Year of sadness for Cupid noted in Chicago divorces
A Chicago chronicle laments 1906 as a dire year for married couples with a spike in divorces. It highlights high profile cases from Count Castellane to Senator Platt, Mrs. Yerkes and others, calling courts “divorce mills” and warning that prosperity did not ensure harmony as Cupid weeps at weddings undone and families broken across cities.
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Chicago
Cupid
San Francisco
Sahara
Filda
Adamless Eden hotel collapses after four years in New York
The Martha Washington hotel for women in New York, after four years of struggle and record occupancy, is to be turned over to a lessee. Despite its philanthropic aim to provide a modest home and social access for working women, the venture has produced no dividends, with stockholders losing money as costs and changing economics make operation impractical. The piece notes high property value and shifts in the hotel scene, including unusual public viewing of a Broadway engine room as a free attraction.
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New York
Martha Washington
Etary
Jeel
Broadway
Gaidhery
Berkman Opens Print Shop After Release From Prison
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist released after an 18 year sentence for the Homestead strike attempt on Henry Frick, opens a job printing office at 308 East Twenty seventh street. He plans to print for radical societies, employ no helpers, and work his own labor to earn returns. He has spent much time in New York since release, speaking at anarchist meetings and aiding imprisoned revolutionists.
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Alexander Herkman
Prion
Pennsylvania
Henry
Frick
Homestead
East Twenty-seventh Street
Terkman
Lile
Berkman
New York
Roof wards at Presbyterian hospital to open atop main building
The Presbyterian hospital will open roof wards testing new pneumonia and typhoid treatments. Donated by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr. the system includes rails and appliances. Two other hospitals plan similar installations after successful winter results under Dr. William P. Northrup. The project costs about $15 000 with one death from double pneumonia among treated patients.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Presbyterian
William P. Northrup
W. K. Vanderbilt, Sr
Hammerstein Missing From Manhattan Opera House Previews
Oscar Hammerstein has not yet attended the opening act of the Mos opera at the Manhattan Opera House. He was last found in a cellar passage near a stage door, seated in a fireproof private smoking room, lamenting the lack of access to his own stage and his after-dinner smoke. He complained of the foremen forbidding him on stage and hoped to hear one of his first acts despite the delay.
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Mos
Manhattan Opera Liouse
Mir
Hammerstein
Hoe
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Hartjes
Plitabura
William KE. Corey
Mr. Carnegie
Mr. Corey
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Corey
Great Steel Trust
Nevada
Mir. Corey
Muabelle Gilman
Hartje
Pillshurs
Platts
Platt
W. J. White
Nate
Cleveland
Hartie
Charles T. Yerkes
Wilson Migner
Yerkes
Traction Magna
Mrs. Yerkes
Mizner
Yorkee Mizner
Miser
Ile Wasa
Senator Platt
Thomas C. Platt
Mr. White
W. J. Lomp
St. Louis
Mrs. Lomp
St Louis
Clarence Eddy
Suniat
Eddys
Paris
Eddy
Caia
South Dakota
Marie Urmanlooy
Eden
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