Rogers the financier seen as Jekyll and Hyde in World profile
The New York World portrays Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil as two contrasting sides. Attentive to critics, Rogers is shown as a bold, calculating force in finance and a charming, humane figure in private moments with Mark Twain. The piece links his rise to power with Rockefeller and notes his Quiet life in Fairhaven.
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New York World
Jekyll and Hyde
Lan
Hadley
Henry H. Rogers
Standard
Mr. Rogers
Thomas W. Lawson
Rogers
America
K. I. Harrison
H. H. Rogers
Great Standard
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Mr. Rockefeller
Phil
Wall Street
Missouri
Mark Twain
Standard Oil
Missouri Trust Probers
Gajag
Twain
New Bedford
The
Tempreance Society
Temperance Society
Fairhaven
Henry
Pennsylvania
Metropolis
Fifth Avenue
Gaieltes
Broadway
L. R. Hunt
Oldest Umbrella in Continuous Service in Kansas City
C. W. Wilson of 930 McGee street claims the oldest umbrella in use in Kansas City since 1868. He recalls carrying it through the Garfield inauguration parade in 1881 with eight ribs and a maple stick, noting its revival after a broken ivory handle was repaired with gold.
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Kansas City
C. W. Wilson
McGee Street
Pawnee Library Association of Philadelphia
Pawnee Club
Old Pawnee Club
Philadelphia
Sauce for Goose and Gander
Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian canal commission praises a foreign system of requisitions that works both ways. A light verse anecdote follows about a spendthrift poet who marries into wealth and jokes about being provided for if he dies.
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Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Lot a Chemist Freak in a New York Press Jest
A Columbia chemistry professor challenged by a precocious freshman who asked about Lot s wife undergoing twofold chemical change. The student quipped first she turned to rubber then she turned to salt, in humorous dialogue from the campus.
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Lot
New York Press
Columbia
Ealt
Whistling Woman and Heartbreak in the Irish Meadow
Connor Maguire falls for Mairgread Kelly while Aily Meara longs for him. Aily’s secret hair loss and swift social whispers spark jealousy and tragedy as a whistling woman haunts the village, ending with a stormy night and a fatal river death.
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Sha Kelly
Aily Meara
Connor Maguire
Mairgresq@ Kelly
Connor
Seamus Meara
Aily
Meara
Shrove
Aly
Cannon
Seamus
Shaun Kelly
Lost in a Stage Sea
A Philadelphia Telegraph humor item recalls a stage mishap in a theater where a ship deck scene featured a rising tide of sea tricks. An actor sees a floating head in a hole and shouts Man overboard while the audience watches, then laments Too late, too late as a fellow performer is said to perish at sea.
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Aily Meore
Philadelphia Telegraph
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Clemens
Twitchell
Mrs. Craigie
South Street
Joe’ Twitchell
Hartford
Samuel
Elmira
Mark
Mrs. Clemens
Mom No. 1
Aperien
Lawson
Ikxnockany
Mairgread Kelly
Cauth
Cuuth
Maguires
Showay
Atly Meara
West
Chioul
Margaret Kelly
Shaun Kelley
Neilan
Marie Shaun
Whistler
Mairgread Kely
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