Devils Lake Chautauqua feature opens season with Japanese crater
The Devils Lake Chautauqua assembly opened its season highlighting a Japanese crater as a featured attraction. Park River reports a self-made six-horsepower automobile shows satisfactory performance. Lisbon baseball club has three wins in four games through last Thursday. Fargo street railway planned to run cars to agricultural college excursions in July. Churles Ferry residents honored a fellow townsman nominated for the legislature with a mass turnout and local band. Grand Forks Gas and Electric to invest $20,000, doubling power and erecting a new building. Two men arrested in Jamestown on suspicion of diamond theft from a Billings safe. Casselton auctioneer seeking contract to sell 500 horses for a northern state sales series. Charles Dwyer named U S land office special agent for Minot and Devils Lake districts effective Aug 1. Washburn Soo line extension work starts beyond Underwood toward North Dakota’s northern reach. Samuel Hager of Jamestown died in his sleep while visiting. James W. Campbell sentenced to two and a half years for raising post office money orders at Crary. An “entered hobo” scare troubled a family in the last week, prompting fear until an officer arrived. North Dakota’s per capita wealth noted as among the strongest in the Union. State figures cite wealth and capital density, with an estimated value around 9 million, averaging about one thousand per resident.
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Davils Lake
Casselton
Charles Dwyer
United States Land Office
Minot
Devils Lake
Samuel Hager
Jamestown
Hagerstown
James W. Campbell
Crary
Sioux Falls
Man and wife killed by electric car in Cleveland crossing
Christopher Frese, former city councilman, and his wife Louisa, both over sixty, were struck and killed yesterday afternoon while crossing the Lake Shoretracks. Frese died instantly. Louisa died minutes later. A peculiar feature noted that his heart was somehow forced from the body and lay beside him.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Christopher Frese
Louisa
Abner McKinley Dies in Chair at Home
Abner McKinley brother of the late president died suddenly in his Somerset Pennsylvania home. Found seated in a chair by his wife at 8 am after a night of quiet. death attributed to Brights disease developing after his brother’s death. Body to be buried in Canton beside his brother and father in West Lawn cemetery.
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Bright
Somerset
Abner McKinley
Mr. McKinley
Canton
Ohio
West Lawn
Ball Game Ends in Fatal Injury After City Game
Canton Ohio June 14 Clifford Boylan twenty four believed dying at hospital William Harrier and Daniel Fitzgerald shot and cut and bruised after a ball game. Seventeen Negroes arrested with confinement felt needed to quell possible violence from Boylan's supporters.
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Canton
Ohio
Clifford Boylan
William Harrier
Daniel Fitzgerald
Boylan
Anniversary of Servian murder observed in Belgrade
In Belgrade Servia the anniversary of the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga was marked by a requiem mass at St Mark's chapel. Preparations and threats by regicides loomed but the religious ceremony proceeded peacefully despite the tense mood.
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Servia
Belgrade
Alexander
Draga
St. Mark’s Chapel
Istle
Glorifying Murders Seen in Fegiside Newspapers
Narrow margins of color border papers in Fegiside showed articles that praised and glorified killings. The pages featured vivid layouts and celebratory language, reflecting a troubling press tone. Authorities warned the public about the influence of sensational crime coverage on readers.
Take a Wallop at Taft Critics Question Filipinos’ Georgetown Education
Paris critic Cri de Paris questions Secretary Taft choosing the Jesuit college at Georgetown to educate young Filipinos It asks why he expelled friars from the Philippines and claims France is more consistent The piece notes Jesuits have been largely wiped out locally and asks what a Jesuit is
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Paris
Cri de Paris
Taft
Jesuit
Georgetown
Philippines
France
Explosion in sewer kills city engineer and three workers
Chicago June 14 an explosion in a large sewer under construction along Thirty-ninth street blew up manholes for blocks and wrecked a frame building. Four people died including City Engineer Milti more. An accumulation of sewer gas is blamed. The Republican notes a starch factory may be involved with upcoming potato harvests.
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Chicago
Thirty-ninth Street
Miltimore
Another Flood in Kansas Rises as Rivers Break Banks
Emporia Kansas June 28 heavy rains in the area push Neosho river to recent flood levels and Cottonwood river breaks from its banks. waters cover the Neosho valley below the junction while reports from upstream suggest the crest is near and will recede soon.
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Emporia
Kan
Neosho
Cottonwood
Five Drown On Sloop Elsie and Katie In Storm
Five persons drowned when the thirty eight foot sloop Elsie and Katie overturned in a heavy storm off Forty seventh street Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Eight others aboard were rescued by the Second Naval Battalion from their armory at Fifty-second street. A number of towns planning Fourth of July celebrations promise big fireworks and coffin dealers.
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New York
Forty Seventh Street
Brooklyn
Elsie
Katie
Second Naval Battalion
Fifty-second Street
Dowie Attacks King Edward at Carnegie Hall
John Alexander Dowie denounced King Edward as loved by President Roosevelt and attacked reporters on his first public appearance after a world tour. He spoke in Carnegie Hall in the morning and again in the afternoon, delivering two addresses.
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Dowie
King Edward
New York
John Alexander Dowie
Roosevelt
Carnegie Hall
Man at Minot Attempts to Harm Printer at Optic Office
A jealous man in Minot attacked a printer at the Optic office, believing the man was loved by his wife. He was disarmed and arrested following the incident.
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Minot
Optic
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North Dakota
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Ollege
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Bruegger Mercantile Co
Kanteebeat Clothing
W. L. Douglas
John B. Stetson
Fegiside
Hagerton
Kansas
Northwest
Monarch
Lhett
Sexloes
the New Clothing and Shoe Store
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VanDyke's Building
Scientific American
All Newscaaiers
Washington, D
E. L. Sutton
P. P. Lee Block
Minot, N. D
Williston
Phillips
Missouri
Minneapolis
St. Paul
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Tinsia Iyasnik
Twin City
Asery
Albion M. Fento
Molouss Moulana
T. W. Teasdale
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Weavo Musuueuse
Adarest
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