Ingenious Swindler Baits Millionaire with Fake Illness
A western millionaire in seclusion befriends a widow with a hobbled daughter whose hiccoughs mimic disease. A German doctor, a socialist, cures one child and swindles the millionaire by demanding land and fees. The "dying" girl is revealed as a ruse, possibly the doctor's daughter, and the pair vanish after cashing a large check.
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Lake States
America
Europe
Texas
Buenos Aires
Don Mark Lemon
Bohemian
Bayfield County News Briefs Prompt Peddler Crackdown and Local Happenings
Lumber camp foremen vow stern action against persistent peddlers and beggars visiting camps near the city. Mrs. John Morey dies in Ashland after illness. funeral at Greenwood cemetery. Miss Hattie Thomas and Rev I L Alcock wed in Ashland and will reside in Leavenworth Kansas after January 10. B Bracken opens a new Second Street restaurant with modern improvements, welcoming ladies and gentlemen.
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John Morey
Ashland
Greenwood Cemetery
Hattie Thomas
I. L. Alcock
Leavenworth
Kansas
Bracken
Second Street
Bayfield
Local furniture dealer Fowler assigns assets in bankruptcy filing
J W Fowler of this city made a voluntary assignment for creditors and C B Hobbs was named assignee. Ashland creditors Angvick Sollie and others filed a bankruptcy petition in Federal Court, derailing the assignee’s plans to dispose of stock. Mrs Tripp's new home on the farm nears completion. Rumors linger of new towns in Bayfield County formed from parts of Bartes Hughes and the south half of 49-8 and all 48-8. Joseph Teddy arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. plea of not guilty entered in Municipal Court with examination adjourned to next Tuesday. bail set at $500.
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J. W. Fowler
C. 8. Hobbs
Hobbs
Ashland
Angvick
Sollie
Fowler
W. E. Tripp
Bayvfield County
Bartes
Hughes
Joseph Teddy
David Neimi
Teddy
Sales Agents Wanted for Picture and Frame House
Advertises a permanent agent position offering $36.00 per week or 400 percent profit. Promises free samples stationary and art catalogue, no experience needed, and claims to furnish capital. Requires writing to Frank W. Williams Company at 1214 W Taylor St Chicago for details.
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America
Frank W. Williams Company
Taylor St
Chicago
Personal appeal for Foley's Honey and Tar remedy
Q. W. Frost appeals to readers to try Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble. He claims the product has forty years of cures no snore and lowers risk of harmful drugs from unknown preparations.
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Foley
Q. W. Frost
Mrs McRaney's Experience with Foley's Kidney Remedy
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi describes three months confined to bed with kidney and bladder trouble. After two physicians failed to help, she began Foley's Kidney Remedy and after two bottles felt like a new person. She urges other suffering women to try it. Q W Frost.
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McKrraney
M. McRaney
Prentiss, Miss
Foley
Q. W. Frost
Hercules of the game Old Hoss Radbourne and Providence 1884
A tribute to Old Hoss Radbourne praising his endurance and enduring fame in baseball. The piece recalls the Providence club’s 1884 pennant race in the National League and a dramatic moment involving starter Sweeney that shaped the season.
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Hoss” Radbourne
Illinois
Providence
National League
Philadelphia
Sweeney
Radbourne Pennant Hero Of Providence Fame
Providence pitcher Charles Radbourne carried the team through 27 games with 26 wins earning a pennant in a historic season. He faced brutal arm strain after the wartime schedule, ended his major league career in 1891, and died in 1897 after a quiet, reclusive life in Bloomington.
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Radbourne
Boston
Buffalo
Providence
Hoss
Bloomington
Ill
Ned Allen
Allen
Cincinnati
Portland Oregonian
Can You Do Any Thing With a Shovel
A Chicago iron mill foreman hires a cheerful tramp who once was a college baseball champion. On a cold autumn dawn the man slept by a furnace and, short of labor, offers him a shovel job. The tramp jokes he could fry ham on it.
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Chicago
Minneapolis Journal
The Pompous Man
A poem from the Emporia Gazette mocks a pompous man who boasted wealth and status. The speaker imagines him strutting as if owning the earth, yet falls when he slips on a banana rind and slides headfirst, leaving a trail of smoke.
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Emporia
Kan
From Limb to Limb
Comic exchange between a housewife and a hobo featuring a quip about chasing law and jobs. The Kansas City Independent notes the playful dig at the hobo who calls himself a bird moving from limb to limb.
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Kansas City
Criticism Takes From the Tree Caterpillars and Blossoms
A quotation attributed to Richter notes criticism draws from both tree caterpillars and blossoms, implying critique arises from mixed sources and outcomes.
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Richter
Dr Thomas Electric Oil Ad Rests Cuts Burns Pain
Farmers mechanics railroaders and laborers rely on Dr Thomas Electric Oil to take the sting out of cuts burns and bruises at once. Pain does not stay where it is used.
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Thomas
Execution of Mazeppa Mocked by a Hanging Mocked Scene
A court martial found Mazeppa guilty of high treason. Though alive with the Swedish camp, a wooden effigy of the Cossack chief was dressed in his uniform and decorated, then stripped of honors and hanged at the gallows as a cruel copy of the sentence.
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Peter the Great
Russia
Mazeppa
Sweden
Peter
Saved from the Grave: Wife Revived After Burial
A Baltimore Sun report tells of Mrs. Jones believed dead, buried, and found alive four days later. Her husband George Jones and his uncle rushed to the cemetery, unearthed her coffin, and brought her home where doctors restored her health. The family kept silent to protect her.
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Jones
Mr. Jones
George
Baltimore Sun
Doan's Kidney Pills Praised by Washburn Resident
Mrs. M Taberman of Washburn Wisconsin credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief from back pain rheumatism and kidney trouble after using them from Sweet's Drug Store. She reports improved back comfort stronger kidneys and increased energy since starting the regimen. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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Washburn
M. Taberman
Third St
Wis
Dean
Sweet’s
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Not a Free Agent
A clipped quote from a 19th century Atlanta Constitution item notes a colored citizen replying to a question about marriage with a vivid remark about love and timing, reflecting period dialect and social context.
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Atlanta Constitution
Bank of England’s old strong room in museum display
A note contrasts the Bank of England’s early oak cash chest with today’s armor plated strong room. It describes the chest as a simple seaman’s size container once used to store cash and papers, while the modern vault is a fortress of doors and engineering.
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Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
London
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Wright
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CL. Willey’s
Rogers Bros
International Silver
Buccasor
Meriden Britannia CO
Meriden
Conn
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