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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
4
On this day Deb orah Sampson, Revolutionary heroine, hails from Clinton Massachusetts as born in 1765 and Beethoven born in 1770. centenary of John Greenleaf Whittier noted. Astronomical events include banners at 4:30, moon at 4:04 am, aphelion for Mercury, and day length details.
The article alleges a bribery scheme tied to Theodore Burton and a cabinet post, accusing Judge Taft of offering a treasury position to Burton to clear the path for his brother Foraker. It condemns graft, notes Burton’s resistance, and mentions Roosevelt and Foraker in a broader political scandal context.
Fragmentary ad copy touts a miracle cure for a cold using dubious products and strange terms. It mentions refunds, a price, and a location but lacks coherent details or credible claims.
An animated scene unfolds as about forty gleeful girls crowd a Herald Square anteroom awaiting a ceremony with Teddy Roosevelt. Onlookers heckle and cheer as reporters and a mixed delegation mingle, while a press agent negotiates a story that diverges from official accounts.
Spokane delegates led by M O Tybate of Wenatchee Fruit Growers and H M Gilbert of the Washington State Horticultural Association organize a national apple show with $6000 in premiums. The prize exhibits totaling 2000 boxes will travel to Chicago New York and Rowton in January under A J Owen and other Spokane organizers.
The article notes promoters and commission men in New York and Woxton offering to secure spacious buildings to showcase apples from Willelington, Ordon, Montana, and Writtah Colombia. Promoters plan charitable giving from expenses, aiming to attract settlers to western areas while Roosevelt commission head Liberty J. Bailey cites Inland Empire potential capacity for 10,000 people to cultivate hand minwit trees and stresses strong demand for Northwest apples in Europe.
Reported finds draw Fairbanks miners to a site at Muirbanke where Nelson believes the specimen may be the famed Anseouds moore. A 1,200 pound carcass with seven foot antlers is noted. Chiefs Yellowkanty and Naolwack feature in a distant ceremony as Spokane braces for the National Irrigation Congress with Taft possible attendance and tariff debate shaping the Northwest exposition plans.
An old advertisement touts a cure named Catarrh Cure by Walding Kinnan and Marvin Wholesale Druggists. It claims to treat blood and system health, with unsolicited promises of perfect honesty and obligation fulfillment. The note also promotes Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Fragmented ad copy touts Christmas pine and herbal remedies claiming to improve digestion and overall health. It mentions Hoblister's Pharmacy and promises better wellbeing through regulated claims, though the text is garbled and difficult to parse.
The Kirby's store announces extended evening hours daily until Christmas. The notice also mentions Beal & Lemp as partners and hints at value and exchange terms, with details obscured by fragmented OCR.
Columbus prepares for a grand inauguration of Judson Harmon as Ohio governor on January 1. A nonpartisan program by the Columbus board of trade and business leaders aims to accommodate up to 100000 visitors with a rotunda oath, a statehouse parade led by Harmon, and a large inaugural ball at Memorial Hall.
Franklin County Democratic and Buckeye Republican clubs plan Open houses at Great Southern hotel and Harrison Building as visiting delegations converge for the inaugural. County Dem leaders Lente and Rendition coordinate with GOP chairmen while Buckeye Republicans host visitors and the parade is billed as Ohio’s greatest pageant. About a hundred thousand visitors are anticipated for the event.
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