Edward Rosewater Dead After 40 Years of Omaha Influence
Edward Rosewater founder and longtime editor of the Omaha Bee was found dead in Bee Building district court room No. 6 after returning from Waterloo. Born in 1841 in Bohemia, he came to the United States in 1864 and shaped Nebraska politics, business, and media as a legislative figure, national committee member, mint official, and promoter of the 1898 trans Mississippi Exposition.
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Omaha Bee
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Fairbanks Addresses Kansas G A R Veterans at Dodge City Camp
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks spoke to thousands of Kansas G A R veterans and others at the Dodge City reunion. He arrived from Osawatomie and was met by Kansans including Senators Long and Benson and Henry J. Ifen editor of the Ottawa Herald. The address drew loud cheers as he recalled Civil War and Spanish American War eras and Kansas' role. He planned to speak next in Boise City. The rain left roads in poor condition but did not halt the program.
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Fairbanks
Boise City
Holaho
Anarchists Depart Bialystok for United States
Prominent Jewish anarchists have left Bialystok in Russia and emigrated to the United States.
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Bialystok
Russia
Eit
United States
Canal Commission Junk Sale Nets $59,872 From Panama Scraps
Bids opened Friday by the Isthmian canal commission for cast iron scrap and other junk salvaged from machinery taken to the Panama isthmus by the French. The junk auction aggregates about 7,200 tons and will net the commission $59,872.
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Washington, D.C
Panama
Isthmian Canal Commission
Aggere
Commission
Stensland Safe Box Pried Open Yields Forged Deeds
A strongbox belonging to Paul O. Stensland and kept in the ruined Milwaukee Avenue state bank vault was pried open Friday. Inside were 150 blank warranty deeds signed by the bank’s dummy agents, uncovered amid the investigation of the bank’s collapse.
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Chicago
Paul O. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Press Clubs on an Excursion to Denver
A large party of newspaper men and delegates to the International League of Press Clubs concluded their convention with a banquet Thursday night and began a three day mountain excursion on Friday in Denver.
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Denver
Galo
International League of Press Clubs
Alum in Baking Powder Sparks Health Debate
A heated treatise argues that Cream of Tartar based baking powder is chemically purer than alum varieties. It claims alum leaves harmful residues in bread while tartar does not, and notes widespread alum use in water purification and cheaper price for alum powder.
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Crean
Tartar
Missouri River
Derelict Vessels Prompt Calls for Destruction
An observer notes the Role of derelict ships as threats to navigation. The Tacoma and Columbia crews are praised for destroying dangers, echoing the New York Tribune urging navies to remove abandoned hulks swiftly due to frequent accidents and disappearances.
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Coluumbia
New York Tribune
Beit's Deed of Generosity in Faced with Ingratitude
A South African diamond magnate, Alfred Beit, once helped a friend who repaid him with ingratitude and abuse. The ungrateful man later fell on hard times and avoided asking for aid, but Beit urged someone to discreetly offer help without the recipient knowing the source.
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Troubles of an Author and the Bottle Imp Rumor
A fragment discusses Robert Loupis and Stevenson's work with letter hints about a translator Mr C and locals connecting a bottle metaphor to Stevenson. The tone notes curiosity among natives and a house resemblance to the author's, amid speculation about the Bottle-Imp story coming in a translated form.
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Stevenson
Simoa
Louis
Coffee Sufferer Finds Relief With Postum
A Michigan woman describes years of bilious colic, headaches, catarrh, and extreme dyspepsia from coffee. After quitting coffee and using Postum, she reports her condition improved, with doctors at odds about coffee causing illness. She urges others to try Postum and cites The Road to Wellville as reading.
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Cure for skin eruption through Cuticura remedies
Claude N Johnson of Maple Grove Farm tests Cuticura products for two years of itching and skin eruptions. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, relief came from the first application and full cure followed, thanking Cuticura for recovery. Date noted June 15 1905.
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Walnut
Kam
Beyond a Doubt Two Workmen in Court
Two sober industrious workmen faced a police court on a quarrel over a allegedly stolen coat. The magistrate pressed for proof as search of the garment yielded nothing. One man retrieved his coat by producing dried peas from a pocket as his proof.
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Peter Powell
Magnificent Cathedral of St John the Divine Rises in New York
An article notes the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in Morningside Heights, New York, to be the largest and costliest church edifice in America, valued at about 10 million dollars as it rises as a landmark project. Also includes an naively advertised foot-care powder, Allen's Foot-Ease, claiming cures for foot pain, sweating, and nails with 30,000 testimonials and a free trial offer.
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St. John the Divine
Morningside
Heights
America
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Fear for Cologne Cathedral Crumbling Gothic Icon
Reports say Cologne Cathedral suffers serious damage to its central portal with large carved stones fallen and other sections showing signs of collapse. Construction began in 1248 and finished in 1880. the structure is widely regarded as the finest Gothic cathedral in the world.
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Cologne
Cologne Cathedral
European Nations In Africa Ownership Figures Revealed
Nations in Africa hold vast colonial territories with Britain owning about 2,700,000 square miles and France 3,800,000 square miles including Madagascar. The total area cited for Africa is 11,500,000 square miles.
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Niles
Great’ Britain
France
Madagascar
North Dakota Adopts Label Rule to Fight Paint Frauds
North Dakota lawmakers approve a “Let the label tell” plan for paint. Consumers can buy mixtures like rock-dust or quartz labeled as pure white lead only if genuine white lead is present. The approach aims to prevent deception by signaling true content while leaving choice to buyers.
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North. Dakota
North Dakota
Faceless Dyes Claim Quick Light Fastness and Deep Cleansing
Advertising copy notes a dye product labeled Putnam Face less Dyes offering fast light resistance and strong washing power at 10 cents per package. It asserts ivy harms dampness by drawing moisture from brick or stone where it clings, implying a moisture extraction claim.
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Putnam
Life of John Sherman Published This Fall
Congressman Theodore E. Burton of Ohio reports a new life of John Sherman will be published this fall. Burton, who was in London as a delegate to the Interparliamentary Union, confirms the project and timing.
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John Sherman
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
London
Interparliamentary Union
Labor the Great Quality in Ruskin's View
A compact excerpt discusses labor as essential beauty and human achievement. It contrasts effortless recreation with the negative tally of defects and toil that accompanies every feat and deed, citing Ruskin to frame toil as the price of living.
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Ruskin
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