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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-03

We knew what Kodol would do
before ever the first bottle was
sold. If we did not know just what
it will do, we would not guarantee
it the way we do.
1t is easy for you to prove Kodol
--the next Tor the first) time you
have an attack of indigestion. And
you will certainly be surprised at
the results. 1t is perfectly harm
less.
There can be no harm in trying
something that may do you a great
deal of good-when it costs you
nothing if it doesn't.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-03

OFFICE on North side tublic Square, over
5chilling's store, Marietta, Ga. Application
from neighboring towns promptly attended to.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

this method of suppressing the gambling the city.
Some believe his identity will be discovered in man
made reckless by dependency the loss of his for
in the gambling houses who has dedicated his life
to the work of revenge.
Some theorze that he is vndictive dope fend suf-
fering from real fancied wronga whose sense
of cunning has attained abnormal development from the
of the drug at the expense of his other nclu
ding regard for morality. law right of property.
1t is probable that there is other city in America
where gambling dens frequented by ex.
tensively in Chicago They regular of the
Chicago gambling places in the Easements along South
Clark street, where the mysterious forms of Chinese
gambling INDUCED in Not only they patronize the
regular poorooms but there poolrooms and euchre
resorts for the exclusive patronage of Several
of the feminine gambling houses have been raded by
the police. One of the most recent womans pool
room, where handbooks being made on the races
at Hamilton and Sheepshead Bay. The place con-
Quoted by Ted" Nevlin, young who is not the
inside of the gambling ring The dope sheets and lists
of patrons presented to the court during the trial
Nevlin showed that the placed their bets under
such names as Title, Eva, Molie Lillian Nellie
tials such M. B. r. etc. Some of these known
be prominent of Chicago but only the
of the game taken in the raid.
The Chicago newspapers have done everything but
print the of those whom they believe be back
of the bomb throwing. But the parties poinedy ind
Gated walk the streets every day with mpunity and
seem to have no fear of the police.
The Chicago Daily News in recent issue says
"The man who heads the conspiracy to commit bomb
outrages is former safe blower He has enjoyed immu
nifty for years in certain quarters and is of
wealth This man lives with his family in Chicago, and
walks its streets daily, does the he has been
employing recently to explode the dynamite
peter man., the regular" safe blowers called in
distinction from the "yeggmen" tramp safe blowers
Others who have been aids in his operations include
man who constable and two other men I'M
volved in sensational crimes in Chicago dscov
cred that these began their operations result
of the bribery to dynamite Hills house. The paid
was $780,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

zens of the under world in tights and all
of suggestive costumes and men who own and frequent
the First ward resorts crowded to the building and
drank and caroused all night Daylight revealed
of drunken razzled women lying about floors
strewn with champagne bottles and fragments of cos
tunes and ornaments torn away in the wild revels
of the night.
It was the explosion at State and Congress streets,
known as Touch No. go partially wrecking the recruit
ing station which started the government forces on the
track of the dynamiter This explosion was in hotel
district and rushing from their rooms
in the Auditorium and Annex the Elk hotel and the i've
or other hosteries of lesser fame In the immediate
vicinity southeast of State and Congress
Streets the opposite side of Congress street. the
plate glass windows In the store OF Slege cooper
Company were shattered.
Two days later, while the police still searching
for the thrower of bomb No. go bomb No. 81 exploded
in the the downtown district wrecked the rear
of the Chicago Title & Trust building, skyscraper at
No. 100 Washington street. and damaged structure
in the block bounded by Washington Clark Madison and
Dearborn Streets and also the Boston Store, which Is
bounded Madison, Dearborn and State streets This
louder and sharper than thunderbolt, and was
heard all the loop district Pedestrians show
cred with glass; which pouring down from the win
dows of the buildings for blocks around and men, wom
and children hurled to the ground
Almost before the building had ceased rocking under
the strain 100 girls in the exchange directly the
wrecked part cut and bleeding from flying glass; ran
through the clouds of smoke and SCOT toward exits Many
of the girls tainted Some had to be carried from the
building This bomb is said to have contained at least rs
pounds of dynamite
The blast came from manhole conduit in
Calhoun place, Familiarity known Gamblers alley It
is in the the fourstory of the Chicago Tt
tie & Trust Company. Here the Central" and Ran
doph exchanges of the Chicago Telephone Company
located.
Fifty cables lying in the telephone companys wrecked
conduit stripped broken and twisted into knots,
with the $4,000 telephones in the downtown
district were put out of business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

through the four-story building No. Ill Madison
street the explosion swept like wind the force taking
everything before it. The headquarters of Mont" Ten
hes KING or the gambling clique that is in power
was on the second floor of this building just above
place where the fuse had been ignited
rms was Tennes clearing house and the place from
Wncn all his syndicate business conducted During
the administration of Mayor Dunno, Tennes had been
forced to move out but after the election Mayor
ne moved back again and established clearing house
close to his old quarters where he previously had
tenn OF spies and guards who defed the police.
And in all the series of outrages arrests were
made until the state of Illinois the citys aid
The United States government also has taken hand
The few arrests that have been made all came to
nothing. Those made by the police seem to have been
purely superficial
Who is the mysterious bomb thrower? This is the
question of the hour in Chicago.
Some say he is fanatic reformer who has adopted
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Probably the most remarkable feature Of the out
RACES is the daring displayed by the bombthrower. He
sends the newspapers warnings and comments on the
explosions; he makes practice of teephonng the City
Press association, newsgathering agency maintained
by the different Chicago newspapers, giving notice that
fuses have been lit and telling the place where bomb is
about to explode His method of calling the newspa
to tip off his explosions and his anonymous letters
giving the careful details of his plans, drum
and cybals to advertise the heplessness Of the police
and to spread CONSERVATION throughout the present ad
mnistraton from the mayor down. The letters all
written in the handwriting and yet have his
tips failed to prove true.
In of the latest of these tips the bomb-thrower
promises "doubeheader' for the next explosion He
THE next will be doube-header, and will be
close enough for the chief and his boss to hear 1t spu
ter. They know where the ayouts are and it will be
dead for them to where the next noises
coming from Many more to follow unless the solid lid
is put The gang must cose-double dose next Some
bartender pnched for the job, but wrong
again. Will have him in "a hours-Nit"
This note received the day after the police had
promised to have the bombhrower captured the
"a hours. 1t written postal card. On the ad
dress side of the postal this dersive statement ap
peared
why don't shppy hire some tin stars from Indian
apolis?"
This letter is in direct line with another which ran:
1T S highly amusing and ridiculous by the
ferent papers that touch No. caused by labor
troubles Did labor troubles the other 80 TOUGHEST
Were the places touched off of labor strikes
owned by people antagonstic to labor unions? Look
the list Where is the big clearinghouse? Do the pa
pers know? Is it near the of No. 81?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
FAINT HEART AND FAIR LADY
Chances Good That the Ancient Ada0e
Once More Proved Wisdom OF
Man Who Uttered 1t.

He was afraid to tell her right out
and out that he loved her, so he began
in a roundabout way, hoping she
would catch his drift, then betray' Dy
her confusion, her own feelings. he
didn't dream but that she loved ni.n'
but thought that she, like himself
was afraid to demonstrate it.
Heart trouble?" she repeated. ARE
you sure you've heart trouble, Alfred!
You know indigestion is very like II
at times"
ooh, 1 know I've got heart trouble
all right. I-can't you see it your
self"
"Why, how silly, Alfred; no one can
see heart trouble; they have to feel
it. Have you taken anything for it,"
mo, not yet, but II want to, don't
you know
"Then why don't your"
I'll would; that is, if I could get
It,"
Cant you get it, Alfredo"
"I-I don't know"
"Have you tried?"
mo, not yet"
(Silence for two provoking min
utes.)
Alfred" (coldly.)
"Y-yes?"
Lets have a game of checkers"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
LOW COlONIST FARES TO THE
WEST AND NORTHWEST.

Union Pacific Passenger Depart
ment announces that Colonist Fares
will be in effect from Sept. Is to Oct
Is, 1909, to all points in the West ana
Northwest.
This year the West looks more
promising than ever. Now is the time
to secure land at low prices, and, at
the same time, to visit the many inter
esting points in the West and North
west, at which liberal stopover ar
rangements may be made.
A better estimate of raw lands can
be made now than formerly, because
these lands are in proximity to new
farms that are producing wonderful
crops.
For descriptive literature, write
to E. L. Lomax, G. P. A, U. P. r. R..
Omaha, Neb
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what it would do.
and | am restored to my natural
health. Mrs. ETA DONOVAN. BOX
200, Willimantic, Conn.
The success Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, Is unparalleled. It NAV be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, infiam-
nation; liberation, fibroid tumors, If
bearing-down feeling, flatuiency, indi-
gestion. dizziness, or nervous prostra.
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine q trial.
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others. and why should Is
not cure your
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

en- was almost entirely wrecked. AS usual the police
denied that gambling had been going there but
bridge whist layout in ROOM lot of racing dope
all that goes to equip pooroom and bookmaking
establishment in another-all this the fatal fourth
foor-proved that the bombplanters tip reliable
1t had been scores of times before.
The above reads like the opening of frstcass mys
terry story Doyle detective novelette, does it
not? But it is such thing On the contrary, is the
literal and serious transcript of almost every day
cident of real life in Chicago since the mountaineering
reign of terror began now two years ago.
More bombs have been exploded in Chicago during
these two years Of Mayor Buses administration than
in years of st. Petersburg and Moscow combined.
Yet the bombthrower still goes free. Nobody has
been convicted of of these dynamite outages
numbering nearly a hundred. Not a single arrest
made until the state authorities took up matter
Three rounded up suspicion and released
upon their readily establishing alibis.
The blasts attended with greater property loss
than caused by the anarchist riots in 1886,
the times when and the other radical ag
tators said to hold secret sway. Five hundred
buildings have been wrecked by 33 large dynamite
bombs, the first of which exploded Mayor
Busse took Office and the word went that Chicago
to be open town. Great gaps have been torn
through the brick and walls in the loop district
the heart of the ciyby the terrific force of the expo
sions and streets spattered with brick stones
timbers hurled from the bombarded buildings
ing common sights in the western metropolis
people have been seriously fatally injured Many
more nervous wrecks
The great significant fact is that nearly all of these
bombs have been aimed directly gambling houses or
at property owned by closely notori
gamblers gambling institutions Many gambling
hells have been blown up with dynamite and many more
have out of business through that the bombs
lightning might strike them next.
There is not district city that has not known
the of the explosions There scarcely
an inhabitant OF Chicago who is not familiar with the
loud hard reverberatng defamation peculiar to the
plosion of dynamite bomb.
On the night following the day which Chicagoans
read of the anniversary celebration the Hay
market riots in Chicago, bomb was exploded and an
other gambling house blown perdton with great
destruction of surrounding property.
used to be that the mayor and the chief police
would give out statements to the effect that there
not gambling house running within the city limits
Chicago. But these entirely dis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

inoculated it with the well mixed
blood, saliva and fluid from the for
mer's mouth, throat and upper and
lower jaw.
"I'1l bet that roosterTl be dead in
an hour!" exclaimed Sonora, who was
assisting in the experiment.
II don't know about an hour, but
I'll bet he'll be dead before night"
Old Timer offered.
Three days have elapsed and except
for a slight lameness the rooster has
shown no effect of the ordeal. At this
moment he is scratching around at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

my lizards and that evening when En-
ders' chickens went to roost cap
tured lean and venerable rooster for
an experiment I had in view. In the
morning, grasping the bird by the
legs, thrust it time and again head
first against the head of the monster,
but the latter only shrunk back and
sluggishly attempted to turn tail to
the attacks. goaded it with a stick,
even switched it with willow cut
ting, but nothing did aroused its ire.
Finally I killed the heloderma, made
ap incision in the ROSTERS thigh and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

in-law or try to thaw out powder or
mistake cyanide Of potassium foc
sugar or start off county seat re-
moval racket. Some died of old age,
some old partners of Daniel Boone.
but none has ever been known to die
from physical Irregularities contract
ed in Tombstone, aside from the
above mentioned causes, and occasion
ally an abnormal tightness about the
throat, superinduced by coil of ma
Mia rope, or from cold caught
through a hole made by .45.-Tonb-
stone sAriz.l Epitaph-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

the head Of his harem and Growing
as nonchalantly as ever he did.
have concluded that the ella monster
has no poison glands. Portions Of un-
swallowed food may and doubtless do
ferment in it's mouth at times, and
thus person bitten by one may be
poisoned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

has been a heavy
loser from the Sc
ries of explosions.
T e l e p b o n e S and
switchboards a r e
part Of the equip
ment of the hand
books and pool
rooms.
On the night be-
fore the great annu-
al orgy known as
the First Ward ball,
a bomb exploded in
front of the Coli
scum, as if to say to
every respectable
resident in Chicago:
Here is w b ere
every law of decen-
cy and every city
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

injured b y
bomb eXplo-
sions" are as
Stunning for
midable pro-
portions, and
one or two
deaths may re-
suit from the
injuries thus
far inflicted.
More than 100
persons were
injured in the
explosion in
the rear of
the Title and
Trust building,
one perhaps
fatally. Eight
suffered sert-
GUS injuries
from the blow
ing up of the
M a n n In g &
Bowes saloon
and gambling
house at 321
State street.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
<srsR THE Explosion Or 9o].9 -

ordinance for the suppress
sion of vice in Chicago
will be openly violated to-
morrow night, through
the political immunity en-
joyed by Alderman John
Coug him (Bath-House
john a n Aid erm a n
Michael Kenna (Hinky
Dink), the two aldermen,
of the First ward, COM
prising Chicago's notori-t
GUS Red Light District"
But for the enormous pol
litical pull enjoyed by
these two aldermen, this,
bomb would have caused
the suppression Of tha
Coliseum orgy. AS 1t was,
however, $4,000 people,
mostly oa mh1ers and deni..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
Experiment Proves That Bite of Dss
ert Lizard Is Not Necessar-
lily Fatal.

The other day 1 came across fine,
large ella monster (Heloderma sus-
pectum) waddling along dusty trail,
noosed it with a piece of string and
carried it to camp. 'You want to be
careful how you handle them things"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
ella MONSTER NOT HARMFUL

Sonora warned me. MANY a fellow
has died by bein' bit by EN-"
asked for particulars, names Of
the victims, dates and places of their
untimely demise, writes ]. w. Schultz
in Forest and Stream. "Well, / my
self never seen any one bit by EN-"
he answered, '"but I've heard of 'em
plenty. Any Mexican will tell you
that their bite kills."
I used an old washtub for a pen for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

walk ups tairs
without stopping
on the way. I
tried three differ
emit doctors and
each told me some
thing different. I
received no benefit
from any of them,
but seemed to suf-
fer more. The last
doctor said moth.
ing would restore
NV health Thoro~
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
THEN HE FLED.
Care In Preparing Food.

In recent years scientists have
proved that the value of food Is meas
ured largely by its purity; the re-
suit is the most stringent pure food
laws that have ever been known.
One food that has stood out promi-
nently as a perfectly clean and pure
food and which was as pure before
the enactment of these laws az it
could possibly be is Quaker Oats;
conceded by the experts to be the ideal
food for making strength of muscle
and brain. The best and cheapest Of
all foods. The Quaker Oats Company
is the only manufacturer of oatmeal
that has satisfactorily solved the prob.
lem Of removing the husks and black
specks which are SO annoying when
other brands are eaten. II you are
convenient to the store buy the reg.
ular size packages; if not near the
store, buy the large size family pack.
ages
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
Tombstone Mortality.

Nobody ever dies in Tombstone un-
less they bring it within" or fall
into a 600-foot vertical shaft or buy
an automobile or sass" their mother
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegeta.
bic Compound Cured Her.

Willimantic, Conn.-"For five years
l suffered untold agony from female
troubles, causing backache, irregulari-
Ees, d7z1ness and nervous prostra-
ton. 1t was impossible for me to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
A Rude Suggestion.

Hude SU99eStIon.
why" asked the acquisitive young
student, do they call pretty women
'peaches""
Because" growled the sour old
bachelor, pretty women are the fruit
of mischief"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

ELLO! Is this the City Press association of
Chicago? Well, I've just touched off another
one at No. 261 Wabash avenue. There's a
gambling place on the fourth floor there.
Listen, and you'll hear the building go up,
about ten minutes from now"
Boom! went the explosion, on time to the
very minute-so close to the time the news
paper men received the telephone message
as to prove that the mysterious dynamiter
had worked with a time fuse. The building,
a five story brick at the precise address CIV
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

The man who has a laxative wife
may have whole lot to say. but he
seldom gets a chance to say it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teeting, softens the gums, reduces ID
6&mmaton aIlaVsp pain. cures wind colio 26c6 botlA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

"Who controls gambling in Chica.
go? A combination controlled by one
man, who caused No. 81 to be touched
off, who has monopolized the hand
book game and put out of business
hundreds of men that have been in
the business all their lives. Can you
blame them for throwing bombs?
Zone man has leased the service
wire and has whipped every one into
line, so that if you don't send your
bets to him you can get no service,
and If you try to run Independent the
dicks raid your place, while his
places run unmolested. In other words
do business with that man or quit
Can you blame the people he put out
OF business? When that combination
is broken up the bombs will cease,
and not until then.
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS.
"F. S.-The next one that cackles,
that man will hear personally"
The Chicago outrages are not con-
fined to bomb-throwing, but include
incendiary fires, wrecking by impro-
'Aooo S-ldmS, SuIlihS VI IclS-
phone cables and numerous other
acts of vandalism. They began with
the blowing up of the residence of
John Hill, Jr., at the time he was
fighting racetrack gambling around
Chicago, and resulted in putting out of
business all the racetracks, many of
the grandstands having been burned
to the ground. The Chicago Telephon
furnishes wires to the TenneS SYndiC
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

continued. They were as red flag
to the bomb-thrower. Every time
one of them was issued the loud
voice of a bomb would answer:
Here is one," and the shattered
remains of roulette wheels, poker
tables smashed to splinters, cards,
chips and other gambling parapher-
MALTA strewn throughout the wreck
age of the building gave bountiful
evidence that the bomb spoke
truly.
The explosions are always in the
nighttime, when few people are on
the streets, and in every way the
bomb thrower. seems to use exceed
ing care to avoid inflicting personal
injury. Despite these precautions,
however, the hospital lists of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

to the ground The Chicago Telephone Company, which
furnishes wires Tennes syndicate poorooms,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-18
A FREE CITY.

The 1909 industrial edition of the
Montgomery County o. Reporter, one
of the oldest labor papers in the
country, presents in beautifully
printed, illustrated issue, some of the
features and achievements of Dayton.
a city containing a greater variety
of manufactures than any other city
of its size on the western CONT
nent, together with number OF i'm
pressive articles on labor matters.
This commercial centre of the larg-
est manufacturing district Of the
country a city of 100000 popula-
ton. and with an area of 1852
square miles, has post Office receipts
of 100000; customs receipts OF
$145, 900, and bank clearings of $780,
10000 annually. It has twenty
building associations, with deposits
of $1S,OOO,OOO; a 100000 Y. M. c.
A. property; % public schools. two