Interesting Items From Our Readers Week
Taft pledges eight year Panama Canal completion in Cincinnati. Notable notes include Dir Kuroki touring the U S, Kearrey death, Dewey banquet, and various trials, riots, rescues, and political shifts abroad and at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Cincinnati
Panama Canal
A. B Stilwell
Orient Railroad
Mexico
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Dennis Kearrey
San Francisco
Alameda
Cal
Admiral Dewey
Washington
Manila Bay
Gen. Kuroki
Russa
Charles H. Hinton
Patent Office
John Cudahy
Chicago Packer
Edgar Macklin
Twenty- Fifth Infantry
Brownlie
Texas
Arthur McEwin
New York American
Hamilton
Bermuda
Castro
Venezuela
Wiliam FE. Correy
United States Steel Corporation
Bryan the Inevitable Roosevelt and 1908 politics in New York
Colonel Watterson, returning from Europe, argues Bryan is the Democratic alternative while predicting Roosevelt will not seek another nomination. He praises Governor Hughes as a Republican heavyweight and predicts Hughes will rise to the presidency, likening him to Tilden for the Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Watterson
Hamburg
Amerika
Spain
Italy
Riveria
Watterson
Hner
Atlantic
Bryan
Hughes
Roosevelt
New England
White House
Ite House
Horace White
Brown University
Republiana
Uhey
Tilden
Paris
United States
Penitentiary sentences for multiple Denver offenders
Harold McEwan receives seven to eight years, William Gilmer five to six, Clyde Cassidente five to six, Alton Hoffies six to seven, and Dominic Meskew convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Judge Shattuck and Judge Garrigue preside as cases involve assault of Lottie Rode, murder of James Thornton, and other violent crimes linked to a Denver criminal milieu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Harold McEwaw
William Gilmer
Clyde Cassidente
Alton E. Hoffies
Dominic Meskew
Shattuck
Harold McKnaw
McKnaw
Garrigue
Greeley
Cassidente
State Reformatory
Lottie Rode
Hoffies
James Thornton
James Ryan
Percy Smith
Harold McEwan
Teve Bokser
Max Weissbler
West Colfax
Denver & Intermountain
Alton E. Hoffses
Hoffses
Thornton
Pegleg Perry
Tenderloin
True Western Friendship at Eben Green Burial
In Cripple Creek Colorado Eben Green's body was laid to rest at Mount Pisgah cemetery after his Ophir mine accident. Frank Sheafor brother of District Judge Sheafor paid his last respects in a unique gesture, driving the hearse and bidding farewell atop the coffin before the grave was filled. The two men had become close friends in Pitkin County fourteen years earlier, with local acquaintances acting as pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Colo
Eben Green
Ophir
Mount Pisgah
Frank Sheafor
Sheafor
Sheafer
Shearer
Green
Pitkin County
Andrew Johnson Must Hang for Murder in Lamar
In Lamar Colorado Andrew Johnson was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Night Marshal J H Frisbie. The jury fixed the death penalty and Johnson was sentenced to be hanged during the week of August 20. Sheriff Thomas and Under Sheriff Lynch prepared to deliver him to the penitentiary warden. Frisbie was killed December 26 last during a confrontation with Johnson and accomplices who fled toward the Missouri Pacific line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar
Colo
Andrew Johnson
J. H. Frisbie
E. P. Thurston
Johnson
Hunter
Thomas
Sherif Lynch
Canon City
J. Horace Frisbie
Union Hotel
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Kiowa County
Jonnson
Near Champagne Recipe Leads to Court Verdict
In New York a jury awarded Mrs. Cath Lang $1,900 after she testified she shared a secret recipe to make a sparkling wine called near champagne with Julius Minck of Minck & Co. The affair involved California Riesling wine, sugar, lemons and raisins, and claimed a scheme to deceive champagne experts. The defendant denied promising payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
California
Drake
Champag
Cath Lang
Alsace
Julius Minck
Minck & Co
Minck
Sesc
Union Pacific to Launch Gasoline Motor Car Service
Union Pacific plans a gasoline motor car on its Kansas line from Denver to Hugo within ten days or two weeks. A single car will cover 105 miles to Hugo in under four hours, about thirty miles per hour, to supplement existing passenger trains for a growing dry farming population. In two months UP moved 95 car loads of household goods to Hugo area as 500 homesteaders joined settlers recently, driving demand for added travel options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inland Waterways Commission
Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Armour Packing Company
Swift & Co. Morris & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
James Bryce
Jamestown
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Virginia
Joplin
Springfield
Guthrie
Capt
Chandler
J. C. McCoy
Washington, D. C
St. Louis
Golconda
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
Tulsa
Web Pressman’s Union of
Presenien Afd
Worcester
Mass
Leontle M. Shaw
Otto von Waldstein
California
Omaha
Canton
China
Charles J. Steedman
New York
Philadelphia
Steedman
Paris
Riddlesburg
United States
Santo Domingo
Senate
Dominican Congress
Franklin P. Mays
Portland
Ore
Kansas City
Missouri River
Elk County
Kan
Chicago
Lotus Lunch Club
Gen. Grant
Weather Bureau
Jere Knode Cooke
St. George Episcopal Church
Hempstead
L. I
Whaley
George B. McClellan
Roosevelt
Society of the Army of the Potomac
West Virginia
Oxford University
Alexander Graham Bell
Smithsonian Institution
State Association of Congregational Churches of Missouri
W. F. Connell
Denver University
Journeau and Burnham Company
Brooklyn
Salt Lake
Colorado
Union Pacific
Kansas Line
Denver
Hugo
Here
Woman abstinence debate sparks social contrast
An exchange features a self disciplined man claiming no smoking or drinking since year start, while a vegetarian notes most women avoid such vices and are deemed superior. The discussion shifts to praise of women as temperate and spiritual, ending with a call to give woman her due and a brief jab at male indulgence. A soda advertisement follows touting De fiance Starch for laundry use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cineinmati Enquirer
No Criticism to Make by Mrs Hwfa Williams in New York
Mrs Hwfa Williams an English society leader spoke at a New York dance about women riding astride. She noted young women dressed in hunting coats breeches and top boots attracting attention yet not immodest. A London tale about an English girl riding to Wareham circulated among artisans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hwfa Williams
New York
Mrs. Williams
London
Wareham
A Fish Story and Trout Protection Debate
An eminent gunner dismisses trout protection as nonsense and claims trout prey on ducks. He asserts a trout drags a duck underwater to drown it and eat it, then escapes jurisdictional limits, mocking fishermen and fish stories.
Costly Cyclopedia Edition Completed in Korea
The Munhon Pigo revision ordered by the government is finished. It comprises a 2¢ volume edition published at an expense of 47,500 yen.
Postum as Coffee Alternative Helps Reformer Improve Health
A reader recounts morning languor and heart and stomach distress from coffee. She cites multiple women, including a former W C T U president, whose ailments eased after switching to Postum Food Coffee. The note claims coffee caused trouble and Postum improved well being with the pitch to read The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellville
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Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
Idaho
Gov. Steunenberg
William A. Brewer, Jr
Washington Life Insurance Company
Kuroki
Suite
Seattle
Perions
Rawalpindi
British India
William Cross
Newton Youngblood
Cabrera
Guatemala City
Johnstown
Buford
Honolulu
Hawaiii
Kalanainaole
National Stove Company
Lorain
France
Germany
Kansas
Society of Equity
Farmers’ Union
Wichita
Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs
Kansas Supreme Court
Atchison
Trust Company of America
Wat
Terson
Bryan the
Kentucky
Denver Courts of Justice
Frisbie
Wherz
St. Paul Park
Hin
National
Dm wAtehewrt
Folkmen
Sixe
Merrell Peer
Hevien
Seatale
Cleveland
Chirag
Loni
Joba
Lewie
Vree Cai
Witte Kerah
Winchester
Libby
Livy
Inelat
McNeill & Yy
Watean K. Coleman
Washington, DC
N. Y
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