Box Car Bride Abounds In Railroad Romance Tale
Miss M M Barker of Pittsburg and Ernest Noon a Minneapolis switchman wed after a box car postcard romance. The Erie Railway box car carried her name 23750 miles before Noon found it and invited her to his home. The twenty year old bride studied in Pittsburg and her mother approved the match.
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Minneapolis
Cupid
Mar M. Barker
Pittsburg
Ernest Noon
Laura Jean
Miss Barker
Erie Railway
Noon
After Sixty Years He Rejoins Sister
International News Service reports George Philips, 77, returns to South Chicago home to meet sister Ovanda Hewitt after sixty years of separation. The story follows his boyhood departure to seek gold and his reunion with family, including his son George Phillips Jr. in Chicago.
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George Phillips
California
Kansas
Ge Phillips, Jr
Phillips
Chicago
Ovanda Hewitt
South Chi
Mrs. Hewitt
Portland Man With Rifle Escapes Arrest After Bounty Incident
F W Wennings of Portland avoided arrest after promising to pay about $100 for shooting a cougar dog tail near the Eighteen-Mile House on the Coos Bay road. A conference with Gervins and Sheriff Fenton set the tail value at roughly $100, which Wennings paid.
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County
Marshal Fenton
Jennings
Gervins
Portland
Guardian to Girl Dialogue Sparks Newark Inquiry
Ambiguous dialogue between Rob Hunt Hood of New Jersey and Vice ncestor Stevens in Newark prompts concern over a purported guardian role. The exchange questions the propriety of Miss Hoyt entering the state late at night and remaining for extended periods, casting doubt on Hood's reputation.
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Internation
York
Rob Hunt Hood
A Field
N.J
Vicencestor Stevens
Newark
Dorothy Hoyt
Flaite
Maraman
Reforming Doctor Urrutia's sweeping fixes in Mexico City
Aureliano Urrutia, now minister of gobernacion under Huerta, imposes Sunday closing laws, street car and auto speed limits, public cleanliness rules, and police reforms. His aggressive, independent approach draws both praise and protests from city residents and businesses.
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International News Service
Mexico City
United States
Gobernacion
Aureliano Urrutia
Theodore Roosevelt
Mexico
Pooh
Huerta
Min
Pilgrim Fathers
Latin America
Rio Janeiro
Dr. Urrutia
Subur
Tramway
Urrutia
St. John’s Day
Dumas
Foreign Office
Gamboa
Muerta
Presdent Huerta
Mountain Lion Startles Hunters Near Canyon Camp
George Knox of Ontario and Harry Broderick of City, Kansas, awoke to a huge mountain lion beside their Deer Camp near Canyon, north of Onto, as one boy fired a gun at the crouching animal. The beast fled after a loud roar and was not located afterward.
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Switchman
Wee Doones
Steen
Book of Getrastiona Ee
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First National Bank
Mobile, Alabama
Mazda
Mobile Electric Co
North Royal Street
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