Publishers Cannot Exchange Ads for Rail Tickets Ruling
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled against letting newspapers trade advertising space for railroad transportation. Massachusetts Press Association protested, noting cash payment requirements. Chairman Knapp stated tariffs are in dollars and cents, and transport payment must be cash to avoid discrimination.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Massachusetts Press Association
William J. Hefferman
Association
Hefferman
Knapp
Five Coffeyville Buildings Gone In Gas Explosion
A massive natural gas explosion in Coffeyville Kansas leveled five two story brick business houses on East Eighth Street. Three people were killed Jess Ross and Mrs J E McDaniel and a young son of grocer C J Clessen. One person is missing and about 23 injured including a girl trapped 20 minutes. The fire followed but caused little further damage. no one insured.
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Fopeka
Kan
Coffeyville
Jess Ross
J. E. McDaniel
C. J. Clessen
East Eighth Street
Ross
McDaniel
McDaniél
D. Frazier
Kansas Land Company
Ice conspiracy cases upheld by Ohio court
The Erie circuit court affirmed Judge Kinkade’s sentences for Reuben Lemon Roland Beard and Joseph Miller convicted of conspiracy in restraint of trade in ice sales. Each faces a $2,500 fine and six months in the workhouse with possible imprisonment if the Supreme Court affirms. The Val entine anti trust law was ruled constitutional.
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Toledo
Kinkade
Common Pleas Court
Reuben Lemon
Rolland Beard
Joseph Miller
Supreme Courts
Circuit Court
West Virginia Christian revival gains statewide momentum
A simultaneous revival is underway in West Virginia Christian churches with a strong statewide rise in new members. Wheeling trails targets but towns like Parkersburg Huntington Sisterville and Clarksburg report large accessions totaling over 2000. A Sunday mass meeting in Wheeling drew about 2000 attendees.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Court Theater
Parkersburg
Huntington
Sisterville
Clarksburg
Polite waiter defuses trouble in Washington cafe
A Washington cafe waiter named John exemplifies courteous service. A customer with a dollar for an 80 cent bill refuses change, and John insists the dollar was his tip, bowing as he helps the man depart, leaving him dazed.
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Washington
John
Saved Baby Lyon’s Life With Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Maebelie Lyon of Parsons Kansas relates how her baby suffered a severe birth related complaint that began at the top of the spine and spread. After using Cuticura Remedies the child quickly improved and laughed again within days, fully recovering in about ninety days.
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Maebelie Lyon
Appleton Ave
Parsons, Kan
Letter Seeks Autograph From British General After Boer War
A boy asks for Gen. French autographs after his triumphant Boer War return. The officer, who represented Britain at recent French maneuvers, grants both his autograph and a photograph of his hero.
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Peint
French
Nervous Collapse Overcomes Quincy Woman
Mrs Lizzie Williams of 416 Cedar street Quincy Illinois describes years of nervous prostration with exhaustion dizziness and heart symptoms. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills her appetite returned strength renewed and fainting spells ended after three boxes. Pills claim to help anemia rheumatism debility neuralgia and nervous conditions with affordable pricing.
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Lizzie Williams
Cedar Street
Quincy
Ill
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union adopts platform
The Hartford meeting adopted resolutions denouncing Leopold II of Belgium for Congo atrocities, calling to exclude Reed Smoot from the Senate over Mormon ties, opposing beer sales at army posts, supporting permanent prohibition at soldiers' homes, opposing liquor tax receipts in prohibition areas, and endorsing female suffrage and higher purity standards for all.
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Hartford, Conn
Leopold UH
Belgium
Congo Free State
Reed Smoot
United States Senate
Mormon Church
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
Allcock’s Plasters Enduring Pain Relief Across Sixty Years
An advertisement touts Allcock’s porous plasters as a world renowned remedy for pains from cold or overstrain. It notes sixty years of use and global sales through druggists.
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Allcock's
Allcock’s
Daring Crimes of Russian Reds in St. Petersburg
Two revolutionary bandits threw bombs in central St. Petersburg on Saturday. They blew up the custom house and escaped with 297000 dollars. In a second raid they attacked a wagon carrying treasury funds, stealing 193000 dollars. five robbers were captured after a clash with the soldier guard.
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St. Petersburg
Bishop Nicholson Dead Milwaukee
Isaac Lea Nicholson D D bishop of the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese died at his residence after a lingering illness. The end came peacefully following heart trouble and related complications.
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Milwaukee
Isaac Lea Nicholson
Io Heart
Marlborough children not with duchess says solicitor
London. Sir George Henry Lewis acting for the duke and duchess of Marlborough states that no separation deed has been signed. The duchess’s children are not in her custody but are with their father at Blenheim Castle.
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London
Sir George Henry Lewis
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Blenheim Castle
Death Toll Rises in Chamber of Commerce Disaster
Kansas City searchers in the ruins of the Chamber of Commerce building believe four bodies remain trapped. If confirmed the death list will reach sixteen persons.
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Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce
Car lodging house fire kills two workers in Milwaukee
A car on Milwaukee tracks used as a lodging house burned Sunday night in Rapid City South Carolina. The bodies of two men were found in the ruins and evidence of foul play developed at the coroner's inquest.
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Rapid City
S. C
Milwaukee Tracks
Former Omaha Mayor Died at 62 in Indiana
Quincy Ill George K Roberts attorney for the Big Four road and early Omaha mayor died of neuralgia of the heart in Lawrenceburg Indiana on Monday aged 62.
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Omaha
Quincy
Ill
George Kh. Roberts
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Father shoots daughter in accident at home
In Shelbyville Indiana Charles Alyea living near Fountaintown fired a loaded rifle that discharged when the trigger caught in a towel, killing his three year old daughter at close range. The incident details point to an accidental shooting with fatal outcome and a tragedy at the residence.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Charles Alyea
Fountaintown
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