Wealthy hostess dresses East Side workers for society intrigue
Mrs Alma Powell of Brooklyn hosts a St Valentine mask ball showcasing two East Side schoolteachers in her gowns. The experiment suggests clothes blur class lines as the women wowed guests and drew admiration from elites, including a prospective match with two young men. Mrs Powell notes education and breeding matter, while society highlights are mixed with admiration for working girls' poise.
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Alma Powell
Brooklyn
Mrs. Powell
Society
Mary Corrigan
America
Frederick M. Smith
Elio Association
Raymond Rooins
Chicago
Powell
Mrs. Smith
Fairyland
Henry Hall
Daniel Webster
Sir Henry Hall
Boston
England
Virginia
Pendleton County
Alma
Mr. Powell
Babby Cho
MPA
Eee
Font
Remarkable American Woman in Florence at Ninety
Mrs. Francis Alexander of Florence, widow of an American artist, remains an active writer and artist at ninety six. Her daughter Miss Francesca Alexander, known for The Story of Ida and Tuscan Road Songs, is nearly blind and praised as Ruskin’s early protegé. The pair have lived decades at the Hotel Bonciani with ties to local contadini and Italian culture.
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Alexander
Italy
Francis Alexander
Florence
Francesca Alexander
Ida
Ruskin
Miss Alexander
Lillian Whiting
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lsu
Alexanders
Toston
Hosenynes
Aft
Travt
Bonciani
Padrona
Carlinville Plans July 21 Celebration for Courthouse Paid in Full
Macoupin County will mark July 21 with a townwide celebration as the 1867 courthouse, built at 1 668 000, is declared paid. Gov Deneen and Speaker Cannon will attend along with Senators Cullom and Lorimer. Jesse Peebles will chair. Gen John Rinaker will hand over the last bond to Cannon to light a ceremonial match.
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Carlinville
Macoupin County
Deneen
Cannon
Cullom
Lorimer
John M. Woodson
St. Louis
Jesse Peebles
John I. Rinaker
Speaker Cannon
Comforts by the Wayside Rest Areas Built by Private Owners
Private owners on eastern Pennsylvania roads are creating public resting places. Distinctly for travelers, shelters and circular seats near shade trees appear along highways. Some drinking fountains along trolley lines, notably Old York road, are built for private use but heavily used by the public.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Old York Road
China A Gause Of Fear Mongolian Encroachments On India
British Foreign Officer warns that post Tibet raid border shifts risk greater Chinese influence near India. Officials note buffer state loss raises direct China contact and border intrigue while Bhutan Nepal and Sikkim seek vigilance. Dalai Lama fled Lhasa amid Chinese gains, signaling wider tension in the region.
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India
China
Foreign Office
Col. Younghusband
Tibet
Indian Service
St. Louis Globe Democrat
London
Bhutan
Tiafan
Calcutta
Nepal
Sikkim
Gyangtse
Lhasa
Dalai Lama
Babe Plays With A Snake In Yard Tragedy Felt
Mrs Arthur Wilkinson of Trinidad Colorado found her 16 month old daughter in the yard with a rattlesnake. The child sat in the grass holding the snake and stroking it calmly, alarming the mother who had searched for her.
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Arthur Wilkinson
Trinidad
Colo
Maw as a Example of Defeat and Weak Leadership
The passage critiques Maw as a flawed leader lacking confidence and humanity. It lists traits seen as negative, including prioritizing wealth, personal plans, and control through bullying, while neglecting character, self-respect, and daily improvement.
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Hhe
Mothers Entitled to Her Children.
A fragment from Atchison Globe reflects on family law and custody, noting a prevailing view that a mother has rights to her children regardless of divorce. The piece critiques attitudes toward divorce and parental roles in a corn country context.
Progress and Industry Chronicle Snippets
Soapsuds is touted as a ready remedy for burns. A pretentious wind-powered electric plant operates near Hamburg. Sixteen tons of beetroot yield one ton of sugar. England reports successful co burning of oil and coal in boilers. Puy-de-Dome in France yields carbolic acid. Paris underground railways extend 382 miles with 23 more miles authorized. A process is claimed to strip tea and coffee of toxic qualities without affecting flavor.
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Hamburg
Germany
England
Puy-de-Dome
France
Paris
Snake killed in garden over pet dispute
Mrs Wilkinson killed a two foot long four rattles snake with a spade after it attacked her as a daughter cried for its return. The anecdote of sweethearting in church follows, with a Gloucestershire rector recalling a boy’s memory of a couple seated together on the women’s side. A note on a Chinese newspaper roll and charges by Spanish phone firms ends with a lemon-slicing tool.
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Mrs. Wilkinson
Gloucestershire
London
Lonely 14 year old girl ends life in Chicago Heights home
The coroner's inquest hears that Lucy Zip parelli, 14, faced loneliness after no mail from convent schoolmates in St Louis. She spent ten hours alone writing, then a shot was heard from her room as her father Tomaso Zip parelli recalls her isolation and despair.
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Lucy
Tomaso Zipparelli
Chicago Heights
St. Louis
Tragic death linked to cultural clash and poverty
A sorrowful old man recalls Lucy, a young woman who, feeling out of place in a poor home after attending a convent and meeting affluent Americans, chose death with a shotgun beside her and a string tied to the trigger, while expressing loneliness and lack of support.
No Occupation Ends Census Is Noted
A New York Sun poem highlights a woman who performs endless chores from dawn till night. She cooks preserves, cleans, sews, cares for children, nurses the sick, and even crafts, yet the census lists her as having “No occupation.”
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New York Sun
Truisms and Quips on Everyday Folly
A collection of maxims and witticisms on money, friendship, compliments, ambition, society, and trust. The lines note deceit in debt, the emptiness of empty praise, improvisation after failure, gendered judgments, alternate strategies, and caution toward narrow minds and con artists.
Mystery of Missing Gold Hoard in Indiana Court
In Anderson County Court 300 witnesses testified in the Zimmermart vs Beatson suit over a rumored iron chest with $100,000 in gold coin said to be under David Bowers bed at his death. One side claims the chest existed and was removed to a wagon. the other says it was a myth.
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David Bowers
Anderson
Rudolph Zimmermart
Bowers
Joseph Beatson
Beatson
Fire destroys Hartsville business section injuring town
A major blaze in Hartsville damaged the business district on a recent afternoon. Losses include about 140000 in buildings and 10000 in insurance. The McClittie drug store sparked destruction spreading to two stores a restaurant a barber shop and the First National Bank. The town hall and school building were ruined as flames swept across the square aided by a strong wind and no effective fire protection.
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Hartsville
McCligtte
First National Bank of
Aang
Chorus girl killed in high speed car wreck north of Indianapolis
Lennie Alberts of Pittsburg, a chorus girl with a theatre company, died when a auto plunged into a ditch after a tire burst while traveling north of Indianapolis. The car carried five people. Alberts was pinned beneath the vehicle as the others escaped with minor injuries. Driver Frank Clemens, an auto salesman and known racing car driver, remained at the scene.
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Indianapolis
Lennie Alberts
Pittsburg
Miss Alberts
Frank Clemens
Seventeen Locomotives From Patterson Arrive for Gary Yards
Seventeen 110 ton freight locomotives costing over a quarter of a million dollars arrive from the American Locomotive Company works in Patterson New Jersey. The engines are the modern pattern and will be used for switching in the Gary area steel plant and blast furnaces. They are consigned to the Kirk yards of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway, owned by United States Steel Corporation.
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Gary
American Locomotive Company
Patterson
N. J
Kirk
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway
United States Steel Corporation
Multiple Local Tragedies and Fires Reported in Evansville Area
A series of early 20th century incidents includes Pius Clements killed by falling slate near Minot Washington. Aaron Armstrong dying after grain lodging in lungs near Deck er. Collihan brothers shot in Vincennes. Emery Qurs, 22, dies after drinking carbolic acid. Fire at Heimann & Heimann livery near Evansville. $10,000 loss. Michael Zust dies near Hammond at 99. Baltimore Southwestern machinists assault a strike-breaker in Washington. armed railroad police halt further attacks. more trouble expected.
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Pius Clements
Minot
Washington
Aaron Armstrong
Decker
Charles Collihan
Vincennes
Albert Collihan
Emery Qurs
Evansville
Fire Department
Baltimore
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Atchison Globe Lights
Progress and Industry
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Jonah
Indiana State News
Indiana
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Lydia A. Owen
George Owen, Jr
John Wolford
Alpheus Harvey
Wind
Tipton County ii
Zola Lanham
Beatrice Harbit
Andrew Jackson Wiltshire
James A. Brunner
Newton County
Heimann & Heimann
Michael Zust
Hammond
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