Biographies of Riley Roosevelt and other notable figures
A review of Marcus Dickey’s The Youth of James Whitcomb Riley and several biographies by Lawrence Abbott, Bradley Fiske, Joseph Hamblen Sears, and Rufus M. Jones. It surveys themes from Riley’s boyhood to his hoaxes, Theodore Roosevelt’s career, Leonard Wood, George Fox, Rhodes’s U.S. from Hayes to McKinley, Dunsany, and Ignatius Singer’s theory of Jesus and Paul.
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Marcus Dickey
James Whitcomb Riley
Bobbs, Merrill
Dickey
Riley
Indiana
Athens
America
Taylor
Middle West
Golden Girl
Lawrence F. Abbott
Theodore Roosevelt
Doubleday
Page
Abbott
Roosevelt
Outlook
Repuba
Colonel Roosevelt
Posses
Reformers
Progressives
Jesus
Paul
Ignatius Singer
Health Themed Books Among New Practical Works
Three health focused titles stand out in the new practical health shelf. The Itinerary of a Breakfast by J H Kellogg explores digestion with diagrams and argues for nuts over meat, fruit vegetables and grains as mankind's natural diet. Health Through Will Power by James J Walsh frames will as a cure and life enhancer in accessible prose. Why Worry by George Lincoln Walton updates a popular guide with timely advice on mind body balance and fear management.
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Funk & Wagnalls
J. H. Kellogg
Little, Brown
James J. Walsh
Lippincott
George Lincoln Walton
Dr. Walton
Hartfield's Conversion Tables Updated After World War
The wartime overhaul reduced exchange rates to $3.80 to $4.59, prompting a supplement to Hartfield’s Sterling Conversion Tables. The new edition preserves the quick reference for converting pennies, shillings, and pounds to American currency and back.
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Hartfield
Record crowds snap up sale at Army stores in South Boston
About 8000 visitors flocked to the Army stores in South Boston yesterday setting attendance and sales records for the past eight weeks. Shoes at 2.60 dollars drew heavy demand with temporary counters and removals in the subsistence department. Officials say no final word on mail order department closure yet though orders from Washington may direct a December shutdown to ease holiday mail congestion.
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Army Retail
South Boston
Washington
Memorial building planned in Plymouth for war service
Plymouth intends a Colonial style town hall memorial to about 250 local men who served in the army navy and Marine Corps. A $300000 appropriation funds a rotunda 41 feet wide with a gallery second story and a rear hall seating 1500. Architects are Little & Russell of Boston.
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Bradley A. Fiske
Annapolis
Navy
Naval Academy
Dewey
Manila
Daniels
Plymouth
New England
Massachusetts
Army
Marine Corps
Little & Russell
Tsoston
Beebe Habeas Corpus Case Set For December 2
The Supreme Court will hear the habeas corpus petition of Charles Philip Beebe, Boston and Weyland resident, seeking release from McLean Asylum in Waverley. Judge Carroll presided yesterday until Sherman L. Whipple joined the case. Whipple noted limited time to review facts and suggested Beebe may be eccentric, while relatives’ witnesses backed the commitment effort.
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Supreme Court
Charles Philip Beebe
Boston
Wayland
Beebe
Episco palian Club Meeting and Church Lectures Planned
The Episco palian Club schedules its monthly gathering for Monday night. Reverends Van Allen Dewart Mann Ward and Parsons deliver talks on Christian democracy England in readjustment Thanksgiving and church history at Advent Old North Church Trinity and St. Pauls venues. A St Stephen organ recital precedes bishop Lawrence preaching schedule at Cathedral and Trinity. Ward returns from a West trip to attend morning and evening services tomorrow.
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Episcopalian Club
William Harman van Allen
Church of the Advent
van Allen
England
Boston
William Herbert Dewart
D. D
Old North Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Walnut Street
Newton Highlands
Louis A. Parsons
St. Stephen's Church
Florence Street
Herbert W. W. Downes
Claussman
St. Patrick’s
Rheinberger
Spaulding
Lawrence
St. Paul
Trinity
Alexander Mann
Trinity Church
Isaac Ward
First Presbyterian Church
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Seeress Applies Court Test For Caporale Marriage
Mrs Pavolina Yuanich told Judge Bennett and spectators that the Italian court interpreter James J Caporale will marry her. She claimed knowledge of phrenology and said a bump on his head signified he is about to wed.
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James J. Caporale
Pavolina Yuanich
Bennett
Central Court
Woman fined for fortune telling in court case
Judge Bennett sentences Mrs Yuanich to three months in the House of Correction for obtaining 50 cents from Patrolman Rutledge after a mystic parlor scene. She denies the charge, calls herself a phrenologist, and the judge suspends, then orders three months to be served. Spectators and Caporale react as the tale unfolds.
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Caporale
Bennett
House of Correction
Joseph Rutledge
Ic Tiernan
Hanover Street
Rutledge
Missing Boy’s Body Found In New Jersey Swamp
The body of Billy Banzy, missing from Hammonton, was found by a hunter in a swamp near Hammonton. Coroner Cunningham believes the boy may have been the victim of foul play after examining the remains.
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New Jersey
Hammonton
N. J
Little “Billy” Banzy
Cunningham
Healthy Vitality and Magnetic Appeal Through Blood Nourishment
An ad touts Gude's Pepto Mangan as a cure for thin pale weak health. It claims enriched blood and more red cells boost vigor and attractive personality, with liquid and tablet forms and a reminder to insist on the genuine “Gude’s” product.
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Omett
Gude
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Willie
Will
Col. Roosevelt
Leonard Wood
Appleton
Joseph Hamblen Sears
Sears
New Hampshire
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Fort Warren
Boston Harbor
Cuba
Philippines
Dramatist
Lord Dunsany
Edward Hale Bierstadt
Dunsany
Synge
Shaw
Yeats
George Fox
Macmillan
Rufus M. Jones
Mr. Jones
United States
Hayes
McKinley
James Ford Rhodes
Rhodes
Cleveland
Venezuela
May Sinclair
Theodore Dreiser
Joseph Hergesheimer
The
Philadelphia Press
Rita Wellman
Boston Post
Moffat
Yard & Company
Johan Bojer
New York
Free City
Orie
New York Tribune
Bouck White
Boston Transcript
Grace Livingston Hill
Whipple
Wayland Man
Blasco Ibanez
Phila. Evening Public Ledger
Marc Nostrum
Hugo and Dumas
Sangrey Arena
Senor Belasco Ibanez
J. B. Pond Bureau
Genene
Dutton & CO
John Cameron
J. B. Lippincott Company
Seeress
Yuanich
Judge Bennett
Pearl Monahan
Mitchell
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elizabeth Kirby
Little Miss Muffet
New York Times
Miss Muffet
Beecham
Korein
Korein Co
Nc-69
Station F
New York City
Noonan
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