Moving Habit of a Migratory Family in Chicago Flats
A man recalls a lifelong pattern of moving each year with his wife and child across Chicago flats. They shift from top floor to ground floor apartments to avoid burglaries and noise, seeking a cottage with a yard and a furnace as spring moves in. The piece uses humorous first person anecdotes about urban living and housing fears.
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Chicago
Ayrie
Thst
Shepstreet
Agricultural Department
Simnow
Papa
Chicago Tribune
A Novel Hold Up On Lake Shore Line
Freight train No 1 between here and Mishawaka was halted by gunpoint robbers. Several cars were looted of merchandise worth hundreds of dollars while police pursued the bandits. Detective Frank Brobst, aboard a box car, witnessed and helped capture five suspects fled to a swamp rendezvous. The gang may number about twenty locals.
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Louis Bexn
Ind
Lake Shore
Here
Mishawaka
Wre
Caboose
Avan
Frank Brobat
Brolst
Krobst
Clevenasy
Henry Buchwold
Charlotte Buchwold
Wamed Emma
Beaver Street
Thousands of G A R crowds to Atlanta Exposition
The Atlanta Exposition anticipates huge turnout as 25 000 G A R members from Chattanooga travel to Atlanta on September 2 60000 visitors expected for the event with President Cleveland's arrival on opening day September 18 and a special city committee asked to assist Exposition officials with crowd management.
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Amasra
C E. Herman
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Exposition Company
Chattanooga
Atlanta
UG. A. R
Tt Ia
Cleveland
Winter Snow Slows Cripple Creek Streets
Snow fell across the Cripple Creek district yesterday causing slow sidewalks and streets. Weather later cleared but the brief disturbance interrupted daily activities in the Colorado town.
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Colorado
Cairrie Creek
Col
Cripple Creek
Woods On Fire Rages Through Ormsby Oil Fields
Fire sweeps through Ormsby and surrounding oil fields destroying rigs and timber. Reports from Kane and West Kane detail widespread blaze across forests, oil wells, and tanks. Roads and rail lines, including the New York Lake Erie & Western and Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh, face encroaching flames as towns like Knapp's Creek brace for impact.
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Braprosp
Ormsby
Fie
New York, Lake Erie & Western
Allegheny
N.Y
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Dent
Emery Oil Co
Routherford Run
Coon Run
Pittsburgh & Western
Kane
West Kane
Griffith Company
Union Oil Co
James Campbell
Olean
Knapp's Creek
Messrs
Burns, Russell & Curtis
Knapp’s Creek
Iron Run
Russell City
Elk Oi Co
Standard Pump Station
Russells
Pistol War in Court Ends in Multiple Deaths at Snyder
In Snyder Texas a court case involving Bert Cartland and Dickson ignited a pistol battle. Dickson was killed, one son gravely wounded, and Chapman and Tom Dean injured. Dean testified in the suit, Chapman may die, and Chapman is related by marriage to a Dickson son. A second item notes Royal baking powder claims pure formula free of lime.
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Snyder
Tex
Trousten
Ailles
Eubank
Dickson
Chapman
Tom Dean
Dean
Bert Cartland
Dicksons
Clevecasy
National League
H. L. Wells
Young Men's State Republican Club
Oregon
Flood Threat Near Denver as Platte Rises Rapidly
A Denver suburb, Jeromo Park in Daxvex Col, faces imminent flood danger as the Platte River swells toward Rio Grand Avenue. The rising waters advance at about one inch per hour, raising fears of damage to property and risk to life, while railway workers prepare for possible washouts.
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Denver
Daxvex
Col
Jerome Park
Heat crushes New York as ten die in heatwave
New York on June 4 faced extreme heat with a cooling breeze failing to ease conditions. Ten deaths on the streets were reported amid swelling prostrations citywide while hospitals treated over 100 heat sufferers. Other cities reported similar peril with fatalities and many prostrations as temperatures topped 96 degrees.
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New York
Cleveland
David B Christian
Christian
Superior Street
Philadelphia
Cmcaco
Chicago
Indianapolis
IxnotasaPoria
Ind
Weather Bureau
ST. Louis
Louisville
Signal Service
Baltimore
Accused Banker Robert Kincaid Arrested in Kansas
News from Fort Scott and Mound City reports Robert Kincaid, ex banking executive linked to multiple banks, jailed in Oklahoma City on charges of forging his wife’s name to a mortgage and note and later accused of receiving deposits while his bank was insolvent. He was released on bond then rearrested.
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Robert Incaid
Mound City
Kan
Fort Scorr
Robert Kincaid
Citizens’ Bank
That Place
Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank
Osawatomie
Bank of
Oklahoma City
Hood & Kincaid
Pleasanton
Marie Kincaid
Linn County
Dallas May Get The Fight Between Corbett and Fitzsimmons
Dallas, Texas, reports strong betting that the Corbett Fitzsimmons prize fight will occur during the state fair in October. A 30,000 seat amphitheater will be built near the fairgrounds to host the bout, expected to draw a large crowd from northern Texas and beyond.
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Corbett and Fitzsimmons
Dallas
Tex
Jane
Corbett-Fitzsimmons
Stuart
Texas
Gresham
The Women of France and Their Revolutionary Influence
A historical reflection on French women from Jeanne d Arc to the Revolution, praising their courage and sacrifices while critiquing royal excesses and clerical oppression. It links maternal virtue to revolutionary zeal and notes women’s ferocity during the Reign of Terror as a response to tyranny. Also includes unrelated recipe snippets on broiled shad and croquettes valued for purity of baking powders.
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France
Jeanne d'Arc
Catherine de Medici
Rouey
St. Bartholomew
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Tiberius
Commodus
Mme Roland
Charlotte Corday
Viceroigne de
Sanson
Hherry
Belgravia
Maitre D'Hotel
N. Y. Ledger
Reformatories First Judge Humphrey Sends Duy Kreider
Judge Humphrey sentences Duy Kreider for hog stealing conspiracy to a term in Hutchineon reformatory. Kreider believed to be sent under the new reformatory. Carriages from Sire Paran Stevens stable auctioned on public square by Mrs. Paget. Vehicles, with light brown trimmings and crest, sold for 8450 amid large crowd. Water west region and steam laundry ads noted.
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Humphrey
Hutchineon
Anttony
Kaus
Jane
Duy Kreider
St Hutchineon
Kreider
Bette
Newront
Sire Paran Stevens
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