Inventor Dies in Poverty After Patent Victory
Charles G. Biedinger, once hopeful after a Cincinnati court awarded him $3,000 plus interest on a paper wrapper machine patent, is found dead in a Troy lodging house. Once ill and discharged from a sanitarium, he faced extreme want and had recently worked as a dish-washer at a YMCA restaurant while awaiting accounting from his financial backer.
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Charles G. Biedinger
Troy
N. Y
Cincinnati
Biedinger
Young Men's Christian Association
Adopt Uniform Divorce Law Adopted by Two States
Members of the National League for the Protection of the Family met at the Episcopal diocesan house in Boston for the international conference. Bishop William Lawrence presided in the absence of President Seth Low, and Dr S W Dyke reported that the uniform divorce law proposed last year has been adopted in full in two states and partially in others.
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League For Protection of the Family
National League For the Protection of the Family
Episcopal Diocesan House
Boston
William Lawrence
Seth Low
New York
S. W. Dyke
Heir To Millionaire Learns Railroading As Errand Boy
Charles D Davol son of a Massachusetts wool manufacturer begins as an errand boy at Rock Island Railway in Topeka to learn the business from the ground up. He is 22 and earns $15 monthly. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and is heir to a fortune.
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Chas. D. Davol
Charles Dd
Trarvard
Ball River
Mass
Assenger
Rock Islind
Tion J
Topeka
Kan
Former Ohio Senator Freed After Serving Eleven Days
Former Ohio Senator J. L. H W. Austin of Toledo, once a state senator, was released from county jail after serving eleven days. He had been sentenced by the Supreme Court to ten days in jail and to pay a fine for conspiring with former Supreme Court Clerk Emerson to fraudulently obtain a law license in Ohio. He paid the fine and costs to secure release.
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Ohio
Freed
J. L. H W. Austin
Formr
Toledo
Supreme Court
STC
Supreme Coun
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Tie
Blizzard Hits the East and Orange Crop Set to Break Records
A severe snowstorm disrupted New York traffic and harbor movement as all Eastern states faced rough seas. California orange harvests promise a record yield of about 9 million boxes, with shipments continuing through early July. A premature dynamite blast near Cleveland injured two workers, one fatally.
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New York
Mieten
Atlantic
California
Cleveland
Nuro Droch
Uuro Druch
Juro Drich
Street Railway Properties Sold in Chicago Auction
The Union Traction Company properties in Chicago were sold at auction to the Chicago Railways Company. The traction system improvements are expected to proceed without delay.
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Union Traction Company
Chicago
Chicago Railways Company
Progress of the Thaw murder trial
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw again testifies as the defense and district attorney clash over public access to the trial. Judge Dowling rules the prisoner has no right to a public trial as the case centers on insanity and abuse claims from Paris through the murder of Stanford White.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Jerome
Littleton
Leading Figures Reveal New Details in Thaw Trial
Evelyn Thaw’s cross examination exposes deeper realities of her relationship with Harry Thaw and the White affair. She describes a two week European tour as husband and wife and acknowledges White’s financial support and kindness, including schooling and medical bills. Jerome presses for consistency, but Mrs Thaw maintains her prior testimony and recollections.
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White
Thaw
Europe
Harry Thaw
Evelyn
Mrs. Thaw
Mystery Secret Society Tried on New York Girls
Twenty angry mothers gathered at Mrs Elizabeth Moores home in New York City to disrupt the Sigma Gamma Society and oppose secret societies among schoolgirls. Julia Mills, age 17, testified she endured a staged initiation with a caldron of lead and other ordeals, including a fearsome room, a masked rite, and a skull cup, as part of a campaign to reveal and halt such clandestine societies.
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New York City
Elizabeth Moore
Sigma Gamma Society
Julia Mills
Mills
Miss Mills
Moore
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Portland City Hall and Police Buildings
A blaze in Portland Maine caused about 1 million dollars in damage destroying city hall and the police building where courts and offices were housed leaving over 700 people at risk. The Greenleaf Law Library was lost along with papers in the registrar of deeds and other city departments. The fire began in the electrician’s office from crossed wires preventing fire calls. The city hall, a 150 by 250 foot structure with a 150 foot dome, survived a prior 1866 fire.
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Portland
Maine Knights of Pythias
Registrar of Deeds
Greenleaf Law
City Electrician
Terrors of Frat Initiation Shake Quiet Campus
Readable parts describe the terrors of a sorority initiation among women students in private, unsettling novices and stirring concern among mothers. The fragment notes nerve racking ceremonies, alleged abuses, and fear from participants and families.
Many New Hello Jobs Open For Women
Railways plan to replace telegraphers after March 1 with phone orders at smaller stations. Women will operate telephones to take train orders, as nine hour day rules reduce telegraph staffing. Automatic block signals will shrink telegraph offices, ending many small stations.
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White House
Surgeon Removes Nerves to End Cincinnati Headache Pain
Louis Wolf of Cincinnati endured head pains for 25 years until surgeons cut out two sensory nerves between the temples. The nerves were one to two inches long and the operation halted the headaches, described by local surgeons as the first such case on record.
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Louis Wolfson
Cincinnati
Bank Robbery Attempt Fails as Sheriff Fires at Suspect
In Long View Texas, a weapon-wielding man identified as Alex Walker was shot by Sheriff Litt le during an attempted Citizens National bank robbery and is believed fatally wounded.
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Citizens National Bank
Long View
Texas
Alex Walker
Sheriff Little
Newport
R. C
Coney Island
N. Y
Congress Debates Criminal Code And Immigration Aid
The Senate and House agendas centered on revising the U S criminal laws, with discussion of immigration station funding in Philadelphia and debates over penalties for falsifying crop statistics. Senate scrutiny included possible investigations into a court injunction and arguments over executive authority, while the House faced a looming fiscal deficit and tariff talk amid procedural shifts.
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Senate
Cortelyou
House
Philadelphia
Hansbrough
North Dakota
Department of Commerce and Labor
International Marvester Company
House of Representatives
Ollie James
Kentucky
Oklahoma Republicans Back Taft in Presidency
Telegraphic brief notes say Republican members of the Oklahoma Legislature endorsed Secretary Taft for the presidency. Also mentioned is damage to the home of Justice Fr. Carpenter in Andover New York from a bomb. The justice is known for strict liquor law enforcement. Thomas F Lonergan, a San Francisco supervisor under the Schmitz administration who confessed taking bribes, died of heart disease in that city.
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Oklahoma
Taft
FR. R. Carpenter
Andover
N. Y
Thomas F. Lonergan
Schmitz
San Francisco
St Jacobs Oil Promises Help for Chronic Rheumatism
A promotional note asserts many so called cures fail for chronic rheumatism neuralgia and kin dred diseases. It claims St Jacobs Oil offers peculiar qualities that adapt it to chronic cases that resisted other specifics and physician prescriptions.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Down's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Anoka Woman
Mrs. Merritt of 2078 First Ave Anoka Mina shares kidney trouble relief from Dow s Kidney Pills saying back and hip pains fatigue and irregular secretions improved after the first box. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Paradox in China A portrait by Theodore Roosevelt era
The excerpt contrasts China as an absolute monarchy with a democracy in theory, noting high personal honesty yet deep corruption. It describes social quirks, gender roles, fashion, mourning, and quirks such as reversed naming, backward reading, and upside down fractions, concluding with a nod to Success Magazine.
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China
Chinas
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Theodore
Uncle Sim
Sam Uncle
Success Magazine
The Bosom Fly Mentioned In A Childs Game
A child points to a fly on the window pane and asks if it is the bosom fly as her mother recalls a church hymn. The mother explains, and the moment reflects a quaint domestic vignette from The Circle.
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Helen
Grape Nuts Beloved by Mothers and Nurses in Health Claims
A reader reports Grape Nuts saved a baby deemed doomed by doctors after condensed milk upset the stomach. The method, mixing a strained Grape Nuts juice with milk, is praised as simple and life changing, with claims it builds a strong, healthy child and suits adults as well. The note ends with a plug for The Road to Wellville and the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Baby
Wellville
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