Roosevelt Views on Woman Suffrage Reported
New York dec 5 President Roosevelts attitude toward woman suffrage was disclosed by Rev Dr Lyman Abbott in an address to the National League for the Civic Fiducation of Women Abbott read a letter from the president saying he favors suffrage but is not an enthusiastic advocate He believes in equality of rights and that the great field for women's usefulness lies in motherhood He argued women should be free to pursue education and vocations without restrictions and that the so called woman's movement has advanced liberty and human progress.
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New York
Roosevelt
Lyman Abbott
National League For the Civic Fiducation of Women
Abbott
West
Eoloog
France
England
America
Dr. Abbott
House of Commons
Dun's Trade Review reports holiday trade progress
New York December 5 R G Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade says colder weather boosted retail demand for seasonable merchandise and holiday trade made good progress. Yet assortments remain limited as many dealers failed to secure adequate stocks, hampering activity.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Fa
Leather market steadies as domestic demand grows
Commercial payments show gradual improvement while inventory operations continue this season. The domestic hide market remains fully sustained and leather consumption rises, yet sales stay fair since large buyers filled their year end requirements before the latest advance.
Meet to Discuss State of Farm Life
Washington reports indicate many responses to President Roosevelt's invitation for a national rural life meeting. The gatherings will include farmers and all who live in open country and work with farm life. Schoolhouses are suggested as meeting venues to discuss rural education, farm labor, postal services, sanitation, and farmer organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
National Commission
Lb. F. Bailey
Country Life Commission
Riders Get Release Today With Immediate Rearrest
In Union City Tennessee on December 5 seven of eight alleged night riders were handed to the county sheriff after Nassau jail custody. They will be released on bonds but promptly rearrested on new indictments charging a capital offense in the October 19 Walnut Log murder of Captain Quentin Rankin. Troops guard the Nashville jail.
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Union City
Tenn
Matthews
Nashville
Quentin Rankin
Walnut Log
Brice Declared Insane in New York Case
Stewart M Brice son of the late Senator Calvin S Brice was declared insane and incapable of managing his affairs. A jury valued his property at about $75 000 Brice a former Broadway figure and Harvard 1893 graduate served as a captain in the Spanish American War
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Water famine halts work in Renbsyivanitss and Pa towns
Water scarcity stops Schuylkill Traction plant fires and suspends operations until rain. Mid Valley colliery shuts down for lack of water, and Ashland Shenandoah face repeated domestic water shortages. Also: New York chases end with arrest of Michael Vivo linked to theft from Giovanni Fisigo & Co. in Chicago.
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Renbsyivanitss
Mahanoy City
Schuylkill Traction Company
Mid Valley
Ashland
Shenandoah
New York
Chicago
Ialy
Michael Vivo
Giovanni Fisigo & Co
Lewis to Lead Investigation of Explosion
Lewis of the United Mine Workers is appointed by President Roosevelt to head the advisory council with general supervision over explosion investigations and has accepted the post.
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Lewis
Pittshore
Dee
TL Ta
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Lourd
Rebaters Are Fined In Chesapeake and Ohio Case
Richmond, Va December 5 by agreement of counsel the Chesapeake and Ohio railway and W R Johnson and Co pleaded guilty to rebating. The railroad was fined 9000 and W R Johnson and Co 4500.
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Richmond
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
W. R. Johnson & Co
Wee
Hoarse coughs soothed by Fol Ey's Honey and Tar treatment
An advertisement claims hoarse coughs and colds can rapidly clear overnight with Fol Ey's Honey and Tar. It says the remedy soothes inflamed membranes heals the lungs and expels the cold from the system. Names H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Jungkunz appear in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
H. J. Moogk
Wm. F. Jungkunz
Lions and Daniel Questioned in a Paraphrased Jest
A quip framed as a courtroom exchange asks why lions left Daniel untouched. Johnny offers a dark humor answer claiming the lions were African and preferred dark meat, eliciting a judge’s note on the gag’s节.
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Yeacher
Daniel
Johnny
Ely's Cream Balm from Ely Bros nasal relief note
A public note recommends Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh bay fever or cold in the head. It emphasizes purifying soothing action on air passage membranes and claims no cocaine or mercury. Sold by all druggists for 50 cents mailed from 56 Warren Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Suits Below Cost at Freeport Outlet Sale
Unusually large stock of suits advertised as the best ever brought to Freeport. Suits marked down to 980.00 and 33.00. Sale described as ending soon due to limited time at these prices. Jon ARPETER, Unitedate Tailor.
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Freeport 1
Jon Arpeter
Indictments in Chicago voting case shock city
A special grand jury returned 81 indictments in a Chicago voting law investigation led by Loesch. Perjury and aiding illegal votes were charged as the jury criticized election machinery and the handling of elections, accusing judges clerks challengers and election officials of misconduct. The report implicated election commissioners and both major parties, alarming politicians across city divisions.
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Chicaco, Dee
Vey
New Do
Dietmoents
Trena
Ihegaul
Grand Jury
Loesch
Chicago
Tank
Board of Election Commissioners
Pullman Free School Funds to Accumulate Interest
Chicago December 5 The Pullman Free School of Manual Training funds will accumulate interest before building, per director J J Mitchell. The gym gift was 1 000 000 and current funds total about 1 200 000, kept for the school’s use only. A 40 acre site at One Hundred and Eleventh Street and Indiana Avenue, bought for 100 000, will host a large free training school for youths in surrounding towns and cities.
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Chicago
Pullman Free School of Manual Training
Pullman
George M. Pullman
J. J. Mitchell
Eleventh Street
Indiana Avenue
Gold Boards Can Serve Sprinefeld Bank Directors
In Sprinefeld Alabama December noted, the amendment to Hindis banking law requires bank directors to own ten or more shares. The Attorney General’s opinion states the provision is prospective and directors who held shares before the act’s effective date are not disqualified.
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Sprinefeld
Dec. S
Unm
Attornes General Seid
Vrides Ab Uttariay Econoratis
Pias Fon
Direetar
Lems Cian
Perveris
Sixty Families Routed By Fire In Six-Story Flats
A six story brick Meotree flats building caught fire at dawn trapping sixty families who fled the blaze. Charles DH, a seventeen year old elevator operator, kept the car running as flames sent panic and fear through residents from the upper floors.
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Chiepso
Dee
Meotree Flats
Tadi Stoops
Che Morptas
Charles DH
Pea Sons
Will of Cenker Bull Probated in Quincy
The will of Chectes flees Bull beaneath is 3,050 to elimine. Of this amount 84,0000 is given to the American commitssigners board of foreign missions. $4,609 to the American Missionary society of New York and £ 5,000 to the Uinats Mis priomary society. The remander $15,000 is given to Quincy institutions. Twenty-Nine Get Sheepskins. Mount Vernon Hl Dee 5 At the law examinations conducted at the appellate courthouse for the Fourth judicial district twenty-nine of a class of forty-three were awarded their sheep shins.
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Quincy
Th. Pes
Chectes
Bull Beaneath
Board of Foreign Missions
American Missionary Society of New York
Uinats Mis
Priomary Society
Mount Vernon
Dee
Fourth Judicial District
Mrs McRaney’s Experience With Kidney Remedy
Mrs McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi details three months confined to bed due to kidney and bladder trouble. After two doctors failed to help, she began Foley's Kidney Remedy and after two bottles felt renewed and urges other women to try it.
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McRaney
M. McRaney
Prentiss, Miss
Foley
H. J. Moogh
Wm. F. Jungkunz
Cruiser Yankee Unreefed After Ten Weeks Aground
The U S cruiser Yankee, aground ten weeks on Hen and Chickens shoals in Buzzards Bay, has been floated. She will receive minor repairs at New Bedford before steaming to New York Navy Yard for a full overhaul. Navy officers call the salvage a triumph of compressed air wrecking methods led by John Arbuckle, who will receive 87500 dollars as a reward.
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Newport
R. L
Buzzard’s Bay
New Bedford
New York Navy Yard
Navy
John Arbuckle
Indian Fighter Drops Dead
New York, Dec. 5. Captain Robert Hanna, U. S. A., retired, died suddenly in the office of Dr. George E. Brewer while about to submit to an examination. A West Point graduate of 1872, he spent nineteen years of his army life on the frontier in Indian campaigns and commanded Apache scouts.
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New York
Robert Hanna
U. 8
S. A
George E. Brewer
West Point
Can Handle a Shovel in Chicago Mill
A Chicago iron mill foreman hires a cheery tramp, once a college baseball champion, after spotting him on a cold autumn dawn. The tramp jokes about using a shovel by saying he could fry a piece of ham on it, revealing his resilient, lighthearted spirit amid labor scarcity.
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Chicago
Minneapolis Journal
Father to Defend Alleged matricide in Toledo trial
In Toledo on December 5, 17 year old Harvey Hazel stands trial for murdering his mother. Attorney J R W Cooper argues insanity as the defense while John F Hazel, master mechanic of the Shore Line railroad and husband of the victim, aids the defense. The boy will return to the crime scene handcuffed to a deputy as jurors inspect the home.
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Toledo
Hazel
Defense Opens in Davis Murder Trial in Omaha
In Omaha on December 5 the defense begins in the trial of capitalist Charles E B Davis for the murder of Dr. Frederick Rustin. Evidence shown includes a revolver morphine tablets aconite and the vest worn by Austin when he was shot. Mrs Abbie Rice finished her testimony and the state rested.
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Omaha
Charles EB. Davis
Frederick Rustin
Austin
Abbie Rice
Foley's Orino Laxative Promises Gentle Constipation Aid
Foley's Orino Laxative claims to cure chronic constipation and stimulate the liver to regulate the bowels so they act naturally. Advertisements list H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Junngkunz as sellers or endorsers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Orino
H. J. Moogk
Wm. F. Junngkunz
Detective recalls narrow escapes from death
A Brooklyn Life writer documents a conversation with the famed detective. An admirer asks about near misses, and the detective notes a close shave when South American outlaws captured him and suspended him from a rubber tree, then departed without noticing.
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Brooklyn
What He Did At Churchill Wedding
A Manchester public man recounts attending Winston Churchill’s wedding and being spotted by an elevator attendant. The laconic dialogue captures the moment: Been to the wedding, sir Yes. Fine lot of presents, were there not Very fine. He deserves them for what he’s done Got married.
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Winston Churchill
Manchester
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Scena
Davis Defense Today
Dr. Rustin
Freeport and Vicinity
Isaacson
Rockford
West State St
Tory
Freeport
D. Isaacson
Rockford, III
W&s
Schmidt, Wachlin & Pfeiffer
Phoenix
Soc
Cooper
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