Famous Financier Jay Cooke Nearing Death at Lake Erie Home
The renowned financier Jay Cooke, age eighty, lies gravely ill at his summer home on Putine Way, Lake Erie. Born in Sandusky, Ohio, he rose from clerk to partner in a Philadelphia banking firm and built railroads, banks, and rail stock operations before a 1870s panic briefly ruined him, from which he recovered to wealth again. Senator Chauncey M. Depenon announced his marriage to Miss May Palmer in Paris, a Pariseducated New York socialite known for beauty and culture, daughter of Mrs. Henry Palmer, famed in New Orleans society.
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Paris
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Henry Palmer
Hermann Slater
New Orleans
New York
Mayor Harrison ends city lodging for tramps in Chicago
The Chicago mayor has reversed plans to shelter tramps for winter, citing town finances and a policy to avoid municipal lodging. Tramps and vagrants found in the city will be arrested and sent to the bridewell for compulsory baths and hard labor, with police stations no longer housing them.
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Count Telstar Active in Mind and Body at Yasnata Pollana
A French visitor reports Count Telstar remains vigorous and alert. He rises at 7 AM to tour his park, wears a large white linen hat, works at his desk for hours, dines alone since illness, then joins the midday meal. His manuscripts are poorly written with many edits requiring copying. Secretaries assist, notably Nicholas Gay, son of the painter, who transcribes the morning drafts into afternoon work.
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Edward M Shepard for mayor of New York biographical note
Edward M. Shepard a Brooklyn born lawyer and Greater New York political figure, long active in Democratic politics. He has directed numerous railroads and corporations, opposed Bryan in 1896, supported Low for FE mayor, and presided at a Madison Square Garden Bryan mass meeting. He resides at 172 Congress Street, Brooklyn.
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Hugh McLaughlin
Ryan
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Controller Coler
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Broadway
Salmon tainted by creosote sparks city food warning
A New York fish dealer faced a customer complaint after a fine salmon tasted of creosote. He believed a stale fish had been brushed with antiseptic to mask decay, possibly contaminated by a creosote tank wagon near his delivery cart. The incident serves as a warning against street exposure of foodstuffs.
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Preas
Lord Salisbury described as youthful release yet aging in duties
Those who know him say Lord Salisbury feels a rare mix of youthfulness and weariness after leaving the foreign office. He is lively in spirit but seems unable to resume serious control of broader affairs, suggesting he is not yet too old to be foreign minister but not young enough to become prime minister.
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Foreign Office
Taken by Brigands Then Escaped in Turkey and Bulgaria
Mias Stone of the Woman's Board of Missions recounts two close calls with brigands in the Turkish mountains and Bulgarian bandits. In one pass they searched luggage and released her after learning she was a missionary. In another hut, a night intruder briefly touched her face before departing.
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Turkey
Mrs Roosevelt's Church and the President's Chapel
A Washington correspondent notes Mrs. Roosevelt attends St. John's Episcopal Church while President Roosevelt remains faithful to the Dutch Reformed Church. They share different hereditary affiliations, not a religious dispute, and both stay with their ancestral congregations. Arizona goat industry rises as Angora goats multiply, with favorable western ranges and climates boosting growth and profits for herders. Greater New York reports 5,579 doctors.
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Roosevelt Faith Ties Through Shared Church Roots
The text notes lifelong church membership through birth and training, highlighting the Roosevelts as aligned with their faith. It mentions regular church attendance in New York, Washington, and Albany, and their continued participation in the same denomination. The passage emphasizes shared religious views between the President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
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Talks With Birds in Their Own Tongue
Reina V Wright of Oshkosh Wisconsin masters bird language enabling her to call, quiet, and elicit chorus from birds. At 18 she teaches elocution at Grafton Hall after studying at Ralston University of Expression. Born in Nebraska, she moved at age 38, trained under President Edgerly, and graduated last year before teaching.
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