Ellington Booth and Ballington Booth in Salvation Army Split
London reports that Bramwell Booth’s meeting with Ballington Booth reopens disputes over Ballington’s 1890s departure from the Salvation Army. Ballington left America, formed The Volunteers of America, and later sought London’s approval, with Maud Ballington Booth playing a key social role in New York circles. Ballington later became an American citizen and spoke of the United States as a beacon of liberty.
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London
Bramwell
Ballington Booth
Salvation Army
America
Maud Ballington Booth
Land of the Free
Home of
Booths
General Booth
Chauncey M. Depew
Bramwell Booth
Senator Depew
Mr. Depew
Booth
Ballington
United States
Balington
Friends
the Volunteers of America
Eureka
God's
American Volunteers
Fallington Booth
Mallington Booth
Army Incorporated
No At
Aligarate
Maud Balingtor Booth
New York
Legislative Assembly
Topeka
Kan
Exodus From Berlin Lowers City Population
Berlin loses over 41000 residents since March as laboring classes flee to the countryside and wealthy buyers seek suburbs. Six years of slow growth reversed, 1906 saw a brief rise, now emigration of 19 millionaires in three months and reduced tax receipts alarm officials amid slack labor demand and weak construction.
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Berlin
Charlottenburg
Schoeneberg
Greater
GIVES HUSBAND TO ANOTHER
Mrs Mignon Sharp Cook files for divorce from Lieut Gilbert R Cook of the US Army stationed in Texas. The couple wed two years ago after a West Point romance. Cook asked to be released to marry the Texas lover. the decree grants alimony of five dollars weekly for one year.
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Cleveland
Mignon Sharp Cook
Gilbert R. Cook
United States Army
Texas
Cook
West Point
Brigands Murder Thousands in Tsao-yang China
Norwegian missionary Rev. H S Fauske reported that Chinese brigands under White Wolf killed about 2000 people in Tsao yang and looted widely. Norwegian and American missionaries were captured in northern Hupeh and endured great hardship. The raid began September 26 with battles between federal troops and bandits. Fauske and Rev. George Holm hid in a wheat straw house before escaping.
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Pekin
White Wolf
Tsao-yang
H. S. Fauske
Lutheran Brethren Church
Hupeh
Faulke
George Holm
Wife Seeks Divorce to Allow Daughter to Marry Her Husband
Mrs Katherine Hecker seeks divorce from Martin Hecker who disappeared recently with his step-daughter Lillian Herbst so that Hecker can wed Katherine's daughter and grant her right to marriage.
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New York
Katherine Hecker
Martin
Lillian Herbst
Handycraft dragon costume guide by A Neely Hall
Simple dragon costume instructions with a paper framed head and body harness. Directions cover head framework using wires and cloth, jaw hinges, eye gongs, nostril fangs, and a green painted head with tin foil covering for a body suit, plus a wheeled platform for crawling.
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A. Neely Hall
Woman Denies Love for Boss and Faces a World Apart
Esther, a secretary to John Andrews at a chemical firm, realizes she loves her boss but rejects a life of dishonor. After a fraught emotional battle and a dramatic письмо, she writes a reckless letter and chooses silence. Andrews sails to Europe with his wife, leaving Esther to seek work anew.
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May Endicott
John Andrews
Esther Sinclair
Esther
Andrews
Mildred Andrew
Andrew
Chemical Company
Mr. Andrews
Mrs. Andrews
Givia
Andrewa
Europe
Female Help Wanted
W. G. Chapman
Day of the Butler Passing
A Boston Herald column notes the decline of the traditional English butler as domestic service fades. It cites Holdaway defending old gentry and contrasts fiction’s famed butlers with modern American households, praising or questioning the evolving role of servants.
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Mr. Holdaway
Navy
England
Ethelberta
Thomas Hardy
Octave Mirbeau
Mrs John Astor in London Society and Versailles Fame
Mrs John Astor, widow of Col. John Astor, has risen in London society hosting intimate luncheons at Grosvenor Square. She wowed crowds at Versailles in a Diana costume, described as a moving spectacle by a writer.
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London
John Astor
Col
Grosvenor Square
Astor
Versailles
Louis XIV
Diana
Westminster Abbey Embraces New Electric Lighting
Westminster Abbey unveils a three year project installing 250 electric lamps arranged in groups from the roof. The scheme lights every nook to allow reading prayer books during evening services, replacing the former gloom with a modern illumination system sourced by a street cable.
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Westminster Abbey
Abbey of Westminster
Albey
Mosquito Swarms Mark a Sweltering June Night
On a hot June night two residents on a porch remark on the heavy mosquitoes. The heat stifles activity while the insects swarm freely, with one observer noting the discomfort and the other succinctly agreeing.
Amateur golf world championship at St Andrews
In the first round at St Andrews Scotland Heinrich Schmidt of Worcester Massachusetts was the sole American winner. The report notes another American did not advance in the opening round.
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Sam
St. Andrews
Scotland
Heinrich Schmidt
Worcester
Mass
Women and Their Efficiency in Society
Miner Chipman argues women should be free to pursue any function needed for efficient citizenship. He says motherhood has limited women and calls for expanded roles across industry, home, store, school, and society. He urges equal efficiency in respective vocations for true equality.
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Miner Chipman
Centenarian Claims Stir Debate Across Ages
Sir James Crichton-Browne urges pride in reaching a hundred, while Irish workhouse deaths clocked claims of 114 and 116. Debates by Sir George Cornewall Lewis and ancient legends like Old Parr, Johannes de Temporibus, and Methuselah are recalled as researchers push for longer lifespans.
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James Crichton-Browne
George Cornewall Lewis
Dewis
Old Parr
Johannes de Temporibus
Stow
Methuselah
James
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W. Bramwell Booth
Chicago
C. C. Healey
Medicine Owl
Glacier National Park Reservation
Red Man
Glacier Park
China
Holm
Handy Boys
By A.neely Hall
Butler
Moses
Centenarians
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