Harriman Loses Bid to Elect Hackstaff to No. Central Board
New York July 18 Harriman fails to secure two thirds needed to elect A G Hackstaff secretary of the road to succeed John C Welling as director. Fish minority blocks another vote adjourning July 24 amid a looming deadlock with Fish allied leaders supporting him in resisting Harri man control.
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New York
Punto Central
Harriman
A. G. Hackstaff
John C. Welling
Welling
Stuyvesant Fish
Charles A. Peabody
Robert Goelet
John W. Auchincloss
J. T. Harahan
Walter Luttgen
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Mr. Hackstaff
Hackstaff
Fish
Deneen
Illinois
John Jacob Astor
C. M. Beach
J. D. Cutting
Mr. Fish
Mr. Harriman
Thinois Central
Illinois Central to Sell 2 Cent Interstate Fare Begin Today
Illinois Central announces 2 cent per mile fares from Omaha to Chisago and to intermediate points as it adopts an interstate system. Rate clerks prepare tariff sheets to apply the new rates to interstate business amid railroad plans to follow.
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Illinois Central
Omaha
Chisago
Nebraska
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Vacation Subscriptions Forwarding Available
Subscribers leaving the city for the summer may have their paper forwarded by leaving their address at the office Call phone 25, either system. Addresses will be changed as often as desired without charge. Half the pleasure of a vacation is reading happenings at home.
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Journal
Daily Journal Delivery Ad Promises Citywide Service
The Daily Journal announces citywide delivery available to all areas at a rate of 10 cents per week. This affordable plan targets broad readership and convenient access for residents.
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the Daily Journal
Plan to Kill Infected Cattle to Eradicate Tuberculosis
The article reports a proposed nationwide program to inspect herds and slaughter TB infected cows with state funding shared by owners. It notes varying regional conditions, rising beef prices, and shifts in who bears losses, as well as concerns about milk safety and market impacts on meat and pork prices.
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National Livestock Exchange
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Texas
Montana
Dakota
Wyoming
THREAD IS TO COST TEN CENTS
The article reports a planned price increase for cotton thread to ten cents a spool, reflecting higher raw material costs and wage rises. Independent manufacturers dispute the rationale, noting thread sold for 6 cents when cotton was dearer, and the thread market remains dominated by a combine.
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New York
Combine
Public School Trustees Warned On Illegal Expenditures
Illinois trustees are warned by State Superintendent Francis J. Blair to report on school conditions in a circular. The 1906 year ending June 30 shows incidental expenses of 24482.98 by trustees were unauthorized and illegal.
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Blair
Ilegal
Springfield
Ilinois
Francis J. Blair
Miss Florence Brice Stricken With Typhoid in Monmouth
Mr and Mrs William Brice travel to Monmouth due to their daughter Miss Florence Brice falling ill with typhoid fever. She had been teaching there and her condition is reported critical.
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Brice
William Brice
Monmouth
Florence Brice
Long Live Dr King s New Discovery for Coughs
Mrs JuHn Ryder Paine of Truro Massachusetts says the New Discovery never fails to give immediate relief and to cure a cough or cold A majority of inhabitants share this view The remedy cures weak lungs and sore throats after all other remedies have failed Jos Emmert druggist guarantees the product with a trial bottle free
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America
Dr. King
JuHn Ryder Paine
Truro
Mass
Jos. Emmert
Ermine White Canvas Oxford Cleaner in One Box
Ermine canvas oxford cleaner offered at Schmidt Wachlin and Ploiffer's. A single 0c box cleans shoes at least sixty times, highlighting value and product performance. F-12307.
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Schmidt Wachlin & Ploiffer’s
Illinois adopts stricter insurance laws for consumer protection
Governor Deneen pushes extended enforcement of new life and contracts acts in Illinois. Insurance Commissioner Fred W. Potter expands public education and compliance while the standard provisions bill takes effect January 1, boosting nonforfeiture rules and dividends safeguards to favor insured.
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Insurance Department
Forty-Fifth General Assembly
Deneen
Fred W. Potter
Roosevelt
National Commission
State Auditor
State Treasury
Illinois
Winois
New York
Birth of Rear Admiral William T Burwell Pioneer Navy Officer
Rear Admiral William Turnbull Burwell USN was born July 19 1846 in Vicksburg Mississippi. He entered the Naval Academy in 1864 and served in Chinese waters Atlantic Pacific and Arctic stations. He held commands including the Wheeling Puget Sound yard Oregon and led gunnery trophies in 1903 and 1904. He was in Pekin during the Boxer uprising and was the last American officer to leave the city before it was invested by Chinese fanatics.
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Naval Academy
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Orient
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Pacific
Arctic
Vesuvius
Mississippi
Wheeling
Puget Sound Navy Yard
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Puget Soutd Navy Yard
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Pekin
New Act For Deferred Dividend Policies In Insurance
The new law requires each policy with a deferred dividend to be accounted as a liability. It mandates reporting of the deferred dividend fund, its additions, and disbursements to the insurance department. The aim is to prevent use of dividend funds for high business expenses and ensure transparency in dividend declarations.
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Massachusetts
Illinois
Insurance Department
Rockford Chautauqua Announces Sixth Session
The Rockford Chautauqua at Harlem Park Rockford Illinois runs August 17 to September 1 1907 with a strong program headlined by William J Bryan Robert M La Follette and Henry A Buchtel among others Lecturers include state governors senators and doctors Entertainers listed include Fred Held Morp morphet and Smith Co and Y M C A orchestra Plans for schools classes and boys and girls clubs are in place Contact A C Folsom superintendent for illustrated booklet and attendance details
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Harlem Park
Rockford
Pattison Kline
Morphet & Smith Co
Parland-Newhall Co
Rounds’ Ladies Orchestra
Shungopavi
Magician
American Vitagraph Co
Y. M. C. A. Orchestra
Youna
Juggler
I. W. Larimore
A. C. Folsom
Masonic Temple
Memorable Day with Dr King’s New Life Pills
A nostalgic note praises Dr King s New Life Pills as painless purifiers that cure headache and biliousness and keep the bowels right. The pills are advertised at 25 cents at Jos Emmert s drug store.
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Dr. King
Jos. Emmert’s
Linen crash coats at seven cents a few for men
An item listing offers a small stock of men's linen crash coats priced at seven cents each, with a brief note or brand mention Golden Fagle and a garbled date fragment.
Is Not For Rent Yet a Great Opportunity in Borchard Sub-division
The piece urges quick action on installment lots in Borchard's Sub-division. It claims many buyers have paid in full or partly through, offering families a permanent home in improving quarters with rising values and good investment yields. It highlights that decisive action lets wages begin to earn for the buyer.
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Roosevelt
Borchard
Employers Urged to Report Industrial Accidents in State
Illinois employers are instructed to report all fatal accidents and non fatal injuries over thirty days to the state Bureau of Labor Statistics. A circular from David Ross includes the law, reporting form, and instructions to collect data for an industrial insurance measure.
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David Ross
State Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Assembly
Ross
Deneen
44Th General Assembly
45Th General Assembly
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor Department
Forty-Fifth
Tllinois
Legal cases and theater milestone from late 19th to early 20th century
The fragment notes Lega the anarchist receiving a 20 year sentence after shooting Premier Crispi of Italy. It recalls the 1899 resignation of Gen Russell A Alger as Secretary of War. It also mentions Sir Henry Irving's final appearance at the Lyceum Theatre in London in 1892.
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Crisps
Italy
Russell A. Alger
Sir Henry Irving
Lyceum Theatre
London
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