Schoolmaster Impostor Interviews Detroit Board
A man claiming to be William Cannon Harrison from Bagmnaw County approached a Detroit Board of Education member seeking a teaching role. He boasted of many recommendations, asked about wages, and pitched using corporal punishment to manage students. He claimed past success with large classes and multiple daily lashings.
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Board of Education
William Cannon Harrison
Bagmnaw County
Detroit
Bay County
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Local editor exposes plan for marriage amid farm life
An extended dialogue turns to education and marriage with a skeptical farmer and suitor debating grammar geography and love. A legal notice apart reports George Albert Mason, ex Confederate spy and Secret Service operative, arrested for counterfeit bills and custody details.
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George Albert Mason
United States Secret Service Division
Park Hotel
Lincoln
Seward
Washington
Richmond
Old Capitol
Columbus
United States
Canada
Kingston
Toronto
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Washburn
Treasury Department
St. Louis
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Hart
Richards
Philadelphia
Rochester
Father Aids Bashful Lover in Vernon Township Romance
In Vernon Township a bashful farmer wooed a marriageable daughter for months. On a Friday night the father intervened as the youth gathered courage to propose, prompting a dramatic turn in the admirer’s quest to win the hand of the farmer’s daughter.
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Dubuque County
Vernon Township
Mary
Shoe souvenir copies Cinderella boot worn by Sandusky belle
Mr. Damon of Worchester Mass displayed a shoe worn by a Sandusky Ohio belle. The boot measures 14 inches from toe to heel and six inches wide at the broadest point with a bay window and porch features noted. The wearer weighs 85 pounds and plans to go west next summer to tramp grasshoppers in Colorado.
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Damon
Worchester
Mass
Sandusky
Ohio
Colorado
Silver bullion to be coined in Philadelphia mint during April
A portion of one million dollars in silver bullion will be sent to the Philadelphia mint in April to be coined into 5 and 10 cent pieces. San Francisco will not have enough capacity to coin it promptly. The branch mint will soon start producing the new 20 cent piece.
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