Ballooning Gains Ground in Berkshires 1908 Seen As Fashionable
The New York World notes ballooning as a chic Berkshire pastime for 1908 with Mrs Bales C F Munn Mrs Goelet and Mrs Bishop among early enthusiasts. Short trips from Pittsfield Lenox Stockbridge offer cheap gas access good roads and nearby resorts. Sky pilots will face licensing while auto trucks may ease balloon transport and hazards include isolated shooters and curious birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Aero Club
Milky Way
Heavenly Boulevards
Lady Harbard
Alan R. Hawley
Alan R. Hawley, A Stockbroker, of No. 20
Broad Street
East Forty-second Street
Pittsfield
Mass
Stock Bridge
English Aero Club
Mammoth Gjze
Heaven
Eggs and Their Uses Cooking Lecture by Miss Barrows
Miss Anna Barrows of Columbian University advocates economy of labor and materials in cooking. She describes how to boil eggs gently, make silver and gold custard, soft custard, and an omelet with a tomato sauce, noting versatile uses including desserts and sauces for macaroni or croquettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Barrows
Columbian University
Brooklyn Institute
Miss Barrows
Miscellaneous Curiosities and Notes From a Bygone Era
A survey of odd facts includes 76 square miles of Manhattan floor space, rug work timing, Italian river projects, immigrant origins, New York charity and hospital costs, a parrot language school in Paris, a fox farm on Prince Edward Island, and Gypsies in Granada. Reports on New York transport injuries, whale bone yields, colonial observations, and quirky animal fashion follow, with varied claims about horses, technology, and Arkansas diamond discoveries near Murfreesboro.
Roosevelt Moves to Avert Railway Strike
President Roosevelt urges the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate wage reductions among railroad workers. He cites possible business causes and calls for data on wage conditions to inform public opinion and aid mediation or arbitration if needed. He mentions the Louisville & Nashville as a sample and stresses peaceful resolution and accountability.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Commissioners of Labor
Interstate Caminerce Commission
Tam
Louisville & Nashville
Commissioner of Labor
Trafic
Congress committee favors restoring motto on gold coins
The House Committee on Coinage Weights and Measures voted to report favorably a bill to restore In God We Trust on gold coins. The room erupted in laughter when Mr Wallace's amendment to print I know that my Redeemer liveth on all paper money was offered.
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Congress Committee
Washington
DD. C
House Committee On Coinage
Fire Claims Two Women at Winterset Iowa Home
A deadly blaze at Roe Deeter's Winterset residence kills Mrs. Stenson aged ninety six and causes Mrs. Albert Mills to die watching the fire. The report notes business recovery varies by region with some cities showing stronger activity than a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roe Deeter
Winterset
Iowa
Stenson
Albert Mills
Latimer Senator from South Carolina Dies in Providence Hospital
Asbury C Latimer a U S Senator from South Carolina died at Providence Hospital after an appendicitis operation revealed a serious intestinal ailment. He died four days after admission with his family by his side. Vice President Fairbanks named a funeral committee. Speaker of the House also formed one. Latimer born July 34 1851 in Abbeville County. he rose from State Representative to U S Senator noted for good roads and national roadbuilding effort.
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Phoebe Cousins
France
Chicago
Julia A. Horman
Markit Pin
Portugal
Clo Alde
Turin
Italy
Day
Syracuse University
Women Teachers
New York City
Sussex County
Washington, D. C
Asbury C. Latimer
South Carolina
Providence Hospital
Fairbanks
Asbury Churchwell Latimer
Abbeville County
S. C
Benjamin R. Tillman
Coleague
Senate
Latimer
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Congress
Agriculture, Immigration, Manufactures
Manufactures
Hee
Book Publishing House
Ivonard St
N. Ys
NAILS BOYS TONGUE FOR PUNISHMENT IN OHIO SCHOOL
In Canal Dover Ohio Miss Clara Sterling twenty four assistant matron at the Tuscarawas County Children's Home was fined 140 dollars and costs for driving in tack through a pupil's tongue. The boy, ten year old Slimpesn Fowler, denied stealing a pencil and was punished by the teacher who forced his tongue to extend over a chair. A tack was driven through the tongue amid suspicions he lied. The injured child was placed under medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canal
Dover
Ohio
Rullty
Clara
Sterling
Tuscarawas County
Brigadier General Francis S. Dodge Dies at Home
Brigadier General Francis S. Dodge U S A retired dies at his residence in Colorado. A Medal of Honor recipient for distinguished service in the Battle of White River, he was born in Danvers Massachusetts on September 11 184 I. He served with the Falls Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War and later joined the Second United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry as a first lieutenant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Francis S. Dodge
U.S. A
Congress
White River
Colorado
General Dodge
Danvers
Mass
Ile Fells
Second
United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry
Stoessel Condemned to Death for Port Arthur Surrender
In St Petersburg a military court condemned Lieutenant General Stoessel to death for surrendering Port Arthur to the Japanese. The court recommended commuting the sentence to ten years imprisonment in a fortress and excluding him from service. General Fock received a reprimand for a disciplinary offense unrelated to the surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Russia
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Fock
Railway Wages Cut and Other 1909 Political Moves
Seaboard Air Line Railway chief executive issues a Norfolk order cutting salaries above six thousand dollars by ten percent and eight percent for three to five thousand. Other items note bankruptcy restitution, a $37,000 repayment, and a three year penitentiary sentence plus fines. The piece catalogs diverse U S legislative actions and proposals in Congress and state legislatures with dates and figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W A. Garrett
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Norfolk
Market Prices and Trade Shifts Dominate the Ledger
A dense listing of groceries and produce appears alongside a Washington dispatch on trade patterns. The article notes growing export shares from Gulf Mexican and Canadian ports, Atlantic port declines, and rising values for northern and Mexican border shipments, with price movements in oil sugar copper and farm exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States
Gulf
Mexican
Northern
Pacific
Amusing School Exam Answers Highlight Early 20th Century Wit
A collection of student exam responses from Hagner's Weekly reveals humorous misinterpretations. Answers include blood as corkscrew pieces, a woman who makes butter, primate as the prime minister's wife, gravity credited to Isaac Newton, and a definition of limited monarchy linking bankruptcy and debt with limited liability companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagner
Weveldy
Isaac Alton
Poe Memorials and a Diplo matic Debate
The text discusses various items including a fire near St Marys Church and a building inscription, a Paris nose ignition incident, and commentary on American diplomacy and figures like Bryce Agron Sargent and Storer. It concludes with Poe memorial proposals noting his literary stature and the need for a distinct Poe monument in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troulevard St. Michel
Paris
Detroit News
Fragmented typewriter letters reveal phonetic error in famous novelist MS
A Chicago Journal note reports the novelist’s letter shows repeated miswritten f and ph sounds. The scene features lovers in antiquated dialogue with phrases like pharphal and phather, ending with characters fleeing as panic ensues.
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Chicago Journal
Phair
T Hare
Phalrest Phranets
Pharewell
Phrankin
Phranees
Phrankiln
Brain Power Boosted by Grape-Nuts Diet Claims
A female writer recounts using Grape-Nuts to sharpen brain work and aid her children's growth. She credits improved appetite, milk supply, and steady energy after breakfast, noting her mind felt clearer and fatigue reduced within weeks. The testimony, attributed to Postum Co. advertising copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
For & Warnewhite
Mother's Caves
Prin
Postum Co
Battte Jack
Aleh
Redd
Arkansas judge fines visiting lawyer for contempt
A circuit judge in Arkansas faced empty court supplies and no county funds. He paid out of pocket for pens ink and paper, then fined a visiting lawyer twenty five dollars for contempt after the man mocked the court. The judge ordered the clerk to obtain supplies and return any change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Jie
Ives
Hmat
J Harper’s Weekly
Eczema Patient Claims Long-Suffering Cure
Hale Bordwell of Tipton Iowa recounts fifty five years of severe eczema finally cured after using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills for months. Nelson R. Kurnett of Tipton endorses the testimonial and the Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion is marketed as a quick cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ant Cuthura
Hale Bordwell
Tipton
Bordwell
Nelson R. Kurnett
Tipton, Tn
Pants and Trousers and the Frank Soul
A satirical piece from the Atlantic Contributors’ Club contrasts speakers who choose words like pants or trousers and those who pretend to prefer the other. It frames such linguistic choices as signs of honesty or cravenness within urban culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tinea
Ike
Brownstone
Club of the Atlantic
Svoran
Lydia E. Pinkham
Will Young
Columbia Ave
Rockland
Lydia
Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
East Earl
Toledo firm offers cure for catarrh and oath recorded
Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner of Cheney Co in Toledo Ohio that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each untreatable catarrh cured by Hats Catarrh Cure. Notary public Aleason Sealy witnesses on December 6, 1850. Ad claims the cure works through the blood and mucous surfaces and lists testimonials and druggist availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pate
Onto
Torpo
Lucas County
Lee
D. Chevey
Ij, CreNey & Co
Totedo
Cheeum
Frank J. Cheney
Russian contractors protest over warship contracts with British firms
An assortment of advertising copy blocks out the scene with mentions of Salter seed strains and various seed companies. The text promotes Dakota grown macaroni wheat and seeds while interspersing unrelated notes on bronchial remedies and child education as part of a clipped page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salter
Department of Agriculture
Dakota
Mich
Wis
Ohio
Penn. Ma
Neb
Kan
William Qata
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Dogs to Watch Churches in Bruges and London
The piece notes Bruges churches fortify at night with dogs to guard valuables after a robbery at Van Dyck House, and mentions theatrical concerns with royal uniforms. It also includes a Parisian and Chicago Journal quotation about manufactured diamonds and a hypothetical superior rubber, with a historical museum note about the first envelope.
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Wiil
Vogue
Chief Dangers
Connecticut
Manhattan Island
Austria- Hungary
Charity
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
Prince Edward Island
Granada
Spain
Mary
Helen
Colin Campbell
India
Lima
Jepper
Teeland
Sudan
Murfreesboro
Pilko County
Little Rock
Saya
Theodore Roosevelt
Sfrator
Timan
Boy
Canal Dover
Shia
F. S., Noyge
Court-starting
Alexander B. Butt
People’s Bank
Portsmouth
Japan
O'Brien
Tokio
Root
Mississippi
Jackson
Mies
Halls of Congress
Rootway
Seattle
Nelson
Rayner
Maryland
Sawney
Inland Waterways Commission
Carlisle
Hampton Schools
Beveridge
Indiana
Tariff Commission
Culberson
Cortelyon
Stone
Missouri
Philippines
Metcalf
House Committee On Naval Affairs
John Sharp Wiliams
Willaims
Mingissippi
Gore
Oklahoma
New York
Atnte Dairy
Fir
Arina - Jersey
Pacific Coast
Chawe
Raraley
Pier Hb
Fa & MW
Puilenhoes
Wester
Laid
City
Ales
Ameren
Standard OW Company
North Lima
South Lima
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
Union Stock Yards
Kaungry
Ron
Albany
Tsen
Jake
Thornwell Mullally
Kearny
California
St. Mary's Church
Ben
Sae Francisca Chronicle
America
Mr. Bryce
Edward
Molley
Dutch Republic
Vienna
London
State Department
Agron Sargent
Berlin
Storer
London Chronicle
B.W. Grove
Poe
Randall
Edsar Allin Poe
Baltimore
Oo Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Baltimore Sun
Phrances and Whrinkiin
Love Aye Enue
Pany
CAFR
Woolford
Greenwich Street
Curlesky
Aung
g.Carrara
New York Press
Kline
Trentine
Matthattan Island
The
Battery
Central Park
Switzerland
Brown
Rio de Janeiro
Garefield
Garfeld Tea Co
Brooklyn
Franco
Devigne
York
Pegheurg Owe
Las
Akes
Maulrom
Actul
W. E. Deaxa Jrock
Monroe
Pearson's
Europe
William Hotchkiss
England
Africa
Chigo Journa
Britsh Museum
Leonard St
N. Y. City
Fox
J. Hamilton Avers
Ae Aeke
Demeaggs
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