National and Local News Highlights From Clinton County Press
A compilation from Clinton County and beyond covers a Chicago fire killing one fireman and injuring thirty, a Dayton Ohio death by suicide at a grave, a Nashville man’s self-inflicted death, a jail sentence for John A. Cooke, and a Supreme Court ruling allowing railroad layoffs of union members. Also noted are a Vanderbilt wedding, a crash near Xenia Ohio injuring Julia Bishop, dynamite bombings in Girard Ohio, and stocky legal actions against international Harvester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of North America
New York
Leopold Mayer
Adams Street
Chicago
Conrad Erde
Springfield
Ohio
Woodlawn Cemetery
Dayton
William Caldwell
James E. Caldwell
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company
Nashville
Judge McEwen
John A. Cooke
Excourt
Joliet
Supreme Court of the United States
William Adair
George Molkeny
Elmer
Frank Shaffer
Martin's Ferry
Farmenton
Alberta
John M. Burgess
Ivy
Gladys Moore Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Taszlo Szechnenyi
Leutenant
Lussars
Farth Avenue
St. Louis
Law and Order League
Girard
Ada
VT. Gifford
League
Charles D. Davol
Viarvard
All River
Mass
Rock Ishiod
Topeka
Kan
A. L. Sloss
First National Bank of
Appleton
Waseca
Ivanhoe
Arlington
Elkton
S. 1
Alfonson
Spain
Franklin County
International Harvester Company of
Milwaukee
McCormick Champion
Deerinz and
Osborne
National League For the Protection of the Family
Episcopal Diocesan
Doston
William Lawrence
Seth Low
S. W. Dyke
Mohler
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
John Stein
TST
Southport Avenue
Ashtabula
Stein
Missouri River convention urges $40 million for 12 foot channel
The first annual Missouri River Navigation Congress in Sioux City urged Congress to appropriate 40 million dollars to build a twelve foot channel from St. Louis to Sioux City. Governors and lawmakers from seven border states attended. They argued deepening Missouri River channels would ease railroad rate troubles and boost regional commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri River
St. Louis
Sioux City
Congress
Missouri River Navigation Congress
Mississippi
Middle West
Missis
Onions Cure and Crip Cries Across a Frantic Ledger
A collage of satirical observations spans medicine, finances, law, theater, and politics. Notes claim onions cure many diseases, dike price effects on legal fees, a scarcity of villains, the boom in expert witnesses, abundant money, and shifts in fashion and media influence.
Thaw Murder Trial Shows Evelyn Nesbit On Stand
The second Thaw murder trial returns Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as star witness. District Attorney Jerome pushes hard in open court while Littleton defends by challenging insanity and childhood abuse claims. Nesbit Thaw testifies about her Paris years and the alleged influence on Thaw's temperament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Jerome
Littleton
Evelyn Thaw
White
Thaw
Paris
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Portland City Hall and Police Buildings
A fire in Portland Maine caused about 1 million dollars in damage destroying city hall and police buildings and endangering over 700 people including delegates at a Knights of Pythias jubilee. The loss includes papers from the registrar of deeds and the Greenleaf Law Collection valued at 10600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Maine Knights of Pythiasg
Registrar of Deeds
Greenleaf Law
City Electrician
Terrors of Frat Initiation Frighten Novitiate Sorority
Frightful initiation rites at a private Greek sorority unsettled new members and anxious mothers. The sensational but vague report notes nerve racking ceremonies that unsettled entrants and prompted concern among families.
Evelyn Nesbit Testimony Deepens Thaw Trial Drama
Evelyn Nesbit revealed a worldlier view under cross examination, admitting Europe tours with Thaw as husband and acknowledging White's ongoing support. She recalled Thaw’s reaction to her relations with White and confirmed White’s gifts and care for her and her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
White
Thaw
Europe
Harry Thaw
Evelyn
Mrs. Thaw
Secret Society Initiation Fraught with Hazards Report
Preparatory schools in New York City spark a meeting of twenty angry mothers at Mrs. Elizabeth Moore's home to expose and combat secret societies among schoolgirls. Julia Mills describes a dramatic initiation involving molten lead illusion, masked figures, a mercury substitute, and a skull vessel, portraying a chilling test of loyalty to the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Elizabeth Moore
Sigma Gamma Society
Julia Mills
Mills
Miss Mills
Moore
Senate Debates on Investigations and Criminal Code Reforms
Congress grills executive inquiries over injunctions in Hitchman Coal case and weighs a broad criminal code revision. Senate discussions touch crop statistics secrecy, harvester influence, and treasury policy amid calls for tariff clarity. The House pushes penal law codification as deficit warnings loom. A tangent note promotes St Jacob’s Oil as a chronic rheumatism remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Hitchman Coal and Coke Company
John Mitchell
Alston G. Dayton
United States Circuit Court
Northern District
West Virginia
Culberton
Hale
House of Representatives
Burleson
Texas
Sherley
Kentucky
Olmsted
Pennsylvania
Hansbrough
North Dakota
Department of Commerce and Labor
International Harvester Company
Harvester Trust
United States
Ollie James
Republican Taft endorsement noted by Oklahoma lawmakers
Republican members of the Oklahoma Legislature endorsed Secretary Taft for the presidency. The residence of Justice FE. R. Carpenter at Andover New York was badly damaged by a bomb. The justice had rigidly enforced the liquor law. Thomas F. Lonergan, a San Francisco supervisor under the Schmitz administration who confessed taking bribes, died in that city of heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Taft
FE. R. Carpenter
Andover
N. Y
Thomas F. Lonergan
Schmitz
San Francisco
Object Lesson In Cleanliness Demonstrates Invisible Microbes
A medical student conducts an object lesson by washing hands for ten minutes and touching one of two test tubes with clean broth. After 24 hours the touched tube turbid with millions of microbes while the untouched tube remains clear, illustrating infection risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everybody’s Magazine
Worn Out Women Find Help in Mrs. Merritt Advice
Mrs. Merritt of Anoka Minnesota reports kidney pain back ache and fatigue improving after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She notes relief from the first box and advises other women with similar symptoms to try the product sold by dealers at five cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Merritt
S. First Ave
Anoka
Minn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Dogs Smuggled to Rooms Motivate Hotel Policy
The New York Press reports a TM Manager from a major upper Broadway hotel complains women quietly smuggle wet dogs into rooms. Porters discreetly care for animals by night in kennels, but dogs cannot stay in bedrooms overnight, prompting hotel officials to enforce a strict no-pets rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Broadway
Fide
Gyp
New York Press
Strange Fog Signal Off Boston Harbor
In fogbound Boston harbor passengers aboard the Nan tasket Teach line hear a faint metallic sound not a bell. A large tripod rises from the mist with a steel triangle at its apex, producing the signal that guides ships through the foggy channel.
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Boston Harbor
Grape Nuts Ad Promotes Child Health and Strength
An advertisement extols Grape Nuts as a perfect food for babies and adults. It details a mother saving her infant with grape nut juice mixed with milk, plus a claim that the product fosters healthy growth and vitality for both delicate babies and strong adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby
Wellville
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Clinton Plassdealer
Charles "Vaughn
Indiana
Clinton
Sipai River
Missouri
St Lews
Missoiari River
St. Lewis
Ohio River
Navigation Congress
Fanas
Stowa
Legaeyear
United States Supreme Court
Cuba
Cortelyou
Chicago Federation of Labor
London Times
Merciless
City Hall
Martin W. Littleton
THAWS
Work OF Congress
Stona
Treasury Department
South
Boston
Peller
Ien
Pawney
House
Hitchcock
Braska
Ge Charles HW. Grosvenor
D Bate
Mr. Bryan
Patt
Philippine Islands
Heyburn
District of Columbia
Fowler
Committee On
Banking and Currency
St. Jacobs
Mrs. Merritt
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