Unionists gain seat in Southport division Lancaster
The unionists win another seat in the Southport division as results trickle in. The latest MPs tally shows Unionists 221, liberals 202, laborites 34, nationalists 69, indicating limited changes to party strength.
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Southport
Lancaster
Madriz
Nicaragua
Kimball
Ermany
South Africa
Col. Roosevelt
Senate considers postal savings bank bill and other actions
The senate discusses a postal savings bank bill while noting potential outcomes if Ballinger is convicted or acquitted. Bar on Komura reports excellent U S Japanese relations in the diet. Butterick company critiques post office management. A Guadalajara letter notes Conductor Cook’s worsening confinement. Taft plans March visits to Albany and Rochester with speeches. Ezra Kendall dies in Martinsville Indiana. Kansas newspapers trend on US affairs and Taft Roosevelt coverage.
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Postal Savings Bank
Senate
Ballinger
Baron Komura
United States
Post Office
Butterick Company
Guadalajara
Cook
Tait
William
Germany
Paulino Godoy
Taft
Albany
Rochester
N. Y
Ezra Kendall
Martinsville
Ind
Supreme Court
Harry Kendall
William B. Blair
Senate Committee On Territories
Beveridge
Legislative Council
Alaska
Smith
Iowa
Taggart
Indianapolis
W. H. Morton
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Armour
Col. Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
United States Steel Corporation
Committee On Judiciary
United States Banking Company
Mexico City
Joseph A. Graham
Salisbury
West
National Education Association to Hold Boston Convention
The executive committee announced the forty-eighth annual convention will be in Boston from July 2 to 8, 1910. The event will bring educators together amid a year of political questions and public policy debates.
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National Education Association
Boston
Conger
New York
Liberal Party
House of Commons
Congress
Pennsylvania
Paris
Ezra Kendall
Martinsville
Ind
Taft
Elgin Board of Trade
Great Britain
Warner M. van Norden
Immigration Commission
Hetty Green
Penrose bill targets oleomargarine tax in Washington
In Washington Senator Penrose proposes amending the oleomargarine law with new taxes for producers and dealers. A $600 annual tax falls on manufacturers, $200 on wholesale uncolored oleomargarine dealers, and $6 on retailers. The report also notes Whitelaw Reid’s extended term at St James, postal box theft concerns, and 1909 export shifts, plus Garner's cattle import repeal bill signaling more action on living costs.
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Penrose
Dairyman and Grangers
Washington
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
United States
Court of St. James
Post Office Department
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Garner
Rep
Indictments return in Chicago over city fraud scheme
Indictments were returned in Chicago against men accused of conspiring to defraud the city. Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska declines to call an extra session. Congratulations pour in for Gomper on his sixtieth birthday. Friends of Brigadier General Efhith of Fort Russell expect him to rise to the Missouri Department command as Brigadier March and Brigadier General Frederick Funston is in line but reportedly uninterested.
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Chicago
Shallenberger
Nebraska
Gompers
Fhith
Fort Russell
Department of the Missouri
Frederick Funston
Simple remedy for colds cough mixes glycerine oil pine and whisky
A home cure for colds and coughs recommends combining two ounces glycerine a half-ounce Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces whisky. Sold by drug stores with the Leach Chemical Co. of Cincinnati endorsing the Virgin Oil of Pine compound.
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Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Came After Her Johnny What Are Descendants
A dialogue passage defines descendants as people who come after us. Johnny asks what descendants are and Grandad explains they are people who come after us. He cites examples stating the baker and the milkmen are Mary's descendants.
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Johnny
Grandad
Mary
Doan's Kidney Pills Bring Relief, Tipton Woman Says
Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf of Tipton Missouri describes severe bladder inflammation and kidney trouble with back pain and tiredness. After taking Doan's Kidney Pills she was cured and remains well. The ad notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Elizabeth Wolf
W. Morgan St
Tipton
Doan
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Little Margery’s Question After Kindergarten Day
A kindergarten pupil named Margery ponders knowledge after school and asks her mother if she knows as much as she does not know. The remark captures a child’s emerging sense of learning and future curiosity.
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Margery
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claiming Reward and Endorsement
An old advertisement claims a one hundred dollar reward for a cure of catarrh by Hale Catarrh Cure. It lists endorsements from Wallding Kinnan and Marvin, wholesale druggists, and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as internally acting and available at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Fale
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Waalding
Kinnan & Marvin
Hall
Moon sighting sparks weathered wisdom in old tale
An elderly man named Mr. Erastus Pinkney voices a pragmatic view on luck during stormy days, saying any moon is luck enough to see. The Washington Star excerpt reflects rural charm and weathered superstition in a brief regional vignette.
Nature's Remedy Liver Tonic Restores Color And Clarity
An advertisement claims sallowness from an inactive liver can be cured by NR tablets from The A. H. Lewis Medicine Co. The copy promises bile removal, improved digestion, and a toned system with one nightly dose. Available through all druggists in St Louis, Missouri.
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A. H. Lewis Medicine Co
Uis, Mo
Impolite Papa Snoring Sparks Child’s Classroom Debate
A short dialogue piece shows a child asking why Papa snores loudly. The mother explains he is snoring, while the child quips about politeness and blowing his nose, highlighting a domestic moment and humor.
Children Sickness Alert Promotes Mother Gray's Powders
An old advertisement urges mothers to keep Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children on hand for illnesses. It notes availability by mail from Allen Olmsted in LeRoy New York.
Quotations on Judgment and Conversation by Fuller
The saying urges associating with wise men to gain good judgment. It notes that we adopt others' judgments by spending time in their company.
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Fuller
Juxtapositions in a Quaker City Almanac Notes
A fragmentary meditation recalls cemetery workers who cultivate in rich graveyard mold and a spouse’s vanity seen through jealousy. The odd pairing suggests social ironies and rural folk humor in a dated, aphoristic voice.
Indians in Earnest Happenings Across Nebraska
Omaha Indians press for deeds to their lands and oppose outsiders in charge of Indian interests. A five member committee will seek redress in Washington, including Sussan La Flesche Picotte and Hiram Chase. The extended citizenship deadline looms after 1909, fueling unrest and a historic opening prayer at the council.
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Walthill
Neb
Simeon Hallowell
White Horse
United States
Agency
Omaha
Agriculture in Schools Proposed in Hastings Nebraska
A Hastings committee named by the county superintendent and a state teachers association plans to promote agriculture education in public schools. Superintendents statewide receive blanks to suggest how to implement the new course. Answers include whether to make it compulsory, district schools for training teachers, and funding and legislative questions.
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Hastings
Neb
State Teachers’ Association
Willis
Lincoln
Agricultural College
State chess and checker meeting planned in Hastings
Preparations are underway for the annual state chess and checker association meet at the Lepin hotel in Hastings starting Tuesday February. Daily sessions will run five days with last year’s liberal attendance by top Nebraska and Kansas players expected to grow this year.
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Hastings, Neb
State
Lepin Hotel
Nebrask
Kansas
Kellys Celebrate 56th Wedding Anniversary in Cambridge
Mr and Mrs J J Kelly pioneers of Cambridge Neb marked their fifty six year union Tuesday with all sons daughters and grandchildren present. John James Kelly married Misa Sophia Baldozer on January 25 1855 in Ohio and is a prominent land owner in the area where he has lived since the early 1870s.
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Cambridge
Neb
J. J. Kelly
John James Kelly
Misa Sophia Baldozer
Ohio
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
In a Minneapolis letter, Mrs. Joan G Moldan credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing her female troubles and restoring health within three months. The ad touts other testimonials and invites readers to write for confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, noting 20 years of free assistance.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan G. Moldan
North
Lydia
Calous to Criticism Husband Responds Thick Skinned
A husband asserts he is thick skinned and unbothered by scolding, saying critics may condemn him as much as they like. The remark frames a defiant stance toward judgment.
Doctor's Best Formula For Quick Cold Cough Cure
An old remedy claims a day long cure for colds and a strong cough remedy. Mix two ounces glycerine half ounce concentrated pine into half pint whiskey and dose every four hours. Shake bottle. obtain concentrated pine from druggists. The formula supposedly cured hundreds last winter.
Fog-Eye’s Plausible Protest at Poker Parlor
Fog-Eye Smith of northwest Wyoming displayed a bizarre scene as he warned a pallid stranger about watering his liquor. Later he was found groveling under a poker table seeking his glass eye while muttering about a lack of humor.
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Fog-Eye
Fog-Eye Smith
Wyoming
Her Idea of Discipline in Baltimore Schools
A Cleveland Leader Sunday Magazine anecdote recalls a teacher enforcing discipline when a pupil laughs in class. A subsequent quip notes that when a woman bears a grudge she vents to neighbors about the husband's sorrow.
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Baltimore
The
Cleveland Leader
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