Do You Get Up With A Lame Back
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It urges readers to request a free sample and an informational booklet by mail, promising relief for kidney and bladder troubles and Bright's Disease. It cites hospital and private practice testing and notes availability through druggists and a national address in Binghamton New York.
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Kilmer
Bright
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
New Himalayan climbing records set by Workmans and guides
The Chicago News reports Dr. Bullock Workman and two Swiss guides reached 23,294 feet on an unnamed Hunza Nagar peak near the Chogo Loongma glacier, beating the prior world height. Mrs. Bullock Workman climbed to 22,568 feet on the same day, surpassing her own former women’s record by 1,568 feet.
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Hunza Nagar
Himalayas
India
Chicago News
Bullock Workman
Workman
Chogo Loongma
Aconcagua
Everest
Foley S Kidney Cure s Kidneys and Bladder Right
Cook a dozen ears of sweet corn for five minutes then cut from the cob. Add cabbage two green peppers a red pepper chopped sugar mustard celery seed vinegar and salt. Mix boil twenty minutes. Put up in air tight cans.
Eye and Ear Specialist Dr Barton Pitts Opens Office
Dr Barton Pitts, eye and ear specialist, announces correspondence solicited at his new office on Francis and Frederick avenues in St. Joseph Missouri.
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Barton Pitts
Francis and Frederick Avenue
St. Joseph, Mo
Sings to the Sick Advertisement Appears
A recent advertisement proclaims a charitable offer to sing for the sick or homebound individuals. The note expresses willingness to visit homes to provide song.
Urban Population Surges in Cities Over Four Thousand
Thirty seven percent of the American people now live in cities with more than four thousand inhabitants. This shift signals a growing urban concentration and potential impacts on housing, infrastructure, and commerce nationwide.
Choking Fish to Death by Mill Sediment Obstruction
Sediment runoff from strawboard mills suffocates fish as gills clog with gluey deposits. Local authorities investigate waterway pollution and potential enforcement action.
Pain Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Save Him In Crisis
Testimonials from James Evertt of Alton Illinois and L B Morris of Helena Montana praise Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills and Nerve and Liver Pills for curing liver trouble neuralgia headaches and rheumatism The ads note availability from all druggists and a free book on nervous and heart diseases from Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana
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Dr. Miles
Harry
Miles
James Evertt
Alton
Iis
L. B. Morris
Helena
Montana
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Soldiers Heirs Ruling Affects Nebraska Land Case Bowles
The interior secretary overruled prior decisions on widow and orphan rights to homestead entries, canceling Anna Bowless land entry in Broken Bow Nebraska after finding she failed to reside on the land despite a lease to Standard Cattle Co. The move targets public land frauds and clarifies eligibility for dependents of soldiers. A postmasters committee will meet in Boston to study classification legislation.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Department
Anna Bowles
Broken Bow
Coyne
Chicago
Hale
Minneapolis
Willis
Nashville
Waite
Burlington
Dickenson
Detroit
Hibbard
Boston
Graham
Rochester
Young woman kills outlaw in Williamson West Virginia
Miss SKXatie Roubough a telegraph operator for the Norfolk and Western railroad at Thacker shot and mortally wounded William Howardson an alleged outlaw after he entered her tower late Sunday night and attempted to embrace her Four shots were fired two piercing his chest He is expected to die The girl called Williamson then surrendered to a magistrate and will not remain on duty.
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Williamson
Bell Defines Martial Law In Cripple Creek District
Coron Adjutant General Bell arrives and issues a statement on martial law defining military necessity insurrection and treason. He declares that armed or unarmed resistance to lawful militia movements is treason and carries death. Sheriff James Gaughan’s release of a striker sparked troop deployment and he is removed from office by the militia.
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Cripple Creek
Coron
Bell
United States
James Gaughan
Wnder
Gaughan
Women’s clubs form to oppose Senator Reed Smoot
A Washington based union of women’s clubs, led by Mrs. Frederick Schoff of Philadelphia, the National Congress of Mothers president, is created here to push for Smoot’s expulsion from the U.S. Senate, with about half a dozen other national groups represented at the conference.
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Washington
Women’s Clubs
Reed Smoot
Utah
United States Senate
Frederick Schoff
Philadelphia
National Congress of Mothers
Roosevelt inherits money from Uncle James Gracie
President Roosevelt is to receive 30000 dollars under the will of James King Gracie, who died recently. His children Kermit and Ethel each get 5000 dollars. The will also provides for his sisters Mrs. Cowles and Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. The will has been admitted to probate.
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Roosevelt
New York
Kermit and
Ethel
James King Gracie
Cowles
United States Navy
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Officer Shot in Pistol Duel in Tennessee
NSHVILLE Tennessee reports a pistol duel between Thomas Cox and Patrolman Benjamin F. Dowell leaving Dowell shot in the abdomen with physicians expressing little hope for recovery.
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Nshville
Tenn
Thomas Cox
Benjamin F. Dowell
Lower House Actions Early in Session
Washington lawmakers move to task the postmaster general with data for post office department investigations to aid future appropriations. The judiciary committee is asked to probe whether Isle of Pines was ceded to Cuba without House and Senate action. Additional bills target gambling laws, federal liquor rules, and Interstate Commerce Commission powers.
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Washington
House
Post Office Department
Overstreet
Privimaster General
Judiciary Committee
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Senate
Gillette
Mas
Tyrell
Mass
United States
Cooper
Wis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Circuit Court
Unemployed Workers Form National Workers Union in St Louis
A union of unemployed laborers in St Louis forms the National Workers' Union. About 100 men without steady jobs have joined. officers elected are President Robert Wilson, Vice President Sidney Smith, and Secretary-Treasurer W W Lane. A second meeting will draft the constitution, inviting all unemployed to attend. organizers say the move aims to connect workers with employers and spur nationwide affiliate unions.
Springer’s Pneumonia Fatal in Washington
Former U S Representative William M Springer of Illinois Democratic leader and former Ways and Means chair dies of pneumonia at 64 in Washington D C after Thanksgiving Chicago trip. He fell ill after a dinner, traveled home, and died Friday morning.
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Washington
William M. Springer
Ilinois
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
House
Chicago
J. B. Gregg Curtis
Springer
President's Message Read Before House Session
The House convened for regular business and read the president's annual message to Congress delaying other features of a new session. The roll call showed 308 members present and the reading ended with Republican applause. A list of contests was announced and the message was referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the union.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senate
Henry Burk
Mesars
Hepburn
Hemenway
Ind
Williams
Miss
California
Illinois
Massachusetts
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Colorado
Barnes
Plan to Help Both the Men and Those Who Desire to Employ
In St Louis a union of unemployed laborers not in any union forms the National Workers' Union. About 100 men have signed on, with officers elected: President Robert Wilson, Vice President Sidney Smith, and Secretary Treasurer W W Jane. A meeting Tuesday will adopt the drafted constitution and invite all unemployed to attend. The aim is direct contact with employers to aid workers and hiring firms, with plans for nationwide affiliating unions after establishment.
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ST. Louis
National Workers’ Union
Robert Wilson
Sidney Smith
W. W. Lane
W. W. Jane
Refused to Hoist Flag in Somali Action Aboard Italian Dhow
Lt Cmdr Charles Bradban commanded a friendly native party to raise the Italian flag at a Somali fort. The fort’s commandant refused without sultan sanction. After two hours with no compliance, the fort fired, killing Grahan. The dhow fled and was later picked up by the Italian cruiser Galilee, which brought in the officer’s body.
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Aden
Charles Bradban
Darbe
Somaliland
Africa
Grahan
Graban
Galilee
Man With Nerve Aims For Quick Coin
A brief item notes that a man with ample nerve is likely to secure money soon. The report emphasizes bold resolve as the key to obtaining the funds. No additional context or names are provided in the readable text.
Witnesses Refuse to Testify in Paris Inquiry
Commissioner Feister and aides Beekman Tyde and Harper visited Claremont to question Mme Hoarde wife of the porter near the lodge where Mr and Mrs Charles L Fair were killed in an August 1902 automobile crash Neither witnesses would testify claiming legal protection and they had previously stated Mrs Fair was alive when her husband died.
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Paris
Feister
New York
Messrs. Beekman
Tyde
Harper
Claremont
Mme. Hoarde
Charles L. Fair
Widows Pay For Pensions In Chicago Graft Case
Mrs. John H. Howard widow of a police sergeant testified before aldermen investigating municipal graft that she paid 1300 dollars to obtain a pension of 50 dollars monthly for herself and children. She said funds went to attorney John P. Lee for legal services and to pension officials, while John P. Brown, pension agent, was also named. Secretary Brown denied complicity in the matter.
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Chicago
John H. Howard
John P. Lee
Here
Pension Board
John P. Brown
Howard
John Walsh
Brown
Apostolic Visitor to Mexico Named by Vatican
Monsignor Serafini Benedictine archbishop of Spoleto has been named apostolic visitor to Mexico. The Vatican hopes the move will restore ties with the Holy See after Maximilian's execution, though diplomats doubt the effort will succeed.
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Anrome
Serafini Benedictine
Spoleto
Vatican
Mexico
Holy See
Maximilian
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