Desperate Mutiny Ends With Convict Deaths at Kentucky Prison
In Frankfort Kentucky on August 21 three murderers led a four hour prison mutiny at the state penitentiary. Wallace Bishop alias Burns was killed, Lafayette Brooks wounded, Alfred Ransome the colored escapee wounded, after guards were overpowered at breakfast. Brooks blames Bishop for the attempt. Bishop died Wednesday night.
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Frankfort
Wallace
Bishop
Thomas Mulligan
Kenton County
Lafayette Brooks
Morgan County
State Penitentiary
Brooks
Alfred Ransome
Louisville
Charles Willis
Reed Department
Chair
Asa Shield
Eph Lillard
Ransome
Eph Lillard, Jr
Wallace Bishop
Burns
St. Louis
Reform Where Most Needed in Treasury Clash Over Gambling
Washington August 21 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw cracks down on gambling among clerks. Three earners see pay cut from 1800 to 1000 and transfer to different branches after poker losses. The wife of one seeks relief, while officers ordered to cut gambling and debt repayment under threat of discharge or resignation.
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Washington
Treasury
Shaw
Jury finds man guilty of second degree murder
The jury charged with a felony in the first degree for the killing of James M. Law in this city last January returned a verdict Wednesday morning finding the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and assessing his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
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Wereniles
James M. Law
Murer
Six room horse house costs two thousand dollars
The six room house described by George A. W. Eintz will cost $2,000 and sit on a cement and bowlder foundation. Rooms include parlor 12¾ by 17, dining room 12 by 13, kitchen 10 by 12, chambers 12 by 17 and 10 by 12, hall 7 by 12½, pantry 3 by 12, bathroom 5 by 8, and air cove. Details cover floors, joists, rafters, siding, plaster, gas piping, and a full basement with coal, furnace, and plumbing ready for occupancy.
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George A. W. Eintz
Great heat of meteors at Felix Alabama revealed
A meteor fell at Felix Alabama on May 15 1900. A seven pound meteoric mass was found in soft soil and analyzed showing olivine augite triolite nickel iron and graphite. The dark pigment comes from graphite. Meteorites offer clues to composition of other worlds and Earth links.
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Felix
Ala
Earth
Germany United States trade views from Roosevelt interview
M. Goldberger, a royal privy counselor of commerce, concludes in Die Woche that the United States will lead in world markets. He cites President Roosevelt in a White House interview saying mutual esteem benefits both nations and predicts sharp U S competition. He praises U S advances in industrial organization, cooperation, cost reduction, and mechanical development.
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M. Goldberger
United States
Die Woche
Roosevelt
Herr Goldberger
White House
Germany
Atlantic
Willie-Say and the lemonade stand, a Chicago vignette
A brief Chicago American fragment describes Willie-Say, a boy inviting a nickel from a poor man while his Papa asks who he is. Willie runs the lemonade stand on the corner, capturing street corner commerce and family dynamics in a single snapshot.
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Willie
Chicago
Pith and Point and Quotations Across Papers
A collage of humorous quotes and jokes from various papers. Dialogues feature prisoners, poets, and lovers in playful asides. Witty exchanges touch on truth telling, romantic mismatches, commerce, and misreads of distance. Numerous short quips illustrate late 19th or early 20th century humor.
Sly Tricks of Waiters At a Seaside Hotel
A New York correspondent notes waiters’ tricks at a fashionable seaside hotel. A waiter was caught using rubber pockets to steal a hot porterhouse, with all waiters suspected searched and discharged. The piece traces hotel fraud from brass checks to card checks, noting customers rarely compare prices, enabling overcharges. The graft profits finance several leaders months of leisure each year.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Mitigating Circumstances in a Clothes War
A Chicago Daily News item records a dialogue where a woman chides a husky man about his wife doing the family washing. The man, described as too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work, explains he tolerates her washing only to obtain food and clothing.
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Chicago Daily New
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement Ends The Campaign
A brief newspaper item notes an Indianapolis News quote about the campaign starting as candidates declare they will take responsibility. The ad copy markets Allen's Foot-Ease with claims of curing foot pains and swelling and instructs purchases through druggists and shoe stores in Le Roy New York.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Wives of great men and their storms at home
A compact survey notes famed men's spouses and their storms of temper, infidelity, departure, or tragedy. It cites Thomas More, Milton, Coleridge, Catherine II, Ben Jonson, Moliere, Hazlitt, Napoleon, and Josephine, linking personal strife to public achievement.
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Sir Thomas
More
Milton
Hhis
Coleridge
Catherine II
Russia
Ben” Jonson
Moliere
Hazlitt
Napoleon
Josephine
Dodd’s Kidney Pills A Paris Man’s Remarkable Cure
Charles Back of Paris reports kidney pain lasting since age three eased after two days with Dodd’s Kidney Pills in Montreal Canada. He says a week of treatment removed all pains and he would not live without them, praising the remedy as wonderful.
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New York City
Charles Back
Rue de la Victoire
Paris
France
Carlsbad
Bohemia
Hamburg
Montreal
Canada
Dodd
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Parker
Lbarber Mb
America
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Atchison Globe
Conner
Indianapolis News
Browne
London
Philadelphia Press
Ike
Stony Gulch
Baltimore News
the Saturday Evening Post
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
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