Eight Years Ago and Now in New York Delegation
Washington dispatch notes Thomas Platt's 1900 control of New York's delegation contrasts with his expected absence at Chicago. It highlights Taft's delegate lead, Allison's Iowa victory, du Pont buying a Washington Post stake, and a veteran portrait of political shifts along with scattered sports scores and fashion notes.
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New York
Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Chicago
Burton
Ohio
Taft
Tom Pratt
Platt
Plate
Philadelphia
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt
Chauncey M.depew
Ben Odell
Serena E. Payne
House Representatives
Aldan
Mr. Pratt
Allison
Senator Allison
Cummins
Iowa
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Hawkeye
House
Senate
Congress
Senator du Pont
Delaware
Beriah Wilkins
Washgton Post
Wilkins
Oli A
Frank Hatten
Kee Post
John R. McLean
du ‘Pont
Bucklen Theatre season ends with hampered crowds and praise
Klaw and Erlinger’s Ham Tree at Bucklen pleased a fair audience with two comic acts and a large chorus. The season closed with 148 performances, strong musical offerings, and stars Blanche Walsh and Lillian Russell, as well as plans to rebuild the theatre front and foyer by August.
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Bucklea Theatre
Klaw & Erlanger
James McIntyre
T. K. Heath
the Bucklen
Bucklen
Ham Tree
H. G. Sommers
Timmins
Blanche Walsh
Lillian Russell
New York
Garrick Theatre
Chicago
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Broadway
Little Johnny Jones
George Sidney
Izzy
Ralph Stuart
Mrs. Wiggs
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Ike Harry G. Sommers
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Consid
Markets Report Chicago Board of Trade Quotation Summary
Chicago June 12 price quotations for wheat corn oats pork lard and live stock futures. Highlights include July wheat at 74 83? 85% and Sept at 84 56 85% with Dec around 80%. corn July 67 5 675 and Sept 66 65. oats July 42 43 42 14 and Sept 35 05 8514. hogs receipts 22,000 with prices from 5.65 to 5.75 for choice heavy shipments. cattle receipts 3,000 with prime steers 7.50 to 7.85. sheep receipts 8,000 with wethers 5.40 to 5.75 and lambs 5.00 to 26.25. hay values and regional prairie feeds listed.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Ulhofs
Indiana
Wisconsin
Illinois
Wisconsia
Thought on the heavens and a knothole fence
A poetic fragment from Harper's Weekly imagines stars as knotholes in a distant sky fence for angel boys to peep through. The verse reflects whimsical, celestial imagery in a concise meditation on view and longing.
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Wilfred
Angel Boys
Harper's Weekly
Strength Assured Taft Mock in Summer Debate
Eva assures strength in the familiar mock exchange as they discuss the summer plan. The line references a Taft themed mock discussion popular in the New York World era.
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Jack
New York World
Embroidered Linen Suits and Summer Fashion Flourish
Richly embroidered linen suits in warm ruby and cerise tones lead the season with hand worked coats and skirt designs. Baby dresses use sheer linen and dainty embroidery on slips, with Dutch bonnets and set outfits for infants up to six months.
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Ruby
Cerise
Sided With Father
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote describes a suburban family with frequent loud quarrels between Hicks and Stubbs. Their young son jokes that whenever the Stubbies fish, the Hickses holler, illustrating cross-family tensions in a small town.
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Hicks
Stubbs
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Merry Widow Ring Styles and Hair Fashion Notes
The article describes the Merry Widow ring with Tuscan settings and oblong stones, turquoise for blondes, coral for brunettes, and flexible color choices. It also covers hair trends with neckward coifs, front rats replaced by pack rats, and practical morning wear with flat smooth tucks, noting easier marking with cotton than wool.
Unruly Husband Compares Breakfast To Burned Steak
A Somerville journal vignette portrays a young wife puzzled by her husband’s fault finding over a vase of flowers at breakfast and a burned steak, illustrating domestic frictions.
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Somerville Journal
Went a Shade Better In Veiled Exchange
A Philadelphia Ledger line quotes two men in a heated exchange as one accuses the other of being temperamentally impossible and inconceivable, the dialogue capturing a sharp verbal clash.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Out of season gifts please her says Kansas City Journal
A Kansas City Journal quote notes a woman who would be pleased by any gift that is out of season, implying a preference for novelty or timing over specific choices. The remark highlights lighthearted domestic humor about gift relevance and timing.
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Kansas City Journal
The Usher Ad Medium Shown By Print Run
The article notes about 105000 programs printed in the recently closed season most circulated among the better class of people, highlighting The Usher as a valuable advertising medium.
Father William’s Indian Tea Promises Health To Women
Good news to women touts Father William's Indian Tea as a popular remedy for pale weak nervous delicate females. It claims to quiet nerves, restore flesh, strengthen the step, brighten eyes, improve complexion, and make women well again. Tea or tablets selling 20 cents, available from E. D. Miller and F. H. Bentz & Co.
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Father William
E. D. Miller
South Main
F. H. Bentz & Co
Ancient Greece jumper reportedly clears fifty feet lie
An ancient Greek record claims Phaylus achieved a remarkable leap with weights and a springboard, supposedly clearing about fifty feet, a feat no living person could near.
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Ancient
Greece
Phaylus
The Bengalese described as a nonwarlike race
A writer states that the Bengalese are not warlike people due to damp warm climate. He notes they have flesh but are small boned with small wrists and ankles, making them naturally less inclined to combat.
Cut Flowers with Potatoes and Temperature Guides
The piece advises sending cut flowers by inserting stems into slitted potatoes to hold them, claiming ordinary potatoes keep flowers fresh for about two weeks in moderate temperature. It then notes Mercury works between 40 and 675 degrees, freezing at 40 and boiling at 675, with alcohol for lower temps and air thermometers for higher temps.
Paganini’s One String Virtuosity Survives Prison
A fragment notes the Italian revolutionary era where Paganini was jailed as a suspect. Despite confinement, he honed an extraordinary skill on a single string, performing with a mastery that rivaled players with four strings.
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Paganini
Italy
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