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New entries include Aphorisms from Routledge Rides yne and She Buildeth Her House from Ppincott Co. excerpts present reflections on courage women and society. Also note Walter de la Mare’s The Return awarded 100 pounds in a Royal Society prize. Cassier's Magazine January offers papers on engineering and business topics including oceanic precious metals.
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Princess de Polignac
Royal Society of Literature
Viscount Haldane
Prince de Polignac
Lord Haldane
Walter de la Mare
Cassier
H. S. Blackmore
Books and engineering features in a midcentury issue
The article highlights extensive discussions on steam condensation and recent machine tool advances by Theodore Rich and Joseph Horner. It also details How ard Cummings view on building the Manhattan suspension bridge and Suplee's aviation transformation overview. Additional pieces cover coal for Indian railways and bituminous road binders. New novels by Zane Grey and forthcoming Putnam titles are noted with a list of further works and authors.
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Theodore Rich
Joseph Horner
Howard Cummings
Manhattan
East River
New York
Suplee
India
Ivan Rosedale
William F. Prouty
Woman Keeps Secrets Longtime Governor’s Secretary
Miss Mary F. Hadrich of Lansing is the only woman to hold a governor’s private secretary post in the United States. For seventeen years she has served Governor Chase Osborn and led the 1910 campaign from the governor’s office in Sault Ste. Marie. Osborn notes she may bear the title of colonel but she resists titles and frills.
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Mary F. Hadrich
Chase Osborn
Lansing
Mich
Kansas City Times
United States
Miss Hadrich
Osborn
Sault Ste. Marie
Newspaper Ad Brings Marion Man a Wife in Kansas
L. V. Yost of Marion Kansas sought a wife via a newspaper ad and married Eva Stahnke of this city. He is 68 and she is 50, a widow who accepted his proposal after two weeks of correspondence. The arrangement followed a Christmas gift note and a local dispatch noted the marriage.
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L. V. Yost
Marion
Newton
Kan
Kansas City
Yost
Eva Stahnke
Winter Work For Ailing Ball Player
A mocked up exchange notes a ball player with a fragile shoulder and knee heading to a stoneyard for winter work. The piece then touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier that strengthens the system after a cold.
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Hood
Walter Browne, Creator of Everywoman, Dies After First Performance
The life and death of Walter Browne are recalled as his dramatic work Everywoman premieres to instant success. Browne, born in Hull, England, studied medicine and music, built The New York Garrick Club, wrote plays and novels, and held editorial posts before dying on the morning of the show’s debut.
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Walter Browne
Hull
England
George Browne
London
St. Peter's College
Royal College of Physicians
Yorkshire Man
Theater Royal
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Africa
Grosevenor
Palmer's Theater
New York
Head Scabs Burn Baby umbled by Cuticura Cure
Mrs B M Reed of Alum Ridge Virginia reports a two month old baby's scalp sores itching and burning. She praises Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for drying the sores peeling scabs and regrowth of hair after nightly washes. Signed November 27 1911.
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Alum Ridge
B. M. Reed
Cure for Itchy Scalp and Dandruff Reported in Hoboken
Mrs Vogel of 51 Willow Ter Hoboken N J reports hair loss from scalp dandruff and itching. After four months of trouble she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and claims complete cure in a few months with hair now thick and glossy. Sample offered by Cuticura Dept T Boston. Tender-faced men urged to use Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick.
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Willow Ter
Hoboken
N. J
Old-Time Showmen and the Curious van at Finchley Farm
The Chronicle recalls Lord George Sanger the veteran circus showman dying at Park Farm Finchley at age eighty He lived with a small troupe of showmen kept a fitted travelling van and a circular ring in a barn He rode the ring on his old horse as he did before Queen Victoria and never removed his hat even in dining. The piece notes his eccentricity and mentions Bankes a servant to Lord Essex and the tale of a dancing horse Morocco that led to the master’s downfall with references to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson as examples of the horse’s cleverness ending in death by burning for witchcraft.
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George Sanger
Park Farm
Finchley
London
The
Chronicle
Queen Victoria
Sanger
Bankes
Lord Essex
Morocco
Old St. Paul's
Decker
Paris
Rome
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
Gyroscopic Compass Advances Naval Navigation Testing
A New York navy yard report details a third gyroscopic compass by American makers, aimed at Florida with North Dakota as likely winner. The device avoids magnetic interference aboard steel ships, needing only latitude and speed corrections, and repeats across the ship. A Worden torpedo boat trial explores a two-rotor precession system to curb rolling, compared with full-width water tanks. Staacke Bros. offers a sale of carriages buggies and phaetons at low prices.
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New York Navy Yard
Delaware
Utah
Florida
North Dakota
Worden
Army
Navy Register
Staacke Bros
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P. J. Owens Lumber Co
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Col. Roosevelt Ave
Selicit
Harpers
Zane Grey
Southwest
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Pitcher
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E. M. Dell
Humfrey Jordan
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Simon Sterne
James Whitcomb
Riley
Michigan
Marion, Kan
San Antonio
Frank Bros
Ladies’ Shoe Department
Alamo Plaza
Walk-Qver Shoe Store—Commerce St
Promised Land
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Union Meat Company
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