Daring outlaw Tom Ketchum wounded after train hold up
The Black Jack gang leader Tom Ketchum is wounded and in Santa Fe penitentiary hospital after a Colorado Southern express hold up near Fulsom New Mexico. Marshals Foraker pursued him across the mountains as deputies traded shots. Ketchum claims a 200,000 dollar loot and 200 deaths since 1886.
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Black Jack
Tom Ketchum
Santa Fe
N. M
Tom
Colorado Southern Express
Fulsom
New Mexico
Wells Fargo Express
United States
Foraker
Express
Uplands
Penitentiary
Texas
Jesse James
Winchester
Arizona
Preachers Split Over Declining Church Attendance
The Rev. Dr. W. S. Crowe argues that fewer attend services as belief in hell fades and fear of eternal punishment wanes. He says theological shifts remove the fire-and-brimstone element driving church draw. Rev. Dr. De Costa counters by blaming departures from orthodox theology and political influences entering the church.
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Crowe
New York
Church of the Eternal Hope
Hell
Heaven
de Costa
Murder of Miss Wilhelmina Eiseley At White Farm
Edward Williams, jailed in Trenton, N J, confesses to the murder of Miss Wilhelmina Eiseley near Newton. He says a quarrel in the barn led to beating her with a maul after returning home drunk from Tren ton. Williams fled after the killing.
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Trenton
N. J
Edward Williams
Wilhelmina Eiseley
Newton
Williams
Polly's Studio Debacle Over Hortons Curios
In Polly's Studio a love triangle unfolds as I clash with Polly over a planned visit to Horton's Chinese curios. Peters arrives and flirts, prompting Polly to test my fidelity, while I tease back and claim I accompanied another woman. In the end Polly uncovers the ruse and insists on joining the outing as punishment.
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Arcana
Polly
Hortons Freak Museum
Horton's
Peters
Tom
Miss Stanton
Mr. Peters
Making Him Whole
A Chicago man recounts a cross country tale of a failed romance from New York to Chicago. He describes a staged marriage plot, a $1000 breakup settlement, and a bold western claim that “the west knows all about it” as he offers a cigar to aboard passengers in St. Paul.
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Polly
Mr. Peters
Peters
St. Paul
New York
Chicago
Buffalo
Detroit
Chicago News
Auto mobsters flash through Paris with loud exhausts
Paris motorists and cyclists race through the city with escape pipes wide open, producing explosive noises rivaling a switch engine. Beconnais on a fast tricycle allegedly frightened a cab horse into running away, leaving the cab injured in bed.
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Paris
Beconnais
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