Race Arc Sees Harry Anson Win The Whip
In a tense scene at the Albany track Harry Anson is accused of threatening Captain Sartoris but vindicated as The Whip wins a tense race. Lord Brancaster and Lady Diana demand fair play as detectives arrest Sartoris and Mrs. DAquila after a crowd cheers the finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Harry
Sartoris
Harry Anson
Anson
Captain Sartoris
Brancaster
Lord Beverley
Lord Clanmore
Jockey Club
Clanmore
Beverley
Denham
Diana
Lord Clunmore
Lady Diana
Clanmere
Kelly
Piddock
Scotland Yard
Daquila
D'Aquila
Renunciations and Reflections on Wealth and Wishes
The verse speaks of renouncing expensive luxuries such as fat cigars and twenty or hundred dollar bills. The speaker notes preferring a simple pipe, avoiding the charms of widows, and curbing curiosity about banking laws, asserting currency has long unsettled him. A literary citizen narrator from Horace Seymour Keller in the New York Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Seymour Keller
New York Sun
Starving Bulgars Seek Aid From America Missionary Visits
Miss Inez L. Abbott, missionary and head of the American girls boarding school in Samotov Samokov, travels to the United States to raise funds for 7,000 destitute Bulgarian families. She notes famine worsened in 1913 due to mobilization, with crops thwarted by frontlines. relief funds aid orphans and farm development in Bulgaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulgaria
Inez L. Abbott
Woman's Board of the Interior
The
Congregational Church
Samotov
Miss Abbott
Lansing
Mich
United States
Samokov
Relief Committee of
Lands Sold to Homesteaders Under Witten's Direction
Secretary Lane reports James W. Witten oversaw sales of undeveloped lands totaling 1.8 million acres in Montana Nebraska and various reservations. About 116,985 applications were filed for farm homes as Witten supervised registrations and drawings during four months. Remaining lands in the Rosebud Lower Brule Kiowa Comanche Apache and Wichita areas sold at $1.25 to $111 per acre, averaging $8 per bid, most remained untaken after twelve years of homestead entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Interior Department
Tullman
General Land Office
James W. Witten
Witten
West
Montana
Nebraska
Camas
Rosebud
Lower Brule
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Navy Cuts Cost of Living by Rail Food Plan
Navy shifts feeding of sailors in transit from Pullman contracts to commissary supply. Recruits moved from Chicago to Seattle, food from the commissary served in kitchen tourist cars. The plan reduced daily cost per man from $1.50 to 44 cents and saved dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Daniels
Navy
Pullman Company
Chicago
Seattle
Pullman’ ‘Company
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E. L. Hollis
State Savings Bank
North Presbyterian Church
Florence Fuller
Nat'l Bank
Rolfe
Iowa
Robert Bruce
Towa
Cc. C. Delle
Bruce-Smith Company
Cc. H. Moon
First National Bank
Tolie
J.H. Alsen
C.D. Atkinson
Allen & Atkinson
Pocahontas
H. C. Barnes
Chicago Veterinary College
H. W. Lyon
Ies
G. C. Harris
Plumer
Mobray
Rolfe, Iowa
E. Buxbom
By Bertrand Babcock
Cecil Raleigh and
Hamilton
Drury Lane Company of America
Arthur Colling
Drury Lane Theater of
London
William
America
Ford
DEACO
Detroit
White Bros
H. M. Schreiber
Jay Benson
Rolfe Roller
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