Spears Versua Pruning Hooks Adds Odd View On Women
A French writer on nervous diseases links women to fixed ideas about pruning and growth. The piece notes the postmaster general may allow stamp book ads, and recounts Trenton New Jersey buying 2000 baseball uniforms for youth leagues with discipline rules. It also covers billiard origins, football rule changes favoring smaller colleges, a New Albany comet tail note, and hunters barred from New Brunswick forests until fires are tamed.
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Week's global events and economic notes briefed
A digest lists farm product gains for 1908 led by corn with 7.78 billion valued output. Congress debates a 500 million bond issue for river and harbor work. Roosevelt denounces Panama graft claims while Calabria and others offer rebuttals. Various incidents from crime to exiles, court rulings, and disasters are skimmed.
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Congress
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William Nelson Cromwell
Senor Ardsemana
Panama
Andrew Carnegie
Ways and Means Committee
Divorce and legal outcomes across the era
Mrs. Gertrude Gates wins an absolute divorce from James L. Gates, a Milwaukee magnate. Abraham Ruef, ex San Francisco political boss, is convicted of bribery with up to 14 years possible. John L Sullivan secures a Chicago divorce. Samuel E Gross freed in Detroit bankruptcy. Charles E Davis acquitted in a Omaha murder case. President Castro plans Bordeaux landing as a private citizen. President Castro discusses settling international quarrels in Santander Spain. Hansbrough of North Dakota ill in Minneapolis. Gov Deneen to attend University of Hanoi agricultural short course in 1910.
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James L. Gates
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North Dakota
Minneapolis
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
Castro
Bordeaux
Charles E. Davis
Frederick T. Austin
Omaha
Venezuela
Santander
Spain
John L. Sullvan
Chicago
Samuel E. Gross
Detroit
Mich
Deneen
University of Hanois
Multiple Disasters and Incidents Reported in Early Newsround
A string of events spans the Atlantic world including a Panama Canal dynamite blast that killed at least 14 and injured 50, a US battleship fleet arrival at Colombo greeted by crowds, a smallpox case aboard the Géorgia, and the Gelderland seizing the Alix off Puerto Cabello. Other items note a Yiddish theater panic in New York with a child fatality and injuries, a double suicide by Frank Cassini of St. Louis, merger plans for Phelps Dodge copper properties valued at 350 million, a Paton Iowa fire destroying 11 buildings, a New York tenement bombing injuring many, and a Haszlehurst doctor shot and killed amid a dental/animal veterinary note.
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Curacao
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A. S. Pitts
Haszlehurst
Mize
Thomas Birdsong
G& E
Veterinary
Thornton Hains on trial for murder in Annis case
Thornton Hains of New York faces first degree murder charges in Flushing as the brother of Capt. Peter C. Hains, the shooter in the William E. Annis killing. Defense argues Thornton acted to protect his brother from a hostile crowd at the club, and the defendant plans to testify. Gen. John C. Hains Sr. and Mrs. Hains observed the proceedings.
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Peter C. Hains
William E. Annis
Queen's County
Hains
Annie
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Frederick E. Crane
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Crane
Queens County
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Maj
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Tatesmen
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Peter Hains
Thrifty-Well and Weary Willy Bond Over Water Pun
In a brief cartoon style exchange Mrs. Thrifty-Well offers water to Weary Willy who jokes about his iron constitution rusting if he drinks. The caption plays on thrift and caution with light humor.
Thousands of workmen suffer U S accident record warned
Washington reports 23,000 to 35,000 deaths and 2,000,000 injured among U S workers last year per a labor bureau bulletin. Factory, iron and steel workers most exposed. rail workers fatalities high. calls for better inspections and laws to prevent accidents. Narrowly escaped lynching ends with police escort Schlatter from Macomb.
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Washinnton
United States
Bureau of Labor
Macomb
McKinley
Schlatter
Quincy
Escapee Nicholson Dies After Laudanum In Philadelphia
W. J. Harry Nicholson escaped Collingswood jail and reached Philadelphia where he swallowed laudanum and died Monday. The report notes his body was killed and buried under a local notice dated December 18.
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Collingswood
W. J
Harry Nicholson
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