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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
4
A historical ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women's ailments. It claims wide endorsement, decades of use, and relief for backache, irregularities, nervous symptoms, and general debility, urging women to avoid substitutes.
A nine car special carrying the Charles Gates party derailed twelve miles north of Laredo Texas. Dozens were injured though no deaths are reported. Injured include John Higins Fred G Boyd McCormick and John Martin. Names of other injured were not available. The axle failure caused the accident and the Gates party was not related to John W Gates.
London reports the combined army and navy budgets rising by 3 million dollars for the current year. Lord Tweedsmout h says future spending depends on foreign naval expansion while Haldane notes limited room to cut army costs without risking abroad deployments. Army total stands at 154,185,120 dollars for 1908-09 with 185,000 home and colonial troops. Navy budget totals 161,597,500 dollars with the same officer and man count as last year.
In Rendsburg Northern Prussia authorities traced counterfeit five mark coins to the prison. Detective Inspector Schneider went undercover as a convict and exposed a hidden workshop where a prisoner minted coins. The inspector his wife and mother in law are in custody.
The High Court ruled the Hepburn rate law does not repeal the Elkins act used to prosecute rebates in the Great Northern case. The railroad was fined $15,000 overall for fifteen Elkins violations, and the decision undercuts the Standard Oil trust’s bid to overturn Landis’s $29,240,000 fine. United States District Attorney Edwin W. Sims led the oil case in Minnesota.
On the steamer Ellis in the Gulf of Mexico last Tuesday E. B. Taylor an alleged American passenger was arrested after the ship arrived at New Orleans from Port Limon Costa Rica He is charged with killing O Ketchum a deckhand listed as a Jamaican citizen The Ellis flies the Norwegian flag drawing Norway into the affair The case may require action by the United States England and Norway to determine responsibility
In Callao Lima crowds of up to 50 000 visited the visiting American battleships over four days. President Pardo attended the naval regatta awarding prizes to winning crews from Iquitos Louisiana and Georgia. Admiral Evans opened a city patrol system with two officers on horseback and a bullfight drew thousands of sailors ashore.
Minneapolis reports Marie Gross, born during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, died at the Minnesota Soldiers' Home where she had lived since the women’s building opened a year ago. She reached age 101 years and six months after moving to Minnesota in 1856.
The secretary of the treasury orders national banks to withdraw about 25 percent of public funds in inactive depositories with $100000+ and 25 percent of funds in active depositories with $190000+, totaling roughly $35000000. Ten percent due by March and 15 percent by March 28, with assurances no harm to financial conditions.
San Francisco February 25. J. L. Munzer of a wealthy New York family took his own life by shooting himself. The tragedy was reported as a suicide.
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