Roosevelt Aims for Progressive Nomination in Chicago Meeting
Oyster Bay July 4 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt remains a candidate for the Progressive party nomination despite Wilson's Baltimore nomination. Roosevelt’s statement argues for a new nationwide nonsectarian party to represent the people’s interests, linking Baltimore and Chicago events as justification.
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Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
Chicago
Rheumatism and Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotion
An advertisement claims rheumatism is constitutional and local treatments fail, urging Hood's Sarsaparilla as the purifying tonic. It promotes using Hood's Sarsaparilla in liquid or Sarsatabe chocolate tablets to correct the blood’s acid condition and strengthen the system.
Hair Combing Service by Mail in Oregon
Advertises mail in hair combings to be made into switches puff or pompadour for 1.50 dollars. Guarantees receipt of all own hair. References available. Write name and address plainly and send return postage to Ellen J. Roberts Milwaukee Clackamas County Oregon.
Progressive nominating call for social justice movement
A speaker pledges a broad conservative government policy to meet current economic needs and promote maximum commercial development at home and abroad. He notes plans to pursue the progressive nomination and discusses the call issued by the provisional committee for the Progressive National Convention with Senator Dixon.
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Dixon
Provisional Committee For
Progressive National Convention
Baroness de Reinach Werth Death Verdict
Coroner's jury rules the baroness formerly Diana Morgan Hill died by suicide while temporarily insane. She leaped from a hospital window near Regent's Park on June 21, fracturing her skull and dying soon after. She was married in Washington on December 6, 1911.
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de Reinach-Werth
London
de Reinach Werth
Diana Morgan Hill
Washington
Regent's Park
Girl Bathers Garb Hid Rupture Heroic Rescues
Mrs. Joseph Rains, a W. C. T. U. worker, stopped a pool bathing practice by removing a swimmer’s attire hung on a hickory limb. Maggie Thurston was involved in the incident and knew Mrs Rains from prior trouble. quarry workmen aided by bringing shirts and heavy shoes.
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St. Louis
Joseph Rains
Missing clothes prompt escape to quarry for refuge
A woman awoke to find her clothes missing from the neighborhood. Fearing a son might wander toward a pool, she waited an hour. A fisher’s net drying in the Sun prompted her to wrap herself and flee to a distant rock quarry. Foreign workers there offered shirts and hobnail shoes, which she accepted as the only aid.
Doorstep Baby Welcomed by Hopeful Parents in Missouri
Mr and Mrs George King of St Joseph Missouri awoke to an auto horn and saw two men drive away as they found a baby in a basket on their porch The infant cooed and gurgled The Kings wish to adopt the child saying they had longed for a child for years and the arrival seems an answer to their wish.
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St. Joseph
George King
Mia King
Largest sun spot observed exceeds North America in size
Pasadena reports a cool sun spot ten thousand miles across, a feature visible on a 17 inch image at Mount Wilson Observatory and photographed multiple times since it appeared last Tuesday. The spot covers about 78.54 million square miles, roughly ten times the area of North America.
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Earth
North America
Pasadena
Cal
Mount Wilson Observatory
Carnegie Observatory
Dysentery cured by Chamberlain's remedy
Dysentery is serious and dangerous yet curable. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has cured it even when malignant and epidemic. For sale by all dealers.
Pope Honors American to Be Bishop of Azotus
The Pope ratified the selection of the consistorial congregation naming the Right Rev. John J. McCort, vicar general of Philadelphia, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese with the title Bishop of Azotus. The move follows a Cardinal Da Lalap presentation.
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John MecCort
Azotus
Rome
Cardinal da Lal
John J. MecCort
Philadelphia
Axotus
Goulds Quit Railway Board in St Louis Iron Mountain
George J. Gould Frank Gould and Kingdon Gould with Edward D Adams Edward T Jeffrey R M Gallaway and gar L Marston resign from the board of directors of the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railway. They are succeeded by G A Dean C A Pratt C H Jackson J G Hallenbeck C E Carstarphen G W Housley and G H Wright all of Arkansas.
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New York
George J. Gould
Frank Gould
Kingdon Gould
Edward D. Adams
Eward T Jeffrey
R. M. Gallaway
Headless Woman Mystery In Woonsocket Auto Clue
The body of a headless woman pulled from the Blackstone River in Woonsocket remains unidentified. Police suspect an automobile aided the disposal with tracks leading to the river bank near the recovery site. Clues include a corset gloves handkerchief and an empty handbag near Manville cemetery.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Blackstone
Providence
Manville Cemetery
American surgeons to stamp out bubonic plague
American medical officers will direct efforts to stamp out bubonic plague in Porto Rico. Surgeons Jeffer son R. Kean Major Frederick F. tuszell and Lieut. Frederick H. For year, from U S Army Medical Corps, with Passed Assistant Surgeon R. H. Creel and Dr. Charles Williams of Boston arrived from New York. Sixteen deaths have occurred from bubonic in Porto Rico. Health certificates become compulsory for people leaving San Juan due to protests from Interior towns.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Jefferson R. Kean
Frederick F. Tuszell
Frederick H
Medical Corps
United States Army
R. H. Creel
Providence
Charles Williams
Boston
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
New York
Interior
Oklahoma City Plunger Putnam’s Rise and Fall in Real Estate
In Oklahoma City J M Putnam told jurors he never had ten million dollars and recounted how he started with eighty dollars, bought lots, then expanded to thousands of acres north west of the city. He railerly led a claim to move the capital to his land and faced later tax disputes over plush used in hats and apparel.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
J. M. Putnam
Abner Davis
Putnam
Guthrie
Safety Razor Makers Lose in DC Supreme Court
Washington. The District of Columbia supreme court ruled a retailer may set any price for a safety razor despite manufacturer stipulations. Justice Wright announced that the decision does not conflict with the patent monopoly ruling of the supreme court.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Wright
Supreme Court
Alaska Millionaire Dies at 45 in Seattle
John James Lesnon, who built wealth during Nome Alaska gold boom as head of a lighterage and contracting company, died in Seattle at age 45. He retired years ago and spent his time traveling the Pacific coast aboard a steam yacht.
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Seattle
John James Lesnon
Nome
Alaska
Pacific Coast
Governor Forbes III in East Philippine Breaks Down
Governor General William Cameron Forbes of the Philippines collapses from overwork and illness, confined to his home in the Islands after years of service. Physicians call the condition serious, noting the strain of extensive duties during his posting.
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Philippine
Tong
Troston
William Cameron Forbes
The
Philippines
Islands
Forbes
Denies Cupid Cut Rate in Michigan Justice Case
Grand Rapids Michigan Justice Harry L Creswell rejects a cut rate marriage service scheme. He refused a proposed $1 collaboration to perform the ceremony, saying no discount. The would be groom Charles Brown aged 17 from Gratiot county was involved with his bride to be.
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Michigan
Justice of the Peace
Grand Rapids
Mich
Harry L. Creswell
Charles Brown
Gratiot County
Former Newspaper Woman Nellie Bly Sentenced to Jail
New York, Nellie Bly once famed traveler and newspaper woman now head of Tronclad Manufacturing in Brooklyn was sentenced by Judge Mayer to 20 days in jail and a $3000 fine for contempt of court in a creditors inquiry tied to Tronclad bankruptcy. Attorneys for creditors sought to reveal that American Steel Barrel, another Seaman enterprise valued at $2,000,000, was a Tronclad subsidiary and Bly refused to produce barrel books, leading to the contempt ruling.
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New York
wNellie Bly
Mra
Elizabeth C. Seaman
Tronclad Manufacturing Company
Brooklyn
United States
Mayer
Seaman
Tronclad
American Steel Barrel Company
Rights of Woman's Hat Equal to Man's Tilt
Washington reports Assistant Secretary Curtis stated women’s rights in the treasury department and addressed discrimination in tariff act interpretations. Hatters’ plush used for mensallic hats is admitted at 10 percent duty, with other details unclear.
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Colectors
Customs
Mr. Curtis
Washington
Treasury Department
Curtis
United States
Brown Marries Salome Henry After Brief Court Visit
Salome Henry, 62, and Brown wed after a justice of the peace refused to tie the knot without legal funds or a minister. Henry had been married three times. Brown confessed two prior marriages. The couple left the office to arrange a minister as needed. The ad notes Chamberlain's Liniment for sore muscles and rheumatic pain, available from dealers.
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Been
Salome Henry
Brown
Henry
Penland Bros Auto Truck Fly Moving Service Ad
An advertisement for Penland Bros offering quick moving services in the city and country, specializing in furniture and plane moves. They promote short trips, hauling anything, and provide a contact phone number Main 339.
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Penland Bros
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