A Pasteboard Crown Crude Tale With Stage Morals
Clara Morris's novel A Pasteboard Crown is critiqued as crude and amateurish, failing to deter stage-struck girls while portraying one side of theater life. The review praises parts of Morris's honesty but notes missed opportunities to contrast with honest toil and success through talent and hard work. It calls for a fuller treatment and a future work detailing genuine struggle and triumphs.
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Clara Morris
Sybil Lawton
Miss Morris
Hepburn Seeks Practical Antitrust Path in Coming Session
Representative Hepburn Iowa returns from Oyster Bay with a pragmatic view on antitrust legislation. He favors hitting pernicious trusts while sparing legitimate capital, proposes taxing unrepresented stock, and supports a targeted first step to remove stock not backed by cash. He backs Henderson for reelection and discusses a commerce department plan with limited initial bureaus and summer talks.
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Washington
Hepburn
Iowa
House
Oyster Bay
Littlefield
Congress
Colonel Henderson
Carlisle
Randall
Department of Commerce
Senate
Working Girls Clubs And Employer Social Betterment
L Marion Melius cites Lowell mill owner efforts improving hundreds of young women workers physically mentally and morally. The piece compares social betterment by employers with the Peoples club model, noting restrooms good lighting ventilation and sympathetic management as smart business that boosts prosperity for both workers and the employer.
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L. Marion Melius
Boston Transcript
Lowell
Conley a Hero Saves Drowning Victims at Swampscott
Lynn reports Frank T. Conley of Cambridgeport acted with courage to save at least one, possibly two young women from drowning at Swampscott Thursday afternoon. Miss Eleanor Tewksbury, 18, daughter of banker W. Tewksbury of Boston, was pulled from the water unconscious and failed to revive despite medical efforts.
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Cambridgeport
Swampscott
Rescue at Swampscott Beach Saves Four Women
Miss Tewksbury and three companions, Miss May Lovejoy, Miss Bessie Creighton, and Miss Edna Swain, went swimming at Blaney's beach. When Tewksbury sank, lifeguard Conley dived to save her and helped revive Lovejoy and Swain before taking all to shore. Tewksbury survived after hours in Nahant hospital care.
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May Lovejoy
C. A. Lovejoy
Bessie Creighton
George A. Creighton
Edna Swain
J. F. Swain
Blaney’s
Swampscott
Miss Tewksbury
Conley
Miss Lovejoy
Nahant
Mine Defense Fund Contributions Rise Fast in Short Time
Indianapolis July 24 Contributions to the mine defense fund for the anthracite strike reached 123000 in less than a week excluding the men’s assessment. The first week’s assessment of the bituminous district is due and it is expected that 40000 or 650000 a day will begin pouring into headquarters from this source by Saturday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Modern British Guns Demonstrate Belle Isle Destruction
Portsmouth July 24 The old target ship Belle Isle is blasted by modern British warships using nine inch and six inch lyddite shells. Naval officials witnessed hours of firing as the ship’s bridge is blown up and decks swept clear while armor plates withstand. The vessel, moored in a favorable position, will be torpedoed in a few days.
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Portsmouth
England
Belle Isle
Lords of the Admiralty
Wild diver from Atlant struck head in shallow water
Adin Wild, 17, of Atlant BY dose, during a bath at Cottage City, dived and hit the bottom, rendering him unconscious. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by boat. Though he regained consciousness after rescue, his condition remains precarious.
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Vineyard Haven
Adin Wild
Cottage City
Mears and Butler
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Train jumps track after washout near Spring Glen
Middletown New York July 24 A train on the Ontario and Western Ellenville branch was thrown from the track near Spring arena while rounding a curve due to a wash-out. The engine a passenger coach and a combination car left the rails. Six passengers in the latter car were somewhat injured but none seriously.
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Middletown
N. Y
Ellenville
Ontario and Western Railroad
Spring Arena
Pasenger
Widow defends husband in Nina Danforth case
Mrs. Andrew J. Emery, recovering from illness after her husband Andrew J. Emery was shot by Nina F Danforth, speaks to prosecute the young woman. She questions motives, defends her husband’s character, notes disputed letters, and urges a trial to reveal all facts of the fatal crime.
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Booker T. Washington
Woman’s Home Companion
South Framingham
Andrew J. Emery
Nina F. Danforth
Miss Danforth
Emery
Mrs. Emery
Robert Place
Framingham
Éir
Miss West
Ho‘ng
Chief Place
Submarine Eruption Off Fayal Rocks Avuls Panicked Isle
A Lisbon despatch reports a violent submarine volcanic eruption near Horta on Fayal Island. A great incandescent rock was ejected and residents became panic stricken as the sea boiled with heat and ash.
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Lisbon
Azores Islands
Horta
Fayal
West End physician fined in police court case
In St. Louis on July 24, Dr. D. S. L. Gettys, a West End physician, was fined five dollars for swearing at a telephone operator and disturbing the line. The incident occurred in police court today and reflects ongoing public disturbance matters.
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St. Louis
D. S. L. Gettys
West End
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Wzeze
National Association of Negro Women’s Clubs
Daughters of Aliens
White Sisterhood of
Club-Workers of America
Land of the Free
House of the Brave
Negro Club-Woman
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
National Congress of Mothers
National Council of Women
Ludlow
Mass
Mills
Romana Circle
Institute
Arthur Rhodes
Spectaller
Rhodes
NEW Hair Store
Merrimack Street
Working Girls
Hero
National Biscuit Company
Nina
Wat
Gingham
Melton
Weer
Chris Holmes
Merrimack St
Goenoor
Siwe
Burbank & Co
Eastman Kodak Co
Rochester Optical Co
Gundlach Blair Camera Co
H. B. Shattuck & Son
Central Street
Prescott Street
Courier-Citizen
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