Modern husbands blamed as divorce causes sweep nation
A national trace of marital breakdown shows husbands bearing the burden of divorces as waves of infidelity, desertion, and societal shifts spread. Reports from major cities cite a collapse of traditional ideals, while ministers, artists, and priests appear among the high-profile cases fueling public concern.
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United States
Cruise
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Waukegan
Williamsburg
Pittsburg
New York
Long Island
St. Louis Republic
Mckibben Isolated on Macquarie Island After Nimrod Visit
The Nimrod under Capt J S Davis found Macquarie Island nearly 600 miles northwest of New Zealand with a solitary survivor William McKibben and two dogs. McKibben, who stayed behind after a sealing party left, greeted the Nimrod crew at Nugget Point as they approached the shore.
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Shackleton
Macquarie Island
New Zealand
Robinson Crusoe
J. S. Davis
Sydney
Reuter
Nugget Point
Davis
William McKibben
Edison Praises Hudson River Electrical Display
New York reports Thomas A. Edison lauding the $1,000,000 Hudson river show for the Hudson Fulton fete. He notes vast waste in electricity, predicts future conservation, and says a solution to waste could cut costs and brighten cities as more efficient use of power emerges.
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York
Hudson River
Hudson-Fulton
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Hudson
City teeters on ledge of tilting rock in Manhattan
Engineers drilling for plunger elevators report rock ledges beneath New York buildings vary from 40 to 150 feet below the surface with deeper holes under the Tribune and Times structures. Cavities found at 200 feet suggest old rain holes, while the deepest core recovered from a 300 foot bore weighed 2,750 pounds and measured 22 feet.
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New York
Rector
Church Streets
United States Express Company
Old Times
Park Row
Spruce Street
Tribune Building
Nassau and
Spruce Streets
Hudson River
Carroll
West Street
Trinity
Boreel
Dispossess Club Forms In New York Cellar
A new group of 60 professional evictors organized in a cellar at 262 Madison Street to raise eviction prices. They set rates at 50 cents per room for ground floor removals and one dollar per room for upper floors, elected Fred Kelly president and Jim Brown secretary, and planned to furnish the space with castoff items and straw to stage as their clubhouse.
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Madison Street
New York City
Fred Kelly
Jim Brown
New York
Batonyi to Score Enemies in His Novel St Urgis
The piece notes Mrs. Burke Roche Latonyi’s divorce suit revival and Aurel Batonyi’s literary debut with a novel titled St Urgis. It hints the work borrows real life figures from Batonyi and Mrs Batonyi’s past, including ties to the Hewitt and Cooper Hewitt families, and mentions a related court action involving Frank Work and Sturgis.
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Frank Work
Aurel Batonyi
New York City
Newport
Fermoy
St Urgis
H. E. Witt
St. Urgis
Sturgis
Art
Batonyi
Frank Kk
Sturgisand
Peter Cooper Hewitt
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