Gettysburg Battlefield Map Sold At Half Price
The U S Geological Survey announced a special half price sale of a Gettysburg battlefield map prepared under authority from Secretary Lane. The map covers about 925 square miles and traces routes of Lee Hooker Meade Pickett and other leaders.
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Associated Press
Washington
Gettysburg
United States Geological Survey
Lane
Interior Department
Lee
Hooker
Meade
Pickett
Union
Confederacy
Cardlus Woman's Tonic Praised By Mrs Carroll Of Tullahoma
In a Tullahoma Tennessee testimonial Mrs Mary Carroll says Cardlus cured severe womanly troubles. After two bottles she felt relief and after five she could ride, walk two miles and regained her youth like rosy cheeks. She gained weight from 110 to 137 pounds and urges others to try the tonic with a mail offer from Chattanooga Medical Co for instructions and a 64 page book.
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Tullahoma, Tenn
Cardlus
Mary Carroll
N. B
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Fearful threats loom over Paris bridal couple
Friends of Baron and Baroness Walter de Mumm fear Mrs. Marie Barnes Creel, once linked to the couple, may act on a threat of suicide or harm the pair if they wed. A year ago De Mumm was shot in the Creel woman’s apartments amid rumors of a jealous passion, but details remain undisclosed.
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Paris
Baron
Walter de Mumm
Frances Scoville
Kansas
Marie Barnes Creel
de Mumm
Creel
Weather Bureau Purge Continues After Moore Downfall
Washington June 9 The official axe fell again in the weather bureau amid moves to remove staff after Willis L. Moore was deposed as chief. Secretary Houston suspended J Warren Smith Henry B Hersey Ross W Pollock and Norman P Conger pending further investigation. Twenty nine heads have fallen in the bureau through deposition demotion or suspension in the wake of Moore’s alleged misuse of his position.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weather Bureau Today
Willis L. Moore
Secretary of Agriculture
Houston
J. Warren Smith
Columbus
Ohio
Henry B. Hersey
Milwaukee
Rosswitte E. Pollock
Trenton
N. J
Norman P. Conger
Detroit
Weather Bureau
Moore
Four Die in Norfolk Western Freight Wreck at Cleveland
A Norfolk and Western freight train derailed and plunged down a bank at Cleveland, Virginia, killing a woman and her 17 year old daughter who were asleep in their home and claiming two trainmen. Engineer Gillespie and Fireman Stewart died under the engines while the other crew member survived with injuries.
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Associated Press
Bluefields
W. Va
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Cleveland
Sarah Owens
Owens
Gillespie
Stewart
Frost Touches Pennsylvania in June Across State
June frost hits many Pennsylvania locations with Philadelphia recording a low of 47 degrees and some areas near 40 degrees, a rare event for the month.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Faust Spaghetti touted as cooling summer nourishment
An advertisement urges light meals in hot weather and promotes Faust Spaghetti as nourishing and cooling. It claims a 10c package has comparable nutrition to 4 lbs of beef, notes its durum wheat protein, and offers free recipe book with 5c and 10c packages available.
World’s record in fire protection achieved in test
A world record in fire protection was set yesterday in New York when high pressure water streams were shot from the fifty fourth floor of the city’s tallest building. The test used the building’s independent fire standpipe system, not the city high pressure service, with 356 pounds pressure at the basement pump and over twenty pounds reaching the nozzle on the fifty fourth floor.
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Associated Press
New York
Former Governor Folk Lectures At Anniston
Former Missouri reformer Joseph W. Folk spoke at the Chautauqua in Anniston Alabama seeking civic responsibility rather than politics. The crowd included State Senator Thomas E. Kilby and Judge J. Willett among other public figures as Folk lauded individual duty.
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Anniston
Ala
Joseph W. Folk
Chautauqua
Missouri
Thomas E. Kilby
J. Willett
Folk
She Looks Old and Not Yet 40
An advertisement claims many women fade early due to neglect of health and urges using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore roses to cheeks brighten spirits and end backache and headaches from bodily disturbances.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Groman
Confederate Bust Honors Union Officer at Indiana Capitol
The Stars and Bars were raised at the Indiana state capitol as a bronze bust of Col. Richard Dale Owen, Camp Morton commandant in 1862, was unveiled by Confederate veterans. Governor Ralston presided. Vice-President Marshall accepted the gift for Indiana. Gen. Bennett Young delivered the speech. William L. Bryan attended.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Richard Dale Owen
Camp Morton
Col. Owen
Bennett H. Young
Louisville
United Confederate Veterans
Thomas R. Marshall
William L. Bryan
Indiana University
Gov. Ralston
8. A. Cunningham
Nashville
Confederate Veteran
Cunningham
Mumford
SPECIAL VOTING DAY AT GOUBILS The Busy Store
Tomorrow Tuesday marks a special voting day at Goubil's The Busy Store with a big bonus vote promise. Free punch will be offered to all ladies attending.
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Goubil
Remained Firm in His Belief The Rev Dr Charles Briggs Dies
The Rev Dr Charles Augustus Briggs a noted theologian died of pneumonia in New York. He spent 40 years as a Union Theological Seminary professor and faced heresy charges in 1893 leading to Presbyterian suspension and seminary independence. Born 1841 in New York City, he studied at Virginia University and Berlin and authored many works. He married Julia Valenti ne Dobbs and had five children.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles
Augustus Briggs
Briggs
Union Theological Seminary
New York Presbytery
General Assembly of
Church
Union
University of Theology
Presbyterian Church
Dr. Briggs
New York City
University of Virginia
Berlin
Julia Valentine Dobbs
Indictment Probe in West Virginia Coal Field Conspiracy
Attorney General McReynolds awaits a report from United States Attorney Waugh on indictments against officials and United Mine Workers members for a suspected Sherman anti trust conspiracy in West Virginia coal fields. DOJ officials say newspaper publication was the first word of the case. The attorney general will study the evidence to decide if prosecution is justified.
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Associated Press
Washington
McReynolds
United States
Waugh
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Department of Justice
Arson Squads Active as Suffragists Strike London
Militant suffragettes again attack, destroying a boathouse on the river Lea and the grandstand at North Middlesex cricket grounds. A $70,000 fire at Hurst race course last night started in the royal box, whose furniture was soaked with oil. flames burned until early this morning.
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Associated Press
London
Hurst Race Course
River Lea
North Middlesex Cricket Grounds
Hurst Park
Royal Box
Spaniard kills vaudeville actress then commits suicide
In Tampa on June 9 Andres Bruno a Spaniard shot Eleanor Jackson a New York vaudeville performer and then killed himself. Their bodies were found in a cottage by the woman’s four year old child who had been left there overnight. Bruno was a chef at a local Spanish restaurant.
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Tampa
Fla
Andres Bruno
Eleanor Jackson
New York
Bruno
Gulf Florida and Alabama railroad resumes rail laying near Jonesville
Pensacola June 9 The Gulf Florida and Alabama railroad will resume grading and rail laying work with ten miles completed and steel on hand. General Managererry says the second ten miles from Jonesville to beyond Jones Mill will finish in 30 to 45 days. Trains are planned between Pensacola and north of Jones Mill as soon as possible.
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Pensacola
Fieet
Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railroad
Erry
Jonesville
Jones’ Mill
Untimely Death of Atlanta Lad
Atlanta June 9. James Minor Jordan an 18 year old boy drowned in White City park lake after leaving the roller rink about 4 30 pm He wandered into the 8 foot deep water and was found unconscious He died shortly after at Grady hospital Cramp and heat exhaustion are blamed for the tragedy He was the son of Mr and Mrs James Farr and had spent the afternoon skating with friends
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Atlanta
White City Park
James Minor Jordan
Grady Hospital
James Farr
Park
Jordan Boy
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Government Street
Royal
S. Royal St
H. E. Jones, JR
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State House
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Mobile Gas Company
Cricket Club
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