Wife Seeks Real Mate as Upton Sinclair Divorce Case Continues
Meta Sinclair describes her troubled marriage to author Upton Sinclair. She criticizes him as overdeveloped intellectually while lacking balance, hints at possible remarriage to poet Harry Kemp, and says she may appear on stage. She defends her stance on divorce and labels a real mate as essential, though she doubts Kemp is that person.
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Upton
Meta Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Harry Kemp
Sinclair
Kemp
Taft Sets Western Tour Focus on Tariff and Treaties
President Taft plans western speeches centered on the tariff and pending arbitration pacts with Franco and Britain. He will argue for tariff support, push for ratification of treaties, and frame conservation, Alaska, and reciprocity around Canada as focal issues.
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Taft
Paft
Senate
Washington
Canada
Killed Playing Doctor In Poison Tale At Canonsburg
Four year old Mil dred Gertrude McMunigle died from strychnine poisoning after children played doctor and drank a lethal mixture. Pills with strychnine were procured on a doctor’s prescription and left where kids could reach them. Involved in other items, a Pittsburg man, Fred H Winter, stands as a defendant in a $15,000 alienation suit. William Lee confessed to murdering his family and setting a fire. The Argentine battleship Rivadavia was launched at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy Mass.
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Mildred Gertrude McMunigle
Daniel H. McMunigle
Pittsburg
Willam D. Eliott
Canonsburg
Fred H. Winter
Carl B. Jackman
Cleveland
Jackman
Lydia Brown
Winter
A Grewsome Revenge in a Wedding Tradition
In a Russian region with a custom where a woman asks a man to marry her, Peter Hazlevich delays a proposal. Katherine Dronsky returns years later to seek revenge, moves near his farm with her family, and forces him to marry or face dire consequences. A fatal house fire ends Peter and Katherine’s feud.
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Peter Hazlelvich
Peter
Hying
Katherine Dronsky
Katherine
Peter Hawelvich
No Bragging Wanted There A North Country Man Keeps Fowls
A working man who kept fowls faced teasing and a plot by coworkers. After birds were stolen, he kept quiet and later heard a hen boast about laying an egg. He killed the hen and warned others not to brag about gains, declaring he will endure no bragging.
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London
Saving A Dollar A Week And Progressive Compound Interest
A columnist recounts a workingman’s loss to a swindler and explains compound interest. One dollar weekly at four percent grows to 2.19 in twenty years, twenty dollars becomes 30.87, and twenty years of weekly deposits reach 1612. Five dollars weekly would yield about 8000, or 320 per year, illustrating clear, honest growth.
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Christian Herald
Delicate Hint Awaited Nothing
A New York Sun note describes a housemaid granted three weekly free calls by a young mistress. After a day of clashes at a villa, Mary asks to call her pastor Hether Grim to pray for the mistress. The pastor’s prayer is not answered. the ad ends with a department store pitch from Punxsutawney.
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New York Sun
Mary
Hether Grim
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Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Phila
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Victor
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Wilmhr Stewart
Indalna House
Pennsylvania
R. W. Wehrle & CO
Wehrle
Esat of Indiana House
Indiana, Pa
Kero
Josephine, PA
Josephine
Mipst National Wily Bho
White Plymouth Rocks
Geo. D. Leydic
Undertaker
L. Pattison Co
Phila. Street
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Water Street
NN Roller Mills
David Ellis & Son
Leech’s
Business College
Philadelphia Street
Alvan V. Lbeoe
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