Extraordinary Summer Millinery and Dress Sale Details
This sale advertises deep discounts across summer hats including trimmed and untrimmed styles, children's hats, and parasol outfits. It highlights ostrich plumes, veils, white lawn and linen waists, petticoats, and wash jumpers with substantial markdowns from former prices. Numerous items span hats, dresses, plumes, veils, waists, coats, and rain wear with price cuts well below regular levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bios
Actesetecsene
Ecru
Ieee
Sultan's Fortunes Said Hidden in U S Banks
Vienna reports Abdul Hamid the deposed sultan has a fortune valued in the millions deposited in several U S banks. An unnamed American allegedly knows the banks and deposits and offers to reveal them for ten percent. Turkish officials liaise with the American envoy to recover the funds for the Ottoman government.
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United Press
Vienna
The
Tagblatt
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Salonica
United States
America
Constantinople
Yildiz
Cailar
Garret
Passengers Searched for Diamond Robber Headed to America
Detectives in New York screened every traveler aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania after a London police cable linked a half million dollar gem theft to a suspect possibly aboard. Authorities tightened checks as the ship neared port, aiming to intercept the alleged thief with the stolen diamonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Mauretania
Central Office
London
America
Mauretania Smashes Records On Westbound Run
New York reports the ocean liner Mauretania completed a westbound voyage in four days sixteen hours and thirty six minutes, covering 2892 knots. She arrived off Quarantine at 10 15 PM and could have landed passengers earlier if not for sleep on board. Captain Pritchard credits speed but cites fog as a factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Pritchard
Harriman Begins Series of Medicinal Baths
Austrian reports state financier E H Harriman, in improved health, departed Semmering for Bad Gastein to undertake a series of medicinal baths. Physicians say the treatment should rebuild his nervous system after overwork. The train stopped overnight at Vienna, with growing confidence in his recovery.
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United Press
Vienne
E. H. Harriman
Bad Gastein
Gastein
Harriman
Semmering
Vienna
Austria
First Beer Output Drops After Thirty-Year Rise in 1909
The internal revenue report for the Connecticut and Rhode Island district shows beer production for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909 fell from 1,239,608 barrels in 1908 by 29,123 barrels. Spirits also declined since 1905 amid hard times, with overall receipts down 32,944.70 from 1908. The report notes fewer cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco used, while denatured alcohol usage lagged behind expectations.
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Robert O. Eaton
Internal Revenue
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Linen shower honors Miss Mae Corcoran before marriage
A pleasant linen shower was hosted at Miss Julie Culley’s residence on Lane Street for Mae Corcoran who will wed Mr John Lillis, a New Haven architect. East Side guests included Misses Culley Nevins Corcoran Donahue Conlin Flynn McCabe Culley Culley Graham Corcoran and Mrs Corcoran plus Mr Vierow and Mrs Keough with daughter Elizabeth, from Atlantic City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Corcoran
Julie Culley
Lane Street
Corcoran
East Side
John Lillis
New Haven
Julie Nevins
Frances Corcoran
Mae Donahue
Mas Conlin
Elizabeth Flynn
Loretta McCabe
Dorothy Culley
Nora Martin
Anna Corcoran
Mae Culley
Mee Graham
Personal Musical Social and Local Outings
A sequence of social notes describes Isaac Moss hosting employees at his Fort Trumbull beach home after a vacation in the Orient. Local families and clubs plan picnics, outings, and a Sunday school camp, with events at Beardsley Park, Mount Tom pond, and St. Charles hall. An afternoon trolley trip and a school drill for Waltersville boys are noted, along with visits and trips to Springfield and Atlantic City. Names include Moss, Krieger, Suckley, Watson, Shephard, Campbell, Gunn, Orr, Fones, Price, Ream, Wieler, Denny, and Bartlett.
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Isaac Moss
Moss & Krieger
Fort Trumbull Beach
Frank Fancher
Waltersville School
Hamilton Street
W. F. Watson
New Preston
J. B. Shepfard
Norman Street
A. Campbell
C. H. Suckley
Wiliam Chew
John Stevenson
E. B. Ellis
J. H. Gunn
Max Stein
Wakelee
Leslie Orr
J. Francis Quinn
Chicago
King’s Highway
Beardsley Park
P. E. Mathias
Mount Tom Pond
Litchfield
Washington Park
M. E. Church
Raymond Smith
Pembroke Street
St. Charles’ Hall
East Main Street
Coinage origins and a Kansas City anecdote
The piece discusses the Greek invention of coinage in the eighth century B C and its spread through the Greek world, noting later Roman adoption and famed coin artistry. It also mentions eighteenth century life insurance speculation and ends with a humorous Sumner county campaign anecdote about a mother of seven.
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Halicarnassos
Asia Minor
B. C
Aegina
Sicily
Magna Graecia
Art
Court
England
Warren Hastings
Admiral Byng
Sir Robert Walpole
George II
Dettingen
Junction City
Sumner County
Kansas City Journal
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H. Dillon & CO
Jack
Jill
the Wooster-Atkinson Co
Broad Street
Isultan
U. S
Mitchell
Springfield
Woolen Mills
English Woolen Mills Co
Main Street
Fairfield Ave
Rhode
Cigar
Ett Pia
Orient
C.H. Suckley
Mass
Max Buechler
Morristown
N. J
Second Baptist Church
E. V. Atkinson
Ladies’ Missionary Society of the
First Presbyterian Church
F. N. Benham
A. L. Fones
St. Charles’ Auditorium
Miss May Price
Miss Price
Miss Ream
Joseph Wieler
Harry Denny
Frank Braithwaite
F. A Bartlett
Pittsburg
Charles Hinman
Atlantic City
Metal Money
Syracuse
Agrigentum
London Saturday Review
Jon the Dollar
J. J. Peblow
Encia
Esmenee
Keller Bros
Main ST
Bridgeport Distributing CO
State Street
Public Market
California
Aoe Rhine Ae
the Farmer Publishing Co
Bridgeport, Conn
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