Nellie Grant Sartoris’s Second Marriage in 1900s Chicago
Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of General Grant, marries Frank H. Jones a Chicago banker in contrast to her first 38 year marriage to Algarnon J. Sartoris an English army officer. Her English life was unhappy with cruelty from Sartoris. Her father in law aided her, buying a London house and securing a country home. After his death in 1890 she inherited a town house and $35,000 yearly. Three years later her husband died, and she received the principal of his income as guardian of their children and the lease of the country house.
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Biddle’s Unique Methods Turn Boxing To Bible Class Growth
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle of Philadelphia blends prize fighting with religion by founding a Bible class movement that uses athletics as incentive. From a three-member Sunday school at Holy Trinity, it has swelled to about 700 participants and aims for national prominence.
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Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Philadelphia
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Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church
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Marshall's Moderation in Reform Drives Indiana VP Bid
Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, rides a wave of reform tempered by moderation. Born in Manchester in 1864, he built a legal career in Columbia City before serving as governor. A lifelong Hoosier, Marshall is known as the "Little Giant" for his restrained yet reform-minded leadership.
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Columbia City
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University of Pennsylvania
Lois I. Kinneey
Angola
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Hill's Remarkable Career Ends As Great Northern Chairman
James J. Hill retires as chairman of the Great Northern railroad after thirty three years of service. Louis W. Hill succeeds him as chairman, Carl R. Gray had recently taken over as president, while Hill remains on the executive committee. Born in Gusloh Ontario in 1853, Hill rose from day laborer to railroad leader and had a career marked by ambition and wealth building.
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Restore Youth Discovery Claims Proven Successful
Philadelphia physician Dr. Frank R. Starkey announces a new elixir made from genital glands of roosters and sheep with glycerin. He says injections into blood can reverse aging and cure chronic diseases, claiming volunteers aged twenty to thirty five show marked improvement and that vital glands govern metabolism and vitality.
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Frank R. Starkey
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Medico-Chirurgical College
London
Vienna
Berlin
Paris Gambler Trio Target Widow in Conquest Tale
Indignation grips the American colony as Gil Blas reports a Paris club plot where three prominent but penniless men decide by a game of cards which should woo and win an American widow to share her fortune. The story names the widow and details a plan to sail to America after a staged match. Local disgust grows as the tale is widely credited and seen to jeopardize the widow’s liberty and legacy.
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Needle in the Foot Freed Mrs Hornbeck After 30 Years
Mrs Daniel Hornbeck a Milford schoolteacher lived with a needle lodged in her big toe bone for 30 years. A chiropodist removed it after an incision revealed the needle end, ending decades of limping and phantom corn pain that began when she was a child near Dingmans Ferry.
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Dog Sacrifices Life to Save Boy in Cincinnati
Five year old Clarence Whitney narrowly escaped a passing automobile on Madison road when his pet dog dragged him away from the oncoming car driven by Miss Margaret Payne. The dog failed to free the boy in time and was crushed under the wheels, dying at the scene. The boy escaped with only a glancing blow and no serious injury.
Lightning Claims Five Lives In Heat Toll
Five people died in a heat wave incident marked by a lightning strike. Two men sheltering under a tree were killed when a bolt felled the tree. Clothing was torn from one victim and a tree imprint appeared on his back. Two other men and a six month old infant also perished.
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New York
British Plan Kid Republic London
On a 190 acre farm in Dorsetshire England plans are announced for the first boy and girl republic, modeled after successful junior republics in America. Recruits will be from industrial schools and reformatories, craft training provided, wages earned to pay board, with expulsion for obdurate offenders and no jails. Duchess of Marlborough backs a girls’ cottage. Harold Large named superintendent.
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United Staates
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Negroe residents linked to woman’s death in Yonkers
In Yonkers New York a house purchase by Black residents near Mrs. Charles Hubbard is tied to her death. Hubbard killed herself by gas, with authorities noting possible connection to the nearby occupancy. Facts remain under investigation.
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Dog Brings News of Drowning in Allegheny River
In Pittsburg, Price the Newfoundlander led crying dog owner John Redick’s father to the Allegheny River where the 12 year old boy John Redick had drowned. The dog had been chained to a log and struggled to free its master but could not reach him in time.
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Lovers plan elopement with racing monoplane chase
Folled lovers plot a late night elopement beside a father's hangar. They plan to wheel out a runabout monoplane to fly away, but propose a new scheme to hide it in an old stable and walk to a trolley. A pursuit by papa ends with the sound of triple propellers overhead as a chase unfolds.
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The Sad Part of It
A Philadelphia Bulletin quote lyric describes fading memory and spent money in a strained relationship. The line about ma and prince reveals sarcasm on parental or social standing as the couple confronts a sinking life at sea metaphor.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Record of a Great Medicine in Hooper Nebraska
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is praised by Mrs Susi Templeton of Hooper Nebraska for curing five years of female troubles After seven bottles her health returned enabling her to work and care for eighteen boarders She gives permission to publish her name This Pinkham record is presented as a victory over woman illness and a solution for sufferers.
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