Wanted man Bourke accused of passing bad check in Phoenix
Phoenix Gazette reports W H Bourke, a man who used the alias Bourke, is sought by the sheriff for passing a bad $8 check at the Senate saloon. After cashing the first amount and claiming a large money draft, he borrowed $2.50 and disappeared. The sheriff is searching town and suspects Bourke fled.
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Courke
W. H. Bourke
Bourke
Senate
Phoenix
Rourke
Phoenix Gazette
Arizona Pioneer Murder Mystery in Pearce Detected
Ben E. Smith of Pearce, owner of a Pearce livery stable, was found dead with a revolver in his hand. The coroner's inquest concluded a murder, noting a hammer blow to the skull and a distant gunshot, with no robbery or clear motive. A $1000 reward was offered for the arrest and conviction.
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Ben E. Smith
Arizona
Pearce
Mr. Smith
Morenci Camp Gymnasium Nears Completion
The Morenci camp gymnasium built by the Detroit Copper Co. will soon be ready. It will house a modern exercise gym, a reading room with national papers, magazines, journals, a library of 600 books, a game room, billiards, bowling, showers, a running track, and a large room for meetings of orders once quarters are provided.
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Morenci
Detroit Copper Co
Solomonville
Famous Hotel Sold and Mrs Wolff to Move to Cripple Creek
Mrs Eugene Wolff confirms sale of the Belleview Hotel and plans to join her husband in Cripple Creek Colorado about the 15th inst. She has lived in Nogales eighteen years and is mourned by many friends who recall her prominent role in The Stass forth case tried in Tucson.
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Belleview
Eugene Wolff
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Wolff
Ogales
Stassforth
Tucson
Nogales Oasis
London Vice Problems Draw Wide Alarm Across City
London's streets show a night scene of promiscuous women across all districts prompting calls for police action under vagrancy laws. A police census estimates nearly eighty thousand women known to authorities, while religious and municipal groups push for state regulation of vice. Separately, a conference on horse racing betting at public schools like Eton reports seven percent of boys betting, with the government asked to consider penalties for bookmakers dealing with minors.
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London
West End
Piccadilly
Regent Street
Home Secretary
Ritchie
Saturday Review
Eton
Embalmed Candy Poisoned a Family in Blue Knob
Four women in Blue Knob freedom township are critically ill after eating poisoned candy. Victims include Mrs. George Noffker, her granddaughter Mrs. John Allison, and Rose and Viola Ikes. The twins of Mrs. Allison died earlier. A vial spilled during embalming contaminated candy stored in a cupboard, later shared at a funeral gathering.
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Alioona
Blue Knob
Freedom Township
George E. Noffeker
John Allison
Rose
Viola Ikes
Allison
Better Late Than Never Marriage in Sedalia
A. E. Ashbrook fireman and Miss Emma Hayden of Hilton Kan married at a relative’s home in Sedalia after a New Year error delayed the ceremony. Their courtship began when Ashbrook noticed Hayden’s name on an eggshell at the Armour plant in Kansas City. A ticket mix up caused the bride’s absence on New Year’s.
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Sedalia
A. E. Ashbrook
Emma Haydon
Hilton
Kan
Ashbrook
Armour Plant
Kansas City
Miss Hayden
Carrie Won’t Marry Doesn’t Like the Men
TOPEKA Kan Jan 7 Mrs Thie Nation is furious over reports of an imminent marriage to an Iowa man She declares she will not marry the best man on earth and says she has had all the experience in marrying and would be crazy to wed again.
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Topeka
Kan
Thie Nation
Certé
Sne
United States
Public Library Bulletin
Petersboro
N. H
Shea
New York
The World’s Priciest Harbor and Notable Feats
A historical note cites Cherbourg as the world’s costliest harbor built by Napoleon at 15 million dollars. It also mentions bowling records by G. Freeman between 1867 and 1872, Alexander the Great’s funeral, and U S consumption of food per person across nations with figures from the Chicago Tribune.
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Cherbourg
Napoleon
G. Freeman
Alexander the Great
Alexander
Babylon
United States
Chicago Tribune
Denmark
Canada
Australia
Prance
Belgium
Sweden
Great Britain
Germany
Norway
Switzerland
Spain
Austria
Holland
Russia
Italy
Portugal
Origin of a Horn from a Tennessee Whisky Tale
A Western bar patron in New York asks for a horn and learns it means whisky. A bystander asks how the term started. The tale links the phrase to Tennessee’s first distillery in Davidson County and a habit of calling a dram a horn of the heifer, eventually evolving into the word horn.
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New York
East
Kentucky
Tennessee
Davidson County
Alleghanies
New York Times
Fire engine makers form a $9 million combination
A new industrial alliance of fire engine manufacturers forms with a capital of 9,000,000 dollars. The note outlines market consolidation affecting safety equipment and potential competition in emergency services.
Blue Silk Garters Bring Luck For Brides
A worn blue silk garter is believed to bring luck to its wearer. The bride should wear blue for the wedding. After the ceremony the garter is either hidden or cut and distributed. If hidden, bridesmaids seek it to foretell marriage within the year. If cut, pieces go to bridesmaids for luck and husbands. In Germany, bridesmaids receive blue white garters from the bride.
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Germany
Discoverer Bobby Brushes Past Wet Paint Sign
Bobby bursts into the house excited, covered in varnish not paint, claiming new neighbors across the way misread their warning sign. His mother scolds him as a curious scientific investigator explains the thrill of discovery.
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Bobby
Mamma
London
Babies and Beliefs In European Folk Practices
The article describes varied folk customs for infant protection across Europe. In Spain a pine bough blessing, Esthenian mothers use asafetida on baby necks, Roumanian red ribbons on ankles, Vosges peasants claim newborns at new moon have sharper tongues, and Welsh practice involves placing tongs or a knife in the cradle to ensure safety.
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Vosges
New Moon
England
The Fairy Godmother of Healthful Motherhood
An article argues that healthy motherhood yields healthy children and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy. It includes patient testimonies from Mrs. Ella Reynolds and Mrs. Daisy Studwell praising the medicine’s effects on pregnancy, female weakness, and recovery, and invites private consultation with Dr. Pierce in Buffalo.
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Pierce
Ella Reynolds
Guffie, McLean Co
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