Most Beautiful Woman In America Named Mrs Walter Farwell
The Beauty Book contest chose Mrs Walter Farwell of Washington and Chicago as the most beautiful woman in America. Her mother was Mildred Williams once married to Stephen A Douglass and later General Williams. Farwell family ties include connections to Ex Senator Farwell and prominent Chicago society.
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America
Walter Farwell
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Mildred Williams
Windy City
Young Farwell
Farwell
Painted Post
New York
Illinois
Farwell Brothers
Texas State Capitol
Reginald de Koven
Tex
Mrs. Farwell
Stephen A. Douglass
Gen. Williams
United States Army
Washington
Jessiee
Hobart Chatfield Taylor
Mother Hubbard
Fairbanks 18 Active as Indiana Hulls for 1908 Nomination
Fairbanks moves in Indiana to secure delegates and build a force for the 1908 Republican nomination. He counts on Illinois with Dawes as western manager and eyes Ohio with Taft and Foraker as rivals. South gains for delegates follow Marcus Hanna’s methods as Fairbanks widens influence to outpace Beveridge and Cannon.
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Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
South
Gates
Fairbanks
McKinley
Senator Hanna
William McKinley
Marcus A. Hanna
Hanna
Republican Party
Ihinois
Charles G. Dawes
Illnois
Cannon
Dawes Ig
Fairbanks Boom
Taft
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Buckeye
Hoosifer
India's Richest Potentate the Gaikwar of Baroda
A profile of the Gaikwar of Baroda during the Prince and Princess of Wales visit praising his immense wealth. It details the jeweled carpet of rubies and diamonds, the colossal diamond necklace, the wife’s jewels, a five hundred diamond collarette including the Star of the South, and vast ancestral treasure stored in palaces as a royal procession fills Baroda streets.
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Prince and Princess of Wales
India
Orient
Gaikwar
Rajah
Baroda
Milton
East
John D. Rockefeller
Galker
Origin of Easter Name and Meanings
The article explains Easter's name derives from the Saxon goddess Easter or Oster meaning to rise. It notes regional variations naming the day as Bright Day in the East and Great Night in Bohemia.
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Bohemia
Russian Easter visiting customs and greetings
Easter Day in Russia is marked by visiting homes in the morning. Men greet with Jesus Christ is risen and responders answer Yes, He is risen. People exchange red eggs, share drinks, and present a colored egg to the parish priest. Citizens carry red eggs as tokens of the Resurrection for days after Easter.
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Russia
Jesus Christ
Oriental Egg Gamblers and Easter Egg Fight
Hyde notes a Mesopotamian Easter Day custom where Christians strike eggs together to determine ownership. The game continues for forty days with each winning egg challenging the next until the final egg wins all previously held eggs.
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Hyde
Mesopotamia
Italian Immigrant Grants Fueled by Southern Provinces
The bulk of Italian immigrant grants originate from southern provinces, especially Sicily and Calabria, with many immigrants from farming backgrounds.
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Sicily
Calabria
Sleeping Car Acquaintances and the Roosevelt Namesakes
Representative Smith of Maryland jokes about sleeping car namesakes after seeing Archibald Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt at the White House. He compares them to sleeping cars and says he feels like watching the United express pass by from a station platform.
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Representative Smith
Maryland
Kermit
Quentin
Mr. Smith
Why Use Force With Heavy Foodstuffs I Am
A compact yearbook style note proclaims a preference for plentiful magazine jams and a light system that avoids encumbrance, framed as a playful quip about abundance and ease. The piece hints at enjoying current issues full of good things.
Purple bloom plants mostly carry poison warnings
A survey notes that nearly all plants bearing purple blossoms contain toxic compounds. Researchers caution gardeners to identify purple flowers carefully and avoid handling unknown varieties.
A Darky Christening Third Letter of Accounts of Trip
A traveler recounts visits to Jacksonville Savannah and Richmond. In Eustis, he witnesses a Baptist colored immersion by the lake amid orange groves. In Egypt the Primitive Baptist service features loud chants, ecstatic singing, and chaotic foot washing, ending with a peculiar Holy Dance.
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Southland
Jacksonvile
Savannah
Richmond
Eustis
Lake Gracie
Grorndes
Egypt
Primative Baptist
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Chicago and
Waslington
Senate
Beveridge
Senator Beveridge
Baal
Roosevelt
Oriental Egg Gamblers
Eustis Park
Bonaventure Cemetery
Georgia
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Miss Roosevelt
New York City
National Photo-Souvenir CO
Lock Box
Washington, N. C
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