Debut of Miss Roosevelts Dance Set for December 28
Miss Roosevelt will make her White House debut at a holiday season dance planned for December 28 in the last room of the White House. Invitations may reach around 1000, with many guests from New York and Harvard connections. The event follows the family’s policy of intimate, personal entertainments and aims to brighten a usually quiet White House social scene.
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Ashington
White House
Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Dorothy Roosevelt
Alice
New York
Theodore
Harvard
Capital
Nicholas Longworth
Washington blase bachelors and costly cotillions in 1908
A Washington social observer laments the dearth and indolence of men in 1908 society. She notes spoiled Irish bachelors ignore duties, women must chase partners, and cotillion tickets and carriage costs press hard on female hosts.
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Washington
Erbal
Texas Doctor A J Beall Is Crowned Picturesque Figure
The 85 year old Dr A J Beall of San Marcos Texas stands as a beloved physician with a half century of practice. He traveled to Washington for the International Tuberculosis Congress on a community raised fund and plans retirement upon returning home. Dr W T Jones of Fort Davis also attended after a long horseback journey to see a patient and then 60 miles to the railroad.
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A. J. Beall
San Marcos
Tex
Beall
Las
T[exas
Lone Star State
Washington
San Marcus
Texas
W. T. Jones
Fort Davis
Preparators Sought In Bughouse Job Advertisements
The United States Department of Agriculture seeks a bug preparator to assemble ten Lepidoptera specimens for a civil service exam. The job offers $50 a month and board. Similar posts exist in the National Museum division of insects with higher pay, and the Bureau of Corporations offers examiners with salaries from $2,290 to $3,500 annually.
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Bureau of Entomology
United States Department, of Agriculture
Civil Service Examination
National’ Museum
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Corporations, Depertment of Commerce and Labor
Coal mined from Ohio River near Hickman Kentucky
Thousands of tons of Pittsburg coal are being recovered from sunken barges visible in the Ohio River near Hickman Kentucky due to a low water stage. The wrecks from a January 1895 storm hold about 14,000 tons valued around $60,000, with $15,000 recoverable and $45,000 remaining submerged. Dredging costs are about three dollars per ton. Also reported are wages in Japanese shipyards in ten hours of work, with various trades paid from 46 cents to $1.32 per hour, per Consul Scidmore from Nagasaki.
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Hickman
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Tom Rees
Mariner
Mississippi
Sunser
Rees
Washington
Scidmore
Nagasaki
Seven Fort Dearborn honey locusts guarded for generations
In Rogers Park Chicago a family estate known as the Kyle property holds seven honey locust trees grown from seeds from the Fort Dearborn parent tree. The trees, guarded by three generations of the same family, may be sold or cut down soon as the estate is divided. The seeds were distributed nationwide, with roots tracing to Mrs. Sarah Marshall and later Mrs. Ann Kyle, whose shotgun defense once protected the trees.
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Chicago
Rogers Park
Fort Dearborn
Kyle
Cook County
Sarah Marshall
Nottingham
England
Illinois
Chicago River
Preserve Old Time Relics in Michigan Copper Country
The Central Home Coming association in Houghton plans to preserve the 1868 Methodist church at Central where annual services are held. Copper Country Knights of Pythias lodges also begin efforts to save the little red schoolhouse at Eagles Harbor where Rathbone authored their order’s ritual.
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Houghton
Mich
Central Home Coming Association
Central Mine
Keweenaw County
Michigan Copper District
Central
Knights of Pythias
Blind man excels with sightless life and feats
Rex Clarke of Forrest near Pontiac Illinois, blind since childhood, works as a telegraph operator and skilled typist, plays multiple instruments, and tours the country by car. He pursued education through tutors, earned an AB at the University of Chicago in 1907, and insists on high school advancement via county exams and self-directed study.
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Moffett Studio
Chicago
William Hayward
Elmer Dover
Republican National Committee
Nebraska
Nebraska State Central Committee
Nebraska City
University of Nebraska
M. L. Hayward
United States Senate
Pontiac
Ill
Rex Clarke
Forrest
Rex
Illinois Institute For the Blind
Jacksonville
Clarke
University of Chicago
Institution of Learning
Professional Cards in Atlantic Iowa Legal Notices
Gyecalties Abstracts Opinions Titles Real Estate and Probate Law relocate to Corner of 4th and Chestnut Streets Atlantic Iowa providing professional card services for legal notices and title work in the region.
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4Th
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Iowa
Miller Sulte 2 Gillespie Building listing
A brief item notes contact details for G and R Miller at Sulte 2 in the Gillespie Building with an office line 396 and references Atlantic.
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Sulte
Gillespie Building
Mutson
Atlantic
Formerly Interne Hospital State Uni versity of Iowa
Formerly interne hospital state university of Iowa reference. mentions house phone 46 percent black and office 263 black, Atlantic.
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Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Atlantic
Probate Practice Across General Law in Atlantia
Wills drawn and probated with reports for administrators and guardians and their appointments secured. Probate practice is a specialty within general law business transacted in Atlantia.
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Atlantia
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