Forest fires wipe out towns in western Canada collapse
Fernie and nearby communities are devastated as bush fires sweep from Cranbrook to Michel with many towns destroyed or doomed. Relief trains, doctors, nurses and clothing are rushing to aid. casualties are reported and telegraph links severed.
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Man
Fernie
B C
Con Company
Cranbrook
Hosmer
Michelle
Great Northern Bridge
Micel
Sparwood
Micel Hospital
Crow's Nest
Pete Campbell
Michel
Cranbroon
Pete Miller
Canadian Pacific
Elko
Sparood
Olson
Cokato
San Francisco
Canadian Pacific Railway
Conadian Pacific
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins Cure Claim
Tom Moore of Rural Route 1 Cochran Ga reports a bad instep sore healed after using Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He says less than half of a 25 cent box produced a perfect cure under guarantee at S Alcorn's drug store.
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Bucklen
Tom Moore
Roral Route 1
Cochran
GEO. S.alcorn
Negro Charged With Murder In Russellville
Russellville Kentucky August 3 Frauds Browder indicted by the grand jury for the wilful murder of James Cunningham, a farmer who employed him. A large crowd awaited browder from Louisville as tensions flare. Judge Sims predicts possible troop need amid fears of a race war after lynching of four reformers.
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Russellville
Rufus Browder
James Cunningham
Browder
Louisville
Sims
Cunningham
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Columbia Resident
A Columbia Ave resident in Franklin Tennessee endorses Doan's Kidney Pills citing relief from backache kidney pain and irregular secretions after doctor visits failed. The ad claims nationwide availability at Adams and Martins drug store with price fifty cents and notes Foster Milburn Co as U.S. agents.
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R. R. Lun
Columbia Ave
Franklin, Tenn
Dean
Columbia
Adams & Martin's
Foster-Milburn CO
Sale
New York
Doan'b
Rev Wallace Harvey Kegel Libel Case Ends Tense Flight
Long article reports Rev Wallace Harvey Kegel facing allegations in Louisiana causing him to depart for unknown reasons. Clergy in Plain Dealing and Columbia dispute identity with another man named Koegel. Kegel denies guilt, explains lack of meetings, and his paper claims 450 subscribers before abrupt disappearance with wife and Miss Noble.
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Loukinos
Keogel
Nashville
Kegel
Notie
Plain Dealing
Koegel
Intendo
Hell
Columbia
First Presbyterian Church
Roepel
Newe- Eider
Warnlus
Washington Aug Public Debt Statement Shows Rise in July
The monthly public debt report for July 31 1908 records a total debt of 17 996 000 000 plus, with interest bearing debt at 597 608 990 and other categories. Cash in the Treasury totals 1 791 088 027 against demand liabilities of 1 437 409 856 leaving a cash balance of 455 628 173. The rise is blamed on a cash loss of nearly 36 million in July.
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Washington
Aug
Treasury
Treasury of Philippine Islands
Demurrer Filed By Railroad In U S Circuit Court
Boston July 31 A sweeping demurrer and objection to form not substance was filed today by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company in the United States Circuit Court against the government suit. The filing splits into three parts with the company appearing as a corporation in three states and formerly the Consolidated Railroad Company of Connecticut. Providence Securities Company also demurred.
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Boston
United States Circuit Court
New York, New Haven and Harford Railroad Company
United States
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven Road
Consolidated Railroad Company
Connecticut
Providence Securities Company
Best Pills Ever Sold Praise From North Carolina Customer
After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars nothing helped like Dr. King's Life Pills. B F Ayseue of Ingit side North Carolina calls them the best pills ever sold. Sold under guarantee at Alcorn's drug store. 250
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Dr. King
B. F. Ayseue
Ingitside
N. C
Geo
Alcorn's
Wade Ellis Offered as First Assistant Attorney General
Cincinnati July 31 Wade E Ellis Ohio Attorney General has received a proposal to become First Assistant Attorney General of the United States He is considering the offer after resting from duties connected to Taft nomination and Republican platform work The appeal arrived from Attorney General Bonaparte but Ellis delayed due to a two week constraint before deciding.
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Cincinnati
Wade E Ellis
Ohio
United States
Ellis
William H. Taft
Bonaparte
Present Bibles to U. S. Sailors
HATTIESBURG Miss July 31 A comfort bag containing scriptures and approved literature to elevate minds is the gift the state W C T U plans to give every seaman on the battleship Mississippi when it visits the south coast next fall for the silver service The local group has begun collecting funds with appeals sent out to all W C T U branches statewide.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Mississippi
Tragic Murder and Onetime Farm Hand Kill Self
In Blackberry village, John Larsen, long employed by J. A. Morrill, killed the philanthropist and wounded housekeeper Mrs May Halcolm before fatally shooting himself. The incident left a blind 0 year old survivor and deeply affected Morrill's elderly mother. Larsen reportedly resented Morrill after a drinking dispute on Morrill’s farm.
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Chicago
Blackberry
Notar
Batavia
J. A. Morrill
Mra May Halcolm
John Larson
Merrill
Larsen
Morrill
Larson
Bryan's short acceptance speech at Fairview
Lincoln Neb Aug 3 Contrary to expectations William J Bryan will deliver a short acceptance speech at Fairview The speech runs about 5300 words and will touch on campaign issues only briefly with fuller discussion planned in later addresses He receives many messages from across the country offering encouragement and support despite the heat
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Fairview
Lincoln
Neb
Wm. J. Bryan
Bryan
A Boon to Elderly People
An elderly health claim highlights Foley's Kidney Remedy as a boon for kidney and bladder disorders. The ad asserts the product stimulates urinary organs corrects irregularities and tones the system urging readers to start using it for vigor. GEO. ALCORN.
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Foley
Geo
Alcorn
Panama Elects Obaldia President for 1910 1912
Panama reports that Don Jose Domingo Obaldia was unanimously elected president by electoral boards in seven provincial capitals. His term will run from October this year through 1912. Obaldia pledged to govern with the best elements and seek the happiness of the republic.
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Panama
Veraguas
Corie
Colon
Senor
Don Jose Domingo Obaldia
United States
Senor Obaldia
Ex Commissioner Carter Dead in Minnesota
Paris Tenn July 31 A message from Rochester Minn announces the death of Hon William A Carter of Paris at 54 after an operation He was a prominent Paris business man and longtime Democrat active in state politics serving as Paris mayor clerk and master in Henry County court and a prison commissioner under Gov McMillin He is survived by two widows and one son funeral plans set for Paris Sunday.
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Paris
Tenn
Rochester
Minn
Wm. A. Carter
Col. Carter
Chambery
Henry County
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