Aldrich Bill Tabled Sparks Currency Conference Odds
Washington April 18 The house banking and currency committee voted unanimously to table the Aldrich financial bill and plan a hearing for Representative Vreeland of New York who introduced a substitute. The move aims to push currency legislation through conference between houses, with Vreeland’s bill potentially shaping the final measure.
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Minister A Death by Own Action in New Jersey
Newton April 18 head of Rev George W Thomson pastor of First church shot himself in his hotel room. He was to wed Mrs Fannie H Kenworthy a wealthy widow. A woman Miss Helen Moore threatened public denouncement and left town after a warning. Jury found death by pistol shot with temporary mental derangement.
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Army Assured of Higher Pay and Other Briefs
Washington reports an army pay increase is nearly assured, with Senate and House conferees aligning on the rise by service branch but barracks funding remains unsettled. Milwaukee notes a Japanese applicant to the marine corps attempted enlistment under a false identity. Denver describes a rapid wedding conducted with the officiating clergyman in bed due to injury. Barrisburg reports two unidentified men found dead near the city and a second body located in the mountains.
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Vreeland
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Roosevelt Seeks 375 Dollar Samoa Claims Payment
President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking an appropriation to cover the United States obligation to Sweden for the settlement of Samoan claims. The amount involved is $375.
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Goulds Separate as Mrs Gould Remains at Fifth Avenue Home
New York April 15 Frank J Gould youngest son of Jay Gould and his wife Miss Helen Kelly have parted. Mrs Gould stays at 21 Fifth Avenue while Mr Gould has apartments in the Plaza. Reports of a separation action could not be verified. They lived in the Plaza for months after a fire last fall then returned home. Miss Kelly, granddaughter of the late Eugene Kelly, married Gould at her home on West Thirty-second Street. Since then two children were born to them.
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Society Women Fight Fire At Rogers Residence
In Green Spring valley near Rogers Station three Baltimore society women Miss Mary Boyts Miss Fanny Boyts and Mildred Dulany carried water across a sloping roof to hold a blaze to a chimney. Towson and Pikesville fire companies arrived and extinguished the fire after the rear of the house was badly damaged. Nearby residents aided as the flames spread.
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Mary
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Towson
Pikesville
Roosevelt meets Tulsa club on Indian land sales
President Roosevelt receives Tulsa Oklahoma commercial club visitors at the White House. He notes the club favors removal of restrictions on selling Indian lands and promises help to ensure Indians get their rights. The scene includes a brass band and flaming banners.
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Nuggets of News Casual Tragedies Across Cities
Ernest Alarnes a nine year old in New Castle Pennsylvania dies from a gun wound inflicted by a companion during play. Dominico Bello a ten year old dies in New York rescuing his pet from a crashed large electric truck. Ellen Ambrose fifty five in Philadelphia suffers fatal burns when her clothing catches fire while burning rubbish. Homer B Carroll a long time horse dealer killed after a fall from an elevator shaft at the American Horse Exchange in New York.
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Homer B. Carroll
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American Horse Exchange
Trade Conditions Show Little Activity Increase
R G Dun & Co weekly review notes better retail distribution but no rise in forward demand or expanded manufacturing. Output cuts and wage reductions appear, textile plants hit, farm labor demand up, some export sales exist though foreign business remains weak. Pittsburg furnaces slight uptick, iron orders not rising. railroad signs of revival emerge on the New Haven system with freight and passenger receipts improving after a lengthy decline.
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Baseball scores and Wagner signs with Pirates
Yesterday in major leagues the National League results show New York routed Philadelphia 14 to 2, Brooklyn beat Boston 3 to 2, Chicago over Cincinnati 1 to 0, Pittsburg defeated St. Louis 3 to 0, while in the American League Athletics defeated New York 8 to 2 and Boston edged Washington 1 to 0 with Cleveland besting Detroit 12 to 8 in 12 innings. Pittsburg reports note Honus Wagner signed to play with the Pirates and is expected to be the shortstop in the Cincinnati game, with a widely believed $10,000 salary for the season.
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Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Dyspepsia Relief
A nineteenth century ad touts Pape's Diapepsin with a 22 gram triangle dose to relieve dyspepsia in five minutes. It claims rapid digestion, improved appetite, and avoids laxatives, urging readers to ask pharmacists to show the Ves formula on 50 cent cases.
Trenville Postoffice Suicides and York Lawyer Poisonings
In Trenville Virginia on April 1 J D Martin aged about forty shot himself in the postoffice building amid unspecified business troubles leaving a family. In York Pennsylvania on April 18 Harry Lehr aged forty, distressed by an upcoming lawsuit, swallowed poison and endured great agony, refusing medical help.
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Harry Lehr
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by Frederick Testimony
A Frederick resident Joseph IL King from 213 West Patrick Street testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his years of kidney trouble. He says relief came quickly after using the pills bought at C. E. Main's drug store and reaffirms the cure four years later. Sold by all dealers Foster-Milburn Co., sale agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's.
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Whar- No. 2 Red aise Steamer Rejected Fe to 8e
A fragment from a historical page notes a model or item labeled No 2 Red Steamer, with a rejection or sale notation Fe to 8e. The readable text is incomplete, offering limited context about the item's status or origin.
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