Resignations and appointments shape week in review
Auditor Robert S. Person resigns claiming senators from South Dakota seek his removal and avoid further embarrassment to the president. Taft speeches in Seattle urge a ship subsidy law. William Jennings Bryan celebrates silver wedding anniversary at Lincoln home accompanied by a large reception. Dr. Harry E. Hutchins named temporary president of the University of Michigan at seven thousand dollars salary.
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Robert S. Person
Interior Department
South Dakota
Taft
Seattle Exposition
Congress
William Jennings Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Harry E. Hutchins
University of Michigan
National German American alliance convention totals and allied notices
The biennial convention in Cincinnati drew over 300 delegates from the National German American Alliance. The thirty second annual meeting in Cincinnati also reported 300 delegates. The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes met in Toronto with about 320 officers and delegates present. Various notable events include marriage in Utica of Richard Wodyke Sherman and Eleanor Miller, Charles R Crane’s departure for China, and the centennial opening of the American Humane Association in St Paul. Other items mention Taft at East Portland, mine disaster at Roslyn Washington, and several political and legal notes across the country.
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National
German-American Alliance
Cincinnati
Amalagamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
Toronto
Can
Richard Wodyke Sherman
Sherman
Eleanor Miller
Utica
Chicago
Frederick A Coon
Washington
University of Copenhagen
Taft
First Universalist
East Portland
Ore
Roslyn
Wash
Daniel D Davies
Brownsville
Tex
Columbia
T. L. Lewis
United Mine Workers'of America
Baffin Land
Morrison
St John’s
N. F
Wilfred Grenfells
Lorna Doone
Frank Brown
Force recon snares reverse near Sokel Jemis Moroc co
A Spanish force reconnoitering toward Sokel Jemis Morocco met a heavy reverse against Moorg with four officers and 14 men killed and 182 wounded. Other items include naval pageants, census tests, and various notable incidents from 1907.
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Sokel Jemis
Morocco
Giffery Pinchot
Washington
Congress
Progreso
Mexico
San Jose
Department of Agriculture
le Pord
Hudson- Fulton
New York
William Mitchell
Cecil Palmer
Nashville
Tenn
State
Dickinson
Frederick D. Grant
Chicago
Hudson-Fulton
William Armstrong
Quincy
Harold
Archie Johnson
Buda
Ill
Roosevelt
Peary
Arctic
New York Harbor
Hudson River
W. J. Gaynor
Greater
Gen. Grant
W. R. Morrison
Waterloo
Frederick A. Cook
Philadelphia
Thomas Gray
Bellevue Hospital
Paris
Edward Jagudin
Long Island
James Bates
Werbert Lytle
Sam Yong Ping
Louisiana
Paratana Bay
Omaha
Finland
Abd-el-Aziz
Wright Sets Mark Circling Grant's Tomb Above New York
Wilbur Wright flies 15 miles in 33 minutes 33 seconds along the Hudson from Governors Island. He circles Grant's Tomb and reaches 200 to 300 feet, drawing cheers from sailors and spectators before a motor mishap ends plans for a longer return flight.
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New York
Wilbur Wright
Hudson River
Governors Island
Grant
International Navy
Wright
Aerodome
Mr. Wright
Oater
New Jersey
Taft in San Francisco Tour Highlights Recovery
President Taft toured Oakland and Berkeley before reaching San Francisco where a large crowd welcomed him. He viewed the rebuilt streets and burned district, met citizens, and attended a luncheon at the Union League followed by a banquet at the Fairmont hotel.
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San Francisco
Tait
Tart
Oakland
Berkeley
Presidio
Mr Taft
Union League
Nurse praises kidney pills for quick relief
A nurse from Ana arko Oklahoma credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid health improvements after a run-down condition, backache, and kidney pains. The ad urges readers to remember the name Dean's and mentions Foster Milburn Co. as the maker. Additional lines tout Hanlin Wizard Oil, Lewis' Single Binder cigars, and a quip about honesty and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Turner
E. B. St
Ana@arko
Okio
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A 19th century letter archive highlights Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women during change of life. Mrs E Hanson of Columbus Ohio reports improved health and renewed ability to work after using the product. Mrs Charles B Anchay of Graniteville Vermont also endorses its effectiveness for nervousness and female ailments.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Columbus
Ohio
Lydia Pinkham
E. Hanson
East Long St
Graniteville
Lydia EH. Pinkham
Charles Banchay
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Mark
Tomasso
Grace Viviano
St. Louis
Wood
Detective Bureau
Kinzie Street
Central Post Office
North Side
Bowman Dairy Company
Evanston
John Burroughs
London
Gypsy” Smith
Gypsy Smith
Champaign
Council of Administration
University of Illinois
H. D. Emmerto
Baltimore & Ohio
Leavitt Street
Weer
Philip Canizo
John Giazion
Peoria
Henry H Shufeldt & Co
Kohlsaar
Internal Revenue
P. G Rennick
Milk Producers’ Protective Association
Evans
Sullivan
James Roy Liston
Henry Liston
Tuscola
Hanlin
Cascarets
Reid
Omer City
Avenuc County
Michigan
Pol Hee
Charies’ Mich
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