Baptism for 106-Year-Old Aunt Annie at Brownboro Church
In Brownboro Kentucky on August 15 Aunt Annie Warran McMakin a colored woman about 106 years old was baptized in a tub at her daughter Lucy Brooks home before the First Colored Baptist church. Rev J Daniel officiated the ceremony witnessed by local congregants. She says storms once frightened her but she will attend church as promised and remained well.
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Brownsboro
Annie Warran McMakin
Lucy Brooks
First Colored Baptist Church
J. . Daniel
Annie
Free trial treatments offered to men for weakness
Free trial packages of Enervita are mailed to men who write Dr. John S. Howell at Suite 1237 Auditorium Building Cincinnati Ohio. The home remedy targets weakness from youthful folly and years of misused functions and promises warmth and targeted effect.
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John S. Howell
Cr.owell
M. D
Mbuilding
Cincinneti Obhie
Howell
Leiter couple to sail world aboard Niagara IV yacht
Boston notices Mr and Mrs Joseph Leiter plan a year long around the world cruise aboard the steam yacht Niagara IV chartered from Howard Gould. The vessel will be commissioned at the end of September and the journey will include several guests.
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Boston
Joseph Leiter
British publicists push for Pan Pacific Exposition participation
Leo George Chiozza Money and other publicists publish articles and letters in the Daily Chronicle urging Britain to attend the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The Chronicle prints an editorial suggesting the government may reverse its decision to abstain.
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Associated Press
London
Leo George Chiozza
Daily Chronicle Today
Great Britain
The
Chronicle
Bucklen’s Amica Salve Promises Instant Pain Relief
An advertisement from Van Antwerp Drug Corp touts Bucklen’s Amica Salve as an immediate pain reliever for cuts bruises sprains burns and skin injuries. Endorsed by E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton Maine the copy claims the remedy robs injuries of their terrors and equates as a healing remedy.
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Bucklen
E. E.chamberlain
Clinton, Me
van Antwerp Drug Corp. Adv
Trapper Finds Wanderer After Mountain Trek
In Muskogee Oklahoma on August 16 Mittle Oran Trammel a three year old boy wandered from a Woodston construction camp for two days with no food. James Payne an old hunter found him near the Eagle and Kiemichi mountains and carried him back to camp. The boy had not eaten since leaving home. The search party had earlier recovered Ruby Thomson four. she reported the boy had collapsed in the morning and she left him. Wolves and wild cats were reported in the area but no injuries occurred. Payne spurned a $500 reward offered by the father J T Trammell.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Oklo
Mittle Oran Trammel
Woodston
James Payne
Payne
J. T. Trammell
Trammell
Ruby Thomson
Eagle
Kiemichi
Vanderlip Defends City Bank Deal On Chicago Elevates
Frank A. Vanderlip president of National City Bank says reports the bank loaned more than 10 percent of surplus to finance a Chicago Elevated Railway stock syndicate are false. He explains a $30 million purchase of notes was then resold and not a bank loan. Treasury department inquiry reportedly underway.
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Associated Press
New York
Frank A. Vanderkip
National City Bank
McRoberts
Treasury Department
Chicago Elevated Railway Company
Vanderlip
No More for Papers Zip Parke of Scobeyville Passes
John H S Parke known as Zip a veteran Scobeyville correspondent for Red Bank Eatontown and Freehold papers has died after a lamp explosion left him nearly blind. A 75 year old former Phillipsburg worker he reported local farm notes and residents for over thirty five years. He lived alone in Ashbury Park Home for Incurables and left behind a lasting record as a faithful community journalist.
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Red Bank
N. J
John H. S. Karke
New Jersey
Weygaps
Ashbury Park
Parke
Zip
Fatontown Advertiser
James Steen
Steen
Monmouth Park
Scobeyvie
Eatontown
Freehold
Samuel Perkins
Monmouth County
Scobeyville
Phillipsburg
John R. Snyder
Snyder
John Parke
Oddest mine in America at Blue River shooting park
In Kansas City on August 15 a surreal mine operates on the Blue River shooting ground. The leasee hopes to profit over 5000 dollars from the summer’s work as millions of bullets lie embedded in soil. An estimated 100 tons of lead could be recovered at 854 dollars per ton. A Real Estate auction notice follows.
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Kansas City
America
Blue River
R. S. Elliott
Miner Uses Sluice to Extract Lead from Park Soil
A worker devised a mining method at the park by building a sluice and using a gasoline engine to wash lead from surface soil. Daily cleanup follows the scraping of soil and collection of material from the sluice.
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Ager
Elliott
Blue River
Alabama Faces Possible Extra Session Over Redistricting
Special to The Item from Montgomery outlines political risks if Governor O Neal calls an extra legislature to create a federal senator route. A redistricting plan could shuffle Alabama’s nine districts, potentially placing candidates outside their current districts and creating a tenth district by taking territory from existing districts.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
O'Neal
Henry D. Clayton
Congress
John W. Abercombie
Jefferson County
Hot Springs Liver Pills Ad From Hot Springs Ark
An advertisement urges readers to use HOT SPRINGS LIVER pills from Hot Springs Chemical Co Arkansas as a safe laxative and liver remedy. It claims quick relief from constipation torpid liver headaches coated tongue and dizziness and offers a free sample.
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Hot Springs Chemiccal Co
Hot Springs, Ark
Texas Wonder Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles
Advertises Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues including gravel diabetes and rheumatism claims to regulate children's bladder troubles. States $1.00 mail order with a two month supply mentioned and lists Dr Hall in St. Louis as contact and Alabama testimonials.
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Texas
Alabama
On Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Woman Found Dead in Summer Apartment
Mrs. Catherine Guthrie, 65, of Washington DC, was found dead in her Asbury Park summer apartment. She lay in a pool of blood with a towel around her neck. Authorities initially suspected suicide or murder, but neighbors believe death resulted from a nosebleed linked to her condition.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Catherine Gutherie
Washington, D. C
Notice to tenants rent placard and lease signings
Notice to tenants states all property will be placarded and offered for rent after August 1 unless leases have already been signed and returned.
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President National City Bank
Penorth
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