Vast Vanderbilt estate to be sold to U S Forest Service
Asheville NC large Biltmore wilderness of 86700 acres approved for sale to the United States forest reservation commission. The area east of the Mississippi would become a national park serving 35 million people within a day's journey. The tract features Pisgah peak 6757 feet high, 184 square miles of hardwood forest, rivers, springs, and 17 miles of roads. The road network includes Vanderbilt hunting lodge and passes through Tran sylvania County toward Brevard connecting to Asheville.
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Asheville
N. C
Biltmore
United States Forest Reservation Commission
George W. Vanderbilt
Mississippi River
Biltmore Estate
Biltmore House
Rockies
Au Automobilists
Pisgah
Looking Glass Creek
Davidson
Pisgah Forest Station
Torsaway
Southern Railway
Brevard-Asheville
Pisgah Ridge
Pisguh
Transylvania County
Vanderbilt
New York
Mount Washington
Brevard
Appalachian Park Association
Forest Reservation Commission
White Clothes Healthful Says Kansas Health Leader
Dr. J. C. Crumbine, Kansas state board of health secretary, urges men to wear white in summer to avoid heat strain. He says dark fabrics absorb heat, provoke discomfort, and that white fabrics aid health, while ice water is a health menace. Women already favor white dresses for summer.
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Kansas State Board
Topeka
Kan
J. C. Crumbine
State Board of Health
Kansans
Kansas
Dr. Crumbine
Tropics
Vice Crusade Harms Morbid Discussion Warns Policy
Madison Wis Dr William H Allen head of the New York bureau of municipal research tells the anti vice committee that omitting discussions of vice for ten years would improve public morals. He argues there is no evidence vice is increasing and that the burden falls on poor girls. Rev EB Updike notes moral conditions among university students have improved over twenty years.
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Madison
Wis
William H. Allen
New York Bureau of Municipal Research
Wisconsin
EB. G. Updike
First Congregational Church
Frange Aroused by Public Men's Lives
Paris interest swells over a looming expose alleging private life scandals among France's elite. The plan targets President Poincare, tied to his wife’s recent divorce and social elevation, amid a broader moral reform push sparked by Caillaux murder and divorcee associations in high politics.
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Paris
France
United States
Poincare
the Elysee
Mme. Poincare
Calmette
the Figaro
Mme
Cailaux
Finance
Mme. Caillaux
Caillaux
Labori
de Pachmann
Burglar Fooled by Hairbrush at Dix Home
Denver report says attorney Thomas J. Dix foiled a break in by pointing a silver mounted hairbrush at a burglar who climbed a window screen. The would be thief fled over a fence before police arrived, after Dix tied him up with a bluff.
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Denver
Thomas J. Dixon
Dixon
Changes in wedding service urge reform
Dr Anni Shaw, president of the National Suffrage association, condemns the marriage rite as poll parrot, calls for varied and shorter ceremonies. She says the word obey is harmful, and argues to drop till death do us part as divorce rates rise. vows should reflect genuine commitment, not a mockery.
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Philadelphia
Anni Shaw
Nationalong Suffrage Association
Engineers to Examine Ground for China's $20 Million Reclamation Plan
Washington reports the American Red Cross has selected a board of engineers to survey eastern China's flood region for a $20,000,000 reclamation project. The team includes Colonel William Sibert, Arthur Powell Davis, Daniel Webster Mead, and Charles Davis Jameson, with Jameson accompanying the group.
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Washington
American Red Cross
China
Board of Engineers
Wilson
Congress
Red Cross
Army
William Luther Sibert
Corps of Engineers
U. SS. A
Gatun
Pamina
Armthur Powell Davis
United States Reclamation Service
Daniel Webster Mead
University of Wisconsin
Charles Davis Jameson
Nf Tlieted
Sibert
Chnese
Conservancy
Daring Rescue Of Child On Slag Bridge
Mary Periorua, two, wandered from home near the Seyfert furnace and was found hours later on a decaying bridge 100 feet above Reading railway tracks. Stephen Circella, a young Italian laborer, climbed the dangerous slag bank, reached the shaking bridge, secured the girl's belt in his teeth, and carried her to safety to her relieved parents.
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Reading
Mary Periorua
Seyfert
Stephen Circella
Old Woman’s Will Awards $25,000 to Courteous Stranger
Denver report states Robert Reiner received $25,000 from the estate of Celia Oster for acts of courtesy. Mrs Christina Evans had sought $500 for caring for the dog Daisy and claimed a codicil revoked that bequest. Oster, childless, left much to others and charities, with Reiner also receiving $10,000 plus $15,000 in bank funds. Daisy died in 1918.
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Denver
Robert Reiver
Christina J. Evans
Celia Oster
Reiner
Peter the Great as a Drinker In a Bodleian bill
The preserved innkeeper’s bill from England records Peter the Great of Russia dining with cat and twenty companions. It notes half a sheep a quarter lamb ten pullets twelve chickens three quarts of brandy six quarts of mulled wine seven dozen eggs and salad. Peter was described as a heavy drinker drinking brandy sherry sack and hot pepper with brandy.
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Peter the Great
Bodleian Library
Oxford
Bill
England
Russia
Peter
Gretna Green’s Unlicensed Marriage Tradition Began in 18th Century
Gretna Green, a Scottish parish just over the border, hosted quick binding marriages by lay officiants. The first known unlicensed minister, George Scott, started this practice around 1756, with couples declared man and wife in the presence of witnesses after registration.
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Gretna Green
Scotland
George Scott
Scientific Parent Insight in Street Mechanics
A father asks a coster why he pushes a cart rather than pulls it, noting the same principle in motion. The coster answers that he is not a boss, a blunt witticism reflecting common sense and social tone.
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London Express
The Bookkeeping Origins and Early Practices
The text traces bookkeeping origins to Venice with Lucas di Borgo’s 1495 Italian treatise. By the early sixteenth century double entry was practiced in Venice Genoa and nearby towns.
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Venice
Lucas di Borgo
Genoa
First Whisky Kills Him
Edward Cavanaugh Jr aged 21 died shortly after returning home from a social evening. Police say he drank whisky for the first time with friends and collapsed while in the cellar removing a nail from his shoe. His father rushed to help but he died within minutes.
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Philadelphia
Edward Cavanaugh, Jr
Cavanaugh
Dynamite Kills A Cow On Delaware County Farm
A cow on George Kilpatrick’s Kerr's Creek farm in Delaware County died after several sticks of dynamite were placed in the pasture to blast holes for telephone poles. Other cows that ate the dynamite traces were only slightly affected. The owner seeks compensation from the detonation’s implementer, which disputes direct causal death. In a separate note, Philo Thomas aged 89 of La Prairie wears old knee high boots bought in 1872 Janesville retraced by bootmaker Gilbert Evenson.
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Middletown
N. Y
George [Kilpatrick
Kerr’s Creek
Delaware County
Janesville
Wis
Philo Thomas
la Prairie
Gilbert Evenson
Convict saves drowning boy at lake near Fort Worth and Denver line
A Wichita Falls incident tells how a member of the county convict gang plunged into a lake to rescue Joe Perdue who was seining with others and drowning. He pulled Perdue ashore just in time, earning his liberty for the act of heroism.
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Wichita Falls
Fort Worth
Denver
Joe Perdue
Perdue
Vacation to Colorado From Rock Island Lines
Two weeks in Colorado priced at seven dollars a week for room and board offers a budget friendly escape from city noise. Travel on daily Limited trains to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with modern all steel equipment and fine dining. Rock Island Lines provides travel experts to plan the trip and arrange hotels camps and boarding houses. June 1 to September 30 features low fares and seasonal service.
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Colorado
Rock Island Lines
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Hal
Ray
Des Moines Life Building
Des Moines
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