Death of Edward Wetherill Recalled as Abolitionist Leader
The Weekly Tribune recalls Edward Wetherill of Philadelphia a prominent abolitionist Quaker who aided fugitives from slavery and helped stations on the underground railroad. He is linked to Samuel Wetherill ancestor of revolutionary stories while noting the collar industry roots in Troy New York and Mrs Montague's detachable linen collar invention that spurred a factory.
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Philadelphia
Wetherill
Friends
Troy
N. Y
Chalkley Halis
Whittier
Canada
United States
Samuel ‘Wetherill
Hurd Wynne
Mr. Wetherill
Orlando Montague
Montague
Parisian Time for Vessels via Wireless Signals
A memoir by Prof Roque de la Grye to the French Academy of Sciences proposes universal wireless time signals. Daily midnight transmissions from the Eiffel Tower would broadcast time for the first meridian to ships on the Atlantic and Mediterranean, enabling exact position tracking.
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Parisian
French Academy of Sciences
Roque de la Grye
Earth
High Sea
Wiffel T Tower
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Boswell Honored With Statue Beside Johnson in Lichfield
The city of Lichfield has erected a Boswell statue near Samuel Johnson, honoring the biographer whose Life of Johnson remains seen as the greatest biography. The piece compares Persia’s new parliament to Russia’s first Douma, noting public perception vs. genuine reform and the need for real representative power by the people.
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Boswell
Lichfield
England
Johnson
Persia
Fort Dodge Jail Fire Hits Local Narcotics Note
Nov 7 a jail blaze in Fort Dodge was blamed on a police figure Jack the Ripper serving a ten day sentence for intoxication. Damage described as slight.
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Fort Dodge City
Jack, the Ripper
Illinois Central Railroad
Maurice Pabst
Colfax High School
Colfax Athletic Club
Hillside Club
Des Moines
Burlington
Grimes
Clinton Copelane Manufacturing Company
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Telephone Company
C. A. Baughman
City Steels
Iowa
Iowa Telephone Company
J. C. Sanders
State Reformatory
Fort Madison
Taft
Bryan
Carroll
White
Jesse Huxford
Enterprise For
Fred Paulson
Chicago
Mason City
Paulson
Mattson Glove Works
Twlumane
James Beckles
Steve Platis
Greece
Fekles
Louis Grills
Bruttis
Noo
America
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Bernard Andrae
Marshalltown
Andrae
Newepper
DeWet
Happenings of a Week in Public Life and Crime
A digest of notable events includes Harvard president Charles W. Hirot resigning effective May 19, 1909. Other items report Empress dowager birthday festivities in Amoy tied to a U S fleet visit, Mrs. Alice Cheney Brown’s bond swindle confession, B C Whitney’s skull fracture in an Indiana car crash, Grant Works postmaster Thomas F Levis’s embezzlement arrest, Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving proclamation, Orville Wright leaving Fort Myer hospital, a not guilty verdict in a Jersey City murder trial, and New York lawyer William H Flichner’s one year penitentiary sentence.
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Harvard University
China
Amoy
Alice Cheney Brown
New York
Chicago
Denver
B. C. Whitney
Detroit
Brownstown
Ind
Thomas F. Levis
Grant Works
Ill
Roosevelt
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
W. Va
Jersey City
N. J
Theodore Whitmore
William H. Flichner
Wall Street
Republic of Panama
Colon
Dalai Lama
Tibet
Lhassa
Wisconsin
Albert
Hugo Donnerstag
Dane County
Rudolph
Pregnaut
Morris Park Racetrack
Justice Stafford
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Frederick A. Hyde
Joost H. Schneider
United States
Oregon
Washington
Hubbell
Zilpha Purcell
Boone
la Jied
Savannah
N. Y
British Colonial Office
Africa
Herman Krause
William Warderse
Wright County
Minnesota
Soo Line
F. O. King
Atkins
Minn
John Kurka
Anthony Schultz
Justice of the Peace Gerhard
Hamtranck Township
Michigan
Antilochus
Formosa
Keelung
Cham
Jimmy’” Britt
California
Johnny Summers
England
London
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Long Island
Global outbreaks of marriages murders fires and political shifts
A wide sweep of 1910s era headlines reports a Cannes royal wedding a New York broker killing his mother and himself a Pembroke Ontario blaze a Tennessee shooting after a farm dispute a bank cashiers arrest confession and a Panamanian independence anniversary amid international diplomacy and local calamities including a Rome asylum fire and a Philadelphia lumber yard blaze
Perfect Health After Kidney Trouble Testimony
Mrs R C Richmond of Northwood Iowa says years of backache dizziness headaches and kidney disorders ended after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports relief after three boxes and perfect health thereafter. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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R. C. Richmond
Northwood
Iowa
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Clergyman Dowry Motif Tangles With Hymn Verse Omission
A clergyman in an interior town married a woman who supplied a $10,000 dowry and the promise of more. In a sermon he began a hymn from verse one to verse five then paused and told the choir to omit the fifth verse. Congregants read aloud the missing lines and smiled at the altered wording about grace and blessings.
Mrs Ruth McEnery and Stuart Dialect Tales Read Aloud
Reading charity entertainments Mrs Ruth McEnery’s dialect stories pleased audiences and inspired her son to boast his mother speaks two languages white and colored. An amusing quip about language skill ends with uncertainty about an address or item for the missus.
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Ruth
Uncle Zebulon Chooses Fried Liver Over Meningitis
Uncle Zebulon visiting his nephew in the city reads a paper on the table and is asked if he has cerebrospinal meningitis. He answers no after a moment of thought and adds he would rather have fried liver and bacon any day.
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Zebulon
Nephew
Uncle Zebulon
Eager to Work Health Regained by Right Food
A Michigan woman recounts illness from indigestion as she recovers with Grape-Nuts. After a year of weakness, loss of appetite, and nervous strain, two months of Grape-Nuts bring renewed work drive, steady nerves, and restored health, according to the letter from Postum Co.
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Hfe
Yealth
Postum Co
Batt Jreek
Mich
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