Judge Corbett Shot in Camp Tragedy Moves City
News from Trout Lake Junction reports Judge Corbett shot while at his Ozark camp. A special train will meet the body at Walton. funeral rites at Mackinaw City and Walton. Early accounts describe a possible accidental shooting with a Mauser rifle. details unfold as authorities investigate.
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Ozark
Walton
Corbett
Mackinaw
Carter
Charles
Kuhns
Mr. Kuhas
Mr Kuhas
Charlie
Judge Roscoe L Corbett A Michigan Legal Pioneer
Judge Roscoe L Corbett born November 30 1855 in Famington Missouri built a long career in Michigan politics and law. He moved to Big Rapids at age twelve then graduated from Bg Rapids High School in 1876 and the University of Michigan Law in 1880. He practiced in Boyne City from 1882 until 1894 and served as Prosecuting Attorney 1884 1888 and as a Board of School Examiners member 1883 1890. He was elected judge in 1894 and married Monica Midland July 4 1880, raising two sons and a daughter.
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Roscoe L Corbett
Famington
Michigan
Big Rapids
Bg Rapids
Univerisity of
Law Department
Judge Corbett
Boyne City
Board of
Corbett
Death of Judge Corbett Shocks City
Fuller details describe Judge Corbett dying after a Sunday walk with his son Charles near St. Ignace. A shot was fired, the judge cried I am shot, and he died soon after while friends carried him. Dr. DeLacy escorted the body, Kuhns learned of the event, and the city mourned with flags at half mast as the two younger sons were summoned from school.
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Judge Corbett
Charles
Ths Place
Kuhns
DeLacy
St. Ignace
Prof
Grawn
Laid to Rest Wednesday Judge Corbett Honored by All
Roscoe L. Corbett is laid to rest with hundreds viewing his face at the family home. The local bar and visiting legal peers met at Grange Hall to honor him, draping the bench in mourning as pallbearers and a resolutions committee were named.
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Roscoe L. Corbett
Judge Corbett
Grange Hall
C. E. Densmore
Antrim County
J. M. Harris
Charlevoix County
A. D. Cruikshank
Lorin Roberts
J. W. Patchin
Fred H. Pratt
Grand Traverse County
Green
Charlevoix
Dougherty
Elk Rapids
M. C. Dodge
Traverse City
McKercher
Leland
Trotter
Charlev
Traverse City Hunters Plan Munising Woods Trip
A Traverse City hunting party led by C M Parker Will Ebner Oliver Vandergort and Frank Hoover departs by the G R I on Monday for the Upper Peninsula. Their objective is Munising where they will hunt for several weeks in the pictured rock country along the Dr S and A railroad.
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Traverse City
C M. Parker
Will Ebner
Oliver Vandergort
Frank Hoover
Upper Peninsula
Dr.s & A
Attorney Cross Survives Striking Odd Memory Gap
George H. Cross suffered a baffling lapse Saturday evening after a fall near the City Opera House. He remembers buying grapes and crossing Boardman Avenue but nothing until waking on Washington Street with his umbrella and bicycle. He later regained the office, noting bruises and a grape-strewn sidewalk and urging repairs to the spot.
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George H. Cross
City Opera House
The
National Bank
Cass Street
State
Boardman Avenue
Mr Cross
Mr. Cross
Washington Street
Court House
Mr. Tweddle
Sunday School Lesson on Hezekiah Sennacherib Narrative
The author reflects on Hezekiah praying to God against Sennacherib, God’s protection of Jerusalem, and the promise that the Lord will defend the city for His own sake and for David’s. It cites divine signs, angelic deliverance, and the ultimate fate of the Assyrian king with emphasis on faith, trust, and obedience.
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D. M. Stearns
Israel
Sennacherib
Assyria
Hezekiah
Judah
Johnny
Zion
Jerusalem
God
Moses
Joshua
Gideon
David
Goliath
Earth
Isaiah
Amoz
Adam
Satan
House of Judah
Noah
Lot
Sodom
Elijah
Sea Math
Lord Jesus Christ
Heaven
Job
Ezek
Peter
Paul
Bismark Memoirs News Spark Duel With Caprivi
An imminent publication of Bismark memoirs prompts mention of a possible pistol duel with Caprivi. Berlin reports note Bismark, aged 78, considered challenging Caprivi after a Vienna wedding incident but abandoned the plan to avoid court action and potential political fallout.
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Bismark
Caprivi
Horst Kohli
House of the Harper & Brothers
New York
Cotta
Germany
Smith, Elder & Co
England
Berlin
London Daily News
Prince Bismark
Count von Caprivi
Vienna
Herbert
Oid
Sol
Prisca Bismark
Count Caprivi
Hawaiian Islands lecture by Mrs. Cora Martin announced
Mrs. Cora D. Martin of the State Department of Public Instruction will give an instructive lecture on the Hawaiian Islands in the High School Assembly room next Friday evening November 11. She recently studied conditions prior to annexation and will describe islands scenery industries people and customs with island curiosities and Hawaiian songs. Admission 15 cents. The lecture begins at eight o clock.
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Cora D. Martin
State Department of Public Instruction
Hawaiian Islands
Martin
Islands
Diptheria Relieved in Twenty Minutes Miraculous Claim
A claim from a patent remedy advertisement credits Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil with relief from diphtheria in twenty minutes. The notice urges readers to visit drug stores to obtain the product.
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Thomas
Atany Drug Store
Fruit trees offered by local nurseryman on rounds
Mr. R B Cook, the well known nurseryman, is on his rounds taking orders for fruit and ornamental stock. Please hold your orders for him.
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R B. Cook
Hall's Catarrh Cure Endorsed by Pharmacists in Toledo
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure from Cheney & Co as a remedy for catarrh and colds. It claims internal action on mucous surfaces and lists endorsements from Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, and Little Colds Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a cure for colds.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Cheney
Neiall
Cs Tuax
Cs Tuax, Wholesale Drugeists
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Drugeists
Toledo
Op Wood
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W. C. Hull
Masonic Lodge
Trout Lake Junction
Hull
R L Corbett
Roy
A. J
Lazy
EAGLE
Mackinac City
Mr. Kuhns
D. Cochlin
Mr. Corbett
Monica
Midh
Pictured Rocks
Prince Bismarck
Harrer & Brothers
Castoria
Kar
Gilbert & Gates, Attorneys At Law
Court St
Rochester, N.Y
National School OF Business and Shox
THAMD
M. Young
Onry St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Parker
Sola
Pe Chichester
Humphreys
Senor of Humphreys
Price
Sts
T& Liable
Jaas
G. Johnson
Storm Horse
Wilhelm Bartak & Co
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