Carrie Hicks Convicted for Saloon Destruction in Chetek
Carrie Hicks was tried before Judge Gilbert in Chetek Wisconsin for destroying property at Roy Gilbert's saloon and convicted. She faces a $150 fine or one year in the penitentiary and is jailed in Barron. Her father remains jailed for drunken and disorderly conduct. The incident followed Hicks visiting the saloon the next day.
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Tee Occum Chetek
Wis
Carrie Hicks
Gilbert
Roy Gilbert
Barron
New Discovery for Consumption Praised by Melbourne Reader
A Melbourne Florida resident credits Dr King's New Discovery for curing throat and lung illness after doctors gave up. The note highlights a free trial bottle from Stewart's Pharmacy and mentions a 50 cent to 1 dollar price. Also announces Iowa Central Railway excursion ticket sales for homeseekers with a 21 day limit and route to western regions.
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H. Haggins
Melbourne
Fla
Dr. King
Stewart
Ruggista
Homeseekers Excursion Tickets and Tours Offered
Tickets go on sale the first and third Tuesdays each month for round trips at one fare plus two jars. Cheap round trip tickets to Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska and winter tourist points. Tourist cars twice weekly to the Pacific coast via Denver. Land agents offer cheap land in many localities with one way colonist rates. For details contact E. G. Washington or Morrell Law, General Agent, Burlington.
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Town Central Railway
Iowa Central
A.B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Pacific Coast
Denver
Rihwest
Southwest
Washington
Morrell Law
Burlington
Business Men Oppose Gambling in Fort Dodge
A Fort Dodge committee of business men met Mayor Bennett to offer cooperation in closing gambling houses. They pledged to aid in obtaining testimony against alleged gamblers. The mayor said he will not hesitate to prosecute if adequate testimony is gathered.
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Fort Dodge
Bennett
Condition of Trade Highlights Mixed Signals Across Sectors
The report notes persistent supply demand gaps in many commodities and skilled labor, with voluntary wage increases and organized labor leverage. Traffic relief remains limited to favored districts, lake navigation delays deliveries, earnings rise, and solid demand seen in steel, cotton goods, footwear, and leather markets. Meats steady. egg prices drop sharply. U S and Canadian failures lower year over year.
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New York
R. G. Don & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
New England
United States
Canada
Journal Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary
The Evening Journal marks its tenth year with a lighthearted reflection on growing up and aging. The piece notes time passes quickly, thanks readers for patronage, and wishes longevity without regret as the new year begins.
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New York
St. Washingtonw. D
Trial Jury for March Term of District Court Named
The March term district court trial jury list was drawn. Names include Henry Farley Kalona W White Amnaorth B F Dixon City M K R Klogh Crawfordsville W S Boyer West Chester Al Cocklin Ainsworth Con Welch Riverside M G Smith Kalona Moses Hay Keota John Cashman City J F Swift City Joe DeLong West Chester Bert Rittenhouse West Chester A A Beanblossom City Henry Barnes Brighton W W Bidwell City Clarence Evans City H P Wilson City A S Bull Wellman Lee Ralston West Chester Wm Coppock City Ivy Henshaw Brighton John Day City Wm Cheeseman Richland.
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Henry Farley
Kalona
W. White
Alnaworth
B. F. Dixon
City
M. KR. Klogh
Crawfordsville
Boyer
Weat Chester
al Cocklin
Ainsworth
Con Welch
Riverside
M. G. Smith
Moses Hay
Keota
John Cashman
J. F. Swift
Joe DeLong
West Chester
Bert Rittenhouse
West
Chester
A. A. Beanblosssom
Henry Barnes
Brighton
W. W. Bidwell
Clarence Evans
H. P. Wilson
Bull
Wellman
Lee Ralston
Wm. Coppock
Ivy Henshaw
Hrighton
John Day
Wm. Cheeseman
Richland
Korn Krisp Demonstration At Baird Son Grocery
A demo of Korn Krisp will be held at Baird and Son grocery on Tuesday and Wednesday. The event invites everyone to drop in and sample the delicious food.
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Baird & Son
Lesley Estes Fights Appendicitis in Keota
Lesley Estes manager of the local Electric Light plant in Keota is gravely ill with appendicitis. He fell sick Friday and doctors Trumbauer Brice and Oliver of Sigourney, in consultation, consider surgery may save him.
Business Houses Close for J. T. Webber Funeral
Keota Feb 16 business houses closed during the funeral hour out of respect for the late J. T. Webber whose funeral service was led by Rev Mr Croizer of the Presbyterian church Interment will be in Sigourney cemetery tomorrow.
Ada Snider Dies from Measles at Fifteen
Ada Snider aged 15 daughter of Mr and Mrs Jacob Snider of 76 township died yesterday afternoon after a two day illness from measles. The sudden loss fills the family with deep sorrow.
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Ada Snider
Jacob Snider
Cummins to Washington for White House tariff talks
Governor A B Cummins travels from Iowa to Washington for a White House conference on anti-trust and tariff legislation. President Roosevelt considers a tariff modification campaign and endorses a tariff plan for the Iowa platform. Cummins may discuss a vice presidential bid while Shaw and Cummins contend for Allison’s Senate seat.
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Sioux City
A.B. Cutminus
Iown
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Iowa
Cummins
Shaw
Allison
Senate
Lewa
Local Notes and Travel Plans From Allen's to Kansas Trips
21 meals for 83 dollars at Allen's off Link Hall then to Sigourney today on business. Mrs J J Gibson and her little daughter Thelma return to Albuquerque? No. The Mercquender appears, then to Las Vegas? Not clear. Jompson of Chicago 827 South is expected on No. LE page. Dean of Chicago. R M Dihel leaves tomorrow for Labette County Kansas to survey the area. Oyster parties at Johnson bakery tomorrow. Vic Verehival of Keota visits city en route to Kansas City. R M Dihel sold his house to John McCartney and will move to Kansas. Hugh Teeter 87-t1. Fred Riley son of Rev Charles Riley visiting Harvey Carter in city from Kearney Nebraska.
Laughter Across Cultures From East To West
A survey of global laugh styles notes the Chinese laugh as hearty or expressive, the Arab as cautious, Persian laughter seen as effeminate yet free, and Turkish or Egyptian restraint. European moods range from Italian musical to English guarded, with Scottish and Irish laughter described as hearty and rollicking.
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Persia
Mohammed
Europe
Carlyle Christmas Gift of a Washing Table
The London Chronicle recounts how in December 1850 Thomas Carlyle, newly free from poverty, promised his wife a washing table as a practical Christmas gift. He noted the pledge in a personal message at Cheyne Row and later fulfilled it by giving a five pound note for a marble and mahogany washstand.
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Carlyle
Cheyne Row
T. Carlyle
Barry
Jeannie
Cromwell’s ban on Christmas sparked rural resistance
The narrative describes Oliver Cromwell’s 17th century prohibition of Christmas in England. Markets were ordered on December 25, churches and customs banned, leading to widespread rural defiance as towns refused to observe the holiday despite strict enforcement.
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Oliver Cromwell
England
Buffalo Stampede Speed Defies Cowboys in Open Prairie
The article extols the extraordinary speed of a buffalo breaking from a herd. It asserts a buffalo can outrun barefoot runners and even the fastest horse when pursued solo. The animal maintains a steady, enduring lope all day with no fatigue showed in its flanks at night.
Dead River Name Cradled By Fact Not Folklore
A Century article debunks the tale that the Kennebec River Dead River earned its name from drowned soldiers in 1775. It explains the river’s slow, meadow-bound flow and argues the epithet is a misnomer, noting the waterway is a tame, pleasant stream rather than a morbid Styx.
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Kennebec
Dead River
Mrs Brown Chooses Ribbon Over Husband’s Honor
Mrs Brown says her husband’s foreign decoration is only a ribbon that clashes with her complexion. She adds that if Charles wears it, he will have to go without her, a remark reflecting personal pride and humor.
The Accommodating Grocer and the Odd Shopping List
A humor piece from Women's Home Companion recounts a first order by a patient customer who asks for items like paralyzed sugar and condemned milk. The grocer proves adept at decoding odd phrasing while the two exchange banter in a frigid shop.
Mrs Roosevelt Is Indisposed For A Time
Mrs. Roosevelt is so ill she has canceled all social engagements for a period. President Roosevelt has signed the army staff bill and it is now law. A servant at L Schrenker’s Chicago home gave a cold lunch to a tramp who set fire to the house. Damage reported.
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Missouri
Ed Son
Fessenden Gallander
Sargent Manufacturing Company
Muskegon
Mich
Henry EK. Hugheson
Regina Curry
Willow Avenue
Philadelphia
Ambesendor Choate
London
Mediterranean
Reputlian
William J. Bryan
New York Boeing Post
Oklahoma
Ohio
Alexander Grave
Indianapolis
Sunken Forest and River Lands Near Hickman Ky
The Mississippi River region near Hickman Kentucky features sunken lands and a dense prequake forest submerged by the 1811 earthquake. The area extends for hundreds of miles along both riverbanks and offers varied river shooting excursions into submerged landscapes.
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Hickman
Two Houses For Sale Near Square With Barn
Splendid ten room house with hall located about five blocks from the square. Good barn and all in repair. Also seven room house about five blocks from the square built about seven years ago in good condition. For particulars and prices see Lisle Morehouse. 86-41.
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Lisle Morehouse
Reelfoot Lake Forest Stands Beside Historic Waters
The Tennessee side of Reelfoot Lake forms eighty miles of shoreline near Upper Slough Landing and Tiptonville. The sunken forest remains with bleached trunks standing in sixty feet deep water, offering blinds for hunters. A vast chorus of wild fowl including ducks geese cormorants cranes and snipe fills the lake while eagles hawks and owls cry from the treetops.
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Tennessee
Reelfoot Lake
Upper Slough Landing
Tiptonville
Tenn
Annuity Draft Sent to Kenesaw Man by Carnegie
Samuel Nicholls of Kenesaw Neb receives from Andrew Carnegie's secretary a $500 draft and a promise of a monthly annuity. Nicholls and Carnegie became friends aboard the same ship years ago. He had sought assistance previously without reply until now.
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Hastings, Neb
Samuel Nicholls
Kenesaw, Neb
Andrew Carnegie
Nicholls
Carnegie
Farty Marriage in China Highlighted as Common Practice
The article notes that in China it is not rare for boys aged twelve to fourteen to wed. It argues that development levels are not considered and that marriage is driven by other factors. An old aphorism says the great business of life ends with marriage of offspring.
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China
Proposer and Partner Exchange Lighthearted Remark
In a witty exchange Marie-No replies that she was already on her knees when he proposed. The remark plays on honesty and perception in a playful, modern dialogue.
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Gladys
Marie
Dynalites Tried to Destroy Warsaw Toll Line Cables
Dynamiters attempted to blow the toll line cables of the Commercial Telephone Company in Warsaw Indiana. They placed charges at a cable box atop a pole feeding the exchange office. The pole top blew off and nearby windows were shattered. The wreckers escaped.
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Warsaw
Ind
Commercial Telephone Company
Book Concern dividend to aid preachers widows
The Methodist Episcopal church book committee declared a dividend from Book Concern profits for superannuated preachers and widows. The appropriation of 60 equals $75,000, a fraction of its best year and a strong aid to those affected.
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New York
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Delaware senate ballot shows no change
The twenty second ballot of the Delaware legislature for United States senator showed no change. Conductors and trainmen of the Santa Fe road say unequivocally they must be given the 20 percent increase recently demanded.
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Delaware
United States
A Modern Aspiration for an Automobile
A man at a stamp window, after depositing 2 cents, asked for an automobile with gentle resolve. The gruff clerk’s blunt question met a calm reply, illustrating quiet determination amid petty encounters.
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Albany
Never Absent at Funeral: 100-Year-Old Lyons Dies
Bloomington Illinois February 16 Mrs Katherine Lyons aged 100 died Saturday. She had lived in the county for fifty years and never missed a Lexington funeral in twenty five years until her death.
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Bloomington
Uls
Katherine Lyons
Lexington
Grinnell Tragedy: Traveling Rep Found Dead at Wife’s Grave
Grinnell Iowa February 16 Arthur R Turner traveling representative for a Chicago paper company was found dead on his wife’s grave in this city. He had taken his own life according to investigators.
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Grinnell
Arthur R. Turner
Chicago
Friends seek new topic after man returns from trip
About three days after a man returns from a trip his friends begin to think up something to change the subject when they see him coming.
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Atchison Globe
He says he’d share his last dollar with me
A witty exchange on character as a man who would share his last dollar is contrasted with a cold observer noting the opposite, in a brief Washington Star remark.
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Washington Star
Genius and ego in public perception
The Philadelphia Record notes how society labels individuals as geniuses. It suggests convincing others of one’s genius may require true genius in persuasion.
Horses Like Eggs: A CautionaryObservation
A proverb-like remark compares horses to eggs, noting uncertainty about interior contents until they are opened or revealed.
Mysterious Circumstance About Health and Digestion
A short ad claims Dr King’s New S S pills aid digestion and relieve constipation, promising health and rosy cheeks. The copy features a claim about two women and urges readers to buy from Stewart, Druggist.
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Dr. King
Stewart
Opportunities In the South
The article extols progress in the South with Northern and foreign capital flowing in and rising land prices. It notes abundant work, low poverty, and Alabama’s coal and iron exports, plus profitable farming, fruit growing, and Gulf Coast patch work. It invites readers to request more information.
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United States
Alabama
Gulf Coast
South
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Chattanooga
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