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Crazed by Cigarettes

Crazed by Cigarettes
(Special to The World)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 28. — James L. Householder, aged nineteen, died in the arms of his sweetheart, Miss Lue(?) Gilliam, aged seventeen, at her home in this city last night after taking carbolic acid. The young man left a note for his mother stating that Mack Dryser would explain all.

Dryser said to-day that Householder had told him he had helped to kill a man in Atlanta two years ago, was about to be apprehended and intended to kill himself. The boy’s father believes that his mind had become temporarily unbalanced by the use of cigarettes.

The World, New York, New York. Tuesday, December 29, 1903, Page 3

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Woodside Villa July 17 1885

Slept so sound that even Mina didn’t bother me as It would stagger the mind of Raphael in a dream to imagine a being comparable to the Maid of Chataqua so I must have slept very sound — As usual I was the last one up. This is because Im so deaf — found everybody smiling and happy — Read more of Miss Clevelands book, think she is a smart woman — relatively — Damons diary progressing finely —
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The [eastern city] of the Northwest

A new town, called Paradise City, has been started in opposition to Moscow, up in Idaho. The rivalry is said to be very acrimonious. One is the St. Louis and the other the Chicago of the Northwest.

Daily Evening Bulletin, (San Francisco, CA) Wednesday, April 14, 1875

Anxiety and Lies!

Two items from The Daily Huronite, Huron, South Dakota, Monday April 12, 1886:

THE STRIKERS AND RIOTERS.
April 12. — It is requiring a strong force of militia to maintain order at East St. Louis. The incendiary fires are under control. The anxiety does not abate.

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The Globe, in staring headline, says, “Somebody has lied.!” After residing nearly six years in Dakota, watching its statesmen, legislators, land agents, politicians, and newspaper men, we are reluctantly led to admit a strong probability that the Globe is right.