Wake Up Call on Roosevelt Connection to New Presidency
The piece argues President Roosevelt will not seek another term, warning of political plotting by Harrimans Rockefellers Morgans Ryans and Hills to control the next Republican convention. It stresses Roosevelt values public trust over a further presidency and urges citizens to recognize the approaching campaign dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Harrimans
Rockefellers
Morgans
Ryans
Hills
DREADED TO EAT A Quaker Couple's Experience
A Philadelphia couple recounts long term coffee induced indigestion and nervous illness. After trying doctors and medicines they switched to Postum, noting relief from dull after meals and improved health. They credit Postum with eliminating coffee and recommend it to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phila
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Michead
Wellville
College Girl Fends Off Burglars at Home In New York
Miss Helen Anger a Normal College student living at 73 East Eighty Fifth Street fought two tall burglars who broke into her apartment. She chased them after grabbing a small French clock and shouted police. The pair escaped down stairs as she pursued them, with her father and Detective McLaughlin noting missing watches.
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Anger
Normal College
E. Eighty-fifth St
Miss Anger
Helen
McLaughlin
The Girl's Pin Money
A 17 year old girl earned pin money by managing her family table. Her mother allotted weekly funds for meals, and the daughter kept the savings as commission. She saved about 1.50 to 2.00 weekly by careful shopping for meats vegetables and fruit, learning money value and preparing for a capable home future.
Trapper Attains Profit via City Mink Chase
John Rogers a college educated attorney in St Louis turns to trapping to aid his health. He uses city trolley routes to set traps across Carondelet Barracks Chain of Rocks and Meramec Highlands. He nets up to 800 the first season and continues trapping while running his law practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
John Rogers
Rogers
Carondelet
Bobring
Chain of Rocks
O'Fallon Park
Meramec Highlands
St. Louis River
Arizona
California
St. Louis County
Yucatan’s Rise From Poverty to Riches
Merida, capital of Yucatan, transformed in fifty years from one of Mexico’s poorest states to one of its richest. The city features well-paved streets, ample lighting, well cared for by a corps of white wings. Homes are sturdy and newly painted with palatial examples along the streets. A robust streetcar network spans the city.
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Yucatan
Merida
French Navy to Exterminate Rats Entering Ports
The French admiralty plans a campaign against rats in seaport towns to curb disease spread on ships. It will soon require every vessel entering French harbors from specified ports to have all rats exterminated.
German emigrants lose German nationality after ten years
The London Mail reports that many Germans do not know this rule: a German emigrant retains nationality for ten years, then loses it unless he registers at a German consulate or embassy in the country of emigration.
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London Mail
Wife saves juror after hanging attempt in Athens
Athens police report that Thurman Walker, who had served as juror in two murder trials in one week, attempted suicide by hanging on Saturday night. His wife found him and cut him down with a table knife, then resuscitated him after about an hour of effort.
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the Sun
Athens
Thurman Walker
Wiretappers Sought Over $350,000 Bank Fraud
New York police hunt a gang of wiretappers accused of swindling William P. Walker, absconding treasurer of the New Britain Savings Bank in Connecticut, out of three hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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Scripps-McRae Preas Association
New York
William P. Walker
New Britain, Conn
Fire destroys Pullman lumber sheds in Chicago
Fire at Pullman today devastates lumber sheds of the Secrippa McRae Presa Association in Chicago. Loss estimated at fifty thousand dollars. The blaze occurred February eighteenth and caused extensive damage to industrial property.
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Secrippa-McRae Presa Association
Chicago
Pullman Company
Pullman
Arrested revolutionists in St Petersburg raid
Seventy one social revolutionists have been arrested and 1500 pounds of incendiary literature seized at the university building in St. Petersburg on February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripps-McRae Presa Association
ST. Petersburg
Did Daughter Poison Mother In Humane Mercy Theory
Report from New York states the murder charge against Mrs Lot tie Wallau over Ida Binge, a cancer patient at Tombs prison, centers on a theory that a household member poisoned her champagne with bichloride of mercury to end suffering.
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Lottie Wallau
New York City
New York
Ida Binge
Tombs Prison
Oil trust situation as viewed at Findlay
F W Schaefer reports Hancock county Ohio views on Standard Oil and its control of oil from derrick to refinery. Locals debate profits and producer awareness, with satire highlighting public tension over trust power and ownership in the oil industry.
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Findlay
Hancock County
Ohio
Johan DD. Rockefeller
Mother Earth
Ida ‘Tarbell
Standard of
Saacock County
John Stancock
Courthon
Price Puzzle in Findlay Shows Oil Pricing Scheme
The report details a Local Findlay price fixing scheme with Standard Oil setting base oil prices, Buckeye Pipe Line colluding to peg market rates, and National Refining paying above market. Manhattan Oil and others labeled as Standard Oil affiliates allegedly charging premiums, shaping North Lima curb quotations.
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Findlay
Standard Oil
Buckeye Pipe Line
National Refining Company
Pine Line
Manhattan Oil Company
Lima
Oil Pipelines and Probed Deals Shake Trust Theories
The piece traces alleged underpricing and overbid tactics by Buckeye and Manhattan oil interests. It alleges Standard Oil influence behind Manhattan’s rise, with complex proxy voting to control Buckeye and Solar Refining. It cites hidden pipelines, interlocking stocks, and mystery ownership in the 1900s era energy sector.
Canned Goods Groups Push Tariff Relief
The National Association of Canners and Packers formed in Buffalo advocates treaties favoring reduced tariff protection for American canned goods. A conference with Dr. Wiley and trade groups produced a mutual guarantee plan. Buyers would seek cans bearing the food and drugs act guarantee and a serial number from participating manufacturers.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Association of Canners and Packers
United States
Dr. Wiley
Wholesale Grocers Association
Atlantic States Packers’ Association
Western Packers Canned Goods Association
National Canned Goods and Dried Fruit Brokers’ Association
Guarantee of pure canned foods under 1906 food act
The declarant pledges the articles of foods or drugs he makes are not adulterated under the 1906 act. Filing the declaration earns the canner a free serial number to stamp cans, assuring buyers they receive a pure product.
Cape to Cairo railway progress and workforce figures
The Cape to Cairo railway reaches a point 374 miles north of Victoria Falls and 2016 miles from Cape Town. The 21 miles from Kolomo to Broken Hill were built in 346 days with 99 idle days, averaging over a mile of track daily. About 3000 to 5000 natives and around 30 whites are employed.
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Africa
Victoria Falls
Cape Town
Kolomo
Broken Hill
Cure Grip With Laxative BromoQuinine Claim
Ad offers a two day cure for grip using laxative Bromo Quinine and urges readers to verify genuine products by asking for the full name and signature of E. W. Grove. Also mentions Harrod's Studio photos and PURO Distilled Water services with small bottle prices.
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E. W. Grove
Accordion dress plaiting at Odd Fellows Building
Room 8 at the Odd Fellows' Building in Penn and Wash reports buttons recovered. Kingston displays a peculiar sample or tip regarding an old whisky, described as sa pectetly.
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Odd Fellows’ Building
Penn
Wash
Kingston
A Novel Scheme Explains Freezing Tire Valves
A tire valve may fail to admit air in cold weather due to moisture freezing it shut. It can typically be thawed by warming with hands or breath.
Notice of license application for intoxicating liquors
A resident of Center township Indianapolis announces he will apply at the Marion county Board of Commissioners April term 1907 for a license to sell and permit drinking on premises at 147 North Illinois Street on the front room of a three story brick building in square 46 lot 1 Brat floor. This applies to the Sixth G ward. NY oR COHN.
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Sixth G
Center Township
Marion County
Intbana
Illinois Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
Ih- Nuis Street
Cohn
Notice of liquor license application in Marion County
The subscriber in Twelfth ward Center township Indianapolis applies to the Marion county Board of Commissioners at the April term 197 for a license to sell intoxicating malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises consumption. The business is at 132 South Delaware Street front room first floor in a three story brick building lot eight in square seventy seven in Center township Indianapolis. HARALD SCHMITT.
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Center Township
Board of Commissioners
Marion County
Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
Harald. &Chmipt
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Ness
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F. W. Schaefer
Manhattan
National
Buckeye
Tale of the
Welker
Galston
Baltimore
Standard
Union Tank Line Company
Ohio Oil Company
Solar Refining Company
General Industrial Development Syndicate
Simited
London
Great Britain
Stockhullers
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Buckeye Pipe Line Company
Solar Licining Company
Broadway
Mr. Rockefeller and
Duesseldorter
Bae
Prospect
Indianapolis Brewing Co
Condo
Japan
Mikado
Eign
Cape TO Cairo Road
Cape To Cairo
Harrod
Virginia
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