Gettysburg prepares for big crowds with new rail link
Gettysburg plans a special railroad track from the town to the battlefield to manage the expected large crowds for the July 1 to 4 joint battle celebration. Rail representatives say they have handled up to 15,000 in a day and aim to manage five to six times that many. A signal corps will be stationed on Little Round Top to flash the wartime signals used by Union forces.
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Associated Press
Gettysburg
Signal Corps
Little Round Top
Mrs. Robinson to Speak at Mobile Convention
Mrs. B I Robinson of Auburn will address the convention of American Dairy Drug and Food officials in Mobile, discussing tomato culture and canning amid support from Mobile county agent C H Billingsley. Attendees from Maine to Indiana expected Monday as part of the program. A health note urges slower eating and Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion and constipation.
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Montgomery
Ala
George A. Maloney
Mobile County
C. H. Billingsley
B. I. Robinson
Auburn
Alabama
Mobile
Robinson
Billingsley
Maine
Connecticut
Oregon
Washington
California
Minnesota
Kentucky
Indiana
Suburban Banks Not Segregated By Policy Change
The Attorney General ruled suburbs are not separate under the national bank act, setting minimum capital for banks in cities over 50 000 residents at 200 000, likely forcing suburban towns to form state banks. Existing small suburban banks may remain charters if not retroactively affected.
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Associated Press
Washington
McReynolds
Treasury Department
National Bank Act
New York
Chicago
The Star Medicine Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
June weather hints at all morning planets while Foley's Honey and Tar Compound remains the Star medicine for coughs colds croup and whooping cough The ad promises the product halts colds heads off bronchitis and pneumonia with a genuine yellow packaged remedy from Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
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Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Foley
van Antwerp Drug Corp
Flour and leaflets thrown at Asquith in Commons
During a Commons session Premier Asquith was targeted as a bag of flour burst near the speaker’s chair. A companion batch of leaflets fell, shouted by a young man invoking suffragist martyr Emily Wilding Davison.
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Associated Press
London
Asquith
House of Commons
Emily Wilding Davison
Grief Follows Bishop Kennedy as Mother Dies
Bishop Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of the American College in Rome, travels to America after wireless news reports his mother Siobap Kennedy died late Tuesday night at her home near Philadelphia. The article notes her husband had died earlier.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Thomas F. Kennedy
American College
Rome
America
Here
Siobap Kennedy
Quaker Oats Faces Federal Suit Over Oatmeal Monopoly
The Quaker Oats Company is accused in a civil suit filed in Chicago of monopoly in oatmeal and by products. The government seeks an injunction to restore competitive conditions and to declare the company illegal in itself under the Sherman Act.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Quaker Oats Company
Oatmeal Trust
United States
Great Western Cereal Company
Henry P. Crowell
Robert Stuart
James H. Douglas
John Stuart
A. Stamford White
John P. Welling
Joy Morton
Illinois
J. R. Nutt
Cleveland
James H. Andres
Akron
Ohio
Whiting G
American Cereal Company
Wilkerson
McReynolds
Morgan Escape Question Remains Unsettled in Ohio Penitentiary
In Columbus on June 12 the Morgan escape debate continues as prison staff explore the air shaft under General John H. Morgan’s cell. Inspectors found no conclusive tunnel evidence and the cell is being torn down to form a hall of ethics. The Morgan cell attracts countless sightseers while Warden Thomas weighs preserving it for a municipality.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
John H. Morgan
Morgan
Wrock
Thomas
Painter daughter elected president of family fertilizer firm
Miss Okie Painter, daughter of E. Painter who died in the St Johns River on May 22, was elected yesterday by stockholders to succeed her father as president of the family fertilizer company bearing his name. Painter held a $1,178,000 life policy. A Johns Hopkins chemist is examining Painter's vital organs to decide if death was due to drowning or poison.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Okie Painter
Painter
St. Johns River
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Banks still feared as savings vanish into ground ovens
Elkins West Virginia June 12 United States Treasurer John Burke told the West Virginia Bankers Association that thousands still hide savings in the ground or ovens of cook stoves each fall leading to charred currency discoveries. He urged currency reform and urged bankers to support agricultural development. Bucklen Arnica Salve ad promotes relief for ulcers boils and sores at 75 cents.
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Associated Press
Elkins
United States
John Burke
West Virginia Bankers’ Association
Burke
Bucklen
Bruce Jones
Birmingham
Ala
Anewerp Drug Corporation
Brotherhood Ratifies Joint Working Agreement
Washington June 12 Ratification of a general working agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was voted yesterday by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in annual session here. The accord, approved by the Engineers in Chicago, puts the pact into operation and establishes harmony on all questions at issue with the railroads among the two unions. The convention discussed a national legislative representative in Washington but took no action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Chicago
Cardui Famed Women's Tonic Praised by Tampa Reader
Mrs. E. C. Coram of Tampa Florida testifies that Cardui the women's tonic helped her during weak worn stages and after near mental distress. She credits multiple bottles with relief and long term well being and urges others to seek treatment by writing to Chattanooga Medicine Co. for instructions and a 64 page home guide.
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Tampa
Fla
E. C. Coram
Highland Ave
Cardui
N. B
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
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