Well Known Methodist Bishop Charles H Fowler Dies
The Rev. Charles H. Fowler bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church died at his New York home from heart failure and complications. Born at Burford Ontario Aug 11 1837 he studied at Genesee College Garrett Biblical Institute and served as Northwestern University president and missionary secretary before becoming bishop in 1884. He toured Asia and helped found Pekin and Wankin universities and organized missions in St Petersburg and California. Congressman Foss introduced a bill to award him a Medal of Honor for saving lives in the 1860 Elgin wreck.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
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Burford
Ontario
Genesee College
Garrett Biblical Institute
Chicago
Northwestern University
Missionary Society
Fowler
Japan
Korea
China
Pekin University
Wankin University
M. FE
St. Petersburg
Russia
Pacific Coast
Maclay College of Theology
California
Myra A. Hitchcock
Luke Hitchcock
Foss
Congress
Elgin
Flood Devastates Wittsburg Causing Wide Loss Across Western PA
The latest Wittsburg flood brings enormous losses as cellars and first floors flood across hundreds of homes. Basements in the retail district flood, industrial plants flood, trains delayed, and river craft damaged. A sand dredge broke from its moorings at Tarentum, crew saved after going over the Springdale dam. Western Pennsylvania towns report business at a standstill and floods surpass last year.
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Old City
Pittsburg
Tarentum
Springdale
Pennsylvania
Fleet to Visit Japan as U S Battleship Fleet Plans Cruise
The United States will send its battleship fleet to Japan in a welcoming visit on its voyage toward New York. The tour signals strong ties and a ceremonial path between nations.
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Japan
United States
New York
Former Chief Engineer Predicts Panama Canal Failure
John F. Stevens, vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad and former Panama Canal chief engineer, warns the canal will not aid U S trade with South America or the Pacific Far East. He foresees high costs and limited utility, predicting completion by January 1915 and claiming the canal offers no wartime advantage due to slow ship movement around Cape Horn.
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Panama Canal
John F. Stevens
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
United States
South America
J. F. Stevens
Pacific
Atlantic
Mr. Stevens
China
Siberia
India
Pantama
Pastor Bocock Attacks Church System In Modern Times
Rev Dr William N Bocock of First Reformed Bayonne NJ denounces the churchs doctrines as a sixteenth century heritage unsuited to the twentieth century He says the church was not founded on a book and plans to seek permission to preach his views for two years as factions form within the congregation.
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Chaurch
William N. Bocock
First Reformed Church
Bayonne
N. J
Daniel
Red Sea
Breakfast Brotherhood Club feeds Pittsburg needy
In Second Presbyterian Church Pittsburg a Breakfast Brotherhood Club forms to serve free breakfasts every Sunday. About 200 congregation members, led by Pastor S Edward Young, organized the effort after a joking proposal about feeding the hungry became a real project.
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Second Presbyterian Church
Pittsburg
Breakfast Brotherhood Club
Edward Young
Railroads found guilty of safety device violations in Chicago
Six railway companies including the Elgin Joliet and Eastern and the Michigan Central were found guilty in U S District Court at Chicago of violating the safety appliance law. Fines ranged from 100 to 300 dollars and two cases suspended pending a new trial. An order for 35000 tons of steel rails on the 107 basis by the Erie signals a steel rail supply thaw as railroads place tentative 1908 rail orders totaling about 2400000 tons. The Illinois Central Central of Georgia link nears completion linking Corinth Mississippi to Haleyville Alabama enabling Harriman system service from coast to coast. The Pennsylvania railroad plans to restart fifty freight locomotives on the Pittsburg division that had been idle.
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Harriman
Ocean
Corinth
Miss
Haleyville
Ala
Birmingham
Alabama
Frisco
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Fire safety warnings echo Collinwood tragedy
Richard L. Humphrey warns that fire hazards exist in every village and city across the United States. He urges strict municipal laws to require fireproof construction and prevent flimsy buildings housing women and children in schools theaters and hospitals to avert greater calamities than Collinwood and Boyertown.
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New York City
Ohio
Richard L. Humphrey
Sneer
United Tovernment
United States
Boyertown
Lower Wages Inevitable Says Henry Clews
Henry Clews urged Pittsburg bankers to cut wage scales as prosperity years pushed high. He argued unions must concede reduced pay, claiming half a loaf beats none and duty to society. He defended stock speculation as not gambling and noted Morgan’s First National plans a new security company funded by bank surplus.
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New York
Pittsburg
American Banking Institute
Qlews
Wall Street
Roosevelt
Bryan
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First National Bank of New York
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Trust Company
Concrete Roadwalk Begun In Atlantic City
Atlantic City witnesses the start of a major reconstruction as the famous boardwalk promenade project opens. Crews move along the walkway with plans to renew the seaside promenade and public spaces.
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Tlantic
Ime
Congress Debates Pensions Tariffs and Trusts
Members of the House debated current issues including pensions and the Sherman anti trust law while the Senate discussed the currency bill and the ship subsidy. Highlights featured speakers Hamlin Langley Hughes La Follette Aldrich and Whyte among others as votes and resolutions moved through amid general debate.
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Missouri
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Kentucky
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New Jersey
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Aldrich
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Taft
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Whyte
Maryland
Mouser
Ohio
Hull
Tennessee
Senator Whyte
Roosevelt declines talk at Lincoln-Douglass event in Illinois
National Capitol notes say President Roosevelt will not speak in Galesburg Illinois on October 7 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglass debate. A Senate committee on post offices and post roads named Carter Proctor Burrows Clay and Bankhead to study bills for a postal savings bank system.
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Galesburg
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Bankhead
Young mothers seek health and motherhood through Pinkham’s Compound
The piece touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments and a path to motherhood with testimonials from Maggie Gilmer and Josephine Hall. It recalls thirty years of use and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It also mentions a humorous aside about marriages and stock markets and discusses U S territorial growth and time zones observed by the Naval Observatory in Washington.
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Maggie Gilmer
West Union
D. C
Pinkham
Josephine Hall
Bardstown
Thomas W. Lawson
Grape-Nuts Food Extols Benefits for Aging Digestion
An advertising letter promotes Grape-Nuts as ideal for aging bodies needing gentle nourishment and brain-nerve support. It cites long baking with diastase, barley starch sugar formation, and phosphate-rich bran oats. Testimonies claim improved digestion, strength at age 74, and a 92-year-old friend crediting Grape-Nuts and Postum.
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Iowa
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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