Spying on Wives and a New Path for Commerce
The Indianapolis Sun discusses Judge Allen's denunciation of hiring detectives in divorce cases as contemptible and warns about spy testimony. It also surveys James J Hill's proposal for a Hudson Bay route to Europe, the Hill merger dispute, and social notes on the Yerkes couple's expatriation and elite society barriers.
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Transcontinental Railroad Lines
Mississippi Valley
Europe
Gulf of Mexico
New Or
Yeang
Galveston
Port Arthur
Newport News
James J. Hill
Hudson Bay
Hill
Labrador
Great Northern
Minneapolis
St. Paul
SUN
Indianapolis
Judge Allen
IC. cD
Walks Two Miles to School in Crowded City
A letter from Indianapolis laments children, including a little girl, walking nearly two miles to school due to crowded classes. The writer asks for relief from overcrowding to avoid winter hardship for youngsters.
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Sun
J. L. Munson
Indianapolis
Press snips on cars campaigns and speeches in early papers
The snippet compiles humorous and critical lines from several U S newspapers. It notes Philadelphia Item humor about cars, Topeka Journal on campaigns, Columbus Dispatch on sour milk becomes elixir, Covington speech by John G Carlisle, and Louisville Herald on free speech and egg throwing in Kentucky.
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America
Manchuria
Philadedlphia
Topeka Journal
Columbus Dispatch
John G. Carlisle
Covington
Kentucky
Louisville Herald
Wit and whimsy linger in a restless editor tale
A New York editor resigns, citing fatigue in telling les. A lawyer warns his scheme to form an ordinary partnership, not a trust. Rockefeller Jr donates 5,000 to a college as casual banter and a string of comic vignettes drift through a collage of quotes and jokes from era newspapers.
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New York
Les
New Yorker
Grand vaudeville and Dora Thorne play at the Empire and Grand
The Grand offers dark modern vaudeville at 2:15 and 8:16 p.m with the Dimple sisters and a feature Miss Mergere in His Japanese Wife. Dora Thorne stars at the Grand with Cuba Niblo, while the Empire hosts Dazzling Nancy and a sequence of song and dance numbers including Rose Sydell in London Belles and a famous magic act by Howard Thurston.
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Dora Thorne
Empire
Rose Sydell
Parker
Alabama
Mobile
Mr. Ferguson
Mr. Mack
Dimple Sisters
Ferguson
Mack
Mergere
Hallenberg
Chick San
Tim Hallenberg
Drawee
Ruita
Bertha Mr. Clay
Dora Thorn
Earl
Charlaris
Cuba Niblo
Newspaper Snippets Reflect Oddities and Local Notes
A collage of quirky quotes and short curios from various papers, including remarks on spelling, an Astor heir in England, monarchs and songs after Peter’s coronation, a Chicago girl’s fall, and jokes on paper quality and divorce laws. Also mentions a Laporte divorce case and a Friends church push for a new divorce act in Richmond Indiana.
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Bia
Greeneburg Review
Astor
America
England
Knightatown Sun
Peter
Servia
Goshen Times
Chicago
Thatin Creeke
Bionde
Hammond News
Gulag
Pine Village
Logansport Journal
Greenfield Tribune
Laparte
Richmond
Ind
Friends Church
Wantun
Foreign Life Items and Oddities From Around the World
A miscellany notes dim telegraphing in Abyssinia and monkeys swinging on wires while elephants scratch poles. A Scottish minister suggests bagpipes deter rats. Other items cover politics, labor fines, a mysterious drowning, phrenology remarks, Irish rent regrets, dyed silkworms, a drunken Japanese man in London, a Welsh pier funding remark by Lloyd George, aggressive weeds along a railway, a gelatine gramophone card, Archdeacon Sinclair letters to Canada, and a magpie attack at a London zoo.
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Abyssinia
Lord Newton
Trade Uniona Congress
Leeds
Eng
Driscoll
Jandon
Jondon
Hollander
Dublin
America
France
London
Menal Bridge
Lloyd George
Guayaquil
Quito
Andes
Canada
Sinclair
Ife
Bob Fitzsimmons
Zoological Gardens London
Recall and tax issues dominate West Coast items
Councilman J P Davenport of Los Angeles was recalled via city charter provision, with a special election for his successor. A clerical error inflated San Jose’s taxable property by over 1 million dollars, triggering a funding shortfall. San Francisco Knights Templar spent about 100000 entertaining delegates, with 30000 to 60000 by each commandery. The US sues a San Francisco drug store under alien contract labor law over four Canadian clerks, who claim exemption as professionals. Colorado miners federation elected socialist officers on September 14. San Francisco territory hosts 15000 Japanese in schools with white students. debate grows to create separate schools for Japs. After Omaha packers strike, Japanese strike-breakers face housing issues. managers praise workers as too good to fire.
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J. P. Davenport
Los Angeles
San Jose
Cal
Wan
San Francisco
United States
Canada
Colorado
Japa
Omaha
Senator Cockrells Fish Story on the Potomac
Senator Cockrell of Missouri fished the Potomac with a friend using a stone tied to a rope as a weight. After an hour or two the boat moved sluggishly so they returned, puzzled by the boat’s late response to the oars. The friend noticed the issue as they neared shore.
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Senator Cockrell
Missouri
Potomac
Sedge
Kansas City Journal
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B. Obloat
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Potter
Wbege Parker
Ilinois
Fairbanks
Charles Warren
Aioney
Hia
Mr. Taggart
Charles T. Yerkes
Yerkes
Weill
Pennsylvania
Knickerbocker Society
Gotham Mansions
van Allen
London Underground
Marsachusetts
Andianapolis
Spirit OF the Press
Nautical
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Tve
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Jersey City
Czar
Young Eel
Young Herring
Thomas W. Lawson
Pierpont Morgan
Sully
Boston
Hannah
Mr. Sweatser
Edith
Bessie Miller
Boston ‘Transcript
Mamie Smith
Vesuvius
Chicago Tribune
Viktor
Sosioner
Yoave Gee
Curzon
Stereograph
Underwend & Underwood
Lady Curzon
Tal
Lord Curzon Keft
India
Bilma
Pearing Mirror
Sears
Violet Alien
Howanl
Bland
Howard Thurston
Nancy
the Empire
Rose Syuell
Nancy Hank
King Snapper
John J. Kenney
Jennny Webber
Michael Hogan
Relyea
Worten
Connersvifle Examiner
Pettis Dry Goods Co! Sole Agents
Butterick Patterns
Indiana Trust Company
Indiana Trusto
Washington St
Virginia Ave
F. C. Fry
South
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Philadelphia Telegraph
Ware
Boston Herald
Bryan
Wick
Washington Post
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