Notable Political Shifts and Legal Cases Across Nation
Herbert L. Satterlee was offered assistant secretary of the navy. Ned W. Barton pleaded guilty to four indictments for fraud in electric light patents and received a three-year sentence. Samuel B. Donnelly took the oath as public printer. Taft's aides shifted as Timothy L. Woodruff withdraws from Senate race in favor of Elihu Root after a Taft talk. Taft asserts teetotalism. Bryan escapes a bear incident near Chihuahua. Hitchcock named postmaster general. Coolidge resigns as minister to Nicaragua. Ray Lamphere convicted of arson in Gunness murders. Judge Richter imposes two to 21 years, $5,000 fine, disfranchisement. Christina Clark found guilty of second-degree manslaughter in Vermillion. Wilbur Carr jailed for life for murder of Marshal Nicholson in Gowrie.
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Herbert L. Satterlee
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Navy
Ned W. Barton
Patent Office
Samuel B. Donnelly
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee
Elihu Root
Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Chihuahua
Mex
Frank H. Hitchcock
John Gardner Coolidge
Nicaragua
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Richter
Vermillion
S. D
Christina Clark
Wilbur Carr
Marshal Thomas Nicholson
Gowrie
Fort Madison
Diverse 1900s News Digest of Disasters and Debates
Collisions sink two Japanese steamers off Chefoo with about 700 feared drowned, including many Americans and Europeans. The Duke of Abruzzi clashes over marriage objections with Miss Elkins. Pine Bluff faces flood threat prompting channel diversion study. Haiti unrest shakes Port au Prince as Gen Simon advances. Atlantic fleet sails from Manila to Colombo. U S Supreme Court voids Virginia two cent state business rate order. San Francisco police chief Biggey drowns near Alcatraz. Vanderbilt declared sane by sheriff jury. Davis Cup result: Wright and Alexander defeated in Melbourne. Olpe bank robbery nets $2000. St Jerome’s College wings burn in Berlin Ontario. $40,000 loss. St Louis women raise $21,874 for hospitals via Red Cross tags.
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Chefoo
China
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Simon
Manila
Colombo
Ceylon
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Circuit Court
Virginia
State Railroad Commission
Biggey
San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
Edward Ward Vanderbilt
Brooklyn
Mary Ann Scannell-Pepper- Vanderbilt
Wright
Alexander
Melbourne
Australia
Olpe State Bank
Olpe
Kan
St. Jerome's Catholic College
Berlin
Ont
St. Louis
Red Cross
Floods, mine blast deaths, and global headlines spread
The report covers West Guthrie flooding and 3000 homeless after two day rains and a catastrophic mine explosion in Marianna Pennsylvania killing at least 138. Other items note migrant detention, census costs, suicides, and legal cases, with international tensions and a fatal street murder in New York.
Rebels Victorious Delays Then Attack On Jacmel
Revolt leaders plan to strike Jacmel thirty miles southwest of Port au Prince before resuming toward the capital. General Antoine Simon commands revolutionary forces, Louis Borno resigns and seeks safety in the German legation. Government ministers resign except three, with desertions growing as US and other foreign vessels maneuver offshore. The Des Moines and Tacoma bolster foreign presence while other European ships near. The president resists diplomatic pressure to yield.
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Port Au Prince
Antoine Simon
Revolutionary Forces
Jacmel
Department
Des Moines
Tacoma
United States
Duguay Trouin
Scylla
Fieramosca
Missing SF Police Chief William J. Biggy Believed Lost at Sea
Search efforts across San Francisco Bay from the Golden Gate to Hunter's Point failed to locate Chief of Police William J. Biggy who vanished from the police launch Patrol shortly before midnight Monday while returning from Belvidere. Authorities fear the body was swept out to sea.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Hunter's Point
William J. Biggy
Belvidere
Prague Riots Enter Gravest Phase Amid Martial Law Threat
In Prague Bohemia race riots between Czechs and Germans worsen with dragoons deployed to quell streets. The British consul Captain A W W Forbes was severely mauled after being mistaken for a German as troops charged crowds.
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Prague
Bohemia
A. W. W. Forbes
Memphis hotel tragedy claims mother and daughter
Mrs. Nicholas P. Errington of Chicago was found dead in a Memphis hotel along with her 11-year-old daughter Theresa who died an hour later. The pair, tied to a sale company Cook Peterson and Goodwin, died from poisoning according to dispatches received Tuesday.
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Chicago
Nicholas P. Errington
Schiller Street
Cook, Peterson & Goodwin
Theresa
Memphis
Tenn
Dentist Ends Life at Wife's Grave in New York
Dr Randolph F Hass a Lexington Avenue dentist killed himself by swallowing poison while kneeling at his wife’s grave. He had long suffered melancholia after his wife died by suicide on an ill-omened Friday November 13.
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Self
New York
Randolph F. Hass
Lexington Avenue
Knox County Votes Dry in Countywide Election
Knox County Ohio went dry by 2 485 votes on Tuesday affecting twenty two saloons in the county.
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Knox County
Ohio
Columbus
Husbands of All Varieties in Common Life
A humorous feature from Suc cess Magazine catalogs husbands as a social product across the United States. It likens husbands to purchasable varieties, noting Crown brand as premier and describing traps, taming rituals, and the dynamic with wives. The piece satirically surveys domestic roles and market notions.
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United States of America
Crown
Success Magazine
Prince Imperial of France Saga in Zulu War Party
Maj Cary led a search through African bush to recover the body of the prince imperial of France after a fatal Zulu raid. Lieut Cary accompanied the expedition. 17 assagai wounds marked the prince’s death. A childhood abscess left a prophecy of a scar signaling courage.
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Maj. Cary
England
Prince Imperial
France
Lieut. Cary
Ellen Barlee
Corps of
Cary
Wigs and Hair Powder Through History
The article describes powdered wigs using starch and perfume, a fashion from the French court extended to English use and even colonial governors. It notes violet or iris tinting for dark or blonde hair, greased pomade to hold powder, a tax near $100,000 in England, and the rise in weight and cost of wigs. It mentions Cotton Mather condemning wigs as luxury and a belief wigs provoked baldness.
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Washington
Charles VX
England
Gov. Barefoot
New Hampshire
Mather
Old Salem Churches Unite Unite Two Ancient Baptist Factions
Salem's First Baptist Church and Central Baptist resolve to merge after decades of separation. First Baptist, organized December 24, 1804, began with 24 members. Central Baptist, 82 years old, formed by 32 members dismissed from the First. The merged church unites two long histories in Boston.
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Old Salem
Salem
First Baptist
Central Baptist
Boston Transcript
Electrically Seasoned Timber Promises Faster Aging
Timber is placed in a borax resin and soda solution in a large tank wired to an electric current. The current drives sap upward while the solution penetrates the wood, a process lasting seven to eight hours. The wood dries and becomes equivalent to five years of natural seasoning in days.
Woman Credits Pinkham Vegetable Compound For Recovery
Mrs A Gregory of Denver Colorado writes she was nearly invalid for six years due to female troubles and an operation proved worse. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports full recovery and urges other women with backache bearing down and periodic pains to try the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Gregory
Lawrence St
Denver
Col
Mrs. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham
An old promotional notice touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female illnesses. It claims the product has cured thousands of women with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Widower’s Moving Proposal Draws Four Children
A cook recounts a widower’s proposal that moved her, noting he arrived with his four children who knelt before her. The piece also notes church ordination services expanding beyond cathedrals and mentions several product advertisements from the period.
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Cook
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