American first to reach the North Pole report retold
A 1908 Copenhagen dispatch credits Frederick A Cook of Brooklyn with reaching the North Pole on April 21 1908. The note describes Cook’s voyage, family anticipation, and Greenland officials confirming the claim, amid cautious official reception plans in Copenhagen. It traces earlier explorations by Peary Amundsen and others, noting lives lost and the braving of Arctic extremes.
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Frederick A. Cook
Brooklyn
Spot
Walter Wellman
Spitzbergen
Robert KE. Peary
Sydney
Polar
Pole
Ronald ‘Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Herschel Island
Baron Toll
Siberia
Erickson
Dane
Saunders Island
Anthony Flalh
Abruzzi
Duke of
Copenhagen
North Pole
N. Y
Colonial Office
Lerwick
Shetland Islands
Cook
Hans Egede
Denmark
Dr. Cook
Upernavik
Cape York
Esquimaux
Ryberg
Greenland Administration Bureau
Hovgaard
Dr. Cookad
Discovery
Paula
Paris
New York Herald
Frederick A.‘Cook
Arctic
New York
Fred
Explorer's Pole Feat Prompts Ongoing Search for Dr Cook
The article recounts Arctic expedition details from 1907 to 1908 including landfalls near Smith Sound, the Bradley schooner, and the reach to 89 degrees 59 minutes 46 seconds latitude on April 21 1908. It notes extreme conditions eating dog meat aboard and emotional reactions upon sighting the pole. It concludes with Dr Cook’s 1865 birth, marriages, and prior expeditions with Peary and others, plus the Jeanie relief ship’s mission to locate him.
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Arctic
Bradley
Smith Sound
Pole
Esquimaux
Cook
Mtukishook
Ahwelsh
Jeanie
Etah
St. Johns N. F
Dr. Cook
Peary
Roswell O. Stebbins
Conference of Unitarians opens in Chicago with national attendance
The national conference of Unitarians begins in Chicago with a large, nationwide attendance. Vice-President George E. Adams opens the session, followed by leaders from the American Unitarian Association, National Alliance of Unitarian Women, National Young People’s Religious Union, and other societies. Sessions continue through Thursday with varied programs and a reception by the National Alliance at the Art Institute.
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Chicago
National Conference of Unitarians
George E. Adams
American Unitarian Association
Lewis G. Wilson
Boston
Mass
National Alliance of Unitarian Women
Emma C. Low
New York
National Young People's Religious Union
Henry Hallam Saunderson
Cambridge
Unitarian Fellowship For Social Justice
John Haynes Holmes
Unitarian Temperance Society
Joseph TH. Crocker
D. D
Roslindale
Unitarian Laymen’s League
William UH
Carruth
Lawrence
Kan
International Council of Religious Liberals
Samuel A. Eliot
Emil G. Hirsch
Sinai Congregation
National Alliance In the Art Institute
Sunday School Society
Iowa divine disappears amid church debut panic
The Rev. A. J. Landers, just named pastor of the First Baptist Church in Clinton, vanished during the night after leaving a note for his wife saying he could not stand his trouble. His family believes he is mentally deranged. He had arrived from Magle Grove last week, and worshippers gathered for his first sermon on the planned Sunday before the disappearance.
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Clinton, Ta
A. J. Landers
First Baptist Church
Mr. Landers
Magle Grove
Life Team for Crabtree
Omaha Neb Sept 7 It was announced at army headquarters that the finding of the court martial in the case of Corporal Lisle Crabtree of troop B Second cavalry for firing of his troop commander Captain Joan C Raymond was guilty and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment in the military prison at Port Leavenworth The finding has been approved by Gen Charles Morton commanding the department of the Missouri.
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Omahia
Neb
Army Headquarters
Lisle Crabtree
Troop B
Second Cavalry
Joan C. Raymond
Hfe
Port Leavenworth
Charles Morton
Department of the Missouri
Catholic Young Men Meet In Boston Convention
In Holy Cross cathedral Boston Archbishop O Connell opens the thirty fifth annual convention of the Catholic Young Men's National union. Rev Francis J Sullivan founder of the Catholic Athletic league speaks on The Boy What Shall I Do For Him Prof James C Monaghan of Brooklyn follows. The convention closes this afternoon with many cler gymen and laymen present.
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Boston
Salemn Pontifical Mags
Holy Cross
Archbishop O'Connell
Catholic Young Men’s National Union
Francis J. Sullivan
New York
Catholic Athletic League
James C. Monaghan
Brooklyn
Laundry Industry Exposition Opens in Chicago Coliseum
Chicago September 7. The Laundry Dyeing and Cleaning exposition opens in the Coliseum showing dramatic growth in the U S laundry industry. It is the first such show in the nation and is under the auspices of the Laundrymen's National Association, which conducts its annual convention this week.
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Chicago
United States
Coliseum
Laundrymen’s National Association
Murder Mystery Probed in Indianola Case
Indianola September 7 The grand jury investigating the Thomas Carraher slaying near New Virginia on March 1 has examined 12 year old Harry Hutchings who confessed to killing his stepfather but the outcome remains undetermined. The case draws continued local interest.
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Indianola
Thomas Carraher
New Virginia
Harry Hutchings
Two Fatally Hurt In Car Collision in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City on September 7 reports that Dr. J. H. Proffitt and his brother in law Robert Kidd likely sustained fatal injuries when an interurban car collided with a car. A third man suffered a broken leg in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
J. H. Proffitt
Robert Kidd
Cummins Picks Kurtz Postmaster for Des Moines
Senator Cummins announces recommendation to President Taft of Louis C. Kurtz as postmaster of Des Moines to succeed Joseph I. Myerly, details from Des Moines dated September 7.
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Cummins
Kurtz
Des Moines
Taft
Louis C. Kurtz
Joseph I. Myerly
Kidney Pills Relief Poster Child of 8 May Story
Mrs John H Wright of Mitchell South Dakota reports ten years of kidney trouble with backache dizziness and irregular secretions ending after using Deans Kidney Pills. She claims permanent relief and improvement. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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John H. Wright
St. Mitchell
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Sleight of hand in Maine village nets 28-cent trick
A patent medicine salesman entertains a small Maine village crowd with a handkerchief illusion, producing a 28-cent piece from an apparently empty cloth. An old farmer jokes he would take bigger sums if he could perform the trick, noting the conundrum of quick wealth.
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Maine
A Question of Grammar Lesson in the May Day Street
A May day encounter between Hetty and her schoolteacher uncle prompts a grammar lesson. He corrects nonstandard speech by listing negative forms You are not going He is not going We are not going You are not going They are not going. Hetty responds with a curt bow claiming I ain't.
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Hetty
It Was His Way
A Kansas farmer recalls eavesdropping on farmers line hearing click sounds as others listen He notes he always holds the receiver and lets it down quietly so it does not click reflecting a wartime era journal quote from Kansas City Journal
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Kansas
Kansas City Journal
A Rude Suggestion About Peaches and Mischief
A witty exchange between a young student and a sour bachelor prompts a provincial joke. The student asks why pretty women are called peaches and the bachelor infers that beauty invites mischief.
Grape-Nuts Foods May Aid Indigestion Says Letter
A Terre Haute woman details four years of indigestion after typhoid, finding relief with Grape-Nuts that her family also credits with improved health. Her husband and son report similar gains, praising the cereal’s nourishing elements and claiming it helps them eat well and study better. A note invites readers to judge the letters as genuine.
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Terre Haute
Fertile Farms for Thousands Opens Land Program
Registration for 160 acre farms opens October 4 to 23 along lines through Aberdeen Mobridge and Lemmon. The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations will release land in South and North Dakota with a draw on October 28 in Aberdeen. Free folders describe the land and routes via Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway.
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Standing Rock
Cheyenne River
South Dakota
North Dakota
Aberdeen
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Mobridge and Lemmon
South Daskota
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
Chicago
Well Painted Value Adds to Home Worth
Well painted means higher selling and occupying value with added pleasure of living in a well dressed house. National Lead Company offers a free Houseowners Painting Outfit No. 49 with color schemes specifications and an adulteration detector. Request by mail to 1902 Trinity Building, New York City.
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National Lead Company
Trinity Buiding
New York City
Consumptives Need Not Leave Home
Renewed efforts aim to curb cruel practices that send patients with tuberculosis to the southwest for treatment. The article notes cures are possible nationwide, with similar success East and West, and calls for small local hospitals in every city and town. It also mentions attempts in Southern California and Texas to exclude or return indigent consumptives.
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United States
East
West
Southwest
California
Texas
Care In Preparing Food and Pure Oats Claims
The article extols the purity of Quaker Oats under stringent food laws. Quaker Oats is praised as the ideal food for strength of body and mind and noted as the only brand removing husks and black specks. Readers are urged to buy regular or family size packs based on convenience.
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Quaker Oats Company
Footwear Tease in Aunt Anne Tale
In a kitchen scene Aunt Anne, an old Black woman, sits with knees crossed as the house daughter asks her shoe size. Aunt Anne explains she can wear eights or nines, but the oversized shoes she has on are twelves, noting they hurt her.
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Anne
Aunt Anne
Everybody’s Magazine
Chicago to Boston and Return Fare Notice
Chicago to Boston and Return $25.60 on Grand Trunk Double Track Route. Tickets on sale daily until September 80th with a thirty day limit and liberal stopovers. Through sleepers daily with tour ist sleepers on Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. Low fares to all tourist resorts in New England and Canada. Apply to agent of any Hastbound line or write W. B. Cookson A G P A 185 Adams St Chicago Ill.
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Grand Trunk
Hmit
New England
Canada
Cookson
Adams St
Chicago
Ill
Magistrate Questions Witness in Domestic Dispute Hearing
A magistrate asks a witness about overheard quarrels with the defendant and his wife. The witness notes the defendant appeared to be merely listening during the dispute.
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Peargon's Weekly
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Martin Frobisher
Capt. Davis
Barents
John Inight
Henry Hudson
Thomas Button
Isiq
Jens Munk
Thomias James
Isle of Jan Mayen
James Knight
Bering
J. C. Ross
North Star
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Plaver and Herald
Deedann
Rae
Knane
Isaac Hayes
Thall
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B. Leigh Smith
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Baron Tall
Wife
John R. Bradley
Vidson
Mrs. Cook
Calhoon Depot
Sullivan County
Mary Hunt
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Conference OF Unitarians
National Alliance
Iowa
Crabtree
Raymond
Fort Leavenworth
Farmer
Cheyenne River Indian Reservations
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Aberdeen, N. D
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