Fashionable Fall Styles and Christmas Slippers Highlight City Shops
Fashion notes survey tailored garments and ready made looks from Michigan Avenue to Broadway with single breasted sacks in brown and green, three quarter overcoats, and a new five button semi cutaway suit. Xmas slippers in dark Russian and comfort appear as holiday gifts alongside ornate neckwear and embroidery displays.
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Alwys
Michigan Avenue
Broadway
Pennsylvania Arriee
Prominent Boulder Lawyer's Daughter Delivers Idle Hour Show
Pauline Junietta Berkeley daughter of Judge Junius Berkeley Boulder arrives in town and opens a five night engagement at the Idle Hour Theatre. She performs in Elks colors with a contralto voice, noting a white goat doves and poodle were left in Denver. Berkeley has nine years on stage with New York opera and dramatic companies. the act changes Friday and Saturday. Manager Stewart regrets not securing Monday as well.
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Pauline Junietta Berkeley
Junius Berkeley
Boulder
Colorado
Elks
Denver
Miss Berkeley
New York City
Stewart
Mike
Prairie dog accident costs teen arm then life
Calvin Johnson, 17, was hunting near Palisade when a prairie dog triggered his gun. The blast shredded his right arm, he walked two miles for help, and surgeons amputated the arm on Thursday before he died in critical condition at a Grand Junction hospital.
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Daily Tribune
Grand Junction
Colo
Calvin Johnson
J. C. Johnson
Johnson
Palisade
Thanksgiving Offers to Denver Attractions and Games
One fare round trip to Denver on Thanksgiving Day November 26 with events including the Ben Hur production, a Boulder University versus School of Mines football game, and automobile races at Overland Park. Ask Union Pacific agent for particulars.
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Denver
Boulder University
School of Mines
Overland Park
Union Pacific
The Result of Habit in a Witty Exchange
A dialogue on habit contrasts professional discipline with a minstrel’s experience. One character asks how habit shapes behavior and the other cites a tale of daily custom hardening a sense of shame and prompting him to rattle his bones at a family skeleton in the closet.
No-Tax Parish Pension Attracts Early Births In Bavaria
The Westminster Gazette notes in a Bavarian town near Aschaffenburg that residents owe no upkeep rates and those born in the parish receive 60 dollars from the municipality. If invested at 3 percent, that sum could grow to about 7300 dollars by age 60, boosting the town’s appeal despite proof requirements.
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Klingenberg
Aschaffenberg
Bavaria
Kliingenberg
Westminster Gazette
Railroad Slips into River at New Orleans
A 200 by 200 foot earth caved in between Washington avenue and Fourth street sending seven freight cars and four rail lines into the Mississippi. The incident cost about fifty thousand dollars for railroad property. The collapse was caused by bank undermining due to high water. Cars and two tracks belonged to Illinois Central railroad while two tracks were Public Belt railroad components.
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Mississippi River
New Orleans
Washington Avenue
Fourth Street
Illinois Central Railroad
Public Belt Railroad
Children and Divorce Perspective from Charles Zueblin
Zueblin argues that in divorce children are the key factor though not endorsing divorce as a cure for marriage woes. He notes that hasty marriages may fail to sustain love and, without children to protect, separation could be the best outcome.
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Charles Zueblin
Shipping congestion on the Yangtse rises with foreign lines
Consul-General Charles Denby of Shanghai reports rapid growth in Yangtse shipping. He notes Japan the United Kingdom France Germany and China each operate steamship lines on the river and about 90 000 tons of merchantmen are now engaged in the traffic.
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Charles Denby
Shanghai
Yangtse
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Germany
China
Virginia Woman Develops T-Shaped Heel Support
A Virginia woman designs a T-shaped metal insert for high heels to stabilize the shoe and support the ankle. The device fits into the heel and extends on either side of the foot, aiming to reduce the risk of injury for wearers with weak ankles.
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Virginia
Mosquitoes Immense in New Jersey According to Puck
In a humorous geogra phical note from an English source, the remark about New Jersey claims the mosquitoes are so numerous that a herd crossing a railroad track will frequently delay a train. The wry line appears in Puck magazine reflecting American pests.
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America
New Jersey
Farmers Lot in New England Shows Social Life
The Boston Transcript argues New England farmers are not isolated. It paints winter as social for grange suppers and sleigh rides, noting the shared experience with hired men who have not yet unionized.
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New England
Hoston Transcript
Darwin and Gladstone Meet in Kent Village
In a Kentish village on a Sunday afternoon Sir John Lubbock hosts a visit where Darwin and Gladstone meet for the first time born in the same year both men are described with reverence. Darwin expresses pride and delight at Gladstone's visit and influence.
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John Lubbock
Darwin
Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
Morley
Crow retrieves golf ball at St Andrews aiding Greig’s hole win
The Glasgow Herald reports W M Greig on the twelfth hole saw a large hooded crow snatch his tee shot, lift off with the ball, then drop it on the green allowing Greig to win the hole. The tale settles questions about birds aiding golfers at St Andrews.
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St. Andrews
W. M. Greig
Mr. Greig
Glasgow Herald
New Railroad for Moscow In Moscow Russia
An interesting railroad will be opened near Moscow forming an irregular oval around the city. It intersects all nine Moscow railway lines to transfer freight between lines, reducing cartage and easing street congestion while tapping factories previously off any line.
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Moscow
Russia
Railroad Death Rate Reveals 1904 Rail Fatalities
The interstate commerce commission reports 10,046 people killed and 84,155 injured on U.S. railways in the year ended June 30 1904. Among 70,699 employees 3,632 were killed and 67,067 injured. Most remaining casualties were trespassers with 6,105 killed and 5,194 injured. railways are deemed not responsible for trespasser accidents.
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United States
Managerial edits turn Bangs Tomorrowland into show
John Kendrick Bangs complained during rehearsals about an omnipotent manager who altered his phantasy Tomorrowland into a tune filled performance. A friend asked why he attends rehearsals if unhappy with changes.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Tomorrowland
Executive Post for Bicknell at Red Cross
Ernest P. Bicknell, longtime superintendent of Chicago Bureau of Charities since 1898, has gone to Washington to assume his duties as national director of the American Red Cross. He will oversee three departments including domestic relief, foreign relief, and related activities.
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Ernest P. Bicknell
Chicago Bureau of Charities
Weehtington
American Red Cross
Pileknell
Wap Onlief
Dotueste Rete
Summer Heat Hazards Cite Health Risks
The piece questions the healthfulness of summer and hot air, noting reduced oxygen with heat and the body's fatigue from perspiration. It argues sun exposure is not healthful vanity but a cover for poor physique, and explains heat relaxes skin blood vessels slowing circulation affecting skin and brain.
Good Market in Mexico Shows Strong US Trade Ties
The United States supplied over half of foreign merchandise consumed in Mexico. Imports from the US for the year ending June 30, 1908, totaled 58,617,593 gold, underscoring extensive commerce between the nations. US trade exceeds Britain and Germany combined and far surpasses France. Even Europe and the UK together leave a US trade surplus near 19,000,000 annually.
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Mexico
United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Europe
United Kingdom
Always Grains of Comfort
A Dickens quotation on finding germs of comfort in trials. It frames consolation as a divine spirit in humanity, linking mercy to resilience and the shared goodness with angels across ages. The passage suggests comfort aids endurance and hints at universal redeeming qualities.
A Cheap Dessert For Fall Frugal Fruit Dish
A housekeeper touts an affordable fruit dessert using banana pear peach and orange sliced with sugar yielding four to five servings. Cost totals about ten cents with orange as the priciest ingredient and grapes optional for a touch. Describes carts selling grapes at eight cents a pound.
Greeley City Noted For Growth And Rich Resources
Greeley, 52 miles north of Denver and 40 miles from the Rocky Mountains, is described as a thriving county seat of Weld County with 9,000 inhabitants. The piece praises its water system, schools, parks, hotels, factories, rail access, libraries, and a strong commercial life while noting annual crop value around 6 million dollars.
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Greeley
Over
Rocky Moountains
United States
Weld County
Colorado State Normal School
Mississippi
Greeley Lodge Directory Highlights Fraternal Groups
A compiled directory lists lodges including U W Frank Madden master workman and C L Sullivan recorder, Greeley lodge No 869 meetings, and wire routines for J G Hughes regent and M A Kinglie secretary. It inventories regular meeting days, officers, and locations across several orders.
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U. W
Frank Madden
C. L. Sullivan
Prp
Greeley Lodge
C Townsend
Ma Wyatt
Pan
J. G. Hughes
A. Kinglie
Wraternal Asten
America
J. Bdcgara
W. BE. Thompson
M. B. A. Bail
C. Pressley
Nh. O
Adele K. Clark
F—Poudre Ors
George CC. Gray
P. GC
Daughters of
Rebekah
Mreony Smith
N. G
LO. O. F. Bal Knights
Ladies of
Securitr
Mlle & Vrooman
Meliod Potter
Frank Gordon
C. C
Charter Clark
T. K
Pythian
Sarah Spere
Christine Malone
FF Ball
Politeak Hehegetag
T. M
Mra
Match . Com
Joh Hollana
Coy Eganactor
Fraternal Lodge Schedules and Officers Listed
OCR fragment lists multiple fraternal organizations and officers with meeting days. Masonia M J Neill, W M, secretary. Knights Templar officers. Modern Mystery Brotherhood. Ladies and other orders share meeting times like second and fourth Tuesdays, first and third Fridays, and other varied evenings.
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Ee Ee
H. Randal
Bug
A. Lawrence Catain
L Sides
Firet
Ball
Jenni Moyer
Mre Ailee
O. F
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Slavy
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Denteweer
Arase
Coloraede & Southers
Greetey
Denver R
Weve
Bove
Greeley Post Office
North Ab
North
Janet McKenzie Hitt
Boston Cooking School
Jaque Manufacturing Co
Chicago
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