Washington traits and personal life in colonial era portrait
Washington traced from English ancestry to Virginia planter, noting his knighted relatives under the Stuarts and his great grandfather's voyage. The piece details his youth as a penman, marriage to Martha, house management, letters to London, and his dress sense and early fashion tastes, including tailored garments and advice on appearance.
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Washington
Henry VII
Prince Charles
John
Virginia
Augustine Washington
George
Martha Dandridge Curtis
Wasington
Morris House
Philadelphia
England
London
Jack
Patsy Curtis
Gilbert Stuart
Ameritz
Crime spree and disasters span nations in terse notices
Robbers blew open the safe in Garrett Indiana drawing 1500. A massive violet sale swept Britain with damage. Hubbard’s Cedar Springs bank in Michigan robbed of 5000 by a dynamited safe. Ten injured in West Mansfield Ohio explosion. one fatally. A wheel burst killed Simon Cassell in Harrisburg. Venezuelan officials claim German officers plundered captured warships. Toledo police report Al Wade’s confession to Kate Sullivan murder after a sensational trial.
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Garrett
Ind
Great Britain
Hubbard
Cedar Springs
Mich
West Mansfield
Simon Cassell
General Electric
Yale Tall Men Organize Brobdingnags Club
Yale seniors form two rival clubs the Brobdingnags and the Pewee with distinct height criteria. The Brobdingnags admit members at least six feet one inch tall. twelve men currently belong. Frederick W. Wilhelmi presides, George Goss is secretary, and Stuart Sutphin serves as vice president and treasurer. Thorn Baker, six feet six inches, is the tallest member. The group keeps details quiet while a brisk initiation is rumored.
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Yale University
Chicago Inter Ocean
New Haven
Frederick William Wilhelmi
New York City
George & Goss
Waterbury
Stuart B. Sutphin
Cincinnati
Thorn Baker
Blizzard Rage Sweeps Topeka With Sudden Freeze
A fierce blizzard raged in Topeka with a dramatic temperature drop of twenty seven degrees in five hours. Telegraph reports from Kansas describe how the storm intensified rapidly and chilled streets as residents sought shelter indoors.
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Kansas
Topeka
Coshocton Book Hospital Restores Damaged Volumes
Librarian Love operates a home workshop in the Burns building to repair worn books. He binds pages, replaces covers, and glues leather backs, rebinding more than 1200 of the 4600 volumes at little cost to the library.
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Coshocton
Carnegie
Coshocton Public Library
Burns
Love
Meek & Beach Company
Mr. Love
Train Rides Five Miles After Dead Engineer on Board
Passengers on Panhandle line No 5 rode three miles in charge of dead engineer John Smith who lay with his hand on the throttle. Fireman Mike Corliston discovered the body as the iron monster sped at fifty miles per hour toward Columbus. Smith, 50, of Dennison, left a wife and four children. theorys blame a possible foul play or accidental contact with the cab end, with investigation pending.
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Panhandle
John Smith
Mike Corliston
Smith
Kurkersville
Hig Walnut
Columbus
Engineer Smith
Dennison
Fle
Summit
Mut That Worked In Colorado Tent Silhouettes
Peter Newell, an artist, camped in Colorado and created silhouettes of western desperadoes with pistols and poker imagery inside his tent. The shadows projected on the canvas frightened a nocturnal prowler and eased the Newell family’s fears, leading them to sleep peacefully thereafter.
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Peter Newell
Colorado
Me Newell
Newell
What Is In a Name Moral Tale of a Debtor
A creditor, angered by nonpayment, sues a debtor who appears wealthy. He discovers the assets are all in the debtor's wife's name, so he collects nothing. The tale ends with a moral that there is often much to shame.
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New York Herald
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Mexico
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