Des Moines Brings In Desperate Ottumwa Slay Case
John Junken, a self confessed slayer of Clara Rosen, is moved from Albia jail to Des Moines for trial. He claims premeditation and boasts of assaulting women, while a Missouri cellmate Albert Evans corroborates the confession. Authorities say the crime was planned in prison and then carried out after release.
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Des Moines
Iowa
John Junken
Clara Rosen
Ottumwa
Albia
Junken
Madison
Albert Evans
Missouri
Evans
Miss Rosen
Centennial of Frederic Chopin Observed in Germany
Berlin reports the 100th anniversary of Frederic Chopin birth marked by musicians and Polish societies across Germany. Statues were unveiled. newspapers published biographies and pictures. Chopin’s life, music, and influence noted. Mendelssohn compared. Sand relationship referenced. piano style praised as foundational to postromantic school.
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Berlin
Frederic Chopin
Germany
Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn
Mme. Dudevant
George Sand
Mendelssohn
Eight Tennessee senators flee to Hopkinsville to dodge arrest
Eight democratic senators who fled Nashville to avoid arrest in Tennessee say they will stay in Hopkinsville Kentucky until the general assembly adjourns. Assistant Sergeant at Arms Yeman watches them closely. They met with Governor Patterson's secretary and with Austin Peay to justify their break of quorum to block Republican control of the Democratic primary election commissioners.
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Hopkinsville
Tennessee
Kentucky
Nashville
General Assembly
Yeman
Patterson
Austin Peay
Foley's Honey and Tar remedy touts safety and cure
The ad claims Foley’s Honey and Tar coats the throat without harmful drugs and cures obstinate coughs and colds. It urges consumers to choose the genuine product and buy from all druggists, warning against experiments with sour health.
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Foley
Poley
Slashed throat ends tense attack in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on March 1 widow Mrs Anna Baxter sat on a lap at her home when William Gearhart captain of Engine Company No 27 drew a razor and slashed her throat. Police found Gearhart with his own throat cut and a large knife in his hand. Both victims were hospitalized with doubtful chances of recovery as investigators linked the violent incident to a bitter courting history.
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Pittsburg
Anna Baxter
William Gearhart
Engine Company No. 27
Gearhart
Black Hand activity and urban reform discuss New York
New York gossip notes the Black Hand operates without a central group and police struggle to curb blackmail and thuggery. The piece cites advances in crime methods, a Maxim gun suggestion, and a high fire loss year with arson arrests. It also describes Park Row Change Men, reform movements spilling into New Jersey towns, and theater censorship trials. An offhand note covers Leslie Stewart's potential lifelong annuity from the Shuberts for future music rights.
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New York
Black Hand
Tammany
Hall
Maxim
Eee
Beethoven
Leslie Stewart
James T. Powers
Havana
Shuberts
Ife
Stewart
Baltimore Welcomes Bay State Soldiers Visit to Baltimore
The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, en route to Washington for Taft's inauguration, accepts an invitation from the Maryland National Guard to stop in Baltimore. They will march from Camden Station to the Fifth Regiment Armory for a banquet and entertainment, marking a notable reunion since Civil War era exchanges.
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Baltimore
BAY State Soliders
Massachusets Volunteer Militia
Washington
Taft
Fifth Regiment
Maryland National Guard
Bay State
Camden Station
Massachusetts Soliers
Sixth Massachusetts
National
Pratt Street
Massachusetts
Maryland
Boston
Bunker Hill
Fifth
Haskell Hearing Set in Vinita Oklahoma Arraignment
The March 1 arraignment before Judge Campbell in the Eastern District of Oklahoma fixes seven defendants including Governor Charles N Haskell and Walter R Eaton for fraud tied to Muskogee town lots. Haskell faces one indictment for conspiring with Eaton and Turner to defraud the government. Turner has two indictments, others one each. Trial for Haskell likely in Tulsa in April as court rotates sittings among Muskogee Vinita Tulsa Ardmore and Chickasha.
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Muskogee
Govrnor Haskell
Walter R. Eaton
Clarence W. Turner
Turner
Haskell
Tulsa
District Court For
Eastern District of Oklahoma
Vinita
Ardmore
Chickasha
Buffalo Automobile Show Opens at Convention Hall
Buffalo March 1 exhibitors from the Buffalo Automobile and Motor Trades Association opened a display in Convention Hall for the week featuring leading car makes and accessories. The exhibit includes elaborate electrical decorations and attracts visitors. A separate note promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as a mild pleasant laxative, with several local druggists offering samples.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Automobile and Motor Trades Association
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Adopts Modern Grading System
After two years of study Government input and farmer collaboration the New Orleans Cotton Exchange approves changes to future contracts and rules. A certified grade system with official guarantees and bale identification is established along with expert classers, an improved board of appeals and stricter good or dinary clauses to ensure fair trading and reduce damaged cotton.
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New Orleans
United States
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Board of Appeals
Board of Classers
W. B. Thompson
U. S
Herbert Knox Smith
Thompson
Congress
Eller
Davis Says Officers Are Trying Blackmail
Rome Georgia March 1 Attorney Charles E Davis says prosecutors will be upset by his defense in the Invest charge of land frauds. He blames Atlanta officers for blackmail attempts demanding money to drop charges and vows to reveal evidence Tuesday. Davis was arrested Friday night and released on $1000 bond. preliminary trial set before Commissioner Printup. A religious author from Salisbury NC attests Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured his kidney trouble and endorses the medicine.
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Rome
Charles E. Davis
Atlanta
Davis
March
Mark Scott
United States
John C. Printup
Printup
Joseph H. Fesperman
Salisbury
N. C
Foley
Body of Cockrell Found in Etowah River
The body of 4. C. Cockrell, Rome’s insurance solicitor who vanished January 26, was found in the Etowah river at Pith avenue. Decomposed after a month in water, an inquest is planned. Cockrell, from Birmingham three months earlier, had hospital stays for drinking problems and leaves a wife and five daughters. His parents live in Demopolis, Alabama.
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Rome
C. Cockrell
Etowah River
Pith Avenue
Cockrell
Birmingham
Etowah
Demopolis
Ala
As Advertised Chamberlain Cholera Remedy Claimed Effective
Advertiser reports purchasing Chamberlain s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as advertised and finds it true to claims. Three family members used it with good results in summer complaints. Available from H R Palmer Bons Orr Drug Co W J Smith & Bro OC McAroy Canaing.
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H. B. Howe
the Press
Highland
Wis
H. R. Palmer & Bons
Orr Drug Co
W. J. Smith & Bro
OC. McAroy
I. P
Canaing
Women suffrage advocates meet in nation wide demonstrations
In New York and across the country socialist party and Socialist Women’s Societies organized equal suffrage demonstrations as part of the national conference in Chicago. Miss Leonora O’Reilly led the Manhattan meeting urging suffrage and denouncing anti suffrage women while Metta Stern and Mrs Anlin Block spoke for the cause. In Brooklyn, 1000 women and several hundred men endorsed suffrage. Frances Mathew Fraser argued that granting votes would improve child labor conditions. The piece also promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy for eczema and blood disorders.
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New York
United States
Thesocialist Party
Socialist Women's Societies
Socialist Party
Chicago
Murray Hill Lyceum
Manhattan
Labor Lyceum
Brooklyn
Leonora O'Reilly
Miss O'Reilly
Ana
Anlin Block
Woman's Socialist Society
Mise Metta Stern
Hebe
Frances Mathew Fraser
Trueblood resignation demanded over wet vote at Earlham
Richmond Indiana March 1 resolutions passed by the Friends church at Dublin demand the resignation of W N Trueblood professor of English at Earlham college for voting wet in the recent local option election which defeated the anti saloon faction Weyne county remains the only Indiana county to vote wet Earlham College has close ties to the Friends church.
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Richmond
Ind
W. N. Trueblood
Earlham College
Fyiends Church
Dublin
Weyne County
Indiana
Barlham College
Friends Church
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Frederick Chopin
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Senators
Mrs. Baxter
Coslmer
Bronx
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the Battery
Broadway
Park Row
Nassau
William Streets
China
Hudson
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Plainfield
Montclair
Cordance
Bishop Potter
Chamberlain
H. R. Palmer & Sons
EC. McEvoy
L.P. Canning
Cotton Exchange OF
Fall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Virginia-Carolina
Lucas & Jackson
Kelsey County
Norfolk
Virginia-Caroline Chemical Co
H. M. Adams
Henrietta
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