Distant Crises and Local Tragedies Highlight Early News
A wide array of reports covers train derailments near Omaha, a Prohibition candidate killed in Lima, workplace promotions in Connecticut, a private detective implicated in family violence in Cleveland, and shipwreck charges against Star of Bengal captains. Also noted are Fort Keogh abandonment orders, a fatal farmer incident in Russellville, bank embezzlement sentencing in Baton Rouge, a pastor’s disappearance, Papago Yaqui clashes near Sonora, and looming coal shortages in the Northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Denver
Omaha
O. Warren Smith
Allen County
Ohio
Lima
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Thompsonville
Conn
Roy Hardy
Big Four
Cleveland
Wagner
Star of Bengal
William T. Bull
New York
Lake Shore
Elyria
Owen
Fort Keogh
Montana
Edgerly
Department of Dakota
James Thorn
Russellville
Ala
Oscar Kondert
First National Bank of
Baton Rouge
el Paso
Altar
Sonora
Chicago
Grafton Starbuck
Gauley Bridge
W. Va
Green County
Dry
Williams County
Trumbull County
Denny Hazel
Joseph Silva
Yreka
Winifred Henry
Basil
West
Madison Street
Barry
Bowler
Desplaines Street
Henry
Elgin
First State Bank
Fallis
Lincoln County
Oklahoma
George Schmake
Genzalo de Quesada
United States
Paris
Washington
Canary Islands
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Switzerland
France
Cuba
Tragic shootings and crimes echo through early state news
A parade of violent incidents and legal cases spans Harrisburg to Philadelphia and beyond. A 12 year old Albert Bell is shot by his 16 year old brother in Wildwood Park Harrisburg. Captain John Robinson dies saving a dog on Lake Erie. Bank failures blamed on high finance by Edward Moxey. A series of burglaries, murders and He hints at resignation by Rev Parkhurst. A crime wave touches Massachusetts and New York with robberies and stabbings. The Allegheny Bank case ends with guilty verdicts in Pittsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Bell
Raymond
Wildwood Park
Harrisburg
Postoffice
Joseph John Button
New York
Edward Moxey
Federal
John Robinson
Kelley Island
Lake Erie
Robinson
Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Company
Canonsburg
United States
Women's Nome Missionary Society
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Charles H. Parkhurst
Society For the Prevention of Crime
James Keegan
Brooklyn
Matteawan Asylum
New York State
James O'Brien
Keegan
O'Brien
Beverly
Mass
Salisbury Beach
Amesbury
Newburyport
New Era
W. Murray Crane
Dalton
Maurice Tannenholz
H. Tannenholz & Son
Morristown
N. J
Mra. H. W. Miller
Misses Perkins
Frank M. Kiggins
Tennessee
Civil Service Commission
Washington
William Kigging
Frank Riggins
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
United States District Court
Pittsburg
Western. Broker Wallace 11. Hopkins Arrests In Seattle
A long list of brief items recalls Wallace 11 Hopkins, missing from Chicago last April, being arrested in Seattle with accounts $30,000 short. Other notes report Frank Pinkham sought in San Francisco, Coshocton Ohio voting dry, and a string of fatal accidents, crimes, and city-news from across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Hopkins
Chicago
Seattle
Iis
Tacoma Mill Company
San Francisco
Frank Pinkham
Orient
Coshocton County
Ohio
Coshocton
Chester A. Breinig
Columbus
Larned
Kan
F. W. Gookin
Larned Baptist Church
Toms
Tecumseh
Faye
Eulah
Dora Knight
Cox
Rio Arriba
Santa Fe
N. M
Duels, fires, and peril mark tense southern news
Reports recount a fatal duel near Herteranft Tennessee after a quarrel over a woman. Other items note prohibition shifts allowing old soldiers to sell near beer in Georgia towns, a Negro murderer shot by a quarry worker in Lithonia, and Major Murphy Robinson’s suicide in Mobile. Also listed are a large tobacco factory fire in Mullins South Carolina, a Norfolk naval steward killing his wife, gas deaths in Versailles Kentucky, a shipwreck near Georgia Bay, a threatening unsigned letter to Dr Happel in Trenton, and a court inquiry into Reelfoot Lake outrages with Captain Rankin's death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Murphy
Thomas Lawson
Herteranft
Tenn
Murphy
Georgia
State Court of Appeals
Charlie Mitchell
Dock Rogers
North Georgia
Lithonia
Mitchell
Edward Murphy Robinson
Mobile
Stickton
Ala
Imperial Tobacco Company
Mullins
S. C
J. P. Sale & Co
Henry B. Johnson
Versailles
Henry Johnson
Georgia Bay
West Rock
T. J. Happel
Trenton
Joseph E. Jones
Dresden
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit
Reelfoot Lake
Quentin Rankin
Cloudburst Flood Drowns 120 in Canadian River Valley
A severe cloudburst over central Oklahoma floods the Canadian River, drowning about 120 people and trapping others on trees and rooftops. Many homes swept away, farms inundated, and rail lines washed out between Shawnee and McLoud as rescues continue and death toll rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian
Oklahoma
Canadian Valley
Shawnee
McLoud
Rock Island
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Santa Fe
Extensive early 20th century world news roundup with political and economic items
A broad dispatch summarizes political shifts in Canada and Mexico, royal births in Budapest, a Prussian air voyage, trials and executions in Russia, a typhoid epidemic in Montreal, a German consul general’s suicide, U.S. railroad litigation over rate laws, coal railroads’ rate and ownership disputes, and testimony on price fixing and output limits amid Western railroads.
Kidney Pills Backed by Man’s Cure Claim
Nat Anderson of Greenwood reports five years of kidney trouble with back pain and disordered secretions. After failing treatments he credits Deans Kidney Pills with relief and renewed strength. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat Anderson
Greenwood
8. C
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Suffering from Burning Sores Healed by Cuticura Trio
A wife recounts her husband’s rheumatic leg sores that tortured him for years until he used Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent. After three weeks the sores dried, burning ceased, and pain reduced. after three months he was well. The testimonial dated July 21, 1907. The piece closes with a brief joke about a dictionary appendix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutiura
V. V. Albert
Upper
Frenchville
Baker retorts as young lady balks at hard bread
A terse exchange unfolds with a baker claiming long baking experience while a young customer complains the last loaf was too hard. The dialog carries a biting social sting about quality and pride in craft.
State's Senator Spins Chestnut Family Joke
The old Senator, noted for his humor, boasted about his family tree during a Penn-Tim event. Critics joked the lineage may be a chestnut, highlighting the light banter around politics and heritage at the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Stubb
Penn
Tim
Coffee at Bottom of Trouble Promises Health
A stockman recalls heavy coffee use for years then nerve, stomach, and heart problems. After switching to Postum two years ago he reports sleep restored, fewer nervous spells, improved digestion, and weight gain. He credits Postum with saving his life and endorses the product from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bessemer Herald
Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Pif Ssemer
Michigan
Around
Western
L. C. Mayer
Detroit
Gillsy House
Mayer
Golombiewski
Thomas Evans
Utah Agricultural College
Colorado School of Mines
Logan
Utah
Baltimore and Ohio
Derby
Pickaway County
Austin Murphy
Albert Lewis
Harry Bernfeldt
Louise Olmstead
Fourteenth and
Grand Avenue
Kansas City
Cairo
United States Court
Arkansas
Lee Nutt
Neosho
Blanche
Jacob Nicely
Joplin
Nicely
Nutt
Cincinnati
Gallipolis
Louisville
Federal Grand Jury
Theodore Kharsa
Kharas
Pierre
S. D
Dakota Southern Railway Company
Lemmon
N. D
Dickinson
Rapid City
Williston
Edith Wirt
Taggart
Harvey Galloway
Ossian Guthrie
Guthrie
Middle West
Bantyis
Streat
Hiram Bingham
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bingham
Gilbert Islands
St. Louis
William Sarkis
Second
Phim
Val Hildebrand
Weniger
Viola
William of
Knox
Knoxville, Ll
James A. Creighton
Petit Jury
Springfield
Ill
Toledo
R. A. Bartley
Calvin Block
John Miller
North Dakota
Duluth
Miller
Southern
D. J. Hennessy
Norfolk
Ida Chippendale
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Budapest
Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Prince Henry
Prussia
Count Zeppelin
Torreon
Mexico
Lugo
Nobledo
Viesvax
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Rio Grande
Prinzapulka
Rome
London
Diaz
Rec
Russia
Montreal
Silas C. McFarland
Iowa
Judge Wood
Mississippi Chancery Court
Louisville and
Nashville
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the State
Pennsylvania Railroad
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Western and Southwestern
United States Circuit Court
St. Paul
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Mexico
St. Joseph
New Orleans
Federal Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Congress
Circuit Court
Buffington
East
Delaware and Hudson
Ontario and Western
Guilbert
J. 8
Harris
Reading Road
Boston
Annie
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!