Social Season In Washington
Washington social season gains pace with multiple receptions and dinners as new society newcomers join the capital scene. Taft era politics mix with fashion as debates over Lee statue and policy loom, while the National Geographic Society weighs Peary pole claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Lee
National Geographic Society
Washington
Agricultural Department
Signal Service
Willis L. Moore
Copenhagen University
America
Peary
Moore
Hockey Seals and College Ice Hockey Face Busy Season
In New York Amateur League and Intercollegiate groups the season builds with strong teams and top players. New York A C Wanderers St Nicks and Crescents plus Hockey Club contest for honors while Princeton Harvard Cornell and others practice towards late February games. Three navigators plan Whirlpool rapids swims for prizes of 500 and 1000 dollars as entries grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pittsburg
Cleveland
St Paul
New York A. C
Jimmie Sherriff
Ca Auania
Phe Iutas Wihenave
Inter Allegiate League
Sarvard, Yate
Dartmouth
Columbia
Princeton
Cornell
Larvard
Boston
Cambridge
Mass
Western Pennsylvania Hockey League
McKay
Donnelly
Strobel
Koch
Campbell
Ray Robinson
Garnet Sixsmith
Meyers
Brown
Rutledge
Niagara Falls
John A. Penton
John L. Gibney
Brooklyn
John W. Kirk
Allan A. Blanchard
Oak Harbor
New Heavyweight Pugilist George Cotton Hailed by Choynski
Joe Choynski touts George Cotton as a new 195 pound heavyweight with potential to challenge top heavyweights. He forecasts Cotton will soon hustle with the big men and prove his worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Champ Clark
House
Joe Choynski
George Cotton
Choynski
Vacation For the Eel in Ottawa Delays Race Season
The eel named Eel 2:02% will not race on ice this winter as officials bar the gray wonder in Ottawa, marking a seasonal vacation for the creature and related events.
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Ottawa
Brief Curiosities of Epitaphs and Wit
The piece collects quaint epitaphs from Ernest R Sutiling’s Epitaphia and recounts tales of Grimaldi the mime and Douglas Jerrold. It notes sharp one liners such as Here Lies Thorpe's Corpse and Good Night for a friend, plus stark lines about a missionary and a wife of nine husbands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest R Sutiling
Grimaldi
Stasze
Nere
Thorpe
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Knight
Knight
Jerrold
Ulverston
Lancashire
Nearsighted man slips in 496 water spill at hotel
A messenger reports a man in 496 fell over a broom, splashing water on himself. The hotel manager instructs to provide a towel and charge him for one bath.
Watch Confusion After Appendectomy Ends In Laughter
A patient recovering from appendicitis asks if a surgeon sewed his watch inside him. The surgeon admits misplacing the watch then recalls it was in his hat. The exchange ends with relief and a joke about luck and the watch’s cost.
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James A. Edgerton
Washington Correspondent
Diplomatic Corps
Army and Navy
Supreme Court
Epicurus
Mile
Robert E. Lee
John Quincy Adams
William Stoward Taft
Librarian of Congress
North Pole
Congressional Library
Dixie
Roosevelt
Philippines
Conservation
District of Columbia
Alaska
Chine
Clark
Naar
Philander C. Knox
Wishkah
Aberdeen
Will Theo
Wwen
India
A. B
Chelmsford
Essex
Mary Blewitt
Westminster Gazette
Wishkah St
Boling
Elma
Townsend
Ketchum Hill & Go
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