Picture Post Cards Stir Controversy Across Nations
Saturday November 4. Picture post cards, born in Germany, are called vulgar and inane by critics. The New York Press notes post office authorities struggle to control inappropriate cards mailed with letters. European travelers face extra stamps, while readers joke about inscriptions in foreign languages. The trend grows as tourists send cheeky lines like Remember me to the gang, Have one on me, and similar phrases.
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New York
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Anbla
Funeral Costs Burden the Poor Menace Reform
The piece notes funeral expenses burdening the poor and outlines how lavish costs can deplete a family’s savings. It cites the Boston Herald urging churches to help limit funerals to reasonable amounts while respecting grieving families.
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Bride Separated On Voyage After Prank Gone Wrong
A Worcester bride of 24 hours is tearfully carried to Yarmouth Nova Scotia on the steamer Boston while her husband races ahead by train. The separation stems from a practical joke by friends. The groom curses his wordplay as he boards the train.
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Yarmouth
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Boston
Fair-minded Missouri resident praises Mrs Taylor and her baking
A contempor ary recounts Mrs Taylor as a pleasant estimable woman with polite children who baked cake sent to judges, noting she had a tooth pulled Friday. Ezra Meeker plans to leave Town in 185% for Oregon with ox teams and will lecture along the emigrant trail to Rainsville, Iowa next spring.
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Ezra Meeker
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Rainsville
Iowa
Thousands Gather for Meeting in Mexico Missouri
About a thousand farmers staged a meeting in Mexico Missouri and adopted three pages of resolutions highlighting needs for non puncturable tires and a reliable getaway machine. Henry Edmund Knight former lord mayor of London arrived in Boston after a 12,100 mile U S journey applauding America's prosperity.
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Henry Edmund Knight
London
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United States
Washington Letter on Roosevelt and Rail Rates Struggle
New notes from Washington discuss the coming clash over rail rate regulation between President Roosevelt and Congress. It notes Senate opposition faltering with Senator Foraker ill, social season rules for diplomats, and plans around Prince Henry’s visit. Also reports Isham Randolph predicting Panama Canal completion by 1915 and debates over an eight hour labor law.
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Buy a German Heater a Durable Down-Draft Stove
The German Heater is described as the only successful down-draft stove on the market. It has heavy, bolted and riveted parts and milled air tight doors. The heater reportedly holds fire for 48 hours or longer.
Essential Steps to International Arbitration
A discussion on arbitration as the spirit of justice and the need for a world court created by legislative power from representatives of all nations. It argues courts alone cannot enforce judgments and that only international legislative authority can define laws and empower execution.
Thirty Years Ago This Week In Troy Recap 1875
From The Weekly Bulletin November 4 1875 chills and fever abated first snow fell season mercury dropped about 50 degrees. Marriages include George McVey to Mary J Riggin at Wm Riggin’s residence and Edwin S Donoho to Nancy C Willough at W Barnsback’s residence. A loss of clothing and a silver watch by Edward Conners led to capture and jail hearing. County elections favored township organization with Bayle winning assessor and treasurer, Bardill county commissioner, Rutledge surveyor, and George Lawson defeating G W C Gates for constable by 48 votes.
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George McVey
Troy
Mary J. Riggin
Edwardsville
Riggin
W. J. Chapin
Joseph P. Lietz
Mt. Zion
Louise Christine Esterlein
Collinsville
Collinsville & Lutheran Church
C. Holst
Edwin S. Donoho
Nancy C. Willoughby
W. W. Barnsback
Hoyt
Edward Conners
O'Fallon
Squire Hampton
Hugh E. Bayle
Davidson
Overo Kennedy
John Bardill
Abram Allen
Walton Rutledge
George Leverett
George Lawson
G. W. C. Gates
Semi official canal report due from consulting engineers
A semi official statement notes that a full report from consulting engineers is imminent. The forthcoming document will cover the use of the ten million dollars Congress allocated for canal work and will expand the existing outline with an official disbursement statement.
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Evidence found to implicate Pierson in rail death
Mount Vernon Ohio November 3 evidence used to prove Kenyon college student Stuart L Pierson was bound to a railroad track when struck and killed by a train last Saturday. Authorities buried beneath a culvert 200 feet from the scene three lengths of rope and a wad of saturated absorbent cotton. A disastrous calamity framing a sensational local tragedy with lingering questions about the cause and intent.
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Stuart L. Pierson
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Young Pierson
Mail Carrier Beaten and Robbed Near Girard
Frank Fenster, a mail carrier from Virden HL, was held up and beaten by trespassers north of Girard. The assailants cut him and escaped with $6. The incident occurred on October 27.
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Frank Fenster
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