Personal notes and incidents across society headlines
A. B. Chandler to marry a stenographer from Pontal Telegraph. funeral thief steals 2200 dollars, savings of a dying husband. House members protest missing Helen Taft invitations due to delayed post. Mrs. Shonts travels with 20000 in jewelry seized for appraisal. Mrs. Jenkins burned to death in a boarding house fire. Eva Jenkins escapes. Archbishop Messmer condemns Salome for Milwaukee presentation. Two women injured in rail wreck near Victorville. Professor C Otis Whitman of Chicago dies of pneumonia. Kyrle Bellew plans a world tour with Frohman. Dr Simon Flexner recovers from appendicitis. reported excellent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Chandler
Pontal Telegraph Company
Joseph Tener
Hempstead
N. Y
Washington Post Office
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Railway
New York City
Kaiser Wilhelm Dar Grosse
L. H. Jenkins
Eva Jenking
Poughkeepsie
Messmer
Milwaukee
W. J. Donahue
Detroit
Mich
J. W. Davis
Indianapolis
Ind
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake
Victorville
Cal
Chearles Otis Whitman
University of Chicago
Bio
Chicago
Kyrle Bellew
Charles Frohman
London
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Presbyterian Hospital
New York
Sweeping Probe Ordered Into Chicago Bomb Outrages
United States secret service agents ordered to begin a sweeping investigation of the forty six Chicago bomb outrages that have destroyed property endangered lives and baffled police for months. Also reports a ship Mantanzas 85 days overdue arriving in Philadelphia after dire hardships and a crew of 11. Mary Baker Eddy will’s major estate portion including copyrights valued at about 1.5 million dollars to the Christian Science church. Also notes Honduras unrest martial law and political prisoners. In Indianapolis a boy shot another in a game. Tacoma anti t reating ordinance adopted. British general election yields Unionist losses and gains. Danville treasurer Hardy Whitlock hands over office after reporting a 37522 shortage and then surrenders property to satisfy bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Secret Service
Chicago
Brunswick
Philadelphia
Mra
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science Church
Honduras
Republic
Jalla
Albert Perin
Alan
Jesse Osborn
Indianapolis
Tacoma
Wash
Hardy H. Whitlock
Danville
O. B. Wysong
Montclair and Toronto Riots and Political Fallout
Readable items describe reforms in Treasury policy, a court ruling on coal railroads, a marriage in Minnesota, high school cost study in Montclair, riots in Toronto over pay as you enter cars, a Chicago garment workers march, Colorado Supreme Court vacancies, WilLorimer senate seat plan, a bank law case release, Chinese girl trafficking case, the death of Mrs. James McKinney, Ballinger Pinchot report, Azcona arrest, Fendrich cigar factory fire, Duveen tax claim, Detroit grand jury indictments, and Ghignone explosion in Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Mad Veugh
Congress
United States District Court For
District of Pennsylvania
Temple Iron Company
Toronto
Ont
Geary
Chicago
Weatside Baseball Park
Coxey
W. N. Ruby
Colorado Supreme Court
Robert W. Steele
China
Imperial Senate
Wiliam Lorimer
United States Senate
Plana
Burrows
Committee On Privileges and Elections
George D. Harras
Sioux Falls
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Harras
San Prencisco
Manchuria
Hongkong
James McKinney
Fourteenth District
Ilinois
Washington, D. C
Ballinger
Congressional Committee
Ballinger-Pinchot
Juan Sancho Azcona
Washington
Department of Justice
Azcona
Mexican Revolutionista
Francisco I. Madero
Mexican Congress
Fendrich
Main
First Streets
Hvansville
Ind
Duveen Bros
America
United States
Loeb
New York
Detroit
Mich
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Pittsburg
A.J. Ghignone
Seattle
Drainage district 23 formed to reclaim swamp lands
A special meeting of the board of supervisors created drainage district No. 23 in Carroll County Iowa. The open ditch will stretch over 25 miles with laterals, reclaim about 30,000 acres, move 2,009,000 cubic yards of dirt, and cost around 200000 dollars. The project aims to convert wasteland into productive farms near towns and churches. Gen. Phil Sheridan once hunted the area, now owned by Geo. E. B. Klick of Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Sheridan
Geo. EB. Klick
Decatur
Two Fatal Accidents Claim Sioux Falls Children
Two children died in separate Sioux Falls area accidents. Es ther Westphal, 23, fell into a water tank and drowned after climbing atop it. An 8 year old Reveness boy, riding with a hired man to town hauling grain, fell under wagons and was killed by trampling and a wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
Esther Westphal
Ferdinand Wastphal
McCook County
Michael Reveness
Minnehaha County
Iowa News Notes From Fort Dodge To Gettysburg In Briefs
M. J. Foley died at his Fort Dodge home after a brief illness leaving a wife of under a year. R. W. Hay, Cherokee section foreman, was killed by a northbound freight. he was a Central veteran. Will C. Strong’s Bronson home was robbed of cash. a purse on a table held small change. Alfred Andersen, cook at Battle Mountain Sanitarium Hot Springs, lost all fingers on his right hand while using an electric grinder. Boone saw four robberies in 24 hours. saloon break in at Chandermeier’s and min or stolen. E. J. Hamlin Lloyd Hook and E. H. Malow homes ransacked. no arrests yet. Youth Lewis Sapp confessed to seven or eight robberies. Gettysburg halted a turkey raffle fueling reform as slot machines and raffles were restricted. Mrs. C. H. Muncell Crandell to inherit $30,000 from late father’s estate.
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R. W. Hay
Cherokee
The
Central
Will C. Strong
Bronson
Alfred Andersen
Battle Mountain
Natonal
Hot Springs
Boone
Chandermeier
E. J. Hamlin
Lloyd Hook
E. H. Malow
Lewis Sapp
John Payton
Gettysburg
C. H. Muncell
Crandell
Conde
Made Boy Thieves and the Brule County Escape
M. M. Edwards, wanted in Stanley county for rustling, fled after a buggy leap. He used two Merrifield boys to steal a cow, mare, and colt, sharing proceeds and arming the youths to guard the loot. Authorities offer a $50 reward, but his repeated escapes suggest capture unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
Gilbert Dock
Merrifield Boys
Stanley County
Aince
Lkely
State efforts push new county normal schools plan
FP A Mahannah urges law creating normal schools in each county with accredited high schools and normal departments. State to pay teachers while cities supply rooms and equipment. Tuition from county students. Two years of normal drill and state inspection with country teaching rights upon satisfactory work. Treasury report shows limited general funds but rising taxes. Iowa conference seeks law to ban marriages for those with black plague. Officers elected: Ensign, Burnell, Eaton, Houghton, Mobridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FP. A. Mahannah
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Iowa Conference of Charities and Corrections
F. C. Ensign
Iowa City
A. T. Burnell
Des Moines
George D. Eaton
Vinton
H. J
Houghton
Sioux City
George Mobridge
Glenwood
Powder Room Fact In Beverly Unitarian Church History
The Beverly Unitarian church on Cabot Street has a long history from 1660s parish independence to its current presentable building. It notes an early powder room built in 1727 to store town ammunition while remembering the 1656 meeting house and 1682 site, with multiple enlargements and restorations through 1835.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly, Maes
Unitarian Church of
Beverly
Cabot Street
Salem
Beverly Parish
Roger Conant
Hale
General Court
Canada
Thomas Blower
Cambridge
S. Powder Room
Co Ft
Reward After Many Years for Heroic Wreck Rescue
James Cummings of Cunter Michigan received a gold medal from the treasury department for aiding in the rescue of 44 men from the grain barge Rutler near Ludington on November 1, 1878. As engineer aboard the government tug Graham he stayed at the throttle while Capt. Kendrick towed a lifeboat, saving the crew despite 18 feet of water and icy conditions. the act was overlooked for decades until Rep. James McLaughlin brought it to light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James Cummings
Cunter
Mich
Treasury Department
Rutler
Ludington
Cummings
Graham
Butler
Frederick Kendrick
Cspt
Kendrick
James McLaughlin
Women Wish to Marry Latham Proposals Pour In
New York Hubert Latham the French aviator remains unmarried. Since his arrival in the United States more than forty women have sent him marriage proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latham
New York
Hubert Latham
Recipe cures weak kidneys and bladder ailments
A dated chain of testimonial advertising a home remedy recipe for kidney and bladder troubles. It promises quick recovery, claims no cost for the copy, and invites readers to request Dr. A. B. Robinson in Detroit Michigan to mail the recipe. The text asserts “Wizard Oil” as a substitute for a family doctor and contains warnings about domestic neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
A. B. Robinson
Detroit
Mich
Turn Mall
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Blood Action
An old advertisement promises a $100 reward for proof Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by directly acting on the blood and mucous. It asserts the remedy builds up the constitution and offers testimonials and a list of customers as proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fe ‘Co
Tixie
Hall
Old Pete Flood Joke At Cemetery In Bass Voice
In a Trenton avenue and Dauphin street police station discussion, Sergeant McCay recalled Old Pete Flood once the cemetery attendant at Franklin. The custom was to ask him about business and his heavy bass reply was Ain't buried a living soul today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete
Trenton Avenue
Dauphin Street
McCay
Pete Flood
Franklin
Philadelphia Times
Washington woman credits Postum with restored health and cheer
A Washington woman describes severe nervous trouble four years ago and nearly dying. She stopped coffee, switched to Postum, and reports stable nerves, improved health, and return to daily tasks including housework and caring for two babies. She promotes Postum as the key to her recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mio
Pontum
Wellville
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Fley
Ball Wayer
Rapid City
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Charles Robert
Farmingdale
Freier
Luther
Masoh
Mason
Orman
Black Hills
Yankton
John Smith
Smith
Iowa News
M. J. Foley
Fort Dodge
Wicely
Old Beverly Church
Unitarian Church
Uncle Sam
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