Thought Springer Deemed Liquor Dealer in Rye Straw Case
Denver, March 8. John W. Springer of Denver, president of the National Livestock Association, was mistaken for a saloonkeeper by a Chicago railroad man over freight charges for long stemmed rye straw. The straw was misclassified as mint julep and lemonade straws, inflating the freight from the tariff. The agent corrected the bill after learning Springer’s actual use for horse tails.
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Denver
Col
John W. Springer
National Livestock Association
Chicago
Santa Fe
West
Kentucky
Jey
President Harper's Industrious Son Opens Boot Black Stand
Chicago March 8. Paul Harper, 13, son of University of Chicago president, started a boot black stand at Morgan Park Academy to raise funds. He shined 158 shoes on the first day, earning money with a resourceful and eccentric approach amid notable school curios.
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Chicago
Univrsity
Morgan Park Academy
Paul Harper
University of Chicago
Paul
Orient
Colored woman reveals white identity after Meade tragedy
Ill March 8. The death of Albert Mead a mulatto at the Carbon Hill mine uncovers a romance. The widow, long posing as a mulatto, washes color from her face and hands proving she is a young white woman. Three years prior Mead and wife moved to Cafsbon Hill with their baby and rented a cottage. A stranger named Wayne appeared a year later claiming to hunt Mead and threatening to kill him. He said his daughter eloped with Mead from a plantation.
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Morris
Albert Mead
Carbon Hill
Meade
Cafsbon Hil
Wayne
Mystery in Maryland Mine Case Involving Meade
In Maryland the ex coachman Meade faced threats from a man who suspected his wife of mixed race. The man fled to the village jail after warnings, hid in the jail overnight, and left town without harming Meade. Meade later returned home and continued work, later dying accidentally in a mine. The widow testified at the inquest that she is white and denies any Negro blood.
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Maryland
Meade
Short Line Surveyors Staking Out a Route Near Los Angeles
Four engineer crews began preliminary surveys east of Los Angeles for the Oregon Short Line Railroad. The plan is to enter the city over Southern Pacific tracks with routes from Mojave and Benning toward the current western end. Officials say only about 200 miles remain to finish to Los Angeles and work should complete in 12 to 15 months. From Los Angeles to Salt Lake the line would run about 750 miles making a 2240 mile path to Chicago, claimed as the shortest link via Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.
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Los Angeles
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Southern Pacific
Mojave
Benning
Salt Lake
Uion
Chicago
Miners Strike Over Time Board Suspicion at Hampton Colliery
Nearly 600 Hampton colliery miners walked out in Scranton on March 8 to protest a new time board at the mine entrance. They argue the board, showing cars per day, implies undue mistrust of their honesty and punctuality during shifts.
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Scranton
Hampton
Tired of Working Negro Chooses Tree Home in Kentucky
Andy Bartlett, described as an eccentric colored man, left his labor and moved into a sycamore tree on Deputy Sheriff W. H. Mackory’s farm near Tuckahoe Kentucky last summer. He survives on game and small provisions, cooking beside the tree with a fire, while saying he quit work because he could not please those he had worked for.
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Marysville
Andy Bartlett
Sherim
W. H. Mackory
Tuckahoe
Bartlett
Thumb rings mark medieval fashion among rulers and clergy
The article notes Roman thumbs rings in the Montfaucon collection and rings worn by Hilary of Chichester and Bishop Oldham. It recalls St Thomas Becket's thumb ring ending up on Henry VIII and mentions mayors imitating nobles, with a quote about fitting into an alderman's ring.
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Trajan
Tvna
Hilary
Chichester
Oldham
Exeter Cathedral
Thomas A Becket
France
Hal
Chambers’ Journal
Queen of Hanover Returns Patronage From Inn Sign Comment
An old tale recalls a Hanover queen stopping at the Golden Goose inn for two days and paying 300 thalers for entertainment. Upon leaving the queen warns the landlord that future favors should not hinge on his mistaken sign, lest she be taken for his sign again.
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Hanover
Golden Goose
Blood Sacrifices at Building Completions Through History
The text traces the practice of offering blood sacrifices at building completions from heathen times to Christian eras. Foundations were often laid with blood to guarantee an edifice’s strength, commonly sourced from animals or even humans, and the rite evolved in meaning but persisted as a cornerstone ritual.
Southern Pacific of Arizona Stockholders Meeting Dates
Notice lists a series of adjourned stockholders meetings for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Arizona from July 1901 through March 1902 in San Francisco, with J L Willcutt as secretary and multiple Wednesdays and Saturdays specified for each adjourned session.
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Arizona
San Francisco
Cal
State of California
J.L. Willcutt
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