Confederate Bust Presented by Former Camp Morton Prisoners
In Indianapolis Indiana on June 9 Confederate veterans unveiled a bronze bust of Colonel Richard Dale Owen former commandant at Camp Morton. General Bennett Young presented the bust with Vice President Thomas R Marshall and Indiana University president William L Bryan in attendance. The tribute arose from Owens acts of kindness toward prisoners at Camp Morton and Mumford Ky where he was captured before being released by Confederate commander.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Richard Dale Owen
Camp Morton
Pdianapolis
Themi
Owen
Bennett Young
Louisville
United Confederate Veterans
Thomas R. Marshall
Indiana
William L. Bryan
Indiana University
Ralston
Reme
C. A. Cunningham
Nashville
Cunningham
Colonel Owen
Mumford
Lore Morton
Brazilian Minister Muller's Washington Visit to Hampton Roads
A U S official party led by Senator Root and Major General Wood departs on government yachts from Washington for Hampton Roads to greet Laura Muller Brazilian minister of foreign affairs who arrives tomorrow. A program of official functions awaits her including a sea convoy of warships and a reception by President Wilson after Fort McHenry inspection.
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Washington, D. C
Senator Root
Wood
Army
Dudley Field Malone
Mayflower
Sylph
Dolphin
Hampton Roads
Laura Muller
Root
South America
Washington
Secret Bryan
Fort Manthe
Nister Muller
Wilson
Rheumatic Blood and Swift Specific Ad Offer
An old advertisement touts S. S. S. as a natural blood antidote for rheumatism, claiming all other remedies fail to cure. It promises rapid recovery, warns against narcotics, and invites readers to contact the Swift Specific Co. Medical Dept in Atlanta for consultation or to buy a bottle.
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S. S
You are missing the opportunity of your life piano sale
A San Antonio advertisement touts a co operative sale of Kohler and Campbell pianos at 257.50 with 5 dollar initial payment and 1.25 weekly. Isaac Bledsoe's San Antonio Music Company claims double the expected orders, promising refunds or exchanges after a year and open evenings to nine thirty in San Antonio Texas.
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Stone & MacCarrie
Kohler & Campbell
Houston Street
Issac Bledsoe
SAN Antonio Music Company
San Antonio
Texas
Cooperative plan offers Kohler & Campbell piano at big discount
The sale includes a piano priced at 350 dollars available for 257 dollars 50 cents with a five dollar join and weekly payments of 1 25. A five year joint guarantee rivals a government bond plus a 30 day trial refund and a one year exchange with no loss. Dividends of 30 30 are possible, with options to recruit others and reduce cost.
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Kohler & Campbell
Jobbers Seek Out in Rate to Brownsville
San Antonio business leaders representing the Jobbers and Manufacturers' League of the Chamber of Commerce plan to travel to Austin to urge the Brownsville differential. More than twenty shippers signaled their intent to join, arguing current class freight rates to Brownsville are higher than those to Houston and Galveston, and the proposed change would equalize rates. The group departs at 7:25 AM via I N G railroad and will return that night.
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San Antonio
Brownaville
Houston
Galveston
Austin
Fate of armies at Gettysburg drives pivotal day
Fragmentary lines mention Gettysburg and the weight of a day on the fate of the Union and Confederacy. Also note phrases about Granitord, Granacrete pavements and advertising lines for vacations and office contact details.
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Gettysburg
Union
Confederacy
Cardui Woman's Tonic Promises Relief to Mrs Bishop
A Waverly Virginia letter details dramatic recovery from womanly trouble after using Cardus and Cardui. The writer claims improved appetite, energy, weight gain, and daily function, urging others to try the tonic and request a 64 page home treatment guide from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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Cardus
N. B
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Maps at Half Price for Gettysburg Battlefield
The United States Geological Survey announced a battlefield map of Gettysburg at half price under special Interior Department authority. The 925 square mile area shows routes of Lee, Hooker, Meade, Pickett and other leaders, a tool the survey says would have been priceless to the commanding generals.
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Washington, D. C
Gettysburg
United States Geological Survey
Lane
Interior Department
Lee
Hooker
Meade
Pickett
Campers note monument at Hines grave at Sutherland Springs
Schertz Camp fifty strong arrived from San Antonio to unveil a monument at C. H. Hines’s grave. The day drew about eight hundred visitors for bathing, picnicking, and a double header ball game. Campsites grew, hotels filled weeks ahead, with visitors from Houston Victoria and Goliad. Motor service kept tourists connected to the city while enjoying the resort.
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Sutherland Springs
Tex
Houston
Victoria
Goliad
San Antonio
Egyptian Relics Found in Grafton Home After 30 Years
National Museum officials learn with satisfaction that a cache of Egyptian relics vanished for three decades has been located in the Grafton Massachusetts residence of Mrs. A. E. Poore. The collection, brought to the United States in 1881 by naval surgeon Thomas A Highland, is expected to join the museum’s holdings.
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Washington, D. C
National Museum
A. E. Poore
Grafton
Mass
United States
Thomas A. Highland
Central Park
New York
Dr. Highland
Feast of Weeks Observed at Temple Beth El
Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, to be observed at Temple Beth El Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Confirmation exercises will be conducted entirely by the confirmation class with the rabbi giving a brief address. Evening service includes sacred music and readings by the class.
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Temple Beth-El
Mount Sinai
Baking Helps From Mrs Janet McKenzie Hill Editor
Baking guidance from Mrs Janet McKenzie Hill of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. It covers oven temperatures for rising cakes, avoiding overheating, and contrasts methods for bread and pastry. It references KC Cook's Book and a promotion of KC Baking Powder with a Chicago mail offer.
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Janet McKenzie Hill
Boston Cooking School Magazine
Suffragette Leaders Go on Trial at Old Bailey
Trial of suffragette leaders for conspiracy under the malicious damage act opens at the Central Criminal Court Old Bailey with Harriet Kerr Agnes Lake Rachael Barratt Beatrice Saunders Annie Kenney Laura Lennox and Edwin Clayton among the accused General Mrs Flora Drummond absent due to illness Arson squads active after a 70000 fire at Hurst Park race course and morning destruction of a River Lea boat house and North Middlesex cricket grounds grandstand.
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London
Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey
Harriet Kerr
Agnes Lake
Rachael Barratt
Beatrice Saunders
Annie Kenney
Laura Lennox
Eewin Clayton
Flora Drummond
Hurst Park Race Course
River Lea
North Middlesex Cricket Grounds
Paradise Park Fire Destroys New York Summer Resort
A early morning blaze swept Paradise Park at Fort George, up per Manhattan, starting near the Ferris wheel and destroying pavilions music halls and many small buildings. The Isabella Heimagh Home for Aged Hebrew Women was threatened as flames spread over a wide area. Loss estimated above $100 000.
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Paradise Park
New York
Upper Manhattan
Fort George
Isabella Heimagh
Grasshoppers Wreak Crop Damage Near Columbus Texas
Grasshoppers are causing widespread crop losses along the Colorado river southeast of Columbus. One farmer lost sixty acres of cotton. A suggested control mix uses two pounds of arsenic, a sack of meal, four pounds of sugar, and water to dampen, then broadcast over infested land.
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Columbus
Tex
Colorado River
Record In Fire Protection From 767-Foot Test
A world record in fire protection was set in New York as a test yesterday shot high pressure water streams from the fifty fourth floor of the citys tallest building. The experiment used the building independent fire standpipe systems, not the citys high pressure service.
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New York
Ite
Insurance board urges Texas cities to regulate fireworks
AUSTIN June 9 The state insurance board through State Fire Marshal Inglish urges every city and town in Texas to pass an ordinance regulating the discharge of fireworks for July 4. A copy of an advisory ordinance is being sent to mayors of the various cities.
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Lane
Austin
Tex
State Insurance Board
Inglish
Texas
Tramp Attacks Woman. Children Threatened in Warsaw Work Site
A tramp assaulted Mrs. Merle Pettit in Warsaw Indiana over food, beating her into unconsciousness and binding her, then terrorizing her two children. A posse captured a black man and a white man connected to the case.
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Warsaw
Ind
Merle Pettit
Horsford's Acid Phosphate Relief for Headache
Advertises Horsford's Acid Phosphate as especially recommended to relieve headaches caused by summer heat brain fatigue or tired nerves offering quick soothing effect for daily ailments in a period style notice.
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Horsford's
State department to halt personal checks for fees
Not to Accept Checks. AUSTIN, Tex., June 9. No more personal checks will be accepted in payment of fees due the department of state after July 1, says Secretary Weinert. After that date, all fees must be paid in cash, money order, Austin exchange or bank draft.
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Austin
Tex
Department of State
Secretary of State
Weinert
Austin Exchange
Texas text book board to open bids for history contract
Austin June 9 Members of the state text book board will meet in Austin next Thursday June 12 to open bids for awarding the contract for an advanced United States history. The board met last fall with Confederate veterans across the state opposing adoption of the history under consideration.
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Austin
Tex
State Text Book Board
United States
Hiawatha Pageant To Enact Legend In Van Courtlandt Park
In Van Courtlandt Park New York on June 9 150 Dakota and Ojibway actors from Lake Erie reserva tion will perform Longfellows Hiawatha twice daily through July 9 A 90 year old squaw will portray Nokomis and a papoose on a board will depict infant Hiawatha The pageant directed by the Womens Municipal League benefits tenement improvement playgrounds and education Honorary committee members include Colonel and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Mr and Mrs Seth Low and District Attorney and Mrs Whitman
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New York
Lake Erie
Longfellow
van Courtlandt Park
League
Theodore Roosevelt
Seth Low
Whitman
Good Roads Under Way In Smithville Texas
Ground was broken today on the first fifteen mile stretch of good roads in this precinct. The work is by J. W. Green a sub contractor. A total of fifty miles will be built and the contract calls for completion in seven months.
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Smithville
Tex
J. W. Green
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Camp Capitol
Col
Richard D. Owen
Party of
Isaac Bledsoe
Wm. H. Smith
Stone & McCarrick, ‘Inc
Brownsville
Railroad Commission
Waverly
Mattie L. Bishop
Gettysberg
God
Grove
Sam Speir Hardware Co
Losoya Street
Jaquas Mre, Co
Chicago
Hiawatha
Western Union
Theo. N. Vail
Smaethers
THE
Western Union Telegraph Company
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