News of the Week Interesting Items From World Wide Sources
National Capital reports Knox lauds peace as U S diplomacy chief aim. Missouri Rep Murphy withdraws a resolution. Judge Philips resigns. Wickersham probes the $100 000 bathtub trust. New York businessmen press tariff reform to curb politics. Juries indict bucket shop operators and Western Union for quotas. Weather flags proposed for rural wagons. Van Valkenburgh named federal judge. Fairbanks rumored for British ambassadorship. Post inspectors probe Wilson and Bogart over mail misuse. Canadian Pacific train crashes into lake. three drowned. Opium smuggler seized at Rio Grande. Meat and food prices rise 25 percent in Chicago. California Gov Gillett fights Jeffries Johnson match. Missouri and Kansas to receive large state building funds. Wright brothers contracted for flights at Missouri fair. Sugar trust officials found guilty. National Mothers Congress backs federal department of home and child. Alcohol consumption drops while population rises. Kansas insect study crews. Missouri railroad property values rise. Western Union ends bucket shop service in St Louis. Japanese show interest in Nicaragua canal funded by English money.
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Knox
University of Pennsylvania
Murphy
Missouri
Congress
John F. Philips
Wickersham
New York
Washington
House
Washington Grand Jury
Federal Grand Jury
Western Union Telegraph Company
University of Kansas
Wilson
Bogart
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Post Office
Canadian Pacific
Port Coldwell
Lake Supprior
Rio Grande River
Chicago
Gov
Gillett
California
Webb
San Francisco
Kansas
Wright Brothers
Sedalia
Charles R. Hieke
The
Sugar Trust
Ernest W. Gerbracht
National Mothers’ Congress
Denver
Federal
Department of Home and Child
Missouri State Board of Equalization
Railroad and Public Service Corporation
St. Louis
Nicaragua
Trials Set in Oklahoma Gov Haskell Case and Utah Judge to Oversee
Judge Campbell schedules the Muskogee town trial for September 26 with Judge Marshall of Utah presiding. In Breathitt County Kentucky a Crawford family feud leaves two dead and a Johnson family member fatally wounded. Wellington Kansas completes six blocks of asphalt paving and invites celebration. National League of Republican Clubs convention in New York postponed to September with Col Roosevelt to speak upon return. Emporia Kansas hosts a highway project meeting with delegates along the old Santa Fe trail. New Alaska Bonnifield district gold field yields $30 to $75 per ton. Federal Judge Cotteral to issue injunction blocking Guthrie to Oklahoma City capital move. Kansas Supreme Court upholds prohibitory law in Topeka club liquor lockers case. Roosevelt steamer salute and escort planned at quarantine. Hodges rock road highway law upheld by Kansas Supreme Court. State encampment of Spanish War Veterans in Missouri meets in Kansas City June 21–23. Seattle fire destroys 20 acres of wooden houses, $1,000,000 loss, 500 homeless. Cotton crop 1909 most valuable yet, worth $130,857,877 more than 1908.
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Campbell
Muskogee
Gov. Haskell
Oklahoma
Marshall
Utah
Breathitt
Kentucky
Crawford
Johnson
Wellington
Kansas
National League of Republican Clubs
New York
Col. Roosevelt
United States
Emporia
Kan
Kansas City
Colorado
Bonnifield
Alaska
Cotteral
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Kansas Supreme Court
Topeka Club
South Carolina
Rock Road
Department of Missouri
Seattle
Wash
Laborers Driven from Washington Town Report Follows Mob
The Japanese embassy seeks information on a report that Japanese laborers were driven from a Washington town by a mob. Consul Hanshi in Seattle is expected to file the report. The item is among several world strikes and disasters noted in telegraph reports.
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Washington
Hanshi
Seattle
Wash
Germany
Colon
Madriz
Cape Gracias
Ahr
Suez Canal
London
Manuel
Portugal
Valladolid
Mexico City
Wright biplane record flight and state proclamations
Personal notes report Brookins in a Wright biplane reaching 4 384 feet in Indianapolis surpassing Paulhan in California. Gov. Haskell proclaims Oklahoma City as state capital. Fort Riley sergeant Keane shot himself amid jealousy. Kansas employment bureau notes high demand for harvest hands. Charles K Hamilton flies New York to Philadelphia and back winning a 10 000 prize. Ramon M Wiley linked to Underground Cable boss robbed a Los Angeles residence. Congressman Scott plans two cadet appointments for West Point and Annapolis.
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Haskell
Oklahoma City
Keane
Sixth Field Artillery
Fort Riley
State Employment Bureau of
Kansas
Charles K. Hamilton
New York
Philadelphia
New York Times
Philadelphia Ledger
Ramon M. Wiley
Princeton
Los Angeles
Scott
West Point
Annapolis
Roosevelt’s Welcome Home Across a Nation in Jubilation
Theodore Roosevelt returns to New York on June 18 amid a nonpartisan city and national greeting. The flotilla, parade, and Battery Park reception draw leaders, ambassadors, and tens of thousands as Mayor Gaynor praises the former president. Roosevelt rides through Manhattan with Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit. Taft’s absence noted. The crowd shouts approval as ships whistle in salute.
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New York
Gaynor
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New York Harbor
Republican Club of
Hamilton Club
Chicago
Coast Line
Twenty-Third
Battery
Manhattan Island
Battery Park
Taft
Colonel Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt
Kermit
Rip Van Winkle Jokes About A Tax Sleep
A humorous exchange ponders why Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years. The quip answers with a tongue in cheek line about dodging taxes, playing on the tale’s long slumber and the era’s tax woes.
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Rip van Winkle
Teddy Roosevelt Welcomed Homeward in Spectacular Harbor Parade
The Voyager Homeward Bound ships Roosevelt back to New York amid cheering crowds. A quay reception and 500 Rough Riders lead the parade, with Roosevelt in a carriage followed by the reception committee and speakers.
Old Lady Regains Hair With Cuticura Remedies
An elderly woman credits Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with curing eczema on her head after two doctors failed. She notes hair regrowth over six months and praises the products. Another case says Cuticura eased winter foot eczema for several years, leaving feet smooth. Ellsworth Dunham, Hiram Maine, Sept. 30, 1909.
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S. Ellsworth Dunham
Hiram, Me
New York Leads in TB Hospital Beds Across States
The National Association notes New York state has 5476 beds for consumptives the highest total, followed by Massachusetts 2403 Pennsylvania 2347 Colorado 1489 and New Mexico 1104. The group urges expanded care at homes and institutions and aims to raise beds to 35000 by May 1, 1911.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
New York State
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Colorado
New Mexico
New York
National Association
Children as reformers of society say minds of youth lead all
David Starr Jordan extols the power of children advising that philanthropy should center on them. He argues saving a child offers the best path to wise governance and societal salvation, asserting a child can inspire vast reform and virtue.
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David Starr Jordan
Philanthropists
Coffee as a hidden health risk and a patient’s Postum cure
A doctor warns coffee harms some systems calling it an insidious poison. A 42 year old coffee drinker recounts nervous prostration, stopping coffee, switching to Postum, and gaining energy, sleep, and weight while his family also improves. He notes his two children stopped coffee after Postum adoption.
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Postum
Wellville
L E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praised by Young Women
Letters from grateful young women describe relief from painful irregular periods and backache after using L E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. The Lynn company urges immediate action and offers confidential advice for those troubled by menstrual symptoms.
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L E
L E. Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
The Laughing Barber
Jim Rice the Columbia crew coach praises a stalwart freshman who is laughed at for being young and tender. The piece quotes a barber joke about the rower asking if he will have a strong beard, with the barber quipping that he takes after his mother.
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Jim Rice
Columbia Crew
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Containing Mercury
Public health warning urges against mercury containing catarrh remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a safe internal treatment. The ad warns prescriptions from physicians and notes testimonials and price 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Toledohio
Druggista
Untold Death Claim Told Through Quotation
A fragmentary dialogue mentions a wife dying while talking, with the response confirming a natural death and the continued speech at the end.
Marine Eye Salve Promoted For Eye Care
An advertisement touts Marine Eye Salve with trial size tubes priced at 25 cents and urges readers to ask their drug store or write Marine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago. A separate cynical quip about dead cats and a polished pump handle appears in the source.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Cicago
Red Cross Ball Blue Promise For White Clothing
A small advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry additive. It offers a 2 oz package priced at five cents and urges buyers to brighten faded clothes. The copy also warns against posing as an earthly angel to avoid attracting suspicion.
Painkiller cures cramps and dysentery in old remedy notice
A dated advertisement touts Painkiller Perry Davis for cramps diarrhea and dysentery with prices 25¢ 35¢ and 5¢. It mentions Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels and adds a quip about a cow and a silver cup.
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Perry Davis
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