Murphy Reveals Cook Pole Visit Tale on Roosevelt
Sydney dispatch recounts a dramatic interview with John Murphy and William Pritchard aboard the Roosevelt. Pritchard describes pressure in Dr. Cook's cabin and details about stores at Annootok and Etah, while Murphy shifts from silence to partial confirmation of Cook's polar claim.
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Sydney
Dr. Cook
John Murphy
Roosevelt
William Pritchard
Pritchard
Peary
Battle Harbor
Murphy
Cook
Etah
Annootok
Whitney
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad in Houston Testimonial
A Houston reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. Mrs Bessie L Hicks describes three years of illness improved after one bottle, urging other women to try the remedy and crediting it with restoring health and vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Houston
Texas
Lydia F. Pinkham
Bessie L. Hicks
Cleveland St
Believe Cook Whitney's Message to His Mother
Harry Whitney sends his mother a Sept 5 letter claiming he met Dr. Cook in Utah and Cook has reached the North Pole with evidences. Whitney says Cook is bound to become a great man and that he himself joined Peary before taking a Labrador hunting trip. Peary disputes Whitney's account and withheld Cook's discovery detail.
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New York
Harry Whitney
Whitney
Cook
Utah
North Pole
William Blodgett
Fishkill
N. Y
Peary
Labrador
Brooklyn
New Haven
Woman killed at crossing in Suncook New Hampshire
Mrs. Mary Laliberte aged 28 was killed and her mother Mrs. Delphis Vadeboncoeur 67 was seriously injured when struck by an express train while crossing the Boston and Maine tracks at the China crossing. The younger woman died on the train en route to hospital. the mother suffered four broken ribs but may recover. The accident occurred today near Suncook New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suncook
N. H
Mary Laliberte
Delphis Vadeboncoeur
Boston & Maine
China Crossing
Clark University Chooses New President
Worcester Sept 21 The Clark University board of trustees unanimously elected Professor Edmund Clark Sanford president of the college department to succeed the late Carroll D Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Board of Trustees
Clark University
Edmund Clark Sanford
Carroll D. Wright
Jordan Marsh Co Sale Draws Immense Crowd
The Jordan Marsh Company opens the fall season with a drawing crowds to its Washington to Summer street displays. Patrons praise bargains and the window scenes while the millinery department features foreign designer offerings and Parisian style in the shop's Parisian parlor displays.
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Jordan Marsh Co. Sale
Jordan Marsh Company
Washington
Summer Street
Gold Brick Talk Not Gentlemenly
A Malden letters to the editor defend Cook as the true discoverer of the North Pole and denounce Peary as un gentlemanly for calling Cook a gold brick. The writer urges recognition of Cook as the explorer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Peary
North Pols
A Malden
Fleisher Yarns Promise Superior Garment Quality
Advertises Fleisher Yarns claiming garments made from their skeins retain softness and elasticity, resisting needle crush. Encourages trying Germantown Zephyr Knitting Worsted and other Fleisher lines with guarantee and traceable trade-mark tickets. Ends with generic name Street City.
Young Blaine Engagement Announced in New England
Miss Marion Dow daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard F Dow of Boston and James G Blaine 3rd son of Mrs William T Bull of Newport and New York are engaged announced at Marion Mass in the Dow family country home Miss Dow has been prominent in Boston and Marion social circles Blaine is a Harvard senior and member of the Porcelain Club
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Newport
R. I
Marion Dow
Richard F. Dow
Marlboro Street
Boston
James G. Blaine
William T. Bull
New York
Marion
Mass
Miss Dow
Blaine
Harvard
Porcelian Club
Three Shot in Poll Clash Ends in Fatal Wounding
In New York on September 21 hundreds were arrested for poll disorders as two rival bands of Tammany leaders clashed at a Second Avenue polling place. About 40 shots were fired and three men were wounded, one fatally, as polls closed.
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New York
Greater
Second Avenue
Tammany
Latest Knitting and Crocheting Styles in Scarves
A feature on scarf fashion inspired by Louis XVI era emphasizes the growing trend in knitting and crocheting. It highlights a distinct scarf design using fourteen skeins of Flieisher's Shetland Frossone yarn, noted for not stretching and hanging in elegant folds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis XVI
Louis
Freisher
Peter the Great Takes First Yachting Trip on Charles River
Peter the Great sailed up the Charles River yesterday afternoon in C. P. Keith's motor boat the Lehigh with friends. He began timid but soon took the wheel and piloted part of the trip. He saluted other boats and enjoyed the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter the Great
Charles River
C. P. Keith
Lehigh
Peter
Parents Seek Ellis Norman Missing Son In 1909
Ingersoll Ontario resident Norman R A Norman asks the Post to help locate his son Ellis Norman age 16 who left home June 28 1909 and has not been heard from since. The parents urge Ellis to return home.
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R. A. Norman
Ingersoll, Ont
Post
Ellis Norman
Bishop Anderson confirms 300 youths at Sacred Heart
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph G. Anderson visited the Church of the Sacred Heart in East Boston yesterday morning and confirmed about 300 boys and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph G. Anderson
Church of the Sacred Heart
East
Boston
Cunard Liner Ivernia Sails With 314 Passengers
The Cunard liner Ivernia departed for Liverpool yesterday afternoon carrying 314 passengers. Among them are 24 saloon 140 second class and 150 third class travelers including Britons bound for Winnipeg to study soil and rocks and notable figures such as Rev. Joseph P. Gibbons and Sir Frederick Pollock with his son John Pollock.
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Cunard
Liverpool
Winnipeg
British Association For Scientific Research
Joseph P. Gibbons
Derailed engine ties up traffic near Dorchester station
A locomotive detached from local Train 138 near Dorchester station jumped the tracks and bumped along the roadbed for about ten yards, delaying traffic on the Midland division of the New Haven & Hartford for over an hour after noon.
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Midland
New York, New Haven & Hartford Road
Boston
Dorchester Station
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Robert E. Peary
Explorer Cook
Greenland
Commander Peary
Mr. Whitney
Pole
Rudolphe Francke
Clark
Germantown
Zephyr
Dresden
Saxony
Shetland
Angora
Fleisher
S. B
B. W. Fleisher
Philadelphia
Ivernia
America
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
S. S. Pierce CO
Back Bay
Jacob Wirth CO
Oxford
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