USA Wins Most Awards at Paris Exposition Aside from France
The Paris exposition jury reports the United States earned the highest total awards among nations except France. Germany leads in grand prizes with 236. the U S total includes 215 grand prizes and top counts in gold silver and bronze medals. The breakdown shows US leading in most categories, with Germany and Russia close behind in several awards.
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Paris
United States Commission
America
France
Germany
United States
Russia
Great Britain
A Spoiled Vacation And The Hoodoo Vacation Tale
A humorous retelling of Mr. Tomson's disastrous trip from Chicago toward a family wedding, including lost money, misplaced trunks, a swapped dog, damaged equipment, a wrecked canoe, a burned boat and a pawned gun. A parade of misfortunes ends with a moonstone gift that survives the wreck, as friends trade quips about the unlucky journey.
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Phillips
Chicago
Lansing
Port Huron
Inlaw
George
St. Clair
Providence
Hying
New York
Detroit
Gamin
Tomson
Funeral of Alderman Day in East Boston services
Funeral services for Alderman Freder ieck W. Day were held after private rites at his East Boston home then at his father’s residence. City leaders including Mayor Hart attended along with council members and department heads. Masons Odd Fellows and United Workmen sent delegations. interment followed at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Frederieck W. Day
Saratoga Street
Boston
Monmouth Street
Hart
City Hall
Mr. Day
Alderman Day
Masons
The
Odd Fellows
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Michael W. Norris
South Boston
Robert IF. Jordan
Roxbury
Impersonated witnesses halt naturalization case before judge
In U S Circuit Court Judge Colt presided as two Cambridge men Michael Slattery and Gregory Canty were arrested for impersonation. ClerkBradlee called Patrick Sexton as a naturalization applicant and witnesses Cronin and Sonesy appeared though not the real persons. Slattery posed as Cronin and Canty as Conerty leading to arrests on charges of aiding fraudulent naturalization. All held in 2500 dollars bail.
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United States Circuit Court
Colt
Michael Slattery
Gregory Canty
Cambridge
Bradlee
Patrick Sexton
Jeremiah J. Cronin
Edward J. Sonesy
Slattery
Cronin
Canty
Conerty
Canty and
Innocent Negroes Imprisoned by Convict Camp Trappers
In Atlanta charges claim convict camp managers arrest innocent negroes passing through the area without trial, shackling them and forcing work. The husband of one arrestee protested to Solicitor Edmonson as cases include a young woman whipped to bind her child to the camp. The prison commission will investigate.
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Atlanta
Edmonson
General Palmer Buried in Illinois Ceremony
General John McAuley Palmer was laid to rest in Carlinsville on September 27 after full Masonic and military services. The Springfield scene featured a soldier's grave marked by the final bugle call taps.
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Springfield, II
Goldier
Carlinsville
John McAuley Palmer
Market Woes and Rural Life Jokes Across Cities
A Baltimore paper notes cabbage growers burdened by long hauls despite decent prices while a tobacco factory lies two miles away. A Chicago Post cartoonish dialogue jokes that three plus three equals two, via the idea of two trips. An Indianapolis Sun exchange contrasts farm yields with city coal.
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Mr. Raisem
Quizzit
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Jokes and Quips From Notable Humorists
A blend of witty anecdotes from Chauncey M. Depew and others reveals offbeat encounters. A Union soldier recalling Bull Run explains a face wound after a quick retreat, while a joke about bread, cheese, and kisses winds up confusing dating standards. A Boston man jokes about a pocket theft, insisting he did not commit the act.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Mr. Depew
Bull Run
Keeps Cool Mack O'Rell Says Simms Is Cool
Mack O'Rell comments that Simms stays calm under pressure while Luke Warme quips about fear and a celluloid collar being inflammable, capturing a light exchange on composure and attire.
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Mack O'Rell
Simms
Luke Warme
Debate on evolution sparks two minds in a quiet room
A man asks Miss Williamson if she believes in human origins from apes. She hesitates then replies she had not believed it before but now feels either all humans descend from apes or that some have not descended far. The exchange hints at a dawning shift in belief.
A Stomach Remedy That Has Gone Half a Century
A tonic called Hogtet ter a Stomach Bitters is praised for indigestion constipation dyspepsia biliousness nervousness and malaria fever and ague. The note claims it has no equal among stomach remedies and urges trials, noting a private revenue stamp on the bottle neck.
How Could She Refuse The Opera Contract Question
A Baltimore American item records a prima donna asking how she can stay on key without the right pitch. The next day she receives a bottle of mucilage and a comic opera contract.
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Baltimore American
Opening of Radcliffe Reports New Students in Cambridge
Radcliffe girls and Harvard men report to Cambridge for the opening term. About seventy five entering women register. Dean Irwin welcomes them and announces Bertram Hall plans funded by Mr David Kimball. The Hall is due by 1901 and a new swimming pool opens immediately. A basketball game and first reception of the year follow.
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Radcliffe
Harvard
Cambridge
Dean Irwin
David FP. Kimball
Bertram If
Veiled wife lives as ward in artist's strange Brooklyn house
In South Brooklyn a divorced wife, clad in a white veil, lives as the artist J Hammerton Gilmartin's ward in a castle like home built with part of a $10000 award. The woman, never seen out by daylight, appeared at night in snowy garments, and Gilmartin says she was once his wife now his ward, with no plan to discuss marriage.
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New York
Brooklyn
J. Hammerton Gilmartin
Gilmartin
John McInerney
Wrooklyn
Mutual consent ends dispute over wife’s hoboes and finances
Mrs Whitehead left for Hne with her son William to study law while her husband supplied seven dollars weekly for support. He claims their quarrel began over her kindness to tramps and her socialistic views. He alleges she wore black for Chicago anarchists and vowed to leave once their sons were grown.
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Chicago
Bootblacker Mary Miller to wed Dawson City suitor
Miss Mary Miller once a well known San Diego bootblack sails to Dawson City to marry a man named McDermott. A former Eastern teacher, her doctor advised a change of residence and new work, leading her to leave bootblacking for the Yukon venture.
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San Diego
Mary Miller
Dawson City
McDermott
Yukon
Hutchinson: Son Says Rumors Of Separation Untrue
Captain L M Hutchinson states his son Willard H Hutchinson told him no truth to rumors of a separation from his aged wife the widow worth 3 million dollars. He says Willard’s income is said to be 1000 dollars a week and arrangements ensure the wife cannot access funds she provides.
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Montpelier
L. M. Hutchinson
Willard H. Hutchinson
New York
Hutchinson
Women Campaign in Rag Time in Washington
The Women's Bryan Anti-Trust and Anti-War Club formed at 904 Pennsylvania Ave DC with twelve women and fourteen men. The meeting featured a cake walk proposed by a young lady and endorsed by president Mrs Norton, planning a grand free-for-all ragtime event next Tuesday to attract attendees and make the gathering a unique political social in Washington.
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Washington
Women's
Bryan Anti-Trust and Anti-War Club
Pennsylvania Avenue
District of Columbia Democratic Association
Accuse Mormon of neglect in church case
Salt Lake City Sept 27 Three of President Snow s sons file information in church courts alleging he has refused and neglected to support his legal wife their mother She is in beggarly circumstances while the favorite wife who lives with Snow enjoys a palatial home servants and several carriages The sons accuse undue influence by the favorite to divert Snow s property to her and her children leaving other wives and children in poverty
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Salt Lake
Utah
Snow
Mormon Church
Bnow
Divorce suit tests rare testimony in Newark Chancery
Emory J. Whitehead of Westfield New Jersey sues Celia Whitehead of Denver for divorce. Testimony unfolds in Newark Chancery Court as details emerge of a 1869 marriage in Mississippi, a life split across Florida orange groves, and estrangement since October 187.
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New York
Stevens
Chancery Court
Newark
N. J
Emory J. Whitehead
Westfield
Celia
Denver
Col
William Carlton Whitehead
Rufus B. Whitehead
Hlizabeth
Whiteheads
Chelsea
Mags
Meriden
Conn
Bloomfield
Florida
Twin boys mark third consecutive pair for Beauquiet family
Mrs Vic tor Beauquiet of Third avenue Homestead gave birth to a third set of twin boys Sunday. The six children are strong and healthy. Father works at Homestead Steel. The first twins were Victor Hugo and Napoleon Bonaparte. the second were General Grant and General McMullen. The third pair are William Jennings Bryan and John Purman named after the attending physician.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Victor Beauquiet
Third Avenue
Homestead
Beauquiet
Homestead Steel Works
Victor Hugo
Dramatic Mirror Notes on Plays and Performances
The Dramatic Mirror cites Hoyt at work on A Bunch of Blue Ribbons and lists casts for New York productions. Creston Clarke may star in The Only Way with Henry Miller, while Lulu Glaser headlines Sweet Anne Page. Oswald Yorke to support Maude Adams in TL Aigion. Maud Hoffman to lead with E S Willard in Tremont engagements.
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The
Dramatic Mirror
Charles H. Hoyts
Creston Clarke
Henry Miller
Sydney Carton
Adelaide Prince
Mimi
Lulu Glaser
Anne Page
Stephanie
Baptiste Ballou
Georges Girodet
Georges
Duc de Chartres
Paris
Ballou
Secret Society of Socialistic Students
Girodet
Henry Norman
Charles Dungan
John Dudley
Leonard Savoy
F. Newton- Lindo
Harold Vizard
George Rolland
Emily Francis
Hilda Hollins
Adine Bouvier
Maud Poole
Tremont
Faelten Pianoforte School
Steinert Hall
Ednah Brannan Parker
Frank Walter
Elestine Springer
Helen Gormley
Myrtle Morse
Pauline R. Fischacher
William Daly
Peter F. Dailey
County Fair
Park Theatre
Chelsea
Demand Grows for The Choir Invisible at Park Theatre
Theatergoers flood Park Theatre as advance sales open for next Tuesday's opening of The Choir Invisible. New York praise for Hamlet by Sothern and Harned fuels Boston anticipation for Hollis debut and house decorations next Monday. Anna Held at Tremont, Naughty Anthony and Mme Butterfly on Museum bill, Monte Cristo a hit at Boston Theatre, and Boy Scout ends at Bowdoin Square today and tomorrow.
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Park Theatre
New York
E. H. Sothern
Virginia Harned
Boston
Hollis
Anna Held
Tremont
Papa
Anthony
Mme. Butterfly
Belasco
Grand Opera House
Thomas E. Shea
Voice of Nature
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Columbia
Temple Lyceum
Tremont Temple
Papinta
Keith
Missey Eliiott
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City and Country
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Chicago—Marine—Band
Winston—Spencer—Churchill
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Hudson River
Fall River Line
Peoples Line
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Gen
Washington Street
Jeff de Angelis
Willard
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Anna Chance
Jessie Couthout
George Thatcher
Chas. Rauschle
Colville and McBride
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Boston Theatre
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Liebler & Co
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Butterfly
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Howard
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Etta Butler
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Feminine Fire Brigade
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Perry Bush
F. T. Paradise
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Winter Street
Maggie Clinesete
Montgomery
Joe Welch
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Victor Herbert
Polumel Theatre
CIRE
Dan Daly
Grand Chorus
N.Y
David Belasco
George W. Magee
Nat
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Thomas E. Sheain
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
InGay N. Y
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Star
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Female Fire Company of
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Stock Company
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Bertha
Henri French Snyder
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