Home Rule Delegates Reject Irish Council Plan in Dublin
A large Dublin convention, described as the most representative ever, voted unanimously against the liberal government’s limited Irish council proposal. Three thousand delegates attended as Irish MPs faced a wave of opposition from towns and unofficial groups. The event marked a clear “home rule or nothing” stance and signaled potential rifts in government support.
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Ireland
Dublin
John E. Redmond
Mansion House
Davitt
Dillon
Holly
City to take over Geary street railway in transit experiment
San Francisco moves to municipal ownership of public utilities. The Geary street railway will be taken over after a conference between District Attorney Langdon and Board of Supervisors Chair. A 400000 dollar appropriation will be added to the June budget alongside 350000 already allotted for taking over the railroad. An engineer will design the conversion from cable to an electric conduit system.
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San Francisco
Geary Street Railway
Langdon
Gallagher
Board of Supervisors
Sentence of Fifty Years for Corporal Knowles Assaulting Captain
Corporal E. L. Knowles of the Twenty-fifth Infantry receives a fixed sentence of fifty years at hard labor in Fort Leavenworth after being found guilty on two specifications of assault and battery with intent to kill and assault with intent to commit robbery against Captain Edgar A. Macklin at Reno Oklahoma in December. General Albert L. Meyer approved the court’s decision, noting the sentence is just two years shy of the maximum.
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Martin
E. L. Knowles
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Edgar A. Macklin
Reno
Okla
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Albert L. Meyer
Department of Texas
Knowles
Turkish Detachment Captures Yenidje Lake Stronghold
A Saloniki dispatch reports Turkish troops on May 19 captured the Bulgarians stronghold in the Yenidje lake region. Bulgarian casualties were about fifty, reportedly after Turkish forces killed their prisoners. Turkish losses totaled seven men.
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Berlin
Frankfurther Zeitung
Saloniki
Turkey
Yenidje Lake
Bolier Explosion Kills Two In Brazil Indiana Plant
A boiler explosion at the Clay City Electric Light plant in Brazil Indiana destroyed the facility and left two men dead. Relph Travis a 17 year old fireman was scalded and died two hours later. The town was left without power as officials assessed a $10 000 loss.
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Clay City
Brazil
Ind
Relph Travis
Telegraphers Conclude 1907 Minneapolis Convention
The telegraphers order wrapped up its 1907 convention in Minneapolis after a seven day session with officials and members attending from multiple regions.
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the Order of Railroad
Minneapolis
Fragmentary 1900s Advertisements and Notes
Scattered ad copy and brief notes mention remedies and products such as Krause’s Cold Capsules priced at 25c. The British Boer War official history has cost about $125,000 with only one volume published. Tea is promoted as purifying and healthful by a Brooklyn Tea Company.
Figure of speech prank quoted by Dad and Freddy
A quip from Harpers Weekly plays on the idea that a figure of speech is a woman. Freddy asks about the phrase and Dad replies with a cautious explanation about the mother downstairs.
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Freddy
Dad
Harpers Weekly
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Advertisement
The excerpt advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with circulars available free and mentions J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio along with All's Family Pills for constipation. The fragment implies a patent medicine promotion typical of late 19th or early 20th century newspapers.
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Ness
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. Dengpiete
Toe All
Shoemaker's Last
A provincial bootmaker is described in a humorous hand bill as a man of many roles. It touts him as a doctor and surgeon who heels and cuts, a fishmonger selling soles and heels, a schoolmaster who gives understanding, and a good speaker who threads arguments and captivates his audience.
Itching Rash 18 Years Prompts Cure by Cullctura Remedies
A Bay City Michigan mother reports her daughter’s chronic rash starting behind the ears and spreading to knees elbows neck face. After years of salves and a specialist's care the Cullctra Remedies provided relief, ending the outbreak by May 20 1906.
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M. Curley
Sixteenth St. Bay City
Mich
Silver Cord The Bell And A Messenger Boy Misread
A Virginia lawyer’s death leads to a tale of misread signals when a bell tied to a door push failed. A messenger boy tugged the old knob, until a white-haired man explained the severed silver cord caused no response. The boy’s puzzled reply shows how meaning can be lost in translation.
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Virginia
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Lee
Ailaye
Lewis
Bingle
Krause
Boy
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
J. W. Dinsdale
Chicago
Alexander EB. Mizntie
Cleveland
Ohio
J. 8
Alexander
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McClellan
Buffalo, N. Y
J. W. Alien
St. Louis
C. H. Glidden
St. Paul, Minn
H. D. Benner
Philadelphia
J. A. Boarman
Kansas City
J. J. Mackey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Allens
Defiance
W. N. U. Lincoln
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