Ready Wit Caught Morgan in a Bold Exchange
Financier Pierpont Morgan, famed for blunt talk, faced a Wall Street broker who had cheated him out of about $40,000. Morgan demanded recognition, offering to forgive if the broker ceased acknowledging him. The broker declined with a smile, saying he would not deny himself the pleasure for twice the sum. Since then Morgan has greeted him warmly, a change in demeanor.
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Pierpont Morgan
Wall Street
Mr. Morgan
Mr. So
Veteran lawyer silences colleague with biting line
In an Iowa court a young attorney imitated a veteran with cuff adjustments and a gaze at the jury. The veteran rise to respond delivered a measured opening and ended with the jab that the young man acts like a good lawyer but talks like a blamed fool.
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Shaw
Iowa
King Leopold in Disfavor at Paris Jockey Club
La Figaro reports Paris Jockey Club members plan a serious rebuke for Leopold I on his upcoming visit. The feud traces to a February dining incident when the king praised a canard aux navets and the club chef vanished, later alleged kidnapped by the monarch and put to work in his royal kitchen in Lachen.
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la Figaro
Paris
Jockey Club
Leopold I
Belgium
Lachen
Western man sues for divorce over wife’s nightlong music
A western husband seeks divorce claiming cruelty. He cites his wife’s habit of sitting up with lights ablaze all night singing and playing a violin. One night she offered a prayer blaming the husband for his first wife’s purchase of their bed.
Courteous mobs in West Virginia release prisoners
Report notes growing courtesy by mobs as at Bluefields West Virginia where a mob released two men and then presented bond to the sheriff for one of the prisoners. Indianapolis News cites improving respect for law alongside analysis of French President Loubet rumored retirement after buying a chateau and estate near his birthplace in southeast France.
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Bluefields
W. Va
Indianapolis
Loubet
France
Temptations of Boys in the City Outlined
In response to Rev Dr Hillis, Mr Depew argues that pampered sons of the rich fall first to temptations in the city. The country lad away from home faces loneliness and idle hours that invite wrong associations and easy ruin. He asserts country youths need fortitude to resist such temptations.
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Depew
Dr. Hillis
Millonaires
Russell Sages to Move from Fifth Avenue Home
Great financier Russell Sage plans to relocate after forty two years in a modest Fifth Avenue residence New York. Noise from a new candy store and adjacent ice cream parlor fan drives the decision while a smoking parlor on the rear street side prompts Mrs Sage to seal windows. He will shift to the former Charles Broadway Rouss mansion near Henry Clews and D Ogden Mills.
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Russell Sage
Fifth Avenue
New York
Forty Second Street
Family of literary women in one family excelling
Three literary women in one family, Mrs. G. K. Dyer, her daughter Mrs. Alice Duer Miller, and her daughter Miss Caroline Duer, have written novels stories and essays and are frequent contributors to popular periodicals. Cousin Mrs. Clarence Mackey is also starting a literary career.
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World of Letters
Brontes
G. K. Dyer
Miller
Alice Duer Miller
Caroline Duer
Clarence Mackey
Pedestrian Chief Justices Walks Daily in Retirement
Justice Henry B Brown of the Supreme Court is an avid walker, averaging five to ten miles daily. He often strolls the west end and suburbs after sessions end, usually joined by his niece Miss Morgan when weather allows. The piece notes a contrast with Justice Harlan and includes Mark Twain quotes on boredom and lineage.
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Henry B. Brown
Supreme Court
Harlan
Chevy Chase
Justice Brown
Capitol
West End
Miss Morgan
Only a Boy and Andalusian Spectre Highlight Weekend Page
A fragment from a late nineteenth century page features a poem about a boy detailing his mischief and charm, followed by a short note on Andalusian spectres seen on misty mountains and a puzzle solution from last week. The page also describes experiments in air pressure using a plate and glass, then moves to leisure topics including rowing health, the Sylphs game, and simple paper dolls, Ha-goo, a playful Indigenous game.
Rainy Day Marbles Game Instructions
Rainy Day Marbles is a two to seven player game. Players aim to reach a black dot marble while blocking others. On reaching a marble a pin is left as proof, and captured marbles score two points. the round ends when all marbles are knocked out, with the highest score winning.
Leaf cutting ants from South America cultivate fungus gardens
An entomologist describes the habits of leaf cutting ants that grow their own food. They live in colonies in South America and cut leaves, which are taken underground to be fashioned into fungal gardens. The ants graft the leaf fragments with fungus spawn to produce edible masses. This marvel in ant life is noted as astonishing.
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Globe
South America
Stone Forests of Arizona Turn to Stone
In the Little Colorado region, vegetable petrifaction yields stone forests where marl once covered trees to depths of up to 1000 feet. Geologists explain marl washed away over ages, leaving upright trunks and others piled like fallen monarchs. The piece notes the ironic quip that it is cheaper to throw a stone than a bouquet.
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Little
Colorado River
Arizona
Tornado and drought devastate Georgia and Carolinas
In the southern states a heat wave and drought preceded deadly storms. Gainesville, Georgia, bore the first blow as a tornado destroyed a large cotton mill. Across North Carolina and Georgia bowl river and valley floods swelled to floods, killing thirty four and driving property losses beyond three million dollars.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Peaceville
Gainesville
Belleville mayor defends restraint after lynching
Belleville Illinois mayor Kern explains he did not deploy firearms to stop a mob that lynched a Black man named Wyatt on June 6. He praises officers for their restraint and arrests, blames Wyatt for initiating violence and the violence by the mob, and says mob law is unacceptable.
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Belleville
Illinois
Wyatt
Kern
Rebuked the Trumpeter at Wolseley Barracks
The article recalls a British Army incident when Lord Wolseley visited a Irish garrison. A trumpeter sounded retreat by mistake provoking the colonel to curse him, then restraint faded as he berated the man. It also notes Hall Caine's claim about Pope Leo XIII confessing he had never read one of his books.
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Lord Wolseley
Ireland
Leo
Hall Caine
Vatican
Leo XIII
Britain Fails to Pass Protective Tariff in Commons
The British House of Commons voted 424 to 28 against a protective tariff proposed by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. Prime Minister Balfour asserted free trade while urging party unity, and the crisis was averted as Chamberlain was spared resignation. Duke of Devonshire aided cabinet settlement, and King Edward’s Ireland visit was seen as pivotal. Chaplin’s grain tariff repeal amendment was defeated 396 to a majority.
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House of Commons
Chamberlain
Balfour
Joseph Chamberlain
Duke of Devonshire
Edward
Ireland
Chaplin
Mr. Chaplin
De Wet Leads Irreconcilables in Orange River Colony
General De Wet heads a large political party in the Orange River colony. Every Boer released from a British prison camp joined his party, which now holds the majority of white voters. His unreconcilable stance alarms British authorities.
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de Wet
Gen
Orange River Colony
Gen. de Wet
Talk of Forming Pepys Club in London
Rumor in London speaks of forming a Pepys club to honor Samuel Pepys on the two hundredth anniversary of his death marked May 26. His life fades from May 1669 as eye inflammation ends his faithful diary.
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Pepys Club
London
Samuel Pepys
Chicago Author Given Honor
At Columbian University in Washington the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred on George Horton the well known author formerly of Chicago who is now pursuing literary and philological studies in the capital.
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Chicago
Columbian University
Washington
George Horton
Capital
Life of President Harrison Being Prepared by biographer
John L. Griffiths is at work on the life of the late William Henry Harrison. He has been trusted with the president’s private papers including unfinished manuscripts after a long association with the Harrison circle.
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Harrison
John L. Griffiths
Griffiths
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