Reading Dime Novels and Hair Rule Fears Split City Ties
New York editors rail at pedestrians with long hair interfering with autos and warn suffragists push broader aims including women only hotels. A Bronx Zoo publicity stunt about Hindoo snake charmer records is debunked as sensationalism while a Ville court case links dime novels to a man posing as a lawyer after years of romance with sensational fiction.
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New York
The
National League For the Civic Education of Women
Gilbert Jones
Humphrey Ward
England
Military Academy
Montclair
N. J
Bronx Zoo
Zoological Gardens
India
Yorkville
Columbia Law Students Duping Public With Table Tilting Feats
Two Columbia law students and brothers demonstrated table tilting in front of a large audience. They did not claim to be mediums nor that spirits were involved, and offered no explanation for their apparent feats.
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Columbia Law Chool
Paladin
Sme. Paladino
Christmas Spirit Spreads Through City
Christmas signs fill the city as stores showcase holiday goods and toy counters. Shoppers crowd shops and windows glow with evergreens while children press for talking dolls and dancing tops, awaiting Santa’s arrival.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Johnnie
Willie
Sue
Temperance League to Rally Saloons with Five Day Meeting
Chicago prepares for a five day convention of the American Anti-Saloon League with Temperance Sunday observed in 100 Chicago pulpits. Delegates from most states and provinces will hear leaders including Bishop Luther S. Wilson John G. Woolley and Congressmen Miller Hobson and Dr. George R. Stuart.
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Chicago
American Anti-Saloon League
National Organization of the American Anti-Saloon League
Luther 8. Wilson
League
John G. Woolley
Prohibition Party
William F. McDowell
Miller
Kansas
Hobson
Alabama
George R. Stuart
Tennessee
Oil fuel for warships signals navy shift to oil
The navy bureau opens bids for a concrete oil tank storage house at the Boston yard. The 50 by 75 by 24 foot tank will lead to similar tanks at other Atlantic yards and the Arethusa, now at Mare Island, will be moved to the Atlantic to serve as an oil tank ship.
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Washington
Navy Bureau of Yards
Boston Navy Yard
Navy
Boston Yard
Atlantic
Arethusa
Mare Island Yard
Six Day News Forecast From Washington Several National Meetings
Washington reports that congress and the president will focus on railroad legislation Sherman act reforms and other major issues this week. National gatherings include the southern commercial congress national rivers and harbors congress and anti saloon civic groups with trials in Texas San Francisco and Ohio touching bribery blackmail and fraud.
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Washington
Congress
Southern Commercial Congress
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
American Anti-Saloon League
Chicago
American Civic Alliance Congress
New York
National Civil Service Reform League
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Austin
State of Texas
Patrick Calhoun
United Railways of
San Francisco
Maybray Gang
United States District Court
Towa
Ohio
Black Hand Society
Toledo
Secret Service
Winter Meeting of Coal Mining Institute in Huntington
The West Virginia Coal Mining Institute holds a three day winter session at Huntington Public Library auditorium starting December 7. The program includes addresses on oil wells on coal properties, underground mining safety, mine timbering, coal geology, and practical fuel values plus a visit to Holden mines and a Koral soirée.
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West Virginia Coal Mining Institute
Public Library
Huntington
Rufus Switzer
J. B. Hanford
Morgantown
George R Wood
Wood-Randolph Co
Pittsburg
W. P. Young
Maryland
Myerdale Pa
I. C. White
Institute
Chamber of Commerce of
United States Coal and Oil Company
Holden
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Chicago
Warrent R. Roberts
Roberts & Schaefer Company
Frank Haas
Consolidation Coal Company
Wesrmont
J. E. Beebe
West Virginia
W. E. Parker
Geological Survey
Washington
Neil Robinson
E. M
Charleston
Savers Pure Flavoring Extracts Shine In Market
Savers presents pure flavoring extracts touted as the largest selling brand in the United States with price points at 10 and 25 cents, highlighting market variety and trusted quality amid many substitutes.
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United States
Cure Found After Many Doctors Fail
Ingleside North Carolina resident B F Ayscne tried numerous doctors and $200 worth of medicine for indigestion before using Dr Kings New Life Pills. He reports a complete cure and says the pills relieve constipation biliousness sick headache stomach liver kidney and bowel troubles. 25 cents at all druggists and the Daily Telegraph subscription.
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Ingleside
N. C
Dr. King
Daily Telegraph
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Phonographic
Bronx
Temperance
Navy Department
Coal Mining Institute
Macy
Hoosier
Phelps Furniture Company
Princeton Avenue
Old State Bank Building
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