Empire City Comptroller Heads Interstate Prosperity Congress
Herman A. Metz New York comptroller and president of the Commercial Travelers Interstate Prosperity Congress leads a plan to hold a two day event in New York City August 14 and 15 to spread optimistic sentiments among traveling businessmen nationwide. The effort aims to revive confidence and encourage commerce with support from regional business interests and transporting bodies.
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Herman A. Metz
New York
Commercial Travelers’ Interstate Prosperity Congress
New York City
United States
Congress
Beieves
Comptroller
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Portland
S.C. Mead
Merchants’ Association of New York
Mets
William Hoge
Prosperity Congress
United Commercial Travelers’ Association
Columbus
Commercial Travelers’ Protective Association
St. Louis
William McCarroll
New York Board of Trade and Transportation Association
Public Service Commission
Alleghanie
McCarroll
Alleghanies
Prosperity Congressmens
United Commercial Travelers
Travelers’ Protective Association
Metz
Priday
Manhattan Hoec
Chinese Minister Urges New York Chinese to Give Up Seats
Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, urged Chinese in New York to rise and give seats to women on street cars. He spoke at a Chinatown theater mass meeting supporting the Confucian association planning a $100,000 building with libraries, gymnasium, and baths. He praised American respect for women and warned against gambling, tobacco, and whisky, while endorsing good American customs and nonsectarian morals.
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New York City
Wo Ting Fang
United States
China
Chinatown
New York
Confucian Association
Young Men's Christian Association
Wu Ting Fang
Strawberry Edith Dish Debuts at Knickerbocker
Maitre Escoffier presents a new gastronomical creation to James B. Regan at the Knickerbocker hotel a strawberry based delicacy priced at 85 cents per dish. The sample impressed guests and Regan shared the recipe including vanilla sugar curacao kirsch maraschino Melba dish whipped cream and violet leaf flavoring.
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Escoffier
New York
Europe
Maitre Escoffier
William
James B. Regan
Knickerbocker Hotel
Regan
Maitre Ascoffier
California Alligator Farm Enlivens East Los Angeles
One thousand alligators arrived from southwestern Louisiana and were landed loose in a new gator farm east of Los Angeles. Brought in via a specially arranged Southern Pacific freight car, the shipment taps a growing demand for alligator leather used in pocketbooks and handbags, fueling a new industry in the city.
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California
Los Angeles
Louisiana
Southern Pacific
Anniversary of Porcelain Reveals Saxony Exposition
The two hundredth anniversary of discovering the secret of hard porcelain will be celebrated in Dresden in January with a grand exhibition. It will trace porcelain making in Saxony and also cover developments in France England Prussia and Denmark.
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Dresden
Saxony
France
England
Prussia
Denmark
Chicago Women to Wear Sandals This Summer
Nearly a thousand Chicago women will wear sandals this summer as local shoe dealers forecast. One firm has stocked hundreds of adult and children sizes, and vendors say city women need no physical culture club for courage to go sandaling.
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Chicago
Sign on Wall Street Door Sparks Streetwise Exchange
An optimistic Wall Street broker rushed out with a door sign reading Back in five minutes. A gloomy cynic replied beneath it What for raising the street’s sardonic mood and echoing Wall Street’s famed impatience with delay.
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Wall Street
New York
Serene thief in London hotel plots across the channel
A man calmly outlines a daring theft in a London hotel room. He plans to steal £20,000 from his firm, swap bags to disguise his identity with an American look, and flee to France while advising his companion to stay serene. The conversation reveals an elaborate ruse and risk of arrest is minimized by his certainty.
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Cunningham
London
Mr. Thomas
Tosh
New York
M. Quad
A Choice of Evils Typhoid Water Joke
During a typhoid fever epidemic a man is asked if he boils drinking water. He replies he freezes it. The other quips that he would rather have an aquarium inside him than a cemetery, highlighting comic reflections on health precautions.
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Acad Hound
Dean
King Cactus Oil
Bazaar aid for church funds from a Scotch minister
Dr Henry Van Dyke recounts a tale of a canny Scotch minister in the pulpit who notes the kirk secretly needs silver and suggests trying a bazaar since honest means have failed. The anecdote highlights church fund raising in a old-time tone.
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Henry van Dyke
Princeton
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