Mystery Mme Ruiz Linked To Vanderbilt Divorce Case
New York judges reveal the identity of Mme Ruiz, long tied to Mrs Ellen Vanderbilt's divorce. The plaintiff, Senor Don Antonio Ruiz y Olivares, seeks divorce from Senora Agnes O'Brien de Ruiz, with impending alienation of affection claims possible. Ruiz married Mary Agnes O’Brien in 1903. the couple split years ago.
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W York
Mme,Ruiz
Ellen
Vanderbilt
Alfred, G.vanderbilt
Mme. Ruiz
Don Antonio Ruiz Y ‘Olivares
Legation
Washington
Agnes ‘O'Brien de Ruiz
Ime
Ruiz
George Young Baucle
Bauchle
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
The Problem of Living in New York Economy
A New York social view argues that living costs exceed wages and that the city’s price structure makes poverty common. It contrasts 50 cent breakfasts with 1 dollar dinners, rents as low as four dollars a month, and coal costs of 10 to 15 cents a pall. The piece notes how lifestyle, location, and fashion raise expenses, and suggests only social or political pull can improve speculative chances while urging restraint to uphold honor in old age.
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New York
Ingman
New York Department For Charities
Isr
Costa
Emsploys
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Broadway
Walker
Edwin Walker
Educational Theater for Children and Young People Opens
A new Educational Theater for Children and Young People is incorporated in Albany. Directors include Samuel L. Clemens, Rev. P. S. Grant, Otto H. Kahn, R. J. Collier, Miss A. M. Herts, and Charles E. Miner. The venture, linked to the Educational Alliance, aims to educate youth through classical and modern plays with youth involvement on stage and management.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Albany
Sonia
Dudoes
Educational
Rast
Broadway
New Bet
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Rev. P. S. Grant
Otto H Kahn
R. J. Collier
A. M. Herts
Charles E. Miner
G. 8. Hall
Clark University of Worcester
Mass
Dressing Miss New York Expensive Fashion Debate
A New York fashion writer argues Miss New York can be luxuriously clothed on twenty thousand dollars a year, while other dressmakers claim she spends far more. The piece notes the city’s fever for costly garments as warm weather arrives and orders surge for summer attire.
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New York
York
Etria
Career of John Brandt Walker Ends in Financial Crash
A deputy sheriff served John Brandt Walker with a writ from the supreme court over a $23,500 brokerage claim. Walker, once a famed Wall Street wizard, faced a dramatic fall after his bear campaign and the sale of his costly garage, horses, and stable amid mounting financial troubles.
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Supreme Court
John Brandt Walker
Wall Street
Walker
Brandt Walker
Shrewd Mrs Dodson reshapes Polk County jury system
Mrs. Frank Woodson, known as the shrewdest politician in Iowa, sought a second term as Polk County recorder after leading a statewide reform of juror drawing. Widowed from Attorney Frank W. Dodson, she exposed corrupt ward practices, battled courts and legislators, and helped pass a new jury law ending jury panels controlled by election officers. She campaigns on her record.
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Frank Woodson
Polk County
Iowa
Des Moines
Frank W. Dodson
Alsay
Mra Dodson
Dodson
Minister to Panama Herbert Squiers to Return Post
Herbert C. Squiers United States minister to Panama passed a critical interview with Secretary Root over neutrality concerns in the Panama election campaign and will return to his post. His report outlined Panama’s ruffled political climate ahead of the July 11 election. He previously led Havana and held posts in Berlin and Pekin. Born 1859 in Canada, he pursued military and diplomatic careers before entering politics.
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Herbert C. Squiers
United States
Panama
Root
State Department
Havana
Berlin
Legation
Pekin
Sir Charles Macdonald
Hfe
Squiers
Canada
Minnesota
Maryland Agricultural School
United States Artillery School
New York College
Pine Ridge Agency
Perry era naval engineer Edward Dunham Robie celebrates golden wedding
Edward Dunham Robie, a retired U S Navy rear admiral and one of Commodore Perry's five surviving officers, marked his golden wedding anniversary in Washington. Born in Burlington Vermont in 1821, Robie rose as chief engineer under Lincoln and led the 19th century’s notable expedition that opened Japan to the United States.
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Edward Dunham Robie
Washington
M. C. Perry
Japan
United States of America
Admiral“Robie
Burlington
Jacob Carter
Louisa Dunham Robie
Binghamton Academy
Binghamton
United States Navy
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
A. Lincoln
Truth and Quality Ad Claims Traditional Laxatives And A Senator's Anecdote
A historic ad touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle effective laxative free from debility. It highlights physician approval and urges buying from California Fig Syrup Co. The piece includes a misfit joke about a butcher and a quip about Senator Beveridge sharing an undeterminable temperature anecdote at a convivial gathering.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Beveridge
Adams County
San Francisco
Cal
Mind power over body in new Youth's Companion note
In Ulk quoted vignette, the mind alters physical state. A speaker asks about health. reply links illness to relentless work. The dialogue hints at forthcoming start tomorrow, illustrating mental influence on well being and looming change.
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Ulk
Doctor's Wife and Missing Medicine Prop
A fragment from The Sketch shows a conversation about a husband who has died or fallen ill. Jane explains she could not give proper medicine because she lacked a usable prop and sought a loan from Mrs Green, who admitted she had one but it was broken.
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Jane
Wife Convinces Husband to Try Postum Over Coffee
A Mississippi wife describes coffee being harming her health and how Postum, prepared correctly, improved her condition. Her husband gradually agrees to try Postum, noting the color and vitality in her appearance. The couple now avoids coffee, crediting Postum with better wellbeing.
Health Brings Happiness To Covington Woman
Mrs. C. R. Shelton of Pleasant Street Covington Tenn describes severe kidney disease rheumatic pains and disordered secretions. She began with Deans Kidney Pills and says they helped at once and soon made her strong and well. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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C. R. Shelton
Pleasant Street
Covington
Tenn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Up to His Tricks at New York Dinner
Lord Rosslyn recalled a London spendthrift tale at a New York dinner. He said the man once wired his Oxford uncle threatening suicide if he did not send a hundred by Saturday. The uncle replied by recalling the earlier telegram and noting the man then pawned his revolver.
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Lord Rosslyn
New York
London
Oxford
Lydia Pinkham's Compound Endorsed by Satisfied Reader
A Columbus Ohio reader reports relief from symptoms of the Change of Life after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with helping her work and recommends it to other women seeking relief from displacements inflammation irregularities and nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham offers advice to any sick woman who writes for help from Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
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