Rockefeller Brothers Reconcile After Years of Estrangement
John D Rockefeller and his brother Frank reportedly renew their long troubled friendship following years of disputed business matters. Evelyn Romadka, once married to Milwaukee trunk maker Charles P Romadka, has received a pardon from Nichois authorities after a four year legal saga that began with an indeterminate Joliet prison sentence for theft arising from a Chicago case. Memorial services were held in San Juan for Chief Justice Fuller. Lucy Page Gaston, founder of the Anticigarette League of Chicago, claims evidence cigarettes are widely used by women in New York and campaigns against the habit.
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John D. Rockefeller
Frank
Evelyn Romadka
Charles P. Romadka
Milwaukee
Nichois
Fuller
United States Supreme Court
Lucy Page Gaston
Anticigarette League of
Chicago
New York
Panama Canal June work tops last year by far
June excavation on the Panama Canal exceeded last June by 200000 cubic yards, totaling 1305141, while a New York report cites average daily care cost for tubercular patients in semi charitable sanatoriums at 167 cents. A Tarentum doctor misplaced 575 dollars in diamonds while shifting his baby. Fire near a New York factory killed one and rendered twenty families homeless. A long strike by iron, tin and steel workers heads to a worker vote. Attorney General Wickersham moves to dissolve the bath tub trust backed by 100 million, a broad domestic influence.
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Panama Canal
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
New York
United States
Spahr
Tarentum
New York City
Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Wickersham
Bath Tub Trust
A. B. Cummins
Iowa
Kansas City
Sid Cauley
Carroll County
Miss
Henry Beck
Cauley
Pillabury-Washburn Flour Company
London
R. H. Glyn
Glyn
Benjamin T. Smith
Addison T. Smith
Heyburn
Idaho
Mount Holly
New Orleans
Nicaragua
Hornet
Norfolk
Antonio Maura
Barcelona
Spain
Manuel Posa
Be Ia
Chicago
Ira G. Rawn
Chicago, Inianapolia & Louisville Railroad
Monon
Herman Schuettler
Rawn
Striking tensions and political turmoil across nations
Reports recount railroad disruptions in South Bend and Olivers siding with troopers on standby, Taft injures ankle playing golf in Bar Harbor, and Illinois Central denying a $1 million settlement in a car fraud case. The list covers a deadly Italian hurricane, bankruptcy petition against Standard Nitrogen, socialist ideal city plans, and multiple legal cases including mob violence in Cairo and Newark.
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South Bend
Ind
Grand Trunk Railroad
Charles B. Calvert
Third Infantry
Marshall
Olivers
Taft
Kabo Valley Club
Bar Harbor
Bangor
Ellsworth
Illinois Central Road
Italy
Saronno
Northern Railway
Standard Nitrogen Company of
New York
Elizabeth
N. J
Free Acres Association
Berkeley Heights
Bolton Hall
Sarah Applebay
Clarksburg
W. Va
Willis Counselman
Chicago
Lulu Counselman
Cairo
Ill
Alexander County
John Pratt
Senor
Antonio Maura
Francia
Barcelona
Spain
Madrid
Robert Martin
Belleville
Martin
Germany
Oregon
Assembly
United States
United States Revenue Officers
Charles Pesnell
Anniston County
Alabama
Bourges
France
Ethel Clara Leneve
Doctor Crippen
Fort Monroe
Edwin W. Trimmer
Cape Gracias Dios
Nicaragua
Tacoma
Grand Trunk
Ontario
Toronto
Fee
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Washington
Ernest Stevens
Ira G. Rawn
Mr. Rawn
Stevens
Joseph Bush
Jeader
Carl M. Etherington
Newark
Arested Harper
Youth Confesses to Embezzlement in New York Bank Case
Edwin Wider a 21 year old German employee of the Russo Chinese Bank branch is alleged to have embezzled stocks and bonds totaling 600000 dollars and is the subject of a general police alarm. His attorney Leon B Ginsberg says detectives have shadowed him since a confession to bank managers and lawyers amid unarrested status. Weyed banks named by source have not been disclosed. Wider hails from a wealthy Berlin family and has spent five years in New York.
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New York
Edwin Wider
Leon B. Ginsberg
Wider
Wall Street
Berlin
Enthusiasm At Ohio Republican State Convention Warms Columbus
The Columbus gathering drew over a thousand delegates and many supporters who marched to headquarter hotels with brass bands. Temporary Chairman Longworth gave the keynote as delegates debated the gubernatorial race amid doubts of outcome. A street car strike left many walkers, and several convention riots occurred as security watched. In Monroe, Louisiana unidentified men broke into the city jail and abducted Laura Porter, a black prisoner linked to a resort robbery, with authorities believing she was driven into the river.
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Columbus
Neil House
Southern
Ohio
Munroe, la
Laura Porter
Babe in Basket Arrest Stuns Harlem Market crowd
In Harlem a man carrying a weeks old baby in a market basket was arrested and detained for investigation. He gave the name Dr Lester L Sox and refused to reveal the baby's identity.
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New York
Harlem
Lester L. Sox
Strongholds Retaken in Nicaragua by Estrada Forces
Strongholds at Bluefields Princeapulca and Rio Grande, recently held by Madriz forces, were retaken by Estrada adherents with little resistance. Gen. Minna reports Col. Mancilla captured a strategic hill position before Acoyapa with few losses, seizing cannons rifles and prisoners from the provisionalists. The hill at Santa Rose near Aogoype figures in the engagement.
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Bluefields
Nicaragua
Prinzapulca
Rio Grande
Madriz
Estrada
Minna
Col
Mancilla
Acoyapa
Provisionala
Santa Rose
Aogoype
Bloomington Rival Police Board Faces Injunction Battle
Bloomington city leaders contest the metropolitan police board after a mayoral census claimed over 10 000 residents to justify the new agency. The suit, led by the council, seeks to keep the board from taking control of police duties, while the council refuses to recognize the board. Judge Wilson to be recalled from vacation to hear the case.
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Bloomington
New Metropolitan Police Board
Harris
Indiana University
Metropolitan Board
Hugh Hinkle
James Browning
William Shaw
Alleged Murderer Heid in Saginaw Wire Request
Sheriff Kirk reports Saginaw officers in Michigan seek Charles Smith a circus worker linked to thefts totaling 960 and a watch, a Saginaw burglary, and a Battle Creek murder. Smith agrees to return to Michigan without requisition papers. a man will be sent to fetch him. His body bears numerous scars.
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Newcastle
Kirk
Saginaw, Mich
Charles Smith
Ohio
Saginaw
Battle Creek
Smith
Michigan
Cincinnati Markets Live Stock and Grains Report
Cincinnati markets show varied cattle prices from butcher steers at 6.25 to 7.00 per cwt and cows up to 5.50, hogs trading 8.75 to 9.30 for packers and shippers, calves and lambs listed with wide ranges, and grain quotes for wheat corn oats and rye. Miscellaneous items include butter at 21 to 30 cents, eggs up to 18 cents, apples and cherries priced per hamper or crate, and regional produce values across several varieties.
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Cincinnati
Bologna
Georgia
Alberta
Demand improves as midsummer trade steadies
R G Dun & Co reports midsummer business slower in wholesale and retail, but improving demand as leading markets shed crop and other uncertainties. Woolens and leather show activity, footware resumes, cotton and wheat yields to shape costs, flour production falls in the northwest, and iron steel show limited feature with firm steel bid prices.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
New England
Northwest
Bessemer
Bradstreet's Review summarizes weekly US and Canada business failures
Bradstreet's reports for the week ending July 21 show 215 US business failures, up from 202 the prior week, with 34 in Canada. It notes wheat including flour exports at 1,047,245 bushels, down from last week, and corn exports at 141,811 bushels, up from last week. Three week totals are 3,801,270 bushels for wheat and 420,640 bushels for corn, with year comparisons provided.
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Bradstreet
New York
United States
Canada
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad Card
A Baltimore testimonial touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for four years of misery from female ailments. It claims widespread success for displacements inflammation and related symptoms and invites readers to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Baltimore
W. 8. Ford
W. Franklin St
Janitor and Tenant Clash Over Water Shutoff
A terse exchange captures the moment a janitor apologizes for a water outage while a tenant acknowledges the fault lies elsewhere, reflecting a terse, tense interaction over utilities and responsibility.
Comparing Notes About Strong Babies and Small Children
A humorous notice contrasts a four year old raising a high chair with one hand and a four month old in an apartment who can raise the roof with no hands, implying exaggerated feats to comic effect.
Melon thief seeks mercy after quick plea
A prisoner in a Georgia courtroom pleads guilty to stealing melons and begs mercy, arguing the sheriff denied him a chance to eat the fruit. The exchange, reported in the Atlanta Constitution, highlights the plea's unusual grounds and the judge's response.
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Atlanta Constitution
Fragmentary Nonsense Attributed to Tit Bits and Marcus Aurelius
A clipped quotation set mocks the idea of urban sniffing and ozone beliefs, then pivots to a Stoic maxim about living up to one’s best nature. The lines appear as brief excerpts from a 19th or early 20th century periodical and a classical quote.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Edgar H. Bastian
Nevada Griffin
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Indianapolis
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Granger
St. Joseph County
Maynard
Lake County
Bluff
Richmond
Chesapeake & Ohio
Patrick Dillon
Gray
Dillon
Tilden
J. W. Ferree
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B. F. Shively
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Wellville
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
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