Dry states face new liquor licensing in druggists rule
Washington report details Cabell order listing over 200 preparations now requiring a government liquor license for sale in drugstores. The rule targets beverages with liquor flavor in perfumes, essences, medicines, and drugs sold in dry areas. About 40,000 druggists, half taxed, affected. MacVeagh sets medication standards limiting alcohol in cures to essential amounts.
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United States
United States Treasury
MacVeagh
Internal Revenue Bureau
Father Phones and Son Does Not Wed
A Cumberland farmer, John W Weise, thwarted his son Elmer Christian Welse’s plan to wed Elsie FE Means of London Ind. by misrepresenting his age on a marriage license application. Clerk William Berner refused the license after Weise’s phone call and the couple, with witnesses, left without proceeding.
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God
John W. Weise
Cumberland
Elmer Christian Welse
Elmer
Elsie FE
Means
London
Ind
William Berner
Hoquiam Hotel Fire Sparks Citywide Blaze
Hoquiam Washington fire at 1 20 am gutted the hotel and an adjacent apartment structure igniting about a dozen guests to jump from windows. Wind shift spared the business district as damage reaches 100 000 dollars with most buildings within 600 feet affected.
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Hoquiam
Wash
Attempts to hide self-given wound at Marion Soldiers' Home
Special to The Sun reports Lewis Myers a 61 year old Soldiers' Home veteran in Marion Indiana who was found with a throat wound and tied cloth after an apparent suicide attempt. A bloody razor and shirt were found in his locker and he was admitted to the home hospital amid reports of domestic trouble and low spirits.
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Ind
Lewis Myers
Soldiers’ Home
Myers
Mess Hall
Green Hill
Pinchot Attacks Aldrich in Sacramento Campaign
Gifford Pinchot launches a two day GOP campaign in California praising insurgents and denouncing Senator Aldrich. He accuses big corporations of forming a holding company to control rubber, copper, coal and oil interests and labels the Pickett bill a joker that still allows corporate entry into public lands for mining.
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Gifford Pinchot
Chief Forester
Aldrich
Cannon
Hale
Wickersham
Ballinger
Tawney
Pinchot
Bristow
Rubber Trust
Tuberculosis Tops Death Causes in 1908 Report
The 1908 annual report of the state board of health highlights tuberculosis as the leading cause of death with 3,825 fatalities, followed by organic heart diseases at 3,261, pneumonia, accidents, and cancer. Smallpox caused only 10 deaths.
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State Board of Health
Aged couple in Indianapolis seek aid amid destitution
In Indianapolis an elderly couple, both about 75, come to a city official with no food or shelter. Once able to work, the man is now nearly blind and the wife ill, leaving them with two dingy rooms and no means to eat. They ask for help but receive none.
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Indianapolis
Democrats Meeting in Harmony at Saratoga NY
In Harmony Saratoga the new Democratic state executive committee convenes Friday night with reps from nearly every Democratic faction. State Chairman Dix leads delegates including Sulzer Osborne Sheppard Chanler. Sulzer seeks upstate pledges amid anticipated Tammany opposition. Tammany Hall reportedly backs no gubernatorial candidate.
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Uot
William Sulzer
Thomas M. Osborne
Edward M. Sheppard
Lewis F. Chanler
Sulzer
Tammany
Tammany Hall
Ames Mysterious Air Craft to Try Flight
In Annapolis on July 22 the air ship built by Congressman Butler Ames will test Friday at the naval experimental station led by Commander Walter Forthington. Ames says several trials occurred en route from Washington, with a Bagley dynamo powering the canvas cylinder system amid much public interest. Blockade not recognized by U S in response to Madrid Norway recognition. cargoes to Bluefields will be fully protected.
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Congressman Butler Ames
Naval Experimental Station
Walter F \orthington
Congressman Ames
Washington
Ames
State Department
Bluefields
Norway
Madris
Contemptible act ends in street bottle fine
Judge Collins fined Charles Hiatt twenty dollars after he threw a beer bottle from his window at the Smith hotel on E Washington street. The bottle shattered on the pavement and Hiatt claimed he did not know it was illegal.
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Charles Hiatt
Smith Hotel
E. Washington Street
Hiatt
Two Troopers Admit Shooting Black Man
Washington July 22 Self defense is the plea of two troopers Clifford L Feld heim and Thomas J Mollineux of the Fifteenth cavalry stationed at Ft Myer Va They have confessed to shooting William Smith a negro in an argument between negroes and soldiers July 5 as an aftermath of the Jeffries Johnson fight.
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Thomas J. Mollineux
Fifteenth Cavalry
Ft. Myer
William Smith
Jeffries
Fear Bloodshed in Great Strike on Grand Trunk
Reported violence flared as union supporters clashed with strikebreakers on the Grand Trunk line. A strikebreaker conductor was injured by stones at Windsor Vermont as two hundred sympathizers protested the train. A brakeman near White River Junction escaped injury. no arrests were noted.
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Windsor
White River Junction
Strikebreakers Barred as Detroit Rail Strike Intensifies
Striking Grand Trunk trainmen claim engineers and firemen will join within 24 hours, risking a complete tie up of passenger and freight services. Canada may see action at the Dominion railway commission over unlawful operation of trains by inexperienced crews. Dozens deported at Windsor border as strike actions spread. Telegraph links Detroit and Grand Rapids cut. dispatchers must use phones. Strikers vow to fight to the finish with no arbitration seen as likely.
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Grand Trunk
Canada
Dominion Railway Commission
Windsor
Grand Rapids
Grand Trunk Moves Against Strikers After Four Days
In Toronto on July 2, after a four day stalemate between Grand Trunk and its employees, general superintendent W. G. Brownlee announced that as of Saturday morning the company would begin a general freight movement to break the strikers' momentum.
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Toronto
Ont
W. G. Brownlee
Rail unions threaten to use trains to break strike
Brownlee announced sufficient staff for freight trains with seasoned supervisors. The Grand Trunk mobilized strike crews, sending trains from Portland Montreal and Ottawa while Sarnia's Gillen prepared to oversee freight handling. The Canadian Northern warned it would pull its workers if forced to switch at Union Station, and Mackenzie Mannine maintained its right to switch.
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Grand Trunk
Portland
Montreal
Ottawa
Gillen
Sarnia
Canadian Northern Railway
Berry
Union Station
Mackenzie-Mannine
English Strike Ends: Rail Service Resumes in Newcastle
News from Newcastle England reports traffic on the Northeastern railroad resumed after a three day strike by 2000 workers. Disorganization remains and schedules will take days to normalize. Estimated total losses reach about 6 million as mines factories yards reopen amid severe freight congestion.
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Newcastle
Eng
Northeastern
Five Hundred NY Sugar Refinery Workers Strike in Solidarity
Five hundred employees of the New York Sugar Refinery company in Long Island City walked out on Friday in solidarity with 2,000 workers at Havemeyer and Elder refineries in Williamsburg. Police guard the plant.
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New York Sugar Refinery Company
Long Island City
Havemeyer and Elder
Williamsburg
Bankruptcy petition filed by Mrs Anna Machine
Mrs Anna Machine of Serre Haute filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court on Friday. The document lists liabilities of 1332.49 and assets of 1300. The filing notes a deficit of 32.49 dollars.
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Anna Machine
Serre Haute
Health department urged by Dr Wiley in Chautauqua
Dr Harvey Wiley urged passage of a national department of health at Chautauqua New York praising its benefits for safe water and public health. He criticized opponents allegedly funded by medical freedom groups and patent medicine interests while noting doctors broadly support the bill.
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DR. Wiley
Chautauqua
NE. Y
Department of Health
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Wiley
National Health Department
League
Washington
Handy Things to Have and a Hard Working Wife
A Sydney Bulletin item notes a practical, humorous exchange about hard work and domestic life. The snippet highlights a wife praised for diligence and a wish for more companions like a laid out character, suggesting a light general interest moment from the era.
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Sydney Bulletin
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