Hammer of Death Struck James at Plumstead Churchyard
A Plumstead parish church reopened after a millennium is linked with a tombstone inscription about Master James Darling aged ten. The epitaph warns youth about cherry eating during the harvest season, as the memorial recalls Bloomfield’s Shooter's Hill visits and the churchyard’s quirky epitaphs.
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James
Plumstead
Bloomfield
Shooter's Hill
James Darling
Darling
Man Freed After Kiss Charge At Justice Court
A man charged with kissing a young woman by force was discharged without fine or imprisonment after the justice of the peace said he had to hold on to his chair to restrain himself from kissing the complainant. The testimony was described as modest and straightforward.
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Justice of the Peace
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Help for Sick Women
An appeal extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female troubles. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Ellsworth and Mrs. Boyd and invites women to write for advice, claiming decades of success in treating displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, and related symptoms.
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Leite
Lydia E. Pinkham
I’. Ellsworth
Yville
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Wool Storage Movement Committee Plans East Trip
The National Wool Growers Association will send a joint committee to inspect wool warehouse sites in October. Starting in Denver on October 4 with hearings October 5, the group will visit St Joseph Omaha St Paul Minneapolis and Chicago aided by state organizers. The panel will select a site form a storage company and launch the wool storage movement.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
National Wool Growers’ Association
Salt Lake City
Utah
Denver
Denver Chamber of Commerce
St. Joseph
Omaha
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
National Association
Cripple Creek Gold Output Rises in August Despite Rain Delays
Cripple Creek district shipped 66 886 tons in August with a gross bullion value of 1 330 774 dollars, up 1 824 tons from July while bullion value fell by 14 257 dollars. Heavy rains slowed hauling and car supply, yet two new mills will start this month and a new northern spur may be finished soon. Daily tonnage now reaches near seventy broad gauge cars to valley mills and smelters.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Veterans Put Off New Demands for Three Years
The Grand Army of the Republic will not ask Congress for further relief measures for three years. Encampment resolutions proposed amendments to the service pension bill lowering the age to sixty five for twenty dollar monthly relief and widows' pension eligibility retroactive to marriages before passage, but were laid over in favor of granting Congress a three year respite from old soldier legislation.
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Toledo
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
President Roosevelt to Return to White House in September
President Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill vacation ends September 22 as he and his family move to the White House for the winter and spring. Oyster Bay will cease to be the summer capital, and residents regret losing the town’s unique honor.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
White House
Washington
United States
McDowell Reviews Fort Collins Post Office Site
After a day and a half of on site inquiries J H McDowell of the federal treasury returned to the capital to report on a prospective Fort Collins post office site. Bids for a post office site were opened in Washington July 7.
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J. H. McDowell
Federal Treasury Department
Postoffice
Fort Collins
Washington
Fires Devastate Minnesota Towns And Rural Districts
Relief trains pour in to aid thousands displaced as Chisholm is largely destroyed and Wrenschall remains threatened. Governor Johnson relief efforts mobilize, with military guarding ruins and tents housing refugees amid an eight million dollar loss across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Duluth
Minn
Tange
Bull
Nashwauk
Wrenschall
Hibbing
Colderain
Chisholm
Johnson
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Mesaba Range
Fire devastates Rawhide area with heavy losses
A disastrous blaze in Rawhide Nevada began at 9 30 Friday night in Dr Garner's office inside the Rawhide Drug Company building. The fire rapidly reached the Ross hotel and spread toward Balloon avenue and Rawhide avenue, threatening the People's Hospital. Over 3000 people were rendered homeless, more than twenty were injured, and property losses exceeded 750000. Dynamite totalling over a ton and a half was used in demolition to halt the flames.
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Rawhide
Nevy
Garner
Rawhide Drug Company
Ross Hotel
Balloon Avenue
Rawhide Avenue
People's Hospital
G A R Chooses Salt Lake City for Next Encampment
Delegates at the national G A R session decide Salt Lake City as the next encampment site after installing new officers. A proposed $2 a day pension for ex prisoners of war was postponed and the $1 a day pension issue remained unacted.
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Toledo
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Portland
Nevada
Salt Lake
London
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Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mast
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