First Historical Pageant Planned for Philadelphia
Philadelphia aims to stage the first American historical pageant during the week of parades celebrating the 225th anniversary of William Penn founding the city. The production features 40 floats and 5 000 costumed characters across three centuries, with key events from the 17th century, Revolutionary era, War of 1812, Mexican and Civil Wars, and Lincoln era, at an estimated cost of 50000 dollars and expected to draw a million spectators.
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Philadelphia
Aprice Cramer
William Penn
United States
England
Continental
Europe
Penn
Thomas — Jefferson
State House
Washington
Robert Morris
Germantown
Stephen Girard
Lavicy
Morris and
Girard
Lincoln
Jay Cooke
Nationa
Full dress attire and Liver Pills Ad
Vintage classified style promotes Bluefield attire and Cincinnati tailoring with prices. Also advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills as purifiers to relieve stagnation, headaches, biliousness, and jaundice with a 25 cent price. Includes product claims and store mentions.
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Dr. King
Letter promoting Hanna’s Green Seal Paint claims cure
A customer letter from C N Corne of Roding Georgia dated August 27 1906 endorses Hanna’s Green Seal Paint E C DeWitt Co Chicago Illinois for stomach and bowel disease relief. The note praises the product and asks recipients to live long and prosper, says the bottle cured ailments more valuable than gold.
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E. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Evening Classes Offerings At Bluefield and Nora & Business
From 9 to 4 o'clock shorthand typing bookkeeping mathematics rhetoric and commercial law listed for Bluefield and Nora & Business. From 4 to 7 o'clock cornet violin flute vocal music and from 7 to a pindh kee EDA on ling penmanship letter writing appears in the notice.
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Bluefield , Nora & Business
Gentle and Effective Stomach and Liver Tablets Ad
Manitoba editor recommends Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets for biliousness from sedentary life. Gentle, effective digestion aid and head relief. Price two cents. Samples free at West End Drug Co East End Pharmacy and Dinéfeld Pharmacy.
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Manitoba
Chamberlain
West End Drug Co
Dinéfeld
Tolstoy Jubilee Plans Abandoned Amid Death Bed Plea
Plans for an international Tolstoy jubilee at Yasna Polyana were dropped after Tolstoy urged opponents to halt the celebration. In a letter to Michael Stakhovich he argued the event would cause pain and envy among followers, asking to be freed from sorrow and not to be honored posthumously.
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Yasna Polyna
Tolstoian
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Tolstoi
Mich+ael Stakhovich
Leo Tolstoi
Sergius
Split in Ninth District GOP Convention in Georgia
In Athens on April 30 the Ninth District Republican convention split with two factions naming Chicago delegates. J T Heard and followers bolted to form a separate meeting while M Morton and J E Porcte were chosen by the rival group. Heard faction backed Roosevelt with L C Durham nominated for congress.
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Athens
Chicago
J. T. Heard
M. Morton
J. E. Porcte
Washington
Heard
W. H. Johnson
McM. Moon
Milison
Roosevelt
L. C. Durham
Congress
Sutton Forfeits Title In Billiards Championship
Jacob Schaefer forfeited to George Sutton the 18.1 balk line world title due to illness. Sutton wins the title for the third time though not by actual play. Hoppe already left Paris and will meet Sutton here tomorrow night for the 18.2 championship.
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Chicago
Jacob Schaefer
George Sutton
Sutton
Actust
Schaefer
Paris
Willie Hoppe
Hoppe
Trolley Strike Averted in Pittsburg
The threatened strike by motormen and conductors on all traction lines was postponed after a near unanimous rejection of the company’s proposition by the workers. The pay cut’s effective date was delayed to May 9 and a third arbitrator joined the board, signaling an expected settlement.
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Pittsburg
Ompany
Arbitration Board
North Carolina Republicans Endorse Taft at Convention
The Greensboro convention adopted resolutions endorsing Roosevelt's administration and directing delegates to vote for Taft for president.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Roosevelt
Taft
Mercer County Mass Convention Calls for 24 Delegates
A Republican mass convention in Mercer County, Bluefield, on May 16, 1908 at 11:00 A M to select 24 delegates for the State Nominating Convention in Charleston and to nominate county officers for the November 3 1908 election. Voters from each magisterial district will cast one vote per twenty five Roosevelt votes or fraction thereof. District tallies listed. officers to be chosen include Clerk of the County Court Circuit Clerk two House members two County Court Commissioners Prosecuting Attorney Assessor County Surveyor and an Executive Committee chairman and secretary. Signed Isaac T Mann chairman and E L Geyere secretary Bramwell April 4 1908.
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Mercer County
Bluefield
Mercer
Charleston
West Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt
House of Delegates
Eee Sessor
Rock
Beaver Pond
East River
Plymouth
Jumping Branch
Isaac ‘T. Mann
E. L. Geyere
Bramwell
Democratic county executive calls Mercer county meeting
An official notice from Mercer county Democrats announces a main meeting at Princeton Court House on May 12 1908 at 1 pm to elect delegates to the state convention in Wheeling May 28 1908 and to assemble delegates for district conventions. Wirt A French chairman.
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Democratic County Executive Committee
Court House
Princeton
Mercer County
Wheeling
Wirt A. French
War Declared to Fight Stomach Troubles with Mi o Na Tablets
Local druggists launch a campaign for Mi-o-na tablets as an stomach remedy backed by a 50 cent refund guarantee. The ad promises relief from headache dizziness palpitations nervousness coated tongue and indigestion with strong claims of cleansing and strengthening digestive organs. The White Pharmacy stores offer full refund if not cured.
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Cellesi O Na
Bid Solicitation for Welch Residence Construction
Abbreviated notice calling for bids to construct a residence in Welch McDowell County West Virginia with two bid options native stone first story brick second story or frame throughout Plans and specs available at Shufflebarger Co Bluefield WV bids to be sent to Wel h West Virginia by May 1908 1911 IBAIAH C HERNDON
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Welch
McDowell County
West Virginia
Shufflebarger & Co
Bluefield
Ibaiah C. Herndon
Resolutions Adopted by Republican Convention in Bluefield
The Bluefield Republican convention endorses city progress, crediting public-spirited citizens for improvements. It calls for continued street paving, sewer expansion, modern fire protection, and a paid fire department, opposes cows in the city, supports temperance measures, and favors meter integrity inspections. J. D. W. Gollbon, chairman.
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Bluefield
Piuefield
Congress
J. d W. Gollbhon
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