British Briefs: Land talks, mansions, and peerage gains
Ernest F. Stanley praises Wyoming land prospects for irrigation and development. Sunderland house near London draws scorn as an architectural monstrosity nicknamed Blunderland. Albert Kirby Fairfax, American born, assumes Lords titles after acceptance of a bank position and legal inheritance.
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Lord Rosebery
Ernest F. Stanley
London
Wyoming
Mr. Stanley
Sunderland House
Duke of Marlborough
Vanderbilt
Guke
Duchess
Albert Kirby Fairfax
John Contee Fairfax
Prince George’s County
Maryland
Lord Fairfax
Baron Cameron
Scotland
House of Lords
Fairfax
The Stamp Album and Early Greek Stamps Explained
The article notes early stamp history in Bishop Synesius era Cyrene and suggests starting a collection with a packet of foreign stamps. It mentions a 500 stamp packet costing a dollar or two and teaches recognizing Paris printed Greek stamps by lighter shadowing on the check.
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Synesius
Cyrene
Africa
Paris
Deadly Santa Barbara street car wreck shocks city
A street car returning from the old mission at Garden and Mission streets in Santa Barbara derailed on a sharp curve injuring over twenty and killing five. The crash was blamed on brake failure with rear brakes jammed and forward brakes useless. Among the injured, Mrs. Julius Kruttschnitt and several Santa Barbara residents were named along with travelers from Chicago, Kansas City and other addresses.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Ramon Reyes
Leon Calderon
Earl Goland
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific Railway
Rosa Enghert
Chicago
Besily
Edmond Quinn
Kansas City
George Dufor
Grace Dufor
Emily Lamp
George Paker
Laura Baker
Virginia ‘Rypise
Lucy Ruise
Sullivan
Mary Arallenes
Roberts
Cora Lombard
McCaughey
Frances Olives
Garden and
Mission Streets
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain Dies in Paris at 88
Paris April 11 Ex Queen Isabella II of Spain grandmother of King Alfonso II dies at 9 45 am Saturday after two months grippe with lung complications Ambassadors and Infantas Isabella Eulalie and Marie attended her bedside Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria husband of Infanta Marie was summoned The former queen born October 30 1830 abdicated 1870 after royal life in exile and Paris long supported charities and religious works
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Paris
Isabella
Spain
Alfonso
Palatte
Castile
Kleber
Porter
Infantas
Eulalie
Marie
Prince Ferdinand of
Bavaria
Infanta
Isabella II
Madrid
Ferdinand VII
Maria Christina
France
Europe
Don Francisco de Parla
Prince of the Asturias
Alfonso XII
Watchman Murdered at University of Pennsylvania Club
John Thompson, night watchman at the Houston club on the Penn campus, was killed Sunday evening on the bowling alleys in the basement. Police arrested a suspect a few hours later as investigators suspect robbery as the motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
John Thompson
Houston Club
University of Pennsylvania
Fatal Fire Kills Five in Mount Vernon Hall Building
A Wednesday blaze in the Columbia hall building on Wilson Place, Mount Vernon, kills five people and fatally injures Mrs. Rebecca Frey. Also badly burns Mrs. Asa Barry and suffocates Mrs. Gussie Lavigne amid a deadly morning fire.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Columbia Hall
Wilson Place
Nathan Frey
Isador Frey
Helen Frey
Henry Frey
Gussie Dohring
Rebecca Frey
Mount Vernon Hospital
Asa Barry
Louis Lavigne
York
York Carriage Company
Harry Saltzgiver
Horace F. Strine
Lewis Strubinger
Declaration Denounces Polygamy by Mormon Leader
Salt Lake City reports reveal President Joseph F. Smith at the seventy fourth annual conference affirmed that no plural marriages have been solemnized with church sanction since the 1890 manifesto. Any officer or member who enters such a marriage faces church discipline and possible excommunication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference
The
Mormon Church
Joseph F. Smith
Woodruff
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Woman Confesses in Boone Murder Case
Sioux City Iowa April 9 Indicted for murder Charles Rocker of Boone and his wife in jail. Mrs Rocker confesses to attorney that Rocker murdered her former husband August Schroeder on June 30 1900 by chloroforming him and staging a suicide after driving him home. She says she collected the life insurance and then married Rocker.
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Sioux City
Charles Rocker
Boone
Schroeder
Rocker Harg Schroeder
Rocker
South Dakota
Senator Hanna Eulogized In Senate Condolence Session
The Senate spent nearly all its session on April 8 eulogies to the late Senator Hanna. Senator Foraker introduced the standard resolutions of sorrow and urged their consideration after routine business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Hanna
Foraker
King Alfonso Refutes Barcelona Death Bomb Claim
King Alfonso of Spain received President Diaz of Mexico’s telegram congratulating him on escaping an attempt on his life in Barcelona. The king stated the explosion report was unfounded. A Chicago strike halted work as Selz Shoe Co. 850 employees rejected arbitration and walked out.
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Genoa
Spain
Alfonso Friday
Diaz
Mexico
Barcelona
Chicago
Selz Shoe Company
Board of Arbitration
Vampers
Lecturer's Whisky Misunderstanding Stirs Comical Mixup
A renowned speaker delayed by a late train arrives at a hotel and, exhausted, asks for a whisk. A visiting committee from the Turkeyville Total Abstinence society later arrives with whisky mistaken for a whisk broom, producing a humorous misunderstanding the speaker recalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Turkeyville
Remarkable Kidney Cure Report From Kilgore
John T. Riegle suffered long with aggravated kidney disease and failed doctors’ treatments. He used Dodd's Kidney Pills after seeing an advertisement and reports complete cure. He endorses the remedy, saying it cured him where doctors had failed, and hopes others hear of its benefits.
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B.B.B
Kilgore
John T. Riegle
Dodd
Fodder plants promise high yields and seed offers
An advertisement touts two premier fodder crops delivering up to 14 tons per acre hay and 80 tons per acre green fodder. Victoria Rape is promoted for feed for sheep and swine. The John A. Salter Seed Co offers a catalog and farm seed samples in exchange for 100 stamps.
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Victoria
John A. Salter Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Peruna praised as year round tonic by New York woman
Miss Marjory Hampton of 2616 Third Avenue New York writes that Peruna is a fine medicine for all seasons. She finds it tones and strengthens in spring and helps cure colds and catarrh in fall and winter while keeping bowels regular. She calls it a whole medicine chest.
Spring Fever and Blood Impurities Promoted by Spring
Dr Hartman explains spring blood impurities cause spring fever nervous exhaustion and related symptoms. He recommends Penna or Peruna as preventative and curative, promising prompt advice gratis from Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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Hartman
One Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
X. C. DU Visi
ALL News
Pafraets Book CO
Troy
N.Y
Anakesis
Tribune Building
New York
W. McCormick & Sons
Walnut St
Cincinnati
Frig Tetecnne
Sitzgerald £ CO
Box EK
York, Pa
Harvard Lampoon
Eben
Washington Star
J. W. O’brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Puck
Robert Collyer
Marjory Hampton
St. Jacobs
Western Department
Chicago, Ill
Eastern Department
Hartford
Conn
Iowa
Howard Co
Winneshiek Co
Corn and
Winneshiek County
J. HM. Luers
Cresco
Michigan
United States
Edwin A. Wildey
Lansing
A. N. Koa
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