Health for mother and child through one woman’s care
A Vermont reader details how Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription aided her during pregnancy. She describes weakness, bloating, and pain, then relief after twelve bottles, leading to a short confinement and a healthy baby boy. The ad promotes The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser and requests stamps for mailing the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Kidder
Hill Dale Farm
Enosburg Center
Enosburg
Doctor Pierce
The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
Y. Pierce
Buffalo, N. V
Explosion at Hamilton Powder Works Kills Twelve in Canada
A massive blast at Hamilton Powder Company's Departure Bay plant near Nanaimo B C killed twelve men including George Simonetta James Fulford and ten Chinese workers. One body was recovered and others were blown to fragments. The guncotton storage house exploded triggering the drying house blast felt miles away. James Preston survived miraculously after keeping his machinery running amid the concussion. Authorities cannot determine a cause. In Washington a hazing investigation of Midshipman Pearson will likely end without further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Powder Co
Nanaimo
B. C
Hamilton Powder Company
Departure Bay
George ‘Simonetta
James Fulford
James Preston
Washington
Pearson
Anmapolis
navy department
Brown
naval academy
Derling
navy
WEEK'S RECORD IN THE COURTS FOR JANUARY 14 1903
Transfers of real estate and marriages issued in Circuit and Orphans' Courts. Property deeds list numerous grantees including Ostherine Davidson George W. Davidson and Annie Eby with varying sums. Marriage licenses include Nelson D Scott with Georgie Henderson and others across Frederick Thurmont Lewistown and surrounding areas. Also noted are executors administrators estates and probate actions with names such as Randolph Dorsey and Dr J G Troxill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit and Orphans’ Courts
Ostherine Davidson
George W. Davidson
Annie
Eby
George A. Shank
J. Olarence Wilbide
Myersville
James M. Rice
John D. Biddinger
New London
James
Harbaugh
John M. Stonter
J O. Ward
Mollie Corder
coanty
Mary A
Coarles H. Misner
John F. Misner
Anarles Misner
James O. Harbaugh
John Miller
Josephine Pryor
Carmenius Pryor
Meiguaries Lantz
Georges C. Alexander
MAEREIAGE
Nelson D. Scott
Georgie M. Henderson
Frederick
Wiliam J. Burke
Effie M. Anders
Thurmont
Everett O. Green
Lewistown
Stella May Wachter
Utica Mills
Joseph R.Smallwooi
Knoxville
Maggie Weadon
Adamstown
Charles N. Trundle
Peteraville
Mary M. Outler
Feagaville
Lewis M. Hildebrand
Lena G. Hildebrand
Gourt
Lena C. Hildebrand
Phoeba State
Randolph Dorsey
Ordelis O. Dorsey
Anastasia Sheahan
J. G. Troxill
George C. Castile
Feerdisn
Eye
Harry Castle
Recognition of Union Defends Coal and Iron Police
Philadelphia testimony in the Coal Strike Commission centers on union recognition as a core issue. General Superintendent May argues the union reduces efficiency and discipline, defends coal and iron police, and cites terrorism as halting mining progress. Witnesses describe wage views and labor-to-output restrictions under the miners' leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May
Mitchell
Philadelphia
Erie Company
United Mine Workers of America
aga re
Darrows
Mr. Darrow
Mr. Mitchell
Clark
Mr. May
Samuel J. Jennings
Forest City
George Maxey
Maxey
Miners and Operators Draft Bill on Child Labor
Lawyers for coal operators and miners drafting a bill in Philadelphia to limit ages for workers in mines breakers mills and factories. Current draft would raise mine work age from 14 to 16 and breaker work from 12 to 14 and factory work from 13 to 14. Night work for females banned from 9 PM to 7 AM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Detroit to Sell Coal by Yard Prices for City Purchase
Detroit municipal cost commission starts coal sales at Lindeman yard delivering per ton five dollars with half ton and smaller quantities at scaled prices. Dealers ask six fifty, while Milwaukee reports 10,000 tons idle in Lehigh Valley yards amid famine fears and price concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Milwaukee
municipal cost commission of
Lindeman
Jackson Hill
Toledo
common council
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Stole coal to keep warm in Lancaster
Alfred Himmelsberger, arrested for stealing coal from a Pennsylvania Railroad line north of Lancaster, was discharged after claiming he could not buy coal for his family. Railroad officers dropped charges, saying they did not wish to prosecute in his difficulty. Coal theft Bordes the city as a coal famine deepens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Alfred Himmelsberger
eary
Pennsylvania Railroad
Himmelsberger
Coal combine suits target six major Ohio coal firms
Ohio governor faces six antitrust suits filed by former Attorney General Sheets to revoke charters of The New Pittsburg Coal Company Sunday Creek General Hocking Fuel Congo Interstate and Hocking Coal and Iron. Suit alleges price discrimination in favor of Columbus and against other Ohio cities citing coal sold about a dollar and a quarter cheaper in Columbus. In Pennsylvania output records, Wilkes Barre reports new high coal production and faster rail movement from a single breaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Columbus
Nash
Atformer General Sheets
Supreme Court
Hocking Coal and Iron Company
Sugar Magnate Condemns Roosevelt at Annual Meeting
At Jersey City January 15 the American Sugar Refining Company annual meeting featured H S Havemeyer’s veiled criticisms of President Roosevelt and anti trust legislation. He praised New Jersey Governor Murphy and a stockholder demanded higher dividends while three directors were reelected. No change in company control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Jersey City
N. J
American Sugarefining Company
H. S. Havemeyer
Washington
Havemeyer
Murphy
New Jersey
Sugar Trust
Standard Oil
H. Havemeyer
Arthur Donner
John Meyer
Democratic Pressures on Delaware Senate Seats Explored
In Dover on January 15, Democratic legislators met in the State Capitol and signed a shared address urging six Republicans to unite with twenty-one Democrats. They propose a four year longer term for a Republican aligned against Addicksism and a two year shorter term if the coalition acts by the January 21 ballot, else the offer ends. The missive cites corrupt politics as the broader motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Dover
Dek
State Capitol
Reed Smoot Nominated by Utah Republicans for Senate
At a Republican caucus in Salt Lake City Reed Smoot of Provo an apostle in the Mormon church was chosen as the party’s nominee for United States senator to succeed J L Rawlins. The nomination is tantamount to election as Rawlins term ends next May. Smoot, born in Salt Lake City in 1868, has served on the Mormon church’s Council of Twelve Apostles and is married with five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed Smoot
Salt Lak City
Provo
United States
Joseph L. Raw
Salt Lake
council of 12 apostles
Mormon church
Locomotive firms unite in Scotland with $10,000,600 capital
Crown Prince Frederick William leaves Berlin for St Petersburg to visit the Czar. Governor Jefferson Davis of Arkansas begins a second term after inauguration. Pennsylvania’s Superior Court opens its Scranton session with four of seven judges present. Congressman Sulzer of New York introduces a $50,900 DIN appropriation for a Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in Washington.
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Scotland
Frederick William
Germany
Berlin
Petersburg
Jeferson Davis
Arkansas
superior court of Pennsylvania
Scranton
Congressman Sulzer
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Washington
House Votes Unanimously to Rebate Coal Duties
Washington reports that the Ways and Means Committee bill to rebate coal duties for one year passed the House by 258 to 6 amid coal state opposition over Chinese mined coal. Senate quickly approved the bill, with Tillman delivering a lengthy, pointed speech criticizing monopolies and governmental inaction on protections for the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillman
Senate
Washington
ways and means committee
house
Cushman and Jones
Gaines
West Virginia
Mondell
Wyoming
Patterson
Pennsylvania
Canada
Dalzell
Payne
New York
congress
Dal+zell
United States
China
Aldrich
Mr. Tillman
Congress Seizemines Mr Jenkins Radical Resolution in House
Washington January 15 Representative Jenkins of Wisconsin introduced a radical resolution directing the judiciary committee to investigate and report whether Congress has power to declare a necessity to seize all coal coal beds and mines plus transportation lines and devices for coal commerce and to report a measure exhaustively detailing occasions modes and agencies for appropriation. The committee on rules will handle the resolution with Republicans opposed to its radical character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkins
House
Washington
Wisconsin
judiciary committee
committee of the judiciary
congress
United States
committee on
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COAL AND IRON POLICE
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