Widow of tinplate millionaire to wed Newport society man
Mrs. William B. Leeds widow of the tinplate magnate, heir to a large estate, is reportedly engaged to James DeWolf Cutting of Newport. Friends expect a private, later announced marriage after Leeds’s death in Paris, with Cutting previously linked to other society matches. Leeds died June 23 at the Hotel Ritz Paris.
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York
William B. Leeds
Tinplate
Paris
James DeWolf Cutting
Newport
Leeds
Cutting
Europe
Mr. Cutting
Ogden Godet
Ritz
Twelve Inch Limit Fixes Dogs at St. Regis
At the St. Regis hotel on Fifth Avenue a 12 inch limit for dogs is enforced after concern over past incidents. C A Tilles of St. Louis moves a small pedigree dog to a hospital on Fifty third Street to comply with the rule, while a hotel clerk measures the pet and confirms the dog fits the limit. The incident ends with a toy spaniel later passing the same test, its length just under the maximum.
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St. Regis
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-Third Street
C. A. Tilles
St. Louis
Tilles
Mascord
Mr. Tilles
Europe
Mascard
Collin
White House
New Skyscraper to Be Six Stories Deep
Broad way and New York Realty Company plans a 586 foot six story underground component building at 50 Broadway. Costing 3.875 million dollars, the white enamel brick and terra cotta structure would be the tallest compact New York building. The project includes nine to ten thousand tons of steel and twelve million bricks across nine acres of rental space with the engine and boiler rooms on the third and fourth floors.
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H&d
50 & Broadway
Broadway and
New York Realty Company
Hazlett
New York
City
Mr. Tazlatt
PIERPONT MORGAN BUYS RARE CHINESE RUG FOR RECORD
J P Morgan paid about 75000 for a rare imperial palace rug from the Ames estate in Boston. The 200 year old 23 by 25 foot textile with imperial yellow and blue hues features a dragon devouring the moon. It may be donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a chief collection piece.
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Pierpont Morgan
United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Prshasen
Ames Estate
Boston
Henry C. Frick
H. G. Marauard
Roosevelt to Lead Africa Hunting Expedition in 1909
President Roosevelt announces a Smithsonian led scientific African expedition starting March 1909 from New York. Kermit Roosevelt, Maj. Edgar A. Mearns, Edmund Heller, J. Alden Loring join, with guide J Cunningham. Route includes Uganda rail line to Lake Victoria Nyanza and Nile descent to Khartoum, about a year in Africa.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Africa
National Museum
Mombassa
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Nile
Khartoum
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
United States National Museum
Kermit
Roosevalt
New York
Edgar A. Mearns
Edmund Heller
J. Alden Loring
J. Cunningham
R. J. Cuninghame
Stanford University
Heller
Eliot
Ackley
Meld Columbian Museum
Smithsonian
Uganda
Nairobi
Cairo
British East Africa
Mount
Kenia
Stamp POUNDER 51 YEAR Eau Claire Wisconsin
The Nock Falls post office near Eau Claire was closed after 51 years with George H. Chamberlin serving as postmaster since 1857. At 82, Chamberlin is likely the nation’s oldest continuously serving postmaster, appointed by James Buchanan and remaining active through many political changes. Born in New Hampshire, he moved to Wisconsin in 1851, helped lay out Rock Falls, and has been a constant presence in the village’s history.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Nock Falls
George H. Chamberlin
Chamberlin
New Hlampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Briggsville
Antoinette Weston
Rock Falls
Red tape may cost $160000 in Oklahoma oil case
In Muskogee Oklahoma William J Seep and associates face a federal suit for $160000 and leased oil after the Interior Department failed to approve leases bought in a Creek nation government sale. Guardian Jeff T Parkes says Seep drilled 22 wells before approval and seeks return of the oil and cancellation of the leases.
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Muskogee
Okla
William J. Seap
Seep
T. N. Barnsdall
Barnsdall
Department of the Interior
Jeff T. Parkes
Robert Spade
Susan Turner
Young Seep
Parks
Money to Be Well Spent in New York Health Budget
New York City plans higher spending for public health next year with salaries totaling $626,642 more than this year bringing the department of health budget to $1,648,079. The increase follows growth and a tighter focus on public health matters.
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New York City
Department of Health
Army Desertions Drop in 1908 Says Adjutant General
The War Department reports 1908 desertions at 4,505 or 4.6 percent of enlisted strength, down from 5.6 percent in 1907 and 7.4 percent in 1906. Boise Barracks Idaho shows the highest rate at 16.5 percent. hospital corps up slightly. White troops desert at 4.75 percent versus 0.57 for colored troops. Army strength rose with 78,166 total enlisted (hospital corps excluded) on October 15 1908, 9,315 short of authorized. Nineteen officers retired under riding tests ordered by the president.
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Washington
War Department
Adjt
F. C. Ainsworth
Secretary of War
Hospital Corps
Boise Barracks
Idaho
Fort William Henry Harrison
Mont
Fort Brady
Mich
Fort Duchesne
Utah
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Ainsworth
Pear tree still laden with 1000 pears in Delaware yard
Dover reports a Kent county pear tree on Sheriff-elect William H. Maloney’s farm at Lebanon remains heavily burdened with fruit despite being leafless for weeks. The tree, resembling a Japanese pear, is estimated to hold at least 1,000 pears that will be stored for ripening next February or March.
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Dover
Del
William HE. Maloney
Kent County
Delaware
Lebanon
Window plays gain foothold in Chinese manufactories
Foothold in China grows as window plays are introduced to local manufactories. The novelty is rapidly gaining popularity, signaling a rising trend in regional entertainment production and distribution.
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China
Formerly Interne Hospital State Uni versity of Iowa
Brief item notes a contact at the university hospital complex, listing a House phone Black and an office number 263 Black, with a fragmentary address style suggesting administrative directory material.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Black
Office
Atle
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Atlanta
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Osteopathic and Medical Physician
Opera House
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Ben A. Wood
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Atlantia
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G. J. Litterst
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