Bold female led bank robbery plan near Louisville bank
A decade ago fifteen expert wife burglars plotted a million-dollar raid on Louisville National Bank. The team spent a month planning, silenced guards, and penetrated four inches of steel before grabbing about $20,000 and fleeing until detected by detectives, revealing a complex caper with a surprising twist.
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Dearborn Street Safe and Lock Company
Louisville National Bank
Louisville
Chicago Tribune
Bessie and the Seaman: A Royal Pardon Tale
A Philadelphia girl named Bessie Keim wrote a touching letter to King Leopold pleading for her uncle Frank Moore, a seaman who deserted a Belgian ship six years earlier. The king intervened, a high government official granted release, and Moore was pardoned and freed.
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Frank Moore
Philadelphia
Belgium
Antwerp
Leopoli
Bessie Keim
Bessie
Frank
Little Bessie
Leopold
The Color of Human Skins and Racial Theory
An article discusses race as a concept and argues color as the key distinguishing trait. It cites physician Blumfield of Johns Hopkins University addressing oxygen deficiency, carbon deposition in skin and blood, tropical liver function, and the speculative origin of dark races in a Lemuria continent linking New Guinea and surrounding regions.
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Baltimore Sun
Blumfield
Johns Hopkins University
India
New Guinea
Archipelago
Ceylon
Madagascar
Africa
Boots of Human Skin at the Centennial Exhibition
A 1876 New York firm made boots from human skin and sent them to Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition. Officials reportedly refused to exhibit them. The skin came from a man who died suddenly and was taken to a medical college. The boots were light brown, heavier than calfskin, and porous due to tanning.
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Hahrenholtz Brothers, Boot and Shoemakers
New York City
Philadelphia
S. V. Baird
Smithsonian Institution
St. Louis Republic
Swindler Puts On Clothes In Quick Cash Swindle
A clever young man with tidy dress used a false tale of a dyspeptic tailor to obtain medicine and then ordered a $50 suit of clothes. He left his old suit at the tailor and claimed to repay the bill after returning with funds, deceiving both the Chestnut Street druggist and tailor.
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Pharmacoparia
Chestnut Street
Remarkable Age Claim and Patent Remedies Advertised
A lengthy antiquated notice touts extreme old age cases and promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for leu corrheam painful menstruation and other female ailments. It also advertises Dr. Pierce's Pellets, Syrup of Figs, and Dobbins's Soap Wrappers with miscellaneous medical and moral musings, urging readers to purchase through Cragin & Co. and local druggists.
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Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery Promoted as Universal Cure
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior remedy for liver disease biliousness skin diseases and blood disorders claiming universal curative properties and a money back guarantee. It asserts no alcohol or sugar and promotes roosting imagery and world famous status with price points for single or six bottle purchases.
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Woxwp
Dispensary Medical Association
Dr Tobias Venetian Liniment Promoted as Pain Destroyer
The ad claims Dr Tobias Venetian Liniment is the greatest pain destroyer with a forty year reputation and a money back guarantee. It urges purchase via Murray Street New York and notes dealer delivery if local druggists do not stock it. The piece also references short sermons pleasing churchgoers and a moral note on temptation.
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Tobias
Murray St
New York
Cheney firm pledge for catarrh cure offer in 1886 Toledo
Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co of Toledo binds the firm to pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason confirms oath dated December 6 1886. The ad promotes Hall s Catarrh Cure with testimonials and distributor details.
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State OF
Onto
City of Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Coenry & Co
Hall
Frankk J. Cheney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Kemp's Balsam Advertises Cure for Coughs
An old advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughs and colds, claiming many in the community have benefited. It urges readers to ask friends who have used it and offers large bottles for one dollar and a free sample bottle at druggists.
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Kemp
Hard on the Doctors at Savage Club
London letter recounts two grim sketches where doctors arrive too late. In one, a sick woman dies before help arrives and a husband admits delaying calls to save costs. In another, a man admits he never took a pill he prescribed for himself a year earlier, worsening the outcome.
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Savage Club
Husband
London
Iowa family with fifteen children in Independence
August Meyers, 52, and his wife 47, living in Independence, Iowa, reportedly have the state’s largest family with fifteen children seven boys and eight girls. The eldest is 31 and the youngest 4. the couple has never needed a physician aside from birth. Both are Jewish and well regarded in the neighborhood.
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August Meyers
Independence
Meyers
Not. Louis Globe- Democrat
Bismarck Described as Chain Smoker in Memoir Remark
The text portrays Bismarck as a celebrated chain smoker since his university days, endlessly linking meals with cigars. It notes his reputation for extensive tobacco use and recalls a remark attributed to Gambetta praising his image as a “Happy man” whose beer and smoke suit him.
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Bismarck
Kettenraucher
Gambetta
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