New York Man Defies Rabies Warnings Then Dies
Conrad Steingruber, a New York man visiting Jersey City, ignored his wife’s warning after a dog bite three weeks earlier. Doctors at Christ Hospital predicted death within 24 hours from hydrophobia, yet he remained conscious until the end, insisting he would recover even as rabies progressed with spasms upon water.
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New York
Conrad Steingruber
Christ Hospital
Jersey City
Steingruber
Fight for the Pennants in Principal Baseball Leagues
A compilation of standings across the National and American Leagues shows teams like Pittsburg Cincinnati New York Boston Chicago Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis and Detroit vying for pennants. Separate notes cover Montana town Taft burned by a kerosene lamp. Buffalo stockyards fire. forgery conviction in Chicago. rising cigarette consumption. Harriman steel car orders. theft arrest in Hartford. Evans to retire. Canadian grain yields. Springfield race riots. Turkish ambassador risk. Typographical Union convention site vote.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Chicago
Brooklyn
Phil'delphia
St. Louis
Mutiny Aboard Bowhead at Fort Clarence Alaska
The Bowhead owned by Liebes & Co. mutinied at Fort Clarence near Nome. Captain James A. Tilden and officers fought twenty two crew members for an hour before gaining control. Fire set by mutineers was extinguished after several hours of pump work.
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Nome
Liebes & Co
San Francisco
Fort Clarence
Alaska
James A. Tilden
Tilden
Missouri Boy Confesses Killing Father Near Lupus
Robert Kenney, 19, confessed to shooting his father Cole man B. Kenney after a quarrel over a mare and colt. He said he retrieved a rifle from upstairs and shot his father who did not respond after the shot.
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Missouri
Robert Kenney
Coleman B. Kenney
Lupus
Hail Storm Destroys Crops in Nine South Dakota Counties
A violent hail storm swept nine South Dakota counties including Walworth McPherson Edmunds Brown Faulk Spink and Clark. Losses range from twenty five percent to total with heavy damage in the Ashton Clark County area where harvest lagged. Mound City Campbell County reports twenty five farms swept clean.
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South Dakota
Walworth
McPherson
Edmunds
Brown
Faulk
Spink
Clark
Ashton
Clark County
Mound City
Campbel County
Jealousy leads to fatal shooting near Coffeyville
William Hill aged 28 shot and killed farmer David Alexander age 30 near Coffeyville Kansas after seeing his divorced wife with Alexander. Hill pursued in a buggy, fired buckshot wounding Alexander and lightly injuring the woman. Hill escaped. Both men are farmers.
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David Alexander
Coffeyville
Kan
William Hill
Hill
Alexander
Tornado Hits Mandan N D Damages Reach Fifty Thousand
A tornado struck Mandan North Dakota injuring a boy carried three blocks by wind. The Inter Ocean Hotel roof collapsed into the dining room, the Lemars Hotel was unroofed, and many houses fell and windows shattered causing about fifty thousand dollars in damage.
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Dakota Town
Mandan
N. D
Inter Ocean
Lemars
Farmer loses hand saving boy from falling pitchfork
Charles Luckenbill a farmer from Black Horse Pa sacrificed his hand to shield a 6 year old barefoot boy from a falling pitchfork during oat harvest. The injury required amputation after the tines punctured several bones.
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Charles Luckenbill
Black Horse
Luckenbill
Two police officers slain near Methuen in vigil
Charles Emerson and Frank McDermott two Methuen Massachusetts police officers were found beaten to death in a meadow outside the town after being sent to observe for chicken and vegetable thieves the night before.
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Charles Emerson
Frank McDermott
Methuen
Mass
Donation Frenzy at Old Orchard Rally for Alliance
Five thousand men and women contributed 70000 dollars and ten bushels of jewelry and other valuables at a meeting in Old Orchard Maine to support the Christian and Missionary Alliance convention led by A B Simpson of New York. The crowd was driven by hysteria depleting their funds and leaving zealots penniless.
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Old Orchard
Christian and Missionary Alliance Convention
A. B. Simpson
New York
Contractors Held for Fraud Charges in Boston Bids
Alfred E. Cox treasurer and general manager of the Atlantic works in East Boston and Edward P. Robinson of the same company were arrested on conspiracy to defraud Boston through collusive bids for city contracts. Each was held in 2000 for trial.
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Alfred E. Cox
Atlantic Works
East Boston
Mass
Edward P. Robinson
Boston
Mills in Receivers’ Hands for Flour Mills Firm
The Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Company is placed in receivers’ hands by a Minneapolis federal court in a friendly reorganization proceeding. Operations will not be interrupted.
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Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company
Federal
Minneapolis
Bryan Accepts Nomination and Race Issues Flagged
William Z. Bryan accepts the Democratic nomination pledging that the people should rule the nation. In Mast Macungie Pa a group of about 18 year olds were arrested for allegedly dousing a sleeping girl with water after she rejected them. Wilbur Wright breaks his own air record with a 3 minute 30 second flight at 36 miles per hour.
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Bryan
William Z. Bryan
Harvey Bittenbender
Harvey Wieand
William Bittenbender
Elmer Keller
Mast Macungie
Wilbur Wright
SLAIN BY A BLACK HAND GANG IN BROOKLYN FIELD
Pietro Barilla a Woodhaven hotelkeeper was ambushed and killed in Flatbush at a place dubbed Murderers field. A letter written in blood suggested a black hand plot. Barilla rode there by bicycle with a magazine revolver and fought back. a large cash sum and a gold watch were left untouched. Antonio del Narro, Barilla’s cousin, is held for investigation as police link the case to a prior dismemberment by the same gang.
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Murderers’ Field
Lincoln Road
Flatbush
Brooklyn
N. Y
Pietro Barilla
Woodhaven
Barilla
T’ersons
Antonio del Nar
Coal Line to Northwest Moves by River Barges
A plan to form a company to ship Northwest coal by barges via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers is under way. The project would cut rail haul times as coal now travels by water contact to Manitowoc Ashland Milwaukee Superior Duluth and other Lake Michigan ports before rail transport. Key figures include former Minnesota Gov Van Sant with control of forty tugs and 125 barges and Chicago buyers W H Gilbert Prossman Lorimer E McCney and K A Hal.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Northwest States
Twin Cities
Manitowoc
Ashland
Milwkee
Superior
Duluth
Michigan
W. H. Gilbert
Chicago
West Virginia
Prossman Lorimer
E. McC Ney
le Clair, Il
Chicago Population Tops 2 425 000 in New City Directory
The Chicago History Co estimates the city population at 2 425 000 for 1908, up 20 700 names from last year. The Johnson family leads with 7 024 individuals, followed by 5 115 Smiths and 1 348 German relatives with Schmidt spellings. the page also notes unusual surnames and minor name entries.
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Chicago
Chicago History Co
Johnson
Johnstons
Nam
Smiths
Schmidt
Barn blaze destroys tobacco raiser's barn near Blugh bethtown
Grant Stevens reported a mysterious fire burning his barn twenty two miles west of Cincinnati. Local lore blames night riders though Stevens says no tobacco was stored there. He farms fifteen acres of tobacco in the area.
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Grant Stevens
Blughbethtown
Cincinnati
Night Riders
Stevens
Train Wrecks and Disasters Reported Across Regions
Ohio passenger train 36 derailed at Nile injuring three crewmen after a handcar failed to close a switch. Elmira painters Kaiser and Johnson killed and injured respectively in a scaffold collapse. Drowning of 14 year old Jarnett Royer in Independence Kansas. Charlie Lokie lynched in Tifton Georgia. Dudweiler Germany mine explosion leaves thirteen dead eight injured. Harry K Thaw declared bankrupt in Pittsburgh amid sanity concerns. Kentucky Governor opposes night riders by remitting a conviction fine. A R Spofford dies after long tenure as Librarian of Congress. Trolley crash near Sidney Piqua leaves five dead and many injured. Robbers murder John Connick in Little Falls Minnesota after he declines a CD withdrawal.
Robbers Bind Women in Washington County Home Invasion
Three masked men forced entry into the home of Miss Maria de Garmo in a remote Washington County location. They bound Miss de Garmo and her niece Lizzie Hartman, slashed pets, battered chests, and looted jewelry and cash. The elder woman fainted after the robbers left with $1000 and $500 found later for a timber tract.
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Pennsylvania
Iss Maria de Garmo
Washington County
Pennsylvanier
Miss de Garmo
Lizzie Hartman
Hartman
Mother Stewart Dies Noted Temperance Leader at 92
Elizabeth M. Stewart known as Mother Stewart expired at her Hicksville Ohio home at age ninety two. A famed temperance advocate she founded Osborn Ohio’s first W T U in 1873 and in 1876 helped organize England’s first I T U. After the Civil War she lectured the South for war sufferers and later joined Alexander Dowie’s Zion City scene before living with friends in Hicksville.
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Ohio
Elizabeth M. Stewart
Stewart
Hicksville
Se'ewart
Osborn
England
Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Old Attorney Guilty in Plot to Kill Client
Moses D. Brown Chicago’s oldest practicing lawyer was found guilty by a jury of conspiring to take the life of Mrs. Nolain. Brown was fined $1000 while Ruth D B Laughlin and Austin F. Kelly were sentenced to one to five years in the penitentiary. The case will be appealed.
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Moses D. Brown
Chicago
Ruth DB. Laughlin
Austin F. Kelly
Windes
Annie. Nolain
Brown
Strike Train on Birmingham Mineral Railroad Attacked
A train near Blocton was fired on while the Birmingham Mineral Railroad train carried members of the First Regiment, a garrison of strike breakers, and others. Conductor Collins, a deputy sheriff, and a strike breaker were killed. eight more injured.
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Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Blocton
Collins
Cleveland Muni Traction votes on three cent fare plan
A caucus of Cleveland city council members with Mayor Johnson approves a five cent cash fare with three cent tickets to offset a large operating deficit in the streetcar system. The decision shifts from the straight three cent system under consideration.
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Muni- Be, Traction Company
Cleveland
Johnson
Gloucester Schooner Maggie Wrecked by German Ship
The eighty five ton Gloucester vessel Maggie owned by G Dennis was run down sixty miles off the Ma Scotia coast by a German schoolship and lost with nine crew including Captain Erick McCatheran.
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Maggie
G. Dennis
Gloucester
Erick McCatheran
Ma Scotia
Ironing Fatal for Boy in Passaic Tenement
A woman’s ironing tool shattered from a second floor window in Passaic New Jersey striking eight year old Joseph Rendzio in the street. The boy’s skull was fractured and he is expected to die.
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Passaic
N. J
Joseph ‘Rendzio
Bryan Nomination Notified Amid Lincoln Celebration
Lincoln dispatch reports Bryan receives formal nomination notification with a 46-gun salute marking the start of the campaign. Visitors crowd Lincoln as trolley and auto traffic bustle, Governor Clayton of Alabama announcing the nomination after a prayer by Father Nugent.
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Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
Fairview
State Capitol
Mack
National Committee
Henry D. Clayton
Alabama
John F. Nugent
Des Moines
Iowa
Clayton
Bryan Accepts Nomination and Delivers Raps on Republicans
Democratic nominee Bryan accepts the nomination with a formal letter from the committee and a closing speech by vice presidential candidate John W. Kern. He accuses Republicans of protecting predatory wealth, calls for people’s rule, and questions Taft’s prosecution of wrongdoers and party leadership.
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Mr. Bryan
John W. Kern
Mr. Taft
House
Republican Party
French hand power ice machine delivers home ice fast
A French invention in The Technical World Magazine describes a hand powered ice maker for home use. It seals chemicals in a cylinder that never needs replacement and churns ice by revolving in water, also cooling air. The device holds five gallons and uses carbonic acid expansion to lower temperature.
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Technical World Magazine
France
Simple Tuberculosis Diagnosis Method Introduced
Dr Bourrille of Paris proposes a simple test to diagnose tuberculosis early by measuring chest expansion at full inspiration and expiration. A difference greater than 11.8 inches indicates disease, based on thousands of examinations of job seekers in Paris.
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Bourrille
Paris
Lett ers praising Lydia Pinkham remedy and weight loss tales
A Miss Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia describes her recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and prescribed treatment. The piece promotes the remedy as a standard cure for female ailments and invites sick women to write for advice. It then notes soap as a weight loss aid with anecdotes about Dr Taft and historical figures.
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Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg
Mrs. Am
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E
Mark Twain Speech to Girls Ends in Jarring Humor
A report notes Mark Twain addressed a group of young girls with a speech deemed excellent yet beyond their understanding. He closed with a cautionary quip about warmth and serpents, comparing it to the danger of trusted friends.
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Permaday
Balcin Nation
Mark Twain
France Names Top 12 Inventions by Public Vote
A Paris newspaper asked readers to name the 12 greatest inventions. More than 400,000 coupons were returned. results ranked the locomotive first, followed by the potato vaccine rabies cure sugar electric telegraph matches boiler teleph on petrol sewing machine and soap. Printing machine placed 17th, automobile 31st, and typewriter 54th.
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Paris
Coffee Lies and Postum Truths from a Health Letter
A reader letter extols Postum as a coffee substitute, recounting a Wisconsin youth who suffered headaches from coffee, then switched to Postum and found relief. The testimonial praises Postum’s health benefits and urges others to try it, noting the product’s origin in Battle Creek Michigan and a referenced booklet.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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