Amethyst Bracelet and a Marchaintain Wedding
On a birthday, Miss Mallandaine receives an amethyst bracelet sent by Mr Mildmay, provoking questions about marriage prospects. Mrs Inglis asserts the heiress may be the bride, but Miss Mallandaine reveals she will marry Captain Cleveland. The tale ends with a wedding and a display of violets.
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Miss Mallandaine
Carter
Mary
Captain Cleveland
Mrs. Inglis
London Evening News
Mallandaine
Lizsie Cleveland
Lady Haughton
Lizzie
Lizzy
Frank
Big
Frankie
Inglis
Tevisons
Levison
Mary Mallandaine
Mrs Inglis
Old Levison
A Bracelet, Violets, and Vintage Gossip
Mary Mallandaine weighs gifts from family and friends as she faces a ball and a rumored fiancé. Mrs Inglis reveals a jet neck lace bargain from Levison pawn shop while recounting a hired bracelet scheme and a dancer’s flirtatious promise.
Courtesy Shown A Poor Blind Man In A Street Car
A blind black man in ragged clothes rode in Fourth Avenue traffic. A young passenger alighted, guided him to the sidewalk, then chased the car as it moved on. The conductor stopped the car after a bell rang, drawing approving smiles from onlookers.
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Fourth Avenue
Stanton Street
Bowery
New York Times
Poverty and Marriage Long Engagements Prompt View on Wealth
Two women on a Germantown train discuss engagements and the idea that long engagements hinder saving. They cite a case of an eight year engagement where the fiancé, visiting from New York, spends weekends in theater and meals, affecting his salary. The conversation mirrors a Philadelphia Record takeaway.
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Jack
Philadelphia Record
New York
Reading Terminal
Life's Debt and Troubled Mornings in Baltimore
A brief verse from the Baltimore American jokes about debt and daily troubles. It notes that disposing of debt is easy, but hardships return after relief, especially before breakfast, with a light humorous tone about common burdens.
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Baltimore Amercan
Farmers Have An Inning As Meat Prices Boil Upward
Reports from the Chicago Stock Yards say farmers with cattle for sale are among the luckiest in the nation as beef pork and mutton prices soar. Short corn last year and farmers holding back breeding stock push profits while consumers shoulder higher meat costs. Beef on the hoof is at its highest since 182 and poultry demand surges amid drought and scarcity.
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Chicago Stock Yards
Chicago
Corn Belt
Pope Renews Call as Life Nears End Enclyclical
The Vatican’s L Osservatore Romano publishes a papal encyclical that reads as a last testament urging Catholic bishops to resist persecutions while warning of societal disorder and excessive liberty. It condemns socialism and anarchism, laments wars and armaments, and urges unity among Christians and defense of church temporal rights.
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Jasmes
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
Tme
Christ
Union of All Christian Churches
Pension Commissioner Evans Resigns Amid Political Speculation
United States Pension Commissioner Henry Clay Evans has filed his resignation with President Roosevelt. A Tennessee Republican since the Civil War, Evans formerly served twice as mayor of Chattanooga and narrowly lost a bid for governor. He was a prominent 1896 vice presidential candidate and has been discussed for an overseas mission.
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United States
Henry Clay Evans
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Chattanooga
Clay
Axd
S. Congress
Tennessee
Evans
Lightning Strikes Man Leaving Him Naked and Scattered
W. W. Reed, wealthy landowner and oil operator, was walking on a public highway in Indiana when a severe storm struck an umbrella he carried. The bolt tore the umbrella apart and ripped his clothes to ribbons. He was found nude, believed dead, then carried to a nearby farmhouse where he recovered.
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W. W. Reed
Indiana
Patrick Held Guilty of Murder in Rice Case
New York attorney Albert T Patrick convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice. Jury verdict followed a long trial revealing a plot to possess Rice’s estate aided by Patrick and his valet Charles F Jones who confessed to killing Rice at Patrick’s behest after forged checks were discovered.
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New York
William Marsh-Rice
Albert T Patrick
Wiliam Marsh Rice
SORO
Patrick
Dearty
Mulneux
Patrick Tral
Bare
Rice
Charles F Jones
Jones
Patrich
Wobert
8Sm Swenson & Sons
Wall Street
Mr. Rice
Moody of Massachusetts Named Secretary of the Navy
Wm Henry Moody of Massachusetts has been chosen by President Roosevelt to succeed Secretary Long as head of the Navy Department. Moody, in his fortieth ninthe year, is five years younger than the President and Harvard graduate of 1876. He served as District Attorney of the Eastern District of Massachusetts from 1884 to 1895 and then entered Congress to fill Gen. Cogwell's vacancy. Speaker Reed promoted him to the appropriations committee and Moody has since actively shaped federal spending, naval affairs, and insular issues. He is regarded as a strong House member.
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Henry Moody
Massaches
Appropriations Committee
Moody
House
Rob and Kill Liquor Maz at Keokuk Falls
Two men shot and killed John Martin proprietor of a distillery at his home. They robbed him and poured oil on the body then set it on fire. Neighbors extinguished the flames before the body burned. Also the War Department refused cross rights for the Oklahoma City and Western Railway crossing Fort Sill reservation.
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Maz
Keokuk Falls
Oklahoma
John Martin
Secretary of War
Oklahoma City and Western Railway Company
Fort Sill Military Reservation
Minister refuses to ask brides to obey in marriage vows
Rev Francis Edgar Mason of Brooklyn’s First Church of Christ says he will not require brides to promise obedience to husbands. He notes he rejects such vows and argues both genders should develop complementary qualities for cooperation, urging men to cultivate feminine traits at home.
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Francis Edgar Mason
First Church of Christ
Brooklyn
Mason
Threat of Kidnapping Haunts Pittsburg Family
A Cudahy style kidnap plot targets Alexander R. Peacock of Pittsburg, prompting the family to flee to New York after letters demanding $25,000 to spare Peacock’s three children. Police cite danger from major criminal circles as detectives identify suspects amid concerns of the steel trust’s Pittsburgh expansion and a wage agreement in Missouri.
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Fba Cudahy
Kansas City
Alexander R. Peacock
Carnerie Company
Pittsburg
Cudahy
A. BE. Peacock
The
Steel Trust
Cecil Rhodes Dies After Illness at Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes, the South African imperial magnate known as the "diamond king," died at Cape Town after weeks of illness. The English-born financier and politician built vast wealth with the British South Africa Company and aimed to unite southern Africa under British rule. He was 49 and had lived at Great Schuur near Cape Town. his sister Alice cared for him.
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Cecil Rhodes
Colossus
South Africa
Cape Town
Rhodes
Great Schur
Alice
England
Africa
Midas
Cape
British Empire
Ireland
British South Africa
United
Transvaal
Gladstone
Britain
Jon Morley
Sir William Vernon Harcourt
James Bryce Lave
Mr. Rhodes
Jameson
London
Oxford University
British Capture 135 Prisoners and Five Guns in Delarey Pursuit
Lord Kitchener reports the combined British columns against Delarey captured 135 prisoners, three fifteen pounders, two pom-poms and stock wagons after a night march from Commando Drift to the Lichtenburg line. Kekerwich and W. Kitchener columns added prisoners, cattle and wagons, covering eighty miles in twenty four hours.
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Delarey
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Kitchener
Commando Drift
Vaal River
Lichtenburg
Kekerwich
W. Kitchener
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Pope
Rupert Fritz
Secretary Long
W. H. Moody
Navy Department
W. WW. Moody
F. E. Mason
St. Joseph, Mo
Spain
Mexico
Mexican Republic
Cecil
Tennessee River
W. M. Sulton
Knoxville
Edward
British Waters
Victoria and Albert
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