World News Clippings From Seven Days Of Marginal Items
A collage of national notes covers tariff talk in Congress, Taft arbitration on Panama tolls, and calls to reform move through the Democratic tariff reform. Taft delays Panama governorship, pardons a convicted land fraud lawyer, and a new railroad classification faces an ICC probe. Navy wirelessTower in Arlington reports Eiffel signal. Russia treaty lapses. New Year reception draws 7,000. Jewelry store theft ends with no loot. miners trapped underground. court rulings on dynamite conspirators and gas pricing. brick samples shipped nationwide by parcel post.
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Congress
House Ways and Medeans
Ita
Taft
England
United States
Panama Canal
Great Britain
Burdau
Godhaly
Panama Canal Zone
Hamilton HH. Trendricks
Oregon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Navy Department
Arlington
Eiffel
Paris
Russia
White House
Chicago
Ao Mine
Joplin
Anderson
Indianapolis
United States Court of Appeals
Sheridan
G. O. Morixon
Boise Capitol News
Ella Brown
Keifer
New Orleans
Mobile
German Field Marshal von Schileffen Dies at 80 in Berlin
Foreign affairs note reports Field Marshal Alred von Schileffen of the German army has died in Berlin at age 80. The Balkan allies present an ultimatum to Turkey at the London peace conference. A massive theft from the king's treasure at Copenhagen involves rare books and art. After protracted diplomacy the Turks capitulate to the Balkan allies at London, ceding most of the Ottoman empire’s European territories except Adrianople and the approaches to Constantinople. In Fernie British Columbia a snow slide buries fifteen men in a carpenter shop during a winter disaster.
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Matshal
Alred von Schileffen
Berlin
Turkey
London
Copenhagen
Adrianople
Constantinople
Fernie
Hritlkh Columba
Funeral of Whitelaw Reid Held at St John the Divine
The funeral of Whitelaw Reid former ambassador to Great Britain took place at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York with President Taft and many diplomats in attendance.
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Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
St. John the Divine
New York
Taft
Diplomatic Corpu
Edward Conley
William Conley
Ozark County
Minnie Keown
James McCracken
Macon
Point of Rocks
San Diego
Cal
Chorna Geiria
Detroit
Northern
Scott City
Kan
Those Peruna Testimonials How Are They Obtained
The writer cites thousands of unsolicited testimonials claiming Peruna relieves chronic catarrh after other treatments fail. He opposes partisan board control over therapeutic claims, supports investigation if false, and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Allee Bogle about Peruna aiding her catarrh, noting Peruna is sold in drug stores. RUNA ALMANAC FOR 1913.
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Allee Bogle
Clinton St
Circleville
Ohio
Peruna
Geography of Liquor Reflects Mayor Gaynor’s Reform Views
Mayor Gaynor defends uniform liquor reform in New York, arguing against separate laws for rich and poor. He says gambling in elite clubs is as bad as in crowded joints and compares champagne intoxication to ale intoxication, urging consistency in city governance.
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Gaynor
New York
Fifth Avenue
Third Avenue
Judge Cured by Kidney Pills After Long Heart Trouble
A 63 year old probate judge from Cimarron Kansas credits Dodds Kidney Pills with ending six years of heart trouble and palpitations after a year of use. He reports improved breathing, no return of symptoms, and a healthy weight of about 200 pounds. He invites correspondence and publishes the testimonial for the Dodds Medicine Co. Advertising copy remains concise and testimonial in tone.
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Dodds
Gray Co
Philip Miller
Cimarron
Kan
Judge Miller
Dodda Kidney Pills
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
Ady
Spokane man 79 falls from roof in Missouri incident
Joplin Missouri reports 79 year old Personsi. T. R. McCurn of Spokane Washington fell from a roof while trying to recover a rag doll for his granddaughter. He may die from injuries. In other naval news Rear Admiral Badger succeeds Osterhaus as Atlantic Fleet commander. White House dinner planned for Mrs. Grover Cleveland and fiancé Professor Preston. Humorist George Ade unconscious after slipping on an invalid sidewalk in Lafayette Indiana.
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T. R. McCurn
Spokane
Wash
Joplin
Badger
Osterhaus
Atlantic
Grover Cleveland
Professor Preston
Taft
White House
George Ade
Wiso
Lafayette
Ind
Candlemaker Theory Sparks Witty Verse Exchange
A quip about a candlemaker blending extremes appears in a humorous exchange. The line suggests a widowed man’s heart in the grave as a favorite married women’s theory, while noting solitaire as a stepping stone to matrimony.
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TRE
Mansfield
Missouri
Washington
Foreign Affairs
Hartman, M. D
Personsi
M. J. Bateman
Viola Street
Resinol Chem. Co
Baltimore
Allen
le Roy
N. Y
Mpson Borasci
Troy
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