Local Business Cards and Sports Teaser In Lawrence
A jumble of local notices includes physician ads for Blair and Rudolph, real estate and insurance services, livery stables and a Santa Fe hotel rate note. A KU basketball clash with Washburn at Robinson Gym is previewed with last game score and lineups.
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Washburn
Wardborn
Klul
Jope
Haughey
Millice
Reed
Brethorn
Kansan
McCune
Billy Miller
Woodward
Milton Miller
REMNANT WALLPAPER SALE AND SPECIAL OFFERS
Remnant sale offers 50 bundles of 8 to 12 rolls at 6 cents per roll and 80 bundles of 3 to 5 rolls at 3 cents per roll with two rolls free if called for. Special prices on old stock from Home Book Co. Wolf and Hollinglery, 625 Mass Street. Also ads for Capitol Blue mantles and delivery by Fred W Fein, 60 cents a dozen or 5 cents each, A Marks Jewelry, Hick’s Greenhouse, Bell 387. Friday and Saturday fruit salad days at Wiedemann’s and a Brat Bisel smoking warning.
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Wolf & Hollinglery
Mass. Street
A. Marks Jewelry
Hick’s
Green ‘ House
Bell
Funeral in Portugal for King Carlos and crown prince
Funeral services for King Carlos and the crown prince took place at San Vincents Church. Troops guarded the procession from the Royal Chapel to the church as governments from Europe and America sent special missions. The crowd filled Lisbon streets, many mourning peasants among them, while many shops and offices closed as a precaution.
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Lisbun
Feb
Carlos
Church of San Vincents
Europe
America
Prada Do Commerce
Lisbon
Miejling
Manuel
Amelie
Hitchcock to Retire as Assistant Postmaster General
Washington reports the retirement of Frank H. Hitchcock is imminent around February 15. He will lead Secretary Taft's campaign for the Republican nomination, with Dr. Charles P. Grandfield named to succeed him and oversee the postal bureau.
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Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Taft
Charles P. Grandfield
Grandfeld
Postal Service
Tafton
Portland Port Office Conspiracy Indicts Two Men
George Frederick Terry general manager of Sawyer Publishing Waterville and Henry W Boshan longtime Waterville post office clerk were indicted in federal court for conspiring to defraud the government of postage It is alleged they robbed the government of fifty thousand dollars a year for several years
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Portland
George Frederick Terry
Sawyer Publishing Company
Waterville
Henry W. Boshan
United States Court
Terry
Boshan
Vanderbilt Wedding Report Linked to Count Hadik
Berlin reports from Budapest confirm Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s engagement to Count Alexander Hadik with the count notifying his family that the wedding will occur immediately.
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Berlin
The
Tageblatt Today
Budapest
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander Hadik
Narrow Escape On Wabash Bridge Derailed Train
A fast New York Chicago passenger train derailed near French Landing on the Wabash bridge over the Huron river when a rail spread. The engine stayed on rails while five cars derailed and rested against the heavy guard rail, with the river forty feet deep beneath.
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Detroit
Mich
Wabash
Huron River
French Landing
Here
Delegates Chosen in Republican County Meeting
The Republican County Central committee of Dong-Jag County Kansas met at the courthouse to select delegates to state and congressional conventions. Resolutions favored Taft for president and Stubbe and Scott as gubernatorial and congressional nominees. Delegates to state: W R Stubbs B W McFarland R B McWilliams George W Campbell Marshall Gorrill E S Eastman W E Stone J J Dean Charles Pilla W K Higgins K M Flory Henry Egert Rt L Patton Porter Bell. Congressional: Harry Dick George L Davis Green Keith Matt Potter J B Wilson Fred J Hill C E B Percy J Perkins C E Moss J H Griffith E A Bond Mark Ellis Riley Rogers. State convention delegates favor W R Stubbs as National delegate. for Congress, George L Davis to National. Washington Feb 8: Senate subcommittee extends hearing on Tillman bill to apply state law to imported liquors on arrival before delivery. Mrs L M N Stevens of W C T U cites evasive Express firms and urges destination-point seizure without regard to consignee.
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Republican County Central Committee
Court House
Dong- Jag County
Kansas
Chicago
William H. Taft
United States
Republican Party
Douglas County
W. 2. Stubbe
Charles F. Scott
Congress
W. R Stubbs
B. W. McFarland
Washington
Senate
Knox
Pennsyyvania
Fulton
Oregon
Bacon
Georgia
Tillman
L. M. N. Stevens
Maine
Supreme Ecount
Commission Denies Motion on Rail Rates Case
Washington Feb 8 Commissioner Prouty denied rehearing in the traffic bureau case brought by Merchants Exchange of St Louis against Missouri Pacific and others. The original order set max rates from St Louis to Little Rock at 13 cents per hundred pounds on wheat and 11 cents on coarse grains. The ruling now lowers Kansas City and St Louis to Arkansas by one cent, to 12 cents on coarse grains and 14 cents on wheat.
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Washington, D. C
Prouty
Interstate Ecommerce Commission
Traffic Bureau and Merchants Exchange of
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Little Rock
Arkansas
Kansas City
Arkansas Territory
Senate Committee Opposes Free Rides in Interstate Bills
The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce today rejected most pass privilege expansion bills. It favored none of the publishers or large transfer company proposals and endorsed Senator Clapp's bill for free transport to furloughed and pensioned railway employees. Witnesses from a stock growers association urged rules on car supply and ICC rulemaking for freight transport.
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Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Washington
Stone
Clapp
S. H. Cowan
Murdor McKennie
Stock Growers’ Association
Culberson
Interstate Commence Commission
Captain Forrest Dies in Memphis After Illness
Captain Wm M Forrest son of Nathan Bedford Forrest a Confederate cavalry leader died in Memphis after suffering paralysis while witnessing a ploy. The report notes his death occurred on February 8.
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Memphis
Tenn
Wm. M. Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Gould executive commits suicide in Moline Illinois
Frank W. Gould president of Union Malleable Iron Co and head of Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane board shoots himself. Separate dispatch notes Taft’s departure from Washington for Kansas City to speak Monday. Other items mention Greek letters and local commerce items with scattered details.
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Moline
Tis
Frank W.gould
Union Malleable Iron Co
Western Illinois Hospital For the Insane
Republican congressional campaign committee formed in Washington
In Washington on February 8 the joint Republican caucus of senators and representatives elected its congressional campaign committee with Rep James S Sherman presiding. Some states did not submit names and a resolution empowered the committee to fill those spots if states fail to decide by February 18. The Republican county central committee met to select delegates for the state race. An ad for Gustafson’s watch repairs and Wiedemann’s Almond Crisp appears among the text.
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Washington
House
Chamber of the
James S. Sherman
New York
Hold Up on Chicago and Alton Freight Train
Two masked, heavily armed robbers boarded a through freight train on the Chicago and Alton near Chicago. They held up the brakemen conductor and a stockman before escaping. In a rooftop dash they were attacked by victims. one robber fell from the moving train while the other jumped after him.
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Chicago
Chicago & Alton
Explosion damages Vitro Vivano and Brothers spaghetti plant
A bomb blast wrecked the front of the Vitro Vivano and Brothers spaghetti factory in St Louis on February 8. The explosion, attributed to enemies, shattered nearby glass and was heard blocks away. The two Italian owners are identified in early reports.
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Bt. Louis
Vitro Vivano and Brothers
Wholesale Killing in Philadelphia Board Debt Quarrel
Police hunt Pasquale Grasso, a young Italian, after he stabbed 19 year old Marie Cifelli, shot her father, and killed her brother Alfonso, 16, at the Cirelli home in Philadelphia. The father and Marie are seriously wounded as Grasso fled following a debt dispute.
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Philadelphia
Pasquale Grasso
Marie Cifelli
Alfonso
Cirelli
Grasso
Supreme Court Upholds Kansas Freight Demurrage Law
Topeka Feb 8 The Kansas Supreme Court reversed the lower court and sustained the 1905 Kansas freight demurrage law. It imposes a penalty of one dollar per day on each car for delay in furnishing freight cars ordered.
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Topeka
W. M. Patterson
Missouri Facific Railway
Supreme Court
Kansas
Judge Jenkins Criticizes Prohibition Bills Before Judiciary
Washington hearing features Judge John J. Jenkins rebuking efforts by Rev S E Nicholson of the American Anti Saloon League to pass Littlefield style bills banning liquor shipping into prohibition zones. Jenkins warns most such measures aim at government power and must withstand constitutional scrutiny. He urges reporting only laws not unconstitutional and recalls evading prohibition with prayers in one hand and knives in the other.
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Washington
Fed
House Judiciary Committee
John J. Jenkins
S. E. Nicholson
Nicholson
Prohibition
Jenkins
Congress
Supreme Court
Colwell Named Receiver For Hardware and Toy Manufactur
Nicholas H. Colwell was appointed receiver for the Hardware and Woodware Manufacturing Company, owner of sixteen plants, by the United States court on a bill of equity led by noteholders Orville R. Noble and Ralph B. Cooley. The firm’s assets total about three and a half million dollars and it is described as solvent aside from banking credit contraction.
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New York
Nicholas H. Colwell
Rohrbaugh deed dispute heads to higher court
Ottawa February 8 1907 jurors find Samuel B Rohrbaugh was sane and his deed of the Boston Store block to his niece Nell Hubbard later Mrs Philippi is valid with the judge to rule after two or three weeks in a suit by Bethany Hospital to set aside the deed. The case could go to the supreme court. The Boston Store block Rohrbaugh timber yard Hubbard residence and Easley drug store are tied up by litigation over the February 22 deed.
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Ottawa
Samuel B. Rohrbaugh
Boston
Robert Philipr
Nell Hubbard
Bethany Hospital Company
Iola
Rohrbaugh
Mins Hubbard
Rohrbaugh Hunber
Hubbard
Eas
Hohrbaugh
Reeder Proposes Pension Age Amendment Bill
In Washington a Kansas congressman introduces a bill to amend the McCamer age pension act. It would treat soldiers unable to prove age as 25 on January 1 1865, reducing the age thresholds to 62 67 and 70 with pension amounts of 12 15 and 20 respectively.
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Washington, D. C
Reeder
Kansas
McCamber
Murdered man found buried in tenement yard in Norfolk
In Norfolk Virginia on February 8 a black man named Armistead Foster was murdered in a tenement room. Police found his body buried in a three foot deep hole with feet protruding from the dirt. Authorities believe the motive involved a woman.
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Norfolk
Armistead Foster
Beech Hargis Granted View Of Father’s Body
Jackson Ky Feb 8 The fast moving actions of Judge James Hargis life ended when his son Beech Hargis killed him Beech was allowed to view the body in the family burial ground before it was removed from the house He broke down and cried Lord have mercy.
Former U S Attorney Hall Convicted in Wheeler County Land Case
Portland Oregon February report states former United States District Attorney John A Hall was indicted for conspiracy with the Butte Creek Land Live Stock and Lowther Co to maintain an illegal fence enclosing 20 080 acres of public land in Wheeler county The trial has been in progress since January 13 and has been bitterly fought with fines mentioned
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Portland
Ore
United States District
John A. Hall
Butte Creek Land
Live Stock & Lowther, Co
Wheeler County
Ingalls Named Commissioner in Contempt Case
Topeka February 8 The Supreme Court appointed Sheffield Ingalla as commissioner to take testimony in the contempt proceedings against Captain J T Taylor of Leavenworth. Taylor is charged with collecting money from the jointista for the city.
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Topeka
Supreme Court Today
Sheffield Ingalla
J. T. Taylor
Leavenworth
Taylor
Jointista
Ameri can battleships sail from Ponta Arenas to Pacific coast
The American battleships with torpedo boat flotilla left the harbor at 1 a m for the western strait toward the Pacific coast of South America. Charles W Morse, the New York banker and financier, who had been missing, will sail to New York this afternoon after landing on the Campania and changing plans to return home immediately.
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Ponta Arenas
Strait
Pacific
South America
Liverpool
Charles W. Morse
New York
Uanecer
Morse
Campania
Associated Press
America
Fire Displaces Peter Pan Company Guests in Bridgeport
A hotel fire at the Guillard in Bridgeport Connecticut forced guests from rooms including many Peter Pan company members to evacuate early today. No injuries reported as crews battled the blaze and cleared the building.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Guillard Hotel
Tha Peter Pan Company
Grain and Livestock Prices in Kansas City and Chicago
Markets update from Kansas City shows wheat receipts with May at 93 3/4 cents and July 96 1/2, cash No 2 bard at 93 1/4 to 94 1/4, corn May 55 3/4 cents, July 53 4/4, oats No 2 white 49 1/2, rye 78 cents, hay values and dairy creamery butter at 33 cents. Chicago reports wheat May 97 3/4, July 93 1/4, corn May 67 1/2, July 84 1/2, with brief price notes.
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Kansas City
Choice Prairie
For Sale Alfalfa Bay Beans and Repairs Notice
Fragmented ad notes sale of alfalfa bay and repair services. Mentions two phone numbers and a business growing in scope. Content is garbled with unclear names and phrases.
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eSee
Joseph E. Riggs
Massachusetts
L. H. Menger
Massachusetts Street
Barker & Means
Omece
Opers
House Biol
C.J. Simmons
Masa
Vinita
G. W. Jones
Offier
Fai A
Ohio Street
Hell
F. BD
Morse, M
Woodwart & Co
J. A. Bechtel
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Hesidence
Tennessee Street
Blair
Ris
Vermont St. Henrune
John GC
Rudolph
al Falty
Bell Phone
Wome
the Fairfax
Pao Santa FE
Uye
Lawrence
Opera House
Mass
More Bros
Donnelly Brea
New Hampshire
Winthrop Sts
Lawrence, Kans
George A
Banks
Hoom Wa
Gustafson
Capitol Blue
Fred W. Fein
Wiedemann's
Bisel
Portugal
Hitchco
Bribbs and
Geo. L. Davis
Léquors Ind
Bame
Commission
Capt
Forrest
Gould
Pennsylvania Road
William Clark
Fhi Gamma Delta Fraternity
Charles Saile
Marion Township
Mantles and Gas Globe
Raymond
Donmire’s
Retate
Sakes Gustafson
Wiedemann’s
Anti-Saloon League
Salon
Toy House
Rohebaugh
Macy
Naval
Atchison
Admiral Evans
Neville’s
J. M Neville Bell
National Bank
C. HH. Tucker
B. Rest. Cashier
State Bank
Erqmelica Ptoe Eran Bo Hileay
Sweensy
Jacob Badsky
BM J. Renaaete
General Banking
Svelness
Hosford Investment CO. Investments
Ess
Laweshcs
Ama
Jaedickes
F. M. Perkins
Lee
Atlas Building & Loan Association
Woodward & Co
Fein
Ges
Raymond's
T. Riling
Frank Gee
Rogers
D. L Eddy
Lawrance, Kuns
New Jersey
Choice Alfalfa Bay
Beled
Haskell Club
Hoomers and Boarders
New Hampshire Street
Gestereon’s
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