Cuba election history and current drift in Havana
In Havana on September 24 Frederick Starr discusses Cuba’s presidential lineage from Palma to Gomez to Menocal, the indirect electoral system, party lines and foreign influence, and the looming 1916 contest between Menocal and the liberal candidate Zayas. He notes graft talk, military pressure, possible voter intimidation, and the power of Hevia and Gomez as kingmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Havana
Cuba
Thomas Estrada Palma
Republican
National
Palma
United States
Bartolome Maso
Maso
Jose Miguel Gomez
Gomez
Taft
Bacon
Congress
Charles Magoon
Cuba Libre
Alfredo Zayas
Eatament
Abellion
Dr. Zayas
Mario G. Menocal
Menocal
Cornell University
Hevia
Republic
Merocal
Las Tunas
Post
Liberal Party
Latin America
Zayas
Spain
Pinar del Rio
Friends of the
Latin-America
Estrada Palma
Gen. Loynaz del Castillo
Gen. Lovnaz
Central Park
Alaska Railroad Rebuild Aims to Mile 71 Completion
Seward Alaska Special reports large scale work on the Alaska Northern Railway with 525 workers and 64 station men rebuilding bridges widening fills improving alignment and lowering grades. 75 000 new ties laid and over 200 000 planned. Train traffic runs weekly and the line is near Mile 64 with Kern Creek Mile 71 target next spring. Work supervised by engineer R J Weir with rock construction along Turnagain Arm costing about 25000000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seward
Alaska
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Alaska Northern Railway
Placer River
Spencer Glacier
Kern Creek
Turnagain Arm
R. J. Weir
Weir
Glacier Creek
Foley Cathartic Tablets Advert: Digestive Relief Promise
A vintage advertisement urges readers to blame digestion for mood and to take Foley Cathartic Tablets for quick safe relief from sluggish bowels and foul-tasting, toxic buildup. It claims no griping or nausea and promotes general health, sold by druggists and distributed by Foley & Co. in Chicago via Miller & Arthur Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley & Co
Chicago
Dry cleaning at home craze declares solvent method
A downtown druggist touts home dry cleaning using two ounces of Solvite dissolved in two gallons of gasoline. Immersed items dry in moments with no fading or shrinking, suitable for silk waists dresses gloves laces woolens curtains and more. Drugstores sell Solvite and gasoline is readily available.
Army on Villas Heels as Cavalry Trails Villa South
Field reports detail how five American cavalry regiments chased Villa through Parral Guerrero Tomoche and Ojo Azules then withdrew after Parral. They fought four key engagements and tracked Villa toward Durango while sustaining heavy marches and shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Villa
Parral
Durango
Frank Tompkins
Santa Cruz
R. L. Howze
7Th Cavalry
Gen. Pershing
Satevo
W. C. Brown
10Th Cavalry
Col
H. T. Allen
11Th Cavalry
Tompkins
Howze
Sierra Madres
Columbus
Dodd
Guerrero
Tomoche
Howyze
Ojo Azules
Carrizal
Culberson
Coloma Dublan
Mormon Lakes
Dublan
Namiquipa
San Geronimo
Lake Itascate
San Antonio
Chihuahua
Villistas
el Valle
Colonia Dublan
Colonia Dublan With Gen. Pershing
San Miguel
Tomache
Las Cruces
Nainiquipa
el Rubio
Local Social Notes from Adams Illinois Several Quincey Visits
Miss Lizzie Stautermin of Burton and Mrs. Specht and daughter of Quincy visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boyer. Mrs. E. W. Grumiman returned home from Quincy after visiting relatives. Roy Bennett of Quincy visited his mother. Frank Thierly of near Tolbert’s spent Sunday with his brother Dick Lierly. Barbara Kauffman and daughter Mary visited Quincy relatives. A number attended the Hound-up in Quincy. Harvey Enlow left for Bancroft Nebraska for work. Wilbur Thompson of Quincy spent Sunday with Flora Bennett. Walter Wells was a business caller in Quincy. Supervisor Jamey Cook returned from Champaign. Albert Boyer moved onto the Charles Geisel farm west of town. William Wells visited home after a country tour about the bond issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Hall
Payson
L. A. Hall
W. B. Grove
North Side Club
Charles Blood
Caney, Kan
Molise Hutchins
Cameron
Isaac Cutter
Chicago
Masonic Grand Lodge
Samuel Curry
Krank Roberts
William Grove
Foster
Curry
Hazel Hart
Bessie Bates
Quincy
J. Wi. Rice
Newton Booth
Harold Rainier
George Gabriel
J. D. Rainier
Henry Getts
Daniel Hunsaker
Ilinois Street
Claude Cannon
China
James Hart
Arthur Boger
Alf Roberts
Council Bluffs
Monroe Adams
William Maley
Charles Geisel
William Wells
Miss Marie Cummings Improves After Hospital Stay
In La Prairie Illinois Miss Marie Cummings is improving after returning from a hospital in Macomb. Mrs Coates is remodeling and raising her house and Fio will move in when finished. Also noted are visits, trips to Quincy, and local social and business mentions from the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huce Herron
Herman Duden
Quincy
Harry White
Sushnell
Irrank Meyers
Familly
Deus
Golden
George Thaen
Clarence Ift
Ed Howard
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Camp Palint
Luther Lester
Miss Oasie
Fred Rossa
Macomb
Emma South
Graham Sros
Willie Hill
Port Satterfield
Plymouth
Frank Lancaster
White
John Covert
Near Loraine
Villager Recounts Napoleons Visit in 1812
In Volhynia a villager of Karpilovka, aged 113, recalls seeing Napoleon on his way to Moscow in 1812. The witness, now in good health, says he saw the great French emperor at age nine, having spent his life in a marshy, unhealthy district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Zet
Volhynia
Karpilovka
Napoleon
Moscow
U Boat Raid Echoes Tacony Naval Raid Past
The U-33 cruise memory recalls 1863 Tacony actions along the Atlantic coast by Confederate Lt. C W Read. Read captured ships near Cape Henry then burned and scuttled vessels as he raided toward Portland Maine. The 1863 Florida and Clarence episodes show Read’s early raids and bold boarding of the Tacony, with ships burned or captured before his surrender near Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tacony
C. W. Read
Atlantic
Read
Portland
Nantucket
Liverpool
Flori
Cape St. Roque
Brazil
Clarence
Florida
J. N. Moffitt
Moffitt
Hampton Roads
Fortress Monroe
Baltimore
Moffit
Carolina
Fort Monroe
Cape Henry
Chesapeake
Philadelphia
Gates
Cape Charles
I A
Nanty Shoals
Georges Hank
Europe
Boston
Schower Archer
Maine
Caleb Cushing
Cushing
Diplomats Seek Help in Sweden Over War Passport Issues
In Stockholm American minister Ira Nelson Morris and Sweden host multiple diplomatic groups from Germany, Austria Hungary, and Turkey amid Romania's entry into war. Romanian diplomats in Berlin Vienna and Constantinople also aid Sweden, with over a hundred envoys and suites present seeking Morris's good offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Speci
Ira Nelson Morris
Diplor
Romania
Germany
Iria
Turkey
Rumania
Morris
Lega Rumanian
Berlin
U Na
Constantinople
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Endorsed by New Jersey Woman
Mrs Evlyn Vander Sande of Paterson New Jersey praises Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for relieving tiredness back pain and breath issues urging other women to try the remedies and contact the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential free advice and literature
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N.J
Lydia E.pinkham
Lydia E. Pi
Lydia
Pinkham
Marti
Evsm Vander Sande
Godwin Street
Person
N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Aaska Railroad
Red
DR. Welsch
Hampshire St
Ell
ARMY
Villas
Quarry
Washington
Camp Point, Ill
Chase
Th Street
Philadelphis
Atlantic Coast
U. S
Harbor
Salko
Reed
Quincy National Bank
Quincy, Ml
Tbs
Nuff
Knollenberg Milling CO
8Th & York Sts
Quincy, Ill
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