Wealthy Princetoner Gives $5000 to Somerville Hospital
S. G. Palmer sent a $5,000 check to Somerville Hospital after his car crash victims were treated there. Mrs Turner suffered serious injuries but survived thanks to medical care and nursing. Palmer’s gift, the largest single donation to the hospital, expresses gratitude for the life saved.
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Somerville
Palmer
Princeton
Gracy Parner
Bomatville
Axhe
Somerville Hospital
Belived
Louisville teen killed. man given life term
In Louisville Ky William Woolfolk 21 was found guilty of murdering John G Hall 15. The jury fixed his punishment at life in prison. Woolfolk claimed self defense saying he was drunk and used objectionable language in front of several girls, the boy remonstrated and he stabbed him.
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Sheetal
Louisville
William Woolfolk
John G
Hall
Ife Ia
Woolfolk
HONG ON A LIVE WIRE AND NOTRE DAME REPTILE FIND
Wayne Norris a telephone lineman dangled above ground for two minutes as a live wire burned through his body. Doctors hold hope for recovery. Norris once starred as a football player in Fortoria. A Notre Dame scientific department reported finding a two foot constrictor in a banana car from South America, a strange reptile discovery noted yesterday.
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Hong
Tiffin
Wayne Norris
Notre Dame
Ind
Bananan
South America
Tricked a Sleeper Angler and Theater Manager
Empire theater manager Zimmerman and friends fished at a shore site last Sunday. In sleep he missed the crowd, cast for speckled beauties, and rose from the water yelling for help after sinking. He joked that sleeping caused his near drown. The episode ended with him safely ashore and joking about the mishap.
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Zimmerman
Empire Theater
Wallon
Mr. Zimmerman
Antisaloon League Convention to Be Held in Columbus
The Indiana Governor and the Principal Speaker Gov J Frank Hanly will address about 1000 delegates at the state Anti Saloon League convention in Columbus November 12. Gov Harris will preside and introduce Hanly who will recount his experiences opposing liquor traffic with several other prominent speakers on the program.
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Columbus
Anti- Saloon League
Harris
J. Frank Hanly
Todiana
Woman chef installed at Marlborough club in London
Excitement in London as a woman becomes chef at the Marlborough club, a prestigious London dining society. Critics argue why women may fail in professional kitchens, citing exertion and temperament, while Ming Braddon notes a modest fee but large royalties in her career. She masters several languages and remains undeterred amid debate.
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London
Marlborough Club
Chefs' Association
Chinaman Weds White Girls Sparks City Controversy
The Sun reports in Chicago about 200 white women marrying Chinese men, examining motives from love to money and opium. It describes courtship in chop suey restaurants and downtown shops, notes cases from department stores, and discusses mother in law dynamics and social prejudice in a sensationalized civic feature.
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Sun
Chicago
Maurin
Chenga Tribune
Yeon Shvex
Chinwen
Courteship
Hop Son
Chunia
Hop Sun
Pastor's Rich Wife Rides in Terplechian Race Stirring Pittsburg Society
Mrs Martlind Alexander wife of Plent Presbyterian pastor in Pittsburg drew sharp society backlash after riding astride in an unusual terplechian costume at a recent event. The heiress inherited $19,000,000 from her steel magnate father and won the race amid criticism from church members and wealthy circles.
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Pittsburg
Martlind Alexander
Alexander
Plent Presbyterian Church
Misa Martelaine Taughlin
Alexanders
Aoeiety
White brides and Chinaman marriages in social life
The piece describes strict social limits on white brides with Chinese husbands, including barred interactions with other Chinese wives and restricted gatherings. It notes wives receive ample household money and fine dress but inhabit crowded, undesired neighborhoods. It mentions a bachelor and a high society connection to Lady Evalyn Howard and the Earl of Suffolk.
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Chiamen
Chineman
Marrel Chinaman
Exept
Chrangers
Voneon Werker
Evalyn Howard
Leterx
Wyoming
Washington
Ambnasander
Durand
Earl of Buffolk
Lester
London authority links clothing to digestion advice
A London authority suggests men should change their clothes before dinner to prevent indigestion and recommends women dress for dinner rather than taking pepsin. The advice frames daily attire as a health measure for dyspepsia prevention.
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London
Father-in-law of Fairbanks barred from voting in Pittsburgh
James Scott, father-in-law of Frederick Col Fairbanks and son of a vice president, faces registration trouble as Pennsylvania’s new naturalization requirement compels foreign-born voters to show papers. The Board of Registration ordered his name stricken after he failed to present naturalization papers within the 30 day window.
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Pittsberg
James Sent
Frederick Cole Fairbanks
Mise Nellie
Scott
Board of Registration Comsmisioners
Mr. Scott
Scotland
Thas
Aimee
Andrew Carmeete
Treforce
Pennsylvania
Former Hoosier killed family then died by suicide near Newport
Spet in to The Sun Lebanon Indiana reports that Chamberlain Mantoomb, a former Hoosier, murdered his wife and three children with an adz near Newport Tennessee then slashed his throat with a razor. One daughter escaped. she fled the kitchen as one child was struck. Authorities believed he was insane.
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To the Sun
Lebanon
Ind
Chamberlain Mantoomb
Newport
Tenn
Man Lin
Circle of Praise Among Writers at Leslie's
The poem sketches a loop where Leslie’s contributors praise each other. William Allen White, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Peter Finley Dunne, Baker, and Dunne all laud peers, forming a self boosting chain that ends with everyone claiming the others are equally fine. The speaker desires similar attention and asks to be written about in return.
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White
Baker
Peter Finley Dunne
Ids Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Flue
Leslie
Prediction by Raphael the Astrologer for Saturday
Prediction by Raphael describes troublesome fortune in business and domestic life, with annoyances, losses, sickness, and sorrow. It warns of unhappy marriage for females, possible tribulation for a child born that day, and general misfortune in love and finances.
Golden Medical Discovery Proclaims Heart Tonic Claims
An old column extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic for heart function quoting authorities who praise Golden Seal and Stone root. It notes the tonic as a general stimulant aiding muscular systems and digestion, while cautions it does not cure serious heart diseases.
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Pierce
Materia Medics
United States
Collinsonia
Wm. Paine
Paine
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Odd Fellows’ Building
Penn
Bitone
Sons OF Orient
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Chiniman
Peeper
Louis Johnson
Frank Keeler
Fremont
Louis Sahneon
Cltteeny
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John Weber
Dor
Weber
Keeler
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Young Keeler
Weber Gay
Dora
Fairbanks
Stuart Mactan
William Allen Whites
Ida Tarbells
Mr. So
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