Indian Maiden Bucks Bank Engraving Offer in Kansas Trade
Nee Bana of the Penobscot tribe lives on an island near Old Town Maine and is famed as the tribe’s beauty. A letter from City National Bank of Kankakee Kansas proposes engraving her face on bank cheeks for a substantial sum, a prospect that shocks and fascinates western farmers and merchants. The tale underscores her notoriety and the era’s quirky publicity ideas.
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Nee Bana
Old Town
Nee Banas
Kansas
City National Bank of
Stereoscope novelty and a Chicago insurance swindle
A Paris invented long sight stereoscope aims to enhance relief and depth of view. In Chicago Dr August Unger F Wayland Brown and Frank H Smiley are jailed on $15000 bail for conspiracy to defraud life insurers in the Marie Defenbach death case. Police allege Defenbach, age 23, was poisoned and policies totalling $12000 were secured from New York Life Canadian Order of Foresters and Knights and Ladies of Honor.
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Chicago
August M. Unger
F. Wayland Brown
Frank H. Smiley
Unger
Marie Defenbach
Miss Defenbach
Edward Maher
Mooney & Boland Detective Agency
Brown
Smiley
New York Life Insurance Company
Father of the Trusts Faces Steel Rail Price War
The piece profiles Charles R. Flint as organizer of major U.S. trusts and argues he defends combines as aligned with evolution. It notes railroads balking at $26 a ton for steel rails while billets sell at $16.50, signaling a potential price war and possible collapse of the steel rail pool led by Carnegie and rivals.
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Charles R. Flint
United States
Carnegie Company
Great Enterprise to Build a Railroad Across Andes
James P. McDonald, a New York contractor, is named to head a vast project to span the Andes from Guayaquil to Quito. The 200 mile route will need about 25 million dollars, with heavy stone work and high elevations. About 1,100 current workers will be joined by 5,090 Jamaican laborers as wages remain around 1.20 daily in local currency. John Alexander Dowie campaigns in London attacking other religions while claiming to be an anointed leader.
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James P. McDonald
New York
Andees
Guyaquil
Quito
Mir
McDonald
Cllege
University of Tennessee
Guyawil
Mr. McDonald
D.gentry
Richard Harding Davis
Soldiers of Fortune
Women Voters in Four States Face Likely Turnout Shift
The piece notes that women over 21 in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho gain presidential voting rights this year. It cites Idaho as new to the suffrage scene, while Colorado, Utah and Wyoming show waning enthusiasm, with about half of qualified women expected to vote. Mrs. I. G. Clarke of Denver is highlighted among notable women politicians.
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Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
I. G. Clarke
Women’s Democratic Club of
Denver
End of a Romance Severs Mrs Mulkey Daughter’s Marriage
Mrs Vita Passo daughter of former Illinois Supreme Court chief justice seeks dissolution of her marriage to Edward Passo a San Angelo ranchman. They wed after a secret San Dang Ky visit, a lavish courtship followed by distance and secret letters ending in a troubled split.
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Vita Passo
Mulkey
Illinois Supreme Court
Edward Passo
San Angelo
Tex
Metropolis
Passo
Pandcah
Wolcott Named Ambassador to Italy With Praises From New England
Roger Wolcott of Boston receives appointment as ambassador to Italy amid broad praise in New England. Senators Hoar and Lodge discussed the move, but Wolcott says he had no involvement in the bid. He will assume the post after Draper resigns, with fall date anticipated.
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Roger Wolcott
Italy
Boston
Ialy
New England
Hoar
Lodge
McKinley
Draper
Massachusetts
Walcott
Senator Hoar
Wolcott
Senator Wolcott
Canton
Mr. Wolcott
Paris
Harvard
Baston
Massachusetts House
Roger Welcott
William Pepperell
Louisburg
William Prescott
Bunker Hill
Sir William
Edith Prescott
Roger Wollcott
Oliver Wolcott
Connecticut
Weight at Saratoga Famous Spa
The article notes an unprecedented display of large women at Saratoga during the season with many guests weighing 175 to 290 pounds. It highlights a Grand Union hotel guest six feet three inches tall at 175 pounds praised for her attire, and mentions interest from other heavyset women and a well known actress seeking the dressmaker responsible for such styling.
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Spa
Saratoga
Grand Union Hotel
Powers and the Number Thirteen in Goebel Case
Caleb Powers a Kentuckian connected to the Goebel murder was linked to the number thirteen in multiple aspects. He was nominated June 13 1899 arraigned July 13 1900 named as one of thirteen conspirators defended by thirteen lawyers his sweetheart was the thirteenth witness and 1300 soldiers were said ready to defend him. He allegedly gave Cul ton 1300 to cover mountaineer expenses took 1300 with him when fleeing and the evidence closed August 13.
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Caleb Powers
Powers
Goebel
Culton
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Erie Railroad
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MckKinley
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Rochester
Ad Cincinnati & Chicago Company
Yorlf
Stereoscope
Dr. Unger
Co. R. Flint
Flint
James P. M'Donald
Dowie
London
John Alexander Dowie
Canterbury
Church of England
J. Alex. Dowie
Thomas
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