Government power to protect people compared to cattle
Jan 4 Mington report notes Attorney General Harr urges that federal authority to regulate disease in transit applies with same rigor as cattle protection. He cites Supreme Court upheld commerce clause case and warns Congress to act if needed to curb import of diseased animals and possibly human trafficking for immoral purposes.
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Mington
Oetant
Harr
Congress
Seven States
King Ferdinand Signals Return to War in London Talks
King Ferdinand, in an address, warns that if peace talks fail he will not hesitate to resume hostilities to secure complete satisfaction. He expresses hope for an agreement in London but asserts readiness to take a new recourse to arms if needed.
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Bofia
Ferdinand
London
Doan’s Kidney Pills Backed by Mobile Residents
Mobile residents express strong long term trust in Dean’s Kidney Pills highlighting a 1908 public recommendation by Mrs. A J Leibert of 256 Palmetto St Mobile Ala. She cites permanent improvement in her child’s kidney weakness and mentions other family members benefited. Sold by dealers for 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan’s and no other.
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Mobile
Dean
A. J. Leibert
Palmetto St
Ala
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
York
United Tes
Doan
Mrs A G Gorgas Dies In Alabama At 87
Amelia Gayle Gorgas mother of Panama Canal Zone health officer William C Gorgas died in Tuscaloosa Alabama Friday morning in her eighty seventh year. The long time University of Alabama librarian born 1826 Greensboro Alabama daughter of Governor John Gayle. She married General Josiah Gorgas in 1852 and moved with him through Richmond and Brierfield Alabama returning after the Civil War.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
William C. Gorgas
Panama Canal Zone
Gorgas
University of Alabama
Josiah Gorgas
University of the South
Greensboro
John Gayle
Alabama
United States Army
Richmond
Brierfield
Sevwanee, Tenn
Laborer Finds Fortune Near Nowata in Hidden Loot
George Hardsock unearthed 37500 dollars in gold while trenching near Oglesby Oklahoma. State law likely requires surrender to the landowner, as the money appears buried for years and is believed to be loot from a bank robbery.
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Nowata
Okla
George Hardsock
Oglesby
Hardsock
Grandfather Law at Center of Oklahoma Contest
Congress will decide next spring on upholding Oklahoma's grandfather law denying suffrage to illiterate Black citizens. The contest between John J. Davis and Rep. Bird S. McGuire, backed by James A. Harris and Boardman, alleges a conspiracy to defeat the law's operation.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Congress
Oklahoma
Thomas P. Gore
John J. Davis
Chandler
Bird S. McGuire
First
Disqualified Negroes Vote Case Sparkes Federal Challenge
The report recalls a claim by Davis that a conspiracy of men used letters signed by United States Attorney Boardman to intimidate election officials. They allegedly warned that enforcing the grandfather law would invite prosecution under the federal constitution, undermining voting rights.
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Davis
United States
Boardman
Intercession for Negroes In Cuba Uprising
Friends of Africans imprisoned by Gomez troops after Cuba's failed uprising seek U S aid under a general amnesty act. Officials want unbiased facts before approaching Gomez. The Cuban legation denies reports of wholesale arrests in San Diego province.
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Washington
Friends of
Gomez
Cuba
State Department
Senor Sanguilly
San Diego
Three Labor Leaders Appeal Contempt Conviction
Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the AFL filed an appeal in the DC court of appeals from their contempt of court convictions in the Bucks Store and Range case. They claim they were convicted for more than contempt and list seventeen alleged errors by Justice Wright. The prosecutors will reply before Feb 5 with a probable February hearing in the second week.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Wright
Committee of Prosecutors
John Cleveland Dies After Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound
John Cleveland aged twenty eight died Friday afternoon at 2 55 from gunshot wounds to the breast suffered Tuesday while handling a 83 calibre revolver at Dauphin and Dearborn streets. He claimed the shooting was accidental. Dr O H Harris attended him. all efforts failed. He was a native of the city and is survived by his parents two brothers a sister and other relatives.
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John Cleveland
Dauphin
Dearborn
0. H. ‘Harris
Cleveland
Famine in candied fruits hits New York trade
Uproar in New York January reports a candied fruit shortage. Importers scramble as retail houses press for supply, relying on French Marrons glaces and other fruits now scarce. Merchants fear hard days ahead as demand outstrips shipments, with prices rising and patience thinning.
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New York
France
Alladin
Grand Vizier Warned to Hold Adrianople
Vienna January 4 The grand vizier of Turkey has received letters warning him that certain death awaits if he surrenders Adrianople to the Balkan allies. Turkish delegates in London dispatched strongly worded despatches deploring weak instructions and refusing to bear responsibility for a calamitous peace.
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Vienna
Turkey
Adrianople
Constantinople
London
Woman seeks phonograph under window to prove quietness
Miss Viola Pettit asked Judge Slusser to order a phonograph under her window to record sounds, hoping to disprove neighbors who say she uses loud language. The judge postponed the case to January 6.
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Aurora
Viola Pettit
Slusser
Pipe smoking a cure for blues claims by 96 year old
Brattleboro Vermont January 4. Mrs Eliza Morse celebrated her seventy fourth wedding anniversary. The remarkable woman cites pipe smoking and reading as cures for despondency along with knitting socks for old men. She remains active, walks daily and maintains regular hours. She is the youngest of eleven children and all siblings reached over ninety.
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Brattleboro
Eliza Morse
Morse
Pape's Diapepsin Claims Fast Stomach Relief
Advertisement asserts Pape's Diapepsin digests any food and relieves sourness gas heartburn and indigestion within five minutes. It promises lasting relief with a fifty cent bottle available at drug stores and claims millions of users in the US England and Canada.
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United States
England
Canada
Pape
Rheumatism Cured by King's Royal Germetuer Claim
Advert describes internal and external use of King's Royal Germetuer to cure rheumatism. It promises relief within days, attributes cures to germ-killing action, and claims hundreds of successful cases even after other remedies failed. It urges readers to stop other medicines and trust Germetuer.
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A G. Gorgas
Rebeschon Smookeeleeiss
Standard Oil Company Lente Nam Gp
Dr.f. L. Tapia
Dauphin St
Money Trust” Probers
Money Trust
William H. Heald
A. D. Stephens
Joseph J. Byrnes
James A. Dougherty
Arsene P.pujo
Two Clearks
Samuel Untermeyer
George A. Neeley
Everis A. Hayes
Henry McMorran
Elsie Scheel
Cornell University
Miss Scheel
Cirles
Drug & Chem. Corp., Dept
Boston
Paris
Sydney
Calcutta
Bombay
Tokio
Hong Kong
Cape Town
Everything
Block Bros
Mobile, Ala
L. C. Fry
L. D. ‘Batre
V. Pres
E. F. Ladd
G. A. Michael
Merchant’s Bank
Mobile, Alabama
Louis Forchheimer
J. M. Walsh, D. P. Bestor, E. F. Ladd
W. H. Cooper
Bank of Mobile
Bell Phone
Home Phone
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