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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
7
The state railroad department reconstructs the pope’s railway carriage unused since 1870. The special car features gilded angels at four corners and white velvet upholstery. Comment follows on whether the pope may depart the Vatican and on the broader idea that uplifters of civilization gain fame or monument despite poverty.
In Chicago seven year old Edward Behringer an orphan, had a worm eating through the eye ball removed in a pioneering operation said to be the first of its kind in the United States. The boy, from a truck farm near Niles Michigan, ate radishes fresh from the garden and a radish likely carried tapeworm bacilli that lodged in the eye.
Irene La Barge aged 17 killed herself at her Seattle home on Twelfth avenue after a quarrel with John Tweed a post office messenger. She drank poison in his presence stirred by jealousy over his attentions to another girl.
The Fifty ninth Congress opens with a forecast to push major appropriation bills totaling about one billion dollars and limited general legislation. Ship subsidy remains a likely exception as bills advance in the Senate and House. Senate debates on tariff immigration and currency reforms loom amid Smoot case action and canal funding awaits presidential recommendations.
Senator Heyburn opens the session with a proposal to create United States land courts in every public land state to review entries by registrars and receivers with appeals to a national court in Washington. The plan seeks to ease delays and ensure expert judges handle public land controversies. In Idaho, Monarch Timber Co. bought over 100000 acres of timber land with about 2.5 billion feet of standing timber valued at 6 million dollars in the St. Joe and St. Maries valleys. Four children died in a skating accident on Coeur d Alene lake at Medimont, near Harrison, including Philip Blessing 18, Bessie Blessing 13, and two others, all relatives of local residents.
The surrogate's report shows Carl Schurz left a net estate of 255150 with railroad bonds as the main asset and no real estate. The filing is for inheritance tax adjustment.
Eben Richards new Mexican Central president and representatives of Landenburg Thulman Co and the Mexican government held talks in Mexico City amid expectations of a government purchase of the Central. In New York the Mutual Life Insurance Company severed its final link to the McCurdy family with Peter Stuyvesant Pillot’s resignation.
An advertisement claims Dr. R H Kline cures St Vitus dance and nervous diseases with Dr Kline s Great Restorer offering free trial bottles and a treatise from 981 Arch St Philadelphia Pa The rest is filler from other clippings including a playful dialogue and a note on activity and longevity.
The item mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup praised for teething children. It notes a Thiers family pearl necklace at the Louvre valued at 1,250,000 dollars but dying pearls will lose value in years. It calls fortune without character the country’s most dangerous force.
Police in Pittsburg seek aid from Philadelphia officers to recover jewelry worth between 50000 and 75000 dollars stolen from Henry Barnett’s Philadelphia residence. The haul reportedly includes about 400 pieces led by a 15000 dollar 25 diamond brooch amid sensational theft details.
Sir Godfrey Lagden, chief native commissioner of the Transvaal, told Sekukuniland chiefs and tribesmen that government sincerity is shown by lowering a wife's fee from ten dollars to three dollars twenty five cents. The chiefs pledged loyalty to King Edward.
The piece extols Allcock's Porous Plaster as the world’s standard external remedy with the largest sales, boasting a sixty year presence and unmatched effectiveness for a weak back chest cold or any local pain from cold or overstrain.
A reflective line argues that fixating on poverty alters belief, shaping actions and outcomes toward persistent scarcity. It suggests mindset is a driver of financial reality and urges practical change beyond merely thinking poverty.
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