Deadlock in Illinois Senate Deepens Amid Waterway Debate
Springfield, March 29. Report to the Railroad Commission notes railroads earned over 3 million more in 1908, with 19,623,696 additional passengers carried. Senate deadlock persists over waterway legislation as House and Senate officials schedule joint meetings and differ on federal cooperation.
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Railroad Commission
Senate
House
Internal Improvement Commission
Isham Randolph
Lyman E. Cooley
Randolph
Cooley
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Deneen
Tlinois
Union
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Cures Woman
Mrs Etta Donovan of Willimantic Connecticut reports five years of female troubles with backache irregularities dizziness and prostration. After three doctors and no relief she took Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and claims full recovery. The ad touts the product as a standard thirty year remedy for disorders including displacements inflammation irregularities and nervous prostration with many implied cures.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Willimantic
Conn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Etta Donovan
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Railway Wreck Reporter's Surprise Encounter
A Chicago Tribune reporter finds a calm claim agent at the scene of a railway wreck. The agent, dirt stained and shirt torn, denies knowledge of injuries and refuses to identify himself, stating only that he is the railroad’s claim agent.
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Onciany
Joose
Chicago Tribune
Doan's Kidney Pills Credibly Endure With Freeport Ad
In Freeport a resident, Mrs. Elias Church of 214 Spring St, testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured her kidney pain and restored health after years of suffering. She cites relief from 1897 and confirms in 1907 not a symptom since. Sold by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo, NY sole agents.
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Doan
Freeport
Elias Church
Spring St
Freeport, II
Dean
Emmett
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan's
Naval officer bans profanity aboard ships in vivid story
A U S Navy admiral, noted for punishing swearing, commands a squadron at Magdalena Bay. When the day ship’s crew lagged, a nearby vessel fired a profane volley. The captain quipped that his men respond to such discipline, illustrating a harsh enforcement of language aboard.
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United States
Magdalena Bay
California
Larper's
Woods Liver Medicine in Haquid Form Sold Locally
An 19th century remedy called Woods Liver Medicine in Haquid form claims to regulate the liver relieve sick headache constipation stomach kidney disorders and act as a gentle laxative. It supposedly provides tonic effects after the first dose. The one dollar bottle allegedly contains twice as much as the sixty cent size and is sold by H J Moogk and C P Guenther.
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Woods
H. J. Moogk
C. P. Guenther
Daily Journal Delivery Offer Across City
The Daily Journal announces distribution to all parts of the city for a week, noting delivery options for PO or Peta. The notice emphasizes broad reach and convenient access for readers seeking news coverage throughout the urban area.
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The
Daily Journal
Tariff Revision Faces Slow Progress in House
Washington report notes Ways and Means Committee plans numerous amendments to the tariff bill. Debate potential rules loom as coffee, crude petroleum, hides, coal, lumber, and iron ore paragraphs may be opened for amendment. Scrap iron likely to be taxed like pig iron. paper schedule also to be altered.
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Ways and Means Committee
Washington
House
Cannon
Tait
White House
Ways and Means
Dwisht
New York
Negro who confessed murder in Chicago killed himself in Tombs
James Vango, a Black man who admitted killing Isadore de Vallant, night clerk at the Eastern hotel for robbery, hanged himself in his Tombs cell. He fashioned a noose from a handkerchief and a lead pencil tourniquet. A note to his wife read, Death is but eternal sleep, why should I stay and suffer. Forgive me.
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New York
James Vango
Chicago
Isadore de Vallant
Himelf
Tombs
Striking French Button Makers Wreck Homes and Cut Wires
In Meru France on March 29 strikers amid a button makers strike unleashed open revolt. They terrorized twenty villages or more and cut wires wrecking employers houses. Authorities deployed troops and 100 gendarmes to a village where officers sought refuge in a farmhouse after being surrounded by protesters.
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France
Meru
Hold-up on a train shocks Fairfield local line
An armed bandit robbed the conductor of a Fairfield local train near Chicago Burlington and Quincy road. He masked and brandished a revolver at Conductor Barry after ordering passengers to surrender their money. the haul was described as not large.
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Pairfield
Neo
Fairfield
Ocal
Lurlington
Quincy Road
Barry
Sleeping sickness reported in Paris from Upper Ubanghi
A missionary of the Order of the Holy Ghost contracted sleeping sickness in equatorial Africa and brought the disease to Paris. He collapsed in the Luxembourg garden and was rushed to the Pasteur Institute for treatment. The case has caused a sensation in the heart of Paris.
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France
Paris
Order of the Holy Ghost
Luxembourg Garden
Pasteur Institute
Equatorial Africa
Falls From Parachute Ends Aeronaut's Fatal Fracture
Aeronaut E R Leonard fell from about 6000 feet after a parachute snagged a telegraph pole near Los Angeles. He fractured his spine in the accident, which occurred as he descended. A humorous exchange about a grocer’s blunder is noted in the same clipping. Bees Laxative Cough Syrup advertised.
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Los Angeres
Cal
E. R Leorned
Vanderlip's Fast Train Race to Dying Mother
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of National City Bank of New York, set a speed record racing by special train from Grand Central to LaSalle Street Chicago in sixteen hours and seven minutes to reach his dying mother Mrs Charlotte Vanderlip. The journey beat the Twentieth Century Limited by nearly two hours and arrived ten minutes after her death at Inglewood station.
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Vanderlip
Chicago
Frank A. Vanderlip
National City Bank of New York
B. W. Hardin
Charlotte Vanderip
Inglewood
Lake Shore
Grand Central Station
New York
LaSalle Street
Save Library From Fire at Seton Hall College
Fire at Seton Hall College in South Orange New Jersey damaged the main building and logs estimated at 50 000 dollars. The library with 40 000 volumes valued at 150 000 dollars was saved by students and staff after fire started in the locker room. Professor Austin Gibbons discovered the blaze and alerted 150 sleeping students who escaped and helped fight the flames.
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New York
Seton Flall College
South Orange
N. J
Seton Hall College
New Jersey
Austin Gibbons
Nelson to Fight Soon at New York Club on April 23
Milwaukee March 29 Battling Nelson announced that a match is arranged for April 23 before a New York club. Opponents mentioned include Packey McFarland Freddie Welch or Owen Moran. His manager Willus Britt sent the letter confirming the bout.
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Milwaukee
Battling Nelson
Willus Britt
New York
Packey MacFarland
Freddie Welch
Owen Moran
Kiss Given Patient Costs Nurse’s Life
Cumberland Maryland story reports Miss Marian C. Spier a nurse died after kissing a dying patient who had blood poisoning. The patient, Mrs Virginia Callan Carder wife of Dr George L Carder, asked for a kiss and the nurse contracted the infection. Spier’s death followed days after the act.
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Cumberland
Marian C. Spier
Miss Spier
Virginia Callan Carder
George L. Carder
Allegiance Hospital
Negro Hero Honored at Montgomery Funeral
Bob Goodwin a black man drowned in the Alabama River while trying to save two white men. Hundreds of whites attended the funeral in Montgomery on March 29 with eight cadets from a local military high school as pallbearers. Funeral expenses were paid by E. W. Bliss, who Goodwin once saved. School children presented Goodwin with a gold medal for his act.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bob Goodwin
Alabama
E. W. Bliss
Goodwin
Arabs Fire on Steamers in Tigris Run
In Constantinople on March 29 attacks by Arabs on steamers plying the Tigris were persistent. The British steamer was compelled to suspend service after being riddled with bullets. Passengers were killed or wounded, and a machine gun aboard the vessel was put out of action despite troops onboard.
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Constantinople
Tigris
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Hopkins
General Assembly
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Lowden
Wickinley
Forte
Ogle County
W.B. McKinley
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Peta
Piso
Taft
Payne Bill
Caucus
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Grovum
London Mall
Nelson
Fred Harvey
Grand Canyon
Arizona
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Papa
Tie
Merck & O’brien
F J. Burdett
Tnner
Krown's & Dollmeyer’s
Phous
B. B. Dye Works
Freeport Laundry
Schiott & Shaver Laundry
Hart’s Sanitary Laundry
Cascade Laundry
E. F. Tishn
Harriet M. Kurbank
Teache Plano
Grove St. &F
Montana
Epamiere
University
Bitter Reef
Tahan
Faraia
H. B
Sluiter & Brauer
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GALEN
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Weiss & Co
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Fla
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Cuba
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Port Tama
Old Mexico
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Mexico
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Misg
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Rhode
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