Millionaire banker seeks Mexico aid in fiancee murder case
Shamokin Pa March 16 Special to the Reporter Conrad Graeber a wealthy banker vows to go to Mexico to press the U S State Department after the alleged murder of his betrothed Bertha Wood in a wreck attributed to a Mexican tugboat The Woods mother and friend recounts the voyage with 15000 in cash and jewelry valued at 2000 while the tug Canuto Bulnes supposedly foundered off Laguna and three crew members drowned details vary as Hastings Clawson Wood's manager returns from Mexico claiming murder theories
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Shamokin
W. B. Wood
Bertha
Conrad Graeber
Mexico
State Department
Washington
Wood
Venezuela
Castro
Miss Wood
Progresso
Canuto Bulnes
Laguna
Hastings Clawson
Nicholas
Graeber
West Indies
Chattanooga as the Oasis of the Dry South Liquor Trade
Chattanooga emerges as a central hub in the dry southern belt where mail order liquor thrives. An elaborate network ships whisky to Georgia Tennessee Alabama, with Chattanooga serving as the main oasis due to rail access, advertising, and rapid order fulfillment. Officials note rising revenue and business activity, while tempering hopes with looming prohibition pressures from neighboring dry towns and lawmakers.
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Georgia
Alabama
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
New York
Southern Express Company
Express Company
Jacksonville
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Louisville
Chicago
Napoleon
Chattanooga Hippodrome
Hippodrome
Father MacCorry to Speak at Dowling Theatre
When Father MacCorry arrives in the city for a talk at the Dowling theatre tomorrow evening, organizers may urge him to change his subject to Erin, the Tears and the Smiles of Her Eyes. It is hailed as one of his best lectures on the Irish people given in America.
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Father MacCorry
Dowling Theatre
City
Erin
America
Gold Medal Flour Highlighted as Best White Flour
Publication notes that the Department of Agriculture tests show white flour has high available protein energy. Washburn Crosby's Gold Medal Flour is identified as the best white flour in the piece.
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Washburn -Crosby
Elizabeth Colton Named World’s Champion Linguist After India Visit
Miss Elizabeth S. Colton of Hasthampton Mass returned to the United States after a year in India with the title of world’s champion linguist. Daughter of the late Rev A M Colton former pastor of Easthampton’s First Congregational church she studied vocal music and taught at Farmington Seminary. Her oriental language study began through eastern pupils at Yale where she also gained elementary training in eastern tongues and met Prof Frank Sanders.
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Boston
Elizabeth S. Colton
Hasthampton
Mass
India
Colton
A. M. Colton
First Congregational
Easthampton
Farmington
Conn
Far East
Yale College
Yale
Frank K. Sanders
The
Theological Seminary
Berlin
Purity Campaign Aims to Cleanse London Society
The Bishop of London launches a social purity campaign with broad religious support. He has spoken at Queens Hall and seeks to deter degrading exhibitions, curb suggestive printing, close questionable houses, and raise public morals. He predicts Parliament action if needed to unite labor MPs and curb London’s “modern Babylon.”
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London
Queens Hall
House of Commons
Babylon
Linguist Colton Speaks Forty Languages Says China to Persia
Miss Colton, a renowned linguist, has studied Sancrist and eastern tongues in the Afghanistan border mountains where articulate speech is believed to have begun. She speaks forty languages fluently, including Chinese, Pali, Avestan, Sancrist, Hebrew, Syrian, Assyrian, Arabic, and Persian, surpassing any known record of thirty three tongues.
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Sancrist
Afghanistan
Miss Colton
Maple Taffy Pull Brings Town Folk Together
George Horney hosted a taffy pulling in the sugar camp Saturday evening for about twenty couples from the city. A delightful evening was spent with neighbors enjoying the social event.
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George Horney
Grain gamblers face bid to curb flour price rise
Chicago readers learn that pending U S congressional bills aim to abolish grain futures trading and warehouse receipts used by Chicago Board of Trade speculators. Proponents say farmer gains come from open markets while critics warn of mill owner price control if futures vanish. Manitoba example cited.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Congress
Washington
Gore
Oklahoma
Davis
Arkansas
Culberson
Texas
Scott
Kansas
Macon
Ceipt
American Society of Equity
Manitoba
Canada
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
United States
Claims Oldest Resident In Jefferson County
Samuel Hildebrandt of Jefferson township asserts he is the county’s oldest resident by continuous residence. He has lived on his farm there for sixty nine years and has farmed since he was tall enough to handle a plow.
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Samuel Hildebrandt
Jefferson Township
Leap Year Bride Keeps Wedding With Rival In Connecticut
Miss Iva GL Rudd, deserted by her fiancé three days before their March wedding, wed rival Harold Church in Meriden Connecticut. The ceremony proceeded with readiness intact as Mrs. C A Rudd advised the groom on husbandly duties, and George L Stone received the bride.
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Meriden
Conn
Iva GL
Rudd
Miss Rudd
Harold Church
Trousseau
C. A. Rudd
Church
George L. Stone
Drunkenness as Disease and White Ribbon Remedy Offered
A public notice argues drunkenness as a disease and promotes White Ribbon Remedy Co. claims. It urges families to act, cites a June 1906 drug act listing, and offers a $1 treatment sample with an emphasis on cure and duty.
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White Ribbon Remedy Co
Boston
Mass
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Steet Heart
Thor
Oughly
U.S
Brtha Wood
Jacob Waldeck
Memphis
Nashville
la Follette
Knoxville
Bristol
Rome
Mision
Department of Agriculture
Grocers
Tower of Babel
Purity Campaign
Pei
Eeephpee
Board OF Trade Scared
Mr. Farmer
H. J. Heinz Company
Pittsburgh, Pa
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