Happenings Making History From Home and Abroad
A condensed weekly roundup notes key events including passage of an antielections campaign contributions bill and a Canadian reciprocity bill by the national House, pending impeachment talk in Michigan, military orders for border security, and various incidents from across the country. Leaders, disasters, and political shifts are highlighted with rapid-fire summaries.
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National House of Representatives
National House
Underwood
Committee On Ways and Means
Insurgents Reported Slain North of Chihuahua Mexico
Foreign forces say over forty insurrectos killed in battle between Sauz and Santa Clara canyons about fifty miles north of Chihuahua. Federals report five dead. civilians including women and children believed among the slain.
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Sauz
Santa Clara Canyon
Chihuahua
Mexico
Federals
Illinois News Terse Summary of Town Reports
Joliet reports Tony Augustine confessing to killing John McGovern, a Wilmington farmer. Mount Carmel notes a blooded dog dying after roaming without a muzzle. Bartonville and Belvidere record legal and missing-person cases, while Salem raises funds for water, and Galesburg reports a fatal horse-riding accident.
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Joliet
Tony Augustine
John McGovern
Wilmington
Mount Carmel
Bobby
Storckman
Bartonville
Stone
Galesburg
Alexis
Fred Donnelly
Mount Vernon
Howard Hick
Walton Kirk
Carlyle
Smith
Witt
Hillsboro
Ellis Bailey
Gillespie
Bailey
Benjamin Summerfield
Chicago
Andrew Buktus
United States Secret Service
Buktus
Springfield
Waryman
Zimmer
Cook County
Edward S. Gard
Supreme Court
Scanlan and Petit
Gard
Ruth Moore
Asa Dunning
Dr. B. Inskeep
Miss Moore
Dunning
Doctor Inskeep
Edward
Michael O’herron
Third Street
Dr. J. Inskeep
Fairfield
Rock Island
Clara Shults
Davenport
John Kinney
Twentieth Street
Third Avenue
Billbury Cafe
Spencer Square
Lawyer Clearem Earns Fee From Cleared Defendant
Rastus faced trial for stealing seven dollars and eighty five cents. He was unable to hire counsel, so Judge appointed Lawyer Clearem. Clearem defended vigorously and secured an acquittal. Outside the courtroom Clearem pressed for payment. Rastus admitted possessing the full seven dollars and eighty five cents.
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Rastus
Clearem
The Alarm of Eczema And Its Treatment
A lengthy note on eczema as a major skin disease cites widespread suffering and lack of heredity. It promotes hot baths with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as effective treatments and offers free samples and a pamphlet by mail to readers.
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Boston
His Destiny as a United States Senator
A dialogue contrasts a boy named Willie with a remark that he is a cry baby. The speaker contends Willie’s nature seems to fit a future United States senator, suggesting a humorous or satirical view of destiny and public life. The exchange implies ambition and flaring temperament as defining traits.
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New York
Kid” Morgan
United States
David Jayne Hill
Rochester
N. Y
Germany
Taft
Hill
Willie
Deaths From Wild Beasts In India 1908
Wildlife fatalities in 1908 India totaled 21 904 with snakes causing 19 788 deaths and other animals 686. Tigers killed 900 people, leopards 3 802, wolves 269, while 17 926 wild animals and 70 494 snakes were destroyed.
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India
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promoted in Letters
Baltimore mother praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing her daughter described as "Green Sickness" and restoring health after ineffective doctors. The company reports hundreds of grateful letters and urges young girls with painful or irregular periods to seek the remedy and write for advice.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E. Pinkham
L. A. Coreran
Rutland Street
MD. Y
Lydia EK
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Liberal Commission
Farmers & Merchants and
Land Dept
Northern Investment Company
Illiston
North Dakota
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mathew T. Scott
W. C. Story
Agua Prieta
Sixth Cavalry
Des Moines
Arizona
Grove Block
East Fourth Street
St. Paul
Minn
Osborn
Michigan
House
Marquette
James Russell
Prison Board of Control
Ralph A. Clarke
Brooklyn
James Davis
City of
Upper Broadway
Pacific Coast
Douglas, Ariz
Diaz
Francisco I. Madero, Jr
Curtis Guild, Jr
Massachusetts
Russia
W. W. Rockhill
Constantinople
Frederick D. Grant
A. W. Greeley
Macon County
Decatur
Melrose Park
Ill
Polo Grounds
New York Nationals
Adrian C. Joss
Addie
Cleveland American
Toledo, O
St. Louis
Burlington
Eshon R. van Valkenberg
Hillsdale, Mich
Cleveland
Alberta
British Columbia
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Alfonso
Ena
Madrid
Hetty Green
Col
BH. H. R. Green
New York City
Denman Thompson
West Swanzey
N. S
Thompson
Albert Clifford Barney
Christian Hemmick
Ronald Hemmick
Geneva
The
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Illinois News
Reetus
Grand Rapids Refrigerator CO
Clyde Pirk Avenue
Grand Rapids, M
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canada
C.J. Broughton
L &T
W. H. Rogers
Indianapolis
Geo
Hilwaukee
Wis
Direct Buyers’ Association
Dallas
Tex
Ait
Locker-Donshue Company
PAHO-1
Seryice
G. HH. Bowrrman
Anthony
Idaho
Calgary
Mackie Jock
Big Bow River
DIXIE
Ls.land Company
Triops
Florida
Vancouver Island
Hamos& Breokinysmith
Can
Per
Usaeh
Slackaburg
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