Reclamation Special Train To Tour Southern Swamps
Illinois Central officials announce the Reclamation Special will travel starting June 14 from Chicago to promote swamp land improvement. Lecturers from the U S Reclamation Service and Geological Survey will tour 61 towns across Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
South
United States Reclamation Service
Geological Survey
Cc. J. Blanchard
Reclamation Service
M. O. Leighton
National Irrigation Congress
Illinois
Gulf of Mexico
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Arkansas
Three Die in Michigan Storm Strikes Detroit Area
An electrical storm across Michigan caused widespread damage with downed wires. Bryant Smith 79 of Wyandotte and Arthur Bushay 9 of Detroit were electrocuted after grabbing dangling lines. J H Howell 60 was killed by lightning while milking a cow at Montrose.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Bryant Smith
Wyandotte
Arthur Bushay
J. H. Howell
Montrose
Good board like mother's at the Jefferson
The note references a “Good board like mother's” dish at the Jefferson located on 442 Sciedad Street, indicating a home style meal item or kitchen shorthand.
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Mother's
The
Jefferson
Sciedad Street
War Relic Reina Mercedes In Brooklyn Drydock
The Reina Mercedes, once a major Spanish warship and later a training station ship, lies in a Brooklyn navy yard drydock with barnacle encrusted hulls and peeling paint. After repairs and conversion, she served at Newport as a training ship for around a hundred sailors for a week before returning to duty.
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Associated Press
New York
Spain
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Newport
R. I
Healthy Nerves A Cure Reveals Value of Pink Pills
Mrs. Donald Galloway of Kansas City credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing nervous prostration after a year of suffering. She describes dizziness breathlessness and severe pains before improving after three boxes. The pills purify blood strengthen nerves and have no habit forming stimulants. Available at drug stores or Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY 50 cents a box six for 2 50.
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Donald Galloway
Hardesty Avenue
Kansas City
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Man with Five Year Term Delays Escape Plan
Will Hill, a prisoner with a five year sentence, declined to escape after alighting from a train in Frankfort Kentucky. He separated from his escort and walked to the penitentiary asking if the officer had arrived, then waited for the officer rather than attempting an escape. Prison officials delayed custody until the officer arrived.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Kentucky
Will Hill
Hill
Gate City Guard Monument Dedication Planned in Atlanta
Mayor Gaynor has not received an invitation to the October dedication of a monument in Atlanta commemorating the Gate City Guard’s 32 year old Mission of Peace visit to northeastern states. The three day ceremony marks the Guard as the first military group to pursue the project.
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Associated Press
New York
Gaynor
Atlanta
Old Gate City Guard
Gate City Guard
Hall's Texas Wonder Cure Ad for Kidney and Rheumatic Ailments
A 50 cent reward claim for kidney bladder or rheumatic troubles and a promise of cure with Hall's Texas Wonder. One bottle often perfects a cure with testimonials available from Dr. E W Hall in St. Louis Missouri. Sold by druggists.
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Hall
Texas Wonder
E. W. Hall
Olive St
St. Louis
Yawl Seabird Set For Providence To Rome Ocean Crossing
Yachtsman Thomas Fleming Day and Narragansett Bay Association president T R Goodwin plan a Providence to Rome voyage in the 25 foot yawl Seabird. They aim to reach Italy in forty days via the Azores and Gibraltar, departing next Saturday.
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Providence
R. I
Rome
Italy
Thomas Fleming Day
T. R. Goodwin
Narragansett Bay Association
Seabird
Azores
Gibraltar
Roosevelt on suffrage interview in The Woman Voter
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt voices support for woman suffrage in a new interview in The Woman Voter. He says his family calls him the only suffragette and notes his wife is tepid while his sisters are anti suffrage.
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Associated Press
New York
Woman Voter
Woman Suffrage Party
Just Out
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Fire destroys Louisville Male High School building
Fire of unknown origin partially destroyed the Louisville Male High School in Louisville Kentucky last night. The two upper stories burned away while the lower floors suffered extensive damage, jeopardizing the school’s ability to confer bachelor of arts degrees under its charter.
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Associated Press
Louisville, Ky
Louisville Male High School
United States
Firecrackers for Fourth Fill New York Streets
The freighter Lowther Castle lies at a New York pier with twenty million firecrackers aboard from Hong Kong. Two to three million remain in Boston for July Fourth festivities while the rest head to New York City for celebrations.
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Associated Press
New York
Hong Kong
Boston
Syrup Pepsin Praised in Letters to Dr. Caldwell
Readers from Chicago Richmond Hill Monticello and beyond report relief for stomach and bowel issues in children and adults. Recipients describe quick improvement after using Syrup Pepsin and many say they keep it in the house for regular use.
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Dr. Caldwell
Philip Lloyd
Elizabeth R. Jones
Perry St
Chicago
Chas. H. Peers
Jamaica Ave
Richmond Hill
L. T
Katherine Haberstroh
McKees Rocks
Caldwell
J. E. Kennedy
Ella N. Williams
Wathena
Kas
Mantel
Ma Ida A. Fortune
Grand Junction, Enn
Long Strike Called Off in Tuscarawas Miners Row
Bridgeport union officials disclose that the 3500 miners in the Tuscarawas mine district will end their strike. Tellers yesterday counted votes from locals, showing ratification of the Canton joint conference agreement. The strike reaches its one year mark June 10.
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Associated Press
Bridgeport, CO
Tuscarawas
Canton
Walsh property sold in Chicago coal lands sale
Clearing house banks of Chicago released 3 million dollars more from the sale of the Alliance Coal company assets. Monon Coal company allied with the Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville Railway took over Alliance properties including about 20 000 acres of Indiana coal lands.
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Chicago
Clearing House Banks of
John R. Walsh
Alliance Coal Company
Monon Coal Company
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company
Monon
Alliance Properties
Indiana
Chinese Woman 10 Be Graduated at Columbia
Miss Faung Yuen Tsao of Shanghai will receive the bachelor of science from Teachers College Columbia University tomorrow. She is among the first Chinese government scholars sent to the U.S. in 1907 to study education and has earned high faculty praise. Her education in America began at Corey College Missouri then Wellesley and two years at Columbia. One of her five brothers is a Yale senior and her younger sister graduated last week from Johns Hopkins Baltimore.
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New York
Faung Yuen Tsao
Shanghai
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
America
Tsao
Corey College
Missouri
Wellesley
Columbia
Yale
Women's Medical College
Baltimore
Chicago Fireman Confesses to Arson and Suicide
Leopold Dreyfus of JL Dreyfus and company, Chicago, killed himself after confessing to police that he helped burn his Market Street business last Saturday. Police say the confession points to an organized band of incendiaries who offer arson for a price.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Leopold Dreyfus
JL. Dreyfus, and Company
Market Street
Survey Team to Map Vernon to Crowell Line
A corps of surveyors left Vernon Texas to lay out the proposed line from Vernon to Crowell Texas. Backing for the project comes from Houston Crowell and Vernon, with a contact number listed as 1355 blue. An antiseptic Laundry.
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Associated Press
Vernon
Tex
Crowell
Texas
Houston
To Build New School House in Donna Texas
The school trustees let a $15 000 contract to H L Fitch of Brownsville for a two story brick schoolhouse to be ready for occupancy September 1. Special noon meals advertised at the German Kitchen on Avenue C.
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Donna
Tex
H. L. Fitch
Brownsville
No Head for Princeton President Election Delayed Indefinitely
Princeton New Jersey June 6 The selection of a successor to Gov Woodrow Wilson as Princeton University president has been indefinitely postponed. A special nominating committee remains undecided delaying a report expected at commencement. The leading names are John H Finley of City College of New York and John Grier Hibben Princeton professor of logic. Hibben is an alumnus while Finley is not though he once taught politics at Princeton.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson
John H. Finley
City College of New York
John Grier Hibbin
Hibben
Finley
Cleveland
Ambulance for Sick Animals Begins in Boston
Boston introduces its first animal distress ambulance. The Massachusetts 8. P. Co. A. received the vehicle from manufacturers, built on designs by Francis H. Rowley and equipped with devices from the society's veterinarians. Dr. Sarah F. Herdmann referenced with contact details.
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Associated Press
Boston
Massachusetts 8. P. Co. A
Francis H. Rowley
Society
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