Mystery cult claims elixir of life and royal claim
Investigations into the Order of the 15 reveal a hunt for an elixir of life and a belief in a universe ruled by Seven Great Color Rays. The probe centers on Dr F Homer Curtiss and the Robinson divorce suit, detailing secret rites, sealed letters, and a supposed “Inner Circle” linked to Prince John de Guelph claiming King Edward’s son.
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Prince John de Guelph
King Edward
Los Angeles
Amritan
Order of the 15
W. J. Ford
Alice Maude Robinson
Rockwell R. Robinson
F. Homer Curtis
Bryan in Kilts If He Accepts $8,000 Offer to Lecture
Milwaukee nov 1 William Bryan sent an inquiry after P J Power owner of the Kilties offered a four weeks lecture tour at 2000 dollars a week. The tour could start in Chicago November 17 with the Canadian band opening. Power said Bryan might wear kilts but would not be forced if that was his only objection.
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Bryan
Milwaukee
William
P. J. Power
Secretary of State
Chicago
Mr. Bryan
Cooking Placed on Grand Opera Scale
CHICAGO November 1 A plan to combat the high cost of living has been devised by three socially prominent Lake Forest families. A community kitchen run by a fancy-priced chef serves the three families with a single corps of assistants in one apartment room. Frank Reed, cashier of the First National Bank, led the idea. The group says cooking has become an art and should be treated like grand opera.
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Chicago
Lake Forest
Frank Reed
First National Bank
Reed
Mary Garden Arrives in Philadelphia for Season
New York dispatch notes Mary Garden's baggage includes a snakewood cane a Napoleon style hat and a Scotch dog as she readies to open her season in Philadelphia She declares she will never marry unless compelled to stop singing and points to her dog as the only thing she has ever loved Also arriving with the Metropolitan forces are Mme Ferrari Matzenauer Mme Rappold Berger Vannie Marcoux and Rita Fornia
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New York
Suggests Presidency As Goethals Reward
NEW YORK November 1 Colonel Goethals would be elected president of the French Republic if he represented France in the Panama Canal project. Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, returning from the Isthmus, says the first stage is done and the United States must dig to sea level, no other Central American canal is practicable.
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New York
Goethals
France
Panama
Phillipse Bunau-Varilla
United States
Central America
Vanderbilts Plan World Tour After Christmas Holidays
New port reports Mr and Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt at their Adirondack camp and planning a world tour after Christmas. The Breakers hosts Mrs Vanderbilt and Count and Countess Szechenyi with children. the Reggie Vanderbilts and the Whitney party and their crew expected for Christmas.
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Newport
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Adirondacks
Parker Views U S Finance Shift and Disraeli Echoes
London to The American Sir Gilbert Parker reflects on his New York trip noting a move from grand financiers like Pierpont Morgan to a broader, humdrum financial class. He cites rising commercial activity, skyscraper abundance, and the aging of Disraeli’s era as symbols of America’s evolving wealth landscape.
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London
Gilbert Parker
New York
Disraeli
Aki
Pierpont Morgans
Bridge Scored as Worse Than Tango
Washington, Mrs Mary S Lockwood 84 and DAR founder dismisses bridge as more harmful than tango in high society. She favors modest dancing and recalls her girlhood round dances while voicing clear preference for the tango over bridge playing for social stakes.
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Washington, Navy
Mary S. Lockwood
Daughters of the American Revolution
Lockwood
Couple Have 9, but Want 20 Children
PANA ILL Nov 1 John Gregory a 34 year old Pana business man and his wife aged 25 became parents of their ninth child a girl They have been married eleven years and have never had a physician in their house but once to set a boy's fractured leg Both are strong anti race death by own action advocates and Gregory said today that he and his wife are anxious to become parents of twenty children.
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Pana
Ill
John Gregory
Gregory
Women to Run for Council in Chicago
Chicago November 1 Independent candidates for City Council were announced today by Sophroniaba Breckenridge dean of women at the University of Chicago Mary McDowell and Mrs Joseph J Bowen settlement workers The aim is to push legislation women are especially interested in
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Chicago
Sophroniaba Breckenridge
University of Chicago
Mary McDowell
Joseph J. Bowen
Doctors resign after hospital dispute over surgical precedence
New York November first. A fiery clash among physicians at St. Mary's Hospital Jamaica over who stands as first assistant during a woman's operation led to the resignations of Dr. Paul Fleri and Dr. Reginald Van Wert from the house staff. Some staff blamed the incident on the interference of an interne and a visiting surgeon. Hospital authorities only said that a breach of discipline prompted the resignations. Drs. Berger and V. A. Paul were named as successors.
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New York
Paul Fleri
Reginald van Wert
St. Mary’s Hospital
Jamaica
Fleri
E. W. Shipman
Church Street
Richmond Hill
van Wert
Girl Risks Death To Visit Her Fiance
Miss Bessie Longton a Bonanza school teacher trudged through a blinding snowstorm for twelve hours to reach a deserted cabin near Salida Colorado six miles west of Bonanza where she collapsed in the cold. Hunted rabbit hunter R R Wilcox found and revived her after rescuing her from exposure.
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Salida
CGOLD
Bessie Longton
Bonanza
Relative of Speaker in Postmaster Race
Colorado Springs on November first Mrs Annie Hamilton Pitzer sister in law of Champ Clark and distant relative of Postmaster General Burleson announces her candidacy for postmaster of the city. A dozen or more candidates have filed for Congress. Mrs Pitzer was a delegate to the State Democratic convention three years ago and to the Democratic national convention in Baltimore last year.
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Colorado Springs
Annie Hamilton Pitzer
Champ Clark
Burleson
Seldomridge
Pitzer
Colorado
Baltimore
Modern Solomon Ends Cousins War
Sharon PA report claims of a boarding house dispute between Noy l George and Mike Rudy German cousins. They fought and were arrested. Squire Dam Levy issued a verdict declaring Mike the lawful owner and ordering George to leave town. George bought two chickens while Mike returned beef, reflecting differing judgments on dinner matters.
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Sharon
Noy l
George
Mike Rudy
Squire Dam Levy
Solomon
Mike
Squire
Jacksonville U D C Plans Convention Trip
Jacksonville will be well represented at the General Convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy in New Orleans November 11 to 16. A special car run by the Florida division will stop in Pensacola for an hour to show delegates the western Florida city, followed by a harbor tour of New Orleans on November 11.
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Jacksonville
the Daughters of the Confederacy
New Orleans
Thelorida Division
Pensacola
Florida
Crescent City
Convict Who Shaved Gov Ferris Paroled
Charles Kimbrough once a barber for officers at Marquette prison earned parole after shaving Governor Ferris during a prison inspection. He had been imprisoned since January 13 1913 in Detroit for larceny serving from two and a half to five years.
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Lansing
Mich
Charles Kimbrough
Marquette
Ferris
Kimbrough
Detroit
Pretty Heiresses to Pose for Suffrage
Pittsburg society heiresses who support suffrage will pose in downtown shop windows to promote the suffrage convention next week. They will use pentomime and cards to deliver silent sermons, with their names to be announced when ready.
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Pittsburg
Washington Irving Sued for Divorce in Oakland
Washington Irving, a San Francisco businessman and coastal representative for a London insurance firm, was sued for divorce by his wife Isabelle Irving after 32 years of marriage. The suit cites a six month Europe trip as the alleged basis, filed in Oakland and reported from San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Washington Irving
Rip van Winkle
Coast
Oakland
Isabelle Irving
Europe
Irving
3000 Ministers Earn Only 500 Yearly Each
The bureau of sustentation reports over five thousand Methodist ministers in the United States preach and work year round for less than five hundred dollars each. The Methodist Womens Home Missionary Society notes the situation as troubling in this prosperous era.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of
Methodist Womens Home Missionary Society
Southern Maids Duel For Suitor In Chromatic Battle
In Chicago two Southern women, Ruth Higgins of Greenville South Carolina and Lesbia Shaw of Texarkana Texas, both painters at the Art Institute, challenge each other to a portrait duel for a shared rancher suitor. The Texan sits for his portrait while both rivals work side by side, each hoping to win the man they both love.
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Ruth Higgins
Lesbia Shaw
Chicago Art Institute
Greenville
S. C
Texarkana
Texas
Sir Lancelot
Art Institute
Miss Shaw
Miss Higgins
Mexico Faces Crisis as US Considers Intervention
Fierce fighting rages at Monterey as four American battleships head toward Mexican waters. Washington weighs action to remove Victoriano Huerta, with diplomats and foreign ministers criticizing US delay. President Wilson's cabinet debates a plan to oversee a fair election for Constitutionalists amid looming intervention.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Amele
Pew
Victorinal Huerta
Huerta
Potis
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