Quantity Quality And Price In Western Canada Wheat
Reports from Central Canada grain fields declare 1909 yields surpass prior seasons with strong notes of quantity quality and price. Saskatchewan leads wheat production with about 90 million bushels from 400000 acres while forecasts expect larger future crops as soil and cultivation expand. The piece highlights international price impact and the growing American resident influence in western Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Central
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Russia
India
United States
Lord Grey
Canadian West
Jones Reputation Noted For Sharp Insight
The Cleveland Leader quotes a remark praising Jones as possessing a finest mind and sagacity. The quip notes his habit of quickly affirming statements with “By Jove, that’s so” and wondering why he never thought of it before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Cleveland
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days With PazO Ointment Claim
Advertised claim for PAZO ointment guarantees cure of itching burning or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or a full refund. The notice promises relief and refunds if the condition is not resolved within the stated period.
Comic Cubs at the Next Station Scene
Dialogue captures a playful moment on a train platform with Young Golightly flirting and Miss replying that the seat is free until Sam arrives at the next station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Golightly
Pretty Girl
Sam
Comic Cubs
Remarkable facts about the tongue from Dr. Souchon
The article summarizes the New Orleans surgeon Dr. E Souchon on the tongue as a movable, multi shaped organ with base body and apex. It notes its functions appearance and structure including papillae and dual motor sensory roles and compares its color solidity and nerves to other organs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Souchon
New Orleans
Father Time Looks Back at the Year 1909
A reflective piece lists 1909 as a pivotal year with numerous world events and U S milestones. Key items include Roosevelt's Africa voyage, Persia reforms, Creeks ambushing officers, Newcomb’s death, a Hudson tunnel opening, Riots in Barcelona, and Peary’s North Pole claim, among others.
Global Turmoil and Disasters Sweep Early 20th Century
Chronology lists earthquakes hitting Stromboli Sicily and Southern Italy. ship arrivals at Suez aiding Messina relief. Supreme Court voids large Standard Oil fine. severe cold waves. multiple murders and executions including Rev. J H Carmichael, and mine explosions in Zeigler Illinois and Bluefield West Virginia. Also noted are floods in Europe, naval events, airship and battleship developments, political shifts, and notable deaths and pardons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Yuan Shi Kai
Stromboli Island
Sicily
Italy
Suez
Messina
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Co
Union City
Tenn
J. H. Carmichael
Gideon Brown
Battle Run
Mich
Elihu Root
New York
Cibh
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Herman Billek
Congress
Persia
Republic
Martha’s Vineyard
Florida
Coquelin
Frank P. Glazier
Michigan
United States
Cuba
Gomez
Spain
Wierce
Million for Cancer Research in Columbia
By the will of the late George Crocker Columbia is to receive 1,000,000 dollars to fund original cancer research. Both Mr. Crocker and his wife died of cancer in this donation plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Crocker
Columbia
Arrests in Spokane Street agitation case escalate
Ten more Illinois W. W. men attempting to speak on Spokane streets were arrested and jailed. Fifty agitators who had served thirty day sentences were released.
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IL W. W
Spokane
Major World Events and Figures Reported
A roundup lists fires in Ft Worth and a federal prison burn in Ft Leavenworth Kansas. It notes the deaths of Admiral Cervera and actress Helena Modjeska and poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. Roosevelt lands at Mombasa. Constantinople changes regime. Abdul Hamid deposed. Severe storms sweep lake states.
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Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Burns
Fort Worth
Texas
Cervera
Cipriano Castro
Fort de France
Martinique
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Gov. Lilley
Connecticut
Theodore Roosevelt
Mombasa
East Africa
David Turpie
Indiana
Gov. Willson
Kentucky
Goebel
Sen. Stewart
Nevada
Constantinople
Sultan
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Mehmid V
Wilhelmina
Holland
Seaborne clashes and calamities dominate early year’s news
A sequence of dramatic events outlines strikes, drownings, murders, disasters, and political moves. Notable items include the Whitla kidnapping convictions of James and Helen Boyle, the deaths of Augusta Evans Wilson and George Meredith, a deadly school fire in Central City Kentucky, and a destructive tornado in Zephyr Texas. Other entries report earthquakes in Illinois and Messina, ship incidents near Sault Ste. Marie and Azores, labor graft trials in Chicago, and a Seattle exposition opening.
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Chicago
Adelia Shores
Lake Superior
James Boyle
Whitla
Helen Anna Boyle
Augusta J. Evans Wilson
Mehmid V
Turkey
Peter Hains
Annis
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Tracy & Co
New York
George Meredith
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil
Central City
Illinois
William Lorimer
Madden, Pouchot and
Boyle
Zephyr
Texas
Seattle
Philadelphia
Col
A. K. McClure
Ship Canal
Sault Ste. Marie
Canada
Elsie Sigel
Edward Everett Hale
Slavonia
Azores
France
Ft. Des Moines
Iowa
Penna
Brazil
Romon
Japan
Crown Point
Ind
Duna Park
Spain
Wehrum
Sarah Orne Jewett
Dogs and estates feature in city exhibition and sales
Dogs valued at 100000 were recently on exhibition at the dog show. The Christian Publishing Company of St. Louis has been purchased by R A Long of Kansas City for 100000. Grandview the Lawrence C Phipps residence in Pittsburg including twelve acres of land in the east end has been sold to Walter Prager for 576000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Christian Publishing Company of
St. Louis
R. A. Long
Kansas City
Prolific 1900s News Nuggets Chronicle multiple events
Severe rail crash near Farmer City Illinois leaves fatalities. Dudley Buck famed organist and composer passes away. Key West endures devastating hurricane. Steamer George Stone wrecks in Lake Erie with losses. Taft and Diaz meet at border. W. I. Buchanan, ex diplomat to Panama, dies in London. Nebraska bank law ruled invalid. Prof Caesare Lombroso dies at 80. Senator M. N. Johnson dies. Nicaraguan troops crushed by insurgents. Justice Rufus W. Peckham dies. Prince Ito assassinated at Harbin. Steamer Hestia sinks Bay of Fundy with 34 drowned. Gen. O. O. Howard dies. Government troops defeat rebels at Salamis Greece.
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Farmer City
Ill
Dudley Buck
Key West
George Stone
Lake Erie
Taft
Diaz
W. I. Buchanan
Panama
London
Nebraska
Caesare Lombro
U. S
M. N. Johnson
North Dakota
Rufus W. Peckham
United States Supreme Court
Prince Ito
Harbin
Hestia
Bay of Fundy
O. O. Howard
Salamis
Greece
Election highlights and notable events of 2 State and municipal races
Summary lists incidents: eight men burned in a Brooklyn fire, lynching in Cairo, Illinois, a Cherry, Illinois mine disaster, Mme Steinheil acquitted in Paris double murder, deaths of philanthropist Charles N. Crittenton and Richard Watson Gilder, warships to Nicaragua, 21 miners saved from Cherry, Standard Oil anti trust action, wets win in Alabama, Zelaya's army defeated in Nicaragua, British Lords reject budget, and a strike by switchmen on north western roads.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Cairo
Cherry
Ill
Mme. Steinheil
Paris
Chas
N. Crittenton
Richard Watson Gilder
Nicaragua
Cherry Mine
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Alabama
Zelaya
House of Lords
Death of King Leopold and Yale Prize for Tuberculosis Cure
The death of King Leopold is reported as Yale University takes custody of a $100,000 tuberculosis prize from a secret donor alumnus. An advisory board will assess cures with a five year track record and testimonials. Funds support prize merit and quarterly board meetings.
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Yale University
Yale
Taft Purchases Rare Limoges Enamel Portrait
Charlies P Taft brother of the President buys a Limoges enamel portrait of the Duke of Nevers by Limousin, a sixteenth century painter, for about $100000, described as perhaps the finest of its kind in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies P. Taft
Limoges
Duke of
Nevers
Cabinet to Consider Syrian Immigration Policy
The President's cabinet may soon study Syrian immigration. Courts have ruled Syrians qualify for naturalization, but the naturalization bureau disagrees and follows a contrary view.
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Naturalization Bureau
Squeal of the Infant Industries Sparks Tariff Talk
At the Stockyards a mock exchange notes the tariff agitation boosting demand for a hogs squeal stored on phonographs. The dialogue contrasts past limits with current appetite for the sound as a satirical take on industry pressure.
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iIt
Puck
Remedy for Coughs and Colds Promoted in Ad
An advertisement touts a cure for coughs and colds claiming to break up a cold in twenty four hours. It prescribes mixing two ounces glycerine one half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine compound and eight ounces pure whisky, to be stored in a large bottle and sold at drug stores. It notes Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure is prepared by Leach Chemical Co. Cincinnati and dispensed in half ounce vials.
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Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute At
Buffalo
Worp’s
Disceasary Medica Association
Pierce
N. Y
M. Summers
Notre Dame
Tad
Job offer reads like steady hours and pay in old Houston ad
A man describes a simple job pitch offering hours from 10 to 2, Saturdays 10 to 12, light work with no experience required and a salary of $100 per week. The reply notes lacking $50,000 to invest in the business, reflecting a bygone Houston Chronicle style.
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Houston Chronicle
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Advertising copy for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders claims to cure feverishness headache teething disorders regulate bowels and destroy worms. It promises relief from colds in 24 hours and says the product is pleasant and harmless as milk. Sold by all druggists 25c sample mailed free Allen H. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Mother Gray
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Marry Her To Learn What She Thinks About You
A quip from a Catholic Times piece suggests marriage as the quickest way to know a woman's thoughts. The rest notes vary from a patent remedy claim to a Le Mans hatmakers union being led by a single official, plus ads for tonics and constipation cures.
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Peckham
Catholic Times
Cure a Cold in One Day Posed by Laxative Bromo Quinine
Patent medicine ad promises a one day cure for colds using LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Druggists refund money if it fails. Box bears ER W. GROVE'S signature. Price two cents.
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ER W. Grove
What They Put Under Corner Stones
Citizens discuss what to place beneath corner stones for posterity. They joke about including current coins literature and similar items and ponder adding a current hat to reflect local customs.
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Kansas City Journal
Break That Cough with Allen’s Lung Vn Remedy
Advertisement notes Allen’s Lung Vn as a nationwide lung remedy bragging it cures where others fail. It promotes 25c 6c and 1.00 bottles and references a Cuba telegraph postal consolidation. Also features Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with 5c per bottle and a milk pasteurization exchange in a humorous dialogue between Mrs Kawner and Mrs Crossway about cows in the barn and fresh hay.
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Allen
Kawner
Crossway
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