Miss Roosevelt to Wed Longworth in White House Romance
The engagement of Miss Alice Roosevelt to Representative Nicholas Longworth is announced with plans for a mid February wedding aboard an ocean voyage. The couple will likely tour Europe after marriage, with Miss Roosevelt turning twenty two in February.
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White House
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Alice
Miss Roosevelt
Taft
Orient
Longworth
Europe
Viscountess de Chambrun
Alice Lee
Boston
Miss Roose
Great East Room
St. Louis
Miss Catlin
West
Mr. Longworth
Nicholas Soorth
Oregon's Mitchell Death Shrouded by Senate Precedent Clash
The piece notes the Senate ignored usual funeral rites for Senator Mitchell of Oregon after his convicting crime. It describes the unusual treatment, absence of eulogies, and the impact on Oregon’s congressional representation amid indictments of other state politicians.
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United States Senate
John H
Mitchell
Oregon
Burton
Kansas
Senate
Portland
Ore
Fulton
Congress
Chamberlain
Washington
Pacific Slope
Messrs
Binger Hermann
John Newton Williamson
Williamson
Senator Mitchell
Hermann
Napoleon
St. Helena
John H. Mitchell
Broderick
California
Terry
Foster
Connecticut
General Chaffee and the fifty cent mystery
A soldier asks Gen Chaffee for a quarter after recounting his post pay expenses. He lists $8 dinner, $1 cigars, $4 theatre, $2 Bowery outing, totaling $15. He cannot account for the remaining fifty cents, joking that he must have spent it foolishly.
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Bowery
Simple Horse Division Turns 17 Into 18 for Heir Split
A farmer’s will leaves half to the eldest, one third to the second, and one ninth to the youngest, totaling seventeen horses. A neighbor lends a horse to make eighteen, allowing a clean division: nine, six, and two horses respectively, after which the neighbor retrieves his horse, earning the tale’s namesake “Problem” and “Solution.”
Peace Declared Between Washoe and Piute Tribes in Nevada
After warnings lasting centuries and heavy sacrifices, peace has been declared between the Washoe and Piute tribes. Captains Pete and Dave brokered the accord in Reno with Johnny Kay, ending hostilities. A six day peace dance is planned in Sparks with both tribes celebrating together.
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Washoe
Capt
Pete
Dave
Reno
Nevada
Johnny Kay
Sparks
Northwest
Dodge City forestry station gives away trees in large scale
The Dodge City Kansas forestry station is distributing 500000 trees annually. Since launching extensive tree planting, there have been remarkable changes in Kansas climatic conditions.
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Dodge City
Kansas
Ghost Points to Hidden Cascade Mine Treasure
Local businessmen W E Bartlett and M C Black return from a dangerous Cascade Range expedition near Seattle with a bottle of nearly pure gold from a gray quartz ledge. Bartlett, linked to a murdered 1850s miner grandfather, claims spiritual guidance and a planned spring return to develop the find amid winter hazards.
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Seattle
W. E. Bartlett
M. C. Black
Cascades
Bartlett
D. E. Ingels
Portland
Secretary Hitchcock and the land fraud crusade
The article lauds Ethan Allen Hitchcock as Secretary of the Interior for pursuing a wide land fraud crackdown, defending public lands against grabs by lawmakers land agents and others. It notes investigations leading to indictments of officials, and highlights his push for national irrigation as essential to western development and home creation amid sprawling grazing lands and open ranges.
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Hitchcock
Interior Department
McKinley
Interior
United States Commissioners
General Land Office
National House of Representatives
United States Senate
United States
Congress
Wiseacres
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Oregon
Roosevelt
Geological Survey
Public Lands Commission
Itchcock
Hops Introduced to England in 1524 by Artoris Native
A native of Artoris introduced hops to England in 1524. Physicians denounced their use as dangerous and Henry VIII forbade breweries in the kingdom from using hops in brewing.
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England
Artoris
Henry VIII
Shirt Work Pays Few Cents per Dozen in Factories
For nearly fifty years the sewing machine has been common, yet the shirt workers receive only sixty to eighty cents a dozen. The remark highlights low wages for women laborers in shirt manufacturing.
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Velt
William S. Cowles
Anna Roosevelt
Mrs. Cowles
Harvard
Senator
Capitol
Government of Lands
Nick” Longworth
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Alice Roosevelt
Richard H. Byrd
Ton
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Wyoming
Nebraska
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