The New York World Portrait of Elizabeth O'Rourke
Elizabeth O'Rourke, once a cheerful 28 year old with auburn hair, lost her hair in a factory accident. She now hides at home with her mother and brother, fearing judgment and the stares of neighbors as she endures daily monotony and profound sadness.
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York
Amsterdam Avenue
Elizabeth O’rourke
New York
Maude H. Neal
Mrs. Casey
Annie Allen
Elizabeth O'Rourke
Elizabeth
An Infant Cuvier in the Vacation History Class
Miss Griggs secures Mrs. May’s consent for Freddie to join a natural history vacation class. Mrs. May praises Freddie’s apparent knowledge while Freddie, spoiled, shows a fixation on animal shaped foods from an early age. The scene hints at Freddie’s advanced pretensions despite his five years.
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Miss Griggs
Freddie
Mrs. May
Polite reporter congratulates Martin on book in New York
A New York reporter congratulates Frederick Townsend Martin on his book Pink of Politeness and hopes for strong sales. Martin replies with kindness and recalls a tale of an American girl at an English house party who quips about land ownership with a polite lisp.
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Frederick Townsend Martin
New York
Mr. Martin
England
Oldlizabethan
Lispedd
Lord Reginald
Log making in western Kansas joke turns grim
An automobile editor toils in western Kansas to draft a log for a transcontinental road. A curious farmer asks what he is doing. The editor says he is trying to make a log. The farmer quips that the Lord tried to make logs grow there but gave up long ago.
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Kansas
Kansan
Texan Born Without Arms Overcomes Handicap In Business
Aaron Smith of Fort Worth Texas born armless overcomes disability to run three ventures. He edits the Transmitter, prints for a job printing shop, and supports a family while caring for relatives. He writes with his teeth and toes, teaches law, and previously led newspapers in Mount Pleasant and Weatherford.
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Aaron Smith
Fort Worth
Tex
Mr. Smith
Chicago
Smith
Miller County
Arkansas
Mount Pleasant
Farmers’ Union
Nursemaid Barbara Spannagel Keeps 62 Years in One Family
Barbara Spannagel, 81, once an orphan from Germany, arrived 63 years ago and became nurse to John Jurgen's family. She followed Carrie Jurgen to the Bauer household, cared for Mrs Bauer’s two children, and remains in the Bauer home at 60 Linden Street, Brooklyn. She has served for six decades and sees no strangeness in long tenure.
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Barbara Spannagel
John Bauer
Linden Street
Brooklyn
Spannagel
Germany
John J. Jurgen
Carrie Jurgen
Barbara
Bauer
Miss Spannagel
Heing
Notable Early 20th Century Figures and Achievements
Arthur M Asaulth advances to Buenos Ayres to learn business methods through a salary position with a commercial firm. Belva Lockwood, now a Washington DC attorney, was twice nominated by the Equal Rights party for president and was the first woman admitted to the US Supreme Court bar. Lord Glenconner, high commissioner to the Scottish church general assembly, earns 10000 a year, mainly for one annual speech. Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, commands Italy's navy with noted strategic skill since the war with Turkey. Emily Metcalf, Ohio’s oldest active schoolteacher at eighty one, continues teaching in Hudson after more than fifty years in the classroom.
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Arthur M. Asaulth
Buenos Ayres
Belva Lockwood
United States
Equal Rights Party
Washington, D. C
United States Supreme Court
Lord Glenconner
General Assembly
Church of Scotland
Asquith
Edward Tennant
Prince Thomas
Duke of
Genoa
Italan
Italy
Turkey
Emily Metcalf
Ohio
Hudson
Frank J Gould and His Father’s Noted Financial Genius
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, is portrayed as inheriting his father’s talent for intricate financial schemes. His role in regaining Missouri Pacific control, building a Southern electrical and other empire, and his discreet public profile are highlighted. He favors careful planning, avoids publicity, and enjoys theater, Bohemia, and real estate, with a private poets’ work and a penchant for quiet, cultivated living.
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Frank Jay Gould
Jay Gould
Missouri Paattte Railroad
Goulds
Frank J. Gould
Wall Street
Gould
Amile
Gould Brothers
Frank Gould
Helen Gould
College of the City of New York
Bohemia
Edith Kelly
Havana
Paris
Lorses
Abbotsford
Walter Scott
Missouri Pacific
New York
Astor
Death of Recluse Leaves Big Fortune Unclaimed
In Marion county Kansas a $50 000 fortune awaits a claimant. Relatives of James Davis of Peabody say heirs may exist abroad but efforts to locate them failed. If unclaimed in two years the money passes to the state. Davis known as Jimpsey died after a fall near Oct 39 1910. The estate includes 400 acres valued at 100 an acre and 10000 cash in Peabody bank. The recluse life of father and son on the farm and the Welsh origin are noted.
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Marion County
Kansas
James Davis
Peabody
Peabody Bank
Jimpsey
Cardiff
Wales
Havelock in Graphic Story on Soldiers and Drink
General Sir Henry Havelock is cited for commendable restraint shown by troops at Ghuznee in 1839, noting they fought and marched well without spirits since July 8. The excerpt argues distilled drinks are not a military necessity and praises forbearance, mercy, and improved health when soldiers are sober.
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Ghuznee
Sir Henry
Ghurgnee
Cortrass
Beer Habit Shortens Life Says Toledo Physician
Dr. 3. and Lungren, noted Toledo homeopathic physicians, warn that beer drinking shortens life by overworking the heart. They estimate a 12 percent daily extra heart workload from 4.8 ounces of alcohol, causing dilation of superficial vessels and unhealthy congestion in the heart, brain, stomach, lungs, liver, and kidneys, leading to degeneration and reduced recovery. Abstinence, they say, preserves both physical and mental parity.
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Lungren
Toledo
Love’s Open Vision and the Power of a Loving Heart
The piece argues that love for God transforms adversity into good, not passively but by dwelling within the heart. It asserts that God’s blessings come only to those who love him and that a spiritually minded person can shape events into positive outcomes, finding heaven in every world.
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Famillar
Paul
God
Cannot Afford to Drink Says A Cited Quote
A quoted remark reflects the speaker's stance on drinking, stating they never drink and cannot participate on equal terms. The quote notes three costly consequences for the speaker: sinning, suffering, and repentance, contrasting with others who incur only one day.
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Sterne
Dangerous Prescription Quote Overstates Alcohol Cure Claim
A historical remark by Dr C J Russell cautions that giving alcohol as a cure is far more dangerous than the disease it aims to treat. The quote critiques medical practices that use alcohol as a remedy, underscoring safety concerns in early medicine.
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C. J. Russell
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