Week's Events Personal Highlight Pinchot Ovation
Gifford Pinchot received an ovation at the Conservation congress in St Paul, the dramatic moment as audiences roared and tears filled his eyes. The report also lists political and civic deaths and notable retirements across states, including a Warren county grand jury indictment and the passing of several prominent figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gifford Pinchot
Conservation Congress
St. Paul
Forester
Joseph Croke Sibley
Congress
Warren County
Twenty Eighth
Elizabeth Murdoch
Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Company
Farmington
Ind
George F. Miller
First National Bank of Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
Slot Springs
Ezra J. Warner
Sprague, Warner & Co
Lake Forest
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr
New York
Lloyd W. Bowers
Boston
Champ Clark
Moberly
House of Representatives
Missouri
Pennsylvania Avenue
Florence Tardee
George C. Pardee
California
Malcolm R. Patterson
Tennessee
Illinois
Ilinois
Te Kalb
Lorimer Resigns from Hamilton Club Amid Roosevelt Banquet Rift
United States Senator William Lorimer, long a Hamilton club member in Chicago, answered club president John RB Batten by resigning as Batten withdrew invitations to the Roosevelt banquet. The note followed a dispute over the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Club
Chicago
United States
William Lorimer
John RB. Batten
British Columbia
Burrows
Michigan
Charles FE .Townsend
Jackson
Chase S Osborn
Murray
Chambers O. Templeton
Tyrone
Altoona
Large list of maritime disasters and mixed world events
The report catalogs Pere Marquette No. 18 sinking off Sheboygan with 29 lives lost, plus a broad sweep of incidents and notices from across the world. It mentions crimes, trials, medical testing, political shifts, religious events, and aviation accidents, all in a dense, era-typical news collage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Michigan
Pere Marquette
Sheboygan
Wis
Plaisted Wins Maine Governor Race in Shifted State Politics
In Augusta Col Frederick W Plaisted defeats Bart N Remotta as Maine voters elect four Republicans to Congress likely giving Democrats a house and possibly the state legislature. Prohibition enforcement and state issues drive the shift amid indications of a Democratic tilt in Maine representation. In Phoenix conservative estimates indicate Democrats win a majority at the Constitutional convention with initiative and referendum approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Frederick W. Plaisted
Plaisted
Bart N Remnota
Asher C Hinds
Congress
Portland
Swazey
Burleigh
Maine
West
Eugene Hale
United States Senate
Phoenix
Ariz
Ten Beef Packers Indicted in Sherman Act Cases
Chicago news reports ten men from major packing firms charged by the federal grand jury with violating the Sherman antitrust act. Named are J Ogden Armour Louis F Swift Edward A Tilden Francis A Fowler and others including Swift family members and Armour executives. Indictments allege restraint of interstate meat trade and a conspiracy to monopolize. potential penalties include fines up to 10000 or a year in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Packing Company
Federal Grand Jury
Kenesaw M. Landis
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Louis F. Swift
Swift & Co
Sdward A. Tilden
Firrm
Libby
McNeil & Libby
Francis A. Fowler
Fowler Bros
Kidward F. Swift
Charles A. Swift
Arthur Meeker
Thomas J. Conners
Swift
Armour Group
Morris Group
United States
Illinois State News Roundup Highlights Mergers and Misadventures
A Sangamon Loan & Trust and Lincoln Bank merger forms the Sangamon Loan & Trust Company with old directors joined by four new ones under E. A. Hall. Reports include a Chicago depot scare involving a Detroit visitor, a Champaign suicide attempt, a Urbana telegraph accident, a fatal shooting in Danville, and various other local incidents across Illinois.
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Springfield
Sangamon Loan & Trust Company
Lincoln Bank
George Pasfield
EK. A. Hall
Henry Latham
Clinton L. Conkling
Logan Hay
Edgard S. Scott
J. Otis Humphrey
Alfred Booth
James W. Gulett
Latham T. Souther
Albert H. Rankin
E. A. Hall
Chicago
Union Depot
Lillian Pierce
Detroit
Mich
Milwaukee
Frank Scroggins
David Scroggins
Danville
Grace McCammon
Pearl Boatman
Boatman
Champaign
Katie” Nelson
Monmouth
Ross Hanna Findley
Findley
Sterling
Daniel Fane
N. W
Aurora
Fred Lucas
Gravel Pitts
Plainfield
Joliet
Mattoon
Bloomington
June Candall
Alton
Piasa
Carrie Page
Bernardine Donahue
Lincoln
William Tledges
Freeport
Jeffries-Johnson
West Chicago Conductor Credits Dean's Kidney Pills
George Hahn of C. and N. W. says a car wreck left him with kidney trouble and back pain for a year. He describes failing health until using Dean's Kidney Pills, which he credits with his full recovery and now excellent health. He urges readers to remember Dean's, sold by Foster Milburn Co. for 50 cents a box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hahn
Arbor Ave
West Chicago
Ill
Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Doctor Denies Claim of Drunkenness After Accident
A man recalls a doctor allegedly saying Bill was drunk when he was taken for head treatment after a fall but the doctor denies making such a remark. The dispute centers on what was actually said about Bill’s condition following the injury.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Full Cure
The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 for any case it cannot cure, with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Not impregnable Judge Avery prompts sharp quip
Horace Avery, a clever K C from the British bar, recently appointed judge, is noted for mordant wit. In a courtroom he quizzed a recalcitrant witness who called himself a retired gentleman, retorting that retirement from gentlemanhood followed his rise to the title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Avery
K. C
Avery
Aerial Post Cards Take Flight In Post Card Craze
Paris correspondent notes a new novelty aerial post cards allowing a finder to deliver the card to a post office. The card records altitude and approximate aircraft position with a photo of the plane on the reverse. A request has been made for a special stamp but no action yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
M. Miller
Paris
London Globe
Coffee's Weight on Old Age Testimony
Prominent men attest to Postum benefiting health over coffee. A Southern public schools superintendent recounts his mother's long coffee-related heart and stomach issues improving after switching to Postum. The testimony notes reduced headaches and better overall condition for his mother and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
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Sims Brown
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Bowers
Supreme Court
Charlies W. Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Hawley H. Crippen i. London
Belle Himore
Elias Fernandez Albano
Chile
Montt
Jersey City
N. J
Thomas Shields
Stanley Chubb
Montreal
Mount Royal
Czar
Russia
Passaic
George P. Williams
PD. D
New World
Charles K Hamilton
Sacramento
Cal
Col. F. W. Plaisted
Illinois State News
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