World News in Brief From a Busy Week
Personal appointments and deaths mark the week with Mary Benedict named president of a new women’s college in Amherst Virginia. Governor Hoch to speak at the National Editorial Association in Indianapolis. Reports touch onRoosevelt Decoration Day speech and Shonts denial of Panama Canal resignation. International items note Davitt’s death in Dublin, Morocco sultan conflict, and Latin American affairs. Local and national updates include court rulings, strikes, and disasters with varied regional impacts.
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Kansas
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Ind
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Canal Commission
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Dublin
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Butte, Mont
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Borjon
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Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Birdsall
Iowa
D. J. Stafford
Atlanta
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Lock Canal
St. Petersburg
Philippines
Culion Island
Cebu, Armour & Co
Filthy Conditions Exist In Chicago Packing H
Special Commissioners report shocking conditions in Chicago slaughterhouses. Slime, foul odors, and dirty floors plague yards and workrooms. Privies vent into work areas. workers handle meat with unwashed hands. Canned products carry misleading labels. meat scraps and leftovers aired into processing streams.
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Chicago
Princinpal
Stock Yards
Mr. Reynolds
New York
Jelty
Great Pit Orion Ene
Ailing Women and Kidney Pills Credibility Test
A Groesbeck Texas woman, Mrs W G Davis, reports relief from back pain, dizziness, and kidney irregularities after using Dosa’s Kidney Pills, claiming gravel stones passed and health improved. The ad notes the product costs 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y. A street car anecdote follows about a polite conductor and a request for the city hall to illustrate civic service.
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W. G. Davia
Groesbeck
Texas
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Pointer for Percy and Belle in playful ledger note
A fragment from the Philadelphia Ledger recounts Percy Vere hoping for luck to win Belle Well with a witty remark about luck and winning. The passage shifts to an advertisement for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup teething remedy and ends with a proverb about a man who sticks to truth not talking about himself.
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Percy
Nell
Percy Vere
Belle
Philadelphia Ledger
Prisoner Pleads for Fair Sentence in Courtroom Exchange
In a tense exchange the prisoner asks the judge not to be biased by an ineffective defense and requests the sentence he would have received had he pleaded guilty initially. The judge contemplates judgment as the courtroom drama unfolds.
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Chicago Tribune
Catarrh Cure Advertises Internal Remedies
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications as the disease is systemic. The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure works internally, with a proprietary blend promised by B. Scheney & Co. tooted in Toledo. It urges readers to purchase from druggists at a stated price and to seek testimonials as proof.
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Hall
Time to Get Busy and the Boarding House Gossip
A cartoon style exchange shows a husband pressed to visit his mother and pack for a train in 48 hours while a wife argues she will go. Then Real Merit comments on boarding house life as Mr Jobkins notes fair rooms, tolerable table, and excellent gossip.
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Chicago Daily News
Skimkins
Jobkins
Pink Pills Restore Blood and Help Fainting Spells
A Watertown woman describes severe fainting spells from anemia and how Dr Williams Pink Pills restored her strength. The pills are claimed to increase red blood cells and bring renewed health, with relatives noting prior good results. They are sold by druggists or mailed by the Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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George Forrester
Curtis Street
Watertown
N.Y
Schenectady, N.Y
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