KEWo Notes Of A Week Important Highlights
Postmaster General Hitchcock denies resigning from Taft's cabinet amid rumors of leaving public life. Senator Bailey ill in Washington with typhoid fever threatening his Senate participation on tariff votes. House Judiciary Committee seeks Justice Department ruling on whether electoral college size is 490 or 531 members. Taft condemns lynching in Howard University address calling for accountability of perpetrators.
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Bailey
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Senate
Department of Justice
United States
House Committee On Judiciary
Howard University
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Roosevelt Leads In Delegate Split For RNC
The article notes Theodore Roosevelt likely to win at least sixty seven of Pennsylvania’s seventy six Republican delegates. Wilson leads Democrats in Wisconsin with Taft and others close behind in various contests. Multiple accidents, political moves, and legal outcomes fill the summary.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Woodrow Wilson
Harmon
Notable Deaths and Civic Events Hit World Headlines
Foreign Henri Brisson dies at seventy seven. Clara Barton founder of the Red Cross passes away at ninety. Indian villages reportedly wiped out by Chiriqui peak eruption near Rocas del Toro. Patrick Proctor endows Princeton fellowship. Dora Keen sails toward Cordova to attempt Mount Blackburn ascent. Parliament sees Irish home rule bill introduced.
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Panama
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Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Glen Echo
U S Warns Mexico Over Treatment of American Prisoners
The United States warns the Mexican government and Gen. Pascual Orozco to protect American life and property and to treat prisoners humanely under international war rules. The note, issued through Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson and Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, states intervention is not desired and mails through Mexico remain contested.
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United States
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Mexico
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State Department
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico City
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Chihuahua
Wilson
General Orozco
James I. Long
Parral
Roosevelt Wins Pennsylvania Delegates Clash in Primary
Theodore Roosevelt leads a sweeping win in Pennsylvania where 55 of 64 district delegates join Roosevelt for Chicago. Penrose loses state delegates and control of the slate, with all large delegates expected to back Roosevelt. Taft faces weak county results while Wilson secures the Democratic state victory.
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Penrose
Chicago
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Cyclone kills three and injures over twenty in Missouri towns
A tornado struck Delassus and Knoblick and Farmington in St. Francois county killing three people and wounding more than twenty. Delassus was nearly wiped out, Knoblick suffered heavy damage and Farmington endured damaged buildings and livestock losses.
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Knoblick
Farmington
St. Francois County
Missouri
Delassus
Kknoblick
What He Wanted to Say
A teacher asks the class to name the king before Queen Victoria. One small pupil, Johnny, stands out as the only with an answer. Jim Misbin explains he was pricked by a pin while the others fail to know.
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Jim Mis
London Weekly Telegraph
Marine Eye Remedy offered as eye care serum
Marine Eye Remedy promotes quick relief for red weak and watery eyes and granulated eyelids. Each package includes an illustrated book and states it is compounded by ocalists not a patent medicine, marketed by Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago in bottles and tubes.
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roRgiste
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
The New Wife and a Button Joke
A light exchange between a husband and his new wife highlights a joke about his typewriter replacing a sewing button. The wife suggests the cook might help, while noting the husband married a machine rather than a person.
Paxtine Antiseptic Offered For Dental Hygiene
To keep artificial teeth and bridge work antiseptically clean and free from odors and disease germs Paxtine Antiseptic is unequaled. At druggists 25c a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by The Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass.
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Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Great Scott Maria A Daring Dress
A playful courtroom exchange features a judge remarking that a dress is daring yet fancy. The dialogue contrasts bold fashion with a call to stay close to fact in a light, quotable moment.
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Scott
Maria
Miscellaneous 19th Century Advertisements and Corrections
A collage of old ads promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for tired feet with a free sample offer, Lewis' Single Binder cigars, Garfield Tea claiming health benefits, PAZO OINTMENT for piles, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and miscellaneous quips about cooking and opinions. The items reflect period marketing tone and product claims.
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Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
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