Roosevelt Returns from South America and Schedules Next Plans
After seven months in the Brazilian jungle Colonel Theodore Roosevelt returns to the United States. He hints at a 2016 presidential bid, reports on his son Kermit’s June 11 Madrid wedding to Belle Wyatt Willard, and contemplates a September transcontinental tour if health permits. The voyage featured perilous encounters, fever, and near fatal fatigue, yet Roosevelt pressed on with relentless spirit.
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South America
Kermit
Brazil
Belle Wyatt Willard
National Geographic Society
Washington
A. Henry Savage Lander
Davida
Colonel Roosevelts Return Seen Through Jungle Trials
The narrative recounts Roosevelt’s perilous return voyage experiences in the Brazilian wilderness. It details hunts for collared peccaries and the use of a spear, plus observations of fire ants, wasps, and fighting insects, as the party endures danger and a tense night before the colonel recovers to continue.
Placid Chinese Women At A Foreign Official Reception
Elizabeth Cooper recounts a Chinese official wife’s entrance to a foreign home. Despite a slip on a polished floor she maintains a composure absent of emotion, illustrating a taught placidity among Chinese women in official circles.
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Elizabeth Cooper
Married the Day They Met Horace Greeley and Mary Young Cheney
Horace Greeley and Mary Young Cheney wed the day they first met through a matchmaking friend. Though she doubted his appearance, she accepted by letter and marriage followed. Their life together was long and happy, and his wife’s death marked a deep blow to Greeley.
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Horace Greeley
Mary Young Cheney
Greeley
An Expensive Lesson from a Loud Lesson
A teacher scolds Thomas for snapping fingers and commanding him to lower his hand. Moments later he reports a man in the entry left with the teacher’s silk umbrella, a scene of unintended mischief and consequence.
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Thomas
Ladies' Home Journal
Lest We Forget A Patriotic War Talk
A historical exhortation on liberty duty and vigilance. The speaker recalls the Founding Fathers, moral foundations, and vows to honor sacrifice by service under the flag. Juniors attend service by order of the State Counselor.
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Dwin Arnold
Harvard
Woman remarries after brief divorce delay
A Wellsburg West Virginia woman married her second husband twenty five minutes after finalizing divorce from her first. The delay was due to the need to obtain a properly filled marriage license as noted by the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Woan
Pittsburgh Gazette
Times
Two Classes of Man As Husband Reflect Diet Conflicts
A wry aphorism divides husbands into two types: those whose meals disagree with them and those who disagree with their meals. The remark plays on daily domestic friction and food preferences.
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