Fainting Miss Webster Linked to Illness Not Drunkenness
A New York woman Miss Minnie Webster aged 22 fainted at Broadway and Twenty seventh street while en route to her physician. She said she had recent illnesses and fainting spells, while a doctor at the scene reportedly questioned if she was drunk. Captain Cottrell allowed her to go.
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New York
Minnie Webster
West Twenty-first Street
Broadway
West Thirtieth Street
Humphreys
New York Hospital
Converse
Cannon salute at Davis arrival breaks windows in Benwood
A special train carrying Democratic vice presidential candidate Henry G. Davis arrived in Benwood, West Virginia, and a cannon salute shattered seven coach and car windows. No injuries were reported.
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Davis
Martinsville
W. Va
Henry G. Davis
Benwood
Blue and White Stockings On Co ed Football Day
Appleton report notes a campus fad where Lawrence College coeds wear one blue stocking and one white stocking to display school colors. The trend, started by two Milwaukee girls, will debut at a football game Saturday despite faculty warnings to avoid such color clashes.
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Milwaukee
Lawyer Says Woman's Love Like Measles in Larceny Case
In New York on October 14, Ignatz Krause faced grand larceny charges for taking a Harlem widow Mrs. Anna Levy's gold watch diamond ring and $20 after a broken promise of marriage. Lawyer Seliman argued most women are the same, provoking mirth in court. The jury found Krause guilty with mercy recommended. sentencing reserved.
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NW York
Seliman
Recorder Golf
Ignatz Krause
Anna Levy
Harlem
Hell
Judge Berry Praise of Straps Sparks Lynn Youths
In Lynn a local court case over corporal punishment draws city youth into heated discussions. Juvenile speakers and boys on Ocean avenue decry the judge’s call for more liberal use of the strap, while planning to adjust behavior amid fear of parent and police discipline.
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Lynn
Judge Berry
Ocean Avenue
Fatty
Philips
Coppers
Joyce
Woman sues husband over alleged River Crest asylum detention
Mrs. Julia Schmidt seeks divorce from Fritz Schmidt and claims she was wrongfully imprisoned in River Crest sanitarium beginning April 2, 1908. She describes being drugged by doctors and guarded by a nurse, then escaping after months of confinement and fleeing to New York.
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New York
Julia Schmidt
Fritz George Schmidt
River Crest Sanitarium
Moses H. Grossman
House, Grossman & Vorhaus
Park Row
Supreme Court
Hartwell
Liquor men back Potter saloon idea in new league
At the National Liquor Dealers Association convention in St. Louis a resolution unites the group with the Knights of the Royal Arch and Knights of Fidelity to form the National Liquor League. The body lauds Bishop Potter for dedicating a New York saloon and calls for tax cuts on whiskey wines and liquors.
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ST. Louis, Mo
National Liquor Dealers’ Association
Knights of the Royal Arch
Knights of Fidelity
National Liquor League
Potter
New York
GUTICURA SOAP The World's Greatest Skin Soap
The advertisement extols Cuticura Soap as superior to all other soaps, claiming it cleanses and purifies the skin, scalp, and hair, softens rough bands, treats baby rashes and irritations, and serves as a top toilet and nursery product. It emphasizes its emollient properties, fragrance, and universal usefulness for women and mothers.
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America
Cravenette
Boston
Oxford
Apacn Pianos
Mechanics
H. W. Berry
Keller & Sons
Washington Street
Huston
Carney Hospital
Tillian Zs
Liewellan Huston
Northfield Street
St. Philip’ S Church
East Lenox Street
Praetsch
Florentine
Bernard Praetsch
First German Baptist Church
Centre Street
Boylstone Street
Jamaica Plain
Young Bros
S ’ Mel
London
Harvard
Globe
Appleton, Wis
Fige Lawrence
Great Medicine Hood
Lowell
Mass
Order of King’s Daughters
New Haven
Conn
Margaret Bottume
Lynn Boys
Shorty
Wellville
Potter’s Saloon
Gale
Cutienra
Whitebert Farlers
Washingto Opp
Oe White Co
Roxbury Crossing
Hunt Bros. Roxbury
Stark Supply Co
Washington Market Cor
Washington and Lenox Sts
Los Angeles
Summer St
Davis Optical CO
Park Square
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co
Post Office Square
Benjamin F. Stevens
Alfred D. Foster
Franksford Trull
William B. Turner
Daniel F. Appel
Warren Sawyer
Thomas Sherwin
Nathaniel J. Rust
Henry Parkman
Walace L. Pierce
T. Jeffersonidge
Charles E. Cotting
Gordon Abbott
Ben F. Stevens
Massachusetts
Charles H. Flood
Ilk Street
A. H. Curtis
Federal Street
Bremner Extract CO
School St
Bos
Washington
Opere
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