Most Beautiful Woman in America Named
The beauty book contest selects Mrs. Walter Farwell of Washington and Chicago as the era's preeminent beauty. Her lineage traces to Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass, a famed belle, and her husband’s father rose from poverty to wealth, with Farwell fortune tied to land and ranch holdings.
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Walter Farwell
Chicago
Washington
Stephen A. Douglass
America
Washington, D. C
Mildred Williams
Windy City
Young Farwell
Farwell
Painted Post
New York
Illinois
Farwell Brothers
Texas State Capitol
Reginald de Koven
TS. Farwell
Aps
Williams
Stephen Douglass
Ste A. Douglass
United States
Hington
Gen. Williams
Hen A. Douglass
Fairbanks Poised for 1908 Nominations Amid Southern Core
Vice-President Fairbanks grows in stature as a presidential prospect. Indiana factions align, Beveridge is neutralized, and Dawes in Illinois coordinates the western push. Ohio splits between Taft and Foraker, while the South yields delegates to Hanna style organizing. Roosevelt’s potential reelection could unify the Fairbanks bid.
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Fairbanks
Senate
Gates
McKinley
Indiana
Illinois
Charles G. Dawes
Hanna
Cannon
Dawes
Fairbanks Boom
Ohio
Taft
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Buckeye
India's richest potentate in Baroda gleams with jewels
The Gaikwar of Baroda is described as the wealthiest living monarch in the Orient with a palace carpet of jewels, a world famous diamond necklace, a five hundred diamond collarette including the Star of the South, and vast ancestral troves, making a royal procession a spectacle of immense splendor.
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Prince and Princess of Wales
India
Orient
Gaikwar
Rajah
Baroda
Milton
East
John D. Rockefeller
Gaiker
Origin of Easter Explored in Saxon Lore
Origga of Easter traces the festival to the Saxon goddess Easter or Oster meaning to rise. In eastern regions the day is called Bright Day, while Bohemia refers to it as the Great Night.
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Bohemia
Easter in Russia Doctoral Visit Traditions
The Russidan Easter Pastor Day features visits to homes where hosts greet with Jesus Christ is risen and receive the response Yes, He is risen. People share embraces and eggs, drink, and present a red egg to the parish priest. The red egg is carried on Easter Day as a token of the Resurrection.
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Russia
Jesus Christ
Oriental Egg Gamblers in Mesopotamia Easter Contests
Hyde describes a religious Easter egg game among Christians of Mesopotamia. Players strike eggs. the first broken egg’s owner loses, and the winning egg faces a fresh challenger until the final egg wins all. Participants reportedly wear coverings over their eggs.
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Hyde
Mesopotamia
Immigrant Origins Highlight Southern Italy Roots
The article notes that most Italian immigrants come from southern provinces, especially Sicily and Calabria, and that they are farm bred.
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Sicily
Calabria
Sleeping Car Acquaintances at the White House
Representative Smith of Maryland recalls a story about meeting Archibald Roosevelt Kermit and Quentin Roosevelt as they left the Executive Mansion. He quips they all have names like sleeping cars and compares the scene to watching a limited express at a station.
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Representative Smith
Maryland
Kermit
Quentin
Mr. Smith
Why Use Force With Heavy Foodstuffs I Am
A playful verse praises lightening meals and a system at ease preferring magazines filled with abundant fare. The speaker jokes about frequency and burthen while extolling the appeal of a current issue loaded with pleasing items.
Nearly all plants wiurple ee ae ee with polos
The readable fragments describe a list of plants and colors with unclear terms. No clear event, organization, or location is identifiable. The piece reads as a stray OCR fragment lacking coherent names or dates to anchor a summary.
A Darky Christening in the Sunny Southland
Third letter recounts visits to Jacksonville Savannah and Richmond. In Eustis the group witnesses Baptist colored immersion on a golden June morning by the lake. A chaotic Prim ative Baptist service in Egypt features rambling sermons, loud singing, and exuberant foot washing amid crowding, shouting, and improvised rituals.
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Southland
Jacksonvile
Savannah
Richmond
Eustis
Lake Gracie
Egypt
Primative Baptist
Darkies
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Marcus A. Hanna
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Fairbanks Party
Origga
Oriental Egg Gamblers
Mother Hubbard
Bonaventure Cemetery
Georgia
Kates
Ghter
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
New York City
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