Judge on Nile voyage predicts US will regulate trusts
Judge Peter S Grosscup aboard the Cronin declares the United States will move to regulate trusts rather than exterminate them during a three month Nile vacation. The report lists many other notes from the era, including deaths and political updates.
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Peter S. Grosscup
Chicago
New York
Cronin
Nile
United States
Earl
Countess Granard
Beatrice Mills
Ogden Mills
Neil Burgess
New York City
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
South Carolina
E. F. Pickford
Simeon W. Stevens
Gardner
Mass
Franklin Pierce
Col. Roosevelt
Gondokoro
Sudan
Kariba
Henry S. Haskins
Lathrop, Haskins & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Wilbur Wright
Montgomery
Ala
Benedict Arnold
Joseph Willard
Boston
Santiago
Chile
Timothy Sullivan
Dig Tim
Leonard Wood
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Henry W. Lynch
Peoria
Ill
Taft
Peter Francis Curran
Jarrow
Durham
London
Senate ratifies income tax amendment for Congress power
The South Carolina senate completed ratification for a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to levy an income tax without apportionment. In the Pinchot inquiry, Louis R. Gravis admitted no fraud evidence had been presented before Ballinger left office in March 1908. George Stephens killed three of his children and a nurse then took his own life in Birmingham. Eleven miners’ bodies were recovered at Cherry St. Paul coal mine after being entombed since 1909, found largely mummified.
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South Carolina
Senate
Congress
Chouse
Louis R. Gravis
Ballinger
George Stephens
Birmingham
Ala
St. Paul
Cherry
Annual Crash in Kitchen Sparks New Year's Resolution Joke
In a playful domestic vignette, a child asks if the breaking dishes are a cat, while the mother clarifies the culprit is the father breaking his New Year's resolutions. The scene captures family humor around January customs.
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Willie
Those Luxuries Needed for the Poor Says Providence Journal
The Providence Journal argues that people of small means retain a moral right to modest luxuries and recreations. rapid price increases should not erase simple pleasures that brighten daily labor. It contends that a harsh world would result if only bare subsistence were possible and urges consideration of nonessential comforts.
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Providence Journal
Does He Love Anybody
Quote from the Boston Post contrasts Moltke and Kitchener noting Moltke’s affection for his wife while praising his military ambitions, and portraying Kitchener as a machine man who loves neither man nor woman with a stark image of his impact on soldiers.
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von Moltke
Denmark
Kitchener
Boston Post
The Peanut Shells Story and Post War of Labor
An editorial in The American Journal of Clinical Medicine defends C. W. Post of Battle Creek against anti union campaigns. It condemns false rumors about peanut shells in transit, supports Post against labor unions, and urges personal loyalty to Postum and Grape Nuts as a stand against graft and intimidation.
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C. W. Post
Battle Creek
Michigan
Post
Labor Trust
Postum
John Fitzgerald
Chisago Federation of Labor
Fitzgerald
American Journal of Clinical Afedicine
Oatmeal Praised As Top Food For Brain And Strength
A magazine article ranks foods for building brain and muscle, with oatmeal leading the list. Quaker Oats is highlighted for flavor purity and desirability, urging Americans to eat more for healthier, stronger bodies.
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Great
Britain
Europe
Americans
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted As Blood Remedy
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a internal treatment for catarrh, claiming it cleanses the blood and mucous surfaces. It cites a Toledo company, F. J. Cheney & Co., and notes the 75 cent price through druggists. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and includes unrelated jokes and a telepathy joke section.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drugeists
The Apology of Adam and the Duty to Do Right
A satirical snippet recalls Adam blaming Eve for the fall with the claim there wasn’t any tariff. It quips that doing one’s duty, though commonplace, represents life’s highest ideal, and ends with a dog’s bark lasting longer than its bite.
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Adam
Nerewith
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
Baltimore reader testimonials claim Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of irregularities nervousness and digestive distress. The ad extols widespread success in treating female ailments and invites readers to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Baltimore
W. S. Ford
W. Franklin St
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Stephen B. Elkins
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