Controversy in Congress Over Brownsville, Rail Rule Passes
Washington reports describe a heated week in Congress. Tillman’s tirade on Brownsville sparks debate on troop discharges while Foraker defends legal limits. La Follette’s hours-of-work bill for rail workers passes 70 to 1 after heavy lobbying and a split Senate.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
South Carolina
Senate
Brownsville
South
Senator Foraker
Milton D. Purdy
United States
A. P. Blacksom
Inspector General
S Department
U.S. A
United States Army
John Wesley Gaines
Tennessee
Thaddeus M. Mahon
Pennsylvania
Ollie James
Kentucky
Gaines
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
la Follette
la Foliette
Alcohol lamps replace kerosene lighting with safer design
State Fire Marshal D. B. Creamer argues industrial alcohol can replace kerosene lamps for lighting, citing lower fire risk and no soot. He notes cost differences, technical hurdles, and government interest in alcohol powered devices, including a French prize for mantleless alcohol lighting.
Composite Pictures Fun Drawings At A Party
Instructions describe a party drawing game where each child draws a funny head on a folded sheet then passes it right to add a body and legs in separate sections. Heads may be fish bird or human, bodies connect to neck, resulting in humorous mixed creatures when unfolded.
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Per
Brandreth's Pills Publicized For Health Benefit
Thousands worldwide attribute good health to Brandreth's Pills taken nightly. The pills cleanse the stomach and bowels, stimulate kidneys and liver, and purify the blood. They are a vegetable laxative tonic used by all ages and have over a century of use, available plain or sugar coated in drugstores.
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Brandreth
Jamaica coastal upheaval after tidal wave
Rear Admiral Evauns reports a tidal wave altering Jamaica's coastline. Kingston's entire south shore is submerged with no bay remaining and the coast line sinking.
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Havana
Daily Messenger
Evauns
Jamaica
Kingston
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Reward
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Walding Kinnan & Marvin, wholesale druggists, Toledo. Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheny & CO
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Hali
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Praised by Kingston Official
W O Reilly Fogarty, Kingston Jamaica city councillor, reports one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helped a persistent cough and he plans to buy another bottle. Available from W H McKee E R Lash Barton Drug Co Chauncey.
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W. O'Reilly Fogarty
Kingston
Jamaica
West Indies
Chamberlain
W. H. McKee
E. R. Lash
Barton Drug Co
Chauncey
Ohio fair managers form protective association plan
Columbus meeting drafts resolutions to defend against the American Trotting association. A committee proposes rules to establish a charter and code for a Fair Protective association not including racing, with copies sent to Ohio and other states by Oct 1907 and a report due January 1908.
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Ohio Fair
Promised Alliance
Columbus
A. P. Sandles
American Trotting Association
W. L. Tenny
Troy
Miami County Association
Mr. Tenny
Neil House
Knight
Kocher
Sandles
Ohio Fair Managers’ Association
Board of Appeals
The
Fair Protective Association
Fair Association
Ohio
Bird and Bee Chase Through Blossoms in Tree
A humming bird pursued a big bumblebee among white blossoms. The bee darted and fled while the bird flashed after it, each move faster and sharper than the observer could track. The bee escaped as the bird settled on a twig, likely not for food but to claim the honey.
Notice to Teachers Examinations Schedule Updated
Teachers' Examinations will be held on the first Saturday of each month. if that day is a holiday the exam will be on the following Saturday. Boxwell Examinations occur on the third Saturday in April and the second Saturday in May. Aaron Grady, Clerk.
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Boxwell
Aaron Grady
Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Promoted By Local Pharmacy
A local ad touts Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup praised by a mother for taste and effect. The product, free from opiates, contains honey and tar and complies with the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Cline's Pharmacy.
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Kennedy
Cline
The Ermine and Stoat in Winter and Summer
The ermine changes with the seasons, becoming white in winter and reddish brown with a yellow underside in summer, leading naturalists to view them as the same species. Their fur has long been valued and symbolized purity in royalty and robes. The animal is elusive, best caught by tracking its path and sprinkling mud to provoke a lapse in its white hairs.
The Fatherly Centipede Shoe Store Tale
A quirky verse chronicles a centipede in need who opens a shoe store to support his many offspring. With a thousand legs and ten thousand feet to feed, he spends all he has on the venture and faces financial trouble.
Humphreys Veterinary Specifics Cures Farm Stock
An old patent medicine claims to cure horses cattle sheep hogs and poultry by acting on the stick parts without delay. It lists conditions such as lameness injuries seams wind diarrhea and also claims to prevent miscarriages with various cryptic notes.
Assignee Sale of Ohio Real Estate in Athens County
Pursuant to a probate order, a petite sale is set for 1 PM at the Athens County Courthouse front door. The property lies in Fraction No 30 Waterloo Township with appraised value $1596, requiring at least one third cash and balance in two installments by mortgage. Assignee: Thomas J.ison. Date noted 1-11-14.
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ProDm Court
Athens County
Ohio
Court House
Athens
Ohio Company
Waterloo Township
Thomas J. Allison
John Me
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Sway Company
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Company
Hadley
Anaigneer
Thomas J. Ison
Sheriff Sale in Athens County Ohio Guardianship Case 8677
Mary A. Viney as guardian seeks public auction of part of Out-lot No 1 in the Village of Athens on January 26 1907 at 1 PM at the courtroom front door. The bid is subject to Ohio University rents and taxes with a minimum price of 600 dollars. Cash payment required the sheriff is Webster with attorney ER M Switzer.
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Mary A. Viney
Guardian
Andrew Meadows
Athens
Court of Comon Pleas
Ohio
County of
Chivig
Ohioniversity
Presbyterian Church of Guysville Seeks Mortgage Financing
The Presbyterian Church of Guysville Ohio petitions the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County to authorize a loan of 800 dollars secured by a mortgage on church property in Rome Township. The notice states the church has no funds and seeks authority to borrow from the Board of Church Erection Fund of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and to execute the mortgage and related indebtedness. The petition will be heard after four weeks from January 1907. f.2-14-otw.
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Rome
Athens
Ohio
Board of Church Erection Fund
The
Presbyterian Church
United States
Ame
Sal Board of Erection Fund
Presbyterian Church OF
Guysville
L. A. Koons
Notice of Assignee Qualification in Ohio
Notice announces that a resident of Ouiana County Ohio has qualified as assignee for business purposes on date 1-4-13. The statement confirms official designation and involved local authority.
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Ouuana County
Ohio
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