Notable Deaths Across Politics and Industry This Week
Col Moses C Wetmore longtime Democratic committee member and Bryan ally dies in St Louis after being struck by a horse and wagon. Michael Cudahy packing company president and pioneer dies in Chicago from double pneumonia after appendectomy. Robert Cook of Foster Ohio dies by house fire accident while walking in his sleep aged eighty three. Mrs John Lockwood Kipling dies in London. A young woman believed to be Ethel Clara Lenove boards the Majestic near Queenstown en route to New York. Wetmore described as Missouri financier and campaign manager in 1908.
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Moses C. Wetmore
National Democratic Committee
W. J. Bryan
St. Louis
Michael Cudahy
Cudahy Packing Company
Chicago
Robert Cook
Foster, C
John Lockwood Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
London
Ethel Clara Lenove
Majestic
Queenstown
New York
Missouri
Commission of Internal Revenue
Chihuahua
Mexico
Maderistas
United States
William Redmond
Cork
William O’brien
Robert Schiel
Christian Kohler
West Twentyfifth Street
Gertrude Goldstein
Brooklyn
Charles Matheus
Denova
Matheus
Loeb
Secretary of the Treasury
Providence
Octave Chanute
Chanute
Brazil
Congress
Taft
St. Paul Road
Michael Crowley
Young's
Winthrop Beach
Mass
John C. Deges
John C. Beggs, Jr
AFL chooses Atlanta for next annual meeting after suffrage vote
The American Federation of Labor closed its thirtieth annual convention in St. Louis and selected Atlanta as next year’s meeting site after unanimously endorsing woman suffrage. Officers were re-elected. A wave of global and domestic issues touched labor, politics, and foreign affairs across the report.
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American Federation of Labor
St. Louis
Atlanta
H. C. Barlow
Chicago Traffic Association
Washington
Brazil
Minas
Gereas
Sao Paola
Bahia
Floriana
Hermes Fonseca
Everett
Wash
Feldheim Company
Chicago
J. R. Whiting &Co
St. Clair, Mich
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
District Court of Appeals
Hitchcock
London
Ten minutes of tragedy in Newark fire disaster
In ten minutes 35 girls were burned alive or crushed to death on the sidewalks of a four story Newark factory. Fifty were injured, several probably fatally, as people leaped from windows and fire escapes in the blaze.
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Newark
N. J
Battling Nelson
San Fancisco
Owen Moran
England
Nelson
Lame Luttle
Illinois civil service lacks power to probe Pontiac fund drive
Springfield report shows Attorney General Stead holds the Illinois civil service commission cannot investigate alleged compulsory campaign contributions by the Pontiac state reformatory employer. The Illinois Civil Service Reform association pressed for probes into Pontiacs contributions and the state game warden's department.
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Springfield
Stead
Tllinois Civil Service Commission
State Reformatory
Pontiac
Illinois Civil Service Reform Association
State Civil Service Commission
Bloomington
Peoria County Grand Jury
Beardstown
Danville
Hoopeston
Carrollton
Hillview
Quincy
St. Francis
McLeansboro
Macedonia
Mendota
Christ. Rames
Rochelle and Southern Division
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Kaskaskia Commons
Taylorville
Arch Burtley
Flat Branch Bridge
Puquoin
IW United Mine Workers’ Organization
Southern
Illinois
John W. Jarrard
Johnston City
Abijah Huggins
Duquoin
George Doolin
Murphysboro
CG A Sullivan
Harrisburg
Louis Keowin
Eldorado
Philip Davis
Joseph Loftus
John W. Shadowen
Christopher
G. F. Posey
Ledford
George F. Wilson
Herrin
L G. Crain
Carterville
J. T. Morris
Sanitation in Schools Promotes Healthy Skin
A school health note urges using Resinol Soap at school and home to remove dust and germs from playgrounds, preventing contagious skin troubles and keeping complexions youthful. Resinol Ointment cures eczema acne rashes sores and blotches with few applications, with shaving sticks advised for faces.
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Resinol Chemjom Co
Baltimore
No Meat In Them Says Doctor And Speaker
Dr Emdee urges meat sparingly while Mr Joax claims to avoid meat entirely. The conversation references eating habits, noting a lunchroom ham sandwich as a minimal meal.
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Dr. Emdee
Mr. Joax
Doan's Kidney Pills Save Man From Bedbound State
Byron Bennette of East Liverpool Ohio recounts six months in bed with kidney trouble and severe swelling. He weighed 80 pounds and feared tuberculosis until Doan's Kidney Pills from FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo restored his health. he has remained free of kidney trouble for six years and endorses the product.
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Byron Bennette
St. Clair Ave
Liverpool
Dean
Doan
Doan’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
A Sure Cure
A mother plans to break Gwendoline’s attachment to a poor young man named Pen by proposing that she should marry him. The scene centers on a father's skepticism and the mother's calculated scheme to influence the daughter's choice.
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Gwendoline
The Will Case Sparks Family Dispute After Heir’s Death
The lawyers won as negotiations over Askitt Old Skinnerd’s estate conclude. Relatives challenged the will, but courts ultimately determined the heirs receive the remaining assets with no extra claims.
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Askitt
Old Skinnerd
Noitt
Not to the Wise Howell A word to the wise sufficient
Powell questions lengthy telephone speeches as a wise man responds. The terse exchange hints at debate over communication style and efficiency without detailing the broader context or outcomes.
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Howell
Powell
Union urged by Mrs Belmont at Colony luncheon
Mrs O H P Belmont urged women to unite for suffrage at a Colony Club luncheon in New York. She warned that disunity hinders progress, likening some women's attitudes to elderly belles at charity balls and stressing collective action.
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O. H. P. Belmont
Colony Club
New York
Wooter von Twiller
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Sup’t of Immiration
Ottawa
Canada
Broughton
L&t. Bidg
Ewing
B. L. Sedelmeter
Ewing, Mo
Qome
Texas
Gulf Coast
America
Provident
Provident Land Co
9Th & Walnut
Kansas City
Massouri
Julius
Woodward
Prince Albert
Sask
Georgia
Florida
Flowers-Parker Realty Co
Omasyville
Georgi
Manhattan Grant
Ities Astor
W. W. Hurt
Marion
Ferrguson National Realty Co
Fifth Ave
Kansas
Price
Wallace & Lardes
Yates Center
Tampa
Adams Scounty Land Company
Ritzville, Wash
Cleveland
Iso
Orient
Ilustrat
Hamburg-Americ Line
Broadway
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Emion
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