State Chronicle notes on motto and roads reforms
The issue surveys Judge Clark on the state motto from Cicero, praises a North Carolina road improvement Bulletin, and urges broad circulation. It urges memorial events for Jefferson Davis in Raleigh and flags potential ceremonies for his death. It also reports snakes for the World’s Fair exhibit and German Reichstag politics.
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Trouble Over Passes Exposition issues 200000 season cards
Chicago exposition officials face a crush of passes with 200000 season cards issued. 30000 newspaper men enter free for six months, along with exhibitors and staff. The photo pass caused long lines and delays, with some passes valid for only ten days.
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Sensational poison cases and a deadly cyclone report
The column covers sensational recent poison trials including Carlisle Harris and Helen Potts, a New York lawyer entangled with a Chicago affair, and a coroner’s ruling that a woman cut her own throat in despair. It narrates a West cyclone’s strike near Oxford and Brookston, with casualty notes, then shifts to a North Carolina Geological Survey bulletin on road material and construction, praising McAdam and Telford methods and noting regional material abundance and transport challenges.
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Mississippi River Near Danger Level Reported At 81 Feet Ten Inches
The Mississippi River at St Louis rose to 81 feet ten inches this morning, two inches below danger level. Observers noted the river lowering upstream at Keokuk and Quincy while the Missouri River declined at Herman after yesterday’s crest.
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President makes three West Virginia appointments
The President appointed Cornelius Watts of West Virginia as United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia and Samuel S Vinson of West Virginia as Marshal for the District of West Virginia. The announcements were released May 3 through the Associated Press.
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Meade
Rnelius Watts
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Samuel S Vinson
Tragedy in Wolf Lake Husband Kills Wife Then Self
Theo Pendleton of Wolf Lake returned drunk and killed his wife with a blow to the head. He then seized their six month old child and battered the infant's brains against the stove before slashing his own throat.
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Chicago Bites More Than It Can Chew
A sharp line notes Chicago will do its best to handle a heavy burden while stressing personal responsibility when a mishap is the vic tim’s own fault, urging accountability for property losses.
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