Strike Conference Sparks Hope for End to Philadelphia Walkout
A young mediator Edward Lowther Stokes brought striking car men and management into direct talks with the Philadelphia traction leaders. Charles O. Kruger and George H. Earle Jr. held a three hour meeting with strike negotiators, signaling progress toward peace though no binding steps were announced.
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Philadelphia
Charles O. Kruger
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
George H. Earle, Jr
Traction Company
Edward Lowther Stokes
Earle
Committee of Ten
Cay
W. D. Mahon
Thnternational Federation of Street Railway
Jamestown Fire Ravages Downtown Center in Worst City Blaze
A massive blaze in Jamestown New York destroyed the Gokey building and surrounding blocks causing losses estimated between 500000 and 800000 dollars. Police Captain Hanson was crushed by a falling wall and three others were seriously injured as flames spread across a 120 foot street toward the Sherman hotel where 125 guests escaped unharmed. The fire began in the Gokey building and wind spread embers, delaying firemen and wiping out telegraph and telephone offices briefly cutting outside communication.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Jompatown
Hanson
John
Gokey Factory
Gokey Business Mock
New Sherman House
Erie Hall
J. F
New York
Roosevelt for Party Head in New York 1912 Forecast
New York politicians predict Roosevelt as party leader and national peacemaker. Elihu Root leaves Senate to advise President Taft while Woodruff retires as state chairman. Root presses to keep New York from losing the gubernatorial race, warning federal power may curb opposition to Governor Hughes.
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New York
Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Washington
Taft
Woodruff
Root
Senator Root
Gov. Hughes
Illinois Brevities: Robbery and death notes in Chicago and beyond
A Chicago dispatch reports Samuel Pidgeon, a Geneva junk dealer, beaten and robbed of 340 dollars at Geneva junction. Other items note a false murder tip from Rockford, a stabbing over a 40 dollar loan, multiple sudden deaths in Chicago from heart disease, a girl rescued from a fire, a painter killed by a fall, and legal moves involving real estate cases.
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Geneva
Samuel Pidgeon
Geneva Junction
Pidgeon
Chicago
Wheaton
Dickinson
Rockford
North Western Avenue
James Fitzgerald
Detective Bureau
West North Avenue
Hinman Avenue
South Western Avenue
Lieut
Fitzgerald
Antonio Ventillo
Costello de Franzi
North May Street
McCarthy and Reardon
West Chicago Avenue
de Franzi
Ventillo
West Side
Charlotte Clement
West Harrison
Mary Lenedvet
Ashland Avenue
William Spellan
Jefferson Street
Lillian Frawley
West Locust Street
Benjamin Martin
Truck Company No. 8
Martin
S. Early
Joliet
Maurice Rosenfeld
Bernhard Rosenberg
Landis
van Vlissingen
Martin Hobhman
Whiteside
Lee
Gail Borden Company
Paxton
Susan Bogardus
W. H. Bogardus
E. C. Bogardus
Walter J. Bogardus
Peliston
Mich
Petoskey
Alton
J. D. S. Riggs
Shu
Cuticura Heals Severe Baby Eczema This Report
Mrs Joseph Kossmann of Ridgewood Heights New Jersey describes an infant with eczema covering the body. She details pimples scabbing and skin loss that improved after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with four daily drops. After three days skin began to reform and the baby recovered substantially.
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Joseph Kossmann
St. John’s Place
Ridgewood Heights
Book Companionship and Consolation Across Ages
A reflection on books as guides for youth and solace for the old. Reading keeps one from burdening others, softens anger, steadies cares and passions, and allows weariness from the living to seek the dead whose conversations are free of peevishness and design.
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Jeremy Collier
Ad Notice Reaffirms Castoria Safety Signage
Important to Mothers urges careful examination of Castoria bottles to ensure the dignature of Lge Tela and to confirm the product has been in use for over 30 years, the kind customers have always bought.
Literary Quips and Medical Adverts in Cleveland Plain Dealer
The piece juxtaposes witty quotes on marriage and literary taste with a domestic vignette about a man’s phone calls and a woman’s tears. It notes a medicinal slogan for bromine quinine and hints at a universal cure claim branded as BOV Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One May.
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Browning
Henry James
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Illinois
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Mbatis la Grippe
Perry Daris
Scfie
Lewis
Winslow
Binkley Medical CO
Dept
Nappanee, Ind
Standard Oil CO. Incorporated
Wason, Fenwick & Lawrence
Washington, D.C
Thompson
Ww. N. Y
Putnam
Monroe Drug GO
Quincy
Hlineje
United States
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Ind
U.S.A
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
National Dream
National Dairy Machine Company
Indiana
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