Millionaire offers $1,000,000 for Mills child in divorce case
In Asheville, North Carolina, Merrill Beecher Mills, Detroit yachtman and stove maker, faces custody battle with Mrs. Mills over six year old Cynthia Mills. Lawyers depositions proceed as Mills reportedly offered a million for the girl, rejected by Mrs Mills who also seeks $20,000 alimony.
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The
Sun
Detroit
Mich
Merrill Beecher Mills
Miss Eddy
Saginaw
Cynthia Mills
Asheville
N. C
Betty Faces Envy At Dance In The Park
Betty sits on green grass examining her reflection and lamenting her lack of offers, while Louise glories in attention from suitors at every dance, highlighting contrasting self view and social dynamics portrayed in a park scene.
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Betty
Louise
Dr Pierce Medicines Face Malicious Attacks and Vindication
A defense of Dr Pierce Buffalo and his Family Medicine against false campaigns impacting sales. American reception of authenticity follows a New York court vindication and public support from grateful patients nationwide for Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. The text promotes benefits for women’s disorders, uterine health, chronic coughs, and blood purification, urging readers to request booklets and products.
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Pierce
Buffalo
Ladies’ Home Journal
Philadelphia
Supreme Court of the State of
New York
Dr. Pierce
Whippper
Alcress
Uns
Dr. Perce
Golden Medical
R.V. Pierce
Picnic Notes and Dueling Affections at Merton House
Betty and Louise host a lawn party where Captain Herrick, known as a woman hater, dances with Louise as Betty watches. Betsy learns of Herrick's interest while Louise hints at a budding romance with Elizabeth Merton, leading to a puzzling note exchange about marriage and hearts. The scene ends with a promise of a spring get together.
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Louise
Capt. Herrick
Herrick
Betty
Two women architects lead male rivals in San Jose
Miss Rose Palmer and Miss Emily Williams, noted San Jose architects, outpace male peers in a field once dominated by men. They have designed more than a dozen bungalows, with exterior simplicity and interior charm, merging beauty with practical, well planned homes.
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San Jose
Cal
Rose Palmer
Emily Williams
Mayor Johnson's Daughter to Be a Foreigner's Bride
Cleveland March 1 An engagement has been announced between Miss Bessie Johnson daughter of Mayor Tom L Johnson and Frederico Mariani of Milan Italy. The couple’s wedding is planned within three months and portions of the honeymoon will occur in America before a visit to Troy.
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Bessie Johnson
Tom L. Johnson
Frederico Mariani
Milan
Italy
Mariani
Cleveland
Monte Carlo
America
Troy
Marianis Canvly
Miss Johnson
Way
Promises of No Divorce Defy Judge in San Francisco
In San Francisco a police judge known for anti divorce views marries couples without allowing divorce talk. One ceremony quips vow to never seek divorce, yet the judge’s stance remains strict. The article notes the judge knots many couples, counter to common expectations.
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San Francisco
Mary
John
Charles Weller
Woman Architect Guides Home Interiors With Insight
A quoted advocate asserts women, though less trained, excel in interior design by planning functional spaces. Miss Williams argues women balance rooms by placing bookcases and dressers to optimize light and balance, claiming nature fits them for this field.
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Miss Williams
Oldest Mason of U S Dies in New Hampshire at 100
William Welch of Claremont New Hampshire died at his son’s home yesterday aged 100. He was regarded as the oldest citizen in the state and the oldest Mason in the United States and the oldest member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Welch would have celebrated his 100th birthday on March 29.
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Claremont
N. H
William Welch
New Hampshire
United States
Leinster
Welch
Caruso Reaches Compromise on Appearance Fees
A compromise with his manager allows Caruso to accept 2300 dollars for each appearance, signaling a non superstitious stance and ending long negotiation tensions. The agreement settles the dispute over earnings and solidifies his upcoming performance schedule.
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Caruso
Famous Squaw Ready to Sing Death Song
MOCLIPS WASHINGTON March 1 Living in a squalid hut by the beach and subsisting on flotsam and charity, Princess Tahold of the Quinalts, oldest Indian woman of tribal rank in the United States, prepares to die and enter the hunting ground.
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Moclips
Wash
Princess Tahold
United States
Granny” Magon
Grieving Quinalt Chief’s Widow Describes Tribal Decline
The aged widow of a Quinalt chief sues for dignity after a life of poverty. Her sons reject her per tribal custom, a distant relative's farm offered brief comfort, then lost to an unscrupulous lawyer. Now she endures in ragged blankets by a driftwood fire as the tribe dwindles to two small villages. Granny Mason recalls the vanishing lineage and the widow’s wish to die.
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Nusvand
Montesano
Wash
Granny” Mason
Granny
Mason
Japanese heat cylinders warm travelers in cold days
A traveler shows a one inch by four inch metal cylinder containing a powder that burns slowly for hours. Marketed as a Japanese contrivance, it keeps the body warm and is used by railway carriages and London bus drivers tucked in boots or pockets to endure winter travel.
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Eassays
New York Sun
London
The Old Days Love Poem Reflects on Lost Affection
A nostalgic verse contrasts the old days with the new, praising the "best" life and love once lived for you. It laments the newer times as weak and selfish, asserting the old life was fuller and the old love the deepest, though it ends with the idea of a lost love.
Two of a Kind Miss Maud Lemon Returns from Paducah
Miss Maud Lemon returned last evening from Paducah. Will Frost of Wingo is in the city on business. Mayfield Monitor reports from Mayfield Kentucky noting these local movements.
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Maud Lemon
Paducah
Will Frost
Wingo
Mayfield
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