Notable Figures Move Through Quick Morning Routines and Honors
Ambassador Choate adheres to a strict morning routine from 8 breakfast to 11 letters. Venezuelan consul elect J I Diaz Barcenas, an electrical engineer, is a Mass Tech 1895 graduate. Samuel Fries dies at Steinsville, Pa, with a six foot beard. Spencer breaks silence on South Africa opposing British action. Secretary Long to fund a Buckfield free library in memory of his father. Peru's Alvarez Calderon places two sons and two nephews in Maryland Agricultural College. Brigadier General Bruce Hamilton rises quickly in the British army. Edward Paxson becomes Medico-Chirurgical College president signaling lay management. London Lord Mayor Alderman Green linked to Tower Bridge and electric lighting. Wallace couple donates original Prince of India manuscript to Wabash College library.
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J. I. Diaz Barcenas
Philadelphia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel Fries
Steinsville
Lehigh County
Herbert Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Wabash College Library
Fashion notes on dress fabrics and decorations
The New York Sun describes current fashion details with French knots, lace, gray silk waists, a soft felt tricorne hat with buckles, red velvet appliques with gold embroidery, silk matchesse wraps, fancy gem buttons, sea gull motifs on chiffon muffs, light tweeds with white thread, frieze fabrics, and embroidered trims. The Chicago Journal quotes a quip about newspapers misquoting others.
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New York Sun
King Leads in Utah Congress Race Early Returns
Salt Lake City Nov 10 latest returns show King Democrat ahead of his ticket with Sutherland’s majority narrowed to about 500 to 600 as votes near completion.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
King
Congress
Sutherland
Corpses Used as Target Practice Near Ka merdorf and Julesberg
Berlin November 10 reports on target grounds near Ka merdorf and Julesberg where Mauser rifles and new field guns are tested. Hundreds of pauper corpses serve as targets as bullets at short range tear apart soft inner organs and severely mutilate bodies.
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Berlin
Kamerdorf
Julesberg
The Pirate Shadow Over Shanghai Chee Wing Su Saga
An American opium clipper crew battles Chinese pirates led by Chee Wing Su off the Yangtse coast. After a double crossing, a decisive ambush and killings ensue, ending with Chee Wing Su's execution and Shanghai officials quietly backing the action.
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Shangtung
Yellow Sea
China
Hongkong
Yang-tse-Kiang
Straits of
Formosa
Chee-Wing-Su
Shanghai
Chee-Wing- Su
Vic
Providence
Earth
The Luggage of Lost Sovereigns on Regent Street
An elderly statistician-type man in London spots a man who dropped a sovereign. He notes the coin and records the finder’s details, confessing he found none himself but suspects many losses in a big city. He adds the detail that the morning yielded thirty first such loss.
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Regent Street
London
Bride and Groom Ride Rough Atlantic
A jokey exchange from Harper's Bazar describes a bride who dies at sea and a groom who stays unbothered as the couple crosses the Atlantic for their honeymoon. Two Scotch gentlemen listen as the stewardess delivers the grim news in a humorous tone.
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Parrhties
Harper’s Bazar
Mother Endures Rain and Hope in Quiet Life
A mother endures a constant rain that mirrors her life yet remains bright in toil. The speaker notes her faith and effort through day and night, loving despite hardship, as she never sees gray skies in her heart.
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C. H. Towne
Widow Maynard Finds Love After Leap Year Revelations
In a St. Louis Star adaptation, widow Mrs. Maynard, rich and social, contends with a war-worn admirer Lewis Baxter. She hints he should marry for money, but confides she loves him, and he reveals he loves her. The pair acknowledge their mutual affection on a leap year turning point.
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Joshua Maynard
Mrs. Maynard
New York City
Lewis Baxter
Baxter
Lewis
St. Louis
Remenyi the Hungarian Violinist Recalls American Joke
Dr William Mason recounts Eduard Remenyi the Hungarian violinist who mixed gypsy style with Schubert. a humorous episode about an imagined bona fide American speech and a remembered greeting "Ching a ling a dardee Che bung cum Susan" from Weimar days.
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Eduard Remenyi
Weimar
Susan
Steinway Building
Remenyi
William Mason
Century
Tompkins Defeats Lentz in Close Twelfth District Race
In Columbus Ohio on November 9 the official count shows Hon. Emmett Tompkins elected to Congress over Hon. John J. Lentz by a narrow 8 vote plurality amid a district total exceeding 50 000 ballots. The county canvassing board issued the certificate of election to Tompkins.
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Tompkins
Lentz
Columbus
Emmett Tompkins
John J. Lentz
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