Jennings Family Recovering From Fire at Fulfield Home
Milton Jennings and family of Fulfield survived a night fire that destroyed their home Gentroye. Jennings bravely rushed back into the blaze to save kin. son Harold injured, daughter Dorothy badly burned, others unhurt. Neighbors, including Mr. Hull and Capt Gillman, assisted. relief drives organized with near 200 subscribers by noon.
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Mr. Jennings
Dorothy Jennings
Harold Gennings
Mabel Jennings
Eimmer
Femertay
Andrew Huntingtom
Buckingham
Jennings
Bae
Southport
Seaside Show and Baby Parade Promises Holiday Fun
Steeplechase Island hosts Captain Webb's seals and the sea lion band giving free performances at 4 and 8 nightly this week. Claude Boyton's boxing and a novelty ball game attract crowds as arrangements for the annual baby parade and carriage show proceed with prizes totaling 259 dollars. Information booths at Smith Murray & Co. department store provide entry blanks and details for entrants.
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Captain Webb
Seals
Sea Lion
Claude Boyton
Smith, Murray & Co.ry
Bed bug on children's clothes reflects poorly on home
A bed bug crawling on children's clothes away from home signals neglect and carelessness, harming the home’s reputation among friends. The situation implies better precautions could have prevented the issue and its social repercussions.
Taft Fights Beef Trust Over Free Hides Issue
Washington reports Taft in a clash with the Beef Trust over free hides and protective duties. The conference aims to test sentiment in the House on a rule to modify the feather schedule and push rates that affect hides, leather, shoes, and related goods. President Taft pressures for free hides while fearing House opposition and possible splits among Democrats.
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Washington
Aldrich
Payne
Daniel
Geruti
Dwight
Sir Payne
Senate
Cnal
Boot Trust
Taft
Beef Trust
Sint
Ridicule for New York's View From Tarkington
The August Woman's World brands New York as provincial and morally lax, praising the country woman as censor and defender of national virtue. Tarkington mocks city decadence, contrasts Chillicothe's Shakespearean taste with Broadway, and argues urban flush harms youth while provincial women safeguard morals.
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Chicago
New York
Booth Tarkington
Jasmopolice
Woman's World
United States
Molly Stark
Chillicothe
Ohio
Shakerspeare
Broadway
Court House
Orient
Paris
New Yorker
Mint
Metropolitan Museum
Navy Yard
Geriston
Railroading Man Declines Life Job Chooses Career
New York July 27 William J. Robeson a Lewiston Railroad brakeman lifted a hand bag on a Rockaway bound run and found jewelry worth $29,000. Mrs A Schwab 318 West Eighty fourth Street Manhattan claimed the bag and offered Robeson a $1000 a year raise and a life appointment. Robeson, 28, declined both, saying he would stick to railroading and had been with the railroad four years. He was promoted from brakeman to collector and hopes to rise to conductor. He chose to stay on the Rockaways and commented he would not care if the bag held $30,000 or $100,000 as long as the bag remained upstairs to the boss.
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New York
Sirset
Manhattan
Hammels Station
Bertha Koster
Wealthy Boston salesman dies after self inflicted wounds
A Boston millionaire salesman, Edward M. Perkins, drank heavily in New York and slit his arm with a razor. He failed to survive the self inflicted wound, dying in his motel room after efforts to save him. Earlier, he traveled from Boston to New York and returned to a hotel where his condition worsened.
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United Press
New York
Edward M. Perkins
Boston
Charenti
Forking
Parkins
The House of a Thousand Candies at Poll's Theatre
Mystery dominates Poll’s all week as The House of a Thousand Candies unfolds with a new illustrated song feature at every performance. Stratford’s Miss Ethel Holme of South Main Street wins a prize as the week’s top patron in Poll’s weekly Monday raffles.
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All Star Stock Company
Poll's
Noes
Stratford
Ethel Holme
South Main Street
Taxed Cities and Dividends Highlighted by Progress Press
Editor notes Success Magazine figures showing 1905 city costs in 154 large US cities exceeded revenues by 76 million dollars. Commentary compares municipal ownership in Germany, with gas works and electric plants yielding surpluses, and cites experiments in communal land and dividend-like bonuses to citizens. Ends with invitation to consider public ownership as a solution.
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The
Farmer
Str
Success Magazine
Franklin Clarkin
United States
Germany
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Britain
Walthope
Carnegie Foundation
R. Ockel
Weatminater Review
Atiddie
Porter
Oran Amok The Bloodthirsty Malay Frenzy
A London Chronicle excerpt defines oran amok as a religious frenzy turning a man into a killer. It describes a Malay attacker with a creese or parang rushing through streets, chased by a rabble, with cries of oran amok. The piece notes panic, crowd violence, and the frightening impact on bystanders.
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Hata
Rabbie
Listy
Malaya
Chinamen
London Chronicle
The Useful Swallows and Avian Helpers
A farmer friendly piece extols swallows as the most useful birds for orchard work, noting their aerial hunting of weevils and other pests. It cites a Department of Agriculture bulletin, mentions orioles and other birds aiding pest control, and praises the swallows for their winged prey capture over cotton fields.
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Harbarge
Department of Agriculture
Weather Indications Special from United Press
Weather forecast for New Haven notes fair skies tonight and partly cloudy conditions Wednesday. A well defined storm area lies over the Dakotas producing rain between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. Cloudy weather with local rain prevails, with milder temperatures expected across the region.
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United Preas
New Haven
Daknata — Trax
Rocky B Mountains
Missinnippi River
Reson
Atlantic
Tell Me the Old Old Story At Night
A fragment notes a woman named Jowa at a piano playing Tell Me the Old, Old Story as part of a scene with figures Ted Ned and a lecture titled How to Live on 15 Centa a Day. The exchange hints at social settings and a restaurant encounter after the lecture.
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Jones
Jowa
Ted
Ned
Puck
Look After Your Property In Financial Matters
A Philadelphia Inquirer editorial urges careful stewardship of personal assets. It warns to safeguard title deeds, insurance, and the key to the strong box, advising against entrusting securities to a broker unless fully secure. Avoid easy access by others to prevent defalcations and protect hard earned property.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Britain’s Greatest Precipice at St Kilda
A Newcastle Journal correspondent discusses the drowning of three bird catchers at St Kilda. He notes wild fowls nesting on Conagher, the British Isles’ deepest precipice, rising 1,220 feet above sea level. He imagines a fall from the top to the sea with no scratch.
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Britain
Newcastle Journal
St. Kilda
St Kilda
British Isles
Conagher
Fragmentary gossip note on Temptations and discipline
A garbled passage from a report references a boy confessing to breaking a brick in the fireplace and a failing attempt at remediation, mentioning a mother and a publication named Success Magazine.
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Marion
Chia
Fathers Wate Success Magazine
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