Peacock Room by Whistler Holds Court At Obach Gallery
The Peacock Room, Whistler’s famed interior designed for Frederick Leyland, has been detached and sold to Obach Gallery. Panels, feathers, and woodwork are carefully numbered for a public reconstruction exhibition in London, with the Princes du Pays de la Porcelaine displaced to a mirror.
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Whistler
Frederick Richard Leyland
Prince’s
Wis Goude
Norman Shaw
Jeckyll
Murray Marks
Mr. Leyland
Leyland
America
Messrs. Brest Brown and Phillips
Leicester Galleries
Leicester Square
Women as Witnesses Courage and Caution in Court
In a Tatler report Judge Smyly weighs women’s reliability as witnesses after two middle aged women give opposing accounts in a murder case. The piece notes women recall details well yet may be biased, citing a widow who claims to identify a suspect by a flash of his eye from a single distant sighting.
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Smyly
Russell
Canham Reed
South End
Tatler
London
Eng
Young Edwin Emerson Jr A Prodigy At Six
In Munich a Maryland visitor recalls Col Edwin Emerson Jr the boy who read German poetry at six while awaiting tea His demand for classical reading and the family moment reflect a nascent scholar amid a light hearted scene from the Baltimore Sun.
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Edwin Emerson, Jr
Japan
Manchuria
Baltimore
Prof
Emerson
Munich
Bavaria
Edwin Emerson
Maryland
Edwin, Jr
Baltimore Sun
Danish Greenland Expedition Reaches West Greenland
Copenhagen reports the Danish scientific expedition to Greenland has arrived in the West Greenland colony. The Green expedition, which began in August last year, was located at Dalrymple Rock. All members of both expeditions are in good health.
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Copenhagen
Greenland
West Greenland
Dalrymple Rock
New South Wales May Gold Yield Surges Over Year
May gold production in New South Wales totalled 20 275 ounces worth 381 530 dollars, up from 10 852 ounces valued at 199 605 in the same month last year.
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New South Wales
State Democratic convention ready in Houston crowd swells
Houston Aug 2 delegates pour in for the Texas State Democratic convention at the big Auditorium. Temporary chairman likely Carlos Bee San Antonio and permanent chair Sam Cooper, with contesting runs for executive committee amid crowded hotels and rising excitement.
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Houston
Texis
Will Gates
San Antonio
Texas
Jas
Wells
Robbers Hold Up Rock Island Passenger Train Near Logan
Read like a late 19th century report. Northbound Rock Island No 4 passenger train was held up by six to eight masked men near Logan New Mexico about 10 o clock Saturday night. The robbers commandeered the engine and uncoupled the express car before dynamiting it. Six passengers were terrorized as shots rang out while armed bystanders hid their weapons. A large posse under Sheriff Webb from Dalhart pursued the robbers fifty miles behind. The report also notes Charles L Frank an artist and former World’s Fair service man claimed three paintings loaned by Miss Helen Gould valued at 100000 were damaged by long storage.
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el Paso
Phas
Rock
Ueter J.B. York
Logan
N. M
Colorado Line
Webb
Dalhart
St. Louis
Charles L. Frank
Helen Gould
Fatal Row Leaves Dallas Suburb Motive Revealed
In Dallas County three miles east of Wilmer a Black man named Bill Groff was killed Saturday night by another Black man after a game dispute. No arrests have been made.
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Dallas
Texas
Wilmer
Bill Groff
Grand jury subpoenas in shooting affray case at Pike Fair
The grand jury has issued subpoenas for John Murray Frank Heed and Ernest Morgan to appear before Assistant Circuit Attorney Hancock. The three men were principals in the Pike at the Fair shooting affray weeks ago in which Morgan a bystander was dangerously wounded by Zack Mulhall a noted cattleman of the South. The subpoenas indicate the grand jury intends to investigate the affair.
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St. Ull
Grand Jury
John Murray
Frank Heed
Ernest Morgan
Hancock
Morgan
Zack Mulhall
South
Grand Duty
Planters Alarmed by Cotton Weevil Discovery in Louisiana
Reports from East Baton Rouge Parish indicate planters fear a boll weevil like pest is killing cotton in the area. J. W. Hillman of Hope Villa reports damaged bolls and describes the afflicted cotton as gray and faintly cad.
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New Orleans
Baton Rouge Parish
J. W. Hillman
Hope Villa
Russian rear guard attacked as Ta Tehhe Kiao retreat continues
Ominous silence marked the theater of war with reports that the Russian rear guard retreating from Ta Tehhe Kiao is attacked at Hai Cheng and in great peril. No news from Port Arthur aside from a Chinese claim that the fortress is surrounded by besiegers.
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New York
Ta Tehhe Kiao
Hai Cheng
Port Arthur
Port Arthur Garrison Replies to Surrender Request
Tokyo Times reports the Port Arthur garrison’s reply to surrender summons. The garrison believes Field Marshal Oyama and his staff were sunk with the Hitachi and Sado transports, and Russians doubt General Kuropatkin’s defeats.
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London
Tokio
The
Times
Port Arthur
Oyama
Fire destroys four Wilber Wissahickon terra cotta buildings
In Philadelphia four ornamental terra cotta factory buildings owned by Conkling Armstrong & Co. at Wissahickon avenue and Bristol Street were burned down Sunday night. The estimated loss is $150,000, fully insured.
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Philadelphia
Conkling, Armstrong & Co
Wissahickon Avenue
Bristol Street
Memphis Cotton Factor Killed by Street Car on Poplar
Memphis veteran W. N. Brown aged 75 a retired cotton factor was struck and killed by a street car on Poplar boulevard Sunday night. Brown was prominent in Memphis business and political circles and was well known in Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Memphis
Tenn
W. N. Brown
Poplar Boulevard
Brown
Arkansas
Mississippi
Culberson predicts Roosevelt defeat after Atlantic City trip
United States Senator C. A. Culberson returned from Atlantic City and other stops and said Roosevelt likely will lose the presidential race. He left for the Texas state convention in Houston and expressed doubt about his chances at reelection. In Texas cotton and rains affect farming in Leesville and Junction City with hopeful signs for a strong crop.
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Austin
Frank Andrews
Rice Hotel
Messrs
Davidson
Ware
Simmons
Ben Cabell
North
Texas
Dallas
United States
C. A. Culberson
Atlantic City
N. J
Jother Points
Culberson
Houston
Roosevelt
Leesville
Junction City
Llano
Shot by Officers Near Robert Lee Texas
A. P. Smith of Coke county living seventeen miles northeast of Robert Lee was shot and killed Sunday by Sheriff Green and a deputy while resisting arrest for road work. Smith had threatened violence after refusing orders and claimed to live near the Nolan county line. He faced trial at Coleman prior to the confrontation.
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Robert Lee
Green
Smith
Nolan
Coleman
Territorial Bank suit set for Austin hearing next Saturday
In Georgetown the Territorial Bank and Trust Company of Muskogee I T versus the Commercial Telephone Company of San Antonio was heard in district court before Judge W L Brooks. The court sustained venue and the case will be heard in Austin next Saturday. In Cleburne the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad strike affects three men who left their posts after obeying the strike order.
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Georgetown
Texas
Territorial Bank and Trust ‘Company of
Cleburne
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Ecopus Notifies Callers Delayed Appointments After Aug 10
In Ecopus New York callers at Rosemount face discouragement until after the August 10 notification ceremonies. Judge Parker is making few appointments during this period.
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Ecopus
N. Y
Rosemount
Parker
Rev Hodges recalls murder of kin in Georgia
Calvert Texas telegram says Rev H A Hodges brother Henry Hodges wife and two children were murdered at their Georgia home with the house burned and bodies found amid ruins Robbery cited as motive The Hodges family and Paso Texas community share sorrow while attorneys prepare facts for a separate Mexican dispute over $100 000 heirs seek state department action in Washington miners idle in Wyoming region 15068 to 20000 men from Hittstown to Nanticoke stop work Susquehanna Coal Company mines Nanticoke region idle and Lehigh Wilkesbarre collieries paused
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Calvert
Texas
H. A. Hodges
Henry Hodges
Statesboro
Hodges
Paso
Clarence Way
Edward Latimer
Sinaloa
Mexico
Latimer
St. Louis
State Department
Washington
Wilkesbarre
Wyoming
Hittstown
Nanticoke
Susquehanna Coal Company
Lehigh and
Waco Telegraph Operators Quit in Strike
Waco Texas telegraph operators quit work at 4 oclock Monday in a strike ordered from St Louis indicating a carrier dispute and work stoppage in the Katy line.
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Waco
Texas
Katy
St. Louis
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