Aliens Return to Native Homes in Record Numbers
New York dispatch reports a surge of migration back to Europe as up to 500000 aliens are expected to return before winter. Most are spring laborers in railroads and mines from Italy, carrying about $200 each to sustain a year at home. Panic and fear of a harsh winter in mills push more to depart, likely tightening next spring's immigration and shaping labor markets.
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Jacob Waldeck
New York
Europe
Italy
Pittsburg
America
Mystery of the Tin Cans at Public Safety Board
At a Public Safety meeting a letter complained of trash dumping in the alleys between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets and Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets. The unsigned note bore the name Wharton Wheatcraft, not found in the directory, and the board ignored the communication. Also discussed was a mix up where a loan agency asked the city controller to pay $42 to city fireman Roscoe Buchanan, though he had borrowed only $20 months earlier.
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Board of Public Safety
Pennsylvania
Meridiansts
Fourteenth
Sixteenth-sts
Wharton Wheatcraft
Eame
Board of Health
Roscoe Buchanan
Buchanan
Eczema cured in three weeks by Cuticura remedies
Letter from Mrs Maggie Smith of Akron Ohio praising Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for her baby’s severe eczema on face and eyelids. She reports rapid improvement within three days and full clearance in three weeks after trying other doctors and remedies, with no recurrence for months. The testimonial dates July 24 and August 11, 1906.
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Maggie Smith
W. Crosier St
Akron
Around the World on Big Battleships Recruitment Drive
The U S Navy plans a world cruise with 16 battleships leaving Hampton Roads on December 16. Many eager recruits, including sons of wealthy families, join as apprentice seamen and marines from urban and rural areas, with heavy enlistments at Wolverine and Wasp recruiting stations.
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Hampton Roads
Marine Corps
Prosecution of John R Walsh Began In Bank Wreck Case
Fletcher Dobyns assistant United States district attorney leads the government in the prosecution of John R Walsh accused of wrecking his own banks in a federal case.
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Fletcher Dobyns
United States District Attorney
John R. Walsh
Elderberry plant leads to discovery of medieval coins
In Oelsdorf a farmer, while plowing near an elderberry bush tied to local legend, unearthed a vessel containing 2,800 silver coins dating from the eleventh century. The find stems from a German mid age tradition of placing elderberry plants over buried treasure.
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Oelsdorf
Merchant marine talk vows U S ships scarce by canal finish
Harry D. Goulders of Cleveland warned the Board of Trade that the United States may have no merchant ships when the Panama Canal opens. He cited high freight fees going abroad, a three year gap in U S shipbuilding, and steel shortages while urging repeal of navigation laws.
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Harry D. Goulders
Merchant Marine League
Cleveland
Board of Trade
United States
Panama Canal
Goulders
Bynum
Treasury
Lewis C. Walker
George
Tunner
J. E. McGettigan
Whitcomb to Lead Holiness Meetings in New York
A I Whitcomb of Greenville HL, president of the Free Methodist college, opens a series of Holiness meetings November 22 at the Young Men's Holiness league on New York and Alabama streets. The event runs until December 1, after which Will J Harney of Wilmore KY, known as the Cyclone Evangelist, takes the stage on December 5.
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Free Methodist College
Young Men's Holiness League
New York
Alabama-sts
Whitcomb
Will J. Harney
Wilmore
Harney
Dinner for Needy Organized by Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America arrange a Thanksgiving dinner for the needy with committees handling financing and investigations of worthy cases. The group fed 3,500 people last year and plans to serve a larger crowd this year as arrangements for the feast advance.
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Volunteers of America
Miners age rapidly due to unhygienic surroundings
German physician Dr Horn states that miners show rapid aging and senile decay by age 50 because of their dirty working conditions, with few able to continue the trade after reaching that age.
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Horn
After Death What Next according to Rev. Torrey
Chicago November 21. The evangelist Rev. R A Torrey proposed a theory on life after death. He suggested resurrected souls would inhabit bodies similar to earthly ones and could eat food. He cited Christ’s post resurrection meals and Moses and Elias on the mountain as examples. He admitted uncertainty about the nature of future bodies and timing.
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Chicago
Feden
R. A. Torrey
Moody
Christ
Lond
Kiffeh
Moses
Celery Velces Harmless Curo Distilled Water Sale
A damaged OCR item notes a harmless water sale by a company labeled Celery Velces. It lists distilled water in half gallon bottles six counts per gallon demijohns with prices and a new phone line reference, but the text is garbled and partially unreadable.
That Boy Next Door Outsmarts the Piano Player Trick
A mischievous boy tricks neighbors by bribing a piano roll foreman to slip a practice exercise onto a player piano. He pedals with one foot while reading a dime novel, fooling the family into thinking he is dutifully practicing. The ruse earns praise, revealing wit over discipline.
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Paderewski
Blast at Hoper mill kills five in Gilbertown
Special to The Sa tongue reports a boiler explosion at the Hoper lumber mill in Gilbertown on November 2 killing F. E. Farrell R. B. Sorrel Ambrose Dosier and two Black workers. A man named Garner was fatally injured.
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Gilberton
F. E. Farrell
R. B. Sorrel
Ambrose Dosier
Hoper
Garner
Mother and Son Hart In Acetylene Plant Blast
Mrs Francis M Covery was badly injured in an acetylene gas plant explosion at her Frankfort Indiana home. Her son was also injured in the incident reported by The Sun on November 21.
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the Sun
Frankfort
Ind
Francis M. Covery
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