Prince Ito Assassinated in Harbin Corean Gunman Bomb Blast
Prince Hirobumi Ito a leading Japanese statesman is killed by a Corean assassin in Harbin. The blast also injures the Japanese consul general and the president of the Southern Manchuria railroad. Ito's career included four terms as premier and pivotal work on Japan's imperial constitution.
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Tokyo
Hirobumi Ito
Harbin
Manchuria
Prince Ito
Mukden
Hsi Liang
Japan
China
M. Kokovsoff
Privy Council of
New Japan
Occidentals
Mikado
United States
Wife Murderer Confesses in Brooklyn Police Station
Otto Mueller of Astoria a piano maker confessed to killing his wife Anna Luther Mueller on April 9 1908 at Bay Shore. He lured her to the woods under a pretense of showing property and shot her, saying he wished to return to his real wife and child born to them. His wife had long feared him and said he boasted of having eight wives.
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New York
Otto Mueller
Astoria
L. 1
Brooklyn
Anna Luther Mueller
Bay Shore
Fred Gebhardt
Illinois State News highlights Chicago smoke abatement progress
Chicago officials report reduced smoke pollution in two years due to the smoke abatement commission and department. Other items note the Illinois Federation of Labor convention sites, Lyons death investigation claims, a fatal auto crash, coke use in locomotives, a suicide in Chicago, a death near Drivers, and post office mail theft at Eleroy.
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Chicago
Belleville
Rock Island
Illinois Federation of Labor
Aurora
Quincey
Danville
Peoria
Springfield
Edwin R. Wright
John J. Brittain
Amalgamated Carpenters’ Union
Frank Buchanan
A. C. Martin
Joliet
Wright
Lyons
August Brockmeyer
Sharp
Central Police Station
Trafton
Bernard Brockmeyer
Brockmeyer
Stephen B. Wood
Detective Headquarters
Wayman
Lst
West Jackson Boulevard
South Canal Street
Owen H. Fay Livery Company
Plymouth Court
George Johnson
Burling Street
Louis Schnoll
South Hermitage Avenue
Charlies Hall
Vincennes Avenue
Desplaines Street
Atkins
Schnoir
Hall
Johnson
Chicago & Northwestern
Hughitt
Barbara Hansa
South
Springfield Avenue
Hansa
Mount Vernon
Samuel Jones
Louisville
Big Waterway rally in East St. Louis backs inland channel
Taft Sherman Cannon and Illinois Gov Deneen urged immediate deep waterway work from East St. Louis platform. Governor Deneen promised to push Illinois legislature to act within five weeks to start the Lake Michigan to Gulf of Mexico canal amid cheering crowds.
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East St. Louis
Taft
Sherman
Cannon
Gov. Deneen
Illinois
Deneen
Gulf Channel
Springfield
Mississippi Valley
Congress of the
United States
Lake Michigan
Gulf of Mexico
Speaker Cannon
Congress
House of Representatives
Uncle Joe
Washington
East
Middle West
West
Sunny Jim
William A. Rodenberg
St Louis
Rodenberg
Alton
Mississippi
South St. Louis
Chicago
I Illinois
Lorimer
Oglesby
Rose
Russel
Illinois Supreme Court
Kreismann
St. Louis
Decatur Banker Valentine Snyder Dies After 55-Year Career
Valentine Snyder, a longtime banker and prominent Moweaqua citizen, dies at 62. He was born in Moweaqua and leaves six sons, all noted as college athletes and ball players.
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Decatur
Decatur Iil
Valentine Snyder
Moweaqua
Eutme
Preserving Season Tips for Fruits and Tomatoes
Guide notes how to cook pears until tender before adding sugar and a touch of ginger for flavor. It covers sterilizing glass jars, replacing rubbers yearly, sweetening apples before cooking, and cautions for canned tomatoes and peach preparation for canning or immediate use.
Creole Court Bouillon with Red Fish
Select about five or six pounds of fresh red fish. Fry chopped onions in butter. Add fresh tomatoes, cloves, and allspice. Simmer 80 minutes then stir in flour and a pint claret. Cook five minutes, strain, return sauce. Simmer fish 10 to 15 minutes. Serve on dry toast with sauce. Optional pepper and extra spices.
Rabbit and Batter Pudding
Prepare a batter with flour salt egg milk and one cup milk. Rest batter an hour. Melt dripping in a pudding dish, place canned rabbit seasoned with salt and pepper, pour batter over, bake hot for thirty minutes until puffed and browned. Serve immediately.
Casserole of Rice and Meat Instructions
A recipe for a meat and rice casserole. Rice prepares a crust and lining, chop cold meat, mix with eggs breadcrumbs onion butter herbs and seasoning, add gravy, pack a meat center, top with remaining rice, bake, and serve with tomato sauce.
Veal Soup Recipe with Macaroni and Milk Flavor
To about three pounds of veal joint add four quarts of water and boil. Boil one fourth pound of macaroni separately, add butter when tender, strain the soup and season with salt and pepper. Return macaroni to its cooking water and simmer. A pint of rich milk or cream with celery flavor is liked by many.
California Drops Sugar Molasses Cookies Recipe Fragment
A fragment lists ingredients for cookies: one cup sugar, one percent tablespoons lard, one egg, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half cup dried currants and flour enough for a thin batter. Drops on buttered tins.
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California
Crackers Recipe From An Old Kitchen Note
A historical kitchen note lists six eggs twelve tablespoons of sweet milk six tablespoons of butter and half a teaspoon of soda. The dough is molded with flour and pounded vigorously for about thirty minutes then rolled thin and baked in a hot oven.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praise
Milwaukee reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from female trouble and back pain after doctors advised surgery. The letter from Mrs Evora Insk Milwaukee Wisconsin highlights recovery and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham who offers free guidance.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Younean
Lydia
Pinkham
Evora Imsk
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company of
Mass
Rs. Pinkham
Lynn
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U.S.A
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Sgenta
F. Thomas Mfg. Co
Wayne St
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