Mayor Tom Johnson Reveals Fortunes Wane in City Crisis
Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson declares his fortune wrecked by managing his dead brother Albert's estate, vows to give up luxury autos and the Euclid Avenue home. He describes choosing public service over wealth, plans to stay in politics, and faces enemies planning to strike financially but pledges continued front-line effort for Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Tom Johnson
Euclid Avenue
Bert
Abert
Albert
Lfe
Wall Street
E. H. Harrimen
Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted for Kidney Health
A vintage advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as the solution for kidney trouble and backache. It cites Mrs J T Wright of Columbia Tennessee praising relief after use and notes Adams and Martins drugstore stocked the remedy with price at 60 cents. Poster Milburn Co New York is listed as sole US agents.
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Dean
Columbia All
J. T. Wright
High St. Columbia
Tenn
Foley’s Honey and Tar Clears Air Passage and Cough
The advertisement claims Foley's Honey and Tar soothes irritated membranes and eases a persistent cough. It asserts relief for sore lungs and a strengthened system with the cold expelled, urging purchase only in the yellow package GEO 8 ALCORN.
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Foley
Alcorn
Labor Federation split over injunctions at AFL convention
Denver November 19. The AFL session focused on the President's report. A key vote defeated a section urging to disregard injunctions by 11 272 to 3 576. Gompers' posture on the Buck Stove injunction won unanimous endorsement.
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Denver
Col
American Federation of Labor Convention
Gompers
Theeport
Buck Stove & Range Company
Leg Fracture Delays Lincoln Governor-Elect Shallenberger
Gov elect A C Shallenberger is confined to his Lincoln Hotel room with a fractured leg after an initiation incident with the Shriners. In Omaha, a ratification banquet planned for him was postponed as he cannot attend.
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Lincoln, Neb
A. C. Shallenberger
Lincoln Hotel
Shrinera
Omaha
Eled Shallenberger
Dahiman Democracy Land
Oil firm Pearson buys fleet of barges in Texas
OIL COMPANY BUYS BARGES. Port Arthur Texas November 20 Pearson and Son limited, British oil producers and refiners, have closed a deal to purchase a fleet of oil barges. The barges will operate between Coatzacoalcos Isthmus of Tehuantepec where Pearson and Son refinery is located and European ports.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Pearson & Son, Limited
Mexico
England
Standard Oil Company
Coatzacoalcos
Isthmus
Tehuantepec
Pearson & Son
European
Gas explosion buries twenty-two on Gold Street
New York reports a devastating gas explosion in a Gold Street Brooklyn excavation. Fifteen bodies entombed under earth and timber with ten missing as rescue teams, aided by firemen, work through rock, pipes, and debris. Names of the dead include Samuel Trout and four foremen. the full death toll awaits tomorrow.
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New York
Gold Street
Brooklys
York
Front Streets
Park
Escaplixges
Samuel Trout
Frederick Scheffinyer
Charles Farrell
Gustave Anderson
Cattle Plague Worsens Across Pennsylvania
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on November 22 the European cattle plague grows graver across the state though local conditions stay steady. Dr Parson head of the state livestock sanitary board reports seven new herds infected after being called to Montgomery county for the outbreak. Counties report multiple additional herds affected.
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Wilkesbarre
Parson
Ivestock Sanitary Board
Montgomery County
Danville
Children Contract Foot and Mouth In Danville Quarantine
Outbreak of foot and mouth disease in New York and Pennsylvania leads to interstate cattle shipment quarantines. Four Danville children sick, investigation ongoing, with strict federal state actions including car disinfection and sealed shipments. Great Britain responds with import bans to curb spread.
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Washington
New York
Pennsylvania
Wilwan
Danville
Department of Agriculture
Wison
Tve
Bureau of Animal Industry
East Buffalo
B. F. Wende
Michigan
Great Britain
London
Board of Agriculture
New Jersey
British Board of Agriculture
Land Sale in Maury County Tennessee in November Term
Land sale in Maury County Tennessee follows a decree in the County Court. The tract in the 10th district near Cecil and Hines lines measures about 2 acres. Sale on cash day with deferred balance and notes, no equity of redemption.
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Thomas Cell
Maury County
Tennesse
Joeee
Tennessee
Jorett District
Maury Co. Tenn
Cecil and
Hine
N. EB
Martin Wood
Cox
Jacob Cox
Joseph Ceciler
H. W. Thomas
J. H. Dinning
Sol
Compl
Notice of land dispute in Tennessee chancery court
In Columbia Tennessee a chancery court order requires the named defendants to answer or risk confession in a land dispute over about 232 acres in Henderson and Irwin estates. The case involves J. W. Irwin and heirs of S. W. Irwin with Manty County property described in the bill. publication for four weeks in The Columbia Herald. The filing date is November 6, 1908, with attorneys Akin and Hughes serving for the complainants.
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Irwin
Deligedt
Henderson
J. W. Irwin
W. Irwin
Manty County
Tennessee
Columbia
Colac
Chancery
Coongry County
Columbia, Tenn
Akin
C. & M Hughes & Hughes Solicitors
Many Mortgages Were Forgeries In Chicago
Chicago, Nov 2. After examining documents in the office of Peter Van Vlissingen, convict forger of mortgage notes and deeds, Wm. C. Nibinck, vice president of the Chicago Title & Trust Company, receiver for the Van Vlissingen properties, says forged papers total $1,539,423.89. The full extent will emerge only after a thorough review of all records, including loan Nos. 2015 and 1244, with Van Vlissingen now a Joliet penitentiary convict and claiming $750,000 would cover the forged notes sold to clients.
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Chicago
Peter van Vlissingen
Wm. C. Nibinck
Chicago Title & Trust Company
van Vlissingen
van Vilssingen
Joliet
Skull Dugger y of the Republicans
The Union Republican Club of Portland endorsed the campaign against Gov. George E. Chamberlain for U.S. Senate. It passed a resolution backing circulating signatures to remove legislators who signed the No. 1 statement pledging to vote for Chamberlain, signaling a party-wide drive in Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Union Republican Club
George E. Chamberlain
United States
Republican Party
Burdock Blood Bitters Advertises Liver and Digestion Aid
Ancle lyric style ad claims Burdock Blood Bitters tone the liver and stomach, boost digestion, and purify blood. It markets relief for languor and a run down feeling with a plain lazy liver premise.
Redemption Nears Completion for 3 Per Cent Certificates
Washington Nov 22 The redemption of the 3 per cent certificates of indebtedness issued during the panic last year is nearly finished. Outstandings on Nov 1 totaled 19,986,550 with all but 220,500 redeemed by close of business yesterday.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou
Promise China reforms pledged by new administration
Pekin officials stated the Foreign Board would vigorously promote reforms begun by the late Emperor Kuang Hsiao. Since November 15 edicts with political impact reflect a modernizing Chinese regime. Several reforms are slated for execution during Prince Chun's regency.
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PEKIN
Foreign Board
Kuang Hsa
Prince Chun
Non-Resident Notice in Maury County Chancery Court
Non-resident Emmeret Caliowe and the Koca-Nola Company appear in Maury County Chancery Court Tennessee. An attachment issued by Judge Sam Holsting orders the company to answer the bill by the April term 1909 at Columbia with four weeks publication before the rule day.
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Emmeret Caliowe
Koca-Nola Company
Atlanta
Chancery Court
Maury County
Tennessee
Caldwell
Columbia
State of
Sam Holsting
11Th Judicial Creult
Maury Caty
Koca-Nela Company
Chances Coit
Court House
Tore
Columbia Hernli
Nonresident D Jones warned to appear in Columbia Chancery Court
Affidavits show D Jones, non-resident of Tennessee, must answer or demur within three days of the December 1905 term in Columbia. The missing name proceedings are to be amended and published four consecutive weeks in The Columbia. Fleming, Solicitor, Akin, Clerk.
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W. M. Parham
Als
D. Jones
State of
Tennessee
Chancery Court
Columbia
Anawer
Ori
Smut
Fleming
Sol'r. F
Akin
Clerk
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