Boston Blue-Blood Romance Shocks Back Bay Society
Harvard student William F. Clapp, son of Mrs. Samuel G. Adams, marries Ellen Gertrude Reise, a Jordan Marsh shopgirl, after a chain of romances involving Horatio Bigelow and the Reise sisters. The unions unfold across Watertown, Norwicht, Providence, and Boston society reels.
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Boston
Cupid
Pid
Archer
Back Bay
Harvard
State Street
Somerset
New York World
Harrison Grey Otis
Jordan’s
White’s
Houghtons
Marlborough Street
Adams
Clapp
William F. Clapp
Samuel G. Adams
Ellen Gertrude Reise
Government Arsenal
Watertown
Miss Reise
Mary J
San Francisco
Roxbury
Edward L. Atkinson
Mr. Atkinson
Transcript
Newport
Young Bigelow
Bigelows
Japan
Mrs. Bigelow, Jr
Reises
Alt
Mrs. Bigelow
Young Clapp
Ellen Reise
New England Telephone Company
Taunton
Jordan & Marsh’s
Providence
Courageous Women Foil Burglar Plot at Sharon Home
In Sharon Connecticut Mrs. M H Davis and Mrs. Mallory woke to masked men plotting to burn and loot the Thayer residence. Davis fired three shots, struck one burglar, Mallory fired to deter, and the invaders fled. Police search for two men.
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Millerton
N. Y
Sharon
Conn
Thayer
New York
M. H. Davis
Mrs. Davis
Grinnell Iowa Preacher Arrested After Kidnap Attempt
A Methodist minister A C Boyd wearing a revolver and carrying a warrant tried to kidnap Vergie C Brown a Grinnell College student. The girl resisted. the revolver fell and she was returned home. Boyd later admitted she was of age and the Wayne county insanity papers were false.
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Vergie C. Brown
Missouri
Vergie
Charles Brown
Grinnell
Lineville
Wayne County
Grinnell College
District Court
Miss Brown
Boyd
Fred Bailey
Bradley
Bronn
Roosevelt Household Studies Reported At White House
Washington notes say Miss Alice Roosevelt studies Spanish for her July Philippines trip with Secretary Taft, while Theodore Roosevelt Jr. continues private tutoring for Harvard. Quentin Roosevelt pursues music amid garden play, and Mrs Roosevelt enjoys Potomac outings with the children aboard the Dolphin whenever weather allows.
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Alice Roosevelt
Quentin
Theodore
Washington, D. C
President Roosevelt
Philippines
Pacific
Frisco
Taft
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Ing
Harvard
White House
Imaginative California writer tricks editors
A man from an obscure California town devises a crafty hoax to learn of manuscript decisions. He sends a self addressed postcard with a fake acceptance claiming a $100 price from a publishing company. The ruse relies on the post office and town gossip to reveal rejections.
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California
Bookman
Between Them Sparks Fly Over Smashing Cigars
A Houston Post note recalls a conversation where Pa suspects a hidden romance based on how two people sat together, while one replies that her face revealed it and admits she was smashing his cigars, hinting at tension and secrecy.
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Houston Post
Not Good Anyway Swifton Feud Over Check Overdraft
An exchange proves tense over a payment by check with a scamp. Swifton dismisses concerns noting the matter is an overdraft. Town Top of discussion centers on punitive financial consequences and the tension remains unresolved.
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Gotrocks
Swifton
Paris Trainer Survives Lion Attack During Show
Athlete Rey, linked to an animal show in Paris, escaped death after Brutus the lion bit his jacket and began tearing him. The trainer kept fighting to hold the beast back while workers freed him, as a second lion pressed from an adjacent cage.
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Paris
Rey
Brutus
Pigeon Halts Logansport Clock At 6 20
A pigeon roosting on the minute hand of the Cass county courthouse tower clock stopped the town clock at 6:20. The bird refused to move despite the dial lighting up. A janitor climbed to shoo it away. the mechanism resumed at 7:15.
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Logansport
Ind
Cass County
Too Much Responsibility Keeps Trip Decision Up to Wife
A light Detroit Tribune exchange shows Mr. Kepdown deferring a summer plan to his wife who used to wake him at night to remind him of the pace he set last summer. The humor hinges on domestic decision making and shared life in a humorous light.
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Mary - Reise
Horatio Bigelow
Mary Reise
Boston
Arsenal
Bigelow
Mr. Kepdown
Detroit Tribune
Not Very Favorable to Him in Ally Sloper Dialogue
A brief Ally Sloper cartoon dialogue shows a sly exchange where one character teases thought reading while the other asserts fearlessness. The pair discuss guessing thoughts and silencing a future slip of the tongue in a brisk, humorous exchange.
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Ally Sloper
One Woman's Work and Quick Endings
Humorous quip contrasts a modern reader with a habit of finishing popular novels. A brief Puck dialogue highlights a busy woman’s priority and a playful jab at popular fiction endings.
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Puck
Recollections of Grant Told By an Old Soldier
An elderly voice recalls the Civil War battle of the general, noting personal bravery and shared danger. He rejects praise or a formal recollection, preferring simple credit for being there and standing by the fallen commander.
Battle of Bear River and Winter Fight in Nevada
The account recalls a fierce Bear River clash with Utah and Montana renegade tribes, detailing a crossing on ice, heavy casualties, and the capture or killing of many warriors and dependents. It notes Colonel Edward Connor’s Third California regiment and later praise for Companies L and H of the Second Cavalry in Spring Valley Nevada, now Goldfield mining camp.
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Bear River
Utah
Montana
P. Edward Connor
Third California
Camp Douglas
Salt Lake City
W. H. Parker
California
National Tribune
Second Cavalry
Spring Valley
Nev
Goldfeld Mining Camp
College Customs Riot Sparks Campus Clash
An American legation attache watches as students stream from college buildings and erupt into a chaotic riot with red flags and frenzied shouts. The manager warns of arrest while the attache misinterprets the scene as a college cane rush or hazing party.
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American Legation
Michaelovitch
N. Y. Sun
Prize of Four Thousand Pounds for Alien Contact Discovery
The Paris Academy of Science offers a £4000 prize founded by Pierre Guzmann for finding a method to communicate with inhabitants of another planet. another prize, the Breant, awaits discovery of an infallible remedy against Asiatic cholera.
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Paris Academy of Science
Pierre Guzmann
Cremation Trends Reveal Gender Gap in Germany
In Germany for the first quarter, 139 women were cremated versus 307 men, with total cremations up 38 percent from the same period last year.
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Germany
Geary County Poor Farm Grapes Support Inmates
The Geary county poor farm maintains an 11 acre vineyard where inmates pick grapes in a good year to sustain the institution. The harvest supports the farm operation and workers.
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Geary County
Kansas City Journal
Soldier Dignity Triumphs Over Debauchery in Nashville March
A veteran recalls a first year of the Civil War when his company, briefly drunken before a Nashville march, steadied under martial music. Buell commanded arrests after crockery was thrown from a house, yet the soldiers stood proud as they passed.
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Buell
Nashville
Bugle Corps
Gen
Inter Ocean
Shackling Davis Ends in Scuffle and Defiance
Brevet Lieut. Col. Craven recounts the attempted shackling of Davis the prisoner of war. Davis resists as captors move to iron his ankles, seizes a sergeant’s musket, is overpowered, and yields after the rivet and padlock are secured. He sobs, lamenting the shame of his confinement.
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Davis
America
Titlow
John J. Craven
M. D
U.S. V
Peason’s Magazine
Volunteers Sent to Quell Hayti Revolt Name Sourced
During a Hayti uprising the Port au Prince government forces requisitioned Cape Haytien for 100 volunteers. After days of effort Cape Haytien authorities gathered the men and loaded them aboard ship. A message to the Port au Prince commander asked to return the ropes used to bind the volunteers.
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Hayti
Port Au Prince
Cape Haytien
Saginaw
Port Haytien
Irish Guards Band Barred From U S visit by War Office
The British War Office refused permission for the Irish Guards band to tour American cities during their summer trip to Canada, signaling a blocked U S engagement.
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United States
British War Office
Irish Guards’ Band
Canada
Old Pensioner Still Draws British Soldier Pension
James McCardie of Jamaica Plain Massachusetts is 100 years old and has drawn a sixpence a day pension as a British soldier since 1852.
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James McCardie
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Poached Eggs or Salmon Offer Stuns Irish Hotel Guest
A hotel waiter in Ireland tells a tourist there are no eggs, then, after a moment, offers poached salmon instead. The remark adds a humorous note to a casual dining exchange at the hotel.
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Ireland
Old English law on funeral hats fines and imprisonment
A Chester law historically punishes not lifting a hat during a funeral. The old statute could bring the offender before a magistrate and imprisonment.
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