Grahame-White wins Gordon Bennett Trophy on 100 km speed test
Claude Grahame-White flying for the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom claimed the Gordon Bennett international speed trophy by the fastest full distance time for 100 kilometers. The win marks a historic record as the fastest completion of the distance.
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Claude Grahame-White
Royal Aero Club
United Kingdom
America
Martin O'Malley
Lesueur
Minn
Frances
Mary Berger
O'Malley
Mme
Judith Gauthier
Kaiser Wilhelm
King Albert
M. EF. Scott
Bloomington
Illinois Daughters of the Revolution
Decatur
Order
United States
Nelson W. Aldrich
New York City
Senate
Park Avenue
Albert J. Mayer
Fort Myer
Chicago barn blaze upsets Swift Libby draft horses
Nearly 100 horses were killed or injured when a fourteen inch steam pipe exploded at a Chicago barn used by Swift and Libby to stable heavy draft horses. Horses were valued at 200 to 400 dollars each. Preparations begin in New York for a nationwide express drivers strike led by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of Senator Stanton C. Pemberton and Representative Joseph S. Clark over a state furniture contract bribery conspiracy in Springfield, Illinois. A Brooklyn mother, separated from her husband, killed her two children and herself after the separation. Mrs Henry Gordon was accidentally shot in New York by a driver while in her husband’s hardware store. An automobile carrying Governor Deneen and three candidates for office in Jo Daviess county was involved in a collision near Galena, leaving the party shaken but walking to Galena. Fred Bell, a traveling salesman, was killed and Mrs. Charles Powell injured when their car plunged into a stream near Spencer, Oklahoma.
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Swift & Co
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Jersey City
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Stanton C. Pemberton
Joseph S. Clark
Springfield
Tfl
Annie Davis
Eisse
Charles
Samuel McLillie
Governor Deneen
Jo Daviess County
Galena
Fred Bell
Charles Powell
Spencer
Okla
Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
C. G. Burnham
Burlington Railroad
Dawes
Kansas City
Kan
Guy Willims
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Williams
Taft
Roosevelt
United States
Elihu Root
Manhattan Casino
New York City
North River
Western
W R. Stubbs
Kansas
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Supreme Court
Maurice Tabuteau
Etampes
France
Pasadena
Los Angeles
Cal
Europe
Lucinda Farrar
New Orleans
Paris
St. Petersburg
Tacoma
Wash
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Boston
New York Society For the Prevention of
Russell Sage
Railroad
Public Utilities Commission
Phoenix
Mexico
Luther T. Ellsworth
Ciudad Porfirio Diaz
M. A. Unruh
E. J
Lucky) Baldwin
Beatrice Anita Turnbull Baldwin
Missouri
Kassenga
Western railroads push freight-rate rise before ICC
Reports cite C G Burnham and Attorney Dawes admitting a determined effort by western railroads to gain higher rates, hoping for further advances. Separate notes cover a Jersey City to New York express strike, a Kansas City schoolboy cleanup, a burglary killing, and other contemporaneous events.
Interurban disaster verdict blames northbound crew
Macoupin county coroner's jury returns a thirty seven verdicts list holding the north bound car crew to blame for the October 4 interurban crash. Motor man John Lierman and Conductor M A Leonard are cited for disobeying order 47 to pass the south bound car at Wall siding Staunton.
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Carlinville
D. H. Karnes
Macoupin County
Ilinois Traction System
John Lierman
M. A. Leonard
H. O. Lamb
Staunton
Wall Siding
Griggsville
Wabash
Kinderhook
Pana
Edward W. Smith
Smith
Albion
Graves
Edwardsville
John Burton
Leo Wentz
Louis A Welbracht
Burton
Marine
George Burton
Alton
Decatur
Illini
Macon County
Tllinois
Tinopolis
E. W. Butler
Chicago
Marietta
Ellisville
St. David
Fulton County
Glasford
Peoria County
Hillsville
Butler
Inveterate Foes of Dirt Salt as a Household Cleaner
A housewife guide extols salt as a universal cleaner. It advises cleaning mirrors with wet salt on a damp newspaper, polishing glass, brightening decanters, and restoring brass copper and polished wood with salt and vinegar or salt and olive oil. It also notes salt removes fruit stains from teeth or hands.
Aims of Domestic Economy in Home Life
The aims are to lessen housework by mechanical devices and convenient arrangement, to save money through knowledge of spending, to supply rational food to the family, to understand family well being, and to make character development the home’s aim.
New York Appie Charlotte Gelatin Mold
A recipe describes soaking gelatine in water, then dissolving in boiling water with sugar and lemon juice. It adds sour apple sauce, chills with cracked ice, and folds in stiffly beaten egg whites. The mold is unmolded and served with a yolk custard sauce and milk.
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New York
How to Clean Wallpaper Stains with Heat and Bread
Instructions describe removing grease spots by blotting with paper and pressing with a hot flat iron transferring the stain to the blotting paper. Other stains are said to lift using a day old bread or flannel dipped in dry oatmeal, then rubbing the wallpaper.
Cauliflower Prepared in Nutmeg Butter Fry
Readable text describes trimming cauliflower, soaking and cooking, draining, then breaking into branches. It instructs to season with nutmeg salt and pepper and fry briefly in hot butter or olive oil.
Lemon Filling Recipe
Three quarters of a cup of sugar with one egg and the juice and rind of a lemon. Add a piece of butter about the size of an egg yolk. Beat well and cook until thickens.
Sauce Ideas for Clambakes and Maître d Hôtel Style
The clambake sauce is melted butter with pepper and lemon juice. For maitre d hotel, cream butter with salt pepper lemon juice and finely chopped pure l e g. The passage ends with a fragment about home expressing family culture.
Baby skin care praise for Resinol products
A Kansas City reader touts Resinol Ointment for a four month old with severe diaper rash bleeding and constant crying. She credits rapid improvement from Resinol Ointment and notes satisfaction with Resinol Soap and other Resinol products sold widely with a free booklet and sample offer.
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J. F. Deal
Kansas City
Kans
Res
Hesinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
The Key to Germany at Milwaukee Club
Capt. Charles King praised Milwaukee's German element at a club gathering. He recounted a soldier who claimed to have met the Kaiser in Berlin and to have visited Berlin and Hamburg, but said he had only been to Milwaukee.
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Germany
Charles King
Milwaukee
Capt. King
Berlin
Hamburg
What About Him The Conjurer Prompts Moral Debate
A youth argues that no one should profit by deception and deceitful living. The group agrees on truthfulness and condemns cheaters including millionaires and financiers. A woman asks what about the conjurer, prompting a quiet counterpoint on honesty in public deceit.
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Conjurer
London Chronicle
Deserved the Shoes by a Wayfarer
A weary traveler asks a housewife for a story in exchange for shoes. He claims to be a former humorist and jokes that brevity is the soul of wit, then quips that brevity is the sole of each of his shoes in reply.
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Wayfarer
Learned to Drink Coffee When a Baby
An anecdotal letter notes early coffee exposure harms children and recounts a switch to Postum. The writer describes nervous spells, insomnia, and headaches from coffee, then reports better sleep and calm after using Postum, recommending it to coffee drinkers and hinting at supportive advertising.
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Postum
Wellville
Pkga
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