Barber Shop Birthplace of Taft Boom in White House
Eve Bury reports on Taft's presidential nomination effort growing in the Roosevelt White House barber shop. The daily routine centered at 1 p.m. shaving time, where Roosevelt and Taft discussed campaign matters with Frank Hitchcock guiding unofficially. The small anteroom, battleship photo on the wall, and leather chair set the scene for policy talk and media access during the barbering ritual.
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Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Oyster Dneer Bay
Frank Hitchcock
Wenith
Washington
Loeb
Roosevet
Jimmy Garfield
Wholesale Prices Highest in Years Warn of 1907 Peak
The 1907 wholesale price report covers 258 staple articles over 18 years, showing an average rise of 6.8 percent from 1906, with October 1907 at the peak 1.2 percent above 1907 annual average. Nine groups all rose. farm products up 10 percent, metals 6.1, drugs 8.3, clothing 6.6, lumber 4.9, and food 4.6 percent.
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Commerce and Labor Department
Wiley's Poison Squad Ends Their Experimental Diets
Dr. R Harold Wileys hygene study group known as the poison squad wraps up the season of feeding seven young men at the Bureau of Chemistry. They tested salteter and various treated foods to gauge effects on the human system and plan future studies on summer beverages feungreek and condition foods for animals.
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R. Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Wiley
Cabinet changes mark long Roosevelt tenure and Wilson’s future
The article notes Roosevelt’s unusually shuffled cabinet, listing secretaries from Hay to Root and others, and highlights Secretary Wilson of Agriculture facing questions about his remaining term. It cites Wilson’s 12 years in office, his vigor, and Roosevelt’s preference for younger appointees, with Taft’s possible succession looming.
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Roopevel
McKinley
Root
Agriculture Wilson
Roosevelt
Ward
Hay
Treasury
Gage
Shaw
Cortelyou
Luke E. Wright
Taft
Wright
Knox
Moody
Bonaparte
Smith
Payne
Wynne
Meyer
Navy
Long
Morton
Metculf
Interior
Hitchcock
Garfield
Agriculture
Wilson
Commerce and Labor
Metcalf
Straus
Art
Department of Agriculture
Would Save Men From Women
Atlanta news reports a Georgia bill by Representative George Glenn targeting women’s beauty aids. The measure would void marriages if a wife used cosmetics or padding to secure a husband, while single women retain beauty freedoms. The bill, referred to Ways and Means, faces committee scrutiny amid wife pressure for amendments.
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Atlanta
George Glenn
Whitefield County
Committee On
Dyott Wardship Not Granted Despite Eccentric Habits
Philadelphia court declined immediate guardianship for Marian B. Dyott 48 with 4000 dollar annual income from trust and Philadelphia properties. Brother sought a guardian due to extravagance and notoriety. evidence cited gifts of 32 shirtwaists and theater party tickets with strangers, while companion Mrs. Gould described the spending pattern.
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Philadelphia
Marian B. Dyott
Tudge Martin
Charles G. Dyott
Dyott
Baltimore
Baby Blocks Cupid on Rochester Trip
Charles St. Clair of Grand Rapids acted as babysitter for a woman at a Detroit depot. An accomplice stole his two grips containing 80 dollars and wedding clothes as he chased the thief through Windsor and Walkerville. He was beaten and left in underwear. wedding postponed but plans remain.
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Detroit
Mich
Rochester
N. Y
Charles St. Clair
Grand Rapids
St. Charles
Ferry Dock
Windsor
Walkerville
Owl Gouges a Man's Eye in Pennsylvania Orchard
In Pottstown near Parkerford, farmer David Bergey fought a ferocious owl that swooped down in his orchard. The bird clamped talons in Bergey's hair and jammed its beak into his clothes, tearing chunks of feather and finally slashing his eye. A physician was summoned with little hope of saving the eye.
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Pottstown
David Bergey
Parkerford
Bergey
Bees Swarm Locomotives at Altoona Shops
Bees swarm the smokestacks of idle locomotives at Juniata shops Altoona Pennsylvania while whippoorwills nest under stored cars. A workman found the hive, captured a live bead and took it home.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania Railroad
Juniata
Butler Inherits 6 Million Marks Count Title After Father’s Yacht Mystery
Theodore von Thien, a Richmond butler, will join his brother August as co-heir to over 6,000,000 marks left by Count Peter von Thien of Germany, who disappeared with his private yacht 42 years ago. The estate, managed by M. de Louvrier, will grant Theodore the title Kronfels-Thien in December when the father’s death certificate is deemed complete.
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Richmond
Theodore von Thien
P. P. Ryan
August
Peter von Thien
Germany
Theodore
M. de Louvrier
Augustton Thien
New York
America
United States
Mme
Maurice Chamberdoule
Paris
Sherry’s
Olis
Ryan
Thien
von Thien
Missourian Outwits Fish in River Barrel Catch
In Kansas City a U S district attorney recounts an old river trick by a fisherman on the Blue. A weighted barrel with ropes and windlass is sunk midstream while sons in canoes drum up noise. The barrel surfaces with 28 shad 40 carp 17 catfish and nine jack salmon totaling 160 pounds.
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Kansas City
Seattle
Blue River
van Valkenburgh
United States
Leesburg Idaho A Deserted Mining Boom Town
An account contrasts Leesburg once Idaho’s largest town with 1867 gold mining wealth and a divided Civil War era, now reduced to a post office and a lone Chinese prospector and spouse. The site is part of Salmon River forest nursery. A separate note reports Washington establishing a training school for newly appointed consuls at the State Department with seven hours of daily lectures.
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Spokane
Wash
Goldsmith
Leesburg
Idaho
Main Street
Division Street
Grantville
Jefferson Davis
Salmon River Forest Nursery
Washington
State Department
Professional Cards At Iowa State University Network
Formerly interne hospital state university of iowa. House phone 461 black office 263 black. Atlantic.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Atlantic
Wills and probate practice with Swan in Atlanta
T B Swan offers probate services with focus on wills drawn and probated. Reports prepared for administrators and guardians, appointments secured. General law business transacted. Atlanta.
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Atlantia
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Fron
Tia
Georgia
Baby Blocks
Condor
California
Leesburg, Wash
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
4Th
Chestnut Streets
Aftlantic
Iowa
G. R. Miller
Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlante
G, Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
Opera House Black
Phone
T. B. Swan
C. L. Campbell
Gillespie
Res
Bon U. Woon, Atty-at-Law
U. S. Mullins
Chas, D. Finley
D. O
Josephine Cook Finley
Finley & Finley
The
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy and X-Ray Laboratory
Bell
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Chastnut St
Butler
M. H. Butler
G. J. Litterst
Walnut Street
Homo
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