Happenings Roundup: Killings, Trials, and Trials
Miss Irene Dodge of Normal died and Herman Scantlan of Athens injured in Springfield I during an automobile streetcar collision driven by Rev. Father T. M. Moore of Athens. Rockefeller fined five dollars and costs for speeding. he sent a superintendent to plead guilty. Various notable items follow, including New York Mayor Gaynor’s recovery from a gunshot wound, and other court, political, and social notes from across the nation.
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Irene Dodge
Normal
Herman Scantlan
Athens
Springfeld
T. M. Moore
Father Moore
Myra Hell
John D. Rockefeller
Squire Dean
South Euclid Village
Rockefeller
Abbey A. Brown
Charles
Saginaw
Mich
President Montt
Chile
New York
William J. Gaynor
James J. Callacher
Jake L. Mwamon
Lawton
Gore
Creager
Hannon
Congressional Committee
Muskogee
Okla
Hamnon
W.R. Michaelis
Chicago Staats Zeitung
Oquaga Lake
Deposit
N. Y
William Ornstein
Weyler
Sebastian
Rutherford B. Hayes
United States
Delaware
Jacob L. Hamnon
J. F. McMurray
Special Congressional Committee
McMurray
McAlster
D.C. McCurtain
McCurtain
California & Northwestern Railroad
Ignatio
Cal
Santa Rosa
Ahvan
Hingen
C.K. G. Billings
Cleveland
Treasury Department
San Sebastian
Portugal
Spain
Vatican
Braga
Montana
Nortis
Iowa
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Sumner
House of Savoy
Duc d
Royal Familly
Ralph G Nichols
Rockford
Virginia
Boston
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
Gaston
Falcon
Draper
Fitzgerald
American Apple Growers’ Congress
St. Louis
J. W. Stanton
Richview
Quito
Ecuador
West Jersey and Seashore
Philadelphia
Frederick W. Feldner
Fritz Mergenthaler
Cape May
N. J
East Orange
Denver
Salvation Army
Frank C. Drew
San Francisco
Socialist gains reported nationwide by New York leaders
New York leaders report a gain of more than fifty percent for the Socialist party countrywide. local groups total 3,200 with 53,575 dues paying members. Six thousand coatrailors in greater New York joined 15,900 unionists who walked out last week. strike leaders foresee 44,000 out in a week.
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Socialist Party
New York
Greater
J. F. McMurray
Washington
James Ogich
All Saints’ Servian Orthodox Church
St. Louis
Boston
Red Sea
Knights Templar Hold Triennial Parade in Chicago
Knights Templar staged a massive triannual parade in Chicago on August 9 as part of a conclave opening August 7. About 60 000 knights led by Grand Master William Bromwell Melish marched along Michigan Boulevard with 42 bands and thousands of spectators, amid elaborate arches, white Corinthian columns, and night illuminations including a 150 foot electric emblem in Grant Park.
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Chicago
Knights Templar
Order
George H. MacAdam
Madison
Wis
George C. Rafter
Cheyenne
Wyo
Illinois
United States
Cook County
Benjamin S. Wilson
Michigan Boulevard
Thirty-first Street
Battery B. I. N. G
Hubbard Court
William Bromwell Melish
Cincinnati
Henry W. Rugg
Providence
R. I
Melish
Art Institute
Busse
Washington Street
State
Templar
Randolph
Vin Buren Street
Jackson Boulevard
Knights
Federal Building
Deneen
la Salle Street
la Salle Hotel
Grand Commandery of
Dunois
New City Hall
West Side Hall Park
State Street
Grant Park
Lake Front
John D. Cleveland
Arthur MacArthur
Troy
N. Y
W. Frank Pierce
San Francisco
Earl of Huston
England and Wales
Lord Athlumney
Thomas Fraser
R. Newton Crane
F. C. van Duzer
H. J. Homer
John Fergueson
England and
Wales
Luther B. Archibald
Canada
Dean's Kidney Pills Promote Urinary Health Claim
An advertisement urges not neglectting kidney symptoms such as frequent or scanty urine and sediment, claiming Dean's Kidney Pills cure kidney disorders. A Wooster Ohio user reports gravel diagnosis and rapid improvement after twelve days, with a testimonial about passing stones. Product sold by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY at 50 cents.
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Dean
A. Dashem
N. Grant St
Wooster
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
It Was the Other Way
A senior partner in a wholesale dry goods house rebukes a ten year veteran drummer for a supposed side line after marriage. The drummer defends that marriage is not a side line, while the partner jokes the home life may keep him away from the road.
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Mr. Jones
Why Washington crossed the Delaware in class joke
In a third grade exercise, pupils puzzled by Washington crossing the Delaware answer the famous chicken riddle. Annie offers a summer joke about Atlantic City, giving a humorous misdirection to the historical question.
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Washington
Delaware
Annie
Atlanic City
Philadelphia Times
One Cobb resigns. drummer and lawyer share train seat
In Atlanta Judge Andrew Cobb, a former Georgia supreme court justice, resigns. A local lawyer reading a newspaper notes the news while a shoe drummer nearby comments on the aftermath. The exchange highlights the resigning figure and a moment on an outgoing train.
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Cobb
Andrew Cobb
Supreme Court of Georgia
Atlanta
Saturday Evening Post
Detroit
Philadelphia
Reformation Joke From Town Boss On Reform Backlash
A local boss admits to being labeled a reformer while noting the prior reform last year, saying he now wishes to revert the town’s changes. The exchange highlights irony in local governance and voter sentiment.
Diet Plan to Lower Body Temperature and Boost Comfort
A dietary regimen claims you can live 10 to 20 degrees cooler than neighbors by skipping breakfast meat, eating fruit, a saucer of Grape-Nuts with cream, two slices toast with little butter, and a cup of Postum. Partially pre digested foods are said to aid digestion and energy, with literature like The Road to Wellville offered for reading.
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Wellville
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