Calve Plans to Bring Cevennes Peasants to California Wine Fields
Opera star Emma Calve reveals to the New York American a plan to buy land in California for Cevennes peasant wine growers to plant vineyards. She envisions California matching southern France’s luxurious coastlines and aims to improve peasants’ living standards by relocating them to work and live in California wine country. Calve has renovated Chateau Cabileres in Cevennes and funds schools and medical aid. she hopes her California venture will support her charitable aims while building a new home and estate with her art treasures.
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Mme
Emma Calve
Hotel Netherland
New York
New York American
America
Europe
France
California
Thos
Cevennes
Timece
Pyrenees
Cabileres
Caliifornia
tours
Chateau Caubrieres
Chicken With Wooden Leg in Connecticut Rooster
Lewis Ives of Winsted Connecticut reports a chicken with a wooden leg after a rat ate the bird’s right leg. Ives carved a cedar branch into a leg model and attached it to the stump, with the hen soon scratching for worms and the leg needing lengthening twice for proper fit.
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Lewis Ives
Winsted, Conn
New York
Ives
Plymouth Rocks
sen gién
Tees
Lincoln the Father Memories of Tad Lincoln’s Affection
David Homer Bates recounts President Abraham Lincoln’s deep affection for his youngest son Tad. Tales of Tad’s pranks and their bond surface through tales, telegrams, and visits to the front. Lincoln’s dreams, paymaster rumors, and Tad’s presence at events illustrate their close relationship during the Civil War era.
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Tad
Tinker
Lincoln
reynard
Washington, D. C
A. Lincoln
Manchester
Bob
White House
army
Washington
war department
City Point
David Homer Bates
Century
The Bachelor's Wifes King the artist of fiction
The Chicago Record-Herald describes an eccentric character known as The Bachelor's Wifes King the artist. He, an old bachelor, imagines a wife and outfits a room for her, complete with a sofa, shawl, hat, gloves, embroidery frame, needle, and guitar. A visitor recalls the childlike reverence and a “coming out fee” kiss for those allowed into his imagined sanctum.
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King
imagination
Chicago Record-Herald
The Scallop’s Flightlike Locomotion and Colorful Migrations
The scallop moves by leaping through rapid opening and closing of its valves to expel water and push itself backward. It travels long distances, sometimes in large groups, with shells ranging from purple and white to black, pink, yellow and fawn as they dart in clear water.
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wwe
Steel Safe Missing In Standard Oil Hearing
New York Sept 28 Frank Kellogg pursuing dissolution of Standard Oil of New Jersey hinted at locating the long sought books of the Standard Oil trustees and liquidating trustees Two safes in the secretary’s office contained the records one safe with unknown contents the other removed two weeks after Kellogg asked who ordered it and where it went George Chesebro testified on pipe line profits noting Southern Pipe Line Co earned 4 376 618 gross in 1899 with expenses of 316 522 in the same year
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New York
Frank B. Kellogg
United States
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Standard Oil
Kellogg
Charles White
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Standard company
White
Mr. White
Standard
George Chesebro
pM lines
Southern Pipe Line company
Pennsylvania
Battle Hero Honored at Greene Statue Dedication
Governor Hughes attends the unveiling of a bronze statue on Culp's Hill in Gettysburg to honor Brevet Major General George Sears Greene and his regiments who repelled a Confederate assault on July 2, 1862. Surviving soldiers from nine New York regiments attend. a 50-man delegation per regiment rode free transport provided by the last legislature. Roy Insane Father Dies of Grief.
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Hughes
Greene
Gettysburg
Charles i. Hughes
New York state
New York
Tobacco deemed a necessity in government ruling
Washington says tobacco is a necessity not a luxury, in the Webb case. Comptroller rules that for common laborers tobacco is as essential as coffee or other nerve stimulants, approving $1 expense for 20 packs supplied to 29 Mexicans in Nogales jail on the Mexican border.
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Washington
comptroller of the treasury
George W. Webb
Nogales
Menican
Slayer of Father Convicted in Tioga Murder
Wellsboro Pa Sept 28 Clarence Rumsey was convicted of second degree murder for killing his aged father Warren Rumsey at Tioga on February 12. He hid the body in the snow after the slaying and made two confessions before attempting to establish an alibi.
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Wellsboro
Clarence Rumsey
Warren Rumsey
Tioga
Rumsey
Grand Duke Frederick Dying in Baden
Grand Duke Frederick of Baden lies in a comatose state as intestinal inflammation progresses. Medical reports indicate his life forces are ebbing away amid the Sept. 28 conditions in Constance.
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Grand Duke
Frederick
Constance
Grand Duchy of Baden
Taft Arrives in Yokohama Aboard Minnesota
The steamer Minnesota reached Yokohama this Saturday morning bearing Secretary Taft and his party. The crew and passengers anticipated a brief stay as Taft began an overseas tour from the port city on September 28.
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Taft
Yokohama
Minnesota
Iselin Heiress Inherits Vast Family Fortune
Mrs. C Oliver Iselin of New York becomes a major heir under Col William Goddards will filed in Warwick Rhode Island. She receives about 10 million immediately and stands to inherit most of a fortune totaling 25 to 30 million once all estates are settled. The heiress was once Hope Goddard of Providence and is Adrian Iselin’s granddaughter. Her son William Goddard Iselin is set to gain from both his grandfather and father estates.
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C. Oliver Iselin
New York
Amelia
William Goddard
Warwick
R. 1
Iselin
Hope Goddard
Providence
Mr. Iselin
William Goddard Iselin
Adrian Iselin
Hold Up Men Railroaded Sentences in One Day
Harrisburg Sept 28 Three Royalton men Dowhower Walter and McGrady held up Frank Martin a Royalton butcher near the town took $20 and beat him. arrested and brought to Harrisburg where a grand jury returned a true bill. Dowhower and Walter received two years in the eastern penitentiary and McGrady was sent to the Huntingdon reformatory.
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Harrisburg
Dauphin county
John Dowhower
W. C. McGrady
Frank Walter
Frank Martin
Royalton
Dowhower
eastern penitentiary
McGrady
Huntingdon reformatory
Baseball Scores And Odd News From Newark To Toledo
Detroit edged the Athletics 5 to 4 while Washington swept a two game set with Cleveland 9 to 4 and 0 to 9. Chicago outscored Boston 4 to 2 as St. Louis beat New York 7 to 6. In the National League Pittsburg and Boston tied 5 to 5 in 11 innings as darkness halted play. A Newark trial heard Mrs Hughes deny murder and dismemberment claims against her husband. Two hundred railway clerks struck in Toledo seeking a working agreement. A Trenton dispatch reports Thomas Hill training a bull to run a treadmill for farm work and churning.
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Detroit
Athletics
Cleveland
Washington
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
New York
Pittsburg
Thomas Hill
Lawrenceville
N. T
Trenton
N. J
New York Times
Hill
Banana novelty in Gonzales Texas proves fruit hardy
The Brenner family of Gonzales Texas enjoys unusually large bananas grown locally and the San Antonio Express notes Gonzales county can raise diverse fruit. An orange tree at Dr Aldenhoeven’s yard also bears fruit yearly, illustrating regional horticultural potential.
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Texas
I. C. Brenner
Gonzales
Tex
Gonzales county
San Antonia
Aldenhoeven
Health in the Canal Zone era appeals to workers
The piece urges young artisans to join the Panama Canal construction with help from Electric Bitters to combat fevers and malaria. It claims the remedy guards against malarial influence and lists other ailments like blood poison, billiousness, weakness, and digestive or kidney troubles, advertised at Pearce's Modern Pharmacy for 50 cents.
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Panama Canal
Carey
Pearce
To Give President Good Bear Hunting
New Orleans reports President Roosevelt plans a northeast Louisiana bear hunt next month, aided by swift bear dogs from Kentucky and a premier southern hunting horse, after weeks of guarded swamps and precautions to ensure sport. The dispatch notes the hunt would follow careful preparation and elite hounds for the president’s expedition.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
Louisiana
south
Kentucky
Norvin T. Harris
Mr. Roosevelt
Davis 100 percent Pure Paint claims superior value
Davis 100 per cent Pure Paint is advertised as distinct from rivals by avoiding inert adulterants that trim cost. The copy urges buyers to ask dealers for the pure formula and notes the paint will meet strict paint laws, promising full value per dollar.
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Davis
guy Davis
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