Masses to end liquor licenses in Worcester and neighboring towns
Massachusetts voters move to no license in Worcester, Lynn, and surrounding areas effective May first. About 2,000 workers lose their jobs as 128 licenses in Worcester and numerous saloons close. statewide no license gains outweigh past licensing, with shifts in Haverhill and other Essex County towns.
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New England
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
House of
Worcester
Lynn
Haverhill
Lawrence
Gloucester
Middleton
Essex County
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society
Cornerstone laid for new Methodist church in Tecumseh
In Tecumseh Nebraska the corner of the new Methodist Episcopal church was laid with a ceremony. Dr John Gallagher of Fairmont delivered the address and Rev P S Johnson oversaw the laying of the shaft. The brick structure will be built this summer at an expected cost of about 15000 dollars with choir music and remarks by several participants.
Geneva man attempts suicide after love affair
George W. Eply, a Geneva Nebr. graduate and former Geneva society leader, allegedly leaped through a large glass window on the third floor of a Denver rooming house following a forbidden love affair with the daughter of a prominent citizen.
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Denver
Colo
Geneva
Neb
George W. Eply
University of Nebraska
Geneva Society
Daughters Adjourn Congress Over Continental Hall Financing
The continental congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution adjourned. Opponents of bonding Continental Hall to secure funds and those who say the society cannot legally negotiate a loan without a constitutional amendment plan to retain counsel to challenge the issue.
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Washington
Continental Congress
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Hall
Allentown Woman Fatally Hurt in Praying Band Case
A religious fanatic and head of a praying band in Alliance near Allentown, Robert Bachman, allegedly caused the death of Henry Smith's five year old daughter May Irene during a night of services. Bachman was arrested after the coroner's jury heard that the child died from injuries inflicted during the disturbance.
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Allentown
Alliance
Henry Smith
Robert Bachman
Nazerata
Pa Bachman
Smiths
Bachman
Bachmonn
Smith
Bach
May Irene
Cleveland Free Street Car Service Ends War in City
For the first time in Cleveland history the entire street railway system ran free today as the Municipal Traction company ends the street car war. Three cent fares resume within ten days with transfers free after a penny transfer for three months and then no extra charge.
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Cleveland
Municipal Traction Company
Governor Leads Nebraska Party Through Arizona Canyon Visit
Governor Sheldon and party traveled across Arizona stopping in Albuquerque where they were hosted by New Mexicans. After a dinner at the Alvarado Hotel they were received by the Commercial Club and local citizens. The group then proceeded to the Grand Canyon arriving at 2:30 and enjoying the sights with plans to spend tomorrow there.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Sheldon
Arizona
New Mexicana
Albuquerque
Alvarado Hotel
Demand Union Workmen in New York on Library Bindings
Unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in New York report they will press city officials to have all public library books bound by American citizens. The move, urged at the request of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, targets libraries in other cities as well. Local brotherhood officers say the current binding is done by an English firm with a New York branch employing non union workers.
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New York
American Federation of Labor
International Brotherhood of Book-Binders
England
Derailed Train No. 1 Spares Passengers in Oklahoma
A St. Louis and San Francisco train left Fort Smith at 2 p m and derailed at Stanley Oklahoma about 5 20 this morning. The smoker and chair cars left the track but no fatalities or serious injuries were reported, with spreading rails blamed for the incident.
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Fort Smith
Ark
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Whchh
Stanley
Okla
Fire kills Mrs Cunnerson and three children near La Porte MD
Mrs Belle Cunnerson and her three children are believed dead in an incendiary blaze that destroyed their country home north of La Porte. A hired man Joseph Maxon escaped with his life but is missing. Cunnerson had been troubled by a persistent young male who is also unaccounted for. The children were two girls and a boy aged five to eleven.
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LA Porte, MD
Belle Cunnerson
Here
Joseph Maxon
Cunnerson
Proverbial Comparisons And Global Observations
Five men can hold down a lion but nine to manage an enraged tiger over 6 000 000 French women half of whom are married earn their own living. Goat herders in Mexico earn about 10 dollars monthly and receive about 7 dollars in rations. America is the largest cocoa consumer. The world laughs at the rich and the poor alike.
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Mexico
America
Labor cost of telegraphers strike tops twenty million
A labor statistician estimates the telegraphers strike cost about 20 million dollars in round figures. J P Butler of the Boston Carriage and Wagon Worker's union is elected president. Twenty eight new masons and bricklayers locals formed in the Carolinas, five locals restated. Egypt irrigated district spans 4 346 000 acres supporting 10 900 000 people. Egyptian cotton land yields nearly four times the per acre output of this country. Louisiana marsh lands drainage projects advancing to boost agriculture.
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J. P. Butler
Boston Carriage and Wagon Worker's Union
Masons and Bricklayers of
United States
North
South Carolina
Egypt
Sloan's Liniment and Veterinary Remedies Beat Market
Dr Earl B Sloan, son of a veterinary surgeon, has twenty years of practice and offers Sloan's Treatise on the Horse free by mail. The remedies aim to save life and relieve suffering in horses cattle hogs and poultry.
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Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Earl B. Sloan
Albany Street
Boston
Maas
Mica found widely in Transvaal and colonies. notes on Hawaii
Consul John H. Snodgrass reports mica in paying quantities across the Transvaal Orange River Colony and Rhodesia. A century ago Hawaiians were savages and cannibals. Now Honolulu has over three hundred telephone wires and plantations are linked by telepon communication. planters even cut cane at night with electric lights.
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John H. Snodgrass
Pre‘ria
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
Rhodesia
Honolulu
Death toll in Braganza line and a home remedy note
Record notes that the king and crown prince of Portugal from the Braganza house died in quick succession. It adds a historical pattern of two deaths in the family when succession changes. A separate recipe suggests mixing mustard with sugar and salt in boiling water to keep moist and improve taste.
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Portugal
Braganasa
Buying Paint Blindly Lottery No More
The article warns against random paint buying and stresses two essential elements pure white lead and linseed oil. It explains how adulteration can be detected with a blow pipe test and offers the National Lead Company of New York City to send testing equipment and instructions.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
Curious Facts from Global Life and Nature
A survey of everyday physics and animal behavior notes a gallon of water weighs about ten pounds. Rats in Bermuda climb trees and nest in branches like squirrels. Holland railways report only about one accidental death per year nationwide. In eastern Siberia travelers carry soups in sacks and the soups stay frozen for an indefinite time. Milk is also frozen and sold by the pound.
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Bermuda
Holland
Siberia
Family reports Cuticura remedies cure eczema and heat rash
Mrs. FL B of Iowa City city case says eczema lasting years vanished after using Cuticura, while husband credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment for hair growth. Baby treated with Cuticura Soap and Ointment recovered from heat and baldness to show healthy hair growth.
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Cuticura
Nebraska Notes Bring Local Updates Across Towns
Nebrask a notes summarize public health bids and school board actions. Governor Sheldon names Dr. Marsh as tuberculosis congress delegate. Beatrice plans new high school, teachers re elected in St Paul, and Atkinson to vote on a 10000 bond for an addition. Local incidents include fires in Beatrice and railway work north of the city.
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Sheldon
Dr. Marsh of Lincoln
Washington, DC
Board of Education of
St Paul
Lambert
Atkinson
Board of Education
Beatrice
Grant of
I Was a Chronic Invalid Healed by Kidney Pills
Marion Kentucky resident Nesbitt writes of severe kidney trouble with swollen limbs and near paralysis who, after using Dean's Kidney Pills for three months, recovered and returned to work. Ad states pills sell for 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo distributes.
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W. G. Nesbitt
Depot Street
Marion
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Treasure from sunken steamer stories surface again
The text notes the attempt to recover treasure from the Golden Gate wreck off Manzanillo in 1862, mentions Valparaiso planning a 1 605 seat theater on a site burned in 1906 earthquake, cites two gothic figures from French revolution found at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and gives miscellaneous local data on Waycross Georgia housing and saloon license values over years.
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Manzanillo
Valparaiso
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Waycross
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