Miners Leader Faces President's Push for Strike End
The piece contrasts John Mitchell, head of the miners, with coal barons over the strike. It urges Mitchell to heed President Roosevelt's push for an investigation and settlement, noting suffering nationwide and the need to end the stoppage. It also mentions Governor Durbin and a Siamese prince visit to Indianapolis.
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John Mitchell
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Mark Hanna
Civic Alliance
Congress
Durbin
Indiana
White House Water Supply Described as Pure
The article notes the White House uses spring water from Franklin Park, analyzed years ago as sweet and pure though lacking medicinal qualities. The spring sits at the center of the park, providing residents with water reportedly free from common germs.
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White House
Washington
Franklin Park
Water Supply at White House From Hidden Spring
The article describes a spring feeding the White House and other government buildings, originating near Thirteenth and K streets and later supplying pipes to the White House, State Department, and Treasury. Wooden pipes were replaced by iron ones, with the exact discovery date in the early 1800s. The spring also fed a pump at Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, letting the public sample the same water as the president.
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Thirteenth
Fourteenth
K-sts
White House
Department of State
the Treasury
Capitol
John Smith
Executive Mansion
Fourteenth St
Pennsylvania-are
Free Advice Column Peddles Odd Autumn Cures
A satirical line from a yellow journal mockingly offers bizarre tips to cure a cold, avoid chores by violence, silence squeaky shoes with old ones, and save time by carrying a watch in a pocket on dangerous streets. The tone mocks today's advice columns.
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Yellow Journal
Gov asks when to invest in stock market
Quote from Detroit Free Press suggests the best times to trade are Sundays and holidays. The brief exchange frames the question to the governor about timing in the market.
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Detroit Free, Press
Notable Women Figures and Public Figures Highlighted in Era News
English temperance advocate Lady Henry Somerset travels to America for the W C T U convention and to study reform work for inebriate women. The piece also notes Mrs. B S McGuire influence on her husband’s political nomination, Nora Blatch’s engineering feats at Cornell, Baden-Powell’s butterfly breeding, and Miss Balfour as the prime minister’s sister handling domestic affairs.
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Henry Somerset
America
Lady Somerset
Earl Somers
England
B. S. McGuire
Republian
Oklahoma
McGuire
Nora Blatch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cornell University
Miss Baden-Powell
The Sketches And Songs Of A Singer
A compact excerpt features quips about performance and critique with a mix of dialect and editor dialogue. It includes lines about pity and pride, a country editor and office bore banter, and a closing note attributing the piece to EDWARD SINGER.
Witty Exchanges and Rural Humour Across Newspapers
A collage of quips and sketches from Chicago papers includes witty lines about picnics and manners, a boastful traveler in New York tunnels, and reflections on men and women. A joke about a debt-funded library ends the collection, illustrating local humor and character.
Squirrels Fur Fad Sparks High Prices and Caution
The gray squirrel fur trend drives coats and hats with costs from 135 to 175 dollars. Warnings arise that easy supply could flood markets, inviting house action to source pelts. Mourning customs ease after year one, and a jeweler jokes about wind habits of a left handed customer who wound a watch backward.
Flannel and Embroidered Waists Predominate In Wardrobe
The article notes flannel waists in striped patterns on gale with Oriental embroideries on cotton silk and cloth waists. Pattern waists in light woolen fabrics show embroidered bands. Silk waists use pean de sole crepe de chine louisine and maire. The widow may avoid crape and wear lighter veils or chiffon.
Mayor's phone court opens for drunks in Wellsville tale
Odd local highlights report Wellsville Ohio mayor locked in by smallpox exposure leaves no municipal court. In a curbside fix the mayor orders Chief Thorne to summon offenders to the mayoral office. Joe McKee complains the plan is the darndest way to try a man. A tramp at Pueblo turns out to be Princeton professor Walter A Wyckoff seeking stomach relief. He admits identity after a fetter reveals him, then resumes his hobo wanderings.
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Fogo
Wellsville
Chief Thorne
Phone of Justice
Joe McKee
Police Court
McKee
Thorne
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Pueblo
Col
Walter A. Wyckoff
Princeton University
Ben
Prof. Wyckoff
Chancellor Andrews Declines Salary Increase at Nebraska
At a board of regents meeting the chancellor E Benjamin Andrews said he would not accept a higher salary and would continue as head of the University of Nebraska at the old annual pay of 5000 dollars.
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Board of Regents
The
University of Nebraska
E. Benjamin Andrews
Popcorn Fire Destroys Hemphill Cornshed in Pa
A large corn drying shed owned by Andrew Hemphill in Fulton county Pennsylvania burned away. Fifty barrels of popcorn on the second floor erupted into a continuous pop that burst the roof and forced a white mass of popped corn to spill over. The fire smoldered for hours after, leaving only a vast heap of popped corn where the shed stood.
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Andrew Hemphill
Fulton County
Hemphill
Chicken saute recipe from a club dining note
An Indianapolis man enjoys a chicken saute dish and the article provides a step by step historical method. It describes cleaning two young chickens then browning them with four chopped ballots and butter before adding stock mushrooms and seasonings.
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Indianapolis
Wedding Whistled Serenade at Danbury Ceremony
Miss Mabel Mead Corbett wed Walter N. Cox at Danbury Connecticut with a novelty in the ceremony as Miss Clara Mallory whistled The Angels Serenade to accompany the wedding.
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Mabel Mead Corbett
Walter N. Cox
Clara Mallory
Danbury, Conn
Whispered Hero Moves Toward Central Star
A poem fragment speaks of a steadfast figure who sets aright a fallen bar and removes a rock from a road, his path guiding toward a central star and earning quiet reverence in the gods abode.
Doctors in Washington organize protective association
Doctors in Washington DC form a protective association to counter deadbeats. Baltimore Maryland bans gasoline stoves inside city limits.
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Washington, D. C
Baltimore
Probate closes in New York after long estate dispute
Thirty years after the death of Samuel Finley Breese Morse the probate case over an estate valued at $524000 finally left the probate court last week. The protracted process illustrates the slow pace of legal procedures in the city.
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New York City
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
I Wanna Read My Titles What Time De Trumpet Blow
The reader requests a reading of their titles and speaks in a colloquial, rhythmic voice referencing the Atlanta Constitution. The text centers on personal expression rather than a specific news event or report.
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Atlanta Constitution
Sterile Surgeon Prep in 100 Degree OR
A modern surgeon of note is described as a sterile man entering an almost hermetically sealed operating room. The room is heated to about 100 degrees, cleaned daily with bichloride solution, and the surgeon must be clean shaven and fully garbed in sterilized rubber gloves and gowns before performing surgery.
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New York
Sell Something With The Sun’s Liners Seventh Page
Advertisement style notice promises guaranteed results and profits for sellers. It mentions two phone numbers priced at 80 dollars and a location Office 121 123 BE. The text appears as an archaic classified or sales pitch copy.
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SUN
Ohtiost
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Indianapolis Sun
SUN Building
Editorial Rvome
C. J. Billson
Foreign Advertising Department
Tribune Building
Chicago
Crown Prince of
Siam
Senator Hanna
Truesdale
Reaper
Dear Oil Journal
Whitecaps
Coal Trust
Irvington
Massachusetts
Spirit OF the State Press
Fort Riley
Lafayette Courier
Franklin Star
Orleans
Terre Haute Express
Marion
New Albany Ledger
Muncie
Anderson Bulletin
Bears
Lou
Edward Singer
Chicago Post
Chicago Record-Herald
Atchison Globe
Col. Snodgrass
Old Hanks
Hanks
Chicago Tribune
Lisse
Princeton
Hale
Pike
Odds and
Swift Legal Processes
Baldwin's
Dental Trt Company
E. Market St
Butterick Pattie
Women’s Fine Shoes
Fall Hosiery
W White
East Alsie
Stransky’s
Berlin
Nets Dry Revels Co
Cecilian
Piano
Starr Piano Company
North
Pennsylvania St
Columbia National Bank United States Depository
Mortimer Levering
A. A. Barnes
W. T. G Golt
W. K. Sproule
Security Trust Company
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