Men Shield Partners in Guilt
A Baltimore tale of crime, desire, and deceit follows Vaunce a schemer who buys a girl for 100 dollars trains her to be a society wife then watches a tangle with a wealthy husband an enamored fireman and a rich suitor end in divorce and a grim payoff as the old man faces ruin and a woman risks all to save a life In Chicago a wife confesses to save her husband from life imprisonment in a murder case revealing a tortured rescue that costs truth and family bonds.
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York
Dickens
Balzac
Dumas
Hugo
Baltimore
Charles Street
Vaunce
Vallnce
Valnce
Valace
Yanree
Chicago
James Schmidt
Haldane Clemingan
Schmidt
Ain
Edison and Harriman Compared on Retirement and Work Ethic
J C Stubbs asserts Harriman retired to live, while Edison, eighty five by today’s reckoning, claims retirement unnecessary. Edison touts a rigid routine of eating, sleeping and work, saying he will live to a hundred and fifty and work sixteen hours daily. He contrasts his habits with Harriman’s overwork and Stubbs’ bedbound thinking, insisting the earth is a paradise for those who live rightly.
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J. C. Stubbs
Chicago
E. UW. Harriman
Thomas Alva Edison
Stubbs
Harriman
Edison
Swiss Legation Welcomes Chatelaine ritters New Arrival
Mme Louise Ritter arrives at the Swiss legation in Washington with her son Max, joining Dr Ritter who traveled from Tokyo. The Ritters bring a stylish, cultured presence to diplomatic circles, with Mme Ritter famed for music and social charm and the minister noted as a scholar fluent in English.
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Legation
Mme. Ritter
Max
Ritter
Tokyo
Washington
Ritters
Louise Reidhart
Basel
Geneva
Paris
Conservatory
Basle
Flight to Europe to America via Northern Atlantic
A proposed route to fly from Europe to America without traveling east would cross only about five hundred miles of sea. The plan suggests departures from North Britain to Iceland then Greenland and finally Labrador as the crossing strategy.
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Europe
America
Britain
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Oldest Odd Fellow in United States Celebrates 98th Birthday
Provincetown sailor Captain John M. Carnes born 1813 nears his one hundredth birthday as the United States oldest living Odd Fellow and a surviving whale fisherman. He left school early, fished many crews, sailed to the Grand Banks as a youth, and went around the Horn during the 1849 gold rush, returning to Provincetown poorer but wiser. He still walks daily, reads, votes, and remains a well informed resident of Cape Cod.
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John M. Carnes
Provincetown
Mass
Hving
United States
California
New England
Cape Cod
Toston
Duty
Captain Carnes
Grand Banks
Carnes
Golden Gate
Boston Light
West
Maid of honor at Confederate reunion in Little Rock
Miss Kathleen Mulligan, maid of honor for the Kentucky division, at the Confederate reunion in Little Rock, Ark, is described as the youngest Mulligan daughter with notable Arkansas and Tennessee connections. She previously served as maid of honor at the Memphis reunion and is noted for society popularity, with extensive Confederate family ties across Arkansas and Tennessee.
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Kathleen Mulligan
Kentucky
Confederate Red Union
Little Rock
Ark
James Hillary Mulligan
Genevieva Morgan Williams Mulligan
Morgan
Tennessee
Miss Mulligan
Memphis
Arkansas
Col
Willoughby Williams
Robert N. Williams
Bankhead Place
Evils of Social Drinking Advocated by Belfast MP
Sir James Haslett, MP for Belfast, spoke in London at a meeting led by Archbishop Canterbury. He praised abstinence, recounted resisting drink at official entertainments, urged women to lead social change, and warned legislation cannot solve the issue. He claimed never to have tasted alcohol and urged surrender of elections if drink is required.
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James Haslett
Tielfast
London
Canterbury
United States
Belfast
Leutenant
Lord Londonderry
Lord Bishop
Ireland
National Temperance Advocate
Gasoline Inhalation Plague Among Philadelphia Boys
Reports reveal a dangerous trend among poorer Philadelphia youths who inhale gasoline fumes from tank cars or lamp posts. The practice causes a temporary, nearly insane mental state and serious physical harm, with some cases proving fatal. Physicians investigate, police move to break up the gangs promoting the habit.
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Philadelphia
No Place for Young Man Pins Blame on Saloon
Champ Clark, speaker of the national House, denounces the saloon as harmful to youths. He says a young man aiming to lead a clean life should avoid saloons, as crime and degradation follow and bring disgrace to family and self.
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Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Lectures In Sweden Draw Huge Temperance Audiences
The temperance organizations of Sweden provided a course of scientific temperance lectures in several cities last winter and nowhere else could such lectures attract such large audiences.
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Sweden
Temperance
Global liquor trade revenues cited in wartime note
A historical summary notes that liquor traffic strengthens government revenue during conflict. It states the United States collects 178 million dollars annually from the trade, Great Britain 168 million, France 100 million, and Russia 358 million, highlighting international fiscal reliance on alcohol taxation.
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United States
Great Britain
France
Russia
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