Defiance Starch and Mother Grays Powder Ad Roundup
A collage of product pitches and proverbs. Defiance Starch bills itself as the best in quality and quantity, while Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children is advertised as a fever cure and bowel regulator. Erie Railroad promotes travel information and free booklets. The clippings reflect early 20th century ad style with proverbs and moral lines.
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Erie Railroad Company
Railway Exchange
Chicago
Chautauqua Lake
Cambridge Springs
Real pearls and playful vignettes from a sunlit page
A collage of curiosities and jokes including pearl farming myths in Japan, a Iola Kansas measles tale with a loyal dog in the bedchamber, a Detroit baldness remedy anecdote ending in a humorous misfortune, a Kawakami watch tale, and miscellaneous frontier humor about crop failures, pickpockets, and a comic funeral remark about Spilkins.
Grape-Nuts saves health for lifelong digestion relief
A personal testimony describes chronic poor appetite and low strength until a physician prescribed Grape-Nuts and cream. After starting the cereal, the writer reports rapid health gains, increased flesh and weight, and lasting vigor. The ad promotes Postum Co. branding and the claim that Grape-Nuts is the true sustaining food.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wollville
Esch
Pke
Hounds Trail Human Brutes in Greensboro Assault
In Newcastle Indiana on July 11, Mrs. W. M. Starbuck and her infant were left near a well after an attempted criminal assault. Starbuck was rescued, but the baby drowned. A posse with bloodhounds followed a wagon-spot trail to an old well two miles east. Mrs Starbuck lies in critical condition.
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Newcastle
Ind
W. M. Starbuck
Greensboro
William Starbuck
Birl Goodby
Admits Murdering Four Men in Train Killings
Pittsburg July 12 John Johnson a negro who with Frank Ousley will be hanged for the murder of James Donnelly a grocer has confessed to four other murders He says he was born in Georgia and at about 18 took to life as a tramp Two victims were traveling with him in a box car on a Virginia railroad After killing them for the $5 in their possession he threw their bodies from the car The other two victims suffered a like fate on a Georgian railroad.
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Pittsburg
John Johnson
Frank Ousley
James Donnelly
Georgia
Bail Fixes Set for Western Federation Miners
Cripple Creek Colorado July 11 Judge Cunningham fixed bonds for ten Western Federation of Miners members jailed on murder assault to murder and conspiracy charges connected to the Independence explosion and week of June 6 at ten thousand dollars each and for twenty others at five thousand dollars each. Twelve applicants were denied bail.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Jury verdict on Jesse Tucker hanging in Mississippi
A coroner's jury in Houston, Texas, reports Jesse Tucker, a Black man, died by hanging at the Mobile and Ohio railroad bridge, the mob having fatally harmed him after an attempted incident involving Mrs. J. B. Johnson. The verdict identifies unknown parties as responsible for his death.
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Houston
Tex
Jesse Tucker
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
J. BD. Johnson
Arsenic Kills Two Children in Boonville
In Boonville Indiana on July 11 Stella aged 12 and Charles aged 1, grandchildren of Henry Falk, died after eating arsenic spread on bread kept in a cupboard to kill rats. Hubbard aged 10 is seriously ill from the same poisoning.
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Boonville Ind
Stella
Charles
Henry Falk
Hubbard
Drowned swimmer near Bringham in Lake Kansee
James L. Hines, a student of Austin College, Nokomis resident, drowned while swimming near Bringham Illinois in Lake Kansee on July 11. The incident occurred while he was visiting the city.
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Bringham, Ill
James L. Hines
Austin College
Nokomis, Ill
Lake Kansea
Seventeen Die In Excursion Train Collision Near New Jersey
News of a fatal Erie railroad wreck near Midvale New Jersey where a regular train struck a stopped excursion train carrying 800 passengers. Seventeen people died and fifty were injured as the rear car was crushed. Names of the dead include Hoboken and New York residents with several children among the victims. The regular engineer fled the scene after the crash.
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New York
Midvale
N. J
Greenwood Lake
Erie Railroad
Henry Otterstedt
Hoboken
William Weidemeyer, Jr
William Renz
Anna Lemkohl
William Jane
Henry Becker
William Rohiing
William Windernech
George Scheer
Henry Koch
Isadore Manser
Frank Holnweddell
George McDermott
William Wistow
West Hoboken
J. K Kelly
Child named after Parker links birth to nomination
In Indianapolis at City Hospital a baby was born at the exact hour the St. Louis nomination was announced. The mother Mrs. Ella Drinnin chose to name the child James Parker Drinnin in honor of the presidential nominee, with nurses present for the christening.
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Indianapolis
Ind
St. Louis
City Hospital
Ella Drinnin
Hmerald Island
New York
Drinnin
James Parker Drinnin
Starch Factory Burns In Hammond Fire
A major blaze destroyed the Indiana starch works in Hammond on July 11, causing about 12000 dollars in loss. Fifty workers were employed at the plant and officials said it will be rebuilt at once.
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Hammond
Ind
Indiana Starch Works
Telegraphic Srevities Headlines From Various U.S. Cities
A string of brief items reports drownings of Earl Dennefield and Owen Stone in Kansas City Kansas. a crowd at a Springfield Illinois union meeting. Postmaster General Payne's Maine vacation. Utah Republican nominating convention in Salt Lake City August 25. Ambassador Storer to return to America on leave from Vienna. Debs speaks in Evansville Indiana to start campaign. West View Pittsburgh fire held by Allegheny fire department. Kentucky Acting Governor Thorne pardons Hatfield after murder sentence. drowning of Nettle Dibelbiss in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania amid storm damage. cruiser Adriadne sails from St Johns to Bay of Islands to study French shore treaty tensions with Newfoundland fisheries.
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Illinois
Christian Adeavoterg
Springfield
Payne
Washington
Maine
Utah
Republican Party
Salt Lake City
Storer
Vienna
Eugene V. Debs
Evansville
Ind
West View
Pittsburg
Allecany
Thorne
Kentucky
Johnson Hatfield
Nettle Dibelbiss
Punxsutawney
Adriadne
Sir Archibald Douglas
St. Johns
N. F
Bay of Islands
Douglas
de Kerillis
Newfoundland
Defiance Starch and Rhine Tales in Brief
Dealers claim Defiance Starch remains the only cold water starch buyers want, usable cold or boiled. The piece notes the end of the broomstick train and hints at the magnet train reaching sixty miles an hour. It highlights the Rhine as a picturesque ancient river with 725 venerable castles along its banks.
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Rhine
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Fr. Cuming & Co
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Frank J Cheney
A.W Gleason
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Allen
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Grace Medical Company, (Inc
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Waterman Ave
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