MISS ALICE TO WED NICHOLAS LONGWORTH OF OHIO
A grand White House wedding is planned for mid February making Miss Alice Roosevelt the fiancée of Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati. The romance began during Longworths courtship while Roosevelt traveled to the Orient and Europe looms as the stage for a lavish celebration.
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White House
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Alice
Miss Roosevelt
Taft
Orient
Longworth
Europe
Viscountess de Chambrun
Alice Lee
Boston
Harvard
Miss Roose
velt
William S. Cowles
Anna Roosevelt
Mrs. Cowles
Oregon Senator Mitchell Dies Amid Conviction Fallout
The article outlines the Senate's unusual response to the death of Senator John H Mitchell of Oregon amid his criminal conviction. It notes absence of funeral rites, no adjournment or eulogy, and the vacancy in Oregon’s House delegation as trials proceed for Hermann and Williamson. It compares Mitchell to prior cases and highlights the Senate's adherence to precedent despite scandal.
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United States Senate
John H
Mitchell
Oregon
Burton
Kansas
Senate
Portland
Ore
Fulton
Congress
YViis
Chamberlain
Washington
Pacific slope
Messrs
Binger Hermann
John Newton Williamson
Williamson
Senator Mitchell
Ifermani
strang
Utonia
Napoleon
St. Helena
John H. Mitchell
licely
Broderick
California
Terry
Foster
Connecticut
Generals Questionable Quarter Story Reveals Soldier’s Spending
Gen Chaffee asked a veteran for a quarter after the soldier admitted receiving his pay. The veteran recounted leaving the post with $15.50 and spending it on dinner theatre cigars a Bowery visit totaling $15.00, leaving fifty cents unaccounted. The general quizzed where the missing cent went. The veteran admitted spending it foolishly.
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Bowery
Easy When You Know How
A farmer divides his seventeen horses among three sons with shares one half one third and one ninth. The executor cannot divide nineteen evenly. A neighbor lends a horse making eighteen. The eldest receives nine, the second six, the youngest two, and the neighbor takes back his horse, earning the nickname “Problem” by morning and “Solution” by afternoon.
Peace Reigns After Century of War Between Tribes
Warring Washoe and Piute tribes declare peace after warnings spanning more than a hundred years. Captains Pete and Dave, heads of their tribes, met in Reno with Johnny Key, Dive’s lieutenant, to seal a plan ending hostilities. A six day peace dance is planned at Snarks with both tribes joining in celebration.
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Capt
Pete
Dave
Reno
Nevada
Johnny Key
Dive
pipe of peace
Snarks
Plutes
Northwest
Washoe
Dodge City station gives away half a million trees yearly
The forestry station at Dodge City Kansas is distributing 500000 trees per year as part of a broad planting campaign. Since the start of extensive tree planting there have been notable changes in Kansas climate conditions.
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Dodge City
Kansas
Ghost Points Way To Gold In Cascade Mountains
Two Seattle businessmen, W. L. Bartlett and M. C. Black, claim a perilous journey to a hidden Cascade lode near Seattle and bring back a large bottle of nearly pure gold. Bartlett, descendant of early miner D. E. Ingle, reports messages from his dead grandfather via a Portland medium guiding the test mine. They plan a spring return to develop the find, though access is extremely dangerous and winter conditions are harsh.
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Seattle
W. LE. Bartlett
M. C. Black
Cascades
Bartlett
D. E. Ingels
Portland
Foils the Land Thieves Secretary Hitchcock’s land reform urged
Richard H. Byrd profiles Secretary Hitchcock as the force behind aggressive land fraud prosecutions and sweeping irrigation policy. The piece lauds his role in exposing graft, indicting lawmakers, and advancing national irrigation to transform desert lands into American homes, while warning of ongoing investigations and possible cabinet changes.
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Hitchcock
Interior Department
McKinley
Witchcock
Shitchcock
Interior
United States Commissioners
General Land Office
national House of Representatives
United States Senate
North Platte
Wyoming
Nebraska
Congress
Presi
dent MacKintey
West
United States
Roosevelt
Slitchcock
Geological Survey
Hops Brought to England in 1524 by Artoris Native
A 16th century note claims hops reached England in 1524 via a native of Artoris the Artesian home. Physicians denounced hops as quangerous and King Henry VIII reportedly forbade brewers in the realm from using hops in beer.
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England
Artoris
Henry VIII
Poor wages for shirt workers spark talk of reform
A fragment notes the sewing machine era yet highlights stark pay disparities in shirt production. A female worker is paid only sixty to eighty cents per dozen finished shirts, underscoring harsh labor conditions and calls for change.
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Sra
sewang machine
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ngworth
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CAPITOL
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ALICE ROOSEVELT
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President
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HION, ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK
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