Coroner Defends Terra Cotta Inquiry Methods
Coroner Ramsay Nevitt says the Terra Cotta inquest was open and in the public interest and rejects Henry E Davis’s charges. He notes witnesses were detained only as needed and cites grand jury secrecy. Davis proposes sweeping coroners’ reform.
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Ramsay Nevitt
Henry E Davis
Davis
St Prs
Ldex
Supreme Court
Bat
Mr Davis
Jerra Cotta
Megalls
Nevitt
Newitt
Terra Cotta
Grand Jury
Neithe
Ovis
The Cowboy Bishop and the Mining Town Hat Joke
Bishop Calbot known as the Cowboy Bishop recounts a meeting ends with a humorous hat collection. In a mining town dance hall Colonel Burns stirs the crowd asking for five hymns and the bishop to collect funds. The hat passes to four men who contribute dollars each, the fourth hesitating, then a quarter is added. The colonel explains the hat is a wheel for pay to miners.
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Calbot
Plains
Wyoming
Idaho
Col Burns
Sandio
Ham Se Tong
Carl Schurz and His Love for the Republic
A Prinam 4 VW magazine tribute to Carl Schurz, praising his deep devotion to liberty and open hospitality. It notes his dissatisfaction when policy and greed misused the republic and recalls his 1880 Republican convention resolutions urging liberal immigration policy and solidarity with oppressed peoples seeking self-government.
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Carl Schurz
Prinam 4 Vwagazine
Schurz
Looking Back East from the West as Readers Yearn
A reflective note on eastward longing from California era readers and Cincinnati press, contrasting distant origins and the travel toll. It muses on miles, daylight, and the pull of home, with lines suggesting people ponder returning east despite journeys.
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Cincinnati
Tribunait Tdr
California
Pension column answers soldiers and widows questions
A long reader letter column from Cincinnati Ohio provides guidance on pension matters for soldiers sailors and heirs. It covers how to apply for increased or restored pensions eligibility for widows remarriage declarations and medical evidence requirements and explains specific case details including age and disability ratings and Mexican war service limits.
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Topeka
Mina
Mary Trb
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Beattie Wash Jam
Congress
Take Things as They Done and Weathering the Cold
A reflective note urges taking events as they come and weathering winter with patience. It urges thermometers to foretell, imagination to travel, and resisting shivering at snow while awaiting spring. It frames endurance as the path to warmer days.
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Cleveland Plaza Desler
Execution in Hyderabad A Pathan beheaded for murder in public
In Hyderabad a condemned Pathan, led to the scene by police and viewed by bystanders, was executed by halter after the cord was tightened and the executioner’s blade fell. The process involved an attendant pricking his back and police holding the cords as the victim was led to the fatal spot. The crowd included street sweepers and armed guards. The incident is recounted alongside notes on teachers shortages and other topic snippets from the era.
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Pension Bureau
Board of Examining Surgeons
Hyderabad
Razor
Amin
Frederick the Second
Prussia
Frederick
Theodore Roosevelt
J P Morgan &Co
J P Morgan & Co
Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Co
Ers
Postal Telegraph Company
Broad Street
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Aue
Pension Matts
Fnittala
Recelva Te Penson
Ayn Noy
Marricu
Funa
Brandel
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Ass'n
St. Louis, U. S. A
India
Korum
Chicago
Joan D
Barkissa
WJ Bryan
Teft
Taft
Foraker
Senate
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
New York World Messenger
The
the World
Financial News of the World
JP Morgan
Wall
Morgan's
Hes
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