Bride and Groom Strike Klondike Gold Fever Tale
Berry and his Fresno-born wife wed fifteen months ago. They trek from Juneau to Forty Mile Creek then Eldorado Creek, staking five claims and washing thirty box lengths of soil to net about 180 000 dollars in five months. He shares profits with miners, while she quietly pockets ten thousand as pin money. They return to San Francisco with gold dust and a dream of future wealth, planning to buy a Fresno farm for memory’s sake.
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Dlarenes J
Borry
Harmer
Barney Harsiato
Worth
Clarence J
Barney Bar‘nato
Klondike
Sven
San Francisco
Volliinda
Berry
California
Syliols Vontitof Snyipliss
Lake Bennett
Alwys
Fresno
Alaska
Forty Mile Creek
Fairy Land
Fortune
Bonanza
Eldorado Creek
Ildorado Creek
Dawson City
Barry
Mrs. Berry
Mr. Berry
Beenaeth Wills and Berry Tale of a Million Dollar Wedding
A Chicago Times-Herald report recounts Beenaeth Wills and Berry amid preening wealth. Berry praises his wife for driving long journeys and claims the wedding trip lasted fifteen months, priced at a million dollars monthly in cold cash.
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Berry
Ting
Chicago Times-Herald
World’s youngest cyclist rides tiny wheel in Chicago
Seventeen month old Harry W. Siming, pictured on a five pound bicycle with a seven inch frame, pedals through Chicago boulevards under parental guidance. Spectators marvel at the tiny rider as he learns the pedal mount and makes short trips.
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Chicago
Harry W. Siming
Travel Tales Compare US and European Railways
Chauncey M Depew recalls a Rhine station encounter while noting Europe lagged in punctuality but praises American rail safety and speed. He contrasts station master frustration, describes European mishaps, and lauds U S rail operations as superior.
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Chauncey M. Depentella
Europe
America
Bingen
Rhine
New York Central Railroad
Pookskill
Dee
Depew
New York Herald
Long-Distance Electricity Proposal from Santa Ana
A plan aims to deliver 4000 horsepower of electrical energy from Santa Ana Canyon to Los Angeles eighty miles away at 88,000 volts. The Santa Ana River powers the station twelve miles from Redlands, generating at 1000 volts and stepping up to 83,000. Water would be conveyed by a canal and tunnel to a high fall feeding water wheels after a 2800 foot pipe drop over 750 feet.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Ana
Santa Ana Canyon
Redlands
Governor In Georgia Offers Rewards for Lynching Murderers
Grand jury in Spalding investigates Oscar Williams murder near Griffin on July 22. Governor Atkinson and Attorney General Tortall issue proclamations offering $500 rewards for first two guilty in the lynching and $100 for later conspirators, plus $250 rewards for those who conspired to hinder the case. Williams was captured near Lovejoy after a mob attacked him and he was lynched en route to Atlanta.
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Atkinson
Georgia
Oscar Williama
Clayton County
Griffin
Ryder
Spalding County Grand Jury
Gecratary
Oscar Willinina
Spalding County
Williama Woons
J. C. Campbell
Lovejoy
Barnesville
Company of
Mills Tia
Linui
Macon
Bibb County
Atlants
Williams
New Moved Farm Georgia Seeks All Vegetation Producing Land
The Prudential Committee of Georgia State University in Athens plans to sell the adjoining Rock College model farm and buy a more fertile tract to support a diversified vegetation output. Trustees, after long consideration, aim to dispose of the current farm for a good sum and acquire land better suited to agriculture.
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Georgia
Prudential Committee
Georgia State University
Athens
Inn
Department of Agriculture
Fi Model Farm
Rock College
Tha Tock College
Georgia Railroad Faces Grand Jury For Sunday Freight
DeKalb county grand jury reports six true bills against the Georgia Railroad for operating freight trains on Sundays after the legal hours. Witnesses testified the through freights ran after 8 AM on February 7, 14 and 21.
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Georgia Airway
Grand Jury
DeKalb County
Georgian Railroad
Armenian Bomb Plot Suspects Arrested in Constantinople
Six Armenian suspects are jailed after bomb explosions in Constantinople. The Grand Vizier’s office suffered attacks. all prisoners face imminent execution. A Kalsavic native, whose hand was wounded in the blast, is blamed, and police sweep Armenian quarters while streets are patrolled.
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Kalsavich
Costa Rica coinage request reaches U S Mint Bureau
Information from Costa Rica indicates the government asked the United States Mint Bureau to coin 600,000 colons under the former government’s new system. Aiming to secure gold jars for an additional 400,000 colons, the colon is valued at about 46 cents. The current gold to silver ratio in Costa Rican coinage is described as 82 to 1.
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United States
United Mind Workers reject arbitration plea in wage dispute
In a St Louis adjourned meeting the national executive board of the United Mind Workers refused Pittsburgh operators’ offer to arbitrate the wage dispute, saying such a move would prejudice minors’ interests. The board will not deviate from policy until the St Louis conference results, and will press West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania actions.
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United Ming Workers
Nationall Extigutive
United Mind Workers
Columbis
Organized Labor
St Louie Aguat
Hie
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Trinsts
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Louis Conforaics
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
R. Sovereign
Mister Worl
Knights of Labor
Mnisters
Louis Couferatios
Ates
Steinway and Sons Receives English Syndicate Takeover
The New York Times reports Steinway & Sons has agreed to transfer extensive business and assets to an English syndicate. Reported values include a capital stock and surplus of about 2,860,000 dollars, with real estate appraised near 9,000,000 dollars and factory properties in New York and London totaling over 2 million. Public valuations list warehouses, salesrooms, and factories in Astoria, Long Island City, Hamburg, and London.
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New York Vines
Pinto Manufacturing Frm
Steinway & Sons
Stalaway& Bons
Europe Shont On Grain Advices From Washington
Reports from Washington indicate a predicted large wheat shortfall in eastern Europe with rye as the chief grain. Statistician Hyde notes the deficit will constrain exports from surplus European nations. Non European exports to Europe will fall as India, devastated by famine, cannot export wheat.
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Washington
United States
India
Insane Husband Robert Blum Rich Tries Suicide After Murder
In Nashville Town a cabinet maker, Robert Blum Rich thirty four, murdered his wife Mary Oliva Porter after a Sunday night quarrel. He attempted suicide by ingesting poison, dying later in illness. Rich had been separated from his wife since May and was described as a heavy drinker.
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Wialwife
Nashville
Robert Blum Rich
Wna
Rich
Mary Oliva Porter
Haesyns
Vigilante raid in Schiller Park shocks farmers
In Schiller Park a mob attacked a man accused of beating a farmer's wife while men were in the fields. The enraged group shot him, impaled him on pitchforks, and beat him to death before authorities could intervene. The coroner was notified of the death.
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Tu Schiller ‘Park
Chicago
Hsene
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Stockholm
Abova
Sweden
Norway
Shere
Oscar Williams
Spalding
Costa Rica
Steinway and Sons Belt
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