World Briefs Highlight Oddities and Tragedy
A digest of varied items covers a Michigan widow’s sudden death after greeting her son in Saginaw, Chilean President Montt’s insomnia in New York, and political bribery claims surrounding Senator Gore and Hamon. Other notes report publisher W R Michaelis drowning saving his daughter near Deposit, NY, a New York cop’s boast of an eastern corn-eating record, and Brooklyn editor M W Smith’s cat monument honoring its life-saving fire alert.
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Abbey A. Brown
Charles
Saginaw
Mich
President Montt
Chile
New York
Jake L. Hannon
Lawton
Gore
Creager
Hamon
Congressional Committee
Muskogee
Okla
W.R
M. W. Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
National Guard call for 1000 Columbus policemen during street car strike
Mayor Marshall sought 1000 special policemen for Columbus Ohio amid a street car strike as half the National Guard departed riot duty. The news also covers Taft dedicating the Pilgrim Fathers monument at Provincetown with a naval salute, and various political and criminal items of the day.
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National Guard
Marshall
Willy the Liberally Planned Funeral Feat
Dean Ramsay recounts a Strathfey old woman who bids her grandnephew Willy to drink as much whisky as at her baptism for her funeral. Willy, lacking baptism-quantity data, lets mourners drink freely, delaying the ten mile procession to the churchyard on a dreary November day. The coffin rests at a wayside inn and the corpse arrives a day late.
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Dean Ramsay
Strathsfey
Willy
Cuticura Heals Persistent Eczema on Hands
Mrs M B from Speers Berry Virginia reports ten years of hand eczema cured after using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent. She notes rapid improvement in sores and full recovery for herself and her daughter within two weeks. The family records continued success with Cuticura for skin and blood diseases. October 19, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falin
Speers
Berry, Va
The Wrong Sort
An old Irish peasant sits by his cottage smoking a pipe and lights many matches. His wife calls him to dinner and he promises to come in a minute. He jokes that Molke Mulrooney told him smoking glass would help him see shoots on the sun, unsure if the tale is true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy
Biddy
119 Years Old When He Died From Clare Ireland
Paddy Blake of Bal lygheen Kilnascolagh parish County Clare died in Corofin Union hospital at age 119. He recalled events a hundred years past and remembered Daniel O Connell's 1828 Bunratty Pike election procession.
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Paddy Blake
Ballygheen
Kilnascolagh
County Clare
Ireland
Corofin Union Hospital
Paddy
Daniel O'Connell
Bunratty Pike
Ennis
Fire Devours In Reach Then Paint Strips Adjoining Building
Quotation from Birmingham Age Herald notes a young reporter describing a fire with vivid, anthropomorphized language. The flames are said to be greedy and destructive, devouring everything within reach and even stripping paint from an adjoining building.
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Birmingham Age Herald
Reformers Reform the Town Then Reform It Back
Local boss declares transformation efforts in the town by reformers last year, confessing personal shift from reformer to undo those changes. The exchange highlights a cycle of reform and reversal within the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Not Really Famous and the Hope of the White Race
Detroit Free Press notes a conversation about whether a figure ever attained real eminence. The exchange questions if he was ever regarded as the potential leading figure for white prominence, concluding he was not seen as such.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Free Press
Mayor Gaynor Shot by Gallagher in New York Assault
Gallagher, who tried to kill Mayor William J. Gaynor, issued his first statement from hospital where Gaynor lies with a neck and mouth wound. He justified the act as a lesson to officials, said he aimed at Gaynor alone, admitted envy over a vacation elsewhere, and denied intoxication. The mayor’s condition remains guarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William J. Gaynor
St. Mary’s Hospital
James J. Gallagher
Gallagher
Edwards
Gasner
Europe
Bob
Twenty-third Street
Anderson Man Arrested in Forgery Case after Four Years
James O Neill once a city capitalist, escaped identification for four years before a St Louis arrest on a charge of forging his brother s name to a 200 check. He will be brought back to Anderson Indiana for trial after a tip from a former employee who recognized him. O Neill lost his fortune in the Indiana natural gas boom and vanished a bankruptcy followed. The forgery charge was then laid against him.
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Jacob Hammon
National Republican
Robert Edwards
Socialist Party
New York
Col. C. Co. Wilson
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Stélla Lewis
West Hoboken
N. J
Paul
John
Henry Yamaguchi
Sonoma County
Enoch Kendal
Mra
Ura Kendall
Santa Rosa
Cal
Ilinois
Minnesota
Michigan
Buth Thunder Bay
Mico
Buffalo
Horace A. Taylor
the Treasury
Washington, D. C
Anderson
Ind
James O'Neill
St. Louis
O'Neill
Indiana
Fire at Portland Laundry Threatens 200 Workers
A fire in Portland, Oregon caused by a two inch celluloid collar stay exploded near superheated pipes in a basement drying room. The blaze resulted in $90,000 in damage and left hundreds of garments burned as 200 laundry workers faced evacuation.
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Portland
Ore
United States
John Allen Dead Political Figure Narrowly Backed Lincoln
John Allen died Wednesday at Mt. Vernon. He was a noted political character who played a pivotal role in Abraham Lincoln's nomination by breaking away from the New York delegation and casting a single vote for Lincoln, a move that helped swing support toward the future assassinated president.
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John Allen
New York
Mt. Vernon
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Sioux City live stock market quotations report top hogs at 3.25 dollars and top beeves at 7.50 dollars for Wednesday trading in Sioux City. The brief item lists prices and reflects the period’s market activity.
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Sioux City
Three Killed by Train in West Greenwich
Three boys died and another injured when an express train bound for New York on the New Haven and Hartford line struck them near Pole Mountain. Parts of bodies lay along the tracks for about 200 yards. A separate report from Cheyenne notes an Army quartermaster’s safe carrying 6,500 dollars was stolen from a maneuver camp at Pole Mountain, 25 miles west of here, Wednesday night.
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West Greenwich
N. Ye
Moston
New York
New York, New Haven
Cheyenne
Wio
Pole Mountain
Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement claims lasting merit
The piece argues that continued newspaper advertising proves quality and warns against imitations. It notes Allen's Foot-Ease has sold for sixteen years and cites many imitators, urging readers to demand advertised, reputable products and avoid substitutes.
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Ailen
Allen
Washington cross the Delaware riddle sparks class giggles
In a third grade lesson forty students puzzled over why Washington crossed the Delaware. They offered stumped faces until Annie suggested a playful answer about going to Atlantic City. The Philadelphia Times quotes the moment as a lighthearted classroom anecdote.
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Washington
Annie
Delaware
Atlantic City
Philadelphia Times
The Nurse's Opinion on the Doctor's Visits
A nurse testifies in a cross examination about the physician bill and visits. She says the doctor kept visiting while she considered the patient still in danger, disputing the claim that visits ceased after the patient was out of danger.
Unnecessary System Sparks House Alarm Debate
An electrical supply agent urges a burglar alarm to wake residents if entryways are opened at night. Mr Newpop replies that no burglar can get in while they sleep and that they are weaning their baby.
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Mr. Newpop
Taxicab bill leads to police station offer
A cleaned out speaker in Louisville laments an unpaid taxi bill. The reply suggests taking the speaker to a police station, prompting a promise to pay and a request to be left at the poorhouse. The exchange reflects urban hardship and municipal responses in a Courier-Journal snippet.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Life and Law and Piety in a Witty Adage
A clipped aphorism claims life is two thirds bluff law three fourths tyranny and piety nine tenths pretense urging genuineness over hollow respect.
Tariff talk sparks trust crisis in United States
Akyewler and other leaders warn that tariff protection, if maintained, will worsen the trust problem in the United States. The Ohio legislature held its annual Cedar Point reunion, while Browne faces trial on bribery charges connected to U S Senator Lorimer.
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Tarif
United States
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
New York
Germany
Ohio
Cedar Point
Lee O'Neil Browne
Charles A. White
Lorimer
Kersten
Chicago
Browne
Weyler
Sebastian
Rutherford B. Hayes
Delaware
Jacob L. Hannon
J. F. McMurray
Special Congressional Committee
Muskogee
Okla
McMurray
Congress
Gore
McAlister
Congressional Committee
D. C. McCurtain
McCurtain
Cleveland
Treasury Department
San Sebastian
Portugal
Spain
Vatican
Braga
Merida
Vera Cruz
Havana
New York City
Rusala
St. Petersburg
Iowa
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Summer
House of Savoy
Duc d
Montana
Nortis
New Orleans
Ralph G. Nichols
Rockford
Ill
Virginia
Boston
Supreme Court of the United States
Kansas Bank Depository
B. B. McLean
Hely
Bar Harbor
McLean
Alaskan
Sentinel Islet
Doan's Kidney Pills Promoted By Doctor In Ad
An old advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney ills with a physician’s endorsement. Dr H Green of Yakima Washington commends the product and says he has used it and prescribed it for years. The ad notes the pills cost 50 cents a box and are sold by Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo NY. A second humorous anecdote about a senior partner warning a drummer about marital side lines follows.
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Dean
H. Green
St. No
Yakima
Wash
Doan
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
What They Did With Them Cockney Dog Buyer and Dealer Dialogue
An American in England describes a peculiar dog purchase through a Cockney dealer. The buyer asks for a dog "hit wants a kind of dog about so high an' so long" a greyhound with a shorter nose and different build. The dealer replies Omnisciently that they do not keep such dogs and drown them.
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England
Tellet
Playing the Market and Gentle Health Adages
A compact miscellany opens with market chatter about Carbroke delaying meat purchases and rising prices, then pivots to a health pitch for Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets aiding stomach liver and bowels. The piece closes with a social cue urging young girls to cherish birthdays before they fade with age.
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Dr. Pierce
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Frank
Big Bill" Edwards
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Stella
Wla
Wellville
Carbroke
Puck
Kodaks
Zimmerman Bros
Thismar Trong
FHE Anderson Furniture CO
4Th Bt
Hanford Produce CO
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M. Spiesberger
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