Weather forecaster warns of a harsh late November season
Washington reports a forecast of cross continental disturbances from Nov 18 to 29 with warm and cool waves, blizzards in northern sections, and bad crop weather. The analyst promotes a new long range forecasting system and readiness for a world weather network. Mentions celestial bodies and a judge's anecdote about Menelek.
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W.T. Foster
P.O Box XI
Washington, D. C
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Great Central Valleys
Eastern States
Jupiter
Mercury
Mars
Venus
Earth
Moon
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
Divorce Easy in Abyssinia
American consul general in Addis Ababa describes Abyssinian divorces as swift and informal. A couple seeking a divorce petitions roadside judges, selects a passerby as judge, another as attorney, and a third as defense counsel. A court by the highway renders a settlement, ending with the couple parting.
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Abyssinia
Frank R. Mowrer
United States
Add’s Abeba
Mowrer
Menelek
Mr. Mowrer
Bold claims for Dr Pierce medicines Golden Medical Discovery Favorite Prescription
The passage promotes Golden Medical Discovery as a strong blood purifier and tonic for mucous linings, and Favorite Prescription as a reliable builder of strength for worn women. It claims non alcohol content, no habit forming drugs, and lists Pellets for stomach liver and bowels with endorsements from medical authors.
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Pierce
Alaska Gold Exhibit at 1909 Seattle Expo
A North gold exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle 1909 will showcase diverse gold forms from Nome and Klondike. Values range from 14 to 19 dollars per ounce, with Anvil Creek gold about 10.25 per ounce and Eldorado gold nuggets up to ten ounces valued around 14.50 per ounce.
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Alaska
Seattle
North
Northland
Anvil Creek
Nome
Eldorado Creek
Klondike
Eldorado
Loston Alaskan
Printer's Devil Name Origin in Printing History
The term printer's devil dates to the late seventeenth century when young helpers in print shops were said to darken themselves with ink earning the label Devils Spirits or Files. Legend also ties the phrase to Aldo Manuzio, who allegedly posted a counter notice about a black slave boy claimed to be his printer's devil.
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Moxen
Aldo Manuzio
T. Aldo Manuzio
Changed Faces and Aging Marks Across the Face
A descriptive piece notes the nose remains the most unchanged feature with age, while brows deepen and crow's feet form. Time dulls the eyes, cheeks lose bloom, lips thin, and the chin angles or enlarges. The nose shows the fewest signs of aging, with several other features displaying visible changes.
KODOL Promoted as Safe Digestant for Dyspepsia Relief
The ad touts KODOL as a reliable remedy for heartburn belching and digestion disorders. It claims prompt relief and pleasant use and notes sale by Wm BF Jungkunz a druggist at 85 Stephenson Street.
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Wm BF
Jungkunz
Stephenson Street
Kennedy
IF. Jungkunz
German Insurance closeup plan moves to final court order
Attorneys and creditors gathered at the courthouse to finalize the German Insurance estate. Assets will be turned over to the Royal with final dividend reaching about 58 percent as of this morning, after nearly all claims are settled. Court action targets Mt Carroll this forenoon.
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Court House
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Mt. Carroll
Mr. Niblack
Major McGregor
Sol Lewisohn
S. S. Gregory
Tracy Alden
Moore
Burrell
Mitchell
Zipf
Gardner
Chicago
the Royal
Freeport
Niblack
Stephenson County
Dance Fever Turns Fatal In Quick Succession
A terse notice warns that dances spread colds leading to pneumonia and consumption. It advises Foley's Honey and Tar after exposure to halt a cold and avoid serious illness, urging buyers to refuse any but the genuine yellow package from H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Jungkunz.
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Foley
H. J. Moogk
IF. Jungkunz
Boosting for the Townsfolk by Dr Bennett and Local Ad
A historical column urges residents to support community boosters without reservation, praising initiative and mutual aid. It blends civic exhortation with a tongue in cheek call to back local projects and neighbors while noting a Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup advertisement and a local druggist contact. The piece reflects small town booster culture and period advertising.
Painting the Town at Grand Opera House on Nov 20
Manager Knorr announces Charles H Yale’s Painting the Town at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday November 20 with Charles H Yale Amusement company. John F Leonard and Will Halliday headline with Mazie King in Utopia or the Land of the Fancy. Madeline Buckley and Lillian Herndon sing with a careful chorus.
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Manager Knorr
Grand Opera House
Charles H. Yale
Charles H. Yale Amusement Company
John F. Leonard
Will Halliday
Mazie King
Madeline Buckley
Lillian Herndon
The Charmer and The Irresistible Piano at Majestic
At the Majestic for three days the program includes The Charmer a set of exquisitely colored pictures by a master photographer and The Irresistible Piano a comic sequence about a professor moving his piano. The show also depicts pottery making in Japan and neighbors reacting to the music as the piano moves through a flat.
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The
Majestic
Japan
Fol lies of 1907 at Illinois Theatre Chicago
The new Ziegfeld revue The Follies of 1907 opens at the Illinois Theatre Chicago for a limited engagement starting Sunday night November 17. A spectacle with over 100 performers, it features satirical takes on current events and prominent personages, presented in a panoramic series of shifting scenes from Jamestown Exposition grounds to Broadway and a New York courtroom.
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Illinois Theatre
Chicago
New York
Jar
Broadway
New York Public Library
Stage
This Is My 84th Birthday Henry G Davis
Henry G Davis born November 16 1823 in Baltimore rose from Baltimore and Ohio brakeman to coal oil timber and railroad magnate. He built wealth before entering politics and served as West Virginia state senator and United States senator and helped shape a hemispheric cooperative bureau.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Western Virginia
West Virginia
United States
Senate
Davis
North
Central
South America
Bureau of American
This Date in History Highlights
Key historical events listed include St Margaret of Scotland's death in 1093, Swiss defeat of Austrians at Margarten in 1318, England France neutrality treaty for America in 1686, the Barrier treaty at Antwerp in 1715, British assault on Fort Washington in 1776, Yale president Timothy Dwight born in 1828, Cracow annexation by Austria in 1846, and General Sherman starting his march to the sea in 1864.
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St. Margaret of
Scotland
Margarten
England
France
America
Antwerp
Howe
Fort Washington
Timothy Dwight
Yale University
Cracow
Austria
Sherman
Sea
National Horse Show Opens Amid Opera Week At Madison Square Garden
The National Horse Show association exhibition opens Monday night in Madison Square Garden, beginning a week that also marks the New York Metropolitan Opera season opening. The events are noted as social highlights for the nation and city.
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Journa
Washington, D. C
National Horse Show Association
Madison Square Garden
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Senate panel to reconvene amid Brownsville inquiry
The Senate committee on military affairs will reconvene to resume its Brownsville affair investigation and will not draft a report until after Congress resumes. A $30 million suit by Pennsylvania Sugar Refining against American Sugar Refining is set for trial Monday in the Southern District of New York. Harvard University will celebrate the 300th anniversary of John Harvard's birth, with President Roosevelt possibly attending. The National Prohibition Committee meets in Chicago to plan the presidential convention timetable. Invitations from Atlanta and Asbury Park accompany a week of major conferences and meetings nationwide.
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Senate Committee On
Brownsville
Congress
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining
American Sugar Refining Company
United States Court
New York
Harvard University
John Harvard
Roosevelt
National Prohibition Committee
Chicago
Atlanta
Asbury Park
International Y. M. C. A
Washington
Inland Waterways Conference
Philadelphia
Southern Commissioners of Agriculture
Columbia
S. C
National Municipal League
American Civic Association
Providence
American Institute of Architects
Muskogee
Okla
Baby care claim on Cascasweet patent medicine
A short old fashioned advertisement states that Cascasweet soothes a cross peevish baby and notes conformity with the National Pure Food Law. It lists Wm. Fr. Jungkunz, a druggist at 85 Stephenson Street, as the seller.
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Jungkunz
Stephenson Street
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Royal
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Lima
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Thea Journal
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Mark Twain
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Anthony Comstock
Chauncey Depew
Jerome
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