Tobin Hill Car Robbery Fight Ends with Conductor Wounded
Conductor Barefield fought off two robbers aboard a Tobin Hill street car on McCullough near Locust and Myrtle last night. He received head wounds, had $15, and was treated at Kenney Hospital. Motorman Frank knew nothing until shots rang out as the robbers leaped from the car.
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McCullough
B. 3Arefield
Locust
Myrtle Streets
Field
J. Wey
Tobin Hill
Kenney Hospital
Barefield
B. V. Frank
South Presa Street
McCorkle
Brand advertisement urges loyalty to top wheat products
A compact ad extols reliability of certain wheat products and warns customers not to accept other brands. It claims best hard wheat and careful mixing, urging buyers to secure money for the desired brand.
Emigration surge prompts extra steamer from Bremen
Heavy emigration through Bremen this year forces the North German Lloyd to add an extra steamer, which will sail to New York on November 2.
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Bremen
America
New York
Malaria Tonic Promises Health for Children and Adults
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic marketed as a malaria remedy and tonic for both adults and children. The ad claims it drives out malaria and builds up the system and prices the product at 60 cents.
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GROVE
Booths HYOMEI Inhaler Ad Promises Catarrh Cure
An advertisement touts Booths HYOMEI as a guaranteed remedy for catarrh. The HYOMET outfit includes a hard rubber inhaler and a bottle for $1.00, with a second bottle available for 50 cents if needed. Thousands use it for coughs colds and croup sold by druggists everywhere.
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Booth
High Cost of Living Continues to Rise in 1912
Washington reports show meat prices climbing substantially from October 1911 to October 1912 while vegetables mostly fell in price for vegetarians. Beef veal pork mutton and lamb up. milk slight drop. apples and peaches down. Farm livestock values rose with horses up from 137 to 140 and milch cows from 42.69 to 47.30. Also William L. Chambers of Washington named the third member of Georgia Railroad board of arbitration to settle trainmen dispute in Atlanta.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
McDonald Becomes Superintendent for Harriman Terminals
L. B. McDonald began duties as superintendent of all Harriman line terminals in Houston. He succeeds H. J. Micksche, who steps up to assistant superintendent of the Houston East and West Texas lines.
Schaff and Webb Inspect Waco Texas Central Yards on Katy
President C E Schaff and General Manager W A Webb of the Texas Central railroad toured the Katy line from Waco Texas visiting the big yards. They have traveled quietly through the state inspecting facilities and checking operations.
Insane Man Kills Sister and Wounds Wife then Commits Suicide
Marcus Collier a Walnut Ridge merchant shot and killed his sister Mrs. A L Poe during a bout of temporary insanity and perhaps fatally wounded his wife before taking his own life in Walnut Ridge Arkansas on November 1 according to local reports.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
Marcus Collier
A. L. Poe
Counterfeiting Drops in Fiscal 1912 Says Secret Service Chief
John E. Wilkie reports a material decrease in counterfeit currency in the United States during fiscal year 1912. The total representative value of spurious notes and coins circulated was 39000 dollars, the lowest since 1907, with 324 counterfeiters arrested and 1910's record seized exceeding a half million dollars.
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Washington
John E. Wilkie
United States
Secret Service
Shortest Will Found in New Orleans Court Archives
A six word will dated long ago declares Miss Sophie Loper is my heiress. The document was deemed legal by the supreme court in 1869 after a district court refused probate.
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New Orleans
Sophie Loper
Supreme Court
Grain yield to break records in northwest regions
MINNEAPOLIS Minn Nov 1 G H Tunell chief deputy grain inspector predicted the northwest grain yield this year would exceed all records by 35 000 000 bushels based on current conditions in the Dakotas Montana and Minnesota and the volume already handled by the state inspection department Also from Sydney N S W Nov 1 news reports thirty volcanoes erupt on Ninafoon Island in the Tonga group with a central lake sinking two feet.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
G. H. Tunell
Tunell
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
State Inspection Department
Sydney
S. W
Ninafoon
Germany Denies Punta Arenas Report on Bremen Survey
The German foreign office in Berlin denies a Punta Arenas Chile report that the German cruiser Bremen is surveying in the Magellan Straits to acquire a coaling station for Germany.
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Germany
Berlin
German Foreign Office
Punta Arenas
Chile
Bremen
Magellan Straits
Tennessee Woman Found Dead In Madisonville Smoke House
The body of Mrs. J. C. Montgomery was found hanging from a rope in a smoke house near her Madisonville home this morning. Authorities say financial worries may have driven her to take her own life. her wealthy husband died about a year ago.
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Tennessee
Knoxville
Tenn
J. C. Montgomery
Madisonville
Topeka Chosen For Missionary Society Convention
Topeka Kansas was selected as the next year meeting place for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The society and its branches pledged themselves to raise 806000 dollars for missions in the coming year.
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Topeka
Baltimore
Kan
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pioneer Indian fighter Major Ruffee dies at 74
Brainerd Minnesota reports Major Charles A Ruffee a veteran of pioneer northwest days and Indian conflicts died yesterday at age 74.
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Brainerd
Minn
Charles A. Ruffee
Northwest
Wilson Rally at Madison Square Garden Draws Fierce Ovation
Governor Woodrow Wilson addressed a Madison Square Garden crowd after an earlier Bronx speech. He praised the “common people” rising in influence while urging a united government and a Wilson vote next Tuesday. The audience, including Mrs Wilson and daughters, cheered as Dems Underwood and Sulzer looked on.
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New York
Woodrow Wilson
Madison Square Garden
Bronx
Wilson
Madison Square
Oscar W. Underwood
William Sulzer
America
House of Representatives
Senate
ZEMO Promises Fast Skin Relief for Eczema
Advert says ZEMO cures eczema and skin ailments with a disappearing liquid that soothes pain and itching. Trial bottle offered at 25 cents, regularly 1.00 for large bottle, guaranteed. Sold by Wm. Ap ees Burns Co and other San Antonio druggists.
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San Antonio
Wm. Apees Burns & Co
Bexar Drug Co A. Dreiss
H. L. Waener
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Houston Street
Caroni Chilimac
Ghetti
Micelli Egg Noodle
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Chilimac
Antonio Macaroni Factory
Alous"st
Charles Rees
Rees
E. Houston ST. Heam Theater
Tutt’s
Eczema
Zemo
Wolfson’s
JOU
Groy
Monney
National Toilet Goods Co
Roger & Gallets
Jasmin
Ylang
Nottingham
Kayser
Norfolk
Manchester
Texas
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