Week's Notables Include Taft Quests and Pole Claims
A cache of weekly items notes John Kling, Cubs catcher, barred for three years in a Chicago game against the Jogan Squares. Taft appoints Hotchkiss and Habhegger to supervise Chicago and Milwaukee census work next year. Kitchener becomes field marshal. Dunne enthroned in Peoria with 500 priests present. Walter Bond climbs Mont Blanc in nine hours, beating prior records. Cannon vows to return to Danville to tend fences due to finances. Harriman dies at 61 in Arden, NY. funeral planned simply amid tributes. Peary reports discovery of the North Pole from Battle Harbor. Cook challenges Peary’s claim and plans proofs. Dorsey arrested in Omaha for murder. Jack Johnson defeats Kaufman in San Francisco. Sprague killed in Cincinnati. wife in custody for question. Taft consults Wickersham on Ballinger-Pinchot quarrel. Early, once labeled a leper, is removed from pension rolls. Orville Wright flies at Berlin with German officer’s wife. Morgan offers funds to Cook for Greenland proofs. Womans Home Missionary society reports $400,000 raised for home missions. Palmer estate tax in Colorado yields $5,410, a state record. Goethals travels to Beverly to discuss canal-zone governor succession. Rumors in Honduras of US protectorate. Oklahoma fights to block gas piping to Kansas. Six national encampment of United Spanish War Veterans opens at Tacoma. Chicago to host next encampment. Oklahoma files to dissolve injunction against Natural Gas Company cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jogan
Chicago
John Kling
Cubs
W. E. Hotchkiss
Otto J. Habhegger
Milwaukee
Taft
Lord Kitchener
Edmund M. Dunne
Peoria
Walter S. Bond
New York
Mont Blanc
Chamonix
Morehead
Speaker Cannon
Danville
Edward H. Harriman
Arden
N. Y
Harriman
Peary
Battle Harbor
Labrador
North Pole
Frederick Cook
Pole
Dr. Cook
Copenhagen
Frederick E. Cook
Christiansand
Denmark
North Pale
John Dorsey
Omaha
Othello Ratff
Jack Johnson
al Kaufman
San Francisco
Scott Sprague
Cincinnati
Miss Cross
Rockford
Ill
Wickersham
Beverly
Ballinger-Pinchot
John Early
Washington
United States
Orville Wright
Berlin
J. Pierpont Morgan
Greenland
Woman's Home Missionary Society
The
Methodist Church
Colorado
W. 4. Palmer
Colorado Springs
George W. Goethals
Panama Isthmian Canal Commission
Mass
J. 8. Blackburn
Canal Zone
Honguras
Republic
Tacoma
Wash
Oklahoma
Kansas
Jengas
Catfish claim sparks feud over creek catch
A written jab passes between Gindlat and Hammer over a claimed 60 pound catfish from the creek. Gindlat accuses Hammer of disbelief while Hammer counters the doubt, framing the pot as a public squabble.
Paint and Posters of Postal Pioneers Across Time
The article extols white lead paint as a protective armor for woodwork and cites National Lead Company with Dutch Boy trademark as assurance of purity. It then traces women in postal service history from Elizabeth Harvey in Portsmouth to Lydia Hill in Salem, highlighting early female postmasters in Europe and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gs Ag
National Lead Company
America
Braine le Comte
France
Europe
Alexandrine de Rue
German Empire
Netherlands
Burgundy
Lorraine
Elizabeth Harvey
Portsmouth
N. H
Lydia Hill
Salem
Mass
Not Ashamed of Economy Inspires American View from England
An American writer in England notes universal emphasis on thrift from monarchs to commoners. He contrasts English frugality with American perceptions, asserting that Americans mislabel economy as mean and are foolish to accept being fooled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
America
The Most Unkindest Cut and its hunting guides
A fragment features a boastful line about dessert and whipping as Alasta waits for a cook’s heater. It shifts to a humor exchange between two guides about being shot for a deer, with the second recalling a snap shot incident.
Testimony on Postum Affects of Coffee Alternatives
A North Carolina public school superintendent recounts his mother’s long coffee health issues and notes remarkable improvement after switching to Postum. He cites better heart comfort, fewer headaches, and overall vitality, praising Postum’s role for his family. The ad text invites readers to try Postum and to read The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Schools
North Carolina
Postum
Wellville
Linuay
Iowa State News highlights education hire and local events
Dr. Irving King, recently from the University of Michigan, joins the Iowa State University education department, bringing a Chicago PhD and author of The Psychology of Child Development. The report also notes church merger votes, civic projects in Mason City, a fatal accident in Sioux City, and plans for interurban rail, electric lines, and university religious courses with growing enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving King
University of Michigan
Department of Education
State University of Iowa
King
Earlham College
Indiana
University of Chicago
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
New York
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
University of Chicago Press
School of Education
Iowa University
The
Grinnel
Central Associations
Congregational Churches
Plymouth Church
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Mason City
Christian Mjoon
Rutland
Sioux City
Fourth Street
J. R. Pierson
J. Hoyt
Wyoming
Jesse James
William Nicholson
Ed Dunham
Mioen
A. W. Swalm
Golf and Country Club
J. Berryhill
Homer A. Miller
Elm Lake
Fortheast
Clarion
Hugh Co. Pritchard
Jack
Bernice D. Pritchard
18Th Town Infantry
Chariton
D. Vander Schaaf
Sioux County
W. Bonfares
Vander Schaaf
Hdwn
Mabie
Washington
Oskaloosa
E. Sawyer
Traer
Greene
Texas Clergyman Endorses Kidney Pills for Pain Relief
Rev. G M Gray of Whitesboro Texas testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his lumbago pain after years of misery. He credits the remedy with removing the difficulty quickly and urges others with kidney trouble to try it. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. How They Love One Another features a dialogue between Ulla and Stella noting scarce likenesses yet rising demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GM. Gray
Whitesboro
Vex
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
CUTICURA CURED HIM Evidence of eczema cure by Cuticura
Captain George P. Bliss, Chief of Police in Morris Manitoba, reports a dry eczema remedy case. After exposure to dusty weed removal, itching and scabby lesions appeared. He used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and recovered within ten days to three weeks, enabling him to wear boots again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George P. Bliss
Morris
Manitoba
Mar
Potter Dig & Chew, Corp
Solo
Boston
Mottoes for outdoor living from the Queen of Portugal
Read and attributed to the queen of Portugal, the mottoes urge outdoor air and activity. They advise keeping doors open, living in the open, avoiding trifles, exercising, riding or cycling, eating lightly and purely, and dressing well without excess to stay lovely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen of
Portugal
We Are Stronger With Quaker Oats and Ancient Parables
An old style health pitch extols Quaker Oats as the finest food to build bone muscle and nerve, claiming athletes and farmhands gain strength and economy. It contrasts ancient Greek and Roman admiration for vigor with modern oats benefits and urges regular or family size purchases. It also adds scattered notes on Venus time units, humorous exchanges about debt, and a quip about Wrigley’s Spearmint and bees’ navigation.
Fertile Farms for Thousands Seeks Registration in Dakotas
Registration opens October 4 to 23 at Mobridge Lemmon and Aberdeen for Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reserve lands in South and North Dakota. About 180 acres per registrant available at a small per acre cost with no registration fee, drawing October 26 in Aberdeen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standing Rock
Cheyenne River
South Dakota
North Dakota
Aberdeen
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mobridge and Lemmon
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
Pacific Coast
South
Dakota
Montana
A. Miller
Chicago
Mary Saves the Yolks in Puddding Plea
A Midlands town tale recounts an econom ical housewife who, after swallowing mercurial poison, overhears a doctor’s order for the antidote. She murmurs a last request, “Mary, Mary! Save the yolks for the pud dings,” highlighting a quip amid danger as the scene unfolds in Tit-Bits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midlands
Cow Colonist Fares to the West and Northwest
Union Pacific announces Colonist Fares in effect Sept 15 to Oct 15, 1909 to all West and Northwest points. The West offers land at low prices and stopover options, with literature available from Omaha. Also notes a government road opening in Mount Rainier National Park and recent auto travel prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific Passenger Department
EB. L. Lomax
G. P. Ay Ac. P. RR
Omaha
Neb
PELTIT EYE SALVE and Sensible Slogans
A collage of old advertisements and quips promoting PELTIT EYE SALVE from Howard Bros. Buffalo and various consumer lines. The items cite eye cures, home flower orders implying gossip, laundry and fashion hints, digestion aids, a Paris rose exhibit, and Pleasant Pollets laxative as a popular remedy, all reflecting era advertising style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peltit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N.Y
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General News
Gindlat—Fibbs
Hammer
Alasta
Iowa State News
Freddie Adams
Council Bluffs
Hear
Gilbert
Illinois
Hansé
Quam
Roland
Camp
John MM
Iowa City State University
Iowa City
Laguia Company
Davenport
Philadelphia
Mexico
J. E. Blythe
J. Bb
EH. Markley
J. 8. Wheeler
J. E. Moore
A. C. Griffin
Ann Dickens
Iowa
North McGregor
Larry Jennings
Dickens
Anne Redman
Eewin Dickens
Coleman Smith
Riverton
Fremont County
Isnar
Booth Fisheries , Company of Chicago
Capitz
W. N. Payne
A. E. McCallum
Tressurer
Louis €. Muriz
Joseph I. Myerly
Cummins
Everett Chamberlain
Chievo Great Western
Franklin Crossing
Waterloo
Vern Lichty
M .L. Bartlett
Colfax
Christian Church
Red Oak
the Light and Traction Company
Mystic
D. C. Bradley
F. S. Payne
Centerville
D. C. Campbell
J. P. Shouts
Trex
Texas
Ulla
Stella
Cuticura
Eczema
Venus
Catholic Standard and Times
Cheyenne River Indian Reservations
Mobridge, Lemmon
Aberdeen, S. D
COW
Engineerugene Ricksecker
Mount Rainer
Tidewater
Narada Falls
Snow Line
Paradise Valley
Ricksecker
Bhai
Sub Rosa
Paris
Bnaleera
Eyray
Madagascar
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