Tall McKinney Family Stands Out in Chicago Heights
The McKinneys of 1237 West Adams street boast eight tall members headed by Dr. R. McKinney who stands 6 feet 6½ inches. The four daughters average over 6 feet, with Mrs. Dr. Bangs at 6 feet 3 inches the tallest. The sons reach 6 feet 7½ and 6 feet 8 inches. All are well educated and musical. The family history traces roots to Dryden New York and Bloomington Illinois before settling in Chicago.
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West Adams Street
R. McKinney
Nellie Bangs
Anthony Tales
Dr. Bangs
Bangs
Mach
All United
Si. R. McKinney
Dryden
N. Y
Bloomington
Chicago
Are childhood joys truly the happiest years
A essay excerpt questions the idea that childhood is the happiest life stage. It cites census questions and opinions from A T Quiller-Couch John Earle and NPCC style musings. The fragment includes reflections on innocence happiness and the deceit of middle aged sentimentality.
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A. T. Quiller- Couch
Pall Mall
John Earie
National Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Bosh
Peanut Butter Butter Makes New Indian Dairy Rival
A factory in India will produce butter from peanuts to rival dairy butter. At 15 cents per pound, the process involves hull removal, hand sorting, roasting, destoning, grinding into fine flour like paste, and adding water to form butter or cream. The product resists rancidity and requires no salt, shipped in sealed cans.
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India
Boston Journal of Commerce
Adolph D Ennery’s Role in Theatrical Plotting
An obituary note from the London Chronicle recalls Adolph D Ennery buried in Paris and outlines his collaborative method: managers sent aspirants to him, plots were sketched with a partner, and the other writer provided scenes while D Ennery refined the concept. He was witty and shrewd with public taste.
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Adolph D'Ennery
Paris
D'Ennery
D’ennery
London Chronicle
Indian Electric Plant Sparks Shock and Magnetic Disturbance
A forest plant named Philotacea electrica in India emits electric sparks causing a shock to any hand that breaks a leaf. A nearby magnetic needle is disturbed at six yards, with energy peaking at 2 pm and vanishing at night. Rain weakens the power, birds avoid it, and soil lacks iron metals. Cloth is now made from wood.
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India
Philotacea Electrica
Basket Making at Yukon encampment on the way to St Michael
Artist GC E Fripp recalls his journey from Dawson City to St Michael aboard a steamer stopping at Novikakat where Russians once held sway. He notes similar frontier scenes of stores cabins and Indian tents on timbered banks as Indians watch the steamer and passengers observe their camp.
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GC. E. Fripp
Dawson City
St. Michael
Novikakat
Pretty Women of Paraguay Brighten War-Torn Nation
The author details Paraguay as a woman-led society after a devastating war, noting that men were nearly wiped out and women became the workforce and social center. Lacemaking, orange farming, and Guarani culture are highlighted through vivid descriptions of Paraguayan women, plus figures on peppered demographics and orange trade to Buenos Aires.
Reckless Use of the Record's Space Calls for Print Nods
A Washington corresp notes how the Congressional Record is misused to print sermons and altered remarks. It cites a Missouri representative’s insert, and a floor dispute revised by the official reporter, suggesting some speeches stray from original intent and standards.
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Washington Cor
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
The
Congressional Record
Cooney
Missouri
Malay woodcutter shoots two tigers with single buckshot
In Selangor a Malay woodcutter out hunting found a tiger feasting on sambhar. He fired with an old muzzle loader at twenty paces and killed two tigers with one buckshot to the heart in each case, after post mortems. The feat, praised by A L Butler of the State Museum, is described as an extraordinary fluke and not to be emulated.
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A. L. Butler
State Museum
Selangor
Malaya
Bombay Natural History Society
Mr. Butler
Butler
Simple Water Test for Sewage Contamination
A simple method to detect sewage in water. Test by dissolving white sugar in a night tap water sample kept above 60 degrees. pure water stays clear, contaminated water becomes milky. Warns that drinking water should be tested regularly for impurities and disease risks.
Early Europeans and polygamy in historical law
The text notes that polygamy existed among early Teutonic tribes and among Merovingian rulers, yet no civilized European government officially sanctioned it. It cites the Diet of Franconia at Nuremberg in the Thirty Years War era, which passed a law permitting a man to marry two wives due to the number of brides.
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Herbert Spencer
Franconia
Nuremberg
Finest Riding Schools Compared Size and Scale
The article extols a Moscow riding school as the finest military facility, noting it is 560 feet long 146 feet wide and 41 feet high with the world’s largest pillarless roof apart from London’s Midland terminus. It claims Welbeck Abbey’s subterranean riding school surpasses it in size with a 385 by 130 feet layout and a glass roof nine feet higher.
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Moscow
London
Welbeck Abbey
Famous Rough Rider Endorses Peruna Catarrh Cure
Sergeant Buck Taylor, a Rough Rider and friend of Governor Roosevelt, endorses Peruna as the best catarrh medicine. He cites personal use and recommends treatment now as spring aids recovery from winter catarrh. The ad urges sending for the book Facts and Faces from The Peruna Drug Mfg Co Columbus Ohio.
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Buck Taylor
Roosevelt
New York
Upper
New York State
Earth
Buck F. Taylor
Peruna
M'f’g Co
Columbus, O
Mahin Advertising lands N K Fairbank Co contract
The N K Fairbank Company to place all advertising with Mahin Advertising Company in newspapers magazines street cars and more. John Lee Mahin leads the firm with strong recognition and a major new client. Since opening December 28 they signed forty eight additional clients totaling about 200 000 annually and plan to move to the fifth floor of the New York Life Building.
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N. K. Fairbank Company
Mahin Advertising Company
John Lee Mahin
J. H. Snitzler
Ruuluus
New York Life
Chicago Times-Herald
Second-hand dynamo and lighting gear for sale in Chicago
For sale an operable 50 light Brush dynamo setup with pulley base belt regulator ammeter and extra armature 44 double carbon lamps 32 globes 28 spark arresters and about 4000 carbons all for 600 dollars. Address M Standiford 194 South Clinton Street Chicago Illinois.
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M. Standiford
Clinton St
Chicago
Underwood Brings Style to B and O as Blizzard Strikes
F D Underwood left Minneapolis for Baltimore to become general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad carrying a straw hat and linen duster. Within ten days a blizzard blocked 200 miles of track, shutting down traffic for four days at a cost of about sixty thousand dollars daily. Officials claim the railroad beat western rivals in restoring trains to Baltimore Philadelphia and New York, with delayed passengers kept safe in large towns. The article notes a sweeping sentence about Indians in Spanish America.
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F. D. Underwood
Minneapolis
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Chesapeake Bay
Northwest
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
New York
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Tare
Methodist Church
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Paraguay River
Buenos Ayres
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Perana
Sergeaant Buck Taylor
Crow Hatchery
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Brookdale
Spanish-America
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