Roosevelt Proclaims Thanksgiving Day and Other 1910s News
President Roosevelt sets aside Thursday November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Orville Wright leaves Fort Myer hospital after six weeks confinement. Jersey City jury finds Theodore Whitmore not guilty of murder. William H. Filchner jailed one year for grand larceny. Rear Admiral Cowden retires on his 62nd birthday. Gov Curtis Guild Jr suffers gastritis. Ex-cashier William Montgomery convicted again for embezzlement. Prince Henry of Prussia tours airship with Count Zeppelin. Dr C S Mack resigns to pastor Swedenborgian church. Countess Szchenyi gives birth to a daughter. Will H Pettis pleads guilty to embezzling 27000 and gets ten years. Mrs Lillian M N Stevens reelected head of the National W C T U. Edward English kidnapped for ransom then escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
W. Va
Jersey City
N.J
Theodore Whitmore
William H. Filchner
New York
Wall Street
Alfred Reynolds Cowden
Navy
Gov
Curtis Guild, Jr
Massachusetts
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Pittsburg
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Count Zeppelin
C. 8. Mack
Laporte County
Indiana
Toledo
O. Countess Szchenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Will H. Pettis
Sac City
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Maine
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
Edward English
Mount Vernon
Wash
Standard Oil Company
St. Louis
John B. Jackson
Wilbur Wright
le Mans
France
Olongapo P. 1
Bronx
John Schink
Bridgeport
Conn
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company
Fort William
Ontario
Sir Percy Scott
South America
German Housewives’ Society
Winston Green
Richmond
Navy Yard
Congress
American Medical Association
Roane
Kingston
Tenn
George Cook
John King
Southwest Point
A. S. Blake
John M. Kelly
Abraham Ruef
Ruef
San Francisco
Lapham’s Lane
Mich
William H. Emory
Amoy
China
Race
Fourth Streets
Cincinnati
Hawaii
North Sea
Yarmouth
Hook of Holland
Harwich
Tampico
Mexico
Smyrna
Tewfik Pasha
Barcelona
Boston
Holy Cross
United States
Diomede Falconio
Alfred H. Curtis
National Bank of North America
Charles W. Morse
Ted Burton
Reelfoot Lake
Quentin Rankin
A. H. Curtis
Nicholas Tschaikovsky
St. Petersburg
J. J. Petrie
Mary Lavin
Charles
John Cusick
Chicago
Edward Cook & Co
Lord Northcliffe
Negligence blamed as German interview sparks crisis
The article mocks Chancellor von Buelow and foreign office officials over a London printed interview with the German emperor, suggesting resignation may be offered. It notes President Castro defies curbs on Venezuelan port shipments from Curacao, as a Dutch fleet looms offshore. It also lists a rescue from a Rome NY asylum fire, a fatal shooting in Kentucky, a Belton Texas cotton mill fire, and other 1909 news items including a Boston diocese centennial parade and various accidents.
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von Buelow
Foreign Office
London
Castro
Curacao
Netherlands
Rome
Heidelberg
Lee County
Ephraim Angel
Harvey Ross
Angel
Ross
Hallowe’en Royster
Belton
Tex
Boston
Russia
Austria- Hungary
Julian P. Thomas
Morris Park
Aeronautic Society
Nancy Morrill
Jackson
Mary Terry
Oscar Hogason
Marengo
Farmers’ Society of Equity
Indianapolis
Ind
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Omaha
Neb
M. W. Stryker
Hamilton College
Chicago-Duluth Limited
Kempton
Wis
Final hearing set for Standard Oil dissolution in St Louis
A February 23 hearing in St Louis will proceed with the government's case to dissolve Standard Oil. The item notes various unrelated world events and misc tragedies to illustrate a broad news snapshot.
Iowa City Event and Local Incidents Highlight Mason City Losses
William Oleson was found dead in a Mason City boarding house with the gas jet partly on. A late report notes a Measles epidemic in Muccatine with many children out of school and a corn carnival planned at Panora.
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William Oleson
Mason City
Central Towa Homeopathic Association
Iowa City
Council Bluffs
James W. Blakeman
C. H. Leichliter
Rock Rapids Review
Traverse City
Mich
Record-Herald
Chicago
Maurice Pabst
Colfax High School
Colfax Athletic’ Club
Hillside Club
Des Moines
Elma
Oleson Drug Company
Fort Podge
Oleson
Ed Kripner
Town City
Inter-State Protective Association
Bankers’ Associations
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Frank Horack
State University
McBride & Will Drveg Company
Mershalltown
L3nola Bennett
Hyumr
Jesse Huxford
Enterprise
Pheer
Flis
Thomas Berkelelle
Company C
Iowa National Guard
Cedar Rapids
Thrift
Berkebile
Washington
Scho
State Department of Health
Panora
George M. Burnett
Lincoln
Neb
George MacLean
Iowa State University
Burdett
Missouri Military Institute
Sigma Nu
West Point
The Solar Machine and a Yankee Lawyer Talk of Smoking
In Harper's Willie Brook's story a Yankee lawyer Hi Biddle asks about smoking Harris and laughs at living on ten cents a week. He recalls Bill Doolittle who survived on a Sunday dinner plus ten cents for weeks, using small cigars to curb appetite and limit consumption.
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Hi Biddle
Willie Brook
Harper’s
Bill Doolittle
Bill
Biddle
Sufferer Recovers After Cuticura Remedies
A wife narrates her husband endured fifteen years of rheumatic sores from knee to ankle. Doctors failed. After using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent the sores dried up in three weeks and pain subsided. In three months he was well. Proof available. Mrs V V Albert. Upper Frenchville Maine July 21 1907.
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V. V. Albert
Upper
Frenchville
Time's Wonderful Changes
Harry Lauder recalls St Alexander Ramsay building on his Scottish estate. A worker named Robby watches various machines in a barnyard and jokes that even Solomon would be amazed by modern ingenuity.
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Harry Lauder
Alexander Ramsay
Scotland
Robby
Alexander
Solomem
Vote for the friend of the Hebrews banner backfires
In a district with Hebrews and Irish, a sign reading Vote for John Henry McCarthy the friend of the Hebrew angered an Irish voter who chose the other candidate Henry M. Goldfogle, changing a bench race outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry McCarthy
Broadway
Henry M. Goldfogle
A Cure and a Test of Repentance
A sinner toils along a rocky road his feet torn by bruises and wounds seeking relief from eternal damnation. A stranger offers a stark path to redemption advising one year living in a boarding house as the supreme test of repentance.
Puzzle solved coffee harm prompts health change
An ill stockman recounts nervous spells, insomnia, and stomach issues blamed on coffee. He quit coffee, started Postum, and after two years reports better sleep, absence of palpitations, weight gain, and overall health improvement. He credits Postum with saving his life and notes the company’s advertising claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Western Canada grain lands lure American settlers
In letters and reports from Western Canada readers note strong wheat yields averaging about 20 bushels per acre with many fields reaching 50 to 85 bushels. Oats and barley are excellent and prices promise great returns. The piece cites high profits per acre, rich pastures, new homestead rules, and a surge of American settlers attracted by cheap land and railway rates, plus endorsements from officials and editors.
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Canada
Pincher Creek
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Leslie M. Shaw
New York
United States Treasury
McKinley
Roosevelt
United States
Monticello
Iowa
Western Canada
Ontario
Moose Jaw
Regina
Colombia's One Iron Foundry in Bogota
The sole iron foundry in Colombia, named La Paradera, operates at a small scale in Bogota using native ores melted and remelted for casting. Interior deposits exist and near the Caribbean coast an ore body is being drilled by American engineers.
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Colombia
South America
Bogota
la Paradera
Caribbean Sea
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Ellington
Jackson Stafford
Hugh Brennan
Albert Ritter
T. E. Dowden
Hawkeye Beer Company
East 5Th Street
Gertrude
John Hawker
Creston
Fred Gilbert
Maxwell
Nebraska
Crosby
P. I. Appleman
Ed Berg
Fred Vervilya
Audubon
Appleman
Iowa Wesleyan
W. L. Roach
Muscatine
District Court
A. G. Wood
E. J Roberts
C. K. Mason
Iowa Falls Electric Light Company
Oscar F. Petersen
Iowa Falls
Alden
Peterson
Eden Township
Leon
William Ray
Mr. Ray
J. M. Osborne
Decatur County
Ray
Jessie Bills
Davenport
Grand Chapter
Meredith of
Newton
New Methodist Church
Ames
Dishop
Jomph F Berry
Loge
Cutiura
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A Butrer
Ottawa
T. Holmes
Jeckson
St. Paul, Mi
W.V. Bennett
Omaha, Neb
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