Salvation Army accused of misusing funds and lodging
In Philadelphia, a Minneapolis charity worker attacks the Salvation Army over financial misrepresentation and poor lodging houses. A local Salvation Army leader from Minneapolis asks for rebuttal amid broader accusations. Separately, Natal witch doctors claim to sacrifice children to grant rebels invulnerability to bullets, while a San Francisco auditor’s vault is opened revealing bonds worth 17 million dollars for permanent improvements.
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Salvation Army
E. D. Solenberger
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Natal
Auditor's Office
San Francisco
News Nuggets Bizarre Robberies and Tragic Ends Across North America
Reports span crimes, accidents, and legal actions fromImperial lumstead near Kamloops to Boston and Elkhart. Incidents include a Harlem‑styled fraud, a despondent Harvard athlete’s death, a railroad death at Elkhart, and a Lake Shore Limited crash. Mining, rail rates, and trust prosecutions loom, with labor actions, reconstructions, and national policy remarks.
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Philippines
Cebu
Negros
Women police in Bayonne urged by Julia Goldster
Readable OCR items mention Bayonne New Jersey advocates women police, Plainfield trolley cars, Col umbia Savings Pittsburgh closed by banking commissioner, and various 1906 era events. The jumble notes a mix of crime courtrooms and public notices across New York New Jersey and beyond.
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Bayonne
N. J
Julia Goldster
Plainfield
Columbia Savings and Trust Company
Pittsburg
Sarah A. Jefferson
New York
New York State
Farmer Kills Wife Then Ends His Own Life Near Hartselle
W L Enriken a 65 year old farmer living near Hartselle Alabama killed his wife and then died by suicide. The report notes accompanying details of the tragedy and its immediate aftermath. Nearby evangelists Rev Heuben A Torrey and Hanns Mr Alexander began a series of meetings in Atlanta Georgia set to run for a month. Melvin Winters was shot and instantly killed and Thomas Stewart and his fJoung (text truncates).
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S. S. McClure Company
McClures
J. M. Mosler
Fred L. Jackman
St Louis
Pana, II
Myron Jourdan
Moline Lil
American Baptist Home Missionary Society of New York
Roger Willams University
Nashville
Tenn
West Virginia State Federation of Labor
Wheeling
J E Rose
Mineola
Texas
Willingham
Boston
Colonial Dames
Washington
Roosevelt
New York Supreme Court
George W. Perkins
Oren Root, Jr
Elihu Root
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
New York
Charles L. Spier
H. Lt. Rogers
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Mount Vernon
Harrison Sworsder & Co
Philadelphia
F. A. Cook
Alaska
Mount McKinley
Leland W. Folsom
State Street
Altoona
Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
J. T. Dougherty
Passaic
X. J
Edwin W. Clark
Cotton Exchange
Marseilles
Clark
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Moody
Ohio
Wallsce
Aurele
Nebraska
Lancaster County
Broken Bow
Wewatta Street
Denver
Denver Transit and Warehouse Company
Yakima
Northern Pacific
Yakima Produce Company
Byron Smith
Northern Trust Company
San Francisco
Harry Conners
Atlanta
Kragsville
Ind
Standard Beet Sugar Company
Leavitt
Neb
Oliver C. Haugh
Dayton
Haugh
Max Judd
St. Louis
Vienna
Cleveland
Elkham
Wiliam Cox
William Carney
Smithfield
Carney
Cox
Kate Moore
Alliance
Youngstown
John Getting
Omaha
Munger
Marshal Warner
California
Rocky Mountains
Jocko” Briggs
Criminal Court
Cook County
Briggs
Joseph Leiter
L. Z Leiter
Clark Street
Robert E
Frank Crowe
Hugh Crabbe
Leiter
Jong
W. L Enriken
Hartselle
Als
Heuben A. Torrey
Hannes Mr Alexander
Melvin Winters
Thomas Stewart
Mill boiler explosion injures five in West Virginia
The Pearson and Allen mill boiler near Elizabeth West Virginia exploded leaving five men badly hurt. One owner’s son Dallas Allen was so gravely injured that doctors fear he will die. A separate report notes South Carolina Military Academy cadets finished a ninety mile march in three hours completing with full gear.
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LS Fee Company
Maling
Pearson & Allen
Elizabeth
W. Va
Dallas Allen
South Carolina Military Academy
Jomprey
Siete Glee
Army
Shonts cites indecision menacing Panama canal work
Washington report to the Secretary of War states that the troop on Panama canal work is endangered by indecision over the type of waterway. Speaker Cannon receives a fete on his seventieth birthday anniversary.
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Shonts
Secretary of War
Panama Canal
Cannon
Global unrest and disasters dominate wartime era reports
Riots rise as elections approach in parts of the Caribbean and Britain debates education and armament. Violence erupts in Natal as Col Mansell's column is attacked, while a German born American citizen dies after a Paris Eiffel Tower fall. Vesuvius erupts with smoke and detonations as a Russian blockade runner is found frozen near Nikolivesk.
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Witte
Malaya
Eiffel Tower
Paris
August Braun
Germany
Cincinnati
Col. Mansell
Bambaata
Cettiwayo
Natal
South Africa
Cal
Mansell
Nedjim Eddin Bey
Vilayet
Tripoli
North Africa
Ali Shamy
Pasha
Scutari
Vesuvius
Resina
Mozer
Svedabaya
Vladivostok
Nikolivesk
Amur
International Typographical Union strike costs over $600,000
The GEHER reports that the eight hour day strike has cost the union over $600,000 to date. The Dominion government will adopt the waterways commission agreement on Niagara Falls and Sault Ste. Marie and seek US approval to appoint a permanent waterways commission or empower the current one. Ontario will form a permanent Niagara Falls power commission with authority to fix prices and operate the power, funding redemption through a sinking fund.
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International Typographical Union
Dominion
International Waterways Commission
Niagara Falls
Sault Ste. Marie
United States
Ontario
Niagara
Falls
Munici
Congress Debates Naval Bill and Rail Provisions
The Senate and House conduct a busy legislative week focusing on the naval appropriation bill, rail rate reforms, and related amendments. Key actions include open market purchases for naval supplies, controversies over coal transport costs to the Philippines, and votes on penalties for rebates with enforcement in interstate commerce.
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Senate
House
King’s Mountain
Bartholdt
Missouri
Johnson
South Carolina
Webb
North Carolina
Tirrell
Weeks
Mlassachusetts
Great Lakes
Navy Department
Atlantic
Gulf
Philippine Islands
Elkins
McLaurin
Washington
Pensacola
Bailey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rayners
National Capital Notes Highlight Diplomatic and Military Roles
Viscount Aoki is presented to the President as Japan’s first ambassador to the United States. Lieut. Leigh C. Palmer of the Missouri will attend King Alfonso's Madrid nuptials in June, joined by Lieut. A. S. Grant III of engineers for the Army. Alaska fishing bills move toward passage, targeting aliens and possibly the Japanese. Roosevelt signs $100,000 Mare Island and $70,000 post office emergency appropriations for California.
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National Capital
Viscount Aoki
Japan
United States
Leigh C. Palmer
Missouri
Navy
Alfonso
Madrid
Grant III
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
House Committee On Territories
Cushman
Washington
Alaska
Alaskan
Roosevelt
Congress
Mare Island Navy Yard
San Francisco
Post Office Department
State of
California
Lydia E Pinkham Female Remedy Promised To Help Women
An 1890s style advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female disorders. It claims the medicine regulates periods eases backache and nervousness and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts with testimonials from the Lyon Laboratory.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Chan Pace
Riance
Madams Dog Travel Restrictions Cause Car Seat Debate
A tale frames a brakeman arguing a dog must travel in the baggage car, while the owner insists the animal is educated and deserves first class in a special car, with extra fare. The scene sits beside an old medical pitch for Nall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy from F. S. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, offering $100 for cures and promoting Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Nall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Courtesy of the Plains Cowboys and Delicate Manners
A Southern Pacific train delay leads to two cowboys rattling their manners at a restaurant window. Two ladies, amused by the display of game, join for a meal while the cowboys bow and joke. One woman asks about butter. the cowboy replies I don't choose none, thank you most to death, ma amy.
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Plains
Southern Pacific
All Modern Conveniences in New Apartment Dialogue
A humorous Brooklyn Life snippet contrasts a new apartment’s modern comforts with a guest. The Hostee notes features like steam heat and running washtubs, while the Visitor confirms the streamlined stationary elevator. The brief exchange showcases early urban living expectations.
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Brooklyn
Curious Results When Coffee Drinking Is Abandoned
A veteran coffee user finds it hard to quit but can switch to Postum Food Coffee. Well boiled and served with cream it tastes like fine Java to connoisseurs, and within ten days or two weeks the body changes as the nerve stimulus from coffee ends. Postum is nourishing and reportedly superior in flavor to contemporary coffee. There's a Treason.
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W. F. Bechtel
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
James E. Ament
Warrensburg State Normal
Frisco
Jarces Young
Antioch
William W Rose
Henry G. Goll
Upper Sandusky
Anns Depew
the Pew
Oscar Schroeder
Clarence Class
Ellis
Standard Oil
Stead
Llinois
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Dempsey
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Yale
Aquilla
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