WATCHDOGS IN WAGONS FOCUSES ON FURRY DELIVERY HELPERS
Chicago readers learn how wagon dogs like bulldogs and fox terriers aid express drivers and milkmen. A bulldog captured a thief, a North Side milkman uses an Irish setter to deliver baby milk jars, a furniture mover’s coach dog drags and carries items, and terriers guard wagons and aid in deliveries with clever antics and loyalty.
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Tobe
Catgey
Chicago
The
Tribune
Wabash
Cig
North Side
Jersey
Spot
Hasan
Ritchie
Fos
Wrightwood Avenue
West Madison Street
Shower of Fried Fish From Kinzua River Fire Rain
Report from McKean county Pennsylvania describes a bizarre event in the Kinzua valley during a fierce forest fire. As exhaustion gripped firefighters a dark cloud burst into rain and hundreds of fish eight to ten inches long rained down on embers. The fish, intact and edible, were picked from the scorched ground by starving men amid speculation they were washed from Kinzua creek by a florid wind and storm.
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McKean County
Kinzua Valley
Kinzua Creek
Florca
Kidnapping as a Business Tied to Baby Theft Ring
Investigation into the Eddie Hanks kidnapping at Asbury Park uncovered a pattern in which two young men repeatedly abducted unattended babies. After alarms and searches, one would reappear with the child claiming to have found it, with a reward paid. Police say two youths collected 75 dollars in a single week before the scheme was halted.
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Eddie Hanks
Asbury Park
The Farmer Girls of La Crosse Observations
An observant La Crosse correspondent notes sandy soil easy to work and many women in fields laboring with men. He remarks several smoke, carrying pipes in garters, and walks daily to observe farmer girls preparing to smoke. Also mentions a spectroscope detector by M de Thierry for tiny blood stains in murder trials.
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la Crosse
West Superior
M. de Thierry
The Truth of Hell in Pernambuco’s Mouth
The phrase The Truth of Hell translates from Pernambuco as the mouth of hell, an allusion to the tempestuous surf that continually makes the neighborhood dangerous for sailors.
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Hell
Pernambuco
Boy hero saves peer amid river peril
Fred Himmler a 13 year old boy, rescued 11 year old Joseph Hopp from drowning in a city river. He explained how he learned to swim last summer and jumped in despite warning from his father. He grabbed Hopp, ducked, then fought to reach shore with the help of a rope as onlookers watched.
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Trent
Fred Himmler
Joseph Hopp
Presw York World
Fred
Joe Hopp
Auroarml
Hopp
Shore
Little Hopp
Hearse Becomes Family Carriage for Nez Perce Chief
A Nez Perce delegation in Farmington, Washington, after government land payments, buys a hearse from an undertaker. The man uses the vehicle as a wealth display, packing his squaw, papooses, dogs, and plumes inside and driving it to nearby towns, despite agent objections.
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Farmington
Wash
The Best Spring Tonic Describes a tonic for spring cleansing of the body
The passage promotes a spring tonic as the best way to thoroughly cleanse the blood and prepare the body for spring. It compares bodily cleansing to spring cleaning and urges anticipatory, thorough system purification to avoid spring fever.
A Miraculous Escape at Port Arthur
While storming the first line of forts at Port Arthur a Japanese soldier aimed at a conspicuous Chinaman. A bullet struck his own gun barrel and exploded without injuring him. A slight misalignment could have fatal consequences, making the escape miraculous.
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Port Arthur
Skeleton in Iron Cage Found on Roadwork in Virginia
Workmen digging a road in Bing George county Virginia unearthed a nearly preserved skeleton enclosed in an iron cage. The remains appear to be those of a malefactor once hanged in chains during colonial days.
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Bing George County
The Dangers of Ballooning and Cat Ranch Profits
Ballooning is far less dangerous than commonly thought with 15 accidents reported from 3,500 events since 1884. A Sutterconmy man runs a cat ranch raising thousands of Maltese cats annually for the fur market.
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Webster's International
Rerety
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Supreme Court
Frazer Axle
Warren Mills
Graham
Oxfords
Allen & Langley
Second St
Warren, Penn’a
Ler
ECO
August Morck
Morck Bros
Warren, PA
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General Hardware
Carroll
Gurney
Water St
Weutense Savings Ie
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J. Hazeltine
O. W. Beaty
G. B. Ensworth
Geo. H. Jackson
Ags’t Cashier
M.B. Dunham
L. R. Freeman
L B. Wood Charles W. Stone
James Clark
A.J. Hazeltine
Ww. M- Lindsey
C. Sigel
W. Jarvis
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