Probers Report Divides Nine Sections on Capitol Scandal
Beach Haven Aug 16 Capital investigators present a nine division report naming officials and contractors in the Pennsylvania capitol scandal. It details board of public grounds and buildings violations and corporate ties, with fraud and conspiracy findings against Sanderson Cassel and others.
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Beach Haven
Pennsylvania state capitol
Stuart
totor
capitol building commission
board of pubic grounds and buildings
John H. Sanderson
capitol
board of public grounds and buildings
board of public grands and buildings
H. Burd Cassel
Pennsylvania Construction company
John K. Sanderson
board of of public works
Joseph M. Nuston
John Th. Sanderson
Gans Britt Fight Signs and Other News
San Francisco August 10 Joe Gans and Jimmy Britt signed for a 20 round bout on September 9 with a 25000 purse or 75 percent of the gate and weigh in at 133 pounds. London August 10 Lords amend evicted tenants bill restricting powers and reinstatement to 2000. Waukesha August 10 Gottlieb Herring divorce suit claims wife made him sleep with her cat. divorce granted with alimony.
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London
house of lords
house of commons
Waukesha
Wis
Gnoilieh Herring
Beart Sewed He Lives In Louisville Hospital
Local physicians report William Carlisle wounded in a fight with a chest stab wound near an inch long. Surgeons sewed the opening to unite the heart area. Carlisle initially failed but is showing signs of improvement.
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Beart
Louisville
William Carlisle
Beat Wife 300 Times in Cleveland Suit
Cleveland Aug 10 Charles A Vinnean is accused by his wife in a divorce suit of constant abuse since their 1904 marriage. She alleges beatings twice weekly over three years and notes they separated last May as the alleged assaults intensified.
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Chicago
Andrew Lilak
Marie Kara
Maria Stroner
Charles Stroner
Lilah
Cleveland
Charles A. Vinnean
Olio
siel
dalvoree
Elevator Etiquette in Washington War Building
A Washington Post account details elevator protocol in the War Navy Building. The conductor must know ranks to sequence riders, with scenes of three bells for secretary calls and two bells for high officers, as officers are escorted expeditiously to their floors amid frequent salutes.
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navy
Washington
White House
war
Hfts
army
St. John’s church
Fort Myer
Peanuts Safer and More Nutritious Says Berkeley Expert
Berkeley nutrition expert Professor N. G. Jaffa says ten terms worth of peanuts yield more protest than a meal of roast beef and six times the energy of a porterhouse. He debunks the idea that salt enhances digestibility and explains why nuts upset digestion. A New Coaling Record notes the British battleship Venerable loaded 1,650 tons in four hours, an average of 4125 tons per hour.
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N. G. Jaffa
State university at
Berkeley
Cal
Jufa
New York World
Employment Bureau For Railways Addresses Chicago
The railways employment Bureau discussion centers in Chicago as a plan to establish an office to secure a better grade of operating employees.
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rade ants
Chicago
Harvard economist says middle class baby costs 25000 to raise
Professor John Graham Brooks of Harvard told a Chautauqua audience that a child costs parents 25000 from birth to economic independence. He blamed rising living costs and the idolization of sons for shrinking infant populations among the middle class.
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Harvard
John Graham Brooks
New York Evening Word
Brooks
Chautaugus assembly
Professor Grooks
Woman in bookstore seeks a red book with gilt round image
A fashionably dressed young woman hurries into a bookstore and asks a salesman to find a red book with a round gilt image on the cover. She plans to read it on a train to New York and mocks clerks as she exits, saying she wasn’t really buying it.
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New York
Cakes and Sausages In Germany, a culinary tour
The article recounts William Bruce praising German cuisine noting 200 sausage varieties in Dresden and many cakes served with tiered cake holders. It highlights a restaurant habit of charging only for the exact number of cakes eaten and counting leftovers at the end.
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Germany
William George Bruce
Dresden
MILwaukee Sentinel
Church Union Upheld by Georgia Supreme Court
Avlanta Aug 10 The Georgia Supreme Court ruled the Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly acted within constitutional authority when voting for a national union of Cumberland churches. Civil courts may not recognize church property actions. The decision awards Cumberland property in Atlanta to unionist members and reverses Fulton county Superior Court ruling.
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Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Avlanta
supreme court of Georgia
general assembly of the
Cumberland church
Cumberland Presbyterian churches
United States
Atlanta
general assembly
Decatur
superior court
Fulton county
Barn Burner Gets 20 Years In Eastern Penitentiary
Daniel J. Adams, a member of a notorious Allentown gang, pleaded guilty in Northampton County Court and was sentenced by Judge Stewart to 20 years in the eastern penitentiary. He admitted torching Samuel Eberts barn at Bath after stealing a horse. Confederates remain jailed in Allentown and confess to crimes across Lehigh County. Alfred I. Bush reports a holdup on a Hiie railroad car, signaling the alarm to Jersey City and Newark. A mob attack in Bloomington seriously injures Miss Edna Rogers. her suitor disappears. In Natchez, a posse of 20 whites responds to a note about a mob surrounding a house.
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Easton
Daniel J. Adams
Allentown
Northampton
Stewart
Adams
Samuel Eberts
Bath
Lehigh county
Newark
N. J
Alfred I. Bush
Hiie railroad
Jersey City
Erie road
Natchez
Miss
Providence plantation
Patterson
A Wonderful Creature and Other Brief Notes
A collection of quirky snippets including a note on a creature that can split into multiple animals, a reflection on modern fatherhood urging fathers to give themselves, a playful exchange about Mike’s whereabouts, and a comic exchange about a mind reader professor.
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Deutsche Monatschrift
Pennsylvania Railroad Sea Side Outings Ticket Notice
These tickets are valid for return passage within sixteen days including the excursion date and allow a stop in Philadelphia on the return within the limit. Full details of these seaside outings are available from Ticket Agents.
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Philadelphia
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