Beaming Postmistress Oversees 275000 S Postal Work
Miss Edich Hemphill heads a large mail distribution operation with 172 male staff, oversees clerks and carriers, audits and cashes payroll, and often travels to the bank unescorted to withdraw up to five thousand dollars. A six-year business school graduate, she broke barriers as an early female bookkeeper before becoming assistant postmistress a year ago. She balances cheer and discipline while managing a busy office.
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Bcarcely
Edich Hemphill
Miss Hemphill
Wnainea
Duel in Eldorado Ends in Family Reunion
In One-Eyed Monte's Eldorado saloon a stranger and a local clash over a girl leads to a planned duel. Monte intervenes, the two men reveal they are brothers Larry and George Marshall, who had not seen each other in 20 years. The fight is called off and the crowd disperses.
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Hidorado
Monterey
Jimmie
Monte
Eldorado
the Stranger
Tommy Atkins
Eng
Lishman
Mary Marshall
Westonville
Lawrence
Larry
George
Pennsylvania
Prohibition Drive Led by Kansas Attorney General Jackson
Kansas Attorney General Fred S. Jackson, famed for enforcing the 27 year old prohibitory law, led efforts against brewers and saloons in the state. He filed oyster suits against major brewing companies, aided by receivers appointed by the court, resulting in seizure of real estate and liquor assets across several firms. One company exited the state as receivers moved in.
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Topeka
Kas
Fred S. Jackson
Kansas
Jackson
Supreme Court
Metho
Ohio Politician's Health Walk Gains Noted Record
A prominent Ohio politician walked home from New York for health reasons, a first on record. The tale includes a lemonade stand in a circus and a remark about knockout drops and a hold up. A Turkish student won the University of Virginia oratorical contest, clarifying not the unspeakable Turk.
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New York
Ohio
University of Virginia
Millions In Benefits Reported For Railroad Relief Fund
A monthly report for the Pennsylvania Railroad lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie shows April 190% payments totaling 113144.41 dollars. Death benefits paid to families amount to 44595.36 dollars, with 68559.05 dollars allotted for disability relief. Since Feb 15 1886 the Relief department has paid death benefits 6688108.94 and disablement benefits 9673067.0 totaling 16321176.03.
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Empolyes
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg and
Erie
The
Relief Department
Fickle Duke of Aosta Faces Transfer Amid Naples Gossip
Rome May 227 Special to The Sun reports that the duke of Aosta, king's cousin and Naples garrison commander, may be relieved and reassigned after his wife Princess Ellen of Orleans accused him of excessive charm toward Naples society. Queen Elena urged patience as rivalries flared at a reception, leading to a brief scandal before King Victor ordered prudence and a transfer pending reassignment.
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Rome
Duke of
Aosta
Naples
Italy
Ellen
Orleans
Iis
Elena
Victor
Pictures Tell Horrors of the Shriners Wreck
Photos by a staff photographer show the California shrine special wreck at Honda. Twenty two people died and scores were injured in what was described as the most disastrous railroad accident in the state. The rear of the diner car and the engine buried in sand several yards from the switch are depicted.
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Shriners
California
Honda
Cal
Pacifiers to Meet in Hall of Knights at The Hague
The historic Ridderzaal or Hall of the Knights will host an international peace conference in The Hague. The Gothic building’s assembly hall has been repaired for the meeting, occupying a more central site than the Palace in the Wood where the 1899 conference occurred.
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Hall OF Knights
The
Hague
the Knights
Terior
the Hague
Admirer Sends Roosevelt Cartoon Clip to President
A Sun clipping of an Everett True outburst is mailed to President Roosevelt. Two days later the president’s secretary replies with a facsimile letter reproduced for readers, reflecting early press interest in cartoons and political satire.
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True
Sun
Roosevelt
Rollo and the Smoker Debate on Tobacco Perils
In a quixotic dialogue Rollo muses on a smoky aroma from a smoker car and questions whether rising tobacco use harms vision and health. The exchange ends with a bleak joke that vast supplies of hay and farm debris could boost revenues enough to shrink the national debt, a dark irony.
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Rollo
U S District Attorney Targets Idaho Land Frauds
Boise May 27 Special to The Saw United States District Attorney N M Ruick leads a broad government land fraud investigation in Idaho Indictments against more than twenty prominent figures including millionaires and lawyers seek to recover 2000 acres valued at 1 6 million The Barber Lumber company faces suit to recover 410 00 acres worth 1 million with six miles east of Boise a large sawmill operation and another mill in Boise city The cases remain shrouded in secrecy under presidential direction with indictments due to be announced June 15 and further suits filed at Weiser and Lewiston against various citizens and officials
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Boise
Sam
Idaho
United States
N. M. Ruick
White House
Haywood
Buick
Barber Lumber Company
Boise Basin
Barber Company
Grand Jury
W. ©. Borah
Borah
Weiser
Lewiston
Government Land Office
Picture mix up lands Barton portrait in Vincennes paper
The Vincennes Commercial used the wrong photo in a late make-up and published a large portrait of Miss Clara Barton instead of Mrs. McKinley, due to the morgue stock held by newspapers.
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Vincennes
McKinley
Clara Barton
Orange Layer Cake Recipe With Cream Filling
A vintage recipe outlines making an orange layer cake with butter powdered sugar egg yolks and orange juice and rind. It describes folding in stiff egg whites and baking, followed by a lemony white filling spread between the layers.
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