Chase & Sanborns Opens New Six Story Building
Chase and Sanborn celebrated the opening of their new six story building at 194-208 High and 141-149 Broad streets. The 70 000 square feet featured a palm filled basement tea and coffee display and a demonstration of the coffee bean process from testing to roasting. Guests from New England New York and Illinois attended the ceremony marking the firm’s 40th year in business as leading importers of high grade coffee and tea.
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Friends of
Chase & Sanborn
United States
High Street
Abbott Graves
Veigh Street
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Broad Street
Waverley Robbery Alarms Prompt Police Review
In Waverley and Belmont town areas, residents fear crime as a single officer, John Argy, covers five miles with limited protection. Belmont hosts headquarters under Chief Jeremiah Ryan and Officer Fred Chance, while Waverley lacks a full police force amid rising incidents.
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John Argy
Waverley
Belmont
Jeremiah ‘Ryan
Fred Chance
Lack of Money Sparks Health Change and Town Row
A Green Forest Arkansas woman credits stopping coffee with Postum for curing decade-long stomach trouble and neuralgia. The piece also reports local taxpaying leaders calling for more police officers amid fears over safety, school and road spending, and a Mill Street robbery where two men robbed Cloud Wellsman and fled toward the Beaver Brook reservation.
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Green Forest
Ark
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Whey
Beaver Brook Reservation
Mill Street
Itch Fiend That is Salt Rheum Described
The text defines salt rheum or eczema as an outward sign of scrofula with itching burning oozing drying and scaling patches on skin areas such as the face head hands legs or body. It asserts outward applications cannot cure it and the blood must be cleansed of impurity.
Behemoth of Job and Modern Cure Promoted
A description links the Behemoth to the hippo in ancient Nile lore and to a modern medical claim. Dr Burkhart's Vegetable Compound is advertised as a cure for rheumatism catarrh constipation and blood diseases with an 80 days' treatment priced at 25e, available from all druggists.
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Job xi
Job
Nile
Burkhart
President Leaves Cleveland for Washington After Wedding Day
The President departed Cleveland at 11 tonight for Washington. He attended the wedding of Miss Ruth Hanna to Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago with Miss Roosevelt accompanying him. Bishops, ministers, and a large guest list attended the ceremony and breakfast at Glen Mere with about 150 guests.
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Cleveland
Washington
Miss Roosevelt
Ruth Hanna
Joseph Medill McCormick
Chicago
Howard H. Hanna
Joseph M Patterson
Robert Allerton
W. Beck
Ernest Miner
Cincinnati
James Barney
New York
William Williams
Philadelphia
Malcolm Mce
Florence Cobb
Mary Hopkins
Claire Hanna
Adelaide Hamilton
Virginia Johnston
Laura McGinley
Pittsburg
Frances Lewis
Portland
Ore
Eleanor Patterson
Lucia McCurdy
Rutherford McCormick
Leonard
Billings
Groton
Mass
George M. McGrew
W. H. Jones
Brookline Town Meeting Ends in Five Minutes
Brookline held one of its shortest town meetings last evening with 14 articles approved almost without debate. Appropriations totaled 10 200 for hospital final payment eight room school building interest on funded debt library committee expert advice shower baths at the Natatorium and library improvements. Emery H Gibbs led the only major motion asking the committee on the new library to report on acquiring property bordered by Washington School and Prospect streets and its intended municipal uses with recommendations. Joseph Walker was elected moderator.
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Brookline
Emery H. Gibbs
Washington, School
Prospect Streets
Joseph Walker
Flood Devastates East St. Louis Looming Casualties Reach Eleven
June 10 East St. Louis faces a massive flood with two thirds submerged under 2 to 11 feet of water. Eleven people drown as Mayor Silas Cook and 5000 volunteers fortify sandbag levees along the Mississippi while rescue boats evacuate residents and guard against looting. The southern half of the city braces as embankments fail and the river breaches the riverfront.
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ST. Louis
East St. Louis
Silas Cook
Cook
Dast St. Louis
Broadway
Ads Bridge
Lmits
Illinois Central
Aicot
John Koolish
Alton
United States
Dyer
Reed a Popular Lawyer Faces Bank Stock Troubles
The article profiles Reed a brilliant lawyer once well liked in Maine and Boston. It notes his financial struggles from failed ventures and milling deals, plus his generous personal lifestyle with horses, carriages, and a coachman at his summer home. He enjoyed political ties across parties.
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Jtoe
Manley
Reed
Maine
Boston
Reed's Mining Ventures Leaving Boston Banker Deep in Debt
Lawyer William G. Reed, active in five years of Colorado mining ventures, is reported nearly $200000 in the hole. He led the Revenue Leasing and Mining Co with 6500 shares, expanded capital to $1,000,000, and faced a market slump as brokers dumped stock. Reed may travel to Colorado and California amid questions from creditors and friends.
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Revenue Leasing and Mining Company
William G. Reed
Reed
Colorado
East Boston
State Street
Rialto Mining and Milling Company
Comstock Gold Mining and Leasing Company
Chippewa
Waldoboro
California
Boston
Koch Inhalations Promised Cure for Lung Diseases
Advertises Koch Inhalations and Koch Tuberculine to treat cold related lung conditions and chronic diseases. Claims rapid bacilli destruction and healing, with clinics in major cities and a free initial examination at 861 Boylston Street Boston. Home treatment available by descriptive pamphlet.
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Koch Institutes
Boston
New York
Newark
Chicago
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Rochester
Erie
Altoona
Koch
Boylston Street
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Brookline Town Meeting
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Arcade
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