Mutual Life hearings overshadowed by death toll
New York Oct 11 Insurance investigating committee sessions adjourned early due to the death of Fred Nixon speaker of the New York Assembly. Mutual Life Insurance Co officers testified on gifts to campaigns with McCurdy denying attempts to raise his salary and stressing life insurance as a humanitarian mission rather than a money making venture.
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Fred Nixon
Assembly of the Legislature of
Westfield
Mutualife Insurance Co
Richard 4. McCurdy
Grannus
Gillette
Guzette
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Republican National Committee
McCurdy
Enthyrth
R.A Meffardy
Meryman
G W. Catt
Atlantic Dredging Co
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Women’s Suffrage Tongue
Pat Crowe Pleads Not Guilty in Omaha Court
Omaha dispatch reports Pat Crowe arraigned in police court on a charge of shooting with intent to kill Patrolman Jackson. He pleaded not guilty and was returned to jail. The article notes a potential highway robbery tie to the Cudahy kidnapping case and identifies Crowe with a shooting incident on the eve of a date in September.
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Pat Crowe
Omaha
Jackson
Cudahy
Pine
Agathet Crowe
Leahy
Crowe
Chicago to California Pullman Sleepers Hailed in Schedules
Train notices announce October 26 ticket sales for all trains from Chicago with departures through Monday evening October goth. Alma porters and agents offer details. A512 New Car Line to Southern California runs daily from Chicago September 15 via Union Pacific North Western and Salt Lake Route with reduced times and $33 Colonist tickets. Apply to nearest agent or 212 Clark St Chicago for reservations. Shipping ad on Dean's Ointment. Morse Telegraphy schools promo. Medical cures and digestive aid ads included.
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Southern California
Pullman
Los Angeles
Union Pacifhc
North-Western
Salt Lake
A Hutchinson
Mgr
Clark St
Wate
Michigan Briefs: Tragedies and Oddities From Towns
Drayman Fd Connor of Boyne Falls took his life with horse medicine, leaving a widow and two children. In Port Huron, paper hanger William Fernette vanished with his seven year old son after selling all belongings while his wife and child visited New Baltimore. Dryden’s Braidwood displays a preserved two headed snake. Fire destroyed N R Goodrodein’s house and barn near Bangor, with losses near five thousand dollars. A Rose City three year old dies after stumbling into hot water while mother prepared a bath.
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Boyne Fallin
New Baltimore
William Fernette
Port Huron
Braidwood of
Dryden
N. R. Goodrodein
Bangor
Seversl
Mra
David Shaw
Rose City
Tablets for Women Three Names Selected for Hall of Fame
New York October article reports a university hall of fame election selecting three women and five men for tablets at New York University. Marta Mitchell the sole American elected. foreign born include Louis Agassiz with 2 votes and John Paul Jones tied with 53 for first American-born Immortals. John Quincy Adams and James Madison elected as statesmen. Adams’ tablet near his father with 58 votes and Madison with 56. Others fell short.
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New York
Thierwena
New York University
Marta Mitchell
Lows
Fanshis
Mara Foren
Fader
Enedd
Mth &T Gates
John Paul Jones
Agowsiz
John Quincey Adama
John Adame
James Madison
Patrick Henry
John C Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Samuel Adame
James Monroe
Seward
Sumner
de Witt Clinton
Garfield
John Hay
Stanton
Friendly Warning On Stomach Trouble Remedy
A vintage health notice promotes Mona-Cure by Rhodes claiming it cures stomach catarrh. It lists symptoms like shortness of breath dizziness belching and warns readers to use Mona-Cure mirroring the era’s patent remedy tone and guarantees satisfaction with a money-back promise.
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Gunteed
Thas Rhodes
Railroad Legislation Tops Roosevelt Message
President Roosevelt outlined railroad rate legislation as the main topic in talks with congressional members. He asserted persistent effort to secure passage and pressed for action in Congress, with Senators Cullen and Reed among those aligned on the issue.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Sennar Cullen
Reptawleinlees
James Kenpery
Adl
McKintey
Chin
Afr
Kennedy
Anxiety Over Wills Fate In Turkish Brigand Case
London reports anxious interest over Wills an Englishman once employed by the Turkish tobacco revenue department who disappeared last July. A dispatch from Silonjen says a human ear package was received by the British consulate at Monastir with a letter stating Wills had been killed unless brigands are paid 5600 dollars by October 14. Wills, about 27, is the son of an engineer long engaged in Turkey.
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Wills
London
Turkish Tobacco Revenue Department
Associated Press
Silonjen
Turkey
Salonien Mspatoh
Monastir
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar ad claims cure all coughs
An advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a fortifying cough syrup containing mine tar and honey. It markets the product as a laxative that supposedly evacuates the bowels and relaxes the nervous system, promising relief from coughs colds and croup with a red clover blossom and honey bee emblem on each bottle.
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p-Kennedy
Chas. Rhodes
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