Washington grain crops rise while last year falls
Government crop report shows U S grain production at 4 409 000 000 bushels an August increase of 136 000 000 but a year over year drop of 734 000 000 bushels. Weather largely favorable with little crop condition improvement. Postmaster General Hitchcock designates 50 first class offices as postal savings banks to open October 7 including Freport Moline Rockford Hikhart Fort Wayne Kokomo and others. Washington orders Admiral Murdock to use gunboats to protect citizens amid Szechuan China crisis over railroad policy. Taft cancels golf with Denver Country Club officials during swing around the circle.
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United States
Hitchcock
Freport
Moline
Rockford
Inl
Hikhart
Fort Wayne
Kokomo
Ind
Burlington
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Kalamazoo
Lansing
Port Huron
Mich
Washington
Murdock
Szechuan
China
Taft
Denver
Colo.) Country Club
Vast World News Mix From Berlin to Denver
A wide range of events including an infant protection congress in Berlin with Nathan Straus, Annie Lemberger case in Dane county, a Michigan interurban crash near Fruitport injuring nineteen, Harvard drinking stats, Uruguayan military study in Washington, and a Brooklyn pastor painting saves funds. Also notes on a Staten Island university site, a Lynn fire wake up dog, Cannon re election bid, indictments for jewel smuggling, Virginia senate nominees, Perth Amboy killings, Old Bill Miner’s shift to farming, Pomeroy’s solitary years, a Chicago divorce case, Omaha postmasters meeting, Astor and Madeline Force marriage, a six sermon series on marriage, Robbins death, Bryan Roosevelt meeting, Mrs Dixon body found in Denver, and editor Dingley injured by a runaway team.
Willian Burgess Succeeds In English Channel Swim
Yorkshire swimmer Sporting Willian Burgess completed the English channel crossing from Dover to Cape Grisnez near France after almost twenty four hours in the water. He pursued Captain Matthew Webb’s 1875 feat and repeatedly neared the goal before tides swept him back.
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Willian Burgess
English
Cape Grisnet
France
Dover
England
Burgess
Matthew Webb
Disaster at sea as Whisper sinks off Nicaragua coast
Fourteen men drown when the schooner Whisper carrying mahogany burns to the waterline ten miles off the Nicaraguan coast. An explosion of a gasoline tank aboard is blamed for the disaster. Dr. Douglas Mawson revisits Mount Painter in South Australia and reports a high grade radium ore lode three miles long and several hundred yards wide found there.
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Whisper
Douglas Mawson
Mount Painter
South Australia
Miners Threaten Callout As Illinois Union Backs Strike
United Mine Workers of Illinois plans to call out about 4000 Madison Coal Co miners. The Glen Carbon strike of 700 miners is endorsed and linked to alleged safety report falsifications to dodge liability. Other briefs cover fraternal charity organ, local incidents, and public notices across Illinois towns.
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United Mine Workers of
Ilinois
Madison Coal Company
Men—Organization
Inctorses
Glen Carbon
Springfield
United Mine Workers of Illinois
Mine Workers’ Union
Seven Years of Suffering Ended by Pinkham Remedy
Waurika Oklahoma and Huntington Massachusetts women recount relief from long standing female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. Doctors had given no help yet the products restored health, weight, and strength. The notices urge others with similar conditions to try the remedy.
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Waurika
Okia
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Salitz Stevens
R. F.D
Okla
Huntington
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mart Janette Bates
Senator Flint’s Flower Charity Vow
A California senator rejects requests for large charitable gifts. He says most funds go to hospitals, so he will spend spare money on sending flowers to the dead instead, aiming to promote broader charity in a new way.
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United States Senate
Flint
California
the Sunday Magazine
Unclear Dialogue Between Tobacconist and Horticulturist
Fragmentary exchange between a tobacconist and a horticulturist about packing barrels of apples and cigars. References Uncle John Billy and a box of cigars, with no clear event or outcome.
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Uncle John
Billy
Lightning Strikes Allegedly Hit Speeder’s Automobile
A quip by Puck centers on a dispute over whether lightning struck Speeder’s car or the car caused the lightning strike. Speeder asserts the vehicle was struck by lightning, presenting it as the event.
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Bloomington
James Marion
Joseph Bernstein
Speeder
Puck
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Fulton Street
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Garden City
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Ottawa
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Kewanee
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Malone
Seventy-fourth Illinois Regiment
John W. Beatson
Hosmer H. Holland
Wainety-fifth Regiment
Crystal Lake
William Andrews
Mount Carmel
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Andrew Poole
J.p.alle Medicine CO
Dept. Ai
St. Paul, Minn
Post
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd
Batile Creek, Mich
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