Newport Belle Granted Freedom to Remarry in Divorce
Mrs. Nathalie Schenck Collins won a Supreme Court order by Justice Teventritt freeing her to resume her maiden name and remarry. The Newport socialite married Charles Glen Collins in 1904 after a rapid courtship at Georgian Court. Once wealthy misrepresented, Collins later relinquished his aristocratic image and income, was declared bankrupt, and worked as a potter in Grueby Pottery works before the separation.
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Charles Glen Collins
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Spotswood Schenck
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Monterey
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San Francisco
Honolulu
America
France
Grueby Faience Pottery Company
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Bargains Along Bride Line At Marty's City Hall Sale
Arty Keese fumes as a card peddler advertises a closing out sale on baby carriages and household goods near Marty's marriage shop. City officials unaware of the promotion eye the scene while the barker defends the philanthropy of his wares amid talk of rising carriage prices and political chatter about a presidential message on the issue.
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Arty Keese
Wistaria
Marty's City Hall
Third Avenue
Scully
Edward Hart
Stewart Harris
Barker
Marty
Board of Aldermen’s Chamber
Harris
Hart
Marty Reese
Brooklyn
Gateses Withdraw from Wall Street as Gates Sells Seat
The Gates family ends its Wall Street career with Charles G Gates selling his exchange seat for 51000 dollars matching his 1901 purchase price. The Gates firm C G Gates & Co once did about eight percent of exchange business and its dissolution followed a years long high activity with global transactions.
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Charles G. Gates
Stock Exchange
Gateses
Wall Street
Gates
Exchange
C. G. Gates & Co
John W. Gates
Father
Son
Europe
The
New Yorkers Forget Millions in Bank Deposits After Panic
The city’s largest bank closed amid a panic and now seeks reorganization. Over 500 depositors with more than half a million dollars each were unaccounted or forgotten. Two $20,000 plus accounts were found after weeks. a man with $12,000 in 1884 learned he held nearly $25,000. More than 100 accounts belong to deceased individuals with no admin letters. The piece argues many millions may be forgotten in New York banks.
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New Yorker
New York
Thexa
Winter Wheat Crop Reports From Coaldale and Warner
Two letters from Alberta describe 1907 and 1908 farming in Coaldale and Warner. Pawson reports 349 acres with average yields of 38 bushels per acre wheat and 74 oats, plus hay and potatoes, noting stubbled ground and large labor effort. Leffingwell notes 1908 progress in Warner with 100 acres breaking yielding 25 to 30 bushels per acre winter wheat, spring wheat 30, oats 50 to 80, barley 50, flax 10 to 15, and settlers satisfied with the land.
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Coaldale
Alta
Can
W. H. Pawson, JR
Alberta
Warner
Canada
A. L. Warner
Breaking
Tenny Brothers
F. S. Leffingwell
Spiteful remarks spark family tension over baby likeness
A mother recalls complaints from a brother who denies telling her to her face that the child resembles her. The exchange underscores hurt feelings and family friction centered on parental pride and perceived favoritism.
Drunken King Aristoko So Reigns In A Gilded Hall
A fragmentary verse piece narrates a wind swept medieval banquet where drunken nobles desecrate a crown and a sober host proclaims the king’s fall. The piece lampoons alcohol’s ruin as a tyrant dethroning rulers and leaving only sobriety in its wake.
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Aris-toc-re-so
Wil
Cure for Eczema Promised by Cuticura Remedies
A Montreal mother credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment for curing her three daughters of a severe eczema and a neck skin condition in another child. The note, dated May 21 1907, appears alongside other short excerpts including a defiant reply to a wandering beggar and aAdvertisement for Catarrh cures, with various health product claims and light humor.
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Mme
Napoleon Duceppe
Duluth St
Montreal
Que
Wedded 6li88. A talking machine vows in jest of marriage
In a whimsical dialogue a talking machine declares a matrimonial bond to Mr Grouch, joking about a vow to wed the mechanical spouse. The exchange blends satire with a quirky domestic scene from an old era.
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Saledl
Mr. Grouch
Rats cost farmers millions in grain losses say expert
J. H. Van Burden, a Milwaukee grain merchant, warns that farmers lose at least 100 million dollars annually to rats. He estimates the national rat population at 150 million, with about one third inhabiting large cities where grain access is tighter and feeding costs rise. He notes feeding a rat costs roughly 60 cents per year.
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Agricultural Department
J. H. van Burden
Milwaukee
Reduced Colonist Tickets and Tours on The North Western Line
An advertisement lists low one way rates for travel to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Puget Sound with daily tours in tourist sleeping cars via the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western Line double berth from Chicago for 7 00 and directs inquiries to S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago Ill or nearest ticket agent Also a mix of humorous anecdotes brief essays and product pitches appears including a nibble of dialogue about Niagara Falls a punny drama quip and several medical and consumer ads for Allen's Foot-Ease Garfield Tea and Laxative Bromine Quinine with mentions of tobacco and general quotations
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North Western
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Puget Sound
Chicago
Union Pacific
S. A. Hutchison
Clark St
Ill
Truth and Quality Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna
Appeal to the well informed emphasizes that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is one of many reliable laxatives. It cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or need to increase usage, acting pleasantly and naturally. Physicians approve its contents and it is sold only by the California Fig Syrup Co. and leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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