Remarkable Rise of Commissioner John H O Brien in New York
The article traces John H O Brien from a Buffalo reporter to a top political operative in New York. Within four years he becomes a trusted aide to Mayor George B McClellan and soon is named fire commissioner earning 7500 dollars annually. He is described as about five feet ten inches tall and 190 pounds.
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New York
Gadd
Rrea
Gas
Tammany Organization
Buffalo
Adbany
George B. McClellan
Hts
Col McClellan
Ben
Metropolitan
McClellan
Tammany Hall
O'Brien
Chamberlain
Progress of New Campanile in St Mark's Venice
The article details the construction of the Campanile at St Mark's, Venice, noting the height rise above the piazza, foundation work, and pile driving completed October 8, 1904. It explains extending old foundations, the use of Istrian stone blocks, and the anticipated weight and carrying power of the structure.
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St Mark
Victor Bludunel
Venice
Serge
Thanksgiving spoons spark a family tale of romance
A fragmented Thanksgiving chapter follows Sylvia and her mother as they borrow silver spoons from Mrs. Castle to avoid scandal over Laurin's secret marriage. A mistaken identity near the station reveals Laurin chased by a major thinking his wife traveled, leading to a relieved, hopeful ending.
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Mattoon
Poland
Laurin
Lil
Castle
Paar Papa
Vonmeest
Mies
Latiin
Merlin
Svivda
Sylvia
Nannie Castle
Lil Rutt
Nannie
Mamma
Denver
Lill
Inamma
Mrs. Castle
Schmidt's
Katrina
Africa Leads in Gold Output
Africa produces more than one third of world gold. Its annual out put totals 150 million dollars with the United States at 95 million, Australia five million, and New Zealand ten thousand.
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Africa
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Monaco Prince Hosts Notable Autographs Display
The prince of Monaco exhibits a highly valuable autograph collection in a palace wing. Celebrities will be on hand to view the documents and attend the display.
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Prince of Monaco
Hig Highness’ Palace
Monaco
Chamberlain Heads AAAS in Chicago Role
Dr. Thomas Chrowder Chamberlain, elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will confer with President Roosevelt on natural resources conservation. He heads the University of Chicago geology department and is a noted glacier expert, with prior roles as US geologist and head of the government glacial division since 1852.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Roosevelt
University of Chicago
Beloit University
Wisconsin
United States
Milan Approves $1.15 Million for Workingmen Homes
Milan city government votes to appropriate 1 150 000 for building further series of houses for working men and families. The municipal loan office will contribute 100 000 from its profits toward the project.
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Milan
Municipal Loan Office
City Pawn Department
New Cure for Drunkards Shown to Lawbreakers
Denver police report a novel method the photograph cure. Drunk men brought to the station are photographed and shown their image the next morning to deter further drinking. Police claim the procedure yields remarkable results.
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Denver
How to Win a Husband Salad Dressing Recipe
A vintage recipe claims a garlic rubbed bowl, heavy paprika and salt mix, two dessert spoons of olive oil, one of vinegar, and half a lemon juice create a guaranteed harmony inducing dressing. It suggests using with a combi nation salad and garlic rubbed rye bread as accompaniment.
New Style of Omelet With Apricot Jam Glaze
Sift flour sugar and salt. Stir with milk and rind to a paste. Cool and beat in egg yolks then stiffly beaten whites. Bake in pan with butter, invert, bake again then fill with warm apricot jam or marmalade and glaze with sugar.
Simple Scrap Baskets Keep Rooms Tidy
Advice urges placing a scrap basket in each room to collect paper scraps and waste, reducing trips to the kitchen and easing daily tidying. Instructions describe making light baskets from cardboard, wallpaper or denim, tied with ribbons for quick disposal of all waste at once.
Hop Yeast Cakes for Bread From Home Brewed Yeast
Instructions describe making hop yeast by boiling hops with water, thickening with flour, adding potatoes, cooling, fermenting, and drying dough cakes. When used, soak in warm water to rise for bread, with each cake yielding three to four loaves.
Old Fashioned Punch Recipe with Tea and Fruit
Prepare four tablespoons Ceylon English breakfast or green tea in a bowl with a quart of boiling water. Infuse ten minutes, strain, and dissolve two pounds of sugar while boiling three minutes. Add lemon and orange juice, pineapple, strawberries or cherries, grape juice, bananas, oranges, bitter almond, vanilla, and rose water. Add mineral water and ice before serving.
Veal Cut Thickened with Onion Butter Sauce
Butter a dripping pan with salt pepper and onion then lay the veal slice. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven until tender. In pan melt butter stir in flour then gradually add boiling water to make a sauce. Season, cook briefly, strain over the veal and garnish with parsley.
Ada Jean McKey: New York Swindler Surfaces in Rogues Gallery
Ada Jean McKey, a 50 year old Minneapolis native and wife with a son, rose through New York society while running quick rich schemes and bad checks. Police records show a history as a check forger and con artist across several cities, linked with multiple corporations she allegedly founded or manipulated. She was arrested in Chicago in 1904 for obtaining money under false pretenses and later jailed in East Cambridge. Her name and alleged enterprises appear on three Madison Avenue offices, including the Bungalow Park Land Company and American Touring Association.
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NE York
Ada Jean McKey
New York
Burt Koed
Knickerbocker
Ada
Cassie Chadwick
Mme. Humbert
Boston Rogues
Hertillon
Boston Polies
CC. M. Palmer
Chicago
House of Correction
East Cambridge
Mass
Washington
Madison Avenue
McKey
Bungalow Park Land Company
American Touring Association
International Progress Club
Golden Age Company
Minneapolis
W. J. Bryan
Henderson
Sulzer
McKinley
Rival Beauties Wage War Over Manicure Trade at Ansonia
In the Ansonia building rivalry erupts between Miss Jeannette Wilson and Fred Mockel as they recruit beauticians to dominate nails in the basement barber shop and on the office floor. The two establishments compete over style staff and decor as Beethoven and Bach gaze down approvingly on wartime beauty chatter.
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OMG
Ansonia
Fred Mockel
Jeannette Wilson
Mockel
Miss Wilson
Mackel
Great Hotel
Marcel
Beethoven
Bach
Matthew Arnold
Herald Square as City’s busiest human crossroads
An analysis of Herald Square describes it as the city’s most crowded movement hub with about 4,278,000 people passing through in four days. It notes 1,069,760 daily in motion, with 80,000 in Sixth Avenue surface cars, 120,000 in Broadway cars, 293,760 in elevated trains, and 432,000 pedestrians plus 144,000 in other vehicles, all requiring traffic control.
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New York City
Herald Square
Broadway
Sixth Avenue
Thirty-third
Thirty-fourth Streets
The
Square
Quick DIY Grater Cleaner From Straw Brush
A simple home hack creates a tiny cleaning brush from broom straw. Gather a few straw pieces, cut to three inches, tie in the middle, and use as a quick, effective tool to clean a nutmeg grater without damaging the broom.
Yellow dresses define Paris winter design craze
An unusual number of yellow dresses appear among exclusive winter designs, explained by the French love of art. Yellow is seen as the color of artists and is used strikingly by Paris’s top dressmakers to adorn gowns and palettes alike.
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Paris
Simple Butter Cake Instructions for Baking
One third cup butter and one cup sugar are creamed with one egg. Add 1% cups milk and two teaspoons vanilla. Stir in two cups flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine to a smooth batter. Roll thin, cut shapes, and bake in a hot oven.
Wilmerding Wife’s Bigamy Claim Revealed in Suit
In a London to New York case, Miss Wilmerding, linked to Commodore Vanderbilt, is accused by her husband of a bigamous marriage to James Coates, a former valet. The affair began aboard the Cunarder Campania during a voyage from Liverpool.
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Jack C. Wilmerding
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Gladys Vanderbilt
The Diamond Pipe as a Volcanic Formation
The diamond bearing ground in South Africa is the crater of an extinct volcano. Geologists say the diamond soil rose from great depths as boiling mud, like a geyser. Near the surface it appears yellow and crumbly, while deeper it turns green blue and becomes harder, termed blue ground.
Telephoto attachment enhances distant photography
A telephoto lens addition proves splendid for cameras enabling photographers to obtain magnified pictures of distant scenery and buildings, expanding usable range and detail.
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Obrsien
Piazza Te
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Ten
Maj Perkins
Livirin
Heo
Himo
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Dr. Chamberlain
Association For Advancement of Science
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlain
T. C. Chamberlain
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Old
the Battery
Bronx
the Waldorf
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke
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