Week’s Happenings Highlight Political Upheavals and Deaths
Mrs Matthew T. Schott faces potential impeachment within the Daughters of the American Revolution over the dismissal of clerk Agnes Gerald at Washington headquarters. J D Showalter launches a Democrat bid for the U S Senate to replace William Warner. John Anderson, longtime Chicago publisher of Skandinaven, dies of heart disease. LeRoy Percy is nominated to Mississippi’s U S Senate seat following McLaurin’s death. James R. Garfield signals possible opposition to Gov. Harmon in Ohio if urged. Yale freshmen win over sophomores after Washinton’s birthday cane rush incident. Dr Robert Schneider from Berlin, now in New York, announces a tuberculosis cure using a sulfuric acid charcoal eucalyptus lamp therapy.
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Matthew T. Schott
Bloomington
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Scott
Agnes Gerald
Washington
J D. Showalter
Kansas City
United States Senate
William Warner
John Anderson
Yale
LeRoy Percy
Greenville
Mississippi
United States
J. McLaurin
Robert Schneider
Berlin
New York
Umbria
Schneider
Bank wrecking arrest shocks Holyrood farmer family
Byron L. Church of Holyrood Kansas, a farmer who built a $100000 fortune then lost it to relatives, is jailed on a charge of wrecking the Bank of Holyrood. Authorities seek his son Maxwell Church and nephew FF Thomas on bank complaint.
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Byron L. Church
Holyrood
Kan
Bank of
Jersey City
N. J
Grand
Trudson County
The
National Packing Company
Memphis
Edward H. Crump
Charles Smith
New York
John J. Murphy
Central Labor Union of Philadelpha
Murphy
Northwest
Jacob Greenthal
Greenthal
Prescription That Breaks Up the Worst Cold in a Day
Winter remedy cited as a publicized prescription with glycerine concentrated pine and whiskey. Readers are advised to use only genuine Concentrated Pine and shake before dosing after meals and at night, noting many pine extracts are impure and cause nausea.
Financial Loss Through Tuberculosis
Based on the 1900 census, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis estimates nearly 100,000 schoolchildren will die of tuberculosis before age 18, about 6,400 annually, costing the country about 1.15 million dollars yearly in wasted education. New York Boston and Stockholm studies show a higher infection rate than death rate implies.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
New York
Boston
Stockholm
Appetites of Kings and Clubwomen Meet
The passage notes King Alfonso XIII’s daily appetite with a breakfast of rump steak and potatoes, and mentions the General Federation of Women's Clubs planning its biannual convention in Cincinnati in May 1910 with about 800,000 members. It highlights clubwomen’s activities and international participation.
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Spain
Alfonso XIII
M. Paoli
McClure
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Cincinnati
A Change of Food Improves Health in Testimony
A Missouri couple improved from stomach and nervous troubles after stopping coffee and using Postum with Grape-Nuts. The woman gained flesh as symptoms faded and the man slept better with reduced cramps. The narrative also cites a California brother and family using Postum, urging readers to seek The Road to Wellville in packages.
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Postum
California
Wellville
Excerpted Ephemera Phrases and Patent Medicine Snippets
The fragment lists ad style lines and mock slogans including Pettit’s Eye Salve for eye ailments and Lewis’ Single Binder cigar for 5c, with claims of cures for rheumatism and general life advice, all framed as vintage promotional quips and aphorisms.
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