Ripon College Denies Carnegie Graft Charge
Ripon Wisconsin June 26 Ripon college rejects a Baptist Standard accusation that it and nearby Princeton Yale and Lafayette grafted money from Andrew Carnegie. The college cites 1866 records releasing it from ecclesiastical control and notes its current mix of Congregational and Presbyterian trustees.
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Ripon College
Carnegie
Ripon
Wis
Ben
Princeton
Yale
Lafayette
The
Baptist Standard
New York
Baptist Church
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Fund
Congregational Church
Winnebago SA
Presbyterian and Congregational Churches
Western College Society
Lawrence University
Hughes
Bailey attacks spark petitions for Crane senate bid
After Bailey in Fort Worth Texas on June 26 petitions circulate statewide urging Attorney General Crane to run for the United States Senate to succeed Bailey following recent magazine attacks.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Bailey
Crane
United States Senate
Firemen’s association tournament sets state record
Brillion Wisconsin June 26. The East Wisconsin Firemen's association annual tournament held Saturday. Wayside Kaukauna Hortonville and Two Rivers fire companies competed in full force. A Schram of Plymouth broke the state record in the single man hose coupling race with four and a half seconds.
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Brillion
Wis
East Wisconsin Firemen’s Association
Wayside
Kaukauna
Hortonville
Two Rivers
A. Schram
Plymouth
State Geological Survey Joins Post Office Road Data Drive
The State Geological Survey gains Post Office Department aid to survey Wisconsin road conditions via rural carrier reports. About 500 carriers cover 37 000 miles, enabling a cost effective census to guide road improvements and rural delivery efficiency. Wisconsin follows Illinois in using this method, initiated by A N Johnson. Post Office support highlights demand for better roads.
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State Geological Survey
Post Office Department
W. O. Hoachiss
State Survey
Stae
Post Office
Geological Survey
Wisconsin
Illinois
A. N. Johnson
Ilinois
Newhero's Herpicide Introduced As Hair Germicide
Marketed as a new scalp germicide and antiseptic that claims to destroy the germ causing hair loss. The Herpicide Co announces sample via 10 cent stamp to Detroit Michigan with O T Erhart listed as special agent.
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Newhero
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
O. T. Erhart
Elopement Ends with Tragic San Francisco Earthquake Death
Kenosha Wisconsin June 26 Mrs Frank Machacek of Kenosha was killed in the San Francisco earthquake a sensational elopement from Kenosha one year ago ended with the letters received in this city revealing the tragedy.
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Machacek
Kenosha
Kenosha, Wis
Frank Machacek
San Francisco
Desperate Quarrel Leads Young Girl to Poison Death
Marie Olive Burdick, 15, after a quarrel with her mother, obtained strychnine and left home. The mother followed, then found the girl had poisoned herself. Antidotes failed and she died after severe agony. The Burdick family had moved from Wisconsin a year earlier to a farm near Dickinson, North Dakota.
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Dickinson
N. D
Marie Olive Burdick
Burdicks
Wisconsin
Burdick Distances Family Ties From County Official
Sol Burdick, the county poor commissioner, said the family was not related to him as far as he knew, though a distant relative could exist amid many Burdicks in the Brodhead area of Wisconsin.
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Sol Burdick
Burdicks
Brodhead
Wisconsin
Kidney Cure Ad from 19th Century Medical Notice
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Cure promising a positive treatment for all kidney and bladder diseases. It warns sufferers to use the product and credits O. T. Erhart as the seller.
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THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Foley
Fourth of July Excursion Rates on the North Western Line
Excursion tickets offered at reduced rates July 3 and 4 with return validity to July 6 for trips where one way is seven fifty or less. Covers unions with C P M&O to Cheyenne and La Salle Colorado routes plus D S S A and Mineral Range connections. Apply at Chicago North Western agents.
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Union Pacific R. R
Cheyenne
Wyo
la Salle
Colo
Colorado & Southern
Orin Jct
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