White House Christmas Dinner and Desert Grouse Taste
The article recounts President Roosevelt's Christmas afternoon ride and private holiday dinner in the White House, served in the private dining room by colored Waiters. It notes horace Vose sending a 30 pound turkey and Cape Cod cranberries while Henry Pinckney manages White House groceries. It also describes the desert sage grouse, its habitat, appearance, and flavor, and the dinner scene ending with a family stroll to the East Room for a festive wind‑up.
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White House
Executive Mansion
Horace Vose
Rhode Island
Sam
Cape Cod
Oyster Bay
Henry Pinckney
Pinckney
Presidential Mansion
Quentin
Big East Room
Isurope
Rockefeller Pays Forward in Surprise Medical Revisit
Dr Gustav C Weber of Cleveland recalled treating a young man who paid fifty dollars monthly for an operation decades ago. The patient, John D Rockefeller, later returned with a recurrence and offered $500 as payment. Weber refused, but Rockefeller urged the money go to a needy medical student.
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Gustav C. BE
Weber
Cleveland
Ohio
Nuremets
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Government irrigation plan promises vast West expansion
The Interior Department reports a 32.87 million dollar irrigation program to reclaim 1.889 million acres, storing flood waters and guiding a future population as high as today’s. Private efforts have already reclaimed 10 million acres, with estimates of 75 to 100 million more irrigable acres.
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Reclamation Service of the Interior Department
United States
France
Germany
New York
Vatican Annulment Policy and English Nobility Tale
Vatican rules on marriage annulment are cited alongside a profile of Ambassador Whitelaw Reid’s London service. The piece notes Reid’s appointment of Hon. William Walsh as chief lackey, Walsh’s aristocratic ties, and Chatsworth etiquette on tips, with social details of the Derbyshire visit and the Lipton introductions.
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Whitelaw Reid
Court of St. James
William Walsh
Walsh
Mr. Reid
England
King’s Down
Reid
Mr Reid
Lord Ormathwaite
Dorchester House
Marble Palace
Park Lane
Ambassador Reid
London
Norah Spencer- Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Duke of Devonshire
Chatsworth
Derbyshire
Edmund H. Abbott
New York
Alexander Cattanach
Salem
Mass
Sir Thomas Lipton
Duke
Matlock
Buxton
Bakewell
van Calava
Humor of King Edward in two tales from travelers
Returned tourists recount King Edward anecdotes. One tale has the king in a dog cart aiding a fish seller and gifting a sovereign with his portrait. The other recalls Prince of Wales at a theatre fire scene, challenging a pompous bystander who refused to help.
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Napoleon
Albert
Monaco
Monte Carlo
Florence
Marie
Russia
Mary
Tassilo Festetices
Tolna
Vienna
Albert of
New Orleans
Michael Meine
St. Peter
Vatican
Pius IX
Rampolla
Europe
Edward
Prince of Wales
Cost of Discovering America and Columbus Fleet Costs
The piece argues Isabel's jewel bag myth and contrasts modern millionaire spending with Columbus era costs. It cites $3,000 to equip three vessels, Columbus salary at $300 yearly, other captains at $200, crew wages $2.50 a month, noting money's high value then and scarce shore leave for sailors.
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Isabel
Columbus
America
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Gobblers
Artemisia
Garden Sage of
Desert
Turkey
Attor
Prince of
Mary Hamilton
House of Baden
Duke of Hamilton
Pope Pius X
King Edward
Ndi
H. T
Waite Sewina Macune Co
Cleveland, Ohio
Foster
Watson-Stillman Co
Dey St
N. Y. City
BOOKS
Webb Publishing CO
St. Paul Minn
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman Co., Warder Bid’g
Washington, D.C
Eagle Tank Go
N. Green
Chicago, Ill
Masons
Hemalin
Hewes & Potter
Lincoln
Boston
Lynch Mbg. CO
Madison, Wis
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