Four Years of Prohibition Gains Across States
A Prohibition National Convention report by Charles R. Jones outlines four year progress from 1904 to 1908. It notes doubling of prohibition, 20.3 million added to prohibition areas, 40 million saloon free, and widespread state and city gains including 250 prohibition cities and 90 towns over 10,000 population.
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Charles R. Jones
Prohibition National Committee
United States
South
Prohibition Party
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Chicago
Indiana
Towa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusets
Worcester
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Suissouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Brumby Hunting in New South Wales Across Australia
The London Standard notes that brumby hunting remains a popular sport in New South Wales towns like Clarence Stephens and Manning River. Hunters corral and funnel brumbies with fluttering cotton barriers then separate leaders to capture the rest, leaving the herd without food for a day before breaking them in.
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New South Wales
Clarence and
Stephens
Manning River
London Standard
Legal view of broken hearts in cross country breach of promise
The piece surveys European approaches to breach of promise claims. It notes England favors plaintiff recoveries while France and Holland require pecuniary loss. Germany uses public betrothal formalities with potential solatium, Italy favors the stiletto, offering little protection for jilted lovers.
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England
France
Holland
Austria
Germany
Italy
Diver Snoozes on Dreadnought Propeller Lark
In Malta a diver clearing the Dreadnought propeller fell behind and the crew feared for him. A second diver descended to find him only to learn he had eaten lunch and slept on the blade while fish gathered roused by the searchlight. The officers laughed.
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St. Nicholas
Malta
Denver Street Cars Stop for Lightning in Electric Storms
Denver's trolley crews welcome thunderclouds as a chance to rest. At first sign of lightning, the street car company orders all cars to halt until the display ends. Motormen and conductors read newspapers while passengers relax, enjoying the pause before service resumes.
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Denver
Vaydb
N,. Y. Sun
South African Hail Storm Destruction Reveals Frozen Landscape
A daylight view after a South African hail storm shows hills of white hailstones and ruined scenery. Buildings lay in ruin, a long dam was swept away, and another dam holds a twenty foot pile of frozen hail, with no water present.
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Wide World Magazine
Oldest Welsh Railway Shifts From Coal to Holiday Traffic
The London Globe cites the Swansea to Mumbles line as the world’s oldest railway. Originating to haul coal and minerals, it now mainly serves holidaymakers. Parliament allowed steam locomotives but horse traction persisted until 1870, 66 years after incorporation. An article in Railway Magazine for July details this history.
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London Globe
Swansea
Mumbles
South Wales
Railway Magazine
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Touched the Overtaker Line
The Natchez and Cincinnati ties of the Overtaker and Tichenor families to Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel are recalled. Mrs. Georgia Overtaker Law, of Chicago, widow of John H. Law, links to Stowe via Natchez, Walnut Hills and Cincinnati memories, including Topsy and Black Sam figures.
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John H. Law
Chicago
Tichenors
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Law
Georgia Overtaker
Laure Law Meek
Charles Green Law
Lacey A. Law
Charles W. Bell
Cincinnati
A. S. Taylor
Cleveland
John Hadcock
New York
C. C. Hearn
Fort Totten
N. Y
Walnut Hills
South
Ohio
Bank of the Ohio
Professor Stowe
Stowe
Tichenor
Natchez
Joan
Black Sam
O’bobservation
Haley
Eliza
Peyton
French marriage laws spur rise in 1907 marriages
France faced a declining birth rate and population worries as complex marriage formalities kept the poor from wedlock. Abbe Lemire’s 1907 reform lowered parental consent after age 30, boosting marriages by 8,000 in late 1907, with Bertillon praising the Belgian model to encourage early unions and higher natality.
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France
Germany
Europe
Paris
Pall Mall Gazette
Lemire
Belgium
Chamber
Jacques Bertillon
Bertillon
Two Rare Women in 19th Century English Society
Excerpt from The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill praising Mary Curzon and Fanny Lady Tweedmouth. Describes Curzon’s wife as beautiful and devoted, and Lady Tweedmouth as a noble, influential political hostess whose death was a significant loss to Liberal society.
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Curzons
India
Mary Curzon
Fanny
Tweedmouth
England
Liberal Party
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Pense
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Uncle Tom
S Cabin
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