The Human Profession: Lovett and Notable Figures
Robert Scott Lovett, the smiling Sphinx of Harriman lineage, native of San Jacinto Texas, begins fifty third milestone while facing a Supreme Court divorce decree on Union Pacific and Southern Pacific separation. Also profiled are Charles Dewey Hilles, Capt. Bulkeley, Irvin Cobb, Henry Rider Haggard, Albert Kirby, and Julian Hawthorne with brief notes on births, careers, and roles in politics, literature, and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Scott Lovett
Harriman
San Jacinto
Tex
Judge Lovett
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
United States Supreme Court
Houston
Texas
Union
Southern Pacifics
100 Years Ago War and Argentina's Rise in South America
A century past Europe trembled in war while Argentina prepared to mark its independence victory at Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The piece notes Buenos Aires growth, warns about future royal rumors, and revisits events from 1814 to 1816, contrasting old world struggles with the city’s rise. It also mentions King George’s reign, potential marriages for the Prince of Wales, Oxford life, and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie’s birth in Martinique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Henry Rivers Bulkeley
Duke of Connaught
Evelyn Pelly
Ley
Ottawa
Bulkeley
Eton
Oxford
Scote Guards
South Africa
Belmont
Lord Curzon
Lord Minto
Indiao
the of Connaught
Europe
Great Britain
United States
States
Canada
Argentine
Guriday
Montevideo
Plata
Buenos Ayres
Spain
Joseph Soneparte
Ferdinand VI
Ato
Rio de la Plata
Posadas
Chile
New World
Americas
Buenos ‘Ayres
Montreal
San Francisco
New Orleans
Boston
St Zeonip
Rio de Janeiro
George
Edward VIII
Victoria Mary of
Teck
Edward VII
Princess Alexandra of
Denmark
London
Prince of Wales
King George
Queen Mary
Elizabeth
Roumania
Queen Alexandra
Olga
Russia
Victoria
Prince of
Richard II
Henry of Monmouth
Henry V
Henry VIII
Edward
Trois-Ilots
Martinique
St. Pierre
Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie
Mme. de Beauharnais
France
Marquis de Seauharnais
Napoleon
England's Future King Turned Parody At Nineteenth Birthday
A mocked profile marks Edward Albert Chris Wan George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, on his nineteenth birthday. It notes his titles, early majority, and limited political rights, comparing royal fares to typical adulthood while hinting at his wealth and status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Kirby
Baron Fairfax of Cameron
United States
Prince’ George County
Lord Fairfax
New York
London
Thomas Fairfax
Naseby
Virginia
George Ington
Mary
Col
Edmund Kirby
United States Army
England
Edward
America
Britain
Oxford
Prince of Wales
Prageer Waeerer
Edward Albert Chris Wan George Andrew Patrick David
Earl of Chester
Duke
Cornwall
Duke of
House of Lords
George
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Endorsed for Scalp Ailments
In Lower Waterford Vermont a reader testifies after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for an itching scalp and hair loss. She reports relief after one application and full improvement after a month. Advertisement promotes Cuticura products with a sample offer and 32-page Skin Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower
Waterford
Bertha Wright
Caticera
Dept. T
Boston
New Slogan Urges Smaller Better Families in Eugenics Drive
Lady Francis Cook lectures New York society women on eugenics urging smaller families and better quality. She attacks childless matrons, cites Hawthorne, and traces stethoscope origins, arguing there are enough people today and a pledge to educate to raise race standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Cook
New York
Francis” Cook
Tennie Clflin
America
New York Society
Hattie Darling
West Seventy-eighth Street
Revelations in Wong arrest expose Bing Kung Tong plots
San Francisco June 23 Immigratio n officials reveal letters seized with the arrest of Wong Do King head of the Bing Kung Tong detailing blackmail murders and opium smuggling. The letters describe gunmen paid to kill and protect dens and slave girls across the coast tied to Tang warings and smuggling prep for inspectors. Deportation will be sought and prosecutions widen to other Chinese in major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Wong Do King
Bing | Kung Tong
Wong
Pacific Coast
Vanishing Fortune Triggers Death Pact Attempt in San Mateo
George Mager, said to be linked to a Swiss bankrupt, learned a $10,000,000 estate vanished and attempted suicide with poisoning at his mother’s San Mateo home. Resuscitated, he planned to travel with his mother to Switzerland to pursue a share in the estate, amid a prolonged family dispute over the fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
George Mager
San Mateo
Rose Maggi
Switzerland
New York Merchant's Auto Crashes Into Pole
Stratford dispatch reports John H. Hart, a New York merchant, lost control on Stratford avenue and crashed into a telegraph pole near Hart's Corner. He dislocated his shoulder, the sole injury to the party. car badly damaged but repaired by 3 a.m. Travel to Boston resumed. Also notes Camp Fire Girls event, Trimmingham Wheeler wedding, Pootatuck Yacht Club dance, and engagement Beers Hotchkiss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford
Stratford Avenue
John H. Hart
Broadway
New York
Hart’s Corner
Hart
Boston
Main Street
Dick” ‘Howell
Dr. G. F. Lewis
Broad Street
Paugnuéette Tribe
Camp Fire Girls
Campfire Girls
Boy Scouts
Florence Lewis
Eunice Braitling
Josephine Houghton
Eleanor Lewis
Vira Braitling
Ethel Houghton
Trimmingham—Wheeler
Trimmingham-Wheeler
Christchurch
Dorothy Wheeler
Kenneth Trimmingham
Bermuda
Arthur Wheeler
Academy Hill
Bridgeport
Stratford Society
Washington
D. C
Pootatuck
Board of Governors
Pootatuck ‘Yacht Club
Dennison
Dante
Beers
Hotcheiss
Howard Beers
Judson Place
Mary Hotchives
Winsted. Pac, Dnst
D M Read Co Exhibition Of Sheffield Plate Goods
The D M Read Co established 1857 announces a Sheffield Plate display featuring Paul Revere patterns. Items include platters, trays, trivets, compotes, tea caddies, pie dishes, fruit baskets, kettles, card trays, sandwich plates, entrees, bakers, sauce boats, bread trays, vases, coasters, jugs, coffee pots and sets. Special Tuesday curtain and bed set sales highlighted with discounted muslin curtains braided net curtains and linen couch covers on third floor upholstery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield Plate
Paul Revere
Butler
A.D
New Mesh Bags Arrive With Breakproof and German Silver Options
New Mesh Bags showcases two lots including Breakproof Mesh Bags in German silver and gold finishes priced at 2.50 to 4.50, featuring woven mesh and no rings that could tear dresses. A second lot offers a German silver ring mesh bag with a 5 inch frame priced at 1.59, highlighted as stylish and affordable.
Demi Blond Hair Ornaments Collection Sale
An assortment of demi blond shell hair ornaments including side combs barrettes red pins and back combs with gold inlay and rhinestones priced at 50 cents for any article in the group. values far above the sale price.
Minor’s Shore House to Reopen Under New Management
Captain Frederick M. Hawes of the Connecticut Detective Agency becomes proprietor of Minor’s Shore House at Ferry Road. He plans to run it as a premier resort, continuing its reputation as one of the best known shore houses between New York and Boston, with a reopening in about a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Julian Hawthorne
United States
Atlanta
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Boston
Lawrence Scientific School
Harvard
Dresden
New York
Philadelphia
India
Cuba
Minor
Shore House
Ferry Road
Frederick M. Hawes
The
Connecticut Detective Agency
More Ambassadors Named by Wilson in 1920s
President Wilson announced several diplomatic appointments including Philip Holland of Tennessee as Consul at Basel Switzerland, John D. O'Rear of Missouri as Minister to Bolivia, Henry Van Ryke of New Jersey as Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and Thomas Ewing Jr. of New York as Commissioner of Patents, with Robert T. Frazier of Tennessee named as first assistant commissioner of patents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Basel
Switzerland
Philip Holland
Tennessee
John D. O’rear
Missouri
Bolivia
Henry van Ryke
New Jersey
Netherlands
Luxemberg
Thomas Ewing, Jr
New York
Robert T. Frazier
Fountain pen bargains at Jackson's Book Shop
A reader noted Jackson's Book Shop at 1988 Main Street offers self filling fountain pens for about two shillings and a versatile Barnum pen. The shop features Wa terman Parker Lucky Curve Conklin and other makes with ink suitable for all pens in blue black or jet black in bottles from small to quart sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mainstreet
Barnum
Waterman
Parker
Lucky Curve
Conklin
HL Hackson
Alling Auto Tires Memorized Slogan and Price List
Memorize the name Alling for Auto Tires as a profitable concept. The document lists multiple case and tube prices across varied quantities, including 2823 Case $10.81 with tubes, 2073 Cue $11.03 with tubes, and numerous other combinations with cases and tubes. It references United States terms and a 5 percent allowance for “Cac.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Dewey Hilles
Taft
the Treasury
Republican Committee
Belmonts County
Hilles
Ohio
Irvin Ghernsbury Cobb
Mark Twain
Irvin
Paducah
Daily Ceapers
New York Bee
Henry Rider Haggard
J. P
South African Republic
King Solomon’s Mines
Brad Norfolk
Yveldt
Jungle
Haggard
Kipling
Ing Companies
Hawthorne
Atlanta Institution
Laennes
Paris
Laennec
NEW York Merchant
Hard’n Dorner
D. M. Read Co
Neewe Gy
D. M. Read Company
Main St
Fairfield Ave
Jores
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