Taft Offered as Running Mate in Gaston Veep Bid
An odd banquet claim reports William Howard Taft offered to be Lucy Page Gaston’s running mate at a Chicago event. Taft allegedly cited hereditary and personal reasons for eligibility as tobacco abstainers in his family. Officials deny he spoke about the vice presidency.
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Lucy Page Gaston
American Anti- Cigarette League
Taft
William Howard Taft
Lucy Vage Gaston
United States
Committee of Fifteen
Chicago
Mr. Taft
Pilgrim lineage highlighted at Kansas City high school
Representative Edward C. Little notes the connection of a Kansas City Kansas high school student to John Alden of the Mayflower during a tercentenary tribute. He traces the family line to Revolutionary and colonial figures while admiring American liberty and immigrant roots.
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Edward C. Little
Kansas
Funston
Philippines
Twentieth
Kansas Volunteers
John Alden
Johnathan Taylor
Louisburg
Bunker Hill
Col
Moses Little
Little
John
Priscilla
Kansas City
Kans
America
Plymouth Rock
Come Back Mrs Cato Sells Visits Jicarilla Apaches
Mrs Cato Sells wife of the United States Indian commissioner travels with her husband on inspections. He describes a revival among the Jicarilla Apaches in Colorado and New Mexico as they gain purpose, sheep farming, ownership, sanitation, and renewed vitality.
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Cato Sells
United States Indian Commissioner
Colorado
New Mexico
Sells
Tys
Nomination of Dr. Cottrell for Director of the Bureau of Mines
President Wilson has sent to the Senate the nomination of Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell to replace Dr. Van H Manning as director of the Bureau of Mines. A chemist, metallurgist and inventor born January 10 1877 in Oakland Alabama Cottrell developed the Cottrell process for fume and dust removal now widely used. He served in several key posts at the bureau and helped establish a large scale plant to recover helium from natural gas for military aeronautics near Petrolia Texas. He received the Perkin medal in 1919 for electrical precipitation work.
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Frederick G. Cottrell
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Senate
Wilson
van H. Manning
Cottrell
Oakland
University of California
Research Corporation
Petrolia
Texas
Perkin
New
Ohio Gleanings Chronicles a Year of Local Turmoil and Trials
In Ohio news this week, a Akron jury convicts four of five suspects in the Steven Bosses murder while Conneaut police detain six men after a Canadian vessel raid. Dozens of incidents span barbed labor strikes, accidents, political candidacies, and court actions across the state from Steubenville to Canton.
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Akron
Steven
Conneaut
Bert Paul
Steubenville
Mary Griffin
Ohio
Carl R. Kimball
Ohio House of Representatives
Barberton
Clyde Gakerick
Harold Cole
East Crestline
Tillie Jacobs
Galion
Laura Shafer
May
Bucyrus
Frank Landis
Cambridge
J. H. Harding
Cleveland
Frank Bo
Sebring
John
Harold Agnew
Ada Board of Education
C. B. Riggle
Julius Kozlowski
Toledo
Detroit
Carp
Sandusky Bay
Lake Erie
Women’s Missionary
Society of Episcopal Church of the
Canton
C. W. Dennis
Alliance
Indiana
Calvary Episcopal Church
Sandusky
Marietta
Trumbull
Fremont Elks
Charles H. Daver
Crooksville
Noah Ward
Newark
Orelio Benini
Benini
Gustave Rudinski
Dayton
Helen Bachie
William Simons
Barrett Castor
Kenton
Opal Doyle
Charles J. Doyle
Yat Marion
J. G. Weatherly
Springfield Center
Ava Rafferty
Albert Rafferty
Sylvester Rafferty
Elmer Rafferty
Grampian
Wucinda Barcus
Hoover
Catherine Rafferty
Jesse W. Perkins
Joseph H. Jacoby
Allen Campbell
Warren
Ralph Wheeler
Akram
Hines Pegg
Mt. Gilead
Marengo
Morrow County
Pegg
Big Walnut Creek
G. E. Amocost
Boys’ Industrial School
Lancaster
A. A. Hoopingarner
Dover Reporter
F. L. Bixler
Hoopingarner
W. A. Korns
New Philadelphia
Mahoning River
Leavittsburg
Emma Baumberger
Youngstown
Ritter & Tamarkin, Grocers
Gergeley
Troja Jones
Hungary
Board of Education
Otto Davis
Columbus
Fremont
Hillsdale
Mich
L. E. Mills
Bryan
Napoleon
C. O. Ruggles
Department of Economics
Ohio State University
Iowa State University
College of Commerce
Ohio Electric Company
Roy Slagle
Siagle
Wilson
Frank P. Allen
George W. Lathrop
Newark Auto Tire
Youngstown Union
John Buchanan
Wilmington
Blanchester
War Department
Roger B. Thompson
W. O. Thompson
Carpinteria
California
United States Supreme Court
Clement L. Brumbaugh
Harry A. Bell
W. I. Winegarner
C. T. Marshall
Zanesville
The
Supreme Court
E. D. Bloom
Bowling Green
Mayme Castleberry
Charles Clark
Clark
Catherine Gladys Rob-r
G. Canton
William Davis
East Greenville
Himelf
Freezone Promises Quick Relief for Corn Pain
A vintage ad touts Freezone as a cheap corn remedy that stops pain instantly with a drop applied to the corn. It claims the treatment lifts the corn away with fingers and removes hard or soft corns and calluses without soreness, sold by druggists in a small bottle.
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Cincinnati
Boston Transcript Excerpt On Confession And Inquiry
A Boston transcript quotes a speaker urging open confirmation of affection with the line He told me that he loved me followed by a question about whether he has told others. The exchange underscores concerns about disclosed feelings and transparency.
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Boston Transcript
Shoes Wear Longer With Foot Ease Powder Ad
An advertisement touts Alien's Foot Ease antiseptic powder to shake into shoes and foot baths for comfort and longer wear. Allen's Foot Ease is claimed to make tight or new shoes feel easy and lets ladies wear shoes one size smaller. Sold everywhere.
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Alien
Allen
Allen's
Could She Carry Them Exchange Note
A brief exchange records a mother telling her child she is going to get seats for the circus and the child asking if she can carry them. The snippet captures a domestic moment with simple dialogue.
Mothers Examine Castoria Bottles for Signatures
An old advertisement urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the proper signature as the famous remedy for infants and children, noting it has been in use for over years and is associated with relief for babies and young ones.
Khaki as viewed by youth recruits with quirky lines
Read by public schools under army auspices, quotations from Ohio Montana Illinois and Indiana students praise enlistment. A girl says khaki frees from bill collectors, a boy cites constitutional rights, another wishes teachers were soldiers, and a state pupil sells enlistment as a cure all for body and mind.
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Army and Recruiting Service
Ohio
Montana
America
Ilinois
Indiana
Applicants Aplenty Birthday Gift Exchange
Indianapolis high school teacher celebrated a birthday as students crowded to give gifts. A freshman presented a large candy box and she playfully asked to kiss him. A larger junior boy followed with his own gift, prompting laughter and surprise.
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Indianapolis
Bob
Miss T
Bayer Aspirin Package Claim for Pain Relief
Aspirin Bayer Tablets of Aspirin is genuine and proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an unbroken Bayer package with directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Handy 12 tablet tins cost a few cents. druggists offer larger Bayer packages. Trademarks Bayer Manufacture Mon oacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid Adyv.
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Bayer
Observant Victim Cites Church Clock For Time
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recounts a victim held up by a foot pad in the early hours. The robber and victim compare time by the church clock, noting the hands matched precisely at five minutes to one.
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London
Women Need Swamp-Root Kidney Remedy Ad
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble often mistaking symptoms for other causes. Back pain, headaches, and nervousness may signal kidney issues. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root offered as a remedy. obtain from drug stores or request a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. at Binghamton NY with paper mention.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Weary Rhodes-Dat taunts in Pullman car naming claim
A brief item notes Weary Rhodes-Dat accusing Dreary Dan of being upset as he boasted of pronouncing names on Pullman cars. An ad line remarks constipation linked to stomach and liver issues and promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as restoring regularity without griping.
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Weary Rhodes
Houston Post
Wright
German Captain Caught: Surrenders Tested by French Sergeant
Excerpt from Atlantic Monthly letters recounts a World War I raid where a German captain boasts he never surrenders. A French sergeant taunts him to prove his claim with a quick shot, noting gear and purses as potential targets before the German declines.
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France
Atlantic Monthly
Doughnut Club Finances Kansas State Students Bakery
Eight Kansas State Agricultural College students at Manhattan organized as The Perfect Bakery, a doughnut focused operation, to cover their college expenses. The group produces bread cookies small cakes and other baked goods.
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Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan
the Perfect Bakery
Direct nominations prompt viewed as primary facts
A dialogue fragment questions the concept of direct nominations and frames them as fundamental, core facts in a political discussion. The exchange hints at opinions on nomination processes and their perceived significance.
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U. S. Bureau of Mines
Bach
Fred Cotan
Wellsville Lodge
Brotherhood of Railway
Lisbon
W. G. Lee
National
Youngstown Steel District
James R. Hopley
Bueyrus
Thirteenth
R Fletcher
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