Left as hostage, dies in New York city
Loretta Pfeiffer twenty of New York was left by her sweetheart as a hostage during a money search by footpads. She was found dying on the doorstep of ex Chief Sullivan's home in North Bergen New Jersey and died moments later. Nicholas Mountray was arrested at Hoboken police quarters seeking info. Doctors attributed death to heart disease likely caused by fright.
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New York
Loretta A. Pfeiffer
Sullivan
North Bergen
N. J
Nicholas Mountray
Hoboken
Whisky Recovered From Sunken City of New Orleans Steamboat
Bellevue Nebraska August 8 After fifty three years the old steamboat City of New Orleans have been unearthed from Missouri river mud two miles above Bellevue. The cargo of 160 barrels of whisky likely to be salvaged as guards rig a derrick and divers prepare to haul the barrels through the strong current.
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Bellevue
Neb
Missouri River
New Orleans
Morton in a wreck halts auto but saves lives
Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and Mrs. Morton escaped serious injury when their automobile narrowly missed a southbound car on Eighth Avenue. The collision threw the streetcar conductor from his platform. he was only slightly hurt. The Mortons’ car was temporarily disabled but otherwise no damage occurred.
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New York
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Police hunt for mayor Belcher over embezzlement plot
Paterson New Jersey August 8 police pursue Mayor William H Belcher after a complaint charging embezzlement of 1200 dollars and alleged total losses of about 100000 dollars. Descriptions have been sent nationwide and abroad under extradition treaty cooperation.
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Paterson
N. J
William H. Belcher
United States
Belcher
Cops Hunt Dogs In La Crosse Hydrophobia Panic
Police detail nearly the entire force to track down apparently mad dogs terrorizing La Crosse Wisconsin. Three dogs were killed by officers and others were shot by owners before the police arrived. A canine owned by Clark and Clark liverymen, believed to have hydrophobia, bit more than twenty animals including dogs and chickens, all of which died or were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Wis
Clark & Clark
Senator Farris Acquitted In Alum Bill Bribery Case
Jefferson City Mo Aug 8 State Senator Frank H Farris was yesterday acquitted by a jury in the circuit court on a bribery charge connected with a 1901 legislative bill to repeal the statute prohibiting alum in baking powder, known as the alum bill.
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Farris
Jefferson City
Frank H. Farris
Missing Woman Found Near Coleman
Sioux Falls Aug 8 The disappearance of Mrs Bertha Bakken wife of a Baltic area farmer near Sioux Falls has been solved with discovery of the woman and her baby at a farmer's home near Coleman where she had sought work
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Bertha Bakken
Baltic
Coleman
Roosevelt delivers lay sermon at Oyster Bay service
President Roosevelt spoke to the Christian Brotherhood of Oyster Bay urging sound character building as the core of Christian life. In Milwaukee an Italian man Thomas Tarantino was mysteriously murdered outside his home last night by an unknown assailant as a large police posse searches for the killer. In Avanta Georgia Captain Evan P. Howell, a prominent Southern journalist, died today.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Christian Brotherhood of
Milwaukee
Thomas Tarantino
Pittsburg Flyer Crashes Into Streetcar Killing Child
Flyer hits street car in Cleveland at night killing a child instantly and fatally wounding six others while fifteen more are seriously injured. The incident follows illness and the account notes ongoing agricultural cooperation and local militia plans in North Dakota towns with towns like La Moure and Williston mentioned. Oakes residents spent over $1,000 for festival advertising seen by visitors as money well spent.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Pittsburg
Oakes
Bottineau Adopts Anti Gambling and Prostitution Fines
Bottineau passes an ordinance targeting gambling with a hundred dollar fine. A parallel provision imposes a hundred dollar penalty on operating a house of ill fame.
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Bottineau
Racially charged arrest reported at Valley City on rape charge
A Black man was arrested in Valley City for rape. The report notes he was already far north of the Mason Dixon line, hinting at regional tensions in the era.
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Valley City
Mason and Dixon Line
Prof Wiener and the Peasant
Harvard professor Wiener tells a tale of Russian peasants showing little curiosity about origins or destinations. While in Russia he spends a day with a peasant who learns he is from America and intends to go to Moscow. The exchange highlights limited exchanges of information between cultures.
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Wiener
Prof. Wiener
Harvard University
Russia
America
Mossow
From Strength to Strength Henry Jerome Stockard
Fragmentary note quotes resilience and faith urging endurance through adversity. Mentions strength growing, dawn after night, and a brave intent. Signed Henry Jerome Stockard.
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Henry Jerome
Stockard
Supervisor Harold Loring Named Native Music Supervisor
Harold A. Loring of Portland Maine was appointed by the rotary of the interior as supervisor of native Indian music. He spent time among six Indians of the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota and became interested in the Indians and their music. His duties will take him to various reservations in the west.
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Harold A. Loring
Potland
Rotary of the Interior
Loring
Rosebud
South Dakota
Pulling the Crowd and the Curfew Laugh Lines
A retired civic tale blends a public servant’s brisk service with a wary bid for a speech at a Brooklyn meeting. An in‑office colleague, tied to a beneficiary order, faces a split over a forty‑minute address that newspapers barely mention. A colonel remarks how a trifling curfew cost a friendship.
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Brooklyn
Inventor Recounts Miles Simple Order to Stop Cranks
An inventor recalls Gen Nelson A Miles dismissing a crank with a swift, decisive gesture. A visitor urged adoption of a bulletproof coat while Miles rang for guards to ready his rifle. The inventor recounts a chaotic moment as the scene unfolded.
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Miles
Nelson A. Miles
Gen. Miles
Orver
Cereral
Infant Moretrocities and early human growth legends
A scrambled note surveys extraordinary infant growth myths from ancient sources. It cites Pliny on Enthimedes supposedly reaching four and a half feet in three years, and Pri legaon on Cicterus, plus a dubious King Louis XI timeline with rapid aging and early milestones.
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Pliny
Enthimedes
San Francisco Board Bans Chinese and Japanese Pupils
The San Francisco board of education adopted a resolution opposing the admission of Chinese and Japanese pupils to white schools and supporting the creation of separate schools for Chinese and Japanese students. The action was unanimously approved as a firm stance against mingling white and Mongolian pupils.
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San Francisco
Board of Education
Jealousy Fatal to Three in Sharon Crime
In Sharon Pennsylvania on May 9 John Horosko shot and killed Mrs. John Leech and her fourteen year old nephew Frank Rocel, then wounded himself fatally. Police say the boy was probably an accidental casualty as the bullet pierced the woman’s body and struck the boy.
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Self
Sharon
John Horosk
John Leech
Frank Rocel
Orleans Duke Embarks on Arctic Relief Expedition
Christiania May 9 The Belgica steamer carries the Duke of Orleans Arctic expedition members from Sandefjord to Bergen to pick up the Zeigler exploration party from Shannon Islands. The duke plans to return to Ostend in September.
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Duke Wii
Gergen
Zelg
Christiania
Duke of Orleans
Sandefjord
Bergen
Duke
Zeigler
Shannon Islands
Ostend
Seminole Acting Governor Impeached by Council
In Muskogee Indian Territory on May 9 a Seminole special report says Acting Governor J. Harrison has been impeached by the Seminole council and John Brown was elected unanimously to succeed him. Brown will serve until 1906 when tribal government terminates.
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J. Harrison
Muskogee
Ind. T
Fron
Wey erhaeuser to Build 45 Mile Idaho Railway Line
Wey erhaeuser Lumber Syndicate has let the contract to construct a forty five mile railway from Palouse Washington into Idaho to access timber holdings. The line will cost about one million dollars and expand export routes for the company.
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Idaho Timber Holdings
Spokane
Wash
Weyerhaeuser Lumber Syndicate
Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway
Idaho
Palouse
Son
Joplin Boy Questions James Boys Wrote Book of James
The Carthage Press notes a Joplin boy asked his Sunday school teacher last Sunday whether the James brothers authored the Book of James. The inquiry highlights curiosity about biblical authorship and local church discussions.
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Carthage
James
Two Die In Gasoline Launch Explosion at Montgomery
Charleston W Va Aug 1 An explosion on a gasoline launch at Montgomery killed Robert and Otto Huddleston and left Elmer Smith and John Morrison as survivors who swam ashore after the blast.
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Charleston
W. Va
Montgomery
Robert
Otto Huddleston
Elmer Smith
John Morrison
Great Northern East Bound Arrives With Unclear Details
OCR fragment offers limited readable facts about a Great Northern East Bound arrival, but the text is fragmentary with missing numbers and place names. no clear date or event context is present.
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Howell
Avanta
Evan P. Howell
Jong
Souther
Dini- Vax
Deering
THE
Bruegger Mercantile Co
Williston
North Dakota
Gak
Prlegon
Cicterus
Antisonus
Louis XI
Huo- Fu
Orleans
Arctic
A.a.howell & CO
Minneapolis, Minn
Paola
D.bergman & CO
Paul Minn
Penman Therthand
Fallterm
F.l.watkut Fargo
Caroni
Ic Cereal CO
Rsa
McCormick Or Deering
Great Northern
Mount Moriah Lodge
A.M
Brownell
W. M
B. Hoyos
Win Penheht Treag
E. M. Atterberry
Bery
Urer
Unty Oroner
Nigel
Dee ER
C — Board OF County Comminicone
Ant
M.A
T. C. O. F. Hall
A. H. Brown
E.R. Browneon
Fort Buford Lodge
F. Maeta
Patrice Donxaty
J. EK
Perris
V. G
TS. Phinlips
C. Stewant
Treas Trenteen— Paves
Scokcepece
Dave
Kino
W. H
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Chicago
Pree
KC Stp
M.&ory
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