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Newspaper

Ashton Gazette

Location

Ashton, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1907

Page

2

Local Gazette Name and Publisher from Ashton Paper

The Ashton Gazette lists Ralph J. Dean as publisher in Ashton city pages. No additional story content is provided in the readable text.

Ralph J. Dean

Nebraska Wheat Holders Band Together For $1 Chicago Price

Nebraska farmers with vast wheat lands pledge to refrain from selling until Chicago bids hit $1. The movement follows J A Everett of Indianapolis addressing Hastings officials steering a broader campaign by the American Society of Equity. Prospects favor a large Nebraska wheat crop if moisture remains and pests stay non damaging.

Nebraska Chicago Hastings J. A. Everett Indianapolis American Society of Equity Texas Kansas Oklahoma Bruner Department of Entomology University of Nebraska

Des Moines and Sioux City Scoreboard Fragment

Fragment shows numbered scores across Des Moines Sioux City Denver Lincoln Omaha and Pueblo with decimal and period separators suggesting a early league or game tally. Readable entities include Des Moines Sioux City Lincoln Omaha Pueblo and Denver with various single or double digit figures.

W. Des Moines Sioux City Denver Lincoln Omaha Pueblo

Cloudburst Kills Seven In Capital Hill Oklahoma City

A cloudburst over Capital Hill near Oklahoma City flooded lowlands along Lightning Creek, forcing residents from tents and shanties and leaving seven reported drowned as the river ran bank full. The extent of fatalities awaited official confirmation.

Capital Iil Oklahoma City Okla Capital Hill

Timber Lands Sold by N B to New Hampshire Firms

Bay Timber Tract, A C Trutton and Co and John Fender Son & Co of Springfield Mass purchase seventy two square miles of timber lands and a mill from N C Mc Nair at Jacquet River N B and twenty square miles and a mill from John Dutch at the same locality.

Jamestown Exposition Opens With Roosevelt Address

President Roosevelt opened the Jamestown Exposition at Hampton Roads amid cannon salutes from nearly 100 warships. The exhibit commemorates 300 years since the first English colony, highlighting local Revolutionary and Civil War sites nearby and featuring 25 buildings on a 600 acre site including palaces of manufactures, history, and education.

Roosevelt Sampton Roads America Yorktown Appomattox United States Hampton Roads Monitor Merrimac Manufactures and Liberal Arts

Historic Virginia sites linked to revolutionary era

A tour from Jamestown to Yorktown highlights historic landmarks across Norfolk and Williamsburg. The text notes Fort Monroe, Fortress Monroe, the Monitor’s era, and the Cornwallis surrender site with monuments and key buildings, including Bruton Parish Church and the college of William and Mary.

James River Jamestown Island York River Yorktown Norfolk Lord Dun- More Williamsburg Hampton Roads Fortress Monroe Jefferson Davis Jamestown Ambler Jacquelin House of Burgesses Bruton Pocahontas College of William and Mary Washington Martha Custis United States Court House Edmund Randolph Peyton Randolph Continental Congress John Tyler New York Philadelphia Cornwallis Moore House Gov. Nelson Nelson

Bryce on Public Ownership at Chicago Club Dinner

James Bryce the British ambassador spoke at a Chicago Commercial Club dinner on the functions of modern cities. He described three distinct classes of city duties, with one class containing those functions vital and indispensable.

Chicago

Naval pageant opens three hundredth anniversary expo

The Mayflower carries Russia and Japan peace negotiators as Roosevelt reviews a 700-voice choir and 21 gun salutes in a dawn ceremony. The 1607 Jamestown landing is recounted with Susan Constant Godspeed and Discovery, while states build exhibits from Independence Hall to a Maltese cross complex. Forester Pinchot cites deforestation as cause of Ohio floods and urges forest restoration and scientific conservation.

Russia Japan Roosevelt United States Artillery Discovery Landing America Harry St. George Tucker London James River Susan Constant Godspeed Pocahontas Hospital Pennsylvania Independence Hall Massachusetts Maryland Charles Carroll Carrollton Georgia Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Ben Oklahoma Sisterhood Great Britain Germany France Switzerland Italy Belgium Spain Sweden Greece Brazil Argentina Venezuela Mexico Chile Santo Domingo Porto Rico Salvador Peru Guatemala Nicaragua Ecuador Costa Rica Panama United States Monitor Merrimac Pinchot Gifford Pinchot Forest Service Upper Ohio Valley Allegheny Mountains

Seismologist Warns of Increasing Earth Tremors

Prof Belar, director of the Laibach observatory, compares first quarter shocks with 1906 trends and warns that if global disturbances are to stabilize, the earthquakes expected soon must be faced with anxiety.

Prof. Belar Laibach Observatory

Gilded Widows Hold Fortunes Averaging Over 60 Million Each

Six American widows own more than a quarter of a billion dollars in combined wealth. Names include Hetty Green, Mrs Russell Sage, Mrs Anna Weightman Walker, Mrs Marshall Field, and heirs of Field. Estates cited range from 60 to 100 million with significant charitable gifts and planned inheritances for sons and grandchildren.

United States William Henry Smith Japan Itetty Green Russell Sage Anna Weightman Walker Marshall Field Marshall Field, Jr Ietty Green Edward Green Texas Sylvia Sage Walker William Weightman Philadelphia Chicago

Playing the Horses Reveals $250000 Yearly Pool Room Profits

District Attorney Jerome exposes a Fulton Street pool room ledgers showing a $5000 bank roll in January 1899 with profits of 20088 75 after costs. From May 1899 the bank roll rose to $10000 and eight years of winnings averaged $250000 annually, with splits including a 16 percent take for a high official. Jerome signals deeper corruption but will not name the man higher up.

Hank Roll Jerome New York Fulton Street

Education conference reports at Pinehurst and college plans emerge

The South education conference re-elected Robert Ogden as president at Pinehurst N C. Dabney of Cincinnati University plans a commercial college with work in banks and brokerages. Minnesota defeated a ballot based county school board bill. Rockefeller funds give 625000 to Yale Princeton Bowdoin Colorado College Millsaps. Harvard leaders apologized for egg throwing at Brown of Harvard. Indiana passed a bill to credential teachers training courses. Maxwell urged that teachers be athletic and physically trained for classroom strain.

Conference For Education In the South Pinehurst N. C Robert Ogden New York Dabney Cincinnati University Minnesota Committee On Education General Education Board Rockefeller Fund Yale Princeton Bowdoin College Maine Colorado College Colorado Springs Colo Millsaps College Jackson Miss Harvard University Majestic Theater Boston Brown Harvard School Journal Indiana State Board of Education

Peruna Believes Spring Catarrh

A reader testifies that Peruna relieves catarrh and recommends it to friends. Another letter praises Peruna as a wonderful medicine and notes rapid health improvement after starting the remedy. Dead steer strikes farmer and horse, throwing them into Cannon Creek where both drown.

Peruna Mias Dora Hayden 6Th St 8. W Washington, D. C N. P. Lawler N&proadway Pittsburg Kan R. J. Goodwin Middleboro Cannon Creek Goodwin Four Mile Mr. Goodwin

The Marrying Squire of Brazil Indiana

Justice Geo E Law of Brazil Indiana has wed about 1400 couples and recalls suffering kidney trouble a decade ago. He credits three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills with curing him in 1897 and reports nine years free of kidney complaints and backache. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.

Justice Geo E. Law Brazil Linh BE. Law Ind Justice Law Dean Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N. Y

Regulators Carry Out Informal Execution Scene

In a stark confrontation a condemned horse thief protests illegal acts as a regulator leader asserts strict adherence to a perceived law. The leader's action ends with the barrel knocked away, and gravity resolves the scene.

Hall's Catarrh Cure affidavit from Toledo firm

Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, offering one hundred dollars for each cure of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason dated December 6, 1886. Claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and requests testimonials. Also references Hall's Family Pills and a Garfield Ten laxative claim with herbal, guaranteed wording.

State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County Frank J. Cheney Irm F. J. Cheney & Co Hall A. D A. W. Gleason J. Cheney & CO

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THE Ashton Gazette Ashton Illinois Fieane Oklahome St. Louis Cincinnati Brooklyn L. W Cleveland Detroit American Association Columbus Louisville St. Aul Milwaukee Kansas City Minneapolis Catalina Island A. I. Boris Jennie Donahue Metropole William Ewing Hammond Omaha Council James Dahlman de la Mar Chrome N. J Schmitz San Francisco National Cash Register Dayton Ohio West Indies the James South Sea Newport News Hampton Steads Bryce Christopher Newport Bartholomew Gosnold John Ratcliffe Cape Henry Prince of Wales John Smith England Jehools W. H. Maxwell New York City Superintendent of Public Schools Columbia University
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