Thaw escapes Matteawan prison in daring car coup
Harry K Thaw, convict in the Stanford White case, fled Matteawan hospital in a carefully planned jailbreak. He boarded a waiting black limousine with four confederates and sped toward Connecticut at high speed, pursued briefly by staff and a milkman. Authorities believe he may be heading for Long Island Sound or a yacht bound for Europe, with a $500 reward posted and multiple arrests expected.
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Cxpital
Thaw
Asylum
Long Island Sound
Europe
Dr. Kieb
Howard Barcum
Kieb
Barnum
Bar- Aum
Stormville
Here
Connecticut Line
State Line
Larnam
Shaw
Ike Barnum
Kleb
Long Island, Sound
Ey & Relay
Friamy
Holland Hotel
State Exposition Prizes Announced in North Dakota
W C Gilbreath, manager of the North Dakota Industrial Exposition to be held in Bismarck October 7 to 19, lists railroad and county prizes. Railroads offer prizes from 50 to 150 dollars per county exhibit of grains and farm products. County prizes total about three thousand dollars with numerous awards for best corn, variety exhibits, and county displays. Bloom quotes figures to Col Whitehead to argue prohibition is a success.
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W. C. Gilbreath
North Dakota
Dent
Billings
Burleigh
Dunn
Emmons
Hettinger
Morton
Stark
Goodridge-Call Lumber Company
Waltham Watch Company
B. B. Woodward
Bismarck
Lumber
Minneapolis
Associaion of Commerce of
St. Paul
Bloom
The
Devils Lake
Avenger Returns to Avenge Trevor’s Death at Antelope Saloon
An elderly, well dressed stranger seeks Jim Hawkins for vengeance of Trevor’s killing. In a quiet confrontation at the Antelope saloon Hawkins is intoxicated and coerced by a mysterious messenger named Reginald Trevor. Hawkins is later hanged at 6 the next morning after the sheriff arrests him.
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Trevor
the Inquirer
Jim Hawkins
Young
Antelope
Hus
Galler
Jim Hawking
Wild West
Hawkins
Hit
Reginald Trevor
Hawking
Fort Peck open to settlement with 9,000 160 acre farms
Washington officials announce a September opening of 1,345,000 acres on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. About 9,000 farms will be drawn for, with registration at Glasgow Havre and Great Falls starting Sept 1 and filing through Sept 20. Early numbers pick land in rotation. settlement begins May 1, 1914.
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Washington, D. C
Fort Peck
Montana
Sam
United States
Interior Department
Glasgow
Havre
Great Falla
Mont
Coeur Dalene
Flathead
Spokane
Great Northern Railway
Fort Peck Reservation
Plume Service Opens New Branch Here
Daly notes a major advertising company plans a local branch. The Plume Syndicate already operates in most large cities and abroad, with strong endorsements. Mr. Ritter will visit for three or four days to interest local merchants in modern advertising methods.
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Plume Syndicate
Old Country
United States
Ritter
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Harry K. Thaw
George Carnegie
Harry
New York
Harry K. Thew
Mary Copley Thaw
Cresgon
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co
Milwaukee Road
Great Northern Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Minneapolis, St. Paul & S
Marle Railway Company
General County
the Avenger
St. Louis
Western
Rock Island, Burlington
Union Pacific
North Western
Santa Fe
Burleson
Post Office Department
Senate
Sigurd Hamlin
Foust
Cogewell
Winnipeg
Roy Kenich
Carrington
Gritter
Daly
Peary
Dr. Cook
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