News of the Week Interesting Items From Around the World
National items include a bill granting franking to former presidents and wives, talks on campaign contribution publicity, and a call for an international disputes commission. Taft weighs pension agency timing, and a post office surplus near 2.1 million with prior deficit. Other notes cover labor, a proposed misdemeanor in Washington, Justice Brewer successor, daily army activity rules, Missouri river rate case, and employers liability law with state and federal court parallel jurisdiction.
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National Capital
House
Congress
Bartholdt
St. Louis
Taft
Topeka
Post Office Department
Worcester
Mass
Organized Labor
Washington
Justice Brewer
General Staff of
Army
Supreme Court
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
Senate
Oklahoma capital vote set as Guthrie, Oklahoma City and Shawnee vie
Oklahoma voters will decide on June 11 the permanent state capital location with Guthrie, Oklahoma City, and Shawnee as candidates. Also reported: a Kansas man released to testify, oil property sales to Holland capitalists, and other national items.
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Gus Thomas
Crawford County
Kansas
Fuller
South
James Patten
Armstrong Academy
McCurtain County
Oklahoma
New York
Randolph
Neb
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Shawnee
Topeka
Kan
Orient Railroad
Holland Capitalists
Gulf
Pittsburg
Imperial Window Glass Company
Nebraska
Federal Department of Justice
Washington
John Berry
St. Louis
Mount McKinley
Cook
Kansas Sunday School Association
Kansas City
Michigan
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Various National and Local Woes Mark News of the Day
A wide range of items appears: evidence cited against colored troops. grain and provisions prices fall. Panamanian fortifications deemed adequate. isthmian canal commission orders 58000 tons steel for lock gates. A stage coach crashes in Colorado. a Cleveland streetcar line shows profits. bank robbery at McKee Rocks with $5000 stolen. Kansas wheat weevil harms crops, Western Union probe. 2000 railroad laborers strike for higher pay. Oklahoma veto on liquor dispensary. Omaha fire from crossed wires. Pullman rate changes to 1.50. Kansas City depot work begins. Wickersham to raid bucket shops. Pittsburg councilmen known as Big Five confess.
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Aoa Ara
Than Panamg Fortification Board
Isthmian Canal Commission
Buene Vista
St. Elmo
Col
Cleveland
McKee’s Rocks
Dean
Kansas Agricultural College
Kansas
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
Haskell
Oklahoma
Omaha
Neb
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Wickersham
Italian King Seeks Roosevelt Meeting and Ride
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy called on Col. Roosevelt at his hotel and later they went for an automobile ride marking notable diplomatic salience in foreign affairs coverage.
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Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Col
Roosevelt
Peru
Ecuador
Chile
Argentina
London
Menelik
Abyssinia
Manila
Fraf. Ricco
Mount Etna Observatory
Vienna
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Spitzbergen
Notable Obscurities and Tragedies Highlight 1900s News Notes
A Kansas woman declared sane faces trial for shooting L. H. Daniels. A Cincinnati bankruptcy shows liabilities of 1.12 million with 400 assets. Perth farmer discovers his wife dead after firing at a noise. James Johnston, famed forty-niner, dies in Baltimore. Roosevelt praised in Rome after dinner with Col. Roosevelt and King Victor Emmanuel. Various legal, political, and notable death items fill the page.
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Mary O. Ronstadt
Topeka
Kan
L. H. Daniels
J. C. Ebersole
Cincinnati
June Vanervoort
Perth
James Johnston
Baltimore
Rome
Col. Roosevelt
Nathan
Roosevelt
Justice Brewer
Gifford Pinchot
Columbia
St. Louis
Valentine Tapley
Hetty Green
George H. Williams
President Grant
Mayor McGee
Pittsburg
King Victor Emanuel
D. E. Evans
Miss Beulah Reynolds
Muskogee
Party plans to get together for Jefferson Day banquet in Washington
The Washington Democratic leaders plan a Jefferson Day dinner on April 13 with guests from across the party hoping for harmony among factions. Despite talk of Harmon or other prominent figures, Harmon may not attend and debates about presidential possibilities continue amid calls for quick action on key administration measures.
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Washington
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Thomas R. Marshall
Indiana
William J. Gaynor
New York
Hot Springs
Ark
Arkansas Springs
West
Norman E. Mack
Charles F. Murphy
Roger Sullivan
Mack
Democratic National Committee
Tammany Hall
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Arkansas
William J. Bryan
Harmon
Marshall
Gaynor
Mother-Does that cook of yours now her place?
Daughter-I reckon she's had too many of them to remember.
Baby Healed After Cutiura Remedies Trial
A seven week old infant developed severe eczema. After six months with three doctors, swelling and itching worsened. The family used Cutiura Remedies, and within a year and a half the child’s skin remained clear. John Leason of Atchison Kansas reports the cure and the savings.
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Atchison
Cutiura
John Leason
Atchison St
Atchison, Kan
Oct
Italian born Irish banana peddler fined in $1 case
The swarthy prisoner Murphy is charged with peddling without a license. The magistrate questions his name, notes a plural Murphys, and learns he says he was born in Italy. The judge fines him $1 after the prisoner writes Giuseppe Muerfee.
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Murphy
Ireland
Italy
Giuseppe Muerfee
New York Sun
Sickness Insurance in Germany Reduces Tuberculosis
The 1884 compulsory state sickness insurance in Germany aided tuberculosis fight. Public sanatoria expanded from 243 to 8422 beds in 15 years, with 35 of 200 TB facilities funded by sickness insurance carriers. Imperial statistics show 42 percent remained in good health five years after leaving the sanatorium.
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Germany
Imperial Insurance Department
Manchest er Union Man Hosts Surprise Party at Church
In New Hampshire a Manchester Union man attends church last Sunday creating a noted scene. The piece mocks various regional figures in a tongue in cheek Lent observance.
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New Hampshire
Manchester Union
George Bailey
Houston Post
Texas
Kennebeck Journal
Springfield Union
Rosy Color Produced by Postum Ad
A testimonial extols Postum as an appetizing invig rating beverage that cures coffee related nervousness and improves color. It cites personal experiences of relief after switching from coffee and mentions boiling Postum longer for better taste. Reader remarks on a pale youth gaining color and Postum helping “make red blood.”
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Postum
Wellville
Quaker Oats Exports Highlight Trade Strength
The article notes ongoing improvements in manufacture to boost foreign trade and highlights Quaker Oats as a leading brand. It praises consistent packaging and hermetically sealed tins for hot climates, signaling strong export reports and market dominance.
Now, children, calendar question sparks a punchline
A Cleveland Leader quip shows a boy mishearing a calendar as a life insurance reminder. The teacher asks the use of a calendar, Willie replies with a humorous line about life insurance.
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Willie
Cleveland Leader
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claims Cure for Deafness
A vintage advertisement claims deafness can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and mentions mucous lining issues in the ear tube. It invites readers to send for circulars, notes the product price, and lists F. J. Cheney & Co as manufacturers with local sale by a druggist. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Druggista
Fool and Money Inseparable Warn of Get-Rich Schemes
The adage suggests that when fools cling to wealth they fall for quick profit schemes. It warns against risky plans promising easy money, emphasizing caution and skepticism in financial ventures.
Census Takers Favor Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen
A light note says census takers will use Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen as the tool always ready. A proverb about trusting a man's words warns that statements about enemies should be taken with skepticism.
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Waterman
Are Your Clothes Faded and Constant Phrases
A jumble of old advertisement lines touting Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening clothes, a pawnbroker watch, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and Dr. Pierce's Pellets claiming cures for constipation. The text pairs generic claims with product pitches and aphorisms about judgment and desire to break away.
Easy to Win Back Your Health
It is not a very hard task to get back to the highway of health provided you act promptly at the first sign of weakness and assist Nature with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Delay with unknown remedies worsens illness and a few doses at the right time ward off a sick spell.
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