Elopement Scandal In Chicago Pastor and Socialite
Rev Conrad Haney a Chicago preacher and Mrs Brandt a Kenwood socialite face a public collapse after a months long affair. Private detective photos reveal the pair together at home and in transit as Brandt confronts the clergy leader and the couple flee together.
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Chicago
Kenwood
Lake City
Conrad Haney
Theorthwestern University
Texas
Kankakee
Kenwood Methodist Episcopal Church
Union Church
T. G. Oates
Lake Avenue
Forty-fifth Street
Haney
George W. Brandt
Brandts
Brandt
Thomas B. Reed
Chicago murder case tied to engine workers and two accomplices
A Chicago engineer A D Barnes, 40, was found murdered in a dry goods box near Sixty third street after an ax attack. Investigators traced the crime to his assistants Ed Jordan and J B Jersey, with Mary Mahony and Annie Mercer arrested as accomplices. The four face trial in a case linked to a jealous relationship and criminal plot in the Hiawatha flats engine room.
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Chicago
Sixty-third Street
Inspector Hunt
A. D. Barnes
Ed Jordan
J. B. Jersey
Jersey
Jordan
Mary Mahony
Annie Mercer
Barnes
Hiawatha
Froude's Vivid Style and Henry VIII Portrait
A compact critique notes James Anthony Froude’s vivid historical writing and his celebrated England history. It warns the reader to guard against accepting his biased view, citing his depiction of Henry VIII as an exemplary gentleman with six bad wives.
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Froude
James Anthony Froude
England
Frounde
Henry VIII
Froudean
Woman Impersonates Heir in Glasgow Aristocrat Ruse
A young woman claiming to be Mrs Emma Montgomery and daughter of Sir Edwin Crichton of Glasgow was arrested and jailed in LaPorte Indiana, as investigators probe her true identity and motives.
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Emma Montgomery
Sir Edwin Crichton
Glasgow
Scotland
LaPorte
Ind
Arrests in Jewelry Theft Case and Trial of Emma Montgomery
Emma Montgomery, described as elegantly dressed with a 10-year-old son, faces trial at the February term of the Circuit court for alleged jewelry thefts. She claims to have fled her wealthy husband due to his associations with boxers Corbett and Fitzsimmons and notes entering the country with him after marriage.
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Emma Montgomery
Montgomery
Corbett and
Fitzsimmons
Brave Ashley youth saves drunken man from fast train
Elliott Jones of Ashley carried a helpless drunk man to safety on a Central railroad trestle near Wilkesbarre as the morning express, traveling at forty miles an hour, bore down. Jones crossed the ties to the end of the trestle, then sprinted to solid ground as the train passed, both men escaping serious injury though Jones fell down a steep embankment upon completion.
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Heath
Kall
Central Railroad
Ashley
Wilkesbarre
Elliott Jones
Jones
Revival Baptisms Sweep Hopkinsville Churches
Revival services in Hopkinsville Ky colored Baptist churches continue with 400 conversions and additions to date. Virginia street church closed with 250 conversions including 175 immersions in Little River. 1000 gathered on the river bank for the immersion ceremony lasting two hours led by two preachers. Fifty converts to Gainesville church baptized that day.
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Colored Baptist
Hopkinsville
Virginia Street
Little River
Gainesville
Court Suit In Youngstown Alleges Breach Of Promise
Miss Mary Davitt sues Thomas Tyrell a city council member and coal operator for breach of promise claiming he courted her for over twenty years and ruined her under a promise of marriage seeking $25,000 in damages.
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Thomas Tyrell
Youngstown
Ohio
Mary Davitt
Wierd Milestones on the Colorado Trail to King Midas Temple
A rugged reminiscence recounts standout tragedies along a wagon road to a legendary King Midas temple in the Rockies. Billy Godsey and the narrator recall Poker Jim’s grave, Surething Jackson’s monument, and a crude inscription honoring a fallen friend Jim Warall.
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Midas
Golden Temple
Rockies
Missouri River
Pacific Ocean
King
Billy
Mr. Godsey
Overland Express
Poker Jim’s
Burke
England
Desert Monuments Tell Tales Of Death And Gold Fever
A fragment from a Cincinnati writer reflects on desert grave markers and a tale of Mary the girl enticed away during the gold rush. It recalls a horse thief lynching in 1867 near Fort Bridger and the lure of San Francisco gold speculation.
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The
Cincinnati Aquirer
Fort Bridger
Mary
Godsey
San Francisco
Run to Earth Great Detectives Seize Evil Doers
A dialogue shows Officer Sleuth and the Western city chief chasing a murder case. They arrest a wife and husband, suspect both, and claim no one reveals the truth. The tale ends with both held on suspicion as detectives pursue confessions.
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Sleuth
Frail nothings and ironies in old gossip pieces
A collection of quips and vignettes on social vanity and wit. Topics include notions of gentility in work, court decisions on wills, courting banter, a New York girl rescuing a baby, lettered romance, and a miner’s tombstone pun about the word ore.
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New York
Pelham Parker
Sufly
West Field
Hensonhurst
Morrison Essex
London
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Wierd
Poker Jim
Hull
Jim
Jackson
Jim Warall Richt
Tom Owens
Mr. Jackson
Earth
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