Thanksgiving Abroad Airs Roosevelts Domestic Reunion
Washington and London hosts mark Thanksgiving with American society banquets. Roosevelt visits Madison's home near Montpelier while Taft travels to Moscow aboard his train. Vienna Berlin and Tiflis host dinners with notable attendees and cordial greetings to the president.
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United States
Mr. Taft
Murder quickly avenged in Miffintown and two Chicago breweries burn
Julius Derr, a Pennsylvania railroad employee, was fatally shot by an unidentified Italian laborer at a railroad station. The Italian, intoxicated and disorderly, fled but was shot dead by pursuing hunters under a railroad bridge. In Chicago, two breweries, Mullen and Brust Tosetth, were damaged by flames, with losses totaling $275,000.
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Pau
Julius Derr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Derr
Chicago
Mullen Brewing Company
Wallace and
West
Brust Tosetth Brewing Com ‘Pang
West Forty-float
Butler Streets
Train Hold-Up Near Fargo Stopped by Night Operator
An attempted hold-up occurred early Friday at Fife signal station west of Fargo to stop the No. 4 train on the Northern Pacific. Three men removed the signal and night switch at Mapleton. The night operator rode a velocipede from Mapleton to respond. One assailant fled while the other was captured.
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Vhebeka
Mean Flings At Editors In A Publisher's Tale
A publisher recalls Lafradio Heart a youth on newspapers and editors harshly reshaping copy. Hearn later collected editor tales and readers enjoyed a poem about the three ages of man. A weather report about winter lingering in spring was cut to preserve the paper's high moral tone for a town of schoolgirls.
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Bheers
Hoitor Sheers
Little John learns Lord's Prayer at church
Four year old Little John, praised for learning the Lord's Prayer, gets confused when the minister uses a different wording. His sister teases him for errors as his parents guide him through the Sunday ritual. In another scene an elderly man jokes about a late aunt and her will, with talk of a “Testament.”
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John
Taiir
Mars
Strange Disease Involving Two Families Reported
Two middle aged women in a four car discussion described a child with Q fever and another child with epidemic disease. One mother asked what the doctor said about both, while the other noted unfamiliar sicknesses.
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Gue
Expression Over Lessons From Experience Sayings
A dialogue on learning from experience contrasts prudent wisdom with timely education. The skeptical voice notes that sometimes education arrives too late to prevent mistakes, using mushrooms and toadstools as a warning example.
Began Young Had Coffee Nerves From Youth
A Texas girl recalls starting coffee as a child and quitting coffee six months ago, noting improved nerves, clearer complexion, and better digestion after switching to Postum. She worked as a primary teacher and reports no headaches or indigestion since the change.
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Texas
Beneft
Poston
Wellville
Proof for Two Cents Kidney Pill Cure Claim Ad
Medina New Jersey resident W Winney invites kidney sufferers to write for proof of Doan's Kidney Pills cure after eighteen months of pain and hospital care. He claims weight gain from 143 to 162 pounds after taking 10 to 12 boxes and calls the remedy a complete cure. Sold 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
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W. Winney
Medina
N. J
Tdoan
Mr. Winney
Equal to the Occasion Irish Servant Tale
A West Side New York household recalls an old fashioned Irish servant girl who answers a caller with a bold brogue. She jokes about keeping the mistress away and theatrically offers to “put the tickets in me mouth” as she gestures with her hands, recalling a faded stereotype from the era.
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Gmerald Isle
New York
West Side
N. Y. Press
Remedies Claim Cures for Severe Measles Scars
A patient recalls seven years ago suffering head and neck sores the size of pennies after measles. After trial of various treatments including salves, a cure with Cure Reme dies led to full recovery in about three weeks. Also quoted is a spoof noting moral concerns in a Ceylon newspaper.
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Henry Porter
Albion, Neb
Fraudulent Patent Medicine and County Fair Joke Anecdote
A garbled advertisement line touts One Hundred Dollars toward a catarrh cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. amid signatures and testimonial mishmash. The county fair anecdote mocks salesmanship and a Defiance Starch claim, while Ruskin’s quote underscores work and effort.
PiHS CURED LN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTR MNT GUARANTENS
An advert claims PiHS CURED LN in six to fourteen days with PAZO OINTMENT a guarantee to cure fraining find bi ie or tetrades in to lidays or oney funded The Statesman leads the masses The masses lead the politician
Productive Power of Western Canada Soil
Winnipeg Correspondence notes Western Canada's soil proves highly productive with strong grain yields despite late sowing and August frosts. Southern Alberta sows 100000 acres of winter wheat likely to yield huge results. Government offers 180 acres free for homestead entry by proxy. A Craik Saskatchewan letter cites a dahlia blooming 80 days after planting, illustrating soil vigor.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Alberta
Craik
Saskatchewan
Minneapolis
Ice Leftovers Spark Domestic Lesson Tale
A Scandinavian maid in Cleveland learns to use a refrigerator but is scolded for keeping leftovers. The next day the mistress spots something odd in the yard and learns the maid tossed away yesterday's ice, misunderstanding the term Ice. The humorous miscommunication highlights modern kitchen life in Harper's Weekly.
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Cleveland
Sophie
Harper’s Weekly
Sears Roebuck Indicted for Mail Fraud
Des Moines special report states Sears Roebuck & Co of Chicago faces a three count indictment for using the mails to defraud. The charges allege misrepresented catalog items and sales to Dr C F Spring of Des Moines and two rings sent by mail. Japanese men outnumber women in Japan by 980 to 1000, a rare demographic imbalance.
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Seara, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
C. F. Spring
Sears-Roebuck
Bhava
R. H. Miles
Worrisn
Japan
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