Washington Real Estate Sharks Profiteering in Government Rentals
Morris Sheppard chairs a public buildings inquiry in Washington into rented firetraps housing clerks at about 500000 dollars annually. The probe could shape future government housing and prompt broader federal expenditure, with Mann predicting up to 100000000 dollars in public building outlays and a Democratic plan to trim employe costs.
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Washington
Sheppard
Congressman Sheppard
City of Washington
Mann
Congressman Mann
City of
Democratic Party
After Seven Years Suffering From Female Ailments
In Oklahoma and Massachusetts readers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for restoring health after long illness and medical failure. The letters claim improved weight, strength, sleep, and relief from inflammation ulcers displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mari Janette Battes
Box 134
Huntington
Mass
State to Fight Weevil.
Georgia plans an active defense against the boll weevil with a state funded program. Entomologist Worsham aims to educate cotton planters before the pest arrives in three years, using exhibits in cotton county courthouses to show the weevil’s growth and damage to young cotton squares.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Department of
Worsham
Roosevelt's African Elephant Won’t Fit California Halls
The skin and skull of Theodore Roosevelt's African elephant, presented to the University of California after preparation at the Smithsonian, cannot be displayed. With no space in university buildings, officials say the elephant may be sent to the University Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
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Berkeley
Cal
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
University of California
Smithsonian Institute
University Museum of Anthropology
San Francisco
Temple Praetorians Organize in Taylor Texas
Taylor Council No. 83 Modern Order of Praetorians was organized in Taylor with fifteen charter members. Officers elected include John B. Gordon as sublime Augustus C C. Cameron recorder Miss Alberta Spears Praetorian queen. W T Danforth of Belton served as state organizer and instituted the council.
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Taylor
Tex
Taylor Council
Order of Praetorians
John B. Gordon
C. C. Cameron
Alberta Spears
W. T. Danforth
Belton
Prohibition Debate Shapes Texas July Election, Hudspeth Says
State Senator C B Hudspeth of El Paso urges a timely July 2 vote to settle statewide prohibition. He notes anti saloon sentiment strong, pro campaign faltering, and an investment scare as capital avoids Texas while wool growers push tariff relief. Hudspeth plans to seek hearings in Washington to aid wool interests.
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Prohibition
C. B. Hudspeth
el Paso
San Antonio
Hudspeth
Senate
Waco
Fort Worth
Texas
Mr. Hudspeth
Charles Schreiner
Kerrville
B. L. Crouch
Corpus Christi
Alfred Giles
Schreiner
Washington
Ways and Means
House
Finance Committee
Crouch
Continental Money Worthless Worthless Continental Notes Donated to Treasury
A $40 note authorized by the continental congress was sent to the treasury by a man seeking real money and declared worthless. Specimens of continental money arrive periodically but were never redeemable under the later U S system. Between 1790 and 1797 the treasury paid one dollar in specie for a hundred continental notes. The old notes hold only historic value now.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Continental Congress
Treasury
United States
Peruna credited with cure for chronic stomach catarrh
West Burlington Iowa resident A. M. Skerd reports years of stomach and small intestine catarrh, failed doctors and cancer fear, then relief and cure after using Peruna and Manalin. He says five bottles of Peruna and two of Manalin restored health and urges keeps a bottle at home.
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A. M. Skerd
West Burlington
Iowa
Chicago
Farmer admits killing farm hand in accidental death claim
John Poole a wealthy Fowler farmer admitted killing Joseph Kemper but said it was accidental after Kemper's body was found on Poole farm. Poole was jailed near Rensselaer on a murder charge as two other Poole farm workers, Charles Clark and Charles Mack, long missing prompted a broader search. Elmer Poole, 18, son of the accused, led the probe and found the body.
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Associated Press
Fowler
Ind
John Poole
Joseph Kemper
Poole
Kemper
Rensselaer
Michigan
Belle Gunness
Charles Clark
Charles Mack
Elmer Poole
Emper
Locomotor Ataxia Cured At King’s Sanitarium San Antonio
An advertisement states locomotor ataxia and other nervous troubles are positively cured at King’s Sanitarium in San Antonio Texas. Prof F T King invites readers to write for particulars and references to Lock Box 821.
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King’s Sanitarium
F. T. King
San Antonio
Texas
Two Die in Fire in Jersey City Tenement
A tenement blaze in Jersey City, New Jersey, early today killed two people and endangered thirty families. Firefighter Frank Baldwin, seated in an engine he drove, suffered a fractured skull after being thrown in a collision with a trolley car and is not expected to survive. Mrs. Orak Dalavak and her daughter perished on the top floor, their bodies found charred later.
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Associated Press
Jersey City
N. J
Frank Baldwin
Orak Dalavak
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Introduced as Tasteless Health Aid
The advertisement explains why sugar tastes sweet and promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a tasteless, stomach-dissolving bitter tonic usable by adults and children. It claims the product remains tasteless in the mouth, dissolves in stomach acids, and has been the standard for 30 years priced at 50 cents.
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GROVE
Old Twenty first regiment tribute reenacts 1861 scenes
Buffalo New York observes a ceremony marking the departure of the Twenty first regiment fifty years ago. Reenactments replicate the 1861 events with Mrs. Julia E. P. Lester rereading her address from school days and General Scroggs' response echoed by the regiment's senior officer.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Twenty-first
Julia E. P. Lester
Chicago
Julia Paddock
General Scroggs
New York Star Dye Works Ad Promises Full Garment Cleaning
A local advertisement for New York Star Dye Works claims comprehensive cleaning from hats to shoes, highlighting a full garment care service offered by the business.
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New York
Rathskeller in San Antonio Opens for Lunch Trade
The Rathskellar in San Antonio serves as a lunch spot with open hours from noon to 1 p.m. It emphasizes good service and a choice of delicatessen items and short orders, noting Elite Cafe as a nearby reference.
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San Antonio
Elite Cafe
Father Quinn Long in Church Service
Announcement marks the twenty fifth anniversary of Rev. Father J. H. Quinn entering religious work. The May 23 24 observance at St Marys includes a social and a parish purse gift to support the school debt. Father Quinn will accept the purse in spirit and devote funds to the parish school debt.
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St. Mary's Church
Father J. H. Quinn
St. Mary’s
St. Mary's
Father Quinn
Children of
St. Mary's School
Wisconsin
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Street
San Antonio
Holy Angels’ Church
Buffalo
N. Y
Box Man Rode in Goes On
Officials of the American Express company were surprised when a box moved for a collect shipment from Lawrence Kansas to Galveston ended up sent on to Galveston without its contents which had been removed. The box arrived in Houston yesterday and the case was handed to local legal authorities.
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
American Express Company
Myers
Lawrence
Kan
Galveston
Orrine touted as cure for whiskey and beer habit
An advertisement hails Orrine as the standard remedy for the drink habit. It claims thousands of women praise it for restoring sobriety and wages to home use. The two forms No 1 powder and No 2 pills are sold for 1.00 a box at Fischer's Drug Store with a money back guarantee if no benefit.
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Fischer
Orrine
Orrine Coo
Washington, D. C
Fischer's Drug Store
Gibbs Building
Priest Risks Life to Save Another in Hudson Rescue
In New York on May 3 Father Richard Ryan a Roman Catholic priest jumped into the Hudson near the Battery to save Peter Verian a laborer who had fallen from a pier. Both men struggled as they sank but were rescued by a police boat Taft to Receive Ad Men.
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New York
Richard Ryan
Hudson River
Battery
Peter Verian
Maine to Erect Statue of Major General O Howard
Maine will honor Major naval General O Howard with a monumental equestrian statue on the Gettysburg battlefield. A state commission, named by Governor Plaisted, will work with the U S commission to select a suitable site.
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Maine
Howard
Augusta
Naval
O. Howard
Gettysburg
Plaisted
United States Commission
Ford Herold Dies at 82, Mississippi River steel hull pioneer
Ford Herold, 82, who built the first steel hull boat on the Mississippi, died at home in St. Louis yesterday of senility. He was well known along the river from St. Louis to New Orleans.
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Ford Herold
ST. Louis
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Accidentally Kills Brother in Louisville Play Fight
In Louisville on May 3, 13 year old Dominick Lutz shot and killed his 8 year old brother Bernard while playing a game of highwaymen. The youths believed the revolver they used was unloaded.
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Louisville
Dominick Lutz
Bernard
Through-ice Fishing Returns in Adirondacks
At Saranac Lake New York on May 3 fishermen report lakes with 12 to 20 inches of ice and 12 to 14 inches of snow still in the woods delaying brook trout fishing. Old loggers predict true fly fishing may not start until June as snow melts and water drains.
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Associated Press
Saranac Lake
N. Y
Adirondacks
Snow and rain ease Adirondack forest fire danger
Rain and snow have reduced danger from forest fires in the Adirondacks. Snow is falling at some northern points while it rains in other sections of the mountains, Albany reports on May 3.
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THE
Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Adirondacks
Four Run for School Trustee in Taylor Texas
In Taylor Texas on May 3 four candidates announced for two Tay lor public school board vacancies to be filled by the May 6 election. They are Robert C. Briggs Sol G Yakey Gus Weidenbaum and R H Talley. Retiring members include R C Briggs S G Yakey G E King and Albert E Natu wald with Natuwald move to Menard. Holdovers are J W Womack T B Hyde and George W Avery.
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G. E. King
Albert E. Natuwald
Menard, Tex
J. W. Womack
T. B. Hyde
George W. Avery
Hyde resigns as New York city chamberlain under fire
Charles H. Hyde will resign immediately after facing indictment and intense press scrutiny. He claims to be the victim of a vast conspiracy and cites not wanting to embarrass the Gaynor administration. He is charged with bribery and taking an unlawful fee, pleaded not guilty with plea options through May 16, and posted $7500 bail as the Carnegie Trust probe continues.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles HH Hyde
Gaynor
Hyde
Carnegie Trust
Lockhart Elects Field as Mayor in Tuesday Vote
Lockhart Texas May 3 The election here Tuesday resulted in W E Field as mayor E Carter now alderman who announced Monday afternoon 184 votes Four hundred and sixteen were cast The candidates represented the prohibitionists and anti prohibitionists.
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Lockhart
Field
Tex
W. E. Field
E. Carter
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