Pension figures show 43397 names added to rolls this year
Pension Bureau data for eleven months of the fiscal year ending June 30 records 43 397 new names added to pension rolls. Other items note daylight sun percentages in major cities and various advertisements and bequests including Villeneuve chair at Laval University and a smiling ad for Allen's Foot Ease products. Ex-Empress Eugenie now godmother to many French children born on the prince imperial's birth date.
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Pension Bureau
Eugenie of
Frances
Prince Imperial
American Patent Medicine Ads and Household Tips
A collage of early 20th century ads and general tips featuring Ivory Soap usage, Oxidine malaria cure, Garfield headaches powders, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Wizard Oil, Dickey's Old Reliable Eye-Water, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Includes a note on Buckingham Palace lawns and a playful quip about a goddess of justice.
Wealthy Bostonian Edward Parker Deacon Dies of Brain Disease
Edward Parker Deacon of Boston a prominent social figure and longtime society leader died of brain disease last week. Born into a rich family he spent much of his life abroad and in 1892 was implicated in a sensational shooting in Europe. His wife Florence Baldwin Deacon once Cincinnati beauty and daughter of Rear Admiral Baldwin faced initial objections before their 1879 marriage in Paris.
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Edward Parker Deacon
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America
Cincinnati
Paris
Rue
Pierre Charbon
Deacon
Emile Abielle
Cannes
France
Princess Catherine Yourievskaia Engaged to Duc d Chaulnes
The Paris rumor reports Princess Catherine Yourievskaia daughter of the murdered Czar Alexander II and the morganatic wife Princess Dolgorovka as engaged to the Duc d Chaulnes.
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Paris
Catherine Yourievskaia
Alexder II
Dolgorovka
Duc d Chaulnes
The Leisure Class Debate and Lorillard's Legacy
The Weekly Panorama notes Ambassador Choate warning against a leisure class guiding public affairs and highlights Pierre Lorillard's wealth and estate. Lorillard built Breakers at Newport, owned 1600 acres in New Jersey, and left 7 million to his children after dying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
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Lorillard
Pierre Lorillard
Peter Lorillard
Pierre
Jersey City
Newport
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jobstown
N. J
Russian Policy Shrinks Foreign Goods as Trade Fades
A St Petersburg dispatch dated the 4th notes growing Russian resistance to importing goods that can be produced domestically. Officials extend the policy from government factories to broader government influence, suggesting foreign trade may shrink as will limits the reach of imports.
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