San Francisco Feud Over Calhoun and Spreckels War
San Francisco correspondence reveals a bitter clash between Patrick Calhoun and Rudolph Spreckels over street railways after the 1906 earthquake. The two leaders of industry press plans for overhead versus underground systems while graft investigations and political maneuvering feed a city divided ahead of November elections.
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San Francisco
Ime
Pacific Coast
Orient
California
Eugene Schmitz
Abe Reuf
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Rudolph Spreckels
Petrick Calhoun
John ©. Calhoun
Pittsburg
Calvin
Calhoun
Spreckels
James D. Phelan
Merchants’ Association
William Barclay Parsons
New York
Municipal Street Railway Company
Inventor Poe’s artificial respirator brings life to dead animals
South Norfolk Va Professor George Poe’s device resuscitates animals deemed dead by science. Originating from reviving a killed rat in 1876 by pumping oxygen into the lungs, the method has evolved into an artificial respirator hailed as a marvel of the age by Technical World Magazine.
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George Poe
South Norfolk
Poe
Teuhnica] World Magazine
Parrot Trader Jokes About Intelligence With Silent Bird
In a humorous exchange a buyer praises a parrot as the most intelligent in the dealer's collection, while the dealer quips that the bird's silence is the point of its intelligence. The light jab plays on expectations of talking birds.
Summer Changes in Yonkers Echoes of a Peek-a-Boo
A Yonkers Statesman fragment reflects on shifting summers and changing social vibes as a speaker recalls earlier summers when certain freedoms felt unattainable. The dialogue contrasts past restraint with current lighter attitudes.
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Yonkers Statesman
Public Debt Shrinks by Nearly 24 Million in July 1907
The July 31 1907 monthly public debt statement shows total debt at 1 278 275 342 down about 24 million from the prior month due to 4 percent bond maturities on July 1 Cash on hand falls just over 30 million while certificates and treasury notes totaling 1 174 889 869 are offset by equal redemptions. The cash balance stands at 388 574 188 against demand liabilities of 1 296 031 054. A second item discusses Prof R L Garner disputing W T Hornadays view on animal vocal silence noting savannah predators rely on smell and nocturnal hunting with examples from chimpanzee gorilla elephant hippo antelope and leopard chatter.
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Treasury
R. L. Garner
W. T. Hornaday
Garner
Hornaday
Jungle
Gas Trust Monopoly Challenge Fails in Court Decision
Attorney General Jackson of New York confronts the Consolidated Gas Company of New York over its alleged monopoly. Justice McCaff holds the company not a monopoly under the law and suggests anti trust statutes are limited to common law, allowing stock acquisitions between corporations.
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Eral Jackson
New York
Consolidated Gas Company of
Work City
The
Gas Trust
Mcffatt
Allen's Foot Base Shoes Cooling Powder Claim
Doctors and many individuals say this antiseptic powder poured daily into shoes cools the system. It soothes nerves in the soles and Allen's Foot Base quiets them. Use to stay cool and avoid heat prostration. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents.
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Allen
Olsted
le Roy
N.Y
Peterborough
England
Smelting Steel by Electricity
A Technical World Magazine article cites enormous ore stocks around Lake Superior and in Alabama, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. It warns geologists that iron could become scarce, predicting an era when iron ranks among rare metals and suggesting the Northwest may need foreign ore within decades.
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Lake Superior
Alabama
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
James J. Hill
Northwest
Superior Ranges
America
Technical World Magazine
Doan's Kidney Pills Saved Veteran From Amputation
B Frank Woremus of Roosevelt Avenue Indianapolis describes kidney trouble after military service. He suffered headaches dizziness sleeplessness dropsy and severe leg swelling that led doctors to consider amputation. After using Doan's Kidney Pills the swelling eased urine normalized and pain ceased. Nine years later he remains well. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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B. Frank Woremus
Roosevelt Avenue
Indianapolis
Ind
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Lesson from the Past on Rights and the Prowl of Automobiles
The Chicago Tribune imagines Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence and warns of a future where automobilists threaten life and liberty. He notes the paradox of youth with cannon crackers and toy pistols testing the right to happiness in a candid world.
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Thomas Jefferson
Chicago Tribune
Relief From Eczema After Two Years Using Cuticura
C V Beltz of Tippecanoe Indiana describes a two year eczema battle. He tried physicians patent medicines and quack cures with no relief until using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Immediate relief followed and he recovered fully by November 15 1905.
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Utiarn
C. V. Beltz
Tippecanoe, Ind
Late night remark about a Chinaman at 90
A Times-Democrat writer recalls two friends returning from a gathering noticing a Chinaman and trading jokes about what he is doing up late. In Belgium a prize was offered for patriotic songs used by schoolchildren, won by a Frenchman.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Belgium
New Homes in the West Team Up With Rail Lines
An ad offers free pamphlets on U S homestead laws and how to secure quarter sections of farming or grazing land along the Chicago & Northwestern Railway routes to South Dakota Wyoming and other states. It notes special homeseeker excursion rates and directs inquiries to W B Kniskern<Omitted>
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United States
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
South Dakota
Wyoming
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Womens Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for long standing female disorders including period irregularities pelvic pain and nervous symptoms. It claims to strengthen regulate and invigorate the female system with no alcohol or habit forming drugs and offers free consultation and literature by mail.
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Pierce
Seeds and seeds buried in garden joke exchange
Farmer Nubbins shouts to his neighbor about burying seeds. The neighbor replies he is replanting garden seeds, joking that the seeds look like one of his beng. The exchange appears in the London Mail.
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Farmer Nubbins
Nubbins
London Mail
Humorous Exchange From Early Houston Post
A humorous exchange involves a husband telling a wife her bulldog is the ugliest animal he has seen. She replies he should not insult the dog if her husband is present, reflecting playful domestic witticisms of the era.
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