Patriots and wheat cornerers spark prices talk
Master Butchers' Association president Edward O'Neil ridicules wheat cornerers as patriots in Washington and Lincoln classes. A Pennsylvania lumber crew finds a Revolutionary era flintlock musket hidden in a hollow log near Shohola, tied to a 1779 battle site.
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Domesnic
Edward O'Neil
Master Butchers’ Association of
New York
Mr. O’neil
Lincoln
Europe
John Stockton
Stockton
Pennsylvania Lumber Company
Shohola
Pike County
Pennsylvania
Three Die and Dozens Hurt in Rock Island Wreck Near Trenton
A westbound California Special on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific derailed near Trenton Missouri killing three aboard including Fireman O P Lininger and injuring forty five others. The heavy engine and cars burned. cause unknown. speed high. bodies recovered.
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Rock Island and Pacific
Trenton
O. P. Lininger
Eldon
Iowa
W. S. Millington
William Flynn
Cudahy Packing Company
Kansas City
Shouder
J. Zorning
Davenport
Steve Howard
Alabama
C. E. Spooner
Dallas
Texas
J. C. Childers
Anderson
Ind
Nancy Hamershley
Letts
Julius Meddiesome
Boston
Mass
David Siegel
Cleveland
Ohio
Rock Island
Golden State Limited
California
Food Prices Under Scrutiny by Agriculture Secretary
Secretary Wilson announced that the Department of Agriculture will deploy agents nationwide to study production costs and returns for all major foods. He said figures will be compared with urban prices and released to the public to reveal truth behind high living costs.
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Flames Kill Seven Children in Coal Stove Fire at Sykesville
A fire caused by an overheated coal stove and a powder explosion destroyed the home of Stephen Bronosky in Sykesville Pa. Seven children aged 2 to 12 died, six from the Bronosky family and one by a boarder, while Mr and Mrs Bronosky and a boarder were seriously injured. Two robbers held up a Van Valley bank cashier in Arkansas and stole 2900 dollars.
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Stephen Bronosky
Sykesville
Bronosky
Ray Lamphere Dies While Pleading Innocence on Murder Farm
Ray Lamphere, 38, once charged in the Belle Gunness case and arson linked to the Laporte murder farm, died at Michigan City State Penitentiary of tuberculosis without making a confession. He had refused to reveal details about the ten victims buried on the property and had been employed as a field hand at the farm prior to the 1908 disappearances.
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Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
Laporte
State Penitentiary
Michigan City
Ind
Ralph Smith
Lamphere
Chicago
Ohio River Ice Bound Fears Flood Damage Looms
The Ohio River from Pittsburg to Cincinnati is closed to navigation as ice chokes the river likely for weeks. Rivermen report severe ice packs and fear heavy property losses before thaw. An ice gorge near New Martinsville west of Wheeling stretches miles, threatening bridges and shipments of coal delayed for holidays.
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Ohio River
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
New Martinsville
W. Va
Wheeling
Ohio
Tragic Santa Claus Tots Die In Fire At Home
In Santa Claus Indiana two young children aged around two and a half were burned to death in a bungalow blaze. Their mother Mrs. Fred Keller rushed back from the barn after a sudden worry for the girls and found the room filled with smoke and the children aflame near the stove. She dragged them to the door but the fire had already claimed them.
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Santa Claus
Ind
Fred Keller
Montreal Train Explosion at Place Viger Kills and Injures Dozens
A gas plant explosion on a Quebec train at Place Viger station in Montreal wounded over twenty people and feared to have many deaths. The platform crowd was crushed as debris buried numerous victims in the crowded terminal.
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Montreal
Place Viger
Canadian Pacific Railway
Quebec
Development of Central Canada and its farms take hold
The piece argues that Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta offered 160 acre parcels to settlers with yields of 20 to 30 bushels per acre wheat or 40 to 60 bushels if oats. It cites rail lines Gond Grand Trunk Pacific as proof of growth alongside schools churches towns and wealth from soil. It urges readers to consider Canada for settlement and note the shift in grain production toward the north.
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States
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Grand Trunk Pacific
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Central
United States
Bsup’t of Immigration
Ottawa
E. T. Holmes
Jackson St
St. Paul
Min
Suppressed History Tale About Archimedes Lever
A fragment recalls Archimedes claiming to move the Earth with a lever and fulcrum. A suffragette jeers that if impossible, women will do it. Historians and journalists of the era allegedly blue pent the story to remove the gag.
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Archimedes
London Mendicity Society warns beggars may be impostors
The chairman Robert Pierpont notes London streets may give £100,000 yearly in casual charity. In 1908 the society received 1,358 begging letters, with total on hand reaching 238,938. About 28 percent are impostors and 13 percent deserving of aid, reflecting historic concerns about beggar honesty.
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London
Robert Pierpont
London Mendicity Society
Society
Pierpont
Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
Reynolds
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims $100 Cure Guarantee
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. pledges $100 for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Advertisement notes internal use, claims it reaches blood and mucous surfaces, and directs to Toledo 0. Sold by druggists for 75c. Ends with dating line and a love quip.
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Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Fim
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Notary
Piles Cured At Home By New Absorption Method
Advertisements offer home cure for piles with a new absorption treatment and free trial samples. Claims include immediate relief and permanent care, with testimonials and requests for address in Notre Dame Indiana. Also promotes PAZO OINTMENT and other tonics with guarantees and prices.
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M. Summers
Notre Dame
Ind
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Tasa
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Indiana
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Washington Star
Yorkshire
London Daily News
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Lucas County
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