Cannon on Deep Waterway in Peoria Talk
Joseph G Cannon speaker of the house spent a day in Peoria with George W Curtiss. He spoke at an informal dinner and called a fourteen foot Chicago to St Louis channel practical for national business growth while cautioning against funding without viability to extend to the gulf.
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Peoria
Joseph G. Cannon
House of Representatives
George W. Curtiss
Cannon
Chicago
St. Louis
Gulf
Congress
Pursued by the Woman in New Baltimore
Floyd E. Andrews fled down Main street while Mrs Lyndon Perkins Stanley chased him with a paint brush and rainbow palette. Stanley, ex wife of A L Stanley, and manager of a London subway traction line, accused Andrews of wronging her and sought an apology he refused. The scene ended with Andrews likened to an Indian in war paint.
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New
Baltimore
Mich
Main Street
Floyd E. Andrews
Andrews
Lyndon Perkins Stanley
A. L. Stanley
Detroit United Railway
London
Confesses Double Murder Near Rosalie Nebraska
Philip Burke was arrested at Hooper and brought to Fremont on charges of killing Walter Copple and his wife near Rosalie Thurston County. He claimed the name Louis Ray Higgins and described sneaking a shotgun, shooting Copple and then his wife, locking the children, and fleeing seven miles on Logan Creek. Burke asked to notify his mother, Cora Fay Higgins of Denver, Colo.
WANTS A LAW THAT SUITS HIM
Columbus reports John Bryan a 60 year old Yellow Springs millionaire travels to study marriage statutes in search of a state with favorable terms for his planned union to 20 year old Miss Frederica Murphy. He vows the chosen law will constrain his wife for twenty years and seeks a $1,000,000 dowry while disposing of the rest of his $335,000 estate.
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Columbus
John Bryan
Yellow Springs
Xenia
State Law Library
Frederica Murphy
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Ohio
Dakota
Metcalf Orders Construction Of Key Naval Buildings
Secretary Metcalf awarded contracts for ten principal buildings at Lake Naval Station and invited new bids for the remainder. Costs exceed $2,000,000 but plans are trimmed to fit about $400,000 of remaining funds. Immediate construction covers the admin and instruction buildings, drill hall, mess hall and gallery, four dormitories, a guard house and a power house. Work is expected to take about two years.
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Washington
Metcalf
Confess
Brother’s prison term sought for Czeschowski case
Joe Czeschowski, freed by a jury in Judge Stimple's court on a blackmail charge involving Father Mrosinski, Polish priest, asks to be ordered to serve the penitentiary term intended for his brother Leo who was found guilty on related charges.
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Cleveland
Joe Czeschowski
How Sarah Met the Fairies NE night long after teatime
A girl named Sarah sneaks to a garden at night hoping to find fairies. Two tiny fairies appear and conspire to punish her for overhearing secrets by turning her into a cup and saucer with one ear. The spell lasts eight hours, placing her on a nursery shelf as she overhears through the remaining ear.
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Sarah
Fairy In Pink
Fairy In Blue
Lucy
Pink
Blue
Tuplik
Saray
Somme
Night Garden Fairies Dramatic Dream Vision
A girl named Sarah dreams of a magical night garden where fairies accuse her of listening. She meets the queen and godmothers, drinks a bitter cup, and endures surreal kitchen calamities before waking in her own room with hair ribbon intact. New York World.
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Sarah
Cook
New York World
Handsomes or Most Handsome Explained
A note on adjective comparison for multi syllable words. The passage explains that handsome is a dissyllable ending in mute e and is thus treated as one syllable for the superlative, resulting in most handsome. It emphasizes learning these rules as valuable language knowledge.
Crouse Health Fails Court Charge Dismissed in Indiana
Newcastle Indiana May 16 Dr Henry M Crouse Knightstown physician aged over 70 will not face criminal malpractice charges after the state dismissed the complaint. Ill health from the stress of the case kept him home on bond since January when a Rush County coroner information led to his arrest. No indictment testimony is said to exist.
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Newcastle
Ind
Henry M. Crouse
Knightstown
Fire destroys Brunswick post office and store in Michigan
The Brunswick village post office and BR T Carbine general store were burned in Oceana county. Loss pegged at 86 000 as winds whipped through town. A volunteer brigade saved many homes and the village seeks 5 000 from the mayor amid the blaze. Alfred Pendall sues Carmi Burrell for 5 000 over alleged embezzlement accusations and docket dispute.
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Muskegon
Mich
Brunswick
Oceana County
BR. T. Carbine
Snow Flurry Seen in Paducah May 15
Snow fell briefly in Paducah Kentucky early in the day and was clearly visible to residents.
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Paducah
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana and nearby states
The forecast predicts generally fair conditions in Illinois Indiana and surrounding areas with warmer temperatures. Northern portions may see threatening conditions and lower Michigan could experience possible showers with fresh westerly winds.
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Iinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Chicago May market quotes on grains and livestock
Wheat and corn futures listed with May July September prices. Oats and rye figures shown along with Park and Lard and Short Ribs futures. Live stock and hay prices noted from Chicago and East Buffalo markets with hogs, cattle, and sheep quotations and receipts.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
PSG
Mars
Kansas
Indian Territory
Nebraska
Prafri
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Compassion Merchants
N. Y
Views of a Japanese baron on pacific gains and Hague talks
Baron Ozama of Japan, a Red Cross member, says Japan has no expansion aims in the Pacific and finds The Hague peace talks weightless. He plans to decorate Dr. Louisa Klopsch for famine relief work and continues to promote Red Cross efforts worldwide.
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New York
Baron Ozama
Japanese Red Cross Society
Japan
Pacific
The
Hague
Red Cross ‘Society
Louisa Klopsch
Christian Herald
Vienna minister resigns after election defeat
Vienna dateline May 16 reports Herr von Marchet, minister of public instruction, resigns following defeat in Tuesday elections. Of 367 results, 154 require second ballots, with blacks and reds, clericals and socialists winning roughly equal numbers. Fifty six Christian Socialists, 56 Social Democrats, and 26 Catholic Center party members are among the winners. others split among minor factions.
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Vienna
Herr von Marchet
Catholic Center Party
Oklahoma dressmaker seeks payment from multimillionaire ex-congressman
Cleveland report states Miss W. J. Farron, a dressmaker, has failed for eighteen months to collect 31449 from W. J. White of Two-Minutes villa. White, a chewing gum magnate, steam- yacht owner and former congressman from the Twentieth district, divorced Mrs. White by default on a desertion charge after gowns were supplied.
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Cleveland
W. J. Farron
W. J. White
Congress
Wheeler Offered MIT Presidency
Boston May 16 United States news announces Benjamin Ide Wheeler president of the University of California has been offered the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fill the vacancy left by Henry Pritchett who resigned last December as he attends to Carnegie Foundation matters. The Lyttle Rate Medical society gathers in Rapid City. About 460 plumbers in Toronto Ontario strike seeking closed shop due to wage rise. Directors of General Electric vote to offer stockholders $15 million of 5 percent ten year debenture bonds.
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Wheeler
Boston
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
Massachusetts Instiute of Technology
Affdcead
Henry
Pritchett
Carnegie Foundation
Iywit Rate Medical Society
Edit Rapids
Torotto
General Electric Company
Pain Balm for Sprains Sold by Cook Sherman
Advertisement notes Cham berlain's Pain Balm for sprains with advice to bathe the parts and rest. Promotes quick cure and lists Cook and Sherman as sellers.
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Chamberlain
Uoick
Cook & Sherman
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