Thaw Case Hearings Highlight Alleged Abuse by Thaw
In a New York supreme court room Mrs. Susan Merrill testified that Harry K. Thaw rented rooms under assumed names at two New York lodging houses between 1902 and 1905 and assaulted over 200 young women. She said Thaw paid at least 25000 to silence them, with one woman posing as his wife receiving 7000, and described the pearl handled whip display before the court.
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White Plains
N. Y
Supreme Court
Harry K. Thaw
Susan Merrill
Stanford White
New York
Madison Square
Thaw
McEney
Charles Morschauser
Mr. Morschauser
The Magic Lantern in Polar Eskimo Church
A missionary shows a magic lantern in Baffin Land drawing Eskimos from 200 miles for a packed sealskin church. The 40 below zero crowd freezes despite heat and scent of blubber. A few nights later starving dogs raid the icy church, tearing holes and devouring the frozen ship.
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States
Baffin Land
Cumberland Sound
Meta Incognita
Cockburn Land
Lingering Superstitions And A Tiny Mascot Charm
An English advertisement asks if a lucky gentlewoman will gift an unlucky one a small mascot to bring luck. The piece contrasts modern claims of practicality with ongoing superstition and recalls a lawsuit exposing an astrologer profiting from a zodiac magazine.
Pittsburg District UMW Convention on Explosives Dispute
A special convention of the Pittsburg district United Mine Workers of America has met to decide the course to settle differences over explosives. Separately, the final race in the German American Sonder Klasse series at Marblehead Massachusetts saw the Taft cup go to the Joyette, owned by Commodore W H Chileás of the Bensonhurst Yacht Club of Brooklyn.
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Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of America
Marblehead
Mass
Commodore W. H. Chilaés
Bensonherst Yacht Club
Brooklyn
Two Men Try To Reveal Hidden Drummer In Drum
Two men see a woman hitting a drum and imagine someone inside. They split the drum, reach through, and grab each other. The drummer returns, discovers the broken drum, and angrily punishes them while declaring he will reveal who is inside.
Sound Shoulders and Draft Work Dangers
Advice from Farm and Home emphasizes caring for draft horses during heavy labor. It urges proper collar fit, cleaning and treating shoulders to prevent sores, and a routine of washing, rubbing, and disinfecting roosts with a cresol soap paste mix to deter lice and mites.
Hot Hand Pennie Game for Warmth and Quickness
This primitive two person game named hot hand is played with players facing each other. One places palms up while the other aims to strike and withdraws quickly to avoid contact. Watching the opponent’s eyes aids escaping blows as players are eliminated in tournament style until a champion emerges.
Small farms rise as major farming trend in the south
The article notes a shift toward small quarter section farms in the southwest and widespread division of large ranches. It praises intensive farming and constructive agriculture as the dominant trend shaping the region's farming, with the most reliable farmers being those who maximize output from a few acres.
Imaginary Instrument Etiquette At The Company Band
In a quirky company ritual the leader plays a real instrument while all members imitate an imaginary version of their own instrument. Followers must match actions and sounds, swap instruments when the leader shifts, and forfeit if they fail to switch. The drill tests discipline, coordination, and quick adaptation among staff.
Cal Letting Cal Feline Break Dining Room Rule
A writer recalls a six month old cat from Scotland allowed at breakfast but forbidden in the dining room. The daughter enforces the rule, yet the cat once followed the daughter to watch then seized a hare and began crunching it with evident pleasure during a moment alone.
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Scotland
London
Benette
Ratt
The Lawyer's Duty In Giving Counsel to His Client
A defense of ethical legal advice contrasts counsel that upholds justice with that which exploits statutes for private gain. The author argues fair play, noting society bears the cost of unjust advantage while justified advocacy benefits the many.
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Coun
Donald RB. Richberg
Aftlantic
Farm Notes and Cow Care Tips From a Rural Column
Farm Notes discuss humane treatment for cows and frugal management. It highlights that kindness costs nothing and stresses using milk pails solely for milk storage. The piece notes growing popularity of yearly cow tests and estimates that twenty acres of corn silage can feed about thirty thrifty cows for a year.
New Head of Ben Hur in Crawfordsville
Dr. Royal H. Gerard of Crawfordsville Indiana has been elected supreme chief of the Tribe of Ben Hur succeeding his father the late David W. Gerard who died on Monday. The executive committee made the selection.
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Ben Hur
Crawfordsville
Ind
Royal H. Gerard
City
Tribe of
David W. Gerard
Private hotel chinaware shines at New York’s top houses
The Knickerbocker uses bleue de Sevren china made in France for private dinners, 72-piece sets costing 6 dollars each with blue and gold patterns and hotel monograms. Plaza and Astor offer white and gold or plain white pieces at 4 and 5 dollars, Waldorf Astoria features the royal crown set with Napoleon era pieces, valued at up to a million dollars.
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Knickerbocker
New York
France
Plaza
Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
A Dangerous Subject by Pearson's Weekly
A boy discovers Henry Drummond can hypnotize people. At a party a girl is coaxed to play piano and does so. In another episode he mentally persuades a boy to shoot him with a poker. He feigns harm to sustain the illusion before stopping the magnetic sportsman.
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Henry Drummond
Drummond
Pearson’s Weekly
A Woman's Smile in a Detroit Free Press Tale
A witty fragment from the Detroit Free Press recalls a tale of romance and fate. A man recalls meeting his beloved on the avenue, bowing, and slipping into a coal hole, altering their engagement prospects in a humorous, lighthearted anecdote.
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Jones
Detroit Free Press
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