Williston Outsmarts Insurance Pest to Save Life
In a Chicago record Herald tale, Williston endures relentless life insurance solicitations until a prank reveals a home remedy. A doctor confirms serious heart risk as the insurance agent pushes a new policy. Williston feigns cooperation, then uses a rubber tube gag to expose the scam and avoid a rushed sale. Preparations hint at a historic royal anniversary in Teatnign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williston
Willston
Winlston
Tyre
Wilston
Wilistons
Wiliston
Afr
Hossford
Willstons
Hly Plate
Gain
Hossforth
Jim Hossford
Lou
Glad Velief
Chicago
Trecord-Herald
Shoulder cape vogue and modern love making in fashion notes
The Dry Goods Guide highlights a revival shoulder cape with low neck and matching dress material. Patterns like the tulle boa appear in rich colors while advice columns discuss modern dating norms, wedding decor ideas, and floral choices for spring ceremonies with emphasis on fashion and decor trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saga
Women gardeners sought for garden leadership at Studley College
The London Daily Mail notes rising demand for Indley skilled gardeners at Studley College Warwickshire founded by Tady Warwick. Applicants include lady students for garden supervision roles, with higher wages demanded by women. Swanley Vorticultural College already admits women and has trained many students over the past nineteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indley
Studley College
Warwickdiire
Tady Warwick
Vorticultural College
Swanley
Nneteen
London Daily Mall
Fashion Notes on Skirts Bloomer Legacy and Paris Fashions
The article discusses the secret of the successful skirt as a shortened waist influence, praises the Bloomer movement led by Mrs. Anne Bloomer and Susan Fowler as surviving fashion rebels, and surveys current Paris trends with pongee fabrics, lace overdresses, gloves, hats, and evening gowns. It notes enduring style battles and practical dress advice for a summer season with vivid mentions of figures and garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ean
Couturieres
Walt
Bloomers
Anne Bloomer
New York
Bloomer
Bloower Brigade
Susan Fowler
Vineland
N. J
Jersey
Mina Fowler
Pettee’s Guidance Shapes Brookley Boarders in Summer
Miss Pettee touts a hands on system to improve neighbors and boarders. She assigns tasks, explains methods to Jessy and others, and uses practical chores like mail routines and croquet layout to motivate cooperation. Her approach aims to energize residents through simple daily duties and mentoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Pettee
Brookley
Jessy
Mr. Loomis
Abg Hanson
Vilase
Miss Compton
Sammie
Shelter for Fuchsias Care Guide
The summer blooming fuchsias should be set in a sheltered spot and given ample water at both foliage and roots. Spray the under and upper leaf surfaces thoroughly for profuse and constant blooming.
Mulberry Trees From Seed For Quick Growth In Henyards
Mulberry trees can be started from seed and grow rapidly, providing food for fowls while distracting them from cherries. Leaves should be allowed to die before spring flowering bales are left in soil, then dug up and replanted in a secluded area to mature. If not, plants may die back and be replaced the next season.
Garden tips for kitchen drainage and aphid warning
A gardener advises using over beds near kitchen doors to water plants with dish water, reducing grease drain clogging. The piece notes open soil and pulverized mulch prevent soil problems, while spring buds attract aphids whose eggs overwinter on twigs, hatching before buds open and feeding on new growth.
Side grafting techniques for small stock in late season
The article explains side grafting in late season when leaves are budding and bark peels. It describes a T shaped stock cut, three form types of selon a d and ec with form a preferred, details on twisting a curved twig into the cut and securing with kraft wax and cloth, and notes scion and selon bud types and reusability of stock.
Weeding Advice From Eben E Rexford
Keep the weeds down here I remember that every weed you allow to grow and form seed will furnish progeny enough to fill the entire burden next season. If plants are thick in the beds, thin them at once. Do not throw away pulled plants. Some friend may want them. If not, compost them in a corner to provide flowers for nursing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirper’s Weekly
Paris
Herselves
Nuiting
Eben E. Rexford
Railways and Engineering Review
Thunder Outbursts Rule Rodent Fishing Routines
Excerpt shows colorful slang and comic snippets from a 19th century issue. Verses describe fishing misadventures with corks and fins while jokes and quips appear on topics from science to a chauffeur in a cartoon panel.
Suburbanite Dialogue On Courtesy And Honesty
A humorous exchange from the American Spectator and Suburbanite features a clerk offering candor as a substitute for honesty and a visitor miscommunicating with a dog, with playful misspellings and clipped street lingo reflecting daily urban chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pease
American Spectator
Rising Social Climbers Snubbed by Elite Circles
A bystander notes a woman ascending society faces cold reception from the established set. The comment suggests she grows more influential as others fade or retreat in response to her rising status.
Plaice Tts Loss Own Number In Olde Indiana Tale
A garbled relic passage mentions a character asking for a number and another replying that the numbers do not exceed 36. The text resembles a playful misreading of an older Indiana tale segment with dialogue about age and numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anouuer
Las Annales
Procrastination 14 Percent in Danger For Investigation
A fragmentary quote shows a young teen anxious to learn and Dunthn Stix replying with gratitude for earlier attention. The source text is a damaged Washington Star clipping with uncertain attribution and unclear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tein
Dunthn
Stix
Washington Star
Britain’s Richest Man Alfred Beit Dead
Alfred Beit, famed diamonds and South Africa mining magnate known as the Diamond King, died after years of paralysis. He built vast wealth from Beers Consolidated Mines and Rand Mines interests, partnered with Cecil Rhodes, and funded Polish and German-educated philanthropy in arts and education in Hamburg and Britain. He never married, held vast holdings, and his passing prompted no immediate market shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Alfred Beit
England
Hamburg
Beit
Ife
Belt
Rhelt
Cecil Rhodes
Rhodes
Helt
Beers Consolidated Mines
Wernher, Beit & Co
Rand Mines
Rhodesia Railways
Bechuanaland Railway Trust
Consolidated Company
Bullfontein Mine
British South African Company
Jamison Commission
Bet
South Africa Company
Loyd
Transvaal
Technical School
Oxford
Public Led Ger Quips on Parliament Day
Fragmentary quotation notes a remark on a day chosen for the Russian Parliament. The exchange discusses differences in wording and public reaction to the government bolus reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Ledger
Fragmented Riddle on Ages at Tea Party
A garbled quotation shows a tea party scene where someone is announced a count of years. Ethel weighs in with a retry about age, claiming she has not yet turned the stated age. The text presents a playful but unclear dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie
Ethel
Prosaic Days Test Love on TV Job Dilemma
Fragmentary dialogue questions Love about being blind and facing the end of services. The speakers speculate if Sam appearing on TV could hinder or help finding work with a likely government role.
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Love
Det
Sam
Traveling salesmen and hotel clerk discuss aging itinerants
George Mong of the Coates House notes three traveling salesmen over fifty registered that morning. He says many long‑time travelers from New York endure rough lives but keep steady work between New York and Kansas City for decades, while most live with modest means and struggle when sick away from home.
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George Mong
Coates House
New York
Kansas City
Howmewa
Wantself
Karpas City
Carnegie Steel Works Faces Long Plant Shutdown
Nearly 500 workers in the armor plate department at Carnegie Steel's Homestead plant risk long unemployment after losing the contract to supply armor plate for the battleships South Carolina and Michigan. The department is nearly at a standstill with government work finished months ago and about 450 men laid off. around 50 remain to make safe plate and night work continues. Contracts for this material have been mostly filled and the department will soon close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
Homesfead
South Carolina
Michigan
Prisoner Riggs Ends Life in Minneapolis Hotel
Elias N. M. Riggs, jailed in the Millie Elson murder case, shot himself in a Minneapolis hotel room after requesting to see his wife and daughter visiting nearby. He talked with friends earlier and appeared pale but cheerful. The fatal self inflicted wound was to the temple.
Feigned Insanity Claim Tighe Sanity Dispute
The article asserts Marlin Tighe was declared insane five years ago and allegedly deceived alienists, maintaining he was sane when sent to Matrenwan, North.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlin Tighe
Matrenwan, N
Trmigeation Records Break at New York Port
Record crowds flood New York Harbor as over a million people enter the port during the year ending December 20 breaking prior migration benchmarks. Officials report extraordinary turnout and heightened activity across ships and terminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fs Island
New York
Sporting Brevities
Fragmented notes report William Las buying Allie Fon Armour’s item for 75000 amid Miss May Sutton losing a British women’s tennis title to Miss Douglass. Several athletes and matches are listed with various clubs, locales, and pending purses.
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Emperor Wiliam Las
Allie Fon Armour
Vache Utuwana
Poying
Teniys McGovern
Jimmy Wyatt
Doherty
S. U
Hamotey Roads
Secretary Shaw offers Panama Canal bonds for sale
Washington reports Secretary Shaw offers for sale 30 million dollars in Panama Canal loan bonds bearing two percent interest dated August 1, 1906. A note says hostilities have broken out between Salvador and Guatemala. The Agriculture Department places corn acreage at 635,000 acres higher by 1.6. The Fisheries Commissioner states US fishermen sold water products worth 56 million dollars in 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Salvador
Guatemala
Commissioner of Fisheries
United States
Outbreaks and legal actions in Manila and Puerto Rico
Reports detail suicides in Manila at the Army and Navy Club and hangings in Honolulu for wife killings. Philippine Commission members return to Manila from Baguio, with Commissioner Worcester recovering from pneumonia. A Porto Rico judge obtains a divorce license in Philadelphia, and Luzon outlaw Montalon surrenders to Batangas forces. Legislature in San Juan holds a session to fund a harbor pier purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okamoto
Lorenzo Colon
Porto Rico
Honolulu
Hawaii
Philippine Commission
Maanila
Baguol
Worcester
Manila
Juntice MacLeary
Philadelphia
Montalon
Luzon
P. L
Col. Bandholtz
Batangas
San Juan
P. R
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company
San Juan Harbor
Naval aratyr plate contract split among two firms
The Carnegis and Bethlehem Steel join Midvale to win a naval alloy plate contract on better terms to keep plants from idling. A string of odd reports follows from wartime and political events across the U S and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegis
Bethlehem Steel Companies
Midvale
Esac
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Harvey J. Shaffer
John Shipps
Sayville
Long Island
Winthrop
Board of Education
W. Steel
Harrisburg
New York
Manhattan
Frederick Henry Cossitt
Dugro
New York City
Thomas A. Ediron, Jr
Samuel Greenbaum
New York Supreme Court
J. Bruce Ismay
International Mercantile Marine Company
Iudge
Hargis
Beattyville
J. B. Marcum
Chicago Packers
Massachusetts Health Board
Curtis Jett
W. M M. Oler
American Ice Company
Mexican Central Railroad
New Orleans
Seven Little Girls Drown in Cedar River Tragedy
Seven Cedar Rapids girls aged seven to sixteen drowned while wading in the Cedar River near Kills Park. Ruth Kiersey escaped. The group included Lucille Sweeting Mazel Sweeting Gladys Sweeting Jesse Sweeting Cora Coyle Clara Usher. Mrs Usher attempted rescues as the sandbar collapsed, with onlookers aiding later. Grace Brown of Otsego was recovered from Big Moose Lake Utica with search ongoing for Carl Graham of Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cedar River
Ruth
Klersey
Lucille
Mazel
Gladys
Jesse Syweting
Cora Coyle
Clara Usher
Sweeting
Kills Park
Sweetnip
Coyle
Sioux City
Mrs. Usher
Ruth Klersey
Luckle Sweeting
Hazel Sweeting
Ruth Kiersey
Big Moose Lake
Utica
N. Y
Grace Brown
Otaelic
Adirondacks
Carl Graham
Albany
Augusta Banker Fugitive After Theft Of Large Cotton Funds
T W Alexander of Alexander and Alexander, a cotton brokerage firm, defaulted on nearly 200000 dollars and fled Augusta leaving a note blaming market losses. Investigators found he diverted firm resources and defrauded Augusta banks using cotton warehouse receipts, with losses to the Georgia Railroad Bank and loans to friends ranging from 1000 to 6000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
T. W. Alexander
Alexander & Alexander
Alexander
Georgia Railroad Bank
Alexandr
Sister shoots brother in Union Station after Holy Roller chase
Esther Mitchell, a follower of Crofield, killed her brother George Mitchl in Union Station after a prior trial acquittal. Mitchl had shot Prana Edmunds Crofield, the Holy Roller Prophet, on a pier in Rainity, then pursued Crofield through Seattle. Esther had joined the Mory Rollers at Corvallis and spent the following day in Seattle lodging houses seeking her sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
George Mitchl
Prana Edmunds Crofield
Inranity
Esther
Union Station
Esther Mitchell
Corvallis
Ore
Croffield
Shes Hin
Cromfield
Citter
Mitchell
Crefiekt
Awards for Battleships South Carolina and Michigan
Secretary Bonaparte awarded contracts for two 16000 ton battleships South Carolina and Michigan. The Cramps of Philadelphia received one bid of 3 40 000 and the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, NJ received 3 685 000. Congress restricted building to one ship per contractor.
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Washington, D D. C
Bonaparte
South Carolina
Michigan
Cramps
Philadelphia
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
McCall Left Small Estate Revealed in Appraisal
John A. McCall former President of the New York Life Insurance Company died poor. An appraisal shows his net personal property does not exceed 40835 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Thaw Denies Insanity as Indictment News Unfolds
Harry Thaw from the Tombs New York City issues his first statement after indictment denying insanity. The report notes witnesses recount threats toward Stanford White and mentions other domestic and international items from the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaw
Harry Thaw
Tombs
New York City
Lake Shore
St. Petersburg
International Policy Holdare Committee
Mutual
New York Life
Binhagd Vay Onalman
Fatal Fight on NYC Hotel Construction Floor
At a plaza hotel site on Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue a brutal clash on steel girders left Michael Butler a killed retired policeman and two other special officers seriously hurt. Four iron workers were arrested for felonious assault as union nonunion tensions flared during the ongoing work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Noog Hich
Ofn Lindt
Butler
Flower Hospital
John J. Cullen
East Thirty-ninth Street
William O'Toole
O'Toole
Union Iron Workers
Fifty-first Street
John Enright
Amsterdam Avenue
Wilam Kured
East One Hundred
East Fifty-first Street
Five killed and twenty injured in trolley freight crash
A collision on the International Traction Co. Lockport Line near Buffalo left five dead and about twenty hurt. A westbound two-car trolley struck an open switch and crashed into a sidetracked seven-car freight train. Motorman John Bittleman died outright. numerous passengers suffered severe head and limb injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Lockport
International Trattion Company
Tonawanda
Martinaville
John Bittleman
Theodore Nestman
Henry Erpell
E. A. Wilde
H. J.walz
Emma’. Maloney
M. A. Sickles
Mrg. F. Schomburg
Elizabeth F. Willams
Virginia Snderson
J. D. Ierath
Niagara Falls
E. F. Crown
Lockfort
Henry Frick
Tonawandy
Wiliam Fritter
Leo Johnson
Notomada
Salvador Secures First Victory as Guatemala War Breaks Out
Salvador forces claim a first battle victory as war erupts with Guatemala. Tensions rise across the region as armed clashes begin and regional authorities call for restraint and peace efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvador
Guatemala
Railways Reports Higher Earnings for June
Railway earnings for June show a 9.7 percent rise over the 1905 figures. The gain reflects improved revenues in the railway sector this year.
Tinned Meat Imports Stop at Albert Docks
Goods from America halt at London docks as June shipments fell from 27000 to 4000 cases this year. July receipts reached 24000 cases, but no tinned meats have arrived from the United States so far this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Albert Docks
London
Boston
New Orleans
United States
Feminine Notes and Royal Gossip Across the Globe
A jumble of early 20th century social notes recounts Prides in Australia, women photographed in China, Gr and Rapids Women is Federation of Labor, Mrs Fleming at Marvard Observatory, American women hosting London gatherings, Roosevelt’s daughter at court, a Cincinnati firm crafting a $10,000 gold telephone for Mrs Nicholas Longworth, Mills twins in London society, Denmark’s new queen and Queen Louise’s height, Empress Eugenia’s wardrobe value, and genteel commentary on horses and dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
China
Grand Rapids
Mich
Women’s Federation of Labor
Fleming
Marvard Observatory
Society of American Women
London
Longworth
Reid
Roosevelt
King Edward's Court
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Mills Twins
Ogden Mills
Denmark
Europe
Queen Louise
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Harper's Weekly
Wilistons Heart
VOGUE
Bebe
Philadelphia Record
London Graphic
Cinciunati Inquirer
Inauye McUssellNe
Missy
Dougsit
Tibet
Aphis
Aave
E. D. Sander
The
Garder Magazine
Moneyer Amusement Parks
Seleft Ina
Adee Cone
New York Sun
Condon Panel
Boston ‘Transcript
Waslington
Britain
South Africa
Carnegie Company
Mimself
M. Riggs
Washington
Tallmadge H. Brereton
Second Infantry
Army and Navy Club
Manilaa
Association of
Tomas Regalado
Wes
William J. Bryan
Van
Turkey
Warsaw
Iquique
White
Seaport
John D. Rockefeller
France
Salsburg
St. Paul's Cathedral
Louis Bernath
Berne
Switzerland
Uzveka
Russia
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
House of Commoner
Canadian Senate
Canada
Manchuria
Seoul
Daily Mail
Korea
Neserto
Enbat
Guts Puxseon
Spain
Pojnen Ovteokka
Abmeuiane i
Augusta, Ga
Kells Her
Rother
Cramps and
New York Company
McCall
Plaza Hotel
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