News of a Week in Condensed Form
Taft attends cornerstone ceremony for Ingram Congregational church in Washington. Rockefeller donates 10,000,000 to General Education Board, totaling 42,000,000. Joyner elected president of National Educational Association at Denver. Burke elected president of the Missouri River Navigation congress. Rockefeller marks 70th birthday with golf. Officials restricted to carriages. canal commission economy edict issued. Richardson resigns as secretary of the American legation at Copenhagen.
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John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Princess Victoria
Reid
Dorchester House
James Yadkin Joyner
North Carolina
National Educational Association
Denver
John Burke
North Dakota
Missouri River Navigation Congress
Gosthals
Canal Commission
Isthmus
Charles Richardson
Copenhagen
United States
Rebels Triumph as Persian Forces Clash Near Teheran
Reported battle near Teheran ends in a revolutionist victory with 159 shah troops slain. The text also notes the Glidden tour starting in Detroit toward Kansas City via Minneapolis and Denver, and various other 1909 events including legal hearings, a dentist’s chair death, a large U.S. crop forecast, and notable local incidents.
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Teheran
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Denver
Detroit
Harry K. Thaw
Justice Mills
Supreme Court
White Plains
N. Y
Lawrence Marshall Byers
Des Moines
Garrison
Lincoln Park Institutional Baptist Church
Cincinnati
Temple
Louis Abernathy
United States
John Abernathy
Col Roosevelt
Guthrie
Okla
Charleston
Tornado Deaths Reported in Ortonville Massacre
Philip De Gris and six Italian railroad laborers perished when a tornado hit Ortonville Minnesota. The article notes a string of diverse world events including zoo expansions in New York and political upheavals in Latin America.
Wind storms rage perils ships passengers
Severe wind and storm activity across the Midwest and Mississippi Valley injures and damages property. A tornado at Fithian near Danville wrecks stores and damages infrastructure. lightning kills Will Strube and a hired man, and two Quayle sons die harvesting. In St Louis and Alton, 300 passengers face danger as a river excursion steamer meets rough winds and a bridge pier. A Seven Mile Station funeral procession is struck by wind, with carriages overturned and occupants injured.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Iowa
Missouri
Indiana
Ohio
Louisville
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dubuque
Cleveland
Fithian
Danville
Mahomet
St. Louis
Alton
Mississippi River
Ill
Venice
Hamilton
Butler County
Seven Mile Station
Sarah Lloyd
Repeats Snell Prayer Opens Clinton Will Case
The Bloomington session featured Col Tom Snell's sole public prayer recounted by Judge Fred Hill, with the jurist on the stand during the Clinton will case proceedings. A newly found Washington letter by Florence expresses long distance longing and a missed delivery of a seal sack.
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Bloomington
Tom Snell
Fred Hill
Snell
Clinton
Washington
Florence
Banker Slain by Doctor in Crescent City Scandal
Sayler, vice president of the First National Bank of Crescent City, was shot at his home by Dr. W. R. Miller, a local physician. The murder is linked to a two year scandal involving the banker’s wife. Miller has been arrested and detained in Watseka jail.
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Philip de Gris
Italan
Ortonville
Minn
Europe
Bronx Zoo
New York
Santander
Spain
Castro
Venezuela
Gomez
Thomas L. Lewis
St. Louis
Kansas
John R. Early
Washington
Asquith
Christian G. Johnson
San Francisco
John Madson
United States
Taft
Diaz
Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Col. Snell
Clinton
Supreme Court
Milwaukee
Edward N. Detzer
First National Bank
Fort Wayne
Ind
Fred Mohrle
Bienville
New Orleans
Blackwell Lumber Company
Spokane
Idaho
Menasha Woodenware Company
Buenos Ayres
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Ella Gingles
French Lick
May Golde
Granite City
Ill
T. C. Miller
Cecelia Golde
Vienna
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Lake Champlain
John Smith
Carlo Giro
George Staber
Flatbush
L. I
Staber
Central Asia
Gladstone
England
Terry McGovern
M. Caillaux
France
Charles Bos
Lida Griswold
Eaton, QC
Henry Rife
Bristol
United Society of Christian Endeavor
Atlantic City
Clarence H Mackay
Mackay
Long Island
Philip
Lemmel
Max Meyers
Piggisburg
Kankakee
Sayler
First National Bank of
Crescent City
Iroquois County
W. R. Miller
Miller
Wat. Seka
Deans Kidney Pills End Runaway Kidney Pain
Osceola Iowa resident Alonzo Adams says Dean's Kidney Pills cured his kidney pain weakness back and urinary issues after doctors and other medicines failed. The ad urges readers to remember the name and buy the product for 50 cents a bar from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. De Quiz De Whiz jokes follow with a humor item.
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Alonzo Adams
Osceola
Iowa
Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Indian Reservations Open For 160 Acre Farm Registration
Registration runs July 15 to August 5 with drawings August 9 for 160 acre tracts on the Flathead Coeur d Alene and Spokane reservations. Three chances to win, no cost to register. Rail fares from Chicago to Missoula Kalispell Coeur d Alene and Spokane listed. Also includes a comic short and an ad for Lewis' Single Binder cigars.
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Flathead Reservation
Missoula
Mont
Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
Spokane
Wash
Chicago, Milwaukee
Hospitals as Benefit to Property Across the United States
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis concludes that 67.5 percent of tuberculosis sanatoria and hospitals have benefited local communities. In over 63 percent of cases these institutions increased the assessed value of surrounding property.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of
United States
Beans Dispute Between Landlord and Hired Man
A courtroom scene shows Mr. Summerboard asking to take beans and the Hired Man insisting he will not let that happen. The judge mediates the exchange in a terse exchange spotlighting property and possession.
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Summerboard
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W. P. Valentine
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