Chicago to Host Next Republican Convention
Chicago was chosen as the site for the next Republican National Convention with a vote tally of Chicago 43, Pittsburgh and St. Louis 1. The committee set June 21 at 12 o'clock for the convention opening. Meal tickets advertised for Crown Cafe offering 21 meals for 5 dollars.
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Washington
Evening Journal
Chicago
National Reublican Committee
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
The
Crown Cafe
Death of Jonathan Wilkins in Washington County
Jonathan Wilkins aged 74 years 11 months 11 days died at home in Washington on December 11 1905 from paralysis. Born in East Tennessee in 1828 he moved to the state with his parents in 1844 and lived in Washington county until death. He married Sarah Stephens on September 4 1851 and they had five children two died in infancy. After Sarahs death in 1880 he married Mary Carl on January 28 1885 and they had one child Minnie. He was a devout Christian and near death signaling readiness for heaven. S. J. Wilkins HHN Wilkins survive him.
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Washington
Jonathan Wilkins
East
Tennessee
Washington County
Sarah Stephens
Martha Wilkins Ritchie
S. J
S. J. Wilkins
McCrea Hanged for Murphy Murder in Peoria
John McCrea, the colored defendant in the killing of Detective William Murphy during a coal theft, was hanged in Peoria at 9 04. He walked to the scaffold, maintained innocence, and died in about four and a half minutes despite a fifteen minute allowance.
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Peoria
John McCrea
William Murphy
McCrea
Murphy
Galesburg
Board of Pardons
Supreme Court
Thom Sentenced to Life for Jailer's Death in Oklahoma
Charles A. Thom once with Ratliff-Watland Carriage absconded with company funds, remarried, and faced embezzlement and bigamy charges. In Guthrie he killed jailer J L Emerson with a smuggled revolver, was wounded, convicted of first degree manslaughter, and likely to receive a life sentence.
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Sioux City
Charles A. Thom
Ratliff-Watland Carriage Company
Oklahoma
Guthrie
J. L. Emerson
Johnson Bakery Ad Promotes Bread Pies Cakes and Lodging
A Johnson advertisement touts best bread pies and cakes and mentions nice furnished rooms above the Crown Cafe with prices described as right. The notice emphasizes quality and value for shoppers and travelers seeking meals and lodging.
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Johnson
Crown Cafe
South offers year round farming and cheap fattening feed
Go South where you can work out of doors every month in the year and produce year round. Velvet bean and cassava from Alabama and Florida provide flesh and fat forming foods, with cheaper, better fattening materials. More money can be made with less labor in farming, fruit and berry growing, and truck gardening along our road in the South. If interested, address for information.
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Alabama
Florida
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Eaco Flour
Minnesota
Kaye & Lytle
Telephone
East Side Square
Bragé & Bokenkamp
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Peete
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Edgerton Studio
Seth Thomas Make
M'Crea
Charles Thom
Europe
New York
Topeka, Whan
Z. T. Hazen
Hazen
District Court
Newton
Dee
Lars
Crosby
Wisconsin
Mmccall Brothers
North
G. A. Park
Gen’s Immigration and Industrial Ag’t \Leufeville & Nashville R. R. Go
Louisville, KY
O.solbric &Co
Opera House
California
Prash Pruit Daily
M. Lombardo
Means & Stichter
Bant Bide Renta
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