National Grocers Open Convention Opens in Boston
The National Grocers convened at Fanueil Hall with delegates from Arkansas to Washington, led by President A. L. Stark. Boston figures praised, jokes about crooked streets, and remarks on trade shifts marked the opening ceremonies as delegates gathered to celebrate a year’s work in the grocery trade.
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Faneuil Hall
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Maine
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Hampshire
Nebraska
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin
Washington
District of Columbia
A. L. Stark
Retail Grocers’ Association
Senate
FE. A. Horton
Stark
Robert Luce
Commonwealth
West
Luce
New England
Frank B. Connolly
W. D. Cotton
W. Gray
Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston
James J. Storrow
Cobb
Sol Westerfield
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
A woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from nervousness headaches and other menopausal symptoms enabling her to resume daily work and urges friends to try the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
For thirty years this remedy has been the standard for female ills. It claims to cure thousands of cases with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, backache, bearing-down, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why not try it.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Aly
Pyramid Pile Cure Promises Home Relief
Advertises Pyramid Pile Cure as a home treatment for piles claiming rapid relief, healing ulcers, and avoiding surgery. Promises a free trial sample with no charge, then a 50 cent box from a druggist. North American drug company contact is Pyramid Drug Co. Marshall Michigan.
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Pyramid Drug Co
Pyramid Bldg
Marshall, Mich
Woman Slayer and Victims Pulled From House of Mystery
In La Porte Indiana on May 11 Mrs Belle Guinness a wholesale murderess lured lovers to her home where chloral was used to poison them. State evidence points to Ray Lamphere as the man accused of murdering Guinness and her children. Victims reportedly were drawn and quartered and their bodies hidden in a secret chamber and later buried in the yard.
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Lamphere
Helgelein
Michigan City
Laporte
Ind
Belle Guinness
Ray Lamphere
House of Mystery
Topeka Farmer Plans Trip to Laporte in Guinness Case
Alonzo C Townsend a Topeka area farmer owner of 50000 dollars in Kansas land travels to Laporte Indiana to meet Belle Guinness the murderess after reading matrimonial ads Townsend intends to take 5000 dollars as cash to prove good faith but changes plan after a bank official shows him local horror reports.
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Topeka
Kan
Alonzo C., Townsend
Kansas
Laporte
Ind
Belle Guinness
Townsend
Sester
President Roosevelt urged by Prosperity group to halt radical legislation
A National Prosperity Association committee met President Roosevelt to press for a halt on hasty regulatory laws and to seek fair treatment of business issues by parties as campaigns open. Roosevelt replied he supports enforcing recent laws and continuing prudent regulatory action to bolster national welfare.
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Washington
National Prosperity Association
Roosevelt
E. C. Simmons
Fire devastates warehouse and tenement district
Firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling flames that destroyed a warehouse adjoining the old shoe factory and damaged a large tenement block on Cottage street. Estimated losses reach $50,000 with several acres burned. Residents suspect incendiary origin as two men were seen fleeing.
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Fred Carter
Cottage Street
Post
Peter Ballard
Joseph Carlucci
Mary Moran
Orleans
Cummings & Howes
Universalist
H. K. Cummings
Abbott Nickerson
Cummings
H. K. Cummings & Co
Laxative in Vest-Pocket Boxes Cascarets Promoted
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a ready laxative kept in vest-pocket boxes. It warns against delaying bowel relief for violent physic which harms stomach and bowels and causes dyspepsia from constipation.
Parade Opens A O H Bazaar in Roxbury Church Event
A grand parade of several hundred A O H members from Boston branches opened the Hibernian Fund Association bazaar at Vine Street Church Roxbury. Elected officials and officers led the event with many divisions and forester and St Patrick branch groups in parade. Nightly features and contests run through Friday with expected large proceeds.
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Boston
Order
Vine Street
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Hibernian Fund Association of Boston Highlands
Eix-Mayor
Fitzgerald
Curley
Roxbury Crossing
Edmund Phelan
Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society
St. Patrick
N. F
James H. Kelly
Patrick J. Larkin
John T. Hussey
Daniel Leonard
Interview With L. T. Cooper On Stomach Health Cure
The article presents L. T. Cooper defending his stomach regulating medicine as the cause of its success. He argues modern overworked stomachs cause general ill health and claims his preparation has helped thousands in major cities with plans to expand to Europe. A Brooklyn case by Oscar Danner supports relief after indigestion. Jaynes Drug Stores are noted as Boston agents.
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L. T. Cooper
Cooper
Europe
Oscar Danner
Nelson Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Danner
Boston
Jaynes Drug Stores
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U.S. Coffee Refining CO
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Eis
U. S. Coffee Refining CO. Board of Trade Building
Sien
Edwin Johnson
Foster-Richardson Company
Anthony Zaleski
Brigham Street
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Houghton & Dutton CO
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