Not Proven Not Proven Flora Ross’s Poison Trial in Scotland
A lawyer-narrator recounts Flora Maclise Ross’s trial for poisoning Malcolm Ross in Scotland. Despite strong evidence, the verdict is not proven, and Flora endures social ostracism while her former lover returns. A final confession from the housekeeper shifts blame and memory.
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Flora
Donald
Malcolm Ross
Flora Ross
Allan Maclise
Glasgow
Scotland
Mrs. Bellairs
Sperry Leads Seventeen Ships On World Cruise To Pacific Goal
James A. Edgerton lauds Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry as a top naval leader. Sperry commands 16 battleships on a world cruise from Honolulu to Auckland and beyond, demonstrating efficiency, training, and strategic diplomacy. The voyage refines navigation, reduces coal use, and showcases American sea power under a unified command.
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Bob” Evans
Charles S. Sperry
Spain
Honolulu
Auckland
Sperry
Philippines
Annapolis Naval Academy
War College
Newport
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Admiral Sperry
Bob Evans
Hampton Roads
San Francisco
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Pacific
Rojestvensky
Pacific Ocean
Mediterranean
America
Atlantic
Orient
Panama Canal
Mexico
Canada
Great Britain
Alaska
Siberia
Russia
Japan
United States
China
John Hay
Hawaii
Australia
New Zealand
Golden Gate
Metcalf
California
The
Mark Twain
Washington
Suva
Fiji Islands
Vancouver
Glacier
Uncle Sam
Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pagopago
Indian Ocean
Suez Canal
Japanese
Port Arthur
Charles Stillman Sperry
James A. Edgerton
Farmers Union calls Nov. 11 meeting in New Orleans
Charles S. Barrett, president of the Farmers Union, outlines plans for an industrial congress in New Orleans on November 11 to press for higher cotton prices in the south. He warns that current prices risk a $150 million south-wide loss and urges southern business leaders to attend and back a coordinated effort to restore the staple’s value.
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Union City
Charles S. Barrett
Farmers’ Union
Industrial Congress
New Orleans
South
United States
Mason and Dixon
Rio Grande River
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade and Labor Organizations
Folklore of Oaths and the Perjury Debate
A column reflects on perjury as the era's greatest crime. It traces oaths from ancient sin to modern practice, noting superstition shapes oath taking and citing examples from Hindu, Somali, and other traditions alongside California legal ritual.
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Ruef
Cabaniss
San Francisco Chronicle
California
Ganges
Amr Bur
Stone of Infamy and the Carnival Bump of Bankrupts
In historic Italian cities a pietra d infamia marked bankrupts. Venice near St Mark's, Verona and Florence at old markets. During carnival week bankrupt traders faced public shaming, were lifted by six officers and bumped on the stone twelve times as creditors crowed.
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Venice
Verona
Florence
Cannon Hard Pressed In Danville Tariff Fight
The Philadelphia North American outlines Speaker Joseph G. Cannon’s effort to blame President Roosevelt for Congress failing to revise tariffs. It cites a 1904 conference where Roosevelt reportedly said he would not call an extra session to revise schedules, a stance used to influence voters in Danville’s district.
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Donald Macdonald
Avistown
Canada
Malcolm Ross
Flora
Allan
Donald
Lassie
Congress
Joe
House of Representatives
Cannon
Georgetown
Danville
Champaign
Anti-Saloon League
Temperance
Wisconsin
Taft
Washington
Pat
Clinton Bell
Clark County
Bell
Bryan
Denver
Anti- Saloon League
Philadelphia
Joseph G. Cannon
Roosevelt
House
Senate
An Unexpected Check by a Southwest Border Hero
A. L. Parrott, famed for cool daring as a former Texas ranger sergeant, sits playing chess in a southwest Texas town in 1875 when a bullet tears through a window, hits a knight, and glances the wall. He remains unmoved then quirks out a taunting check in his signature drawl.
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A. L. Parrott
McNelly
Texas Rangers
Parrott
State Service
Texas
Novel Unearthed at Binghamton Dates 1779 Transfer of Blackwell Island
A long dated document from February 5 1779 authored by Jacob Blackwell transfers property known as Blackwell's Island to his heirs and bequeaths a farm at the site now known as Long Island City.
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Binghamton, N. Y
Jacob Blackwell
Blackwell
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Flora Maclise
Highlands
Gairhcern
Ross House
Malcolm Tross
Mrs. Mackay
Malcolm
Ailie
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