Van Cleve Urges Inland Waterways and Tariff Reform
President Van Cleve of the National Association of Manufacturers argues industrial wars threaten the U S and pushes for open shop labor relations and waterways expansion from lakes to the gulf He calls for tariff revision to fit 1909 conditions and outlines a three step plan with bipartisan committee review and a 1909 congressional session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
van Cleve
National Association of Manufacturers
Association
United States
Roosevelt
America
Mr. van Cleve
Tarif
Republican Party
Congress
McKinley
Tariff Commission
Coreys Are Lonely London Bride And Groom In Sea Voyage
William Ellis Corey and actress bride Mabelle Gilman kept strict seclusion aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II during the Atlantic crossing. They avoided conversations with passengers and reporters, moving to the captain's suite after the New York press crowd left Plymouth, with only stewards and official contact from the captain allowed. A German bouncer blocked reporters at the stairwell as they sought access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
William Ellis Corey
Mabelle Gilman
Atlantic
New York
Plymouth
Corey
Outings Planned For Johnny At Quietbrook Farm
Summers on the river valley offer Johnny a camp life at Quietbrook farm or YMCA river camp when uncles and aunts fail to host him. Fathers and mothers weigh farm stay versus city summers as the aunt’s illness shifts plans and a boy is boarded for association camp on the river.
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Johnny
Quietbrook Farm
New York
Coney Island
Chicago
Lake Michigan
la Crosse
Mississippi
Valley
Johnnie
Association
Conneaut Hen Lays Egg With Inside Message
Citizens in Conneaut Ohio report a hen laid an egg with newspaper words inside the shell. Dr Martin Friederich of Cleveland and University of Munich lore entertain the possibility of a psychological heredity factor. The owner Vera Benjamin says the shell bore the words two dollars weekly Gazette.
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Cleveland, O
Conneaut
Ohio
Cleveland
Materia Medica
Conneauthen
Vera Benjamin
Weekly Gazette
Martin Friederich
Banquet of Hobos Draws Chicago Crowd at Windsor Club
In Chicago on May 21 a welfare association hosted a large hobo banquet at the Windsor Clifton hotel. Attendees from the bridewell, Munici pal lodging house, Hogan's Flop, and West Madison barrel houses listened to poems and talks by hobos led by speakers like A No. 1 and Philadelphia Jack Brown. Several interruptions and departures occurred before the Frisco-bound group left after a long program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Brotherhood Welfare Association
Windsor-Clifton Hotel
Washington
Philadelphia Jack and
Dancing Kid
San Francisco
Ben D. Reitman
Bridewell
Hogan's Flop
New York House
West Madison Street
Fred
New York
Boston
Yoken- Whitney
Frisco
Sercomb
Manhattan
Parker H. Sercomb
John the Josher
Golly Bill
Slim Miller
Pittsburg
Joe
Alfonso Xiiil
Fatty Johnson
Old Man Steers
Joe Fay
the Coppin Kid
Fairy Tale Anderson
Brooklyn
Dick Thompson
Eddie Mack
the Dancing Kid
Carey the Duck
the Mexican Kid
John Maroney
the Hobo Kid
Gin Rickey Jack
Dick the Piker
the Coffin Nailer
Mike the Peddler
Tamale Kelly
Buffalo Ed Maloy
Black Slim
Pierpont Morgan
Lone Star Pete
Mike
Dirty Bill
Oklahoma
Edward Hale
Gould Alexander
Billy Hodges
Mitt Casey
Tommy
Ostler Jo
Philadelphia
Jack Brown
Fattay
Yokey Whitey
Rocky Mountain Lemon
A. No. 1
John Smith
Penitentiaries
Steers
Horace Greeley
John H. Drake
Dr. Drake
Willie
Rafting to Boom on Upper Mississippi Rivers
The steamship North Star carries a tow of twenty four strings of logs from Stillwater to Burlington Iowa. It made an eleven day trip down the river and is among few rafts taken south this season. Captain McCreeney predicts rafting will grow in June and July as mills resume operation. He notes spring activity along the upper river.
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North Star
Burlington
Stillwater
Mississippi River
McCreeney
The
Narrow Escape Leads to Bucklen Salve Cure
G W Cloyd of Plunk Missouri recounts a past injury when a jimson bar pierced his thumb. The doctor urged amputation but he healed the wound with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, which he bought from Erhart, druggist, for 25 cents.
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G. W. Cloyd
Plunk
Bucklen
Erhart
Io. T
Frohman Season Shifts as Broadway Actors Fall Season Ends
The Empire theatre closes its season with Charles Frohman’s last New York attraction leaving the stage to a single Frohman standard bearer. Barrymore opens in Captain Jinks at Jackson Michigan Monday night and Maude Adams tours westward with Peter Pan breaking receipts records as John Drew Otis Skinner Sam Bernard Hattie Williams wind down and plan next season. Frohman abroad in London prepares for an American comeback.
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Empire Theatre
Charles Frohman
New York
William Collier
The
Garrick
Frohman
Miss Barrymore
Jackson, Mich
Captain Jinks
Mr. Frohman
Maude Adams
Kansas City
Miss Adams
San Francisco
John Drew
New England
Otis Skinner
Far West
California
Bryn Mawr
Wm. H. Crane
Sam Bernard
Chicago
Mr. Hoggenheimer
Hattie Williams
Little Cherub
Mr. Bernard
Miss Williams
William Gillette
Francis Wilson
New Rochelle
London
America
Youthful Pickpocket Arrested in Racine
Maggie Montine ro, nine year old daughter of Italian residents, was arrested after taking 32 dollars from a Salvation Army member at a Sunday meeting in Racine Wisconsin. She was turned over to Salvation Army officers and will be sent to St Louis to remain in the Salvation Army children’s home. The girl has previously been taken into police custody.
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Racine
Wis
Salvation Army
Maggie Montinero
St. Louis
Notice to Contractors by La Crosse Public Works Board
The La Crosse Wisconsin Board of Public Works invites sealed bids by June 1 1997 for coal supplies to pumping station city hall and fire stations for the year June 1 1907 to June 1 1908. Bids must itemize prices per ton for Cardiff Wilmington coal Pocahontas smokeless New River smokeless and Ocean coal plus lump coal for city facilities with bonds or cash deposits as required. The board may reject any bid and will audit bids May 17 1907.
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Board of Public Works
City of la Crosse
City Hall
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Cardiff Wilmington
Pocahontas
New River
County of la Crosse
H. J. Beckwith
Arthur J. Robwaxage
George Falk
The
Knife to cure youth by brain surgery in Omaha
Eight year old Davy Markovitz faces a surgeon's knife to remove adenoid growths pressing on the brain. The Omaha juvenile court orders the operation as a new cure for delinquency after repeated failures to reform.
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Omaha
Neb
Davy Markovitz
Davy
The Pulpit Mistakes Thunder for Blessing Shower
A saying notes clerical voices misinterpret loud thunder as a shower of divine blessing, highlighting how rhetoric can mask harsher truth beneath a favorable tone.
Post Office Demands Improved Highways For Rural Routes
In Richland county Wisconsin the postal service orders reports on rural roads not passable last winter. If permanent repairs are not completed and roads remain unusable the rural delivery service will be withdrawn. Temporary roads through fields rocks and fences are not recognized as highways even in winter.
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New Richmond
Wis
Post Office Department
Washington
Frane A. R. van Meter
Mystery of Olson Disappearance Ends with Body Found
William Olson of near Ashby is found dead in a lake near Fergus Falls. Police believe suicide after he paid for seed wheat days earlier and left $17 with a note about preferring a better place. Body located in about fourteen feet of water.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
William Olson
Ashby
Pilot August Case Named Pilot of Steamer Purchase
Captain August Case of Winona, a well known river pilot, has accepted the position on the steamer Purchase and left Winona for St. Paul yesterday.
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August Case
Winona
Purchase
St. Paul
State organizer under AR rest Waterloo
Leo C. Hanlon former state organizer for the order of Eagles was arrested here on a warrant from Council Bluffs. He faces grand jury indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses linked to a failed fraternal insurance scheme in Council Bluffs last winter. Deputy sheriff took him to Council Bluffs. He is well known statewide.
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Waterloo
Leo C. Hanlon
Order of Eagles
Council Bluffs
Hanlon
Swennes Wins Vine Street Sewer Contract Bid
The board of public works awarded Ole Swennes the Vine street sewer project between Fourth and West, at 85 cents per foot. The job costs $1,800 to property owners and $1,380 to the city. Thill and Lapitz bid 90 cents per foot.
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Vine Street
Fourth
West Streets
Ole Swennes
Board of Public Works
Swennes
Thill & Lapitz
Blood Purifier S S S Cures Chronic Sores and Ulcers
An old sore or ulcer signals blood impurity. External treatments fail. only a blood purifier reaches the root cause. S S S claims to cleanse the blood, heal the sore, and restore strength, with free literature from The Swift 10 Co.
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S.S. S
S.S.S
Swift 10 CO
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Coreys
Steel
Bride
Hobos
BIG Theatre
the Merry Makers
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Morrisey and Rich
Elmer Jerome Bradley and
Bavis
Mabel Cassidy
Lawrence Wall
S. S
West Union
Thos. Owen
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