Oklahoma oil man Lew Wentz hides wealth in plain sight
In Ponca City Oklahoma Lew Wentz, a self made millionaire, funds cripples children work and hospital wards while living modestly as a bachelor. His gifts reach Guthrie and Oklahoma City with acts unseen in oil wealth. He dodges fortune hunting matrons and stays focused on philanthropy.
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Oklahoma
Lew Wentz
Old
Rockefeller
Mellon
Onca City
Ohio
Power City
Lew Wentzs
Aniney
Santa Claus
Ponca City
Lew Wentzine
Guthrie
Ola
Stone Walls Are Left When Prison For Women Is Built
Mexican set of courtship customs and a writer with American father and Mexican mother shares a unique view of Mexico. The piece describes family life, social norms, courtship in the presence of family, and cultural features from Chapultepec to bullfights and scenic sights like Mount Orizaba and Ixtaccihuatl. It contrasts U.S. society with Mexican traditions and portrays romance under traditional norms.
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Mexico
The
Messenger
Rio Grande
Orizaba
Ixtaccihuatl
Popocatepet
Annual Ravages of Fires Begin Again In Big Woods
In Wissoula Montana forest fire preparations surge as rations and equipment for thousands of firefighters arrive. The forest service stores ship 20 000 rations and 4 000 extra fighters gear while cookstoves and essential supplies head to forest reserves across the region. Last season saw 1 148 fires burning 286 457 acres with multiple losses. crews from Fort Missoula aided Glacier National Park efforts as a battalion faced dangerous conditions.
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Issoula Mont
Pires
Forest Service
National Forest Reserve
Fourth Infantry
Fort Missoula
Glacier National Park
Missoula
Eskimos To Have Their Own Movies For First Time
In Dotlakatla Alaska Aug 13 the first moving picture machine purchased by Alishin natives will arrive aboard the schooner Boxer. The Metlakalla council house will be turned into a theater with music from a donor. Two films accompany the machine a Marion Davies feature Janice Meredith and a two reel comedy Sunny Africa. Three complete schoolhouses ride the same schooner for interior reassembly.
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Dotlakatla
Alaska
Metlakalla
Marion Davies
Janice Meredith
Sunny Africa
War on alimony by Chicago wife shakes city
Mrs Bes sie Cooley leads a movement against alimony payments, denouncing the practice as unjust to husbands and proposing a league for disgruntled payers. The Illinois Appellate Court recently allowed continued alimony to Mrs Cooley’s rival, while Mrs Cooley campaigns and plans a mass meeting to organize Chicago judges show varied views on alimony reform.
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Roy J. Gibbons
Hicago
Joan Arc
Bessie Cooley
Chicago
Rome
Penitentiary Tries to Help Inmates Get Back on Feet
Special to The Messenger describes the Federal Industrial Institution for Women in West Virginia. It will rehabilitate inmates through education and work, with 17 cottages, practical training in cooking sewing nursing dairy and poultry, regular classes, a library, and selective admission. Dr Mary H Harris leads a system focusing on classification and monthly case reviews to place inmates in suitable work tracks.
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Ldirson
W Va
Allegheny Mountains
Rhode Island
Kentucky
Vermont
Congress
Mary H Harris
Lke
Imodel
Harris
Old Timers Mrs Webster Clowe Keeps Historic Papers
Mrs Webster Clowe of Lagan Route No 5 preserves two old documents. A 1860 teacher certificate issued to W. W. Clowe with signatures of G C Hart and HL P Bishop. A Adams Express receipt for 320 dollars sent by Lieut W Clowe to Barbara Clowe May 23 1860 from a Virginia War camp.
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Barbara Clowe
Virginia
C. C. Hart
Hart
Presbyterian Church
Scientists Test Einstein Theory At Williams Bay
Chicago scientists led by Professor A A Michelson search for evidence on relativity two years into tests. They shifted from Chicago University due to traffic vibrations to Williams Bay to replicate the Michelson Morley experiment and verify light speed consistency in different directions.
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Einstein
A A Michelson
University of Chicago
Chicago University
Williams Bay
Wil Einstein
Michelson
Morley
Earth
Dayton C Miller
Case School of Applied Science
Cleveland
Insect Swarm Forces Ohio Couple From Car
An Ohio tourist and his wife are forced from their car by a swarm of beer insects that entered through the windshield near a country road. The insects remained inside for about fifteen minutes before retreating into nearby woods as the couple continued their drive. In a separate note, Mrs Mike O’Neil guards the Muskegon dam gates in Newaygo Michigan, traveling atop the dam in a small electric car to operate the valves that control river waters.
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AuBus
Here
Ohio
Newaygo
Mich
Muskegon River
Mrw
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Anti-Alimony League
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Department of Justice
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Flateara
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W. P. Farmer
Webster Clowe
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