Trolley Link Nears Complete Across Indiana Ohio Ohio Line
Ten years after a dream of electric trolley travel among Cleveland Indianapolis Columbus Cincinnati Chicago Toledo Detroit Buffalo Rochester Albany Pittsburgh and New York the Seville Ashland line in Ohio now completes a gap enabling continuous service from Cleveland to Indianapolis. By February 10 limited through service will join Cleveland Mansfield with direct links to Columbus Dayton Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Work to close remaining gaps in New York Indiana and Ohio progresses rapidly with plans to enable continuous trolley travel among the listed cities within the year.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Columbus
Dayton
Cleveland
Chicago
Toledo
Detroit
Buffalo
Rochester
Albany
Pittsburg
New York
Seville
Ashland
Mansfield
Indiana
Ohio
Council of Labor Leaders Invited to Feb 10 Conference
Washington February 1 Invitations have gone to more than twenty prominent labor leaders to attend a council of labor meeting set for February 10 at the Department of Commerce and Labor The topic will include immigration figures and misleading information about U S labor conditions The invitees include Samuel Gompers W G Lee Warren S Stone W S Carter A B Garretson Frank T Hawley and others
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Straus
Washington
Council of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Samuel Gompers
W. G. Lee
Warren S. Stone
W. S. Carter
A. B. Garretson
Frank T. Hawley
W. F. Yates
Andrew Furuseth
T. J. Dolan
T. J. Lewis
George W. Perkins
T. V. O'Connor
James M. Lynch
W. D. Mahan
Timothy Healy
Typhoid Proof Soldiers Immunized by Vaccination Plan
Washington reports immunization against typhoid in army camps will be undertaken by military authorities. Volunteers will be invited to receive the vaccine. The move follows past typhoid outbreaks in Civil War and Spanish American War troops and uses anti-typhoid vaccination to induce substantial protection.
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Washington
Booker T. Washington Speaks At Hampton Institute Founders Day
Hampton Virginia February 1 Founders Day at Hampton Institute featured Booker T. Washington principal speaker. Washington, Tuskegee Institute president and Hampton alum, warned that all disruptions to white black relations have occurred and reaction has already begun.
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Booker T. Washington
Hampton
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Tuskegee Institute
Hampton Institute
Dr. Washington
Number 23 Still Missing After Blizzard Halts Train
Milwaukee Feb 1 trains have resumed regular schedules though blizzard left several stalled. All trains except No 22 on the Southern Minnesota division of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway are accounted for. Wires are down and trains run on the curd system.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Minne
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Child Dies From Fright After Dog Bite
Albert J. Winner, a three year old, dies from fright seven weeks after he was bitten by a dog. The incident occurred in Philsdeptia on February 1.
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Philsdeptia
Albert J. Winner
Marriages Drop Significantly in New York in 1908
Albany Feb 1 The state health department reports a decline of over 25 000 marriages in New York during the year 1908 compared with 1907. The decrease reflects changes across the state as officials release the official records.
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Marriege
New York
Albany
I. Y
State Health Department
Just Jimmie's Wife and the Value of Womanhood
A newspaper sketch features two children being interviewed about their futures. The girl Maud is praised for being “just Jimmie's wife” and for guiding a man to greatness. The piece argues womanhood as destiny, domestic happiness, and moral influence through marriage and family.
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Maud
Jimmie
Jimimie
Charcoal Pits for Hogs and Local Death Duty Note
Farmers advised to build a charcoal pit to purify hogs and prevent disease with corncob charcoal prepared by burning cobs in a pit covered with a sheet iron lid. A suggested mix includes six bushels cob charcoal eight pounds salt two quarts air slaked lime and a bushel wood ashes placed where hogs can access it. The column notes New Zealand property rights exempt from the death duty for spouses.
Gridiron Club Dinner Satirizes Taft Era Politics
Washington February 1 The Grid Iron club dinner featured jokes on congress men and the annual eclipse due in March. Henry Hall was sworn in as president with odd theatrics while secret service sleuths loomed over the room and a cablegram from William H. Taft arrived amid mockery of President Roosevelt as the guest of honor.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Africa
Oyster Bay
Henry Hall
Ananias Club
Congress
Secret Service
Blinkerton
Tillman
Fairbanks
William H. Taft
President Roosevelt
Fleet at Gibraltar heads to Hampton Roads after welcome home
First division of the US fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry, with the Connecticut Vermont Kansas and Minnesota, arrived at Gibraltar from Villefranche. British and Russian and French ships greeted them as President Roosevelt planned to review the fleet aboard the Mayflower on February 22 at Hampton Roads. The Yankton departed Gibraltar for Hampton Roads today.
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Gibraltar
United States
Connecticut
Vermont
Kansas
Minnesota
Sperry
Villefranche
Albemarle
Albion
South American
Tzarevitch
Slava
Bogatyr
Oleg
Cassini
Heimadal
Jackies
Hampton Roads
Roosevelt
Horseshoe
Lynn Haven Bay
Matty Mathewson Now Coach For Harvard Pitchers
Cambridge Mass Feb 1 Harvard opens with Christy Mathewson coaching its pitching squad at Bain Field Captain Currier says the team aims to improve on last season when Harvard finished behind Princeton Yale and others The move marks a high priced addition to the college baseball staff Involved is the captain and the players seeking a stronger mound corps.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Christy Mathewson
Currier
Princeton
Yale
Weather forecast for Midwest states shows fair and warmer conditions
The forecast indicates Illinois and Indiana will be fair and warmer with partly cloudy skies on Tuesday. Lower Michigan may see fair weather with possible snow flurries. Wisconsin and Iowa are expected to be fair and warmer.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Bids of a Feather and Rooster Talk of Birds
A Mass. resident trained rooster outpaced swimming ducks while a Conn. man reports a white hen that says Teo like a parrot. A North Adams parrot communicates in French German and English. A New Jersey incident saw a dozen hens frightened by a passing automobile and one hen drop an egg into a passenger’s lap.
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David Dpd. Coolidge
Athol
Mass
Henry Johnson
Beacon
Conn
North Dams
Bayonne
N. J
Train and Track
The Hampstead tube is the deepest underground railway at 251 feet below the surface in London. British railroads face penalties for excessive smoke as towns enforce smoke laws. The Virgibahn cable in Tyrol lays claim to the steepest railway with 70 percent up and 66 percent average grades, spanning 045 feet with cars for thirty passengers, and a total cost of $100000.
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Hampstead
London
Tyrol
Austria
New Messina in Florida offered by Lombard duke
Duke Pompeo Litta of Lombardy proposed donating part of land in Manatee county Florida to colonize 5,000 Calabria and Sicily earthquake victims. The Italian ambassador in Paris conveyed the plan to Rome. The tract in Miakka would grant two farms per family one free and one rented, for forest work mining phosphate and farming.
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Pompeo Litta
Lombardy
France
Paris
Signor Gallina
Manatee County
Fla
Calabria
Sicily
Messina
Florida
Panel to Elihu Root Commemorated by International Bureau
At a Washington meeting the governing board of the international bureau of the American republics decided to erect a tablet to secretary of state Elihu Root in the bureau’s new building. The tablet honors his work in improving relations between Latin American nations and the United States during his tour and the third Pan American Conference.
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International Bureau of Armerican
Washington
Elihu Root
Bureau
Root
United States
No Earthly Refuge For Embezzlers
The senate ratified an extoll ion treaty with enduras removing the last haven of refuge on earth for American bank wreckers embezzlers defaulters and other criminals of that class.
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Senate
Enduras
Difference between factory worker and failed campaign manager
The exchange contrasts a man stacking goods in an electric light factory with a political campaign boss unable to raise contributions. The man in the factory handles tangible items while the campaign boss struggles with fundraising and influence.
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Bones
Local Travel Snapshots From Crawfordsville Area
Local notes show J. B. Crooks spending the day in Crawfordsville while Miss Ida Ziegelowsky traveled to Havre for a day. A. W. Yard and J. Brown departed for Crawfordsville and Conesville respectively for ice work. Nellie Wolf returned home to Wyman after a week away, and A. N. Bower left Centerville after a visit with her daughter Mrs. Geo Fulton. Flora Stephens left for Muscatine to take a housekeeper position at the Grand hotel.
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Nellie Wolf
Wyman
A. N. Bower
Centerville
Flora Stephens
Muscatine
Grand
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Praised By Women In Letters
Columbus Ohio resident Mrs E Hanson reports improved health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during a change of life. A Graniteville Vermont correspondent also credits the remedy with restoring health and strength after nervousness and other distressing female symptoms. The letters tout the compound as a standard remedy for female ills backed by thirty years of use and local word of mouth.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
East Long St
Graniteville
Lydia KK. Pinkham
Charles Barclay
R.F.D
Local travelers depart after visits this week
H Benn rode as a passenger for Iown City this morning. Julius Pech left for Delavan Illinois after a week's visit with his brother Fred Pech. Henry Donniz of Sigourney departed for home after a week with relatives here. N H Denison of Hereford Texas left for Seaton Jr to spend a few days, visiting his mother Mrs Martin Denison while in town.
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Julius Pech
Delavan
Fred Pech
Henry Donniz
Sigourney
N. H. Denison
Hereford
Texas
Seaton, Jr
Martin Denison
DeBell's Kidney Pills Fight Back Pain and Kidney trouble
An advertisement explains backache from weak kidneys and ovarian issues, urging DeBell's Kidney Pills to strengthen kidneys, remove uric acid and poisons, and relieve acute and chronic rheumatic pains including sciatic nerve pain. It claims reliable results and honest promises to win the sufferer’s confidence.
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DeBells
DeBell
Re Haldo
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