Millionaire Inter-State Club aims to unite America
The Interstate club, formed to foster a national fellowship, already has about 3,000 members and claims 21,000 acres near Chattanooga Tennessee. It plans a vast club house with 1500 rooms and a dome eight stories high, plus extensive parklands, a 60 foot boulevard, auto and trolley links, and 50 miles of government park roads nearby. Prominent supporters include Roosevelt Cannon Dewey and numerous governors and senators.
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Walden’s Ridge
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Col
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Birmingham
Ala
J. S. ©. Blackburn
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Fairbanks
William J. Bryan
Cardinal Gibbons
Archbishop Ireland
Potter
Felix Adler
Root
Taft
Joseph G. Cannon
Perry Belmont
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the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Melville B. Stone
The
Associated Press
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Charles A. Towne
Minnesota
Nicholas Longworth
Joseph Sibley
Pennsylvania
William P. Nixon
Chicago Inter- Ocean
J. B. Frazier
Robert L. Taylor
Nashville
Robert J. Lowe
Alabama State Democratic Committee
Admiral Dewey
Cannon
John M. Thurston
Nebraska
United States
J. A. Dolliver
Iowa
Joseph F. Johnston
Alabama
Moses E. Clapp
Boies Penrose
W. B. Scott
West Virginia
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Winfield S. Schley
Richmond P. Hobson
Bishop Potter
Andrew L. Harris
Ohio
National Park
Chickamauga Battlefield
Signal Point
Miss Elizabeth and Robinson Debate First Kiss Trial
A tale from London Tit-Bits recounts Miss Elizabeth, a highly sensible woman, and Robinson testing if a man can kiss a woman without consent. After initial resistance she concedes and they repeat the attempt, ending with her playful claim of a slipped foot and a retry.
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Miss Elizabeth
Young Robinson
Jack the Kisser
Robinson
Elizabeth
London
New Field for Artists in Leipsic Visiting Cards
A Berlin paper cites a correspondent praising the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts of Leipsic offering artistic visiting cards. Under Crown Princess Cecilie and Princess Johann George of Sachsen, the card may become an illustrated companion to the book plate, potentially reducing the need for a separate introduction note.
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Royal Academy For the Graphic Arts of
Leipsic
Berlin
Cecilie
Johann George
Sachsen
Medical Societies in New York City Count Revealed
A count shows forty five medical societies operate in New York City reflecting dense professional networks. The figure highlights the city’s robust medical community with diverse specialty groups and organizational structures across boroughs.
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New York
New York City
The Cynic and the Politician in Boston Racetrack Runaway
In Washington Street Boston a Cynic and a Politician meet as election near. The Cynic mocks institutions and rescues a frightened girl from a runaway carriage while the Politician imitates heroism for votes. A reporter presses for details and the Cynic finally admits, I’m Senator Driver.
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Adams Square
Humane Society
Howler
Cynic
Senator Driver
Mecca Railroad Fast Tracks to Medina and Mount Arafat
The Mecca railroad is rapidly built under imperial direction. Plans call for completing the Medina to Mecca line, 280 miles, in about a year and adding a Mecca to Mount Arafat 11 mile spur. An English firm reportedly wins the Medina sanctuary lighting contract as modernization spreads through Nejd and Yemen.
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Mecca
Medina
Mount Arafat
Nejd
Yemen
Arabia
Motherly Solicitude in a Regency Scene
A clipped dialogue centers on a chaperon for Miss Welton and Vere’s upbringing. The scene hints at a newly widowed father and a stepmother pressing to control arrangements, reflecting social expectations and family tension in a domestic drama.
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Oman
Vere
Walking costumes with tweed and serge designs
A detailed description of two period walking costumes. The first features a seven-gore tweed skirt with outside-stitched seams, galloon trimming, tassels, a velvet collar and cuffs, a front-buttoned jacket, a fine straw hat with ribbon and feather, plus fabric and notions list. The second describes a drab serge outfit with stitched ornamentation, box-plaits, brown velvet buttons, a velvet collar, a brown velvet hat, ribbon, and ostrich feather tips, plus fabric and trim amounts.
Filet Net and Embroidery Trends in Paris
Filet net, the season's rage in Paris, offers a transparent square mesh ideal for embroidery. Outline designs are created by darning, then filled with silk floss or chenille. For waistpieces, soutache braid accents may tie the net to linen.
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Paris
Hair Fashion: Grecian Tunics Inspire Filet Decor
The Grecian tunic look inspires hair filets as the correct adornment. Designers show wide filets and three narrow strands with gold silver and jet bands in multiple designs. A coronet shaped pattern narrows at the sides to a slim back band.
Choosing the Right Belt for Body Type and Garment
Advice on belt selection for different figures and outfits. Avoid deep belts on tall slender bodies and large women. Recommend 1.5 inch or 1 inch belts, belt pins, and hip length coats to flatter waists and improve tailoring with shirts or dresses.
University of Chicago class bans hats in lecture
Women students in Prof. William Waugh’s psychology class petition to forbid picture hats in the classroom arguing veils and plumes interrupt their view of the professor and cause them to flunk. The professor reportedly sent flunk notices to more than three quarters of the men in the class, the students’ response.
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William Waugh
University of Chicago
Waugh
Too Much Perfume At The Telephone Booth
A fastidious woman with keen smell exits a phone booth gasping for breath and complains to a drug clerk that a highly perfumed odor caused illness. The clerk explains someone spilled a foul scent and perfumery was dispersed to mask it. She quips that a woman would have cleaned it with disinfectant.
School Wear Inspires Spring Frock for High School Girl
For spring, a high school girl considers a complete outfit including a white and brown checked Panama skirt plaited from hips to knees, a white and brown madras waist, white linen collar, brown silk throw-over tie, brown shoes and hose, and a brown chip sailor hat.
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Miss Welton
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