The Woman and the Collar and Constitution Island Notes
The piece traces the emblematic white linen collar as a symbol of female liberty and contrasts it with fashion lore. It also recounts Constitution Island’s wartime chain, its preservation, and Susan Warner and Anna Warner’s ties to the site with Mrs. Russell Sage’s gift to the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constitution Island
Russell Sage
United States
West Point
Washington
Newburg
Trophy Point
Susan Warner
Elizabeth ‘Wetherell
Letter Etiquette and Sarcasm in Colonial Correspondence
A discussion of traditional letter writing in which a writer begins and ends epistles with cordial phrases even when insulting the recipient. The piece notes the use of sarcasm in salutations and cites a sedition sympathizer in India who wrote to a British official, ending with a hostile sign off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serygat
India
London
Cricket Chirp Rates and Legislative Reforms Mentioned
Professor Deibeare notes cricket chirp rates vary with temperature from Taft College, 60F yielding 80 chirps per minute and 76F yielding 120 per minute, with a four chirps per minute change per degree. The article also mentions a Missouri special session and a Georgia legislature act relating to convict labor leasing to contractors for penal offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deibeare
Taft's College
Taft plans a special session after March 4 to tackle tariffs
A review from air quarters reports President-elect Taft will call Congress for a special session soon after March 4 to take up tariff revision. Other items include resignations and appointments across government, university shifts, and notable international events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Congress
Elkins
Catherine Elkins
Duke d'Bruzzi
Rollo T. Sturgis
Abe Raymer
Springfield
Adolf Stocker
Reichstag
Secretary of the Navy
Victor H. Metcalf
Truman H. Newberry
Metcalf
William Arnold Shanklin
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Thomas Frederick Crane
Cornell University
Hughes
Secretary of State of
New York
Richard Munclaurin
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emperor William
London Daily Telegraph
Emperor Wiliam
Count Zeppelin
Castro
Venezuela
Europe
Sweep of Cuban vote and a string of major incidents across the nation
The Mineral ticket led by Gen. Gomez won in Cuba. Fires destroyed five buildings at the Indiana state reformatory and nearly all of Indiana Manufacturing Co at Jeffersonville. The South Bend post office lost 18 653 in stamps. A violent shootout in Okmulgee Ohio left multiple dead and wounded. a mob then burned the house. Morris Haas killed himself in his San Francisco jail cell after shooting Francis J. Heney. Robbers seized 50 000 in railroad bonds from a Vine New Jersey man murdered in his home. Two Monmouth Illinois players were badly hurt in a Knox college game. Detroit executive George A. Turnham died duck hunting. A Moose-hunting accident near Raleigh killed Prettie. Viscount Gort’s gun discharged. A Chicago model sues for 25 000 over a magazine image. Clarence Agnew jailed for a fatal wreck near Duncan. An explosion at Dodson injured one and killed none. Federal receivers appointed for municipal traction and Cleveland Railway. Manila completes a 32 million dollar water system. Mrs. A W Bonde killed a man who wooed her. another Dowagiac man defeated for prosecutor.
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Lamphete
Laporte
Ind
Wise County
Virginia
South Dakota
Francisco L. de la Berra
Netherlands
Enrique C. Cree
Washington
University of Michigan
New York
Ann Arbor
George H. Torney
Army
R. M. O'Reilly
Benton Harbor
Mich
St. Petersburg
John Wampster
Alliance
George
Terry
United States
Hamilton Fish
Mark W. Harrington
United States Weather Bureau
New Jersey Asylum For the Insane
Morris Plains
Radhod
Hamm
Westphalia
Buffalo
N. Y
Canada
Register and Leader
Des Moines
Daily Tribune
Mllneis State Board of Equalization
Mary Wheeler Somerby
Newburyport
Mass
Chancery Court
Trenton
N. J
Roosevelt
White House
National Grange
Lamphere
Mae L. Otis
Chicago
Albert Berger
Alaska
Canyon Ferry
Mont
Meyer
Post-Office Department
Great Northern Express
New Orleans & Northeastern
Little Woods
Lake Ponchartrain
New Orleans
Bulgaran National Assembly
Emperor Ferdinand
North Dakota
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Quincy
Mays
Blond Oleon
Esorea
Gomez
Indiana State Reformatory
Indiana Manufacturing Company
Jeffersonville
South Bend
Okmulgee
Ohio
Morris Haas
Francis J. Heney
San Francisco
Heney
William Reed
Vine
Monmouth
Ill
Knox College
McKiterick
Richards
George A. Turnham
Detroit
Morgan & Wright
St. Clair Flats
J. P. Varaker
Viscount Gort
England
William Prettie
George Gilbert
Raleigh
Winnipeg
Prettie
Mies
Margaret Lee Conway
Clarence Agnew
Lfe
Southern Railway
Duncan
Excelsior Springs
Dodson
Taylor
Federal Court
Cleveland
Warren Hicknell
Frank A. Beott
Municipal Traction Company
Cleveland Railway Company
Manila
A. W. Bonde
Memphis
Tenn
P. Craig
C. E. Sweet
Dowagiac
Jail Scandal at Crown Point Over Tuberculosis Crisis
Gov Hanly calls attention to Lake county jail conditions at Crown Point where 50 inmates face unsanitary confinement and two prisoners, Stanley Sulentich of Gary and John Olga, are said to have contracted tuberculosis after seven months confinement without trial.
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Hammond
Ind
Lake County
Crown Point
Stanley Sulentich
Gary
John _ Olga
Sulentich
Olga
Mother's Estate in Jeopardy Amid Firm's Collapse
Stephen F Pfeiffer, fugitive from Buffalo wreck, is son of Christian Pfeiffer who left Fort Wayne 30 years ago. Liabilities of Pfeiffer & Sons stock dealers run around 20000, threatening mother Charlotte E B Pfeiffer with loss of her farm and real estate. Another son remains in Fort Wayne. Pfeiffer fled with family, whereabouts unknown. Fort Wayne banks secured by firm loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Ft. Wayne
Flames devastate Jeffersonville factory complex in Indiana
A blaze at the Indiana Manufacturing Co. hollowware plant in Jeffersonville destroyed four large buildings, with $225000 in losses. The state bore about $100000, the hollowware company $125000, and the fire department failed to stop the fire for four hours. 1100 inmates were locked in cells as Jeffersonville and Louisville firefighters fought the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Ind
Idiana Manufacturing Co
Indiana Reformatory
Hollowware Company
Louisville
Merchant Assigns in Evansville Indiana
Evansville merchant AD Cox made a voluntary assignment. He lists assets at 8000 and liabilities at 0. Creditors include Schaffner and Adler of Cincinnati and Norton and Company of Louisville.
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Evansville
Ind
Cumberland
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Acme
Leland Hume
Nashville
George G. Hall
Louisville
Blake Jacobs
Owensboro
Ya Lyle
Henderson
Ed Reynolls
Hume
AD. Cox
Schaffner & Adler
Cincinnati
Norton & Cons Co
Barbers Hand Paralyzed In Evansville Chair Incident
Wm. Hoffer, a barber in Evansville Indiana, suffered total paralysis while shaving a customer. The razor fell from his nerveless hand and grazed the throat of the man in the chair, causing only a slight cut.
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Barber
Evansville
Ind
Wm. Hoffer
Pioneer shoemaker Theodore Ogle dies suddenly in Evansville
Theodore Ogle a veteran Evansville shoemaker died of heart disease while smoking his pipe and telling yarns in his shoe shop. He was considered a pioneer in the local industry.
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Evansville
Theodore Ogle
Four-year-old girl fatally burned in Princston fire incident
In Princston Indiana a four year old daughter of David Beloat sustained fatal burn injuries when her dress caught fire from an open fireplace. Firemen attempted to extinguish the flames but she died from her injuries.
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Princston
Ind
David Beloat
Relics Removed from South Bend Water System
Wooden water mains serving for 36 years in South Bend Indiana were removed and replaced with iron pipes though the wooden mains were still in a good state of preservation.
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South Bend
Ind
Elmer Wright Injures Eye After Fall With Stick
Four year old Elmer Wright at Mr. Carmel fell while running with a stick and the bar drove into his eye tearing the eye from its socket according to local reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Tad
Elmer Wright
Two Barns Burned in Boonville Fire Incident
Incendiaries burned two barns near Boonville Indiana. One barn held 10 acres of tobacco valued at 2000 dollars belonging to Clamor Gentry. The other barn contained five acres of tobacco owned by William Folsom. Both structures were set afire and destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Harvey Montgomery
Spencer County
Boonville
Clamor Gentry
Folsom
Odd Combination Birth in South Bend Marks 13th Child
A daughter born Friday the 18th to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lubin in South Bend creates an unusual family footnote as their 13th child. In Evansville a fire damaged I. Gans wholesale store by $15,000 with insurance coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Jacob Lubin
Evansville
I. Gans
The Health Cure Promised by a Kidney Pill Ad
A testimonial claims kidney pills by Foster Milburn Co New York cured a man after doctors said no cure. The patient describes swelling limbs and secretions, bed rest for months, then recovery after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a bar.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Flossie Footight and Winnie Wings clash over wedding ritual
Dialogue features Flossie Footight describing a Jap wedding rite including burning discarded toys at the bride while Winnie Wings reacts in horror asking if cast-off lovers are being cremated.
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Flossie Footight
Winnie Wings—Horrors
Elderly man heals with Cuticura over hemorrhoids
An 80 year old man describes years of hemorrhoid pain and an eczema outbreak before treating himself with Cuticura products. After a month he reached a fairly healthy state and continued maintenance for three more months then weekly. He notes high costs of other remedies before endorsing Cuticura.
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J. A. Henderson
Hopkinton
The Only Use He Knew
A family scene from Harper's Monthly recalls a four year old mishearing a biblical line. The boy asks if the bones of Joseph are for making soup, causing amused shock among the readers.
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Egypt
Moses
Joseph
Harper's Monthly
Jones Couple Discuss Mortality and Insurance
In a Toledo Blade snippet a sick husband asks about death and his wife replies she would wear the finest mourning gown in the street. The exchange mentions whether the insurance is fully paid.
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Toledo Blade
Castoria Reminder for Infants and Children
An old advertisement emphasizes careful use of Castoria for infants and children. It asserts the product is a trusted remedy and notes a long-standing signature and legacy with phrases like The Kind You Have Always Bought and In Use For Over Years.
Drawbridge Repaired as CastellanSays
The castellan notes the drawbridge is back in place after repairs. A playful remark follows about the value of drawbacks and the saying that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hanly
Merry Knight
Thas
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Henry Haake
Magerie
Buckler
Dadee
Georio Tegislature
Bilox
Miss
Nebraska
Western Union Telegraph Company
Franka
State Railway Commission
Commission
Victor Rosewater
Republican, National Committee
BE. Olver
William L . Bevne
Ero Ee
Ae Rom
Celta
Gov. Hanly
Crawfordsville
American Milling& Co
Linden
George Smith
Roy Mangus
Warner Keefe
Sll
Owensville
Byvansville
Anna Thompson
Mt. Vernon
Louisville & Anaputte
State Reformatory
Wm. Brill
Fulton Avenue
Charlestown Township
Wm.Carter
Southern
Cutiura
Carter
Rters
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