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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
2
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The Republican national convention in Chicago nominated Secretary of War William H. Taft for president on the first ballot with 702 votes and made him the unanimous choice amid wild enthusiasm. James S. Sherman was nominated for vice president on the first ballot. The platform committee’s majority report was adopted after debate.
President Roosevelt vacationed at Sagamore Hill with family. Indiana Governor Hanley collapsed from heat while addressing a Chautauqua in Ottawa. Rep John Sharp Williams resigned as minority leader effective December 1 to aid the Democratic party. Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner lost a suit over his father’s estate with Mrs Warner set to receive about 500000. E T Bethel jailed for three weeks for sedition in Korea. Toledo banker George G Metzger indicted for embezzlement and misapplication of funds.
The Taft special from Cincinnati to Yates commencement escaped catastrophe when a piston rod broke. Across Wisconsin, Minnesota, and southern Michigan storms caused damage from hail and wind. In Cleveland John Kelly killed his wife and then tried suicide. The Curtiss Junebug at Hammondsburg, NY, completed three flights, claimed longest in America. Arcadia disaster in Philadelphia leaves three stevedores dead.
The item covers a wide set of events: slander suit against Miss Helen Gould for 20000 dollars, forest fires in northern Michigan, marriages of Mme Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan, suffragette demonstrations in Hyde Park, editor Ora Havill wounded by Norman Debell, Cantillion the blind baseball player regaining sight after a hysterics episode, duels and hangings, a Badger Brass plant plot uncovered, a civil engineer death in Two Harbors, political candidacies and resignations, mine explosions near Monongahela, extortion trial in New York, a Little Rock bank in receivership, plans for an international steel trust, guardsmen killed at Fort Wadsworth, antitrust guilty pleas by wrapping paper firms, lumber tariff cuts, Italian workers killed on a Lackawanna cutoff, trolley collision injuries, electrocution sentence for Mrs Mary Farmer, Dr Frank Stirn shot, Summit House fire, assassination of Gen Khoroshkin, Fort Wadsworth injuries, Shelby Steel Tube plant fire, tornado near Sioux City, a Texas heir suit in Los Angeles, and breach of promise suit against Lazarus Levy.
In Hemphill near Hemphill Sabine county a mob seized the jail freeing and killing nine African Americans. Five were hanged at a tree and four shot. two white men were killed earlier in a separate incident involving a negro church gathering. The violence followed the Johnson murder and an earlier strike at the Dean case.
Washington DC jurors convict Hyder and Schneider on most counts while acquitting Benson and Dimond on all counts. Hyder and Schneider face up to two years and a 10 000 dollar fine. bail adjustments set and appeal rights noted. Benson and Dimond released after acquittals. Benson already sentenced previously in California. appeal pending.
At the Republican convention James S. Sherman of New York was nominated for vice president amid a roaring display of enthusiasm. The roll showed Sherman receiving 816 votes as supporters praised New York’s pivotal role and the party unity.
A fire broke out before noon Monday in a stable and quickly consumed most of the lower town's business district. Firefighters from Montreal, Sherbrooke and Grand Mere helped contain the blaze, which destroyed many structures including a hotel, stores, a post office, and two churches. Loss excesses one million dollars. buildings were well insured.
Matthias Campbell, Civil War and two Indian wars veteran now living in Blair Nebraska, recounts back pain and urinary issues cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. He and his wife report complete recovery and note the drug costs 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A humorous exchange features a visitor asking if cooking at home is economical and a young wife replying that her husband eats far less now that they do not hire a cook. The vignette captures domestic humor of the era.
A historic notice extols Allen’s Foot-Ease powder as clean, wholesome, antiseptic and soothing for tired feet. It claims thousands of satisfied users and asserts the product cures while you walk, urging buyers to request the original foot powder.
Mrs. Stubb calls out a scare at a house as she accuses her husband Maria of fear. He denies, while she teases that his courage fades at a mouse’s squeak, noting his boast about bravery. He retorts that mice lack shoe leather.
A wife recalls a marriage vow as her husband mocks the sentiment. She asks if heaven sent him to her, and he replies it was punishment, revealing a brutal, controlling partner in a troubled union.
Mrs Pinkham of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Massachusetts sails with her son Arthur W. Pinkham and younger family members for Naples on May 20 for a three months tour of Europe and a needed vacation.
Brazil required more than 20,000,000 jute bags to store the year's coffee output. Each bag cost a little over 18 cents to ship. The coffee bag business amounted to nearly four million dollars last year.
Lottery spending in Mexico City runs about 100000 dollars weekly with roughly 70000 dollars paid back in premiums. Officials note the imbalance suggests heavy net loss to the state and players alike as tickets remain a popular pastime.
One of the essentials of happy homes today is reliable information about health products. The text promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a proven family laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by leading druggists.
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