Affidavits Confirm Confession Tale Of Brownsville Shooting
Galveston reporters J R Montgomery and J D Mellhenny sworn to four conversations with a negro claiming to be D C Gray of the twenty fifth infantry. They state the sensational confession was substantially true and that the man later disappeared. Local opinion blames Lt Chamberlain for labeling the story a fake and questions army witnesses.
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Galveston
Texas
J. R. Montgomery
J.D. Mellhenny
Galveston News
D. C. Gray
Twenty-Fifth Infantry
Co. B
Brownsville
Chamberlain
Birds of a Feather at Heard's Opera House
The Beggar Prince Opera Co presents Birds of a Feather a musical comedy at Heard's Opera House on Tuesday night March 26. Hobbs and Dobbs star as the birds with a comic plot and a celebrated chorus and solos. The show boasts 20 musical numbers and was a hit in New York and Chicago.
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Heard's Opera House
Hobbs
Dobbs
Anna
Col
New York
Chicago
Heard
Notice to Lot Owners in City Cemetery
Notice to lot owners in City Cemetery calls attention to section of city ordinances requiring removal of earth brick rubbish or building materials within 24 days after completion of work. Those who failed to comply are notified to remove materials at once. Paul Lennard, chairman Cemetery Committee.
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Raon
Death at Pinehurst Claims Pinehurst Resident J J Rogers
J J Rogers aged 80 of Pinehurst died yesterday evening at T o'clock. Funeral plans and further details will be announced by the Pinehurst Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Rogers
Pinehurst
Farmers Union Meeting in Vienna This Saturday
Notice to Farmers announces the Dooly County Farmers' Union meeting in Vienna on Saturday at 10 o clock with President B. F. Brasweet and Secretary W. T. Henpcey. The ra House will host its next attraction Tuesday March 26 featuring Birds of a Feather.
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Dooly County Farmers’ Union
Vienna
B. F. Brasweet
W. T. Henpcey
Ra House
Georgia Railroad Faces Expert Audit On Safety Concerns
The Georgia Railroad and Banking Co. property is to be examined by an appointed non resident railroad engineer after hearings on its condition. The commission will report findings and may take action based on the inspection. The railroad company offered to cover the expert’s expenses.
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Atlanta
Bowdie Phinzy
Georgia Railroad and Banking Co
Railroad Commission
Georgia
Georgia Railroad
Phiniay
Austin Branch
Jos. B. Cumming
Honest men and sharpers in a old tale from St Paul
A banquet in New York prompts talk of honesty and trust. An old Minnesota fable recounts a couple warned about con artists on their St Paul trip. The husband meets his wife at the station after a mistaken separation, only to be halted by her sharp retort and a demand to avoid confidence tricks.
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J. J. Hill
New York
St Paul
St. Paul
Jane
Sharper
Fraudulent Paris Bookkeeper Du Bois Dies After Embezzling
Thomas Agnew, sent to audit Travers & Co Paris books, was abducted by the firm’s bookkeeper Du Bois who lured him to late hours and robbed him. After ten days in a locked cellar, Agnew escaped and exposed that Du Bois led three establishments and stole $30,000 over six years. He fled to South Africa, where he died by suicide after arrest.
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McClure
Mercantile House
Travers & Co
New York
Paris
Travers
Havre
Thomas Agnew
Agnew
Dubois
Claude
South Africa
Girl's Escape From a Wildcat
A young woman recounts riding in southern Arizona when a dust storm forced shelter by a riverbank. A wildcat stalked her, then was shot by nearby Indians who had been rabbit hunting, ending the danger.
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Arizona
Chicago Tribune
Adam and Eve and the working vocabulary
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Adam and Eve used a growing set of words shaped by daily life in the garden. Eve coined and repeated terms, Adam added exclamations after stumbles and hornet stings, yielding a humorous but imperfect language born from necessity.
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Father Adam
Mother Eve
Adam
Front Yard
Eve
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Modjeska and Barrymore confrontation over acting authority
Modjeska teased Maurice Barrymore during rehearsal for his vocal choices. He retorted that he had acted before the public, challenging her claim and defending his craft amid publicity jokes linking Modjeska to a London tooth wash billboard.
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Modjeska
Barrymore
Maurice Barrymore
London
Reward for a Young Man on a Denver Streetcar
A Denver Post anecdote describes a prankster who pays a stranger's fare, then tries to shift blame when a girl realizes he paid for a colored woman. The fare ultimately is settled by the young man’s embarrassment as he exits the car.
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Denver Post
A Taste of Blood Ends in Pirate Battle and Heroic Stand
Jonathan Greenwill, a mild Quaker merchant, and his son Robert command the Pellean on a voyage home from China. Pirates attack near Borneo. the old man abandons his pacifist vows, fights fiercely, and destroys the boarding party with his crew, as Robert aids from afar. The scene ends with the captain bloodied and intent on delivering the pirates to authorities.
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Jonathan Greenwill
Philadelphia
Robert
China
Pelican
China Sea
Malay Peninsula
Borneo
Robert Greenwill
Strait
Jonathan
Robert Green
Pirates Fall to Infighting and Frightful Blood Lust
The pirate crew collapses as men imitate a brutal example and slaughter rivals until only one remains. Jonathan Greenwill, exhausted and haunted, drops his cutlass and prays for forgiveness for killing more pirates than any aboard the ship. FRANK P. CHENEY.
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Jonathan Greenwill
Frank P. Cheney
Shooters From Their Cradles and Frontier Gunners
The article notes Kentucky mountaineers excel at quick drawing and accurate shooting while frontier bad men appear slow. It describes a crossroads store with a shooting gallery offering prizes from cartridges to cornmeal and a sow bosom, charging ten cents per shot, observed by O T Revere in Outing Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
West
Crossroads
Estaciahment
O, T. Revere
Outing Magazine
Portraits of Aging and Beauty Drawn at Table
A dinner party tale portrays an artist who sketches a grotesquely aged man and a woman who draws the artist himself. The group exclaims the likeness is perfect, while the artist laments his own unloved appearance and the woman hints at lifelong training for this moment.
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Hit
New York Press
Terrible Massacre Reported From Podihilo Roumania
A cable received by the Jewish Morning Journal reports terrible massacres at Podihilo Roumania causing consternation among Roumanian Jews in New York. They fear a Kishineff like affair as Podb hilo lies about 20 miles from Kishineff in Bessarabia near the Russian frontier.
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New York
Alispateh
Jewish Morning Journal
Podihilo
Roumania
Podbhilo
Kishineff
Bessarabia
Notable Guests for Carnegie Arbitration Peace Congress
William R. Cremer M P founder of the inter parliamentary union in Great Britain and Lord Weardale president of that Union will be guests of Andrew Carnegie at the first national arbitration peace congress of America to be held in Carnegie Hall from April 14 to 17.
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Carnegie
New York
William R. Cremer
M. P
Interparliamentary Union
Great Britain
Lord Weardale
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
English Playwright Dies in New York at 72
Walter Pel ham, English author and playwright, died Sunday at the Mansion house Garrison-on-the-Sound in his seventy third year of pneumonia. He had just completed a tragedy titled Raermond intended for American stage production.
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New York
Walter Pelham
Mansion House
Garrison-on-the-Sound
Raermond
Captain Charles B. Owen Dies at 60 in Springfield
Captain Charles B. Owen, Civil War veteran, died at his home near Springfield Missouri on Sunday at age 60. He earned distinction at the Battle of Pleasant Hill Louisiana where his regiment suffered heavy losses among officers and men.
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Chas
Owen
Springfield
Charles B. Owen
Here
Pleasant Hill
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Paul Lennard
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Arti Dleao
San Luie Potoso
Mexico
Rio Verde
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