Doctors Failed Remedy Promises Energy and Kidney Health
An advertisement touts Dr. David Kennedy's Remedy as energizing and kidney purifying, claiming to renew vitality and strength with 50 cent and 1 dollar bottle sizes. It also promotes Magic Eye Salve for eye diseases and inflammations, offering a free sample by mail from Rondout, New York.
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E. .N. Green
Canadaigua
N. Y
Saya
David Kennedy
Rondout
N.Y
Boy Inventor’s Air Brake Examined by Experts
Pittsburg reports a jailed youth who invented an air brake for streetcars and won a Washington patent. Experts will judge its safety value as officials consider testing the device after his troubled crime state and family tragedy. The boy’s lack of schooling shaped a hard path from crude draft to patent. If tests prove viable, a guardian may oversee patent proceeds for the family.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Charles Cawley
Washington
Patent Office
Father He Buried Alameda Father Freed Over Checks
George Potter of Berkeley secured release for his father C. H. Potter from the city jail in Alameda after 18 years of belief he was dead. The elder Potter faced arrest for passing worthless checks on Captain H. H. Todd of the Park hotel and others, prompting the son to learn a shocking update to a dispatch claiming his father had died in a railway accident years earlier and funds were sent for funeral expenses.
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Alameda, Cal
George Potter
Berkeley
C. H. Potter
Potter
H. H. Todd
Park Hotel
H. Potter
Ihegon
New Hampshire Republicans Declare Opposition to Trusts
In Concord a Republican convention condemned trusts with almost unanimous votes for four amendments to the state constitution aimed at restricting corporate power. Edgar Aldrich, a Littleton judge, delivered the strongest anti trust speech, urging the people to act through lawful means against corporate greed and wealth.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Wm. &. Chandler
Ward 8
Henry F. Hollis
Chandler
Standing
Edgar Aldrich
Littleton
United States Circuit
District
Wits
Niagara
Mother-in-law keeps infant. Gwinnup seeks habeas corpus
Mrs. Louise Gwinnup of Anderson Indiana filed habeas corpus against her husband and his parents to recover her four month old child. She alleges the mother-in-law took charge of the home after marriage and controlled the baby for six weeks then kept it, while the husband remained indifferent. The mother-in-law reportedly urged sign relinquishment papers and attempts were made to disown the child. Gwinnup claims her husband asked her to leave after nursing him through typhoid fever and her father later retrieved the child with the kin forced from the house.
Passenger Mail Train Narrowly Escapes Wabash Wreck
Fast mail train No. 3 on the Wabash railway in Thurman near Peru Indiana narrowly avoided disaster after side swiping ten freight cars that failed to pull into a siding. The passenger engine leaked steam obscuring signals until impact. The engine and cars suffered heavy damage but no injuries were reported.
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Peru
Ind
Wabash
Thurman
New
W Haven-Butler
Crume
Peculiar Will in Indiana Sparks Family Fight
In Kokomo on December 19, four sons contest the will of wealthy farmer Joseph Alexander. A larger envelope directed not to open the smaller will until after the wife’s death. After her death the smaller envelope revealed a deed transferring all property to his daughter Mrs. Chapman.
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Kokomo
Ind
Joseph Alexander
Alexander
Chapman
The Quirky Justice of the Wadding Squire of Wilkes-Barre
A famed local figure Alderman John F. Donohue recalls a squire who once patrolled the bench with brute force. He claims to have thrashed wife beaters and earned praise, while defending a blunt philosophy of punishment. In a separate case he used a gander dispute to settle ownership, showing decisive, unorthodox justice.
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Humane Society
Na‘gure
Artificial Leg Freehold Conspiracy Trial Nears Verdict
Laura Biggar’s trial for conspiracy in the Bennett will case resumed before Judge Helisley with a full courtroom. Defense witness Adolph Empler, Hoboken artificial limbs maker, testified Bennett hired him to fit a man for an artificial leg at the Bennett farm in Farmingdale New Jersey in August 1900, where Miss Biggar was introduced as Mrs Bennett. A Mount Airy hotel keeper testified that in September 1909 Bennett and the actress stayed at his hotel with Bennett signing the register as Henry M. Bennett and wife.
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Freehold
N. J
Laura Biggar
Bennett Will
Helisley
Miss Biggar
Actor McConville
Adolph ‘Empler
Hoboken
Bennett
Henry
Ben‘nett
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