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Grief over a fiancé drove Lulu Mae Anderson to drink carbolic acid near Lover's Lane by Salt Creek north of La Grange after her fiancé Frederick Peterson died in an operation. In Sterling, Harry Wilkins wed Cora Stoner but refused to live there, canceling the planned ceremony. Chicago rescuers pulled a drowning man from the river as two officers formed a human chain. A man was shot in front of his house but the wound was minor. the shooter, Ralph Mason, fled. Streetcar wage talks ended with unions accepting Mahon’s scale, boosting pay for barn, shop, and car crews, costing $600,000. A collision injured two, with glass shards. victims Gertrude Martin and George Achitegh suffered injuries. Safe robbery at City Fuel Company failed. robbers left tools. Bartonville officials reviewed facility conditions and pallagra study. Waukegan woman Winifred Graves, 65, found dead in yard likely from heart trouble.
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Chicago
Lulu Mae Anderson
Salt Creek
la Grange
Samuel W. Haden
North Robey Street
Miss Anderson
William Nixon
South State Street
F. D. Peterson
East Forty-third Street
Frederick Peterson
Sterling
Harry Wilkins
Peoria
Cora Stoner
Wilkins
Chicago Avenue
Dick Witty
Clark Street
Michigan Street
Witty
Loftus
Coyne
Herman Blumberg
Franklin Street
Ralph Mason
Erie Street
Mason
Blumberg
W. D. Mahon
International Street Railways
Chicago & Milwaukee Electrical Railway
Calliaton
North Halsted Street
Addison Avenue
Gertrude Martin
Kenmore Avenue
George Achitegh
City Fuel Company
West Fifty-ninth
Wallace Streets
M. J. Crane
Sergt. Daly
Bartonville
Board of Control of State Charitable Institutions
Waukegan
Winifred Graves
Gunnison River Tunnel Opens in California Celebration
The Gunnison river tunnel project culminated with President Taft opening the gates at the west portal. The six mile bore through granite mountains will divert water to the Uncompahgre valley, enabling a 1,300 cubic feet per second flow and potential 10,000 horsepower for electric power generation. The project cost exceeds $6 million with water rights offered to settlers at about $35 per acre.
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Montrose
Cal
Colm Petion
Gunnison River
William H. Taft
Gunnison
Taft
Hibs’ Park
D. Catlin
Gunnison Tunnel
J. Q. Allen
John C. Belt
Charles J. Hughes
John Shafroth
I. W. McConnell
The
Reclamation Service
Horace T. DeLong
Grand Junction
Gunnizon River
Uncampahgre
Doan's Kidney Pills Help Mt Sterling Woman
Mrs Mary Hinson of 21 Strother St Mt Sterling Ky credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending years of backache dizziness and fatigue. She recalls poor eyesight nervous headaches and inability to bend or move easily but improved after using the product from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, sold for 50 cents a box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hinson
Strother St
Mt Sterling
Dean
Mrs. Hinson
Doan
Fosten Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Pocketbook, Collars, and Starch Advertising Oddities
A humorous dialogue features Mrs H and Mrs W discussing a fishing trip and husbands collars. A clerk helps with collar sizes, joking that wives choosing for husbands lead to a common size. An ad extols Defiance Starch as superior to 25 year old brands, claiming a new ingredient boosts strength and smoothness. Brief note on wild horses in the western US mentions branded stock and feral individuals in the Modoc area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
California
Modoc National Forest
Man
Berlin Philanthropy Lets 650000 Children Farm Summer Plots
Berlin authorities provide over 650,000 children with plots near the city for summer play and garden work. Families receive guidance from public instructors to cultivate crops and enjoy outdoor activities within reach of Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Opportunism and Language Mastery in Public Persuasion
A quotation discusses opportunism in politics and religion, noting ideas for a new party, new faith, and new diet. It contrasts this with waiting until the ball season ends and praises the mastery of language by those who know when to stay silent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knicker
Hocker
Hypocrisy and small-town chats spark from Kansas to Minnesota
A Kansas ex-superintendent and Auditor's clerk, longtime friends, recall a teaching stint and a 13 year con with a wink. Dr Madison C Peters questions future marriage amid a discussion on hypocrisy. Miscellaneous notes include remedies, social quips, cigarette quality, and India’s 26 million widows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Nelson
Kangas
Gibson
Auditor Nation's
Nelson
Minnesota
Cap
Kansas City Journal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim Promises $100 Reward
A vintage ad excerpt touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh with a $100 reward for any uncured case. It endorses internal use, praises constitutional strengthening, and invites testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, with 75-cent pills also advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aclenca
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Claims Teething Relief
A vintage one sentence excerpt promoting Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claims it softens gums reduces inflammation calms pain and cures wind colic. The ad also includes a warning style proverb about a man being his own worst enemy.
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Illinois
TAAT
Mrs. W
W. K. Kellogg
Omaha
Neb
Ofersya
United States
P.G. Holden
Kellogg’s
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake CO
Battle Creek, Mich
Madison C. Peters
Maud
Jack
Belle
Ethel
Brazil
Dr. Pierce
India
Sitting Bull
Doane Robinson
Department of History
State of
South Dakota
Custer
Little Big Horn
Big Horn
Indian School Journal
London Globe
Ita
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
General Land Office
Washington
le Beau
Aberdeen
S. Oal
Iowa Central Ry
Minneapolis
Iowa Central
Minneapolis & St. Louis RE. R
A.B. Cutts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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