New Method of Tying the Knot in Sacramento
John Cariga and Maude Buell of Roseville wed with a porch ceremony on the Rev Frank K. Baker’s visit night. The couple took out a license in the afternoon and had the bride receive the ring as they boarded a street car delayed five minutes. Conductor M C Farrar and motorman J E Dunn aided the stunt, with the motorman rushing to drown the cheers.
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Sacramento
John Cariga
Maude Buell
Roseville
Tev
Frank K. Baker
P Street
Tenth
M. C. Farrar
J. E. Dunn
Handkerchief Bank Saved by Newfound Loot
Henry Clark of Clark avenue kept a bank in a bandana handkerchief for twenty years. After a wagon accident, a hospital clerk discarded the rag thinking it dirty. The strip concealed $757 in small bills, recovered when the handkerchief was unrolled.
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ST. Louis
Henry Clark
Clark Avenue
Clark
Theresa Avenue
Old Passenger Car For A Home
L P Long his son Roy and wife moved into Platte City after spending five years in an abandoned Rock Island coach near Leavenworth Kansas The coach was dropped there twenty five years ago occupants lived rent free in return for oiling the switch lights When repairs were refused the family moved to Platte City Missouri to live in the future
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Leavenworth
Kan
L. P. Long
Roy
Platte City
Rock Island Railway
Long
Bartender Saves Self From Narrows Drowning Near Tacoma
In Tacoma on November 8 Frank Kernicho, a Pickwick Club member and bartender, was thrown from a launch during a club outing. The rapid tide prevented rescue until the revenue cutter Corinne arrived, and Kernicho’s bald head helped rescuers spot him from a distance. He was benumbed on reaching the vessel but life preservers were thrown to him.
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Tacoma
Corinne
Frank Kernicho
Narrows
Pickwick Club
Kernicho
Hunters uncover ancient Indian arrowhead cache in Oklahoma
Two brothers Jim and Bert Stanley treed squirrels near the Grand and Cowskin rivers in Delaware county when a limestone edge they kicked revealed a cache of war points. Digging yielded about 1,700 flint arrowheads in total, with 800 more found later by archaeologists.
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Muskogee
Okla
Jim
Bert Stanley
Oklahoma
Grand
Cowskin
Delaware County
Stanley
Barnard
Mexican Rebel Offers 26000 for Sandwich in Desert Feast
In New Mexico near Columbus a Sonoran rebel, Alberto Rodriguez, flashed a $26000 Constitutionalist bill for a ham sandwich but did not receive the sandwich. US cavalrymen, bound by rules, provided a meal worth about $275000 when counted with the claimed price. Rodriguez was arrested but welcomed imprisonment for the meals.
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Beriguez
Wrong One Finds The Girls Note In Prunes
Ewen Michigan November 8 W S Cole a local merchant found a sentimental note in a box of prunes. The note requests correspondence from a seventeen year old girl who signs Miss Payette Idaho. The note mentions age and marriage rules and the writer asks the recipient to contact if they received the crate.
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Ewen
Mich
W. S. Cole
Wen
Wisconsin couple travels in comfort to Florida
In Marinette Wisconsin on November 8 Mr and Mrs Ray Kimball of Chrystal Falls started from home in an automobile bound for St Petersburg Fla intending to stay in the auto most of the trip The car is fitted like a Pullman coach with sleeping accommodations a sheet iron stove heat and cooking equipment for the journey a full camping set stored in the rear
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Marinette
Wis
Ray Kimball
Chrystal Falls
St. Petersburg
Fla
Marrying Each Other Eleven Times A Novel Couples Hobby
A Maryland couple, Mr and Mrs Frank Vernon of Braddock Heights, have been married eleven times since 1909 in countries from Ohio to Mexico. They keep certificates from each ceremony as a unique display and once faced language barriers as officiants spoke foreign languages.
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Hagerstown
Frank Vernon
Braddock Heights
Vernon
Columbus
Ohio
Montreal
England
Scotland
Wales
France
Germany
Belgium
Russia
Sydney
Australia
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Beacon light in Cimarron schoolhouse belfry guides travelers
A 400 candle power beacon light installed by subscription led by J. R. Fisher shines from the Cimarron Schoolhouse belfry. Citizens plan more lights on churches and buildings to guide Santa Fe trail travelers and locate towns, with subscriptions already being secured in surrounding towns.
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Cimarron
Khan
J. R. Fisher
Hen Coop Thief Loses Pocketbook in Rice County
In Great Bend, Ed Marx recounted a chicken thief tale from Rice county. A farmer found most of his flock stolen and a pocketbook with letters and $500 in the hen house. The thief's behavior and a curious passerby added local color to the odd case.
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Great Bend
Kan
Lyons
Hello Girls Relieved at Midnight by Boys
Johnstown reports that Pennsylvania railroad exchanges will use men or boys for the midnight shift under the new employment law. Women will work 8 am to 4 pm and 4 pm to midnight, while the 12 am to 8 am slot will be filled by a man or boy once official notice is issued.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania
Hood's Sarsaparilla Praised for Broad Medicinal Formula
The text extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as possessing unmatched medicinal merit due to its formula. It lists ingredients including Sarsaparilla, Stillingia, Blue Flag, Mandrake, Dandelion, Ava Ursi, Juniper Berries, Pipsissewa, Gentian Root, Wild Cherry Bark, and other agents. The claim rests on their own proportions and modern processes.
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Hood
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Mobile
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