Wisconsin student joins Sterett expedition to Asia Minor
Jesse E. Wrench a fellow in European history at the University of Wisconsin receives appointment as a member of the Sterett archaeological expedition. The group led by Professor John R. Sterett of Cornell will spend two years in archaeology across Asia Minor Armenia Mesopotamia Syria and the near East. Wrench resigns his UW fellowship and sails December 15 for Athens with the party.
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Sterrett
Asia Minor
Armenia
Mesopotamia
Syria
Near East
Wrench
University of Wisconsin
Athens
Minnesota Guards Conclude Two day Convention in St Paul
The Minnesota National Guard association opened its annual convention in St Paul today and will continue tomorrow. A long program covers duties of the militia and the improvement of personnel and efficiency.
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Special Tribune Dispatch
ST. Paul
Minnesota National Guard Association
St Paul
Willontinue
Davis letter reveals motive behind Confederate matriarchs note
Margaret Jefferson Davis Hayes explains why her mother wrote a posthumous letter read at a Daughters of the Confederacy meeting. She says Mrs Davis intended the letter to respond to criticism over placing her husband's body in Richmond rather than his Mississippi home, arguing for interment at the old Confederate capital.
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New Orleans
Margaret Jefferson Davis Hayes
Jefferson Davis
Daughters of the Confederacy
Mrs Davis Letter Was Destroyed After Mother's Death
The passage notes that Mississippi climate troubled her and she earned money writing for newspapers in New York. Mrs Hayes recalls animosities were resolved before her mother's death and that Mrs Davis ordered the letter destroyed, believing it no longer existed at her death.
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South
Mississippi
New York
Seattle Gas Horse Show Opens With 75 Classes
Seattle's first real horse show opened with 75 classes and entries including valuable thoroughbreds from several stables. The event, promoted with high expectations, will run through the rest of the week.
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Seattle
Special Tribune Dispatch
Wash
Ears Size and Taste Distinguish Musical Personalities
People with firm musical tastes often show prominent ears. The feature appears to correlate with strong listening preferences and distinctive ear shape influences.
Thirteen Club to Discuss Simplified Spelling
The Thirteen club, at Cafe Liberty, plans a dinner on the Roosevelt Carnegie simplified spelling movement. Letters from Roosevelt Twain Carnegie and Mathews will be read, and a replica blue back speller with 300 approved words will be shown as a souvenir.
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Tribune
New York
Thirteen Club
Roosevelt
Father of the Church of England celebrates 95th birthday
Rev. Preben dary Robert More White, vicar of Churchstoke, Montgomeryshire, known as Father of the Church of England, marks his ninety fifth birthday. Born 1811, he is among clergy ordained in William IV's reign and has witnessed five sovereigns. He recalls Queen Victoria as an infant in 1819 and Edward Oxford's 1840 gunfire attack on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He also recalls the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opening in 1830.
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Special Tribune
London
Robert More White
Churchstoke
Montgomeryshire
Church of England
Thackeray
John Bright
White
William IV
Toria
Bognor
Edward Oxford
Prince Albert
Constitution Hill
Liverpool and Manchester
Ohio Bard of Commerce Gathered in Columbus
A distinguished gathering filled the assembly hall in Columbus today for a formal ceremony honoring notable figures in Ohio commerce. Speakers highlighted the state’s economic progress and the role of local businesses in advancing regional growth.
Ohio Board of Commerce Opens Annual Meeting
The Ohio State Board of Commerce opened in the Great Southern hotel with officers reports and an address on uniform municipal accounts. The annual report shows 19 commercial organizations and 1850 corporations, firms and individuals, up 418 from last year, with two days of sessions on industrial laws elections taxation fire insurance and financial subjects. The gathering will close with a banquet tomorrow night.
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Sembly
Great Southern
Ohio State Board of Commerce
State Board
White House season opens with cabinet dinner
The White House begins its winter social season with a dinner tonight honoring the president and Mrs Roosevelt and the cabinet members and their wives. Further events at the executive mansion are expected to follow.
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Special Tribune Dispatch
Washington, D. C
White House
Roosevelt
Formal and informal gatherings mark the social scene
The passage notes that social activity is largely restricted to formal functions and custom driven events with only a few musicales and informal dinners appearing in the schedule.
Stop Smoking Exposé Promises Cure for Tobacco Habit
An advertisement proclaims a vegetable remedy that cures tobacco addiction secretly in food or drink. It claims no side effects and offers a free sample from Rogers Drug & Chemical Co. at Cincinnati. A testimonial from M. E. Smith of Rockingham Vermont supports the claim.
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Rogers Drug & Chemical Co
Fifth and
Race Sts
Cincinnati
M. E. Smith
Rockingham
Free Tobacco Specific Trial Package Offer
Cut this out and mail it with your name and address to Rogers Drug and Chemical Co. Cincinnati Ohio. They will send by return mail a plain package free trial of Rogers Tobacco-Specific. The free trial package has cured others and may cure you.
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Rogers Drug & Chemical Co
Fifth & Race Sts
Cincinnati
Ohio
Rogers
Presidential Receptions to Honor Officials and Officers
The excerpt discusses ongoing practice of presidential receptions for the cabinet diplomatic corps supreme court justices members of congress and officers of the army and navy establishing precedent for such honors.
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Cabinet
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court
Congress
Army
Navy
Mrs. John Hart Dies in La Crosse Tuberculosis
Mrs. John Hart of Bangor Wisconsin dies at 27 in La Crosse hospital from tuberculosis. The body will be shipped to Bangor tonight.
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John Hart
Bangor
Wis
la Crosse Hospital
Atchison Woman Stuns In Goldfield Nose Higher Than Prices
An Atchison woman draws attention in Goldfield Nevada by lifting her nose higher than the rising grocery prices, a curious roadside sight that sparked local chatter.
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Atchison
Goldfield
Nev
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