Confessions Of A Wife The Little Jade God Of Dreams
A narrator contemplates Malcolm Stuart and Dick as she guards a carved jade god that seems to reveal dreams and a vision of Malcolm on a moonlit yacht. The jade god appears in her dream and in reality, hinting at fate and shared ambitions as the story continues.
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the Little Jade God OF Dreams
Malcolm Stuart
Orient
Jim Edie
Margie
Jim
Verdun Fortifications Describe Vast Meuse Defense System
The article outlines Verdun as a massive entrenched camp on the Meuse forming a key eastern French defense along with Belfort and Toul Epinal. It details the fort line from the Meuse heights southeast to the Woevre plains, the principal forts such as Souville Douamont Tavannes Moulainville and Belle Epine, and the surrounding secondary works and barbed wire trenches built before and during the 1914 invasion era.
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Verdun
Meuse
Paris-Metz
Belfort
France
Toul
Epinal
Charmes
Smiling Valley
Grande Courrone
Nancy
Teul
Mers
The
Maine
Sarrail
Castlenay
Duball
Vosges
Crown Prince
von Heeringen
Liege
Namur
Maubeuge
Vauban
Guerin de Waldersbach
Sierre de la Riviere
Beirupt
St. Michel
Belleville
la Chaume
Regreat
Woevre
Chattilion
Manezel
Moulainville
Bix
Mard Gras
Lantee
Vaux
Hardimont
Forte Rozellier
St. Symphorien
Houdainville
Souville
Douamont
Tavannes
Metz-Verdun-Paris
Fort Belle-Epine
Marre
Borrus
Bruyeres
Germanville
Bois de Sartelles
Bois du Chapitre
Landrecourt
Dugny
Fort Haudainville
Choisel
Sartelles
Chana
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Advertises Kidney Cure
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a physician prescribed remedy for kidney liver and bladder diseases. It claims widespread success and urges readers to buy a bottle or send ten cents for a sample from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton New York, via Mobile Item Ad.
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Dr. Jimer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Naval officer who was in Mobile Attack dies
Captain Benjamin H. Chadwick, former naval officer and Kansas pioneer, died at his home in Clem ents, Kay. He served as a merchant sailor before the Civil War and later became a navy officer, involved in the Blockade and Mobile operations under Admiral Farragut.
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Cottonwood Falls
Esk
Benjamin H. Chadwick
Kansas
Clements
Kay
Chadwick
Navy
New
St Setie Wits
Adm Farragut
Mobile
Pure food girl ee a for you this week a W. Tt. Gou Your Gonpona
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A. D. Wolverton
Self
Jinventor
Congress
Dauphin Street
Men’s Fine
E. Geove
Caine
Meuse Heights
Lorraine
Mobile Hoe & Rake Co
Fred H. Cobb
Southeast Cor
Royal & Theatre
Lts
van Antwerp
Rowe GO
Mallory Line
Mallory Steamship CO
B. F. du Bois
A. H. McLeod & CO
Ita Cuticura
Corel
Anes
Nelson & Bailey
ROYAL
Superior Printing
Powers Printing Co., Inc
Bell Phone
N. W
T. L. Adkison
Conti and Wilkinson
Sts
Bell
Snae
I Bee
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