Marvellous home rupture cure touted by Syracuse genius
A sensational ad extols a home treatment for rupture promising cure without surgery. It cites a St Louis citizen’s 4 year cure, claims universal success, and invites readers to send name and address to The Electrus Co. in Syracuse for full details, asserting no quackery and no loss of employment.
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St. Louis
Syracuse
Electrus Co
Wood Building
N. Y
F. J. Kellogg
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
West End police capture pawnshop burglar John Smith
Special Officer Norton detained 42 year old John Smith of Union Lodging House at a Merrimac Street pawnshop. Smith confessed to stealing plumbing goods and claims he joined a wholesale theft ring, providing clues for officers. He arrived from England days earlier and will aid as a witness if others are arrested.
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West End
Norton
John Smith
Union Lodging House
Merrimac Street
Smith
O’rourke
England
Boston
Swordfish Pierces A Fishing Schooner
Gloucester captain Frank Norwell and his crew raced home from Georges Bank after a giant swordfish struck their fishing schooner. The whale of a sword pierced the hull near the bow two feet below waterline, letting in water at a heavy rate and forcing continuous pumping to reach Boston.
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Gloucester
Frank Norwell
Georges Banks
Boston
Woman Injured In Stair Fall At Shawmut Avenue Scene
Elizabeth Cohen of 226 Shawmut Avenue is in City Hospital with a fractured skull after falling down stairs and striking her head during a fit last evening.
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Elizabeth Cohen
Shawmut Avenue
City Hospital
Nixon Theatre to be tested as fireproof in burn test
Nixon & Zimmerman plan to ignite kerosene soaked clothing on hooks in a dressing room to prove the Nixon Theatre is fireproof. They claim the building has no wood in frame or walls, with steel, brick, hard mortar and stone used throughout.
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Pittsburg
Nixon
Nixon & Zimmerman
Nixon Theatre
Bates Goes on an Auto Ride
Governor Bates joined a ward ten pleasure party for a noontime automobile trip to Squantum. Three steam cars carried W. W. Blackmar and Prof Schwamb among others. a fish dinner at Squantum Inn ended the outing with no speeches.
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Bates
Squantum
Hotel Bellevue
George H. Lowe
Tonneau
W. W Blackmar
Professor Schwamb
Institute of Technology
Harry M. Gordon
John §. Maxwell
Medford
Herbert S. Johnson
Robert H. Smith
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Charles Brown
John Quinn
Thomas JF. Reddy
Daniel MacDonald
W. M. Frisbie
Squantum Inn
Teamsters Condemn Central Labor Union Parade Over Labor Day Display
Delegates of the Teamsters Joint Council condemn the Central Labor Union marshal for placing the teamsters on the left of the Building Trades Council line and failing to pass the reviewing stand. The dispute between the Building Trades Council and the Central Labor Union will be discussed at upcoming meetings of both bodies.
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Central Labor Union
Building Trades Council
Teamsters’ District Council
Teamsters
Organized Labor
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Boston Building Trades Council
Smelts Plentiful in the Bay This Season
Market reports indicate abundant smelts this year with 7 to 9 inch fish selling at 20 cents per pound. A market dealer noted a worker hauling about 20 pounds daily from Apple Island.
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Yeste
Apple Island
Brace Up Iron Ox Tablets Offer a Natural Ton ic
A vintage ad promotes Iron Ox Tablets as a tonic to purify the blood strengthen nerves and invigorate the body. It warns against alcohol based stimulants and contrasts the natural buildup of Iron Ox with habit forming drinks. The aluminum pocket case holds 50 tablets and costs 25 cents, with ordering from The Iron Ox Remedy Co Detroit Michigan.
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Iron-Ox Remedy Co
Detroit
Mich
New York Wins National Trophy in Spirited Competition
In Sea Girt New Jersey on September 9 New York's Empire State team of 12 uniforms won the national trophy with 2988 points, leading by 86 over New Jersey. New York receives $500 prize. Massachusetts takes third with 2888 and $200 plus the Soldier of Marathon trophy.
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N. J
Congress
New York
Empire State
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Hudson
Ninth
New York Regiment
Guilfoyle
Secretary of War
Mayor Low Named Fusion Candidate for Mayor
At a Fusion conference in New York on September 9 Seth Low was endorsed as Fusion candidate for mayor to be presented at the Fusionist convention by all affiliated bodies except the Greater New York Democracy and Kings County Democracy. Low said he was pleased and warned of a hard fight ahead for a clean non partisan government.
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New York
Seth Low
Greater
Clerk Charged With Stealing Mining Shares
F. G. Christensen Jr of 61 Prescott street Somerville aged 19 is under arrest charged with stealing 200 shares of American zinc lead and smelting stock valued at 1600 from Robert D. Evans Company at 4 Postoffice square where he worked as a clerk. On August 13 100 shares were stolen and the remainder last Monday.
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F. G. Christensen, Jr
Prescott Street
Somerville
American Zinc
Robert D. Evans Company
Postoffice Square
Vital Life Fluid claims cure all diseases for free
An advertisement promises a mysterious Vital Life Fluid that can cure every illness and restore health. The narrator, Dr. Sargent Ferris of Cleveland Ohio, offers to send free samples and guarantees prompt replies to inquiries while urging readers to ignore skeptics.
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Sargent Ferris
Strawn Ridg
Cleveland
Ohio
Hanna Is The Storm Centre In Ohio Campaign
Akron set a Democratic State campaign opening with speeches by Governor candidate Tom L. Johnson United States Senate hopeful John H. Clarke and Henry George Jr. Clarke faulted Hanna’s tariff policy blaming it for a tense business climate and urged removing tariffs on monopoly tied goods and capping interstate corporate capitalization to the property value. He urged Philippine independence and denounced Republican policy.
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Akron
Tom L. Johnson
Ohio
John H. Clarke
United States
Henry George, Jr
New York
Clarke
Hanna
Labor Hall
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Treasury
M Gennity Slashes Throat At Brookline Home
Patrick McGennity 35 a bottle washer for a wholesale liquor firm returned to his room in a Brookline boarding house at 48 Boylston street and killed himself with a razor severing the jugular. Despite a doctor being summoned he died before arrival. He had been assisted to his room and lay on the bed before the act.
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Patrick McGennity
Brookline
McGennity
John O’neil
Boylston Street
Italian Socialists Plan Hiss Czar During Rome Visit
The Czar is to arrive in Rome on October 24 for a three day stay. He will attend a military review and a gala Opera House performance. Italian Socialists promise a hostile demonstration in protest of the visit.
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Rome
Opera
Italy
Salesman for Boston firm jumps into Lake Erie
G H Lowe of Carter-Rice Paper confirms C T Barden, a traveling salesman for the firm, died by self inflicted drowning at Cleveland. Barden, a Western man employed six months, covered Illinois Ohio Indiana and St. Louis. He left a notebook and expense account on his body. He had a wife and family in Buffalo and previously worked for Judd Paper Company.
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G. H. Lowe
Carter-Rice Paper Company
C. T. Barden
Cleveland
Barden
Lake Erie
Lowe
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
St. Louis
Buffalo
Judd Paper Company
Exhibition of Fruits Opens in Boston Horticultural Hall
The 28th biennial session of the American Pomological Society begins at 10 a.m. at Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue. Sessions include papers, reports, and discussions on horticultural topics with a large national fruit exhibit. Entertaining the public free of charge.
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American Pomological Society
Horticultural Hall
Massachusetts Avenue
Maine
California
Florida
Galvin Rally in Ward 20 At Democratic Club HQ
A Young Men's Democratic Club rally in Ward 20 drew about 200 people at Dorchester avenue and Linden street with Edward J. Barrett presiding. Speakers included Joseph F. OConnell Stephen P. Galvin and others urging election of Galvin for Senator and citing ward organization.
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Young Men’s Democratic Club
Ward 20
Dorchester Avenue
Linden Street
Edward J. Barrett
Joseph F. O’connell
Stephen P. Galvin
Young Men's
P. A. Kearns
M. F. Culliney
P. H. Tworoger
James H. Byrnes
John J. O’hare
O'Connell
Gore
Dorchester
Hebrew Democratic Club
Blue Hill Avenue
Mansfield Indorsed by the Hampden Club
A Hampden Club rally in Hibernian Hall Mansfield for Senate candidate John J. Mansfield and representatives Walter J. O’Malley Jr and William H. Murphy drew about 300. Councilman Glynn presided as Mansfield attacked Gartland Jr’s record, accusing betrayals of Democratic principles and opposing cheaper gas electricity fares and fuel.
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Hampden Club
John J. Mansfield
Senate
Walter J. O'Malley, Jr
William H. Murphy
Representatives
Hibernian Hall
Hampden Street
Glynn
Mansfield
John J. Gartland, Jr
House
Gartland
Manseld
Jeremiah F. Kelliher
Ward 7
C. I. Quirk
First Suit in Lowell Explosion Case Filed
Annie F Flynn mother and dependent next of kin of George F Flynn filed the first suit in the Lowell explosion case at East Cambridge. The action seeks $6000 in tort against the estate of Paul Butler and Blanche Butler Ames trading as United States Cartridge Company, with writ of attachment included.
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Lowell
East Cambridge
Annie F. Flynn
George F. Flynn
Paul Butler
Blanche Butler Ames
Copartners
United States Cartridge Company
Oxford Cambridge Golfing Society Beats New Jersey Team
English golfers win at Baltusrol Golf Club as the Oxford Cambridge Golfing Society defeats the New Jersey Golf Association by ten points to six on September 9.
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New York
Oxford-Cambridge Golfing Society
New Jersey Golf Association
Baltusrol
Edhem Pasha described as chief butcher of Abdul Hamid
Sofia dispatch identifies Edhem Pasha as the massacre leader blamed for mass killings and slavery of Armenians and Christians. It outlines his Christian birth, slave origins, rise through Ottoman ranks, and role in the Zeitoun and Asia Minor massacres. The report underscores his hatred of foreigners and Christians and his ascent to field marshal.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Edhem Pasha
Abdul Hamid
Chio
Behem Pasha
Mohammed
Ohio
Khosseo Pasha
Constantinople
Paris
Institute
Barbet
Turkey
Murad
Council of State
Berlin
Vienna
Asia Minor
Powers Fear a Carnival of Blood in Turkey nople
Turkish forces repelled a large insurgent force near Ostrovo 30 miles from Monastir, with heavy fighting reported. Three Bulgarian fighters were killed and many wounded, a Turk died, and Turks captured war munitions and rebel proclamations. The insurgents fled toward the Kaimakchalan mountains where they again faced Turkish troops.
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Nople
Ostrovo
Monastir
Kaimakchalan
Demir
Salonica
Kapu
Macedonians Claim 65000 Slain in Atrocities Memorandum
Sofia reports Macedonian organizations prepare a memorandum for powers alleging Turkish atrocities. They claim 65,000 men, women, and children killed and 120 villages burned, mainly in the Monastir vilayet, with few in Adrianople. Insurgents vow retaliation, shifting responsibility to Turkey.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Vilayet
Adrianople
Monastir Vilayet
Monastir
Turkey
Mining Congress Seeks Department of Mines Leadership
The American Mining Congress moved its sessions to Lead South Dakota and debated resolutions aimed at creating a U S department of mines with cabinet status equal to Commerce and Labor. Denver’s Edward F Brown proposed a petition to Congress for such a department administered by a President appointed head.
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Mining Congress
Department OF Mines Lead
S. D
American Mining Congress
Lead
Deadwood
Congress
Edward F. Brown
Denver
Congress of the United States
Department of Mines and Mining
Department of Commerce and Labor
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