Alabama Merchants Back State Rate Boycott Plan
The Montgomery freight bureau asks merchants to route all freight by lines that accepted state rate reductions, amid a boycott against lines opposing the new rates. Only Louisville and Nashville, Western of Alabama and Central of Georgia resist. the scheme targets shipments to avoid those three roads. Alabama enforces an anti boycott law.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Freight Bureau
Louisville
Nashville
Alabama
Georgia
Lusitania Passes Sable Island Overnight in Thick Weather
Halifax dispatch reports the Cu Ward liner Lusitania rounded Sable Island around 2 a.m. after a fourteen hour run from Cape Sable, likely making under twenty knots due to heavy weather.
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Halifax
N. S
Cu‘Ward
Sable’ Island
Cape Sable
Sable Island
Nurses resign en masse at city hospital
In St Paul on September 24 nurses at the city and county hospital quit work in a mass resignation led by twenty two nurses after the superintendent Dr A B Ancker refused to reinstate a discharged nurse. The hospital’s nursing staff would be cut by about half.
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St. Paul
A. B. Ancker
Note Explains Cause of Death in Bloomfield Man
Bloomfield Indiana September 13 The death of Homer Casey whose body was found in his buggy in his barn is explained by a pocket note stating a heart pain cost him his reason and that he would rather die than endure it again He was to marry Miss Anna Stone on the day of his death.
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Bloomfield
Ind
Hoer Casey
W.ose
Casey
Anna Stone
Kann Art Collection Leaves Europe for America
Berlin reports confirm Wilhelm Bode and art figures that Rodolphe Kann planned to prevent sale of his famed collection before death but a will was never drawn and both he and the notary died. The collection, valued at about 5 million dollars, is said to have moved to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, with past rumors naming J Pierpont Morgan as purchaser.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Bode
Duveen Bros
Rodolphe Kenn
Bode
Kann
Europe
New York Metropolitan
Miller Confesses Murder Attempt Driven by Loan Sharks
Chicago. Sept 1. John W. Miller a railroad clerk arrested for attempting to kill and rob Fdzar M. Crumb a diamond merchant confessed to police. Miller says desperation from relentless loan sharks drove the crime. He faces possible hanging.
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Chicago
John W. Miller
Fdzar M. Crumb
Miller
Carnegie eulogizes New York municipal policy at library ceremony
Glasgow reports Andrew Carnegie praised New York’s municipal government at a luncheon after the Mitchell library cornerstone event. He contrasted New York with London, criticized sensational press coverage, and urged cities to keep titles and lease franchises only briefly, noting New York as an example.
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Glasgow
Andrew Carnegie
New York
Mitchell Library
London
Carnegie
Forgery Sentence Tied to Fidelity Trust Loss Case
A court sentences a defendant in a forgery case alleging the Fidelity Trust Company of Buffalo suffered a substantial monetary loss. Details naming the parties, dates, and exact figures are not fully disclosed in the available text.
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Fidelity Trust Company of
Buffalo
Record Whisky Price Reaches New Local High in Cincinnati
The price of whisky rose to $1.34 in Cincinnati, up 2 cents from the prior quotation, marking the highest level recorded in the city. The surge reflects ongoing market pressure and supply concerns.
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Cincinnati
Brief Bits Of News From The City And Railways
John Schmidt of Brooklyn tumbled 200 feet down the Palisades and survived with bruises amid a virulent tetanus scare cured by Williamsburg hospital doctors. Frederick McNally of Rand McNally & Co. dies after three weeks of nervous prostration. Peter Burger, 11, is killed by friend Herman Wehle, 15, during a rifle play. Chicago and Northwestern reports 68,878,900 gross earnings with 15,740,600 net income for the year. U S Navy contracts Welsh firms for 100,000 tons of steam coal to be delivered through 1908.
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John Schmidt
Brooklyn
Ween J
Williamsburg
Frederick McNally
Rand, McNally & Co
Chicago
Mr. McNally
United States Navy Department
Cardiff
Wales
London
Hungarian Riot After Consul Refuses to Applaud Song
New York report details how Baron Otto von Heenning O Carroll consul general of Austria Hungary in New York refused to rise for the Kossuth Song at a Terrace Garden concert. Hungarian attendees erupted in protest and the event broke up amid threats and counter demonstrations near Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Police say no clues to threatening letter authors have been found.
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New York
Otto von Heenning O’carroll
Austria-Hungary
Mile. Retby
Terrace Garden
Holy Sepulchre
Halden
Threats Develop Against Rochester Bishop McQuaid
Rochester reports that Bishop McQuaid described blackmail plots against him to a large crowd. In Greeley Colorado Rev Oscar W Gustafson was accosted by two gunmen on his way home from church. They ordered surrender, one shot him in the rib and the other in the neck as he chased them. he is expected to recover.
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Greeley
Colo
Oscar W. Gustafson
Swedish Lutheran Church
Transatlantic Wireless Service Preparations in Canada
Sydney Nova Scotia Sept 24 Mr Mar con has arrived at Glace Bay to begin preparations for a transatlantic wireless link between Canada and Great Britain. Officials hope a constant night and day service will operate within a few weeks.
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Sydney
N. S
Mar
Con
Glace Bay
Co. B
Canada
Great Britain
Cole’s Carboli Soap Guaran teed Pure for All Baths
The ad promotes Cole’s Carbolic soap for babies and adults noting antiseptic soothing skin healing and a lavender violet scent. It claims pure quality and a money back guarantee with availability at all druggists.
Foley's Kidney Cure Endorsed By Holland Wheeler
Foley's Kidney Cure is claimed to cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble, and is presented as beyond the reach of medicine. Holland Wheeler endorses the remedy in this notice.
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Foley
Holland Wheeler
Don’t Suffer With Piles Cole Carbolisalve Cure Promise
An old advertisement touts Cole Carbolisalve for piles and claims it can permanently cure without surgery. It emphasizes following directions and guarantees success, noting availability at all druggists.
Lost items tied to Dr King’s pills at H Wheeler’s
A note reports a loss between 9 30 p m yesterday and today marked by a bilious attack. It notes a box of Dr King’s New Life Pills found at H Wheeler’s drug store, advertised as guaranteed for biliousness malaria and jaundice, 25c.
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H. Wheeler
Dr. King
New Life
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Insane Asylum
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Duluth
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Bishop McQuaid
Rochester, N. Y
Rochester
N. Y
McQuaid
Highwaymen
Transatlantic Wireless Service
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Pacific Coast Extension
Lemmon
Butte County
South Dakota
Aberdeen
Missouri River
J. Q. Adams
Miles City
Montana
F. A. Miller
St. P. Ry. Co
Tlee
C. A. Padley
Milwaukee, Wis
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