Enterimemet Committee Chair Attends Assembly Event
The interim committee chair acted as host at a Ride New York social function for an assembly district politiation. The event featured newly armed members including the mayor and other municipal officeholders. A congressman appeared with his wife as The Honorable and Mrs. Congresammn Madones. An unknown couple was introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Inspector of Hydrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterimemet
Getemontes
Ride
New York
Quetta
Congresammn | Madones
Sweatwork: sweating coins and criminal note on fraud
A report discusses sweating or sweating coins by inserting gold into a cyanide bath with electrodes to detach deposits. The method, described as a poor business, is cited as a fraud used to detect counterfeit or reduced coins and weighed by bankers to trap dishonest customers. The piece also mentions an old advertising pitch from a company offering household specials catalogues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
London
Remarkable Church at Stiehall Near Coventry
A unique church in Stiehall England was built by John Green who laid every stone and completed the edifice by himself starting in 1810. The single craftsman worked alone for years, creating a structure that now serves a large congregation and earns revenue from sightseers curious about the solitary building effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stiehall
Coventry
England
John Green
Haglan
Race prompt ends with near miss at restaurant chase
In a hot day exchange Poco asks what kept them running. Ardup says they ran a race to decide who would pay the driver and claims victory by a narrow margin. The other racer, a restaurant proprietor, was almost caught in the crowd as he tried a grab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nucrow
Pocodies
Ardup
Chicago Tribune
Chicago School Meal Crisis Sparks City Debate
A Chicago committee reports 5 000 children go to school hungry and 10 000 more are underfed daily. The Board of Admission cannot fund meals but could provide space for philanthropies to help. Debate rages over feeding at school versus aiding homes, with many families starving and mothers starving themselves to feed children.
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Chicago
Board of Admention
Herola
Poo
South Water Street
Itv
Mysterious Omaha Murder Case After Five Day Hearing
Charles Edward Davis remains jailed on a Sept. 2 shooting of Dr. Fred Gustin in Omaha. Bail fixed at 10000. Mrs. Rice testified a death pact with Dr. Rusty led to the plot. She claimed Rustin urged killing and self harm, while Davis allegedly agreed to shoot the doctor as part of the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Edward Davis
Fredgk Tustin
Omaha
Iice
Rustin
Davis
Rustliy
Stice
Kin
Hamline University Drives Funds and Study Plans
Hamline University in St. Paul has raised $10 000 for a gymnasium and aims to double it. St Paul school officials will consider sending four or five teachers to England for study. The Sons of Veterans promote expanding Mason City college for veterans' children. Herman Stecker collection sold to Field Museum for 20000. University of Minnesota regents edge night school for electrical trades. No high school secret societies reported in Minneapolis. Lincoln school strike of white pupils in Topeka over Negro pupil exclusion spreads concern. James J Ui donates 6000 for Minnesota College building. Emigration committee distributes student race and birthplace blanks to President Northrop. Similar actions occur nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamline University
St. Paul
Heeter
Englend
Sons of Veterans
Niagara Walls
Mason City
Iowa
Sons
Reading
Herman Stecker
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Ars. Stecker
Minneapolis Labor Union of Electrical Workers
Board of Regents
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
C. M. Jordan
James J. Ui
Minnesota College
Ddarvard
Delaware Streets
Congress
Europe
Asia
United States
Cyrus Northrop
University
Blanks
Canteloupes bloom in unlikely western deserts
The report touts high cantaloupe export values from four western districts reaching 10 million dollars this year. It highlights Glenwood Colorado irrigated lands selling for 5 6006 an acre and a 200 acre fruit farm yielding generous per acre returns. It compares the Salton Sea area in California where $2 million in melons shipped this year and new crops like apricot trees thrive despite former desert conditions. The narrative notes intense sun with 265 days of sunshine annually.
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Colorado
Glenwood
Colo
Catia Loupes
Salton Sea
California
Tor Orly
Questions About the Farm Investigating Farmer Satisfaction
President Roosevelt seeks farmer opinions on farm life and conditions. A six member Commission on Country Life surveys farmers about home life schools farming returns transport services and organization of farm neighbors. Questions cover homes, schools, earnings, railroads, post and rural services, renter livelihoods, labor supply.
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Roosevelt
Informatiou R Commission On Country Iiée
United States Postal Service
Campaign notes and speeches swirl as 1908 candidates tour
Senator Culberson succeeds Mrancis as Democratic campaign chair. Mr Francis has gone abroad. Bryan responds to a Manufacturers' Association pamphlet, defending the labor plank. Indiana hosts Independence party campaigning with Hisgen and McCaskrin speaking. Sherman backs nomination of Hughes. Prohibition nominee Chafin argues the principle, not abstinence, defines a true prohibitionist.
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Culberson
Texas
David KR. Mrancis
Missouri
Democvcratic
Mrancis
Middle Basa Laland
Sandusky Scross
Ohio
Indiana
Independence Party
Indianapolis
Wiliam BR. Uwearsi
Thomas
Hisgen
George W. McCaskrin
Illinois
Bryan
van Cleave
Manufacturers’ Association
S Taft
A Curious Wild Tamarind Affects Farm Animals
A writer notes a plant called the wild tamarind or juba plant of riverside tropics. It harms nonruminant animals feeding on its young shoots leaves pods and seeds causing horse hair loss and changes in color and texture, sometimes hoof loss requiring slings. Some animals are not affected and the plant can be fodder for cattle sheep and goats after processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turtons Lane
Three Weeks Change from Kidney Trouble in Murray Woman
Mrs A O Davis of Murray Wyoming says a three week use of Deans Kidney Pills relieved kidney disease symptoms. Sharp back pains grip and agonizing backache vanished with no remaining symptoms. Sold by a dentist. An contest box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mra
Davis
Murray. Wy
Dean
Don
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffato
Raising a sunken Great Lakes steamer by buoys
Report discusses an experimental method to raise the sunken steamer Vita lig in Lake Michigan near White Lake Michigan using four steel buoys, each about five feet long with gas to sink into boat parts, pump out water and salvage the vessel. Also notes a weather bureau view on equinoctial storms and seasonal misattribution of storms.
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Great Lakes
White Lake
Michigan
Vita Lig
Stenmoor
State of Michigan
Berry Line
Lake Michigan
Fernado
Elfin
Inkes
le Lake
No Right to Kick in Butcher’s Billing Tale
A customer grumbles at an exorbitant price for a pond of liver while a butcher insists the liver is a choice part and notes the animal weighed nearly a ton with only one small liver. The exchange highlights price dispute and unusual meat weighting.
Unclear dialogue fragment on kitchen remarks amid domestic talk
A brief, fragmented dialogue features Ry Defante and relatives, discussing a husband's reactions to cooking. Aunt and young wife exchange flustered questions about appreciation, noting the husband does not swear and that a person named Bertha can tell when meals please him.
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Ry Defante
Bertha
Cure at city mission cures severest itch case
A young woman came to our city mission in awful condition with itching sores from exposure. After seven weeks of treatment, Cuticura Soap Resolvent and Ointment, plus a full dose of Readvent, she improved. five weeks later she could look for work and was strong and well. Haura Jane Bates, Fifth Ave New York, Mar 10 1907.
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Rody
Cutienra
Haura Jane Bates
Fifth Ave
New York
Effects on a Western River Steamboat Wreck
On a western river years ago the steamboat FX Thompson sank after catching a snag. Only the initials FX Thompson showed above water. Passengers on the following boat took interest and debated the wrecks cause. The captain offered only the visible letters KX while noting the boat seemed to have sunk.
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FLX
Thompkon
Curloius
Thompson
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure and Reward
A historical classified style ad touts Catarrh Cure as the only positive treatment for a constitutional disease. It claims direct action on blood and mucous surfaces, promises $100 reward for any failure to cure, and urges sending for testimonials from F J. Carney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Ufad
Liall
F. J, CIARNEY_&CO
Toledo
Shall the people rule or a man in his own family
The crowd hears a political orator ask Shall the people rule but an undersized spectator mutters a counterpoint about ruling in one’s own family. An old advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claims calming gums reducing inflammation and curing wind colic priced 25 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Smanley
Sedate Official Faces Hidden Office Prank
A government department head, long plagued by a cunning foe, endures a strange practical joke as a colleague suspects glue on a chair. In a bungled rescue, a helper soaks the chair to release the immobilized target while quipping about cloth, trousers and the sea. The tale ends with a puzzled observer doubting his own senses.
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Khim
Offtcial
Timmie
Jommie
Dufernal Sea
Scoumielf
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A classic promotional claim states Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has relieved women's suffering and saved many from surgery. It cites the Lynn Massachusetts laboratory with over a million letters from women signifying cures and emphasizes that the herbal remedy acts on the feminine system to restore health.
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Lydia Ee Pinkham
Lydia Sk. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Lydia E. Pink
Kany
Lydia K. Pinkham
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Charles E. Davis
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Canteloupes
Commission
Eugene W. Chafin
Cepitel
Te Uly
Axel
Caufurma
Iti
Egular Prin
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Basted
Pole Auteastie
Putnam
City Mission
Lydia
EL Pinkham
Jornay City
Nuy
W L.douglas
Beagles
Ockies
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