Week’s Important News Notes Highlighted In Briefs
Summary of political corruption claims a Muskogee hearing, Senator Gore involvement, and Creager dispute. Horace A. Taylor dies in Washington after illness. W R Michaelis drowns while trying to save daughter at Oquaga Lake. New York officer Ornstein claims eastern champion corn eater title. Brooklyn editor M W Smith erects a monument to his cat known for alerting a fire.
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Washington, D. C
W.R. Michaelis
Chicago Staats Zeitung
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Call For 1000 Special Policemen In Columbus During Street Strike
Mayor Marshall calls Columbus Ohio to provide 1,000 special policemen as riot duty shifts with the street bar strike. President Taft dedicates Provincetown Pilgrim Fathers monument with a large naval salute and notable attendees. Presidential figures and foreign diplomats participate in the ceremonies. Senator Gore accuses Jacob Hammon of offering a $25,000 bribe in an Indian land deal probe. Basque insurrection prompts government troops. Spanish Honduras faces widespread uprisings endangering American agricultural interests. Portland sailor arrest expected to vindicate John Devine in train wrecking case. West Hoboken fire kills four, including two children. Mildew cuts into Champagne vines in Reims. Kansas Progressives win big in primary with six of eight insurgent congressmen nominated.
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Navarre
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Portland
Ore
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Devine
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Rheims
France
Kansas
University of California president warns on tariff crisis
Benjamin Ide Wheeler in New York after a Germany visit warns tariff protection will soon worsen the trust problem in the United States. Ohio lawmakers meet at Cedar Point for their annual reunion. Browne faces trial over a $1,000 bribery charge in the Lorimer case. Chicago judge Kersten refuses to quash the Browne indictment. Basque and Carlist tensions in Spain calm after Weyler’s orders. Hayes birthplace burned in Delaware Ohio. McMurray named as a would-be briber in the Oklahoma land deal probe.
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Landlady Refuses Room to Wigson Over Singles Policy
A natural question scene shows Wigson asking for lodging and the landlady replying she cannot accommodate him, claiming she takes only single men. Wigson retorts about mistaken identification as twins.
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Wigson
Cuticura Cures Severe Eczema Says Va. Reader
A Virginia reader reports ten years of hand eczema clearing after using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent. She claims dramatic improvement by the third bottle and urges others with skin or blood diseases to try Cuticura. Her daughter’s hands also healed in two weeks.
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M. EB. Falin
Speers Ferry
It Was the Other Way
A senior partner rebukes drummer Mr Jones for keeping a side line fearing marriage will pull him from the road. The exchange reveals the firm’s rule against side ventures and the humor of domestic distraction.
Rubber plantation remark framed in rural bargaining
An assessor questions land size while a wary farmer disputes the figure. The farmer jokes that the land cannot be stretched like rubber, noting the tract seems far larger than 20 acres, reflecting a humorously wary exchange from Harper's Monthly.
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Reuben
Feller
Harper’s Monthly
Mushroom hunting alibi prompts family quarrel
A spat unfolds over a late dinner and a mushroom hunting outing. The wife accuses her husband of sneaking out with Augustus Jones, while he quips the mushrooms are in his vest pocket and claims they had fun hunting them. The exchange reveals tension and humor in domestic life.
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Augustus Jones
Gus
Dr Martel's Female Pills and Patent Remedies
An advertising clipping touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a seventeen year standard for women's ailments with quick permanent results and sale in drug stores. Also promoted are Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain.
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Dr. Pierce
Willy and the Funeral Whisky Tale
Dean Ramsay recalls a Strathspey anecdote in which a dying old woman orders “as much whisky” at her funeral as at baptism. Willy distributes whisky to mourners, slowing the procession to ten miles on a short November day. The coffin is left at a wayside inn and the funeral arrives nine days late at the grave.
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Dean Ramsay
Strathspey
Willy
Brrchyard
Allen's Foot-Ease Endures As Top Advertised Remedy
The piece argues that lasting merit and steady newspaper advertising keep Allen's Foot-Ease premier among foot powders for tired feet. It notes imitators lack reputation and warns readers to demand the advertised product, avoiding substitutes.
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Allen
Ahen
Wbubstitutes
Nobody Hurt on Toy Ride Plow Handles Warned
A Birmingham Age-Herald editor remarks no one is hurt on toy rides but notes many men have been kicked by a mule, quoting a western editor's line about danger in forest plow handling.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Marine Eye Salve for Styes and Eyelid Care Ad
An advertisement promotes Marine Eye Salve with trial size Asept ic tubes priced at 25c. It claims relief for red itching eyelids cysts styes and falling lashes while urging readers to contact Marine Eye Remedy Co in Chicago for more details.
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Marine Eye Remedy Ca
Chicago
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