Gluttonous for Gold Railroads Murder Hundreds
Special to The Sun reports a chilling toll from railroad disasters across the United States. A list details collisions from Woodville to Dover and Terre Haute, naming towns and rail companies like B&O and Rock Island. The piece argues rail travel is a new twentieth century peril, citing about 500 passenger deaths in recent months and framing the events as a slaughter for profit by waterbed stock interests.
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Woodville
Ind
Dover
Ohio
Hock Island
Auabris City
N. J
West Jersey
Seashore Electric
Railway
Samuel Spencer
Southern
Eases Teday
Patenelle
Southern Railway
Waldron
Rock Island
Colision
Ossko
Mina
Great Worthern
Tally
Fowler
Sandford
Washington
United States
What the Greatest Railroad Thinks of His Personal Safety
James J. Hill laments rising railroad dangers from crowded fast lines and skewed priorities. He cites growing fatalities, harsh statistics, and industry greed, arguing overworked, undermaintained equipment and dividend-focused profits threaten passenger safety nationwide.
Child Slavery and American Civilization in Crisis
Harriet Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is presented as a leading authority on child labor. She describes the hideous child labor traffic in the United States, citing personal investigation and international study, including Fall River textile mills. The article urges readers to reflect on whether such practices are right.
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Fall River
Standard Oil Company
Child Labor Contrast Prompts National Law Call
The piece contrasts a smiling eight year old Ola Owens with a hollowed factory worker, urging action against child labor. Senator Beveridge presents a national boycott plan to stop interstate transport of goods made by children, arguing for childhood over dollars.
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Beveridge
Child Labor in America The Stark Truth From Harriet Stanton Blatch
Spearheaded by Harriet Stanton Blatch the piece laments child labor in cotton mills and glass factories across the United States. It cites Ola Owens from Atlanta as a symbol of a system that imprisons nearly two million children ages ten to fifteen, with sharp increases in the 1900s and rising female participation, urging action against the widespread abuse and neglect of child workers.
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Little Ola
South
Atlanta
America
Russia
Roosevelt
Ola Owens
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Number of Girls Employed Has Tripled
A speaker recalls studies with Dr. Warner on child labor, noting girls suffer more than boys under strict regulation and long hours in industry. He argues modern America overworks its youth, jeopardizing future manhood and womanhood and the nation’s standing unless true parental care is adopted.
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British Medical Association
Warner
America
Picture hats blamed for spreading germs at Hull House
Miss Mahon warned before the Woman's Trade Union at Hull House Chicago that the picture hat is full of germs. She said hats purchased by poor girls are made in homes with high risk of consumption or other disease.
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Hull House
Chicago
Miss Mahon
War power contrasts US and Japan in striking analysis
Special to The Sux reports on wartime rivalries with sharp notes. Readers see oil fame and desperate letters from Americas and internationals alongside a cautious comparison of military feeding costs, wages, ports, and ships between the United States and Japan amid looming conflict. The piece highlights Hawaii and the Philippines strategic positions and cites naval and artillery strengths.
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Japan
United States
Hawaii
Philippines
Pacific
Seattle
Tacoma
Olympia
Portland
San Francisco
San Diego
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted as Preventive and Curative
As a preventive as well as curative medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla is pre eminent its great merit is fully established.
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Hood
Accordion Dress Plaiting At Odd Fellows Building
Buttons recovered. Room 8 in the Odd Fellows' Building at Penn and Wash reports that dressing and plaiting an accordion dress was underway with small salvage noted as buttons were found.
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Odd Fellows’ Building
Penn
Family finds relief with Cuticura remedies after eczema and hair loss
The letter from Mr. H. B. Springmire of Iowa City Iowa dates July 16 1905 and September 16 1906 reports that his wife suffered eczema on her face for years and after trying Cuticura Remedies she had no recurrence for four years. He notes improved scalp hair using Cuticura Soap and Ointment and his baby also gained hair after baths with Cuticura Spa followed by ointment.
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Rapp
Hts
New York
Frent
Paris
H. B. Springmire
Capitol Street
Iowa City
Skin Irritations and Cuticura Remedies Advised
Advertises Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as essential for skin ailments including rashes itching chafing and scalp conditions. Mentions accompanying products and a complete treatment set for all ages with claims of cleansing healing and antiseptic action.
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Cem. Corp
Vermont fisher nets near a bushel of trout on ice
Noah Perkins of Chittenden Vermont claimed a dramatic winter thaw then rapid freeze created a feeding frenzy. He used milkweed pods as bait, catching trout that rose to the surface before the pond iced over, ultimately gathering almost a bushel for a fry pan.
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Rutland
Rocky Pond
Vermont
Noah
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