Why Not Gap to California Holiday Trip Ad
A fragmentary ad style notice promotes a holiday trip to San Francisco via Denver and Salt Lake City with Epworth League meetings in July. It promises low round trip fares, scenic routes through Colorado and Utah, a Yellowstone detour, and a monthlong itinerary with stops in Portland Seattle Spokane and Billings. Includes contact for Burlington's Epworth League folder and other promotional filler items from period ads.
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California
San Francisco
Epworth League
Denver
Salt Lake City
Colorado
Utah
Portland
Seattle
Lacoma
Spokane
Billings
Mont
Yellowstone Park
Burlington
J, Francis
Omaha
Neb
Vermont Declares Old Home Week For August Eleven
Following New Hampshire precedent Vermont legislature designates seven days starting August 11 as Old Home Week. Governor W. W. Stickney named president of the organizing association to plan and carry out reunion festivities.
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New Hampshire
Vermont
W. W. Stickney
Carrier Figuon Convicted Thief
In Hast Orange New Jersey a court released a carrier pigeon to find its home to test guilt in a larceny case. George Bennett was held for the grand jury after authorities traced the stolen homing pigeon from Robert Envraig to Envraig’s loft, aided by the bird’s flight. A feather from the pigeon helped corroborate the link between the alleged theft of game cocks and the dove’s location.
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Figuon
Hast Orange
N. J
Geo. Bennett
Robert Envraig
Wuraig
Charles Martel Carrying a 30-Pound Mace
The article notes Charles Martel or Charles the Hammer holding a mace weighing thirty pounds. It emphasizes the heft and symbolic weight of the weapon in the historical account.
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Charles Martel
Charles the Hammer
Passing of Rev Dr E E Webb Noted Preacher and Missionary
Rev Dr E E Webb widely known Congregational missionary died in Wellesley Massachusetts aged 72 after senile debility. Born 1820 in Newcastle Missouri he rose from farm boy to Bowdoin College graduate 1846 Bangor Seminary 1847 pastor at Shawmut Church Boston later served Massachusetts Home Missionary Society executive committee and American Board roles. His ministry extended to Egypt Palestine and Syria and he became pastor emeritus after 1885 with a calm tolerant life and noted writings.
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Eewin B. Wabb
Congregational Church
Wellesley
Mass
Prudential Committee
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
E. B. Webb
Hartford Theological Seminary
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Dr. Webb
Newcastle
Lincoln Academy
Bowdoin College
Bangor Seminary
Princeton
Augusta
Boston
Shawmut Church
Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
Egypt
Palestine
Syria
Asia Minor
Green Lion At Buffalo Garden Stimulates Exposition Curiosity
The Buffalo Express imagines a green lion in the sunken garden at the exposition, musing that a green lion would be an intriguing sight and worth admission. It contrasts green lions with red ones and muses on patina and color, pondering nature and novelty.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Express
Hong
Biuifald
Leniency to Criminals Law Comment
The Pennsylvania legislature and governor approved a new measure expanding sentence commutation for good conduct. Analysts say the act was not demanded by the public and that fraudsters and ballot-box stuffers are likely to be the main beneficiaries, given their habitual gravity.
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Pennsylvania
Belief ties bird destruction to male gaze in hats
Professor Scott, Princeton ornithology curator, told an eastern education conference in Newark that women wear feathers to please men, not themselves, urging Audubon society support. Washington reports also note Charles G Dawes as a Senate contender, outlining his career from 1896 McKinley forces to Controller of the Currency and law training.
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Scott
William B.D. Scott
Princeton University
Eastern Public Education, Associations
Newark
N. F
The
Audubon Society
Charles G. Dawes
Senate
Mr. Dawes
McKinley
Ilinois
Marietta
R. R. Dawes
Iron Brigade
Wisconsin
William Dawes
Paul Revere
Sen
Longfellow
Cincinnati Law School
Lincoln
Neb
Evanston
Northwestern Gaslight and Coke Company
Troubles of Queen Draga of Servia
Reported crisis surrounds Queen Draga of Serbia as she allegedly attempted suicide with a pistol. A lady in waiting reportedly wrestled the weapon away, officials say. The Queen faces intensified scrutiny to guard against further self harm.
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Draga
Servia
Autobiography or Biography of an Automobile
A Philadelphia Record remark notes a completed effusion titled The Biography of an Automobile and plays on the idea of calling it an autobiography. The exchange hints at literary framing and playful word choice.
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Pennery
Alwise
Philadelphia Record
Washington Tragedy Revealed in Ayres Killing Confession
The May 15 killing of census clerk James S. Ayres at the Kenmore Hotel in Washington is attributed to a confession by Lola Bonnie. She says Ayres invited her into his room after a quarrel, seized a pistol, and a struggle over the weapon ended with Ayres shot. Bonnie washed the blood stained wrapper and escaped to await morning. The note adds that Ayres had harbored months of interest in Bonnie and that two veterans at the Missouri Grand Army encampment are noted as the oldest and youngest veterans respectively.
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James 8. Ayres
Kenmore Hotel
Washington
Lola
Bonnie
Boniie
James S. Ayres
Sylvester
Ayres
Mr. Ayres
James
Mr. Ayrey
Ayyes
Emperor William Learns Buckwheat Cakes on American Foods
A Chicago Chronicle item reports the German emperor expanded his royal menu with buckwheat cakes codfish cakes and Welsh rarebit during a visit to the Hamburg American yacht Prinzess Victoria Luise. Imperial chef Mmir Fah r enheim tutored Koeniglich Kaiserlicher in American cooking, inspiring the emperor to praise and seek further culinary instruction on future voyages.
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William
Great Republic
Victoria Luise
Mmil Fahrenheim
Chicago Chronicle
Man's sphere in nature evolution its gradual ascent
Professor W J McGee, retiring president of the Anthropological Society of Washington, says since Huxley in 1863 researchers have linked man with lower genera, tracing a mental as well as physical evolution from a lower animal prototype to higher human thought and action.
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Huxley
W. J. McGee
Anthropological Society of Washington
Acarce
McGee
Chicago Chronicle
Slander by Phonograph Fines Malignant Dealer
In a Berlin suburb a sewing machine dealer caused a public slander by using a phonograph to broadcast forged accusations of forgery and embezzlement. The device refused to repeat the calumnies in court, but witnesses proved the remarks were made, and the defendant was fined fifty shillings for malice.
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Berlin
Cherokee Nation Leader Susan Sanders Seeks U S Bill
Detail of Mrs Susan Sanders described as a Cherokee leader and lender to Cherokees who recently traveled to Washington twice to push a congressional bill. The aim is to prevent intruders by marriage and preserve lands and annuities for the Cherokee nation. Sanders drafted the bill and correspondence to the committees on Indian affairs.
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Lender
Susan Sanders
Washington
Congress
Indig
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