Rufus Choate Tricks Help Cattle Dealer Recoup Money
A Brighton cattle dealer, carrying two hundred dollars for a stock purchase, left one hundred with a landlord for safe keeping. The next morning the landlord claimed the funds were lost in an intoxicated incident. Advise from Rufus Choate led the dealer to test the landlord with staged deposits and a witness. The landlord ultimately returned the first hundred and later surrendered the second after confrontation.
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Rufus Choate
Boston
Penn
Brighton
Choate
Oate
Ken
Stout
Le Pail Saves Legislator in Delaware Farmyard Incident
Representative Timothy E Townsend and his 12 or old son Fred faced danger when a bull charged as their farmyard scene unfolded. Townsend used a milk pail as a shield and reflected sunlight into the bull’s eyes, causing the animal to flee. Townsend is expected to recover. The report also notes a spider in Buenos Ayres that fishes using a conical net and a vegetable boa constrictor grown in India for foliage purposes.
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Timothy E.” Townd
Delaware
Fred
Toward
Frankfort
Sussex County
Professor Berg
Buenos Ayres
India
Cherry Tree Grows From Chimney Top in Indian Orchard
A cherry tree ten feet tall sprouts atop an eighty foot chimney in Indian Orchard Massachusetts. Birds likely dropped a stone that germinated in dirt pockets created by wind and weather. The chimney top is weathered with missing cap stones, while grasses and small flowers thrive around the rim.
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Indian Orchard
Mass
Giant Electric Lift Transforms Hillside Travel in Stockholm
Cassell's Saturday Journal describes a giant electric lift used in Stockholm to move passengers up hills. The car enters at a lift station and rises vertically to a higher platform before traversing a light bridge to reach elevated streets, enabling easy transit on steep terrain.
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Stockholm
Cassell
Saturday Journal
Forgetful Letter Changes a Paris Love Story
A long forgotten unrevealed letter discovered in Paris reveals a man’s unspoken love from a ball twenty years earlier. He never mailed the note, leading to a lifetime of bachelor solitude and a tragic, overlooked romance.
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Paris
The Women Men Like Best
A humorous study of what traits men supposedly favor in women. It claims quiet nature, plump figure, bright sentiments, tact, good health, clear skin, white teeth, a slim waist, composure on rough seas, financial security, good feet, and the ability to sit idle as key attractions. The piece treats these preferences as the season's main tastes.
New Fashionable Footwear Features Embroidered Linen Shoes
The latest footwear trends include embroidered white linen shoes matching gowns, modified French heels, and a range of glacé kid options in red violet ruby and champagne. Black glace kid with large buckles, antelope finishes, and sandal shapes with ribbons offer slimmer looks, while evening shoes show gold and silver brocade and grosgrain ballroom slippers. a heelless yacht deck shoe also appears.
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Paris
Proper Piano Care And A Historical Bridge Fact
A piano needs protection from damp and drafts with placement advice and careful maintenance including dry heat and benzine treatment for sticky keys. The article notes the Coalbrookdale bridge as the world’s first cast iron bridge built in 1779.
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Coalbrookdale Bridge
England
Actress and Heiress in Legal Battle Over Rent Rift
New York society watchers follow the clash between actress Mrs. Leslie Carter Payne and Miss Norm Leslie Munro over back rent at West Fifty-ninth Street apartments. The suit was dropped after a $825 compromise covering three months, with ongoing tension and threats of further sensational disclosures.
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New York
Leslie Carter Payne
Norma Munro
Lillian Russell T
Norm Leslie Munro
Norman Leslie Munro
Miss Munro
Robert Osborn
Playhouse and Shirtwaist
Mrs. Carter Payne
Bar Harbor
Shelter Island
Munroe Estate
Carter
William Louis Payne
Juno
Munro
West Fifty-ninth Street
Henriette E. Munro
Lillian Russell to Race Horses in England and Kentucky
Actress Lillian Russell plans a racing career with horses bred by herself in England. John S. McDonald bought high bred mares for her stable, with three Carbine foals among the stock. Mares and foals will be shipped to the United States this autumn, mares to a Kentucky farm, foals racing year after next unless plans change.
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Lillian Russell
Lillian
England
Miss Russell
Europe
Mrs. Langtry
Carbine
Kentucky
Athletes as Husbands From Excessive Training
A 1900s medical critique argues that extreme athletic training harms heart health and marriage prospects. Dr. Robert E. Coughlin presents statistics linking heavy sport to lower marriage rates, fewer children, and higher divorce, while noting exercise remains beneficial in moderation.
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Robert E. Coughlin
Brooklyn
Wedding May Follow Divorce Of Stewart and Silent Smith
Mrs. Annie M. A. Stewart obtained a divorce in Sioux Falls from William Rhinelander Stewart. Rumor says she will marry James Henry Smith known as Silent Smith whose fortune is estimated at 40 to 100 million dollars. The decree grants Anita Stewart custody until adulthood. William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. goes to the father. No alimony is mentioned, suggesting a possible prior settlement. The Strife in the Stewarts followed Anita’s debut in January 1905. Mr. Stewart, 54, is at Bar Harbor and disdains society. Smith, a prominent Four Hundred figure, purchased the Whitney mansion and hosted lavish entertainments with Stewart helping organize them. Both spouses are free to remarry.
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Annie M. A. Stewart
Sioux Falls
William Rhinelander Stewart
Stewarts
Anita Stewart
West Fifty-seventh Street
Stewart
Bar Harbor
Smith
William C. Whitney
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-seventh Street
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