Tales of Travelers Across Remote Corners of the World
Two men travel in opposite directions and converge with tales of small worlds and shared pasts. A stranger recalls the Ashtabula bridge disaster and a rescuer met again after decades. A chance hotel register reunion follows with a long friendship cured by time and memory. A Saguenay canoe tale leads to a minister, a minstrel, a Salvation Army turn, and a Siam missionary.
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New York
New England
Quebec
Ashtabula
Saguenay
India
Australia
Salvation Army
The
Salvation Company
Northwest
Siam
Birds Lightning Rods Sparks Humorous Debate
An ornithologist claims humming birds use cobweb coated nests as lightning rods in warm stormy habitats. A skeptic retorts, calling him a nature faker, while noting silk like cobweb is a non conductor of electricity.
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Littl
Uncle Sam’s Notes On Cashier Handling And Bills
A fragment notes how rough handling of currency by cashiers is evident to those who observe. It describes a treasury bill outline and dimensions, claiming width seven and a quarter inches and length seven inches. The note asserts durability under specific weights: 41 pounds lengthwise and 31 pounds crosswise.
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Uncle Sam
Pete
Treasury
Tamron Aon
New Succeeds Cortelyou as Republican Chairman
Washington December 7 The Republican national committee at the Shoreham hotel elected Acting Chairman Harry S New to fill the unexpired term of Secretary Cortelyou with no opposition and a unanimous vote He pledged to work for a fair impartial convention Delegations from Kansas City and Denver pursue the bid while Chicago supporters led by Representative Lowden push for the lake city contest The fifty four member committee splits roughly twenty three to twenty five for Kansas City and Chicago with the rest noncommittal
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Shoreham Hotel
Harry S. New
Cortelyou
Kansas City
Denver
Chicago
Lowden
National Committee
Lake City
Differences at an end in Bryan Sullivan feud
William Jennings Bryan spoke at an Iroquois club luncheon in Chicago urging party harmony. He urged forgetting past differences and cited forgiveness as a guiding doctrine, leading listeners to believe his rift with Roger C. Sullivan was resolved. Sullivan said he will not renew the fight, while Bryan claimed renewed Democratic unity and Republican division.
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Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Roger C. Sullivan
Illinois
Sullivan
For Rent and For Sale Items on Kenwood and Me dary Streets
A rental offer for a house and barn on Medary Street near Kenwood. For sale the Al. Moison property owner of Kenwood and Baldwin Streets with a modern two family building, plus three lots and a good barn. The property or any part is now in the market.
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John Fairanks
City Real Estate
G. F. Rademacher
Davidsons
St. Paul
Mill Streets
Medary Street
Kenwood
al. Mo’ison
Baldwin Streets
W. H. Sutton
Lansing Avenue
Lansing Ave
Orris Hayes
A. Hegge
Austin
Fox Hotel
Susan Kamel
South St. Paul Street
Cause for Alarm Over Bank Flurry Eases in Kansas City
With few withdrawals and rising deposits the financial panic after the National Bank of Commerce closing appears subsiding. A small Argentine Kansas bank has reopened while two minor banks in Kansas and Missouri that held deposits with the Bank of Commerce were shut. Receiver James T. Bradley declined to comment.
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Kansas City
National Bank of Commerce
Argentine
Kan
Kansas
Missouri
Bank of Commerce
State Bank of
Admore
Bank of Statesburg
James T. Bradley
Real Estate and Insurance Advertisements Update
John Fairbanks Chas H Webber Real Estate Loans Insurance Office over Wolds Drug Store lists Sun Insurance assets over 3 million and other carriers with high asset values. For sale a College street house at 2200. large 7 room Ash and Hope corner house at 1600. small cottage on Clark Street 650. Bargains limited to 30 days.
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Wold’s Drug Store
College Street
Derme Easy Meryler, Casualty Company
Baltimore
Ash and
Hope Street
Clark Street
Telegraphic Briefities Chronicle Quick News Bits
A train killed Charles Bergstrom in St Paul. Frank Gotch beat Chief War Eagle in straight falls in Chicago. Engagement announces Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Eleanore Caroline Casparine Louise of Reuss. D H Perrey of Salt Lake City dies in Los Angeles. Bill Posters convention ends. Brooklyn to host 1908. Webster Rhines, 65, of Faribault, attacked in Minneapolis, hospitalized with uncertain recovery. King Oscar’s health shows no major change, strength waning.
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Charles Bergstrom
Chicago Great Western
St. Paul
Chicago
Frank Gotch
Chief War Eagle
Prince Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Eleanore - Caroline - Casparine - Louise
Princess
Reuss
D. H. Perrey
Salt Lake City
Utah
Los Angeles
Cal
Bright
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Dominie
New
National Republican Committee
Bishop's
Enn Mbae Laarthroe
Cagius Oil
Hayes Bros. Jewelers
Austin, Minn
J. F. Fairbanks
Coal and Wood
N. W
Bryan
John Fairbanks
Chas. H
Webber
Tornaco
Sun Insurance Office
London
Eng
Alste
Detroit Fire &Marine Ins. Co
Detroit
Mich
American Centre Insurance Co
St. Louis
Providence
Washington Insurance Co
R.I
Bankers Surety Company O
Cleveland, Ohio
National Alliance of Bill Posters and Billers of America
Brooklyn
Webster Rhines
Faribault
Minn
Minneapolis
Psgarg
Stockholm
Bec
Oecar
Rochford
Rochford Land Company Registr
Briar
Meerschaum
Ipa Hk P4itani
C. Huser
Banks
Austin. Furniture Co
McKinley
Requet
Hamilton
Schumann
Schall
Strauch Bros
Furniture
Charles Cressey
Mint
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