Riot toll and court rulings fill weekly Clinton paper
Explosions at Shenandoah City colliery in Pennsylvania trap 30 to 40 workers as black damp delays rescue. State Supreme Court upholds a Kansas City school board bribery sentence. Riots in Kansas City involve white men and black soldiers with police nearly overwhelmed. The Crapsey heresy case nears sentencing as jurors urge caution. Police clash with 200 black civilians near 19th Street and Waldron Avenue ends with many injuries and torn uniforms.
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Shenandoah City
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
State Supreme Court
District Court
Frank M. Campbell
Kansas City, Kan
Fort Robinson
Neb
William Murphy
Crawford
Murphy
Arthur Moss
Algernon S. Crapsey
Batavia
N. Y
Tghteenth Street
Waldron Avenue
Kansas City
Alaskan duplex system stalled. dignitaries and deaths in brief
A roundup of brief items covers a stalled duplex system due to Alaskan business, retirements and appointments abroad, a steamer captain’s death and burial moves, a Brazilian ambassador touring Seattle, a pastor’s resignation, Samar island politics, a suspected body in Finland, a fatal charity concert incident, electric conversion plans for New York Central, a world tour by William Elis, an asphalt company dispute, Kentucky shootout deaths, a sports death from rooting, a monument plan in Los Angeles, and New York dam contracts in Schenectady.
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Ezra Kendall
Cleveland
Ohio
R. J. Kennedy
Cettinje
Montenegro
Uruguay
Henry Larson
Crete
Duluth
Minn
Marine City
Mich
Joaquin Nabuco
United States
Seattle
Wash
Russia
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Bertha Garson
New York Central
Highbridge
Wakefield
William T. Elis
Red Cross
A. L. Barber
John M. Mack
General Asphalt Company
John Richardson
Lexington
Nerbert Corneilson
Danville
Queen and Crescent
Chattanooga
Tenn
Frank A. Webber
Memphis
Montgomery
Col
D. Frank Dowell
Beaver
Los Angeles
Ila ‘Crosse
New York State
Superintendent of Public Works
Franchot
Mohawk River
Schenectady
Eastern
Troynd Pittsburg
Multiple incidents highlight turmoil in eastern news
The report cites several events including suicides and shootings in Boston Philadelphia and New York plus business and legal upheavals. It notes a Harvard football player Malcolm McLeod death by action in Boston and L Yarnall’s wife shooting in Philadelphia.
Runaway chariot causes circus panic in Alton crowd
An audience of about seven thousand at an Alton circus panicked when a runaway chariot broke loose. No injuries are reported, and handlers worked to regain control as the scene cleared.
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Alton
Saloonmen Raise Funds to Defy Sunday Closing Law
In Lexington 140 saloon men gathered funds totaling 4000 dollars to oppose the Sunday closing law. Mrs. Polly Ann Jackson of Louisville, an invalid, died laughing after hearing a funny story. The Southern Methodists recommend the election of three new bishops.
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Lexington
Polly Ann Jackson
Louisville
Southern Methodists
Labor group opposes court injunctions during Roosevelt visit
Gompers led a labor committee to President Roosevelt to object to court injunctions. Senators Bailey and Tillman attacked the President over railroad rate policy after which the Allison amendment passed. War Department notes Panama канal work risk from indecision over waterway type. Taft warned Panamanian unrest would be suppressed if it hinders canal work.
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Gompers
Roosevelt
Bailey
Tillman
Allison
Shonts
Secretary of War
Panama Canal
Hepburn
Taft
Gov
Magoon
Canal Zone
Panama
Canal
United States
War Department
Senate
Congress
San Francisco
Quartermaster’s Department
Subsistence Department
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Global unrest and imperial intrigue across continents
Reports describe Natalian troops crushing rebels in Africa and British calls for arms reduction. Lloyd George critiques an English education bill in Parliament while St. Petersburg police disperse protests. Fifty American engineers head to the Philippines to build rail lines in Cebu Negros and Panay. A Russian scientist links hair pigments to disease. The Russian douma pushes for general amnesty and abolition of the death penalty. Kuzmich, a disliked St. Petersburg admiral, is assassinated by workers. Battles flare on the Mulaya River as rival forces clash. Baroda's ruler Sayaji Rao Gaekwad travels to New York as a democrat in education focus. Tripoli’s procurator general Nedjim Eddin Bey is murdered by Ali Shamyl Pasha. Natal natives report witch doctors sacrificing children to aid rebel immunity. The State Department seeks Rockhill in Pekin on how China’s customs decree reshapes relations.
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House of Commons
Lloyd-George
St. Petersburg
Philippines
Cebu
Negros
Panay
Kuzmich
Mulaya
Mahrajah
Sayaji Rao Caikwar Sena Khas Khei Shemsher Bahadur
Bar
Natal
State Department
Rockhill
Pekin
China
Robert Start
Congressional Battle Over Navy Purchases and Rail Rates
The House and Senate spent days debating naval supply policy and coal transport costs to the Philippines. Amendments favored open market purchases for shells and gear, while rate bills and interstate commerce provisions dominated floor time, with tense exchanges between Senators Bailey Tillman and Lodge.
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Senate
House
Navy Yards
Washington
T House
Bailey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rayner
Senator Tillman
Senator Bailey
Carter
Lodge
Tillman
Alison
Vhe House
District of Columbia
Y House
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Female Health Relief
Medical advice touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the cure for female disorders. It claims to regulate periods ease backache and nervous symptoms helping childbirth preparation and recovery. Mrs Pinkham and her daughter in law invite women to consult free of charge at Lynn Massachusetts with letters read by women only.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Odds and Ends from a Distant World
A mix of brief notes covers a French soldier’s six month sentence for profanity, Beirut’s 23 teams at the Syrian Protestant College, the term Cossack from Asian roots, Bolivia and Siam’s debt status, wild cotton in Colombia, rat bounty in South Africa plague districts, and Chemulpo the port of Seoul watching a vast bay with a 30 foot tide.
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Beirut
Bolivia
Siam
Colombia
South Africa
Chemutpo
Seoul
Korea
Educated Dog Upsets Train Rules in First Class Car
In a Good Company scene a brakeman tells a lady her dog must be moved to the baggage car. The woman insists the animal is educated and knows more, leading to the dog traveling in a special front car with an educated horse, with extra charges applied.
Hall's Catarrh Cure claims constitutional cure
There is more catarrh in this region than other diseases and it was thought incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is advertised as the only constitutional remedy. It is taken internally and claimed to cure by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. A hundred dollar reward is offered for any failure to cure, with testimonials and circulars available. Druggists sell it for 75 cents.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Courtesy of the Plains Cowboys and a Lesson in Politeness
A Southern Pacific train stop becomes a stage for social misfire as two cowboys at a restaurant table bow and stroke their mustaches to impress two visiting ladies. When offered butter one cowboy snaps that he does not choose any, politely implying fatigue with courtly acts.
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Plains
Southern Pacific
Ma’m
All Modern Conveniences in New Apartment
The Hostess notes the apartment has modern features while The Visitor confirms hot and cold steam heat running washtubs and a stationary elevator in Brooklyn Life.
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Brooklyn
Curious Results When Coffee Drinking Is Abandoned
A reader learns that quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee leads to a smooth transition. The article claims Postum tastes better when well boiled with cream and explains a transformation in the body within ten days to two weeks as caffeine is replaced by nourishing liquid. It ends with the slogan There’s a reason.
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Spier
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Clark Dunkerman
Lockhaven
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New York Supreme Court
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Suterville
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Harrison Snyder & Co
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Presbytery
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Julian W. Mack
Tate
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Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
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James C. Holden
Charles E. Miller
Bridgeport
Conn
St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Rochester
Jacob Luckstone
Registry Department
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First National Bank of
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Luckstone
Francis Burton Harrison
Long Island
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
General Paper Company
National Convention of Charities and Corrections
Corwin
Nome
Marblehead
Pichilinque
Mexico
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Nebraska
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Grain Trust
Grand Jury
Omaha
Department of Justice
Illinois Steel Company
Yarry Conners
Atlanta
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W. E F. Bechtel
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James EB. Ament
Warrensburg State Normal School of Missouri
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Salvation Army
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Standard Beet Sugar Company
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Charles L. Work
Granville
J. D. Thompson
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Munger
Marshal Warner
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Committee On Episcopacy
Dallas
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Bob” Taylor
E. W. Carmack
United States Senate
Tennessee
American Baptist Home Missionary Society of New York
Roger Williams University
Nashville
West Virginia State Federation of Labor
Wheeling
Falmouth
Miss
Anna Pendergast
George Coleman
J. E. Rose
Mineola
Willingham
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O. P. Hanks
Britton
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J. M. Mosby
Fred L. Jackman
Pana
Ill
Myrom Jordan
Moline
Woman's Itelief Corps
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