Ambassdor Griscom Praises American Veneration of Antiquity
During a Rome dinner with Philadelphia visitors, Ambassador Lloyd Griscom extolled American respect for antiquity. He recalled guiding a southern guest to the Ara Coeli on Capitoline Hill, noting the church’s eight centuries of age and the contrast with the guest’s impression of its age.
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Lloyd Griscom
Calhoun
Iumph
Ten Years of Pain Ends With Doan's Kidney Pills
Margaret Emmerich of Clinton St Napoleon Ohio suffered kidney trouble for fifteen years with back pain poor eyesight dizzy spells and inability to do housework. Doan's Kidney Pills gave quick relief and cured her claiming they saved her life. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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Margaret Emmerich
Clinton St
Napoleon, C
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Unknown Awakenner Quote Sparks Early Riser Remark
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes an early riser remark about Mrs Gadd with humorous implication of a bargain sale. The brief suggests a light, social moment and featured banter among readers.
Cure for Severe Eczema in Child with Cuticura Remedies
A parent reports a boy with widespread eczema improved after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. After many physicians failed, the skin condition cleared in about two months, with dates noted as Sept 20 and Nov 4 1907 at Mahanoy City Pennsylvania.
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George L. Lambert
West Centre St
Mahanoy City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Trials of a Chaperon Miss Mayme On Vacation
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune mentions Miss Mayme on vacation and a chaperon scenario. An elderly relative and a child discuss scandalous doings, while文 the narrator envisions relaxing in a hammock with Shelley or the Vicar of Wakfield.
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Mayme
Shelley
Wakfield
Chicago
Tribun
Kemp's Balsam Cures Coughs Says Medical Endorsement
A voice urging Kemp's Balsam as a universal cure for coughs claims doctors and nurses recommend it. The ad notes a 25 cent price and advises keeping a bottle in the house to treat colds or coughs before suffering begins.
Involuntary Contributions and Roosevelt Word Rate
The piece notes President Roosevelt has been offered a dollar per word for a story on his Africa hunting trip next year. It contrasts this rate with the higher costs paid by ordinary people and mentions a predatory trust magnate demanding more value for messages to Congress.
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Roosevelt
Free Allen's foot powder sample offer in Le Roy New York
Advertisement promotes Allen's For Ease powder to relieve tired sweating hot swollen and aching feet. Claims it eases tight shoes cures corns and bunions. Offers a free sample by writing to Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York. Druggists and shoe stores sell it for 25 cents.
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Allen's
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
An Expensive Fire and a Farce in the Kitchen
A man helps Martha learn a gas range but leaves after a call. Days later he finds the stove still burning, the fire undiminished, as Martha exclaims it is the best stove she ever saw. The tale turns on a fiery misunderstanding gone awry.
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Martha
Held as Slayer of Girls in Dayton Murders
Elmer Carr is arrested in Dayton Ohio on state fire marshal orders accused of killing Mary Forschner and Elizabeth Fulhart. Authorities say Carr confessed to Middlestetter and may explain the Dana Gilman case while a web of evidence surrounds the fires and prior killings.
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Elmer Carr
Mary Forsebner
Lizzie Fulhart
Dayton
Ohio
LA. Nl
Hollenbeck
Bert Slullinger
Hullinger
Carr
Dona Gilman
Carri
Carrie Middlestetter
Elizabeth Fulhart
Mary Forschner
North
West Jefferson Street
Joseph Voges
Husband Forges Wife Name in Love Letters Case
Chester M. Hamsher pleaded guilty in Kansas City federal court to signing his wife's name on love letters to Atchison businessman Neil Johnson. Sentenced to one year in jail, the letters promised a vast fortune and asked for 10 dollars by return mail. The scheme lasted six months and defrauded Johnson of about 500 dollars before discovery. Marrisher's wife knew nothing of the affair until it was exposed.
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Chester M. Hamsher
Kansas City
Neil Johnson
Atchison, Kan
V Postoffice Department
Hamsher
Johnson
Post Office
Marrisher
Beach Hargis Found Guilty of Patricide in Breathitt County
In Irvine the jury found Beach Hargis guilty of killing his father Judge James Hargis. He received a life sentence after a second trial following a prior mistrial. The murder occurred at the father’s store in Jackson Breathitt County on September 6, 1908.
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Irvine
Beach Hargis
James Hargis
Hargis
Beach
Jackson
Breathitt County
Oldest Osmanli Sultan Rechad Faces Young Turks Rule
Rechad, 65, is described as the oldest male descendant of Osman I to rule since 1451, with Abdul’s nephew Yussef Izzedin favored by some but blocked by Turkish law requiring the eldest male in the dynasty. Rechad, weak in governance, has spent 25 years largely confined in the Yildiz Palace and is seen as compliant to the Young Turks.
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Rechad
Othman
Constantinople
Abdul
Yussef Izzedin
Yussef
Yildiz
Bends and Bets Highlight Sports World Scattered Across Europe and America
A mix of wagers and racing notes from across the globe. Charles Lambie agrees to a Seattle walk in 90 days after a $500 stake, jockey Eddie Dugan returns to New York, Vanderbilt’s Northeast wins the Prix de Palaisan, Midhurst takes the Gudby plate at Leicester, Gotch defeats Mahmout for $14,088.05, Demsey beats McMahon in Columbus, Oversight wins at Nottingham, Yale and Princeton alumni push for a dual regatta on Carnegie Lake, Indian Simpson seeks Marathon glory in New York, and Charley Comiskey names Billy Sullivan White Sox manager for the season.
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Charles Lambie
St. Paul
Seattle
Eddie” Dugan
New York
England
W. K. Vanderbilt
Nash Turner
Villard
Leicester
Eng
Midhurst
Frank Gotch
Mahmout
Turk
George Demsey
Columbus
Hough McMahon
Nottingham
I. Whitney
J. HW. Martin
Yale
Princeton
Carnegie Lake
St. Yves
Simpson
Canada
Girl Slams College Tragedy in Northampton
Porter Macdougal Smith of Chicago a traveling salesman for R P Smith Sons shot Miss Mabel Marden a Smith College senior after pursuing an unwanted engagement She died hours later at Dickinson Hospital Smith age about 25 a Dartmouth graduate and company representative killed himself on the Northampton campus after the shooting leaving behind his failed pursuit and the fatal wounding of Miss Marden in Somerville Mass
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Edward F. Smith
Chicago
Northampton
Miss Marden
Smith
Dickinson Hospital
Mob Avenges Murder of Boy at Wymore Nebraska
Clyde Price the 11 year old boy shot at Wymore Nebraska died Sunday without regaining consciousness The Italian railroad laborer Bertrudi was rescued by Sheriff Trade and jailed in Beatrice The mob of 400 men attacked the Italian camp drove them from town set fire to bank cars and burned their belongings The Chicago Burlington and Quincy moved its construction trains from Wymore to Kircher
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Clyde Price
Frank Weisner
Wymore
Neb
Bertraudi
Bertruci
Trade
Beatrice
Bertrud
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Kircher
Women Cutthroats Arrested in Russian Village
A mother and her two daughters led a tavern at Kurchino near St. Petersburg and, with other women, murdered travelers who stayed the night. They disfigured bodies and cast them into a nearby stream. multiple corpses were recovered as villagers failed to suspect them at first.
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Kurchino
St. Petersburg
Lightning Strikes Ohio Home Paralyzes Woman
A severe electrical storm in Upper Sandusky Ohio struck Theodore Henrys house. The incident left his wife paralyzed from the hips down and her shoes torn off by the force of the strike.
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Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Theodore Henry
Holland's Heir Is Daughter Named Queen Wilhelmina's Issue
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland gives birth to a daughter on a Friday morning. The queen, born August 31, 1850, ascended the throne in 1890 and has led the Netherlands since then, with the new birth described as a love match union with Prince Henry of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
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Wilhelmina
Iolland
Wilachulua
Itenry
Mecklenburg-Schwerip
Isso
Willem III
Possible succession outcome in Dutch royal lineage 1901
The text discusses Prince Henry and a German lieutenant at a 1901 marriage, noting a potential birth of a son to Queen Wilhelmina that could lead to her retirement due to Salic law. It states a son would likely be crowned when 18, while a daughter would succeed only if she outlives her mother.
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Prince Henry
Wilhelmina
Holland
Powers Eye Turkey as Eastern Question Deepens
The article analyzes the near eastern question with England and Russia at odds over Turkey’s fate in Europe. It notes Russia’s route to the sea and European balance threaten Britain, while Austria and France fear shifts in the Balkans, Africa, and the Orient.
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Turkey
Europe
Russia
Constantipole
England
Russian
United States
Austria
Nort in Wire Escape Test At Wellesley
Miss Jeannette Tandy of Vevay Lud, a sophomore at Wellesley College fell two stories when a rope fire escape broke during a required drill. She struck her back and head and suffered serious injuries.
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Jeannette Tandy
Vevay
Lud
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Mass
Miss Tandy
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Satisfied Women
Bardstown Kentucky and Christiana Tennessee women report relief from ulceration and other female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims decades of use and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Bardstown
Joseph Hall
Bards— Town
Christiana
Tenn
Mrs. Many Woop
R.F.D
Royal composers featured in cathedral choir program
A London Chronicle excerpt notes Henry VIII as a famed composer whose anthems endure in cathedrals. It lists royal figures from Victoria to Princess Henry of Battenberg, German Emperor, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, with pieces by Carew, Florian, and others.
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Henry Vill
Henry VIII
Margaret
James TV
Scotland
Alys Lorraine
London Chronicle
Charles I
Thomas Carew
Queen Victoria
Prince Consort
Prince Albert
Henry of Battenberg
Aegir
Duke Brtveh
Emf Rhpranh
Marie Antoinette
Florian
Anthony the Good
Prince Clement
Frederick the Great
Louis Ferdinand
Prussia
Saalfeld
Its Faulty Construction
Mrs Lap sling complains of poor acoustics in a theater saying she could not hear half the actors. She blames agnostic properties of the theater for the sound failure.
Old Soakers Get Saturated with Caffeine
A Huntsville Alabama woman recalls long term coffee use causing stomach trouble and insomnia. After years of unsuccessful medical care she stopped coffee, tried Postum, and four months later reports improved health and sleep. The letter ends with a plug for Postum and a teaser about Read The Road to Wellville.
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Huntsville
Ala
Wellville
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