Not Wise to Burn Oil Stoves in Sleeping Rooms
A cautionary note warns that burning oil or gas stoves in bedrooms vitiates the air and jeopardizes occupants' health. The text then mentions Richard Henry Stoddard, his writing despite blindness, and President Loubert of France taking up a bicycle publicly. It also notes New Brunswick NJ school board abandoning vertical handwriting for a slanted method after a two year trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Henry Stoddard
Loubert
France
Board of Education of
New Brunswick, N. J
Liberty for Married Women in Finance and Suicide Rates Highlighted
The article notes that in France a married woman cannot withdraw her earnings without her husband's consent while an unmarried woman may. It also reports Morton county Kansas lacking physicians for two years and cites Jewish crisis reports claiming 668 Jewish suicides in 113 days in the United States, with international suicide rates discussed without explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Mme. Schmahl
United States
England
Russia
Austria
Indians Hold Key in Thurston County Politics
The Omaha Bee notes Thurston county Nebraska is effectively swing due to a near equal split of Winnebago and Omaha Indians and white Republicans and Fusionists, with enfranchised Indians poised to decide county officer elections. The piece also reports that first half year failures hit speculative and brokerage houses hard, averaging ten thousand three hundred eighty five dollars per default, the lowest in 26 years.
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Omaha Bee
Thurston County
Neb
Foolish election bet predicts mule tail twist punishment
Two western men wager on a political defeat with one promising to twist the other's mule tail daily for three weeks if his candidate loses. The gag suggests the mule's owner might be deprived of voting as a consequence of the bet.
Irene and Otto Love Bartered for Imperial Match
The account recounts Irene of Hesse Darmstadt and her lover Otto von Hesse Cassel facing a forced marriage dictated by Emperor Nicholas II and royal politics. Irene pleads for love over duty, but the imperial plan prevails, forcing Irene to accept a dynastic union and convert to Greek Catholic faith. The lovers’ romance ends as Irene moves toward an arranged marriage while yearnings linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Italy
Helene
Montenegro
Europe
Irene
Nicholas
Radzclvill
Wilhelmina
Royal Palace
Berlin
Czarina
Schloss Tagenstein
Sophie
Otto von Hesse Cassel
Otto
Imperial
Nicholas II
Germany
Rabinski
Wilhelm
England
Alice
Ludwig
Alexander III
Hesse
Stadt
Tugendstein
Rible
Schloss Garden
HERE IS A REAL CHINESE BOXER THE CHINESE SHARKEY IN NEW YORK
The article portrays Chin On the Chinese Sharkey in New York as a formidable and dangerous fighter using brutal unconventional methods. It describes methods like eye jabbing and windpipe choking as core to the Chinese fighting style, contrasting with Western boxing. It also notes a separate fact about a Chattanooga pencil maker producing over twenty five million pencils in 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharkey
New York
Chattanooga
Tenn
Coolness Under Fire. Slate Pencils and Frontline Tales
The piece recounts startling acts of calm under combat, from a private reading a letter amid shelling to a batsman finishing a run before death, a wounded rider keeping a cigarette alight, and soldiers reacting boldly as danger erupts around them.
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Labuschagne
Ladysmith
Charles Hands
Spionkop
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Kansas State Board of Health
Morton County
State Board
John Jones Company
King Lear
St. Petersburg
James H. Peavey
Minnesota
London
Rhine
Alps
Switzerland
Oberammergau
Sandy Hook
Peavey
Peavey Syndicate
Duluth
Chicago
Col. D. M. Steward
Wandsworth
Klondike
China
Czar
Ene
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