Notes of a Week in Brief Highlights of Roosevelts and Dignitaries
Kermit Roosevelt returns to New York from Europe denying he sought Mrs Rutherford. Gen Lawrence resigns as grand commander after a Detroit session. Rhode Island leader Gen Brayton dies from injuries after a fall. Taft to enter Harvard Law. Vanderbilt racer Robertson injured in practice. Multiple public notices on crime, cargo, and politics span the nation with Bryan addressing irrigation and rail labor news.
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Kermit Roosevelt
New York
Europe
Miss Rutherford
W. K. Vanderbilt
Samuel Crocker Lawrence
Supreme Council of Sovereign
Detroit
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Bellamy Storer
Ireland
Charles R. Brayton
Rhode Island
Providence
Medford
Mass
Supreme Council of
United States
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
W. V
Robert Alphonso Taft
Yale
Starvard Law School
Subcommittee to Hear Testimony on Lorimer Election
The senatorial subcommittee on privileges and elections sitting in Chicago will proceed with testimony on alleged fraud in Senator William Lorimer’s election. The panel rejects delaying action until after November as urged by Floridge Haneey, Lorimer’s attorney.
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Senatorial
Chicago
William Lorimer
Floridge Haneey
Knoxville
Tenn
A. S. J. Davis
Clayton
Kan
Rock Island
Southern Indiana Railroad
Terre Uaute
Ind
East St. Lours
Deneen
Republican State Convention
Springfield
Taft
Denee
McKinley
Republican Congressional Committee
Lorimer Foes Win as White Testimony Broadens Inquiry
Charles A. White testified at the Senate committee hearing about alleged bribery in Lorimer’s election. The panel ruled to admit jackpot evidence and to rule on each jackpot question separately, overruling Attorney Hancey’s objection and widening the inquiry beyond the bribery charge.
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Chicago
Senate Investigating Committee
Hancey
Charles A. White
William Lortimer
White
Lorimer
Hanecy
Browne
Roosevelt and Sherman clash for control at Saratoga convention
Theodore Roosevelt vowed to reach Saratoga and win trophies from the political contest as Vice President Sherman arrived to unite delegates. William Barnes Jr and Griscom pressed for backing while both sides claimed momentum in the Republican state convention fight.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Troy Station
Africa
Roosevelt
Sherman
Old Guard
William Barnes, Jr
Mr. Sherman
Tl Am
Wage War on Sugar Trust
Washington orders to District Attorney Wise to file within a week an amended petition charging the sugar trust with Sherman Act violations. The suit seeks dissolution and an injunction to restrain the American Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey from voting subsidiary shares, mirroring actions against Standard Oil and the tobacco trust. An investigation suggests parallel organization and operation of all three concerns.
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Washington
Wise
New York
Simson
McReynolds
Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company of
New Jersey
Standard Oil Company
United States
Tobacco Trust
State News In Brief
Sterling woman risks life to rescue a dog by jumping in front of a car. Multiple Illinois items include a man charged with desertion after a fast marriage, a tornado injury at Dan ford, a signalman crushed by a train, a boy killed by a falling timber in Moline, and a robbery at Delta Kappa Epsilon in Champaign.
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Sterling
East
Brooklyn
James Schroll
Elkhart
John Wittek
Kankakee
Gilman
Onarga
Danford
Illinois Central Railroad
Charleston
H. H
McPherson
Tuscola
Belvidere
Albert Rybska
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Waukegan
Wow
Reuter
Rheinholdt
Herstberger
Big Four
East St. Louis
Harvey McDonnell
Pleasant Mound
Frank Weindel
Beardstown
Beau-Brummel
Pontiac
Georgia
Moline
Chester McMahon
Shelbyville
Frank Risacker
Charles
Liberty
Joliet
H. G. van Pelt
Sacred Heart Church
St. Joseph
University of Illinois
Champaign
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Pana
Pana Coal Company
Quincy
Adams County
Quincy Chamber of Commerce
A. Z. Blodgett
Great Lakes
Federal Bureau of Fisheries, Sterling
Hera
Resinol products praised for curing stubborn eczema
Newark family touts Resinol Ointment as quick cure for a six month eczema on a boy's leg. The letter claims immediate relief and broad use of Resinol Ointment Soap and Shaving Stick to keep skin healthy, with a free care booklet offered by Resinol Chemical Co. Baltimore.
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Wm. C. Wood
Newark
N. J
Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
Youngsters Describe Supreme Court Visit in Courtroom Attire
A seven year old named Tommy recalls entering the Supreme Court with his father. He notes the scene as many bearded women in black gowns filled the room, while his father comments on the solemn setting.
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Papa
Supreme Court of the United States
Tommy
Cure of Severe Skin Disease by Cuticura Ointment
A Chicago mother recalls her five year old son’s massive skin eruption and painful bandage treatment. After two to four applications of Cuticura Ointment the sores dried and the child fully recovered, twelve years later. The letter is dated October 9, 1909.
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Robert Wattam
Forty-eighth St
Chicago
Even the Children Ex Governor Pennypacker Taxed by Divorce Joke
Ex governor Pennypacker at a Philadelphia luncheon condemned the divorce epidemic with a witty tale. He cited a Kensington schoolteacher who tested a grammar student who asked about the future of love and the girl answered that it would be a divorce.
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Pennypacker
Philadelphia
Kensington
Notable Quotes on Women and Cigar Ads in 19th Century Press
The passage pairs witty satire on Miss Oldgirl and universalizing claims about women's sphere, alongside an ad claim that Lewis' Single Binder cigar is pure tobacco. The fragment suggests era tone and period commercial rhetoric within a newspaper page.
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Long Island Motor Parkway
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National Irrigation Congress
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Cal
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Indianapolis and
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Sangamon County
Illinois
Charles 8. Luke
Nashville
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Fort Leavenworth
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Tex
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Mexico
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Twenty-eighth Infantry
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Mathew Walters
Mich
United States Census Bureau
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Scott Castle
Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Glens Falls
William Aubie
Interstate Commerce
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Burlington
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Mont
Franklin
Grand Army of the Republic
John E. Gilman
Boston
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