Kingston City Marshal Quits Over Diminishing Duties
Kingston Missouri October 25 Lante River longtime city marshal resigns saying there are no duties left to perform. The town once had a calaboose two pool halls and a bowling alley now only one drug store remains the rest closed by prohibition era sentiment. Oliver the marshal claimed patriotism and would keep salary if a successor was found, otherwise no place to put it.
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Kingston
Lante River
Hash
Oliver
Bob Brown
Garlic farming yields over a thousand dollars from small patch
Moscow Idaho man reports planting sixty five rows of garlic last spring. Each hundred feet long and eighteen acres apart, the crop produced more than 1000 worth of garlic at 7 cents a pound. After planting, the beds were only cultivated twice.
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Moscow
Idaho
Liv-Ver-Lak Peel and Liv-Ver-Lax Ad Claim
An advertisement promotes Liv-Ver-Lak Peel as a constant remedy to prevent taking days off work and to keep feet pleasant. It claims safety and natural actions while promising relief from poisons, cleansing, and constipation. It asserts guaranteed effectiveness and displacement of other products.
Tires of Wanting Abandoned Hope, Seeks Divorce
Mrs. Adelaide E. Steele of Minneapolis sues Henry W. Steele of Boston for complete separation and alimony after 46 years of desertion dating to 1867. She cites marriage in 1865 in South Boston and has not seen her husband since 1869. They have one daughter.
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Minneapolis
Adelaide E. Steele
Henry W.steele
Boston
Hennepin County
Long Hike for Paralysis Patient Ends in Wisconsin
Thomas O'Brien of Auburndale completes a 1700 mile tramp in seven weeks from Portland to Wisconsin, averaging thirty miles daily. After a past partial stroke and little medical help, he sought health through hard exercise, pausing briefly to work for funds. He reached Auburndale reportedly not greatly fatigued.
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Grand Rapids
jWis
Thomas O'Brien
Aburidate
O'Brien
Portland
Ore
Wisconsin
Auburndale
O'led
Deviled Sailed Schooner Americana Returns to Tale of Curse
In San Francisco a ship forever cursed by ancestral words is linked to the iron four masted schooner Americana. The Japaneese cook Okhuo who shot Captain Benson was taken ashore in irons and later served a five year term. The vessel, 197 days overdue from Astoria to Sydney, is said to have sunk with ten crew.
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San Francisco
Cal
Okhuo
Albert Benson
Astoria
Sydney
Okhud
Johnson
Gold and Silver in River Water in Huntington Tale
Huntington water from the Ohio River is said to contain gold copper and silver per analysis by chemist James Co Blake. He reports every half pint from city mains carries about 1 percent gold with traces of silver and copper. The report offers no conclusion on recovering the metal.
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Huntington
W. Va
Ohio River
James Co. Blake
Blake
The
Reiss Mercantile Co
United States
Mobile
Horses Eat Way Out of Hay Stack in Minnesota
In Ortonville Minnesota on October 25 farmer Charles bargfader reported five large work horses missing from a pasture. Local notices failed to reveal their location until four days later when the owner found them emerging from a straw shed opening that collapsed as they sought shelter. They were eating their way out.
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Ortonville
Minn
Charles’ Bargfader
Karglader
Long Haired Bachelor Farmer Draws Attention in Indiana
Lawrenceville Ind Oct 25 David B Johnston a 31 year old bachelor farmer from Hogan township appeared at the court house to pay his taxes. He has never shaved or cut his hair and sports long red whiskers reaching below his waist. Johnston, a Moore's Hill College graduate, says a family physician advised him as a child not to shave or cut his hair due to headaches and neuralgia and he claims to be in good health following that old guidance.
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Lawrenceville
Ind
David B. Johnston
Hogan Township
Johnston
Moore's Hill College
Father of 29 Dies at 94 in Noblesville
Riley Shepherd aged ninety four died in Noblesville Indiana He fathered twenty nine children and is survived by twenty children 126 grandchildren 68 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren Born in North Carolina he moved to Indiana in 1840 He had been married three times.
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Noblesville
Ind
Riley Shepherd
North Carolina
Indiana
Shepherd
Child Kidnapped by Both Parents in West Denver Suburb
Harold Sowder five is named the Wests most kidnapped child as Thaddeus Sowder and wife clash over custody after they separate last December. The boy was taken from Cheyenne to Julesburg by the mother who then drove off with him toward home after a brief visit. Sheriff Humberstone received divorce summons served on Sowder alleging failure to provide.
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Julesburg
Colo
Harold Sowder
West
Thaddeus Sowder
Cheyenne
Buffalo’ Bill
Sowder
Leff
Chappell
Pen mate proves ten be lost son
In Oakland California Louis Piver and his wife argued over their missing son John aged twenty three. Piver was arrested for disturbing the peace after asking police to search for John who had vanished ninety days earlier. His wife accompanied him to the station and pleaded for the boy’s return.
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Oakland
Cal
Louis Piver
John Piver
Piver
River
Foley Kidney Pills Benefit Home Makers Says Slogan
The ad claims Foley Kidney Pills boost strength and vitality for home keeping women. It asserts kidney and bladder sickness cause back pain and weakness and promises relief from nervous tension and irregular action, with aching joints disappearing after use.
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Sulzer
Boss Murphy
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