Taft Nears End Of Southwestern Trip With New England Dates
President Taft's 13,000 mile journey continues through Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina with recent stops in Wilmington Augusta and Florence. He heads to Washington for a short stay before travels to Middletown and New Haven, then Norfolk and Hampton before finalizing his Message to Congress after the Norfolk trip.
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New Haven
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Congress
Carter Medicine wins key US court ruling on red wrappers
The United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York awarded Carter Medicine Company a decree confirming its exclusive right to use red colored wrappers on liver pill packages. The ruling states the company owns sole rights to red wrappers and labels, established by prior adoption over thirty years ago and sustained by continuous use by predecessors and the firm. The decision is described as highly significant due to the court's prestige.
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St. Louis
Tragic taxi plunge kills four after bridge crash in Chicago
A taxi carrying a woman and three men including a chauffeur plunges from a Jackson Boulevard bridge gap after a rush to beat a schedule. Ernest Camp, 22, driver for John Schreffler, dies trying to speed to a new run. The car sinks. two passengers resurface briefly before the current carries them away.
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Illinois
McFarlane Wins Ten-Round Thriller Over Cyclone Thompson
Kansas City reports Packey McFarland, idol of the Chicago stockyards, won a decision over Cyclone Johnny Thompson of Sycamore Illinois in ten rounds. The bout featured McFarland’s scientific boxing and footwork against Thompson’s slugging, with Thompson briefly showing power in rounds one and two but failing to corner the elusive champion.
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Mistaken Divine Messages From a Kentucky Town
A Kentucky town tale reports a woman claiming immediate communion with God who delivers messages of high gravity. In one incident she asks an attorney for $25, asserting divine mission, but the lawyer notes the required payment is unavailable, ending the celestial contact. A Billville resident humorously boasts of recent luck and supposes divine favors include sheriff-negotiated protection, medical free advice, and funeral director friendship.
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Kentucky
Woman rejects coffee heart with Postum cure
A letter reports a woman plagued by severe heart trouble caused by coffee caffeine. After eleven weeks of illness, her husband buys Postum, she quits coffee, improves to 158 pounds, and credits Postum with restoring her health. The doctor endorsed the change and she praises boiled Postum with cream.
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Wellville
Sing Sing Prison to be moved upriver site chosen
Sing Sing prison will be removed across the Hudson about 15 to 20 miles north, eight miles south of West Point. A large tract has been bought and a gang of convicts has worked there for two years. The current prison, built by convicts in 1826 with on-site material, has been enlarged but is no longer large enough.
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Cornwall Farm Land Company
First National Bank
Ants and Aunts Joke Spurs Nursery Tale
A child mishears ants as aunts and notes the tiny relatives on the porch, prompting a humorous exchange about the insects. The fragment blends with an ad for Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, promising cures for summer illness and worm destruction, with sample details and the Le Roy New York address. The closing line references Wigg-Scribbler stories and a snide remark from the Philadelphia Record.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Pettit’s Eye Salve Featured by Howard Bros
Strong winds and sand storms cause granulation of the eyelids. Pettit’s Eye Salve soothes and relieves quickly. All druggists of Howard Bros Buffalo N Y stock the remedy. Also notes on quotes and teething syrup with claimed cures and temperance seance note.
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Howard Bros
Buffalo
The Pauper Myth and Public Health Patter
A humorous aside about paupers prompts a London anecdote while an ad urges relief from a coughing fit with Allen's Lung Balsam. The passage shifts to a tobacco ad praising Lewi's Single Binder cigars and ends with a platitude about human kindness.
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