Circling the Globe and Local Tragedies in One Page
The issue surveys a global Gaelic league formation in Waterbury Connecticut and a string of local and regional calamities. It notes riots in Gallipolis Ohio, drownings from Rainy Lake near Fort Frances Manitoba, a church relic discovery in Princeton Massachusetts, a Boston area oil painting claim, a Minnesotan house fire with five child fatalities, and multiple suicides and violent incidents across the country. It also covers political shifts in Washington state with Levi Ankeny's defeat, incendiary acts near Hibbing Minnesota, and the Duluth area forest fire dangers near Grand Mavais with a calm wind ending the threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Princeton
Mass
Moses Gill
Rainy Lake
Fort Frances
Man
Moke Infelt
Omaha
Neb
Charles FE
Davis
Dr. Austin
International Paper Company
Livermore Falls
New York
Mary Ann Reisch
Lillian Reynolds
Messiah Home
Westchester
Pearson Talley
Williveton
Del
Kentucky
Levi Ankeny
United States Senate
Washington
Wesley L. Jones
Congress
Jones
Chikhulm
Mion
Brooklyn
Hibbing
Tibbing
Monroe
Chisholm
Duluth
Grand Mavrais
Heat and baseball standings amid drought and crime
The piece notes July heat with a 112 degree reading at Strawn Texas halting business as wallpaper splits from walls. It lists National and Western League club standings and reports Bill Lennant and Starry Coleman sentenced to indeterminate terms of ten to twenty-one years for the Chautauqua State bank robbery in Kan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western League
Omaha
Denver
Sioux City
Pueblo
Lincoln
Des Moines
Strawn
Texas
Bill Lennant
Starry Coleman
Chautauqua State Bank
Chautauqua Springs
Kan
Lo&ing Cashier Waterhouse
del Easley
State Reformatory
Wheat and oat crop estimates at Manitoba Grain Exchange
Manitoba Grain Exchange members estimate Western Canada wheat crop at not more than 100,000,000 bushels and the oat crop at 50,000,000. Hot weather blamed for shrinkage. In St. Paul a conference of Minnesota health officers, dairymen and cattlemen urged legislation to ban sale of breeding cattle not tested for tuberculosis, with stockmen seeking universal tuberculin testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba Grain Exchange
Western
Canada
Minnesota
St. Paul
Latest Telephone Marvel From German Inventor Gruwe
Gustav Gruwe of Germany showcases a device sending handwriting and voice simultaneously over a wire using a twelve volt current. The system uses light reflected onto sensitized paper to reproduce writing and sketches in real time, with automatic development completing in ten seconds. It promises commercial value as an auxiliary to telephones for engineers reporters and artists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustav Gruwe
London
Zeppelin's New Airship Record Flight
Count Zeppelin broke a long distance record by an air journey from Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. The aerostat crossed the Rhine to Mayence at about 29 miles an hour, then returned. after repairs the ship resurfaced and continued. The continuous flight totaled 2361 miles with cheers from thousands along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeppelin
Count Zeppelin
Friedrichshagen
Lake Constance
Rhine
Mayence
Political notes and party nominations across states
The Iowa executive council certifies J A T Hall for Congress. W J Bryan is elected honorary member of Lincoln Typographical Union. I F Nelson of Minnesota Agricultural Society presents Bryan with a mule. John Temple Graves runs as Independence vice presidential candidate after a minor New York hospital operation. Illinois Independence nominates George W. McCaskrin for Governor. In Oklahoma, Thomas P Gore is renominated by a large majority. Debs questions Independence party impact. Tremont Temple declines Debs meeting use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
John Temple Graves
Independence Party
New York
Chicago
George W. McCaskrin
Rock Island
Oklahoma
Thomas P. Gore
Eugene V. Debs
Indiana
Socialist Party
Boston
Supt
Plimpton
Tremont Temple
E P Sargent Dies Longtime Immigration Chief
Frank P. Sargent former Commissioner General of Immigration died in Washington on Friday from stomach trouble and related diseases. Born November 18 184 in East Orange Vermont, he began as a locomotive fireman and rose to lead the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for seventeen years with headquarters in Peoria Illinois. He married Georgie M McCullough and held various federal posts before being appointed Commissioner General of Immigration by President Roosevelt on July 1 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Sargent
Washington
Frank Pierce Sargent
East Orange
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Peoria
Georgie M. McCullough
McKinley
Mr. Sargent
Industrial Commission
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Roosevelt
Competition for Beef Trust forms Chicago Stock Yards firm
Chicago hears a new company, the Chicago Stock Yards and Transit Company, will operate independent stock yards on a large scale starting Oct 1 with 20000 capital. Twenty acres have been bought at Thirty ninth street and Forty eig avenue as buildings rise. The firm is expected to cut prices. A Fort Snelling school for children is planned this fall. Fort teachers have been lacking, so St. Paul schools will supply teachers to equalize Fort Snelling education with city schools. the offer is accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beef Trust
Chicago
Chicago Stock Yards and Transit Company
Thirty Ninth Street
Eig Avenue
Fort Snelling
St. Paul
Wright Sets World Aeroplane Flight Record at Fort Myer
Orville Wright circled the parade grounds fifty three times and stayed aloft fifty seven minutes and thirty one seconds to establish a new world record for heavier-than-air flight at Fort Myer Virginia. He flew at thirty six to thirty eight miles per hour with a near perfect machine and minimal trouble, noting he could have stayed longer if not for a minor motor slip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Myer
Orville Wright
Mr. Wright
Wright
Leon Delagrange
Aviation Club of France
Issy
Paris
Delagrange
International Tensions Rise Across Globe in Briefs
American shippers in Mukden complain to their consul about discrimination by the Japanese Manchuria railroad via a rebate system that excludes foreign lines under minimum cargo limits. London hosts the peace conference session with Lord Courtney linking justice to peace and international law. In Bombay Tilak is convicted of sedition, six years’ banishment, and a heavy fine, sparking a 20,000-strong mill workers strike and riot. Heirs of Martinique’s mayor sue Paris for damages after an assassination. A new patent law prompts foreign firms to move investments to England, with $125 million capital expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mukden
Manchuria
London
Lord Courtney
Tilak
India
High Court
Bombay
Antoine Siger
Fort de France
Martinique
Paris
M. Lepreux
England
Peruna Cure Highlighted in San Antonio Ad Tale
BE Walton of San Antonio recounts years of catarrh and a troubling cough with night sweats before crediting Peruna with dramatic relief after diligent use. He notes lasting benefit and occasional later use for bad colds, while a separate humorous exchange about settling an account closes the vignette in Chicago Tribunes style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. W. Walton
Condr
P. Ry
van Ness St
San Antonio
Tex
Backache remedies and prison dignity quotes emerge
An advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for long standing backache suffered by Mrs. Thos. Dunn of Columbus Ohio. The text also includes brief quotes praising self respect in prison and remarks attributed to Taft about Lincoln progress of colored people in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos. Dunn
Vine St
Columbus
Ohio
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
The Pale Girl and Coffee’s Hidden Danger
A cold climate tale contrasts coffee with Postum a Dak girl cites years of headaches indigestion and low energy before switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts Her claim is clear skin restored headaches ended and renewed vitality While her husband and children also benefit the letter ends noting Postum’s claimed authentication and a continuing reader appeal
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dak
N. Dak
Postum Co
Tattle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Bessemer Herald
Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Bessemer, Michigan
Eastern Gaelic League
Waterbury
Conn
Mississippi
Gallipolis
John White
Clarence Bayes
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Idaho
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massa
Sane
Michigan
Ius
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
Nebraska
W. L
New Jersey
New Mexico
New
Carolina
R. Island
Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Detroit
Philadelphia
Boston Iz
Bt. Louis
Cleveland
American Association
Indianaplis
Minneapolis
Louisville SG
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Toledo
Gos St. Paul
Lopry House
I. F. Nelson
The
Minnesota Agricultural Society
W. J. Bryan
E. P. Sargent
Fort Meyer
Chicago ‘Tribune
Abraham Lincoln
Ilon
UL Taft
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