World events terse and briefly told in Washington
The article surveys a string of political, financial, and crime items from Washington. Highlights include army camp site notes at New Orleans, tariff bill progress, postmaster and ambassador confirmations, a high profile murder mystery solved with Rev Hans Schmidt, urban unrest in New York, and a major cash theft in transit from New York to Savannah.
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Navy Yard
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Samuel A. Kephart
Coast Artillery Corps
Washington
Senate
House
Hans Schmidt
St. Joseph’s
Anna Aumiller
Hudson River
New York
Savannah
Refugees Seized by Rebels in Mexico Travel Route
One hundred Americans including women and children flee to Saltillo from Torreon but fall into rebel hands as they travel by land. Saltillo authorities refuse to send troops for rescue fearing rebels may commit atrocities.
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Torreon
Mex
Saltio
Saltillo
German Social Democrats elect Ebert as leader to succeed Rebel
The Vorwacrs reports Deputy Friedrich Ebert elected as party leader after August Rebel's death in Zurich on August 13. A Dublin correspondent cites an unconfirmed rumor that Earl of Aberdeen may resign as lord lieutenant of Ireland. A Japanese force lands near Nanking with cruisers, marines, and shore artillery.
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Vorwacrs
German Social Democratic Party
Germany
Socialist National Committee
Friedrich Ebert
August Rebel
Herr Rebel
Zurich
Dublin
London Daily Citizen
Earl of Aberdeen
Lord Leutenant
Ireland
Max Lillie Killed Testing Airplane At Galesburg
Chicago aviator Max Lillie died in a 400 foot midflight crash at Galesburg while testing a Wright biplane for an exhibition. He had repaired parts suspected to be weak and aimed to prove freight carrying feasibility. Mrs Lillie witnessed the tragedy and frantically aided as he expired.
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Galesburg
Ill
Max Lillie
Chicago
Lillie
Frank L. Albert
Aero Club of
Ilinois
Cicero Field
Mulhall Denounced as Traitor in House Inquiry
Washington September 16 The Mulhall lobby investigation neared its end as James A. Emery slashed Mulhall as a traitor perjurer and ingrate in a closing argument for the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Council of Industrial Defense. He accused Mulhall of deceiving employers, cheating the press, and selling $10000 in green goods to the New York World. The committee led by Winis J. Garrett pending a report by October 1 if possible.
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Washington
Mulhall
House of Representatives
James A. Emery
National Association of Manufacturers
National Council of Industrial Defense
Attorney Emery
Congress
New York World
Emery
James Easby-Smith
John T. McDermott
Chicago
Winis J. Garrett
Tennessee
Milwaukee Candy Makers Barred From Christmas Overtime
Madison Wis Sept 17 eight Milwaukee candy manufacturers were denied permission by the state industrial commission to employ women more than ten hours a day during the three months season preceding Christmas.
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Madison
Wis
Keight
Milwaukee
State Industrial Commission
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Backed by Letters
Feminine disorders prompt fear of surgery but many women report avoiding operations after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letters from Mrs Hayward Sowers and Mrs Rosa Smls describe relief from pain, nerves, and fatigue, claiming renewed health and motherhood.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Household Word With Her
In a rural spelling bee a teacher asked pupils to spell and define words. The word gem stumped the class until a girl exclaimed that a gem is a little cake baked in a gem pan, revealing a humorous misdefinition.
Tyree’s Antiseptic Powder Ad
An advertisement for Tyree's Antiseptic Powder promising quick relief from sunburn, insect bites, ivy poison ivy irritation and other skin inflammations. States price 25 cents at druggists and offers free sample by J. S. Tyree of Washington, D. C.
Little Pitchers
A humorous dialogue feature where a child asks to borrow an old cat from Mrs. Gaddy, who insists she has no such cat. The girl explains it is the one mamma said she had to see when she started here, prompting a lighthearted exchange.
Its Oddity Bread Quip Reveals Paradox in Crust
A brief witty note on bread explains the paradox that people want bread before they knead it, highlighting a humorous take on baking. The exchange frames a gentle pun about appetite and preparation.
Patent medicine and ads collage from anxious era
An assortment of old ads lists Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills for stomach ills and biliousness, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, a price, Berlin milk consumption in 1911, Roman Eye Balm for eye issues, and a quip about enjoying spending money when unable to afford it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Allen
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Mr. Allen
Wright
Adv
Farm humor notes cows honking to avoid autos
A quirky quote records a farmer joking that cows moo and learn to honk to avoid being run over by autos, as observed by a judge. The fragment suggests rural wit about animal instinct and self preservation.
Fog Language Advantage In Its Taken People Phrase
The quotation notes fog has one advantage in the language used about it. It asks what that advantage might be and suggests it is correct to say fog takes people in its mist.
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Jamesb. Watson
Indiana
Martin M. Mulhall
Burleson
Comptroller of the Treasury
Sidney Anderson
Minnesota
Republcan
Ways and Means Committee
San Francisco
Glass
Murdock
Thomas Fox
Sacramento
Cal
Joseph HE. Williard
Spain
Thomas N. Birch
Portugal
John Ewing
Honduras
George W. Buckner
Liberia
Bowery
Big Tim” Sullivan
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
South
Chattanooga
Tenn
Grand Army of the Republic
Ashton
Idaho
William Murphy
St. Louis
Murphy
Wilson
Seven Sisters
New Jersey
Alfred Pope
Farmington, Conn
Cleveland
New Lexington
Jeremiah Crowley
Sulzer
Wall Street
Melville D. Fuller
Fuller
Rufus W. Gaynor
William J. Gaynor
Mayor Gaynor
Gaynor
New York City
Adolph I. Kline
Board of Aldermen
John Purroy Mitchel
Colebrooke
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Norton Mills
Drew
Coos County
Carmody
Thaw
Nanking
China
Lobby- Ist
Cary
Maine
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Charlotte
N. G
Lydia
Pinkham
Berlin
Ady
W.B
W.B. Iuform
W.B. Elastine
Reduso
Weingarten Brothers
I. Remedy Co
Chariton Street
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