The Tragedy of the Other Woman and the Odious Man in New York
The piece chronicles Floretta Whaley and Jared Cook amid elopement scandal and public opinion shifting on infidelity. It traces changing attitudes from romance to remorse, highlighting Hart McKee and his divorces within a society of millionaires and intertwined marriages, ending with Massey and Raue entanglements.
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New York
Floretta
Hart McKee
America
Anna Steele Richardson
New York World
Dan Cupid
Jared Cook
Floretta Whaley
Hartford
Divine Nemesis in a Gold Mountain Divorce
A disgraced mining magnate divorces the wife who followed him to the mountains. His second wife, valued for beauty and social polish, is displaced as the first wife returns, transformed by study and travel to reclaim status. The once powerful man loses social standing and must yield to the woman he deserted. Her regal retribution stands as a Nemesis.
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Rocky Mountain
Congress
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Bowery
Cody
Wye
Wyoming
Path Finding By Instinct In Historic Scouts And Guides
A London Times writer argues true scouts are born and made, citing Captain Cook and a Blackfoot guide as examples. The piece notes instinctive routefinding, memory of terrain, and special acuity in navigators from frontier Canada to South Africa, with remarks on a Broadway comedian's decline.
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London Times
Capt. Cook
London
8. B. Steele
Strathcona
South Africa
Northwest Mounted Police
Married Two Months and a Dinner Plate
A lighthearted radio-style chat between two married couples recounts a quarrel where Laura strikes her husband with a dinner plate after a family row. The tale traces tensions, a patriarchal clash, and an eventual reconciliation as Dick resettles the in-law dispute and Laura’s temper cools.
The Evolving Tale of Three Wives and a Comedian
The narrative follows elopement to Cody Wyoming, a discarded second wife, and a famous divorce and remarriage of Frank Acer. A third party, the unnamed woman, endures public scorn while the comedian’s career declines amid quips and tragedy. The piece weighs personal ruin against public fascination.
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Acer
Frank Adams Acer
Addie Estelle Tilt
Filling of cracks in wood with colored cement paste
A method described by Scientific American uses white tissue paper soaked in water with glue, kneaded to a paste and colored with earth tones to match wood. Calcined magnesia is added, forming a cement that fills cracks and holes and dries to a smooth surface.
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Scientific American
Professional cards by Chas A Grubb
Special work opinions on title real estate and probate law. Office over Iowa Trust and Savings Bank.
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Iowa Trust and Savings Bank
Miller Office Suite in Gillespie Building on Atlantic
Fragmentary notice lists G and Miller in Suite 2, Gillespie Building, with a Musi Da Phone contact Office 396 on Atlantic Street.
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Gillespie Building
Atlantic
Former Internes at Iowa Hospital State University
Classified listing lists DR GC G CLARK formerly intern at University of Iowa Hospital. Office at 263 Black and house phone 461 Black. Atlantic.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Atlantic
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Jared K. Cook
St. Ceorge’s
Hempstead
L. I
New York-Pittsburg
Lawrence C. Phipps
Pittsburg
Hugh Tevis
California
Mrs. Tevis
Phipps
Gerald Shighes
McKee
George Gordon Massey
Dover
Del
Evelyn Raue
Dr. C. 8S. Raue
Philadelphia
Olfinders
Blackfoot
Canada
S.A Tt
Fred
Laura
Lawrence
Penn Street
Leavenworth
Gilliss
Fred Atchison
Jes
Armstrong
Suh
Kansas City
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney-at-Law
G, R, Miller
Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
Opera House Block
Phone
Iowa
T, B, Swan
Atlantia
Hes
D. Finley
D. O
Stephine Cook Finley
Finley & Finley
The
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy and X-Ray Laboratory
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Butler
M. H. Butler
Musson
A. H. Goodspeed
Will Cry
Cass
L. L. Nutt
4Th and
Walnut St
J. Litterst
Walnut Street
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