White House Christmas Dinner And Desert Grouse Tale
The piece describes the White House Christmas routine with Mrs. Roosevelt attending in lieu of an army escort, a private dining room feast, and a 30 pound turkey from Horace Vose. It introduces the desert sage grouse, or sage hen, noting its size, plumage, habitat in arid regions, feeding on sage, and hunting behavior. It contrasts the birds with other grouse and mentions the culinary notes of its flesh.
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White House
Toas
United States
Lewis and Clark
Executive Mansion
Horface Vose
Rhode Island
Ncle Sam
Fesve
Jorace Vose
Pinckney
Presidential Mansion
Forsfaers
Quentin
Big East Room
Europe
Ile
Rockefeller Paid Forward a Medical Bill to Weber
Dr Gustav C B Weber of Cleveland once treated a young man paying fifty dollars a month. The man was John D Rockefeller who later returned for advice after a recurrence. Rockefeller offered Weber five hundred dollars, but Weber refused, urging the money be given to a struggling medical student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gustav C. BE. Weber
Cleveland
Ohio
Nuremburg
Weber
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Government irrigation plans reveal vast West water project
The Interior Department schedule shows 32.87 million dollars planned to irrigate 1.889 million acres at 17.50 dollars per acre. Estimates place arid land at 600 million acres, with potential expansion to 75 to 100 million irrigable acres. Govt seeks floodwater storage, cost repayment by settlers, and future population growth tied to irrigation in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reclamation Service of the Interior Department
United States
France
Germany
New York
Ambassador Reid's Son Chosen as Chief Lackey in London
The article reports Ambassador Whitelaw Reid appointing Hon. William Walsh, third son of Lord Oormathwaite, as controller of his London household at Dorchester House. Walsh, engaged to Lady Norah Spencer-Churchill, is praised for earning a steady position and maintaining imperial style in diplomatic circles. It notes aristocratic norms on servants and tips, citing Duke of Devonshire’s rule against tips and a Chatsworth luncheon incident.
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Vatican
Prince of
Monaco
Mary Hamilton
Mary
House of Baden
Duke of Hamilton
Napoleon
Albert
Monte Carlo
Florence
Marie
Russia
Tassilo Festetics
Tolna
Vienna
Albert of
New Orleans
Michael Treine
St. Peter
Pius IX
Rampolla
Court of St. James
Whitelaw Reid
Ile
William Walsh
Walsh
Reid
England
King’s Down
Mr. Reid
Court of St. Janes
Mr Reid
Bird
Oormathwaite
Dorchester House
Marble Palace
Park Lane
Ambassador Reid
London
Norah Spencer- Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Duke of Devonshire
Chatsworth
Derbyshire
Edmund H. Abbott
New York
Alexander Cattanach
Salem
Mass
Sir Thomas Lipton
Duke
Matlock
Buxton
Bakewell
Town
van Calaya
Humor of King Edward told in two frontier tales
Tourists recount King Edward assisting a fish seller with a portrait payment and a sovereign, then as Prince helping at a theatre fire while a pompous man refused work, claiming gentility. The Prince replies he is the Prince of Wales, implying duty over class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Edward
Prince of Wales
Cost of Columbus Fleet Compared With Modern Yachts
The piece argues Columbus's fleet cost about $3,000 to outfit with $300 annual salary for Columbus and $200 for other captains. Crew wages ran $2.50 per month, reflecting high past value of money and limited desire for shore leave.
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Isabel
Columbus
America
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Artemisia
Turkey
Pope Pius X
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Webb Publishing CO
St. Paul Minn
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bid’g
Washington, D.C
Eagle Tank Co
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Famlin
Lynch Perfection
YALE
Hewes & Potter
Makera L_ept
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Bolton
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