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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
2
Numerous global and domestic items occupy the week’s pages. Key events include finance and crime reports from Atlantic City and Springfield, Persian amnesty and Teheran unrest, Roosevelt family honors, Taft and Taft-Washington interactions, and assorted accidents, elections, and disasters from Duluth to Dayton.
Seven killed and more than 60 injured as a tornado devastates Clinton Minnesota. Pukwana South Dakota nearly wiped out with no casualties. Mrs Julius Krueger and three children die in Milwaukee fire. Mannie Fisher and Miss Anna Taylor drown near St Joseph Missouri. Mexican troops rush to Tampico area as rebels seize Matamoros. Fire in Ionia Michigan destroys depots and a church. A shooting near Huntsville Missouri ends in homicide. Train wreck at Lofty Pennsylvania injures passengers. Kentucky reports first night rider conviction in Renton with Dr E Champion jailed for one year.
Princeton notes a simple private funeral for Grover Cleveland with no eulogy or sermon. Attended by Roosevelt and governors as friends, pallbearers include George B. McClellan and Paul Morton. Guards guard Westland streets as family and dignitaries observe a restrained service. World-wide tributes followed, ships firing 13 guns at dawn and 45 at sunset. In Panama Panamanian municipal elections favor Obaldia amid calm counts.
The Democratic state convention in Burlington adjourned after a lively session. Delegates to the Denver national convention were chosen and a resolution to instruct delegates to vote for William Jennings Bryan was tabled by 198 to 37.
After twenty five years of unsuccessful treatment and a doctor urging amputation, Mrs. J. B. Renaud used Cuticura Remedies. Swelling subsided after two treatments, new skin formed, and she remained cured for seven years. She credits Cuticura with saving her life. Montreal Quebec February 20 1907.
A stray story jokes about a man with eye trouble reading double who ends up reading gas meters for a living after the gas company hires him. The tale closes with a wry line about perseverance and a cigar promotion from Lewis'.
Across communities women report relief from distressing female ailments using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts houses over a million letters from women attesting cures, claiming avoidance of surgical operations and noting the preparation is made from roots and herbs without drugs.
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