Bank clerk returns as missing man after long disguise
George A Kimmel alias multiple names confesses identity as missing Niles bank clerk. He details alleged relatives plotting money schemes linked to life insurance policies and a Pacific Express theft. He recalls abductions, beatings, and skull injuries, says his memory cleared in Auburn prison and Matteawan hospital before plan to travel home.
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Auburn
N. Y
George A Kimmel
J. W. Hosmer
A. J. White
J. W. Watson
George A. Kimmel
Niles
Mich
New York Life Insurance Company
Omaha
Stella Kimmel
Edna Kimmel Bonslett
Matteawan Asylum
West
Harry J. Fox
Kimmel
Morker
Natio Mank of
Proupt
Tle
Edna
Dumas
New York
Northweet Mutual
Charles H Johnson
Farmers’ State Bank of
Arkansas City
Kan
V Pacific’ Express Company
Midland Hotel
Kansas City
R. M. Snyder
Olive Street
St. Loui
Charles H. Johnson
Oder
Marsell
Highland National Bank
San Quentin
Sears
Pacific Express
Matteawan State Hospital
St. Louis
Albany
Erie County
Matteawan
Gowanda
Detroit Free Press Fragment Cites Jokes and Job Talk
A clipped Detroit Free Press note captures a quotes about a person being a positive joke and a quip comparing a relative of a spouse to a better job. The fragment hints at social humor and workplace talk.
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Detroit Freeress
Madison Dead Influential Insurgent From Kansas
Edmond H. Madison representative from the Seventh Kansas district dies at his Dodge City home breakfast table. A leading figure in the strenuous fight over House rules that curtailed speakership powers and reshaped House procedures during the Sixty list Congress. Madison, with Murdock Hayes and Norris cohort, helped secure reorganization of House methods.
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Dodge City
Kan
Edmond H. Madison
Kansas
Congress
Representative Madison
Madison
Murdock
Hayes
California
Norris
Nebraska
Call 300 Graft Witnesses
Columbus will conduct a corruption probe into the last state legislature. The grand jury has summoned twenty four prospective jurors and will choose fifteen to form the September panel. The inquiry restarts where the prior grand jury halted, with about 100 witnesses expected and a two week session anticipated.
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Columbus
Girl at party shoots man in playful remark
Elsie Tripp of Logansport Indiana aged eighteen accidentally killed James Powell twenty two at a party after joking that her future husband would have to stand around. She picked up a revolver thinking it unloaded and fired. Powell died at the scene.
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Logansport
Ind
Elsie Tripp
James Powell
Powell
Miss Tripp
Etna Activity Dims Yet Lava Flood Persists
In Catania on September 19 the Mount Etna eruption appears to ease with fewer earthquakes while a vast lava flood continues to devastate the countryside. Five main lava streams span miles, new cones rise near fresh craters, some reaching 60 to 100 feet, and a 200 foot high new mount belches smoke and cinders.
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Catania
Mount
Etna
Stolypin Dies of Wounds After Opera House Shooting
Kiev reports Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin died at 10 p m after a gala night shooting at the Moscow Opera House. He had faced revolution and terror, reformed the army and economy, and oversaw a period of consolidation in Russia before his death. He had been minister of interior briefly in 1906 and became premier in July 1906. His death ends a turbulent era marked by suppressive measures and reforms.
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Kiev
A. Stolypin
Russia
Opera House
Czar
St. Petersburg
Tnterior
Goremykin
Duma
Aerkangel
Crimea
Dama
Ezar
Stolypin
Togo
Japan
Daily Diet and Fasting Cautions by Dr. Allen
Recent experiments by Mr Fletcher suggest fasting may be injurious if it removes normal elimination stimuli and allows waste to accumulate. Fasting has benefits but requires physician guidance. Do not fast more than three to ten days the first time and avoid fasting with uninformed friends.
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Fletcher
Premier Stolypin Survives Second Assassination Bid
After his appointment Stolypin narrowly escaped a bombing at his Aptekarsky Island home during a reception on August 2 1996. The explosion wounded Stolypin and two daughters. about thirty people were killed and many more injured. Born 1863, he studied at the University of St Petersburg graduating 1884 and held various interior agriculture posts before becoming governor of Saratov in 1903.
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Aptekarsky Island
Stolypin
University of St. Petersburg
Fashion notes mark fifty and twenty five years ago
A fashion critic recalls the shift toward fantastical evening dresses and home wear. A fad included boys in zouave costumes. The entry also notes Bloody rioting in Belfast and Liverpool from a quarter century earlier.
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Belfast
Liverpool
Edison Trip Resumes After Bavarian Tragedy
Thomas A. Edison and his party continued their journey in two cars after an accident in Lauf Bavaria that killed a twelve year old boy. Authorities detained the chauffeur but later absolved him and Edison awaited the inquiry’s outcome.
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Nuremburg
Bavaria
Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Awelve
Ole Bey
Lauf
Campaign to Bring Church to Workingmen in New York
New York delegates gather over 400 ministers for the Men and Religion forward movement kickoff. A mid November street parade for men and boys is planned, with New York churches urged to adopt up-to-date methods to reach working communities. Speakers include James G. Cannon and Gypsy Smith.
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New York
Broadway Tabernacle
James G. Cannon
Men and Religion Forward Movement
United States
Canada
Charles Steizle
Arthur Brown
Raymond Robins
Chicago
Gypsy Smith
Pastor Admits Theft in Versailles Justice Court
Rev. W. Walstrom, serving as pastor in Versailles Indiana, pleaded guilty to robbing a local restaurant of 50 dollars in old coins. Bloodhounds traced the trail from the restaurant to the pastor’s home three times before his confession. All coins were recovered.
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Versailles
W. Walstrom
Walstrom
Taft Opens Detroit Trip with Political Challenge at State Fair
President Taft arrives in Detroit for a ten hour visit and opens the state fair with a defense against critics of his anti trust stance. He denounces trade restraint under Sherman law and pledges civil service for local federal officers while addressing business leaders and revenue officers.
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Detroit
Mich
Taft
Detroit Board of Commerce
William Jennings Bryan
Supreme Court
Internal Revenue Officers
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
Pontiac
Sammy Smith
State Fair
Mr. Taft
Representative Madison
Hutchinson
Kaw
Storm Hits Chicago Causes Destruction Across City
A severe wind rain and hail storm battered Chicago on September 19 killing one person and injuring several while destroying property valued in the thousands. Trees uprooted basements flooded sewers burst signs roofs shattered and windows broken as lightning caused fires and disrupted communications. Boats and yachts were set adrift and downtown lighting cables failed plunging streets into darkness.
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Chicago
Hdison Company
Storm Ties Up Traffic In Joliet Area
Storm caused factory shutdowns and disrupted train service in Joliet and surrounding towns. Water from three hours of downpours flooded coke ovens at Illinois Steel and other plants, halting operations. East side streetcar lines and the Chicago and Alton railroad faced major delays as the canal rose beyond banks between Joliet and Lockport.
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JoNet
Ilinois Steel Company
Chicago and Alton Railroad
East Side
Joliet
Lockport
Explosion Burns Woman in Washington Indiana Kitchen
An explosion at a gasoline range in Washington Indiana injures Mrs Walter Ragsdale thirty five who is likely to die from burns. She was cooking when coffee overflow extinguished the blaze and her match sparked a fierce blast that set her clothes alight and buried her from head to foot.
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Washington
Ind
Walter Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Charge Against Crew Foreman in Indiana Shooting
E rap Holloway of Deming Indiana was bound over to the grand jury on $2000 bond for assault and battery with intent to kill after shooting A G Buchanan foreman of a fence crew on the Lake File and Western railroad at Michigan City Buchanan was shot in the abdomen his condition described as favorable by physicians
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Michigan City
Ind
Holloway
Deming
A. G. Buchanan
Cicero
Lake Fiie and Western Railroad
Buchanan
Escaped convict seen in Warden wife’s clothing in flight
Ohio officials trail Michael Soboleski, a Lucas County murder convict who escaped from the penitentiary. He was spotted near EMU wearing a woman's clothes matching the Warden Jones wife outfit, discovered by a boy near a church in Hillards, triggering a manhunt. The clothing description led authorities to pursue the suspect.
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Columbus
Michael Soboleski
Lucas County
Ohio Penitentiary
T. H. B. Jones
Emu
Hilliards
Soboleski
Aviator Fowler Escapes Fire but Colfax Hotel Burns
Aviator Robert G. Fowler narrowly escaped death as a hotel in Colfax California caught fire. One man was killed but Fowler was warned in time to flee the flames.
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Fowler
Colfax
Cal
Robert G. Fowler
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Bradley
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Indiana
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P. A. Stolypin
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Edison
Bavarian Bay
Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie
Board of Commerce
Algo
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Bay City
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