Local and Personal News Items From The Era
A diverse roundup notes three men killed and several injured when a large derrick fell in Cleveland Ohio. Lancaster South Carolina sees three boys harvest 1561 pounds of cotton in one day. Roosevelt era guides, theater acts, and local commerce feature alongside a fatal log-train crush in Alcola and a Cunard liner crossing details. The Lusitania, Census figures, and the Clyde Steamship Carib’s cargo are cited. local sales, stage rights, and social happenings fill the period’s social page.
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Cleveland
Ohio
South Carolina
Lancaster
S. Brilles
New York
Phenix Furniture Co
Roosevelt
Adironacks
State Hospital
Alcola
Cantey
D W. Alderman & Co
Expensive living in New York as fashion costs rise
Our New York correspondent surveys the city’s costly wardrobes with 100 women spending 35000 yearly on dresses and 6000 at 5000 each, averaging 295. Ball gowns reach 1200, hats 70, shoes 12, while many endure 20–500 outfits. The piece contrasts extreme fashion with daily lost items and notes Yankee thrift in Connecticut and the Bowery Mission’s eye catching placard.
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Prom
N. Y
New York City
New York
Conneticut
Connecticut
Soul moving placard changes hearts at the entrance
A vivid description notes how a placard, read by passersby and observed by onlookers, slows a hardened heart and uplifts spirits. The scene centers on a man who pauses, seats himself, and becomes receptive as he watches others read the message, credited to H W Finlayson.
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H. W. Finlayson
Gave Up Cards At Winona Lake Whist Champion Renounces
In Winona Lake Indiana Mrs A B Sims Des Moines Iowa famed women’s whist champion declared she burned her forty packs of cards after a long fighting habit. She warned card playing by women weakens church and cited hours spent from morning to night. The audience numbered about four thousand.
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Winona Lake
Indiana
A.B. Sims
Des Moins
Iowa
Sims
United States
Purse theft by woman targets Rear Admiral Harrington
Richmond reports Rear Admiral P. F. Harrington was pickpocketed by a young woman at Williamsburg amid open air bishop of London address and bible presentation. Wallet with about 50 dollars stolen as crowd surged. Similar losses and a suspected band of crooks tailing Episcopal events raise police concern.
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Richmond
P. F. Harrington
U.S. N
Williamsburg
London
Harrington
Christian Scientists Face Manslaughter Trial in New Jersey
Mount Holly N J Oct 9 A trial of unusual interest began when Edwin M Watson and his wife of Moorestown answered in charge of manslaughter Both are Christian Scientists and it is alleged their devotion to the belief caused the death of their seven year old son in May as they declined to call a physician until medical aid was no longer available The child died of meningitis The defense will try to show that Christian Science has cured the family ills for the last sixteen years.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Edwin M. Watson
Moorestown
Market Quotations Today Cotton and Grain Prices
Market quotes list cotton middling at 1134 rn 85 and meal at 1.70. Oats are 70 D. and bellies plied 934 D. S. butts 7. Rice whole 4 1 2 a 5, flour choice 4 to 4.25, pearl grist in sacks 1.70, turpentine firm 50c.
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D. S
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joseph G Cannon
Cwosso
Michigan
Suh
Phenix Furn. Co
Walsh
Columbia
Atlantic
Clyde
Carib
Newberry Observer
Chas. S. Suber
S. M. Duncan
Richard
Hazelton
Mansfield
Harrison Grey Fiske
James K. Hackett
Palmetto
Misses Workman
McFarland
Bessie Mae Carson
Janie Carraway
Kitty Doar
Ida Ford
Mabel
Myrtle
Bowery
Hodges Bros
Front St
Weinberg
Christian Scientists
Geo. Easton
G. H. Watts
Loyal
McConnell Co
Georgetown
Vicinity
Front Street
S. Brilles & Bro. CO
Brilles & Bro.c
Brilles
Brilles& Bro. Co
S. Brilles& Bro. CO
Iseman Drug Co
Pete Rabil
Bourrough Merchant
Peter Rabil
Crowley's
E. J. Marcus & Co
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