Notable 1910s Figures Face Legal and Public Affairs Shifts
Orville Wright leaves Fort Myer hospital after six weeks confinement. Theodore Whitmore is acquitted of his wife’s murder by a Jersey City jury. New York lawyer William H. Flichner is sentenced to a year for grand larceny. Rear Admiral Cowden retires on his 62nd birthday. Gov Curtis Guild Jr of Massachusetts suffers gastritis attacks. Ex-cashier William Montgomery found guilty of embezzlement in Pittsburgh. Prince Henry of Prussia tours airship flight with Count Zeppelin. Dr C S Mack resigns to pastor a Swedenborgian church in Toledo. Countess Szchenyi gives birth to a daughter. Will H Pettis pleads guilty to embezzlement in Sac City. Mrs Lillian Stevens reelected president of the National W C T U. Edward English ransom case ends with escape. Laurier wins Canadian elections with reduced plurality. Theodore Roosevelt marks his 50th birthday by working as usual. Montgomery found guilty in Pittsburgh on embezzlement indictments.
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Orville Wright
Fort Myer
W. Va
Jersey City
N. J
Theodore Whitmore
William H. Flichner
New York
Wall Street
Alfred Reynolds Cowden
Navy
Gov
Curtis Guild, Jr
Massachusetts
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Pittsburg
Prince Henry
Prussia
Count Zeppelin
C. S. Mack
Laporte County
Indiana
Toledo
Szchenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Will H. Pettis
Sac City
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Maine
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Edward English
Mount Vernon
Wash
Wilfrid Laurier
Roosevelt
United States District Court
Congress
American Medica Association
Roane County
Kingston
Tenn
George Cook
John King
Southwest Point
B. A. S. Blake
John M Kelly
Abraham Ruef
Ruef
San Francisco
Hawaii
Mary Lavin
Charles
John Cusick
Chicago
Yarmouth
Hook of Holland
Harwich
Farmers’ Society of Equity
Indianapolis
Ind
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Omaha
Neb
Tampico
Mexico
Smyrna
Tewfik Pasha
Chicago-Duluth Limited
Kempton
Wis
Barcelona
Boston
Holy Cross
United States
Diomede Felconto
Tennessee
Obion
Camp Nemo
House of Commons
Ladies’ Gallery
M. W. Stryker
Hamilton College
Alfred H. Curtis
National Bank of North America
Charles W. Morse
Erick Els
American Steel & Wire Company
Cleveland
J. S. Petrie
Ted’Burton
Reelfoot Lake
Quentin Rankin
A. H. Curtis
Edward Cook & Co
Lord Northcliffe
J. Edward Swanson
Lafayette
Cal
Buxton
Denny Hazel
Hureka
Fidelity Funding Company of
Supreme Court of Tltnois
Lugo
Nobledo
Viescas
Atlantic fleet sails while Wright fails in France
Reports from Le Mans say Wilbur Wright's flight ended when the aeroplane engine exploded. Meanwhile the Atlantic battleship fleet reaches Olongapo as a gale will claim lives across New York City. A 12 year old Bronx student dies, and a Bridgeport man in a prank dies by electrocution.
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Wilbur Wright
le Mans
France
Olongapo
Public health law urged by president in next message
President Roosevelt to urge Congress to pass a public health law similar to the American Medical Association proposal. Various items from around the world include a jail attack in Tennessee, a mayoral prize in Barcelona, and Italy and Mexico dispatches.
Measles Epidemic Hits Muscatine as Rail Fire Damages Soon
A flood of Iowa news reports a Muscatine measles outbreak spreading through schools while a Wabash to Rock Island train incident near Belknap caused injuries. Other items cover a Nevada coach platform escape, a Fort Dodge fire scare at Oleson Drug, and a large hog order in Town City.
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Bankston
John W. Gardner
Bloomfield
Smith McPherson
Leavenworth
Oleson Drug Company
Fort Dodge
Oleson
Inter-State Protective Association
Bankers’ Associations
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Frank Horack
State University
Young America
Hampton
W. l. Brown
Thomas Groom
Franklin County
Mr. Brown
Nevada
Glen Maxwell
Ames
Ricketts
St. Paul & Des Moines
Towa River
Town Falls
Des
Iowa Falls
McBride & Will Dring Company
Marshalltown
Vaela Bennett Friend
Thomas Berkebile
Herard
Cedar Rapids
Berkebile
Muscatine
Health Department
Washington
State Department
Health
Rock Island
Ottumwa
Belknuga
Dteh
Path
Belknap
Town City
Hoover
Sioux City
Roosevelt and staff go to Oyster Bay to vote
President Roosevelt, his secretary William Loeb Jr., and a party from the president's legislative office staff, who have established a voting residence in Oyster Bay, N Y, left Washington for Oyster Bay to cast ballots. Mrs Roosevelt accompanies them. They will stay only two hours before returning to Washington with Secretary Root joining at Jersey City.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
William Loeb, Jr
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Root
Jersey City
Roosevelt Plans Africa Expedition Starting March 18 1909
New York dispatch reports President Theodore Roosevelt will depart New York March 18 aboard the Koenig Albert for Naples and onward to Mombassa. He will be accompanied by his son Kermit a Smithsonian professor and a Navy official. The journey includes Suez Aden to Uganda with a 584 mile inland leg to Port Florence and Entebbe on Lake Victoria Nyanza. He will not enter Congo territory.
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New York
Times Today
New York Times
Roosevelt
Koenig Albert
Naples
Gibraltar
Kermit
Africa
Smithsonian Institution
Navy Department
Mombassa
Suez Canal
Aden
Uganda
Port Florence
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Entebbe
Central Africa
Congo
Morro Leaders Captured After Mindanao Raid
A Iligan force pursuing a band of Moros in Misamis province Mindanao seized the leader and continues tracking the rest. The capture is expected to restore quiet in the region.
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Mindanao
Manila
Iligan
Misamis
Virginias Face Ohio in Shore Football Match
The Virginia eleven defeated Ohio 22 to 0 in the shore football contest for visiting American battle ship crews. The flotilla’s flagship Connecticut and battleships Vermont Nebraska Kansas and Georgia arrived at Manila for coal and stores. Target practice to begin soon after gun calibrations near completion. Cholera in Manila is reported under control.
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Amoy
Virginia
Ohio
Manila
Connecticut
Vermont
Nebraska
Kansas
Georgia
Olongapo
Boston Fraud Case Ends with Pleas and Fines
Boston officials and executives from the Hodge Boller James Russell Boller Cunningham Iron and Amalantic works faced completed indictments for alleged city contract collusion. Each of four men pled guilty last week and were fined six hundred dollars, which they paid in full.
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Boston
Mass
John I. Lynch
Hodge Boller Works
Duncan BB. Russell
James Russell Boller Works
Charles F. Koopman, Jr
Cunningham Iron Works
Edward P. Robinson
Amalantic Works
Superior Criminal Court
Death by suffocation in New York theater fire
David Ollingwood died of suffocation when Starrs anditari um vaudeville theater at Fifteenth street and Morris avenue burned. He roomed in a neighboring tenement and perished after struggling in the tower hallway.
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New York
David Ollingwood
Starrs Anditarium
Vaudeville
Fifteenth Street
Morris Avenue
Ollingwood
Railroad Increases Pay in Sedata Missouri
Sedata Missouri November 3 The Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railway system raised wages for all section hands from 1.25 to 1.86 dollars per day effective yesterday.
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Sedata
Missouri Pacific & Iron
Zeppelin Sails Again Around Lake Constance
Count Zeppelin completed a special one hour flight in his new airship around Lake Constance. He was accompanied by Duchess Vera of Wuerttemberg and his daughter, among several women.
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Zeppelin
Friederteshafen
Count Zeppelin
Lake Constance
Vera of Wurtembure
Postmaster Arrested in Chicago for Defalcation
Chicago November 3 Postmaster T S Levis formerly at Grant Works WWI era was brought to the city on arrest charged with defalcation of 1000 dollars and falsifying his accounts.
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Chicago
T. S. Levis
Grant Works
Smoke and spending in a Yankee tale on tobacco
A dialogue from a Yankee lawyer and Willie Brook describes frugal living and cheap cigars. The tale notes a man lived on ten cents a week and bought trimmed meals like tripe, using cheap cigars that deter daily smoking.
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Hi Biddle
Willie Brook
Harper's
Bill Doolittle
Bill
Biddle
15 Years of Suffering Then Cure by Cuticura
A testimonial recounts years of rheumatic sores on legs and ankles to persistently worsening pain. After using Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Resolvent, and proper application guidance, the sores disappeared in three weeks and pains ceased within three months. The letter, dated July 21 1907 from Frenchville Maine, is signed by Mrs W V Albert.
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W. V. Albert
Prenchville, Me
From FrylIng Pan to Fira A Speech on Ethnic Vote
A district poster at East Broadney showed a banner praising John Henry McCarthy and labeling him the friend of Hebrews. An Irish voter, angered by the sign, vowed to oppose McCarthy and chose to vote for Henry M. Goldfogle instead.
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FrylIng Pan
Fira
John Henry McCarthy
East Broadney
Ris
Henry M. Goldfogle
A Cure Asked for Tests of Repentance on the Road
A man wounded and barefoot meets a stranger and asks for proof of repentance. The exchange reveals a dialogic moral inquiry about salvation and suffering. The fragment hints at a boarding house setting and a traveler’s tale of sin and redemption.
Coffee at Bottom of Trot Solves Drinker’s Nervous Woes
A man aged 56 recalls nervous spells, insomnia, digestive issues and heart fears from coffee. After using Postum, he reports better sleep, no nervous symptoms, and weight gain to 82 pounds above prior, attributing improvement to Postum with the line There’s a Reason.
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Tam
Postum Creek
Mich
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