Miss Kaesmann's Sunflower Refining Fails in Bankrupt Row
Kansas City dispatch recounts Sunflower Refining of Niotaze Kansas led by Miss Hermann Kaesmann. Despite early success against Standard Oil, a faulty estimate for a lubricating oil plant caused costs to balloon from 75000 to 175000, draining working capital and forcing receivership.
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Kansas City
Hermann Kaesmann
Sunflower Refining Company
Niotaze
Kas
Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Ising
Standard Oil
Miss Kaesmann
Rockefeller
Rochester
N. Y
Kansas
Standard
ScoPo
Afota Eta Etaetaoinnn Bunflower Refining Company
Kaesmann
Misa
Restorative tonic claimed to cure nervous exhaustion
An old advertisement promises a home remedy for nervous exhaustion and related symptoms. It describes a mix of syrups and tinctures including sarsaparulla compound, balmwort, cardiol essence, and eadomene compound to be taken after meals and at night, claiming no opiates or habit-forming drugs and that leading druggists supply ingredients.
Baroness Bore a Dogial Star in Old London
Vienna, Oct. Baroness Born’s newest photograph explains why she was a reigning beauty in London during the social season. She attracted the greatest admiration and was welcomed by fashionable hostesses. Beyond beauty, she exuded aristocratic elegance and charming manners, then returned to Austria to her country residence near Neumarkti.
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Vienna
Baroness Born
London
Austria
Neumarkti
Couple seeks divorce over wife smoking in morning light
Evansville Ind Oct 8 George Kiler files for divorce alleging his wife smokes cigarettes and wakes him by blowing smoke in his face each morning.
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Evansville
Ind
George Kiler
Monuments Erected by Knapp To Be Destroyed
In Kenosha Wisconsin on October 8 eight inscribed monuments by Lewis Knapp that mocked Christianity will be destroyed so no inscription remains. Surviving relatives signed an agreement to remove them from the cemetery break them up and bury or cast the fragments into the lake.
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Kenosha
Wis
Lewis Knapp
Knapp
Divorce law to aid poor couples in local courts
The Incorporated Law Society of London called for a change so petitioners with small means can obtain divorce decrees in local courts. Currently such cases occur only in London, excluding poorer couples far from the capital. The society also urges a law restricting newspapers from publishing divorce details beyond decree mentions.
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London
Incorporated Law Society
Lutherans Adjourn After Southern Indiana Meeting
Terre Haute Ind Oct two days of Lutheran church ministers conference in the southern Indiana district adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet in Cincinnati next time. The district covers parts of Ohio and Kentucky. Conferences discuss theological questions.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Conference of Ministers
The
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Southern
Indiana
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Divorced Pair Reunites and Remarries in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on October 8, divorced couple Amelia Garland and William D. Garland, once separated by long moves across Washington, Arizona, and the Northwest, unexpectedly reunite on the street and decide to remarry after learning of each other’s divorces and current lives.
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Los Angeles
Cal
William D. Garland
Newfoundland
Garland
Great Northwest
Arizona
Washington
Garlande
Athget Zona
Angeles
Will
Amelia
ACS
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