Bride at Ships Helm in Lipton Cup Race
The 28 foot sloop Gauntlet led by Mrs Thora Lund Robinson finished second in the 650 mile Lipton Cup race from Gravesend Bay to Bermuda. The Tamerlane won. Lila and Gauntlet endured fierce seas off Cape Hatteras and 80 storms with all three boats from the Brooklyn Yacht Club.
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Gulf Stream
Cape Hatteras
Gauntlet
Thora Lund Robinson
Thomas Lipton
Gravesend Bay
New York Harbor
Bermuda
Norfolk Harbor
Hatteras
Atlantic
Wire. Robinson
Amboy
New York Bay
Robinson
George
Mr. Robinson
J. L. Dunlap
H. Higgins
Sandy
The Jefferson Bible Sparks Senate Demand for Copies
The Jefferson Bible, bound in red Morocco, once stored at the Smithsonian, now prompts widespread requests in the Senate after photo reproduction. A magazine ad offering free copies to readers spurs mass inquiries, with each Senator receiving a quota of thirty copies and a push to print more copies for distribution.
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Smithsonian Institution
Senate
Congress
Diplomatic Dinner Reopens Welfare Ties After War
In Washington a Russian Ambassador hosted a dinner for Japan's Ambassador and Viscountess Aoki, signaling resumed social ties after the Portsmouth peace and the end of the Russo Japanese War. Guests included diplomats from the Netherlands Spain and Russia, with Baron Rosen presiding.
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Washington
Rosen
Aok
Portsmouth
Japan
Russia
Viscount Aoki
Baron Rosen
Netherlands
Mme. van Swinderen
Mme
Miyoka
Countess Seckendorff
Elizabeth Rosen
Spain
Don Luis Pastor
Baron Schlippenbach
Prince Koudacheff
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and the Chicago meat trade
A reader reviews The Jungle highlighting its indictment of the meat packing industry. It outlines Jurgis and Ona’s emigration to America, the brutal factory system, and the exploitation by the packing trust led by Armour, with critics noting Roosevelt’s commission corroboration.
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Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Roosevelt
Special Commission
Junate
Jurgis
Lithuania
America
Chicago
The Land of the Free Play at a Vassar Aid Matinee
The one act scene follows Luigi an Italian immigrant awaiting his wife Maria and two children as they arrive in New York. An immigration officer denies relief and Luigi offers seven dollars bribes while Maria and the kids are sent back to Naples. The piece underscores immigrant hardship and longing in a tale described from a Times notice and staged with Gibbs as Luigi.
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Jurgis
Ona
Great Corporation
Packers
e-Newsek Harbor
W. C. de Mille
The
Times
Luig
Maria
Luigi
Signore
Mulberry Street
Maria An
Fabio
Tessa
Neapoli
New York
Naples
Napoli
America
Dio
Maria Mia
Carrissima
Napolis
Horace Smith Poem On Health And Aging
A short verse by Horace Smith from the 18th century urging readers to pursue a disciplined lifestyle to resist aging. It contrasts luxurious youth with domestic quiet and moral living, advising devotion to God and good works over wealth and pleasure for a hale old age.
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Horace Smith
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Bride
Hamilton
American Spectator
Taft
Cannon
Bryan
Shaw
Hobson
Fairbanks
F. Funston
Ohio
Foraker
Hearst
Root
Mr. Thorn
Yond Robinson
Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
Beaven
Earth
RUSS
Aoki
Mr. Sinclair
Packingtown
Great
Illinois
Ogden Armour
Count Aoki
Napoll
Robert Paton Gibbs
Hudson Theater
Mr. Gibbs
the Housekeeper Corporation
Minneapolis, Minn
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