Marriages at St George's Hanover Square
The article notes St George's in Hanover Square, London, long a magnet for aristocratic marriages due to its monopoly stance. It cites Bishop Blomfield's 1844 reform creating daughter parishes like St Paul's Knightsbridge and St Peter's Eaton Square, which later eclipsed the mother church in fashionable ceremonies.
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Christendom
Hanover Square
Ordon
England
West End
Blomfield
St. Paul's
Knightsbridge
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Eaton Squaiare
Life Saving Service for Miners Inaugurated
The new Bureau of Mines launches a life saving service for miner rescues. Six specially built cars with trained rescue crews and up to date first aid gear have been sent to mining districts. The program emphasizes teaching rescue technology and patient care along with educational lectures on mining issues.
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Bureau of Mines
Altruism Backfires Over Rug Beating Bill
A soft hearted man buys rugs for a poverty stricken landlady and avoids asking her to replace them. She lists rent, breakfasts, laundry, and rug beating charges totaling 25 cents. She insists on payment, ending the altruistic student’s moral hold.
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Ifello
Enthusiasm In Your Work and Duty
A quote urges finding interest in work and seeing its meaning and history. It claims enthusiasm makes tasks easier, cultivates character, and benefits even humble labor.
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Lord Avebury
Restful Job Leads Young Man to Stage Ambitions
A young man sought an interview at a comedy theater claiming urgent private business. After an appointment, he revealed his aim to offer services, though his doctor ordered complete rest or work with no brain strain, prompting a decision to take the stage.
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Comedy Theater
Nan
Charles Hawtrey
Strand
Tea at the British Embassy Sets Elegant Tea Tone
The Washington embassy hosts afternoon teas with hot bread, milk toast, muffins, plum cake and pound cake. Mrs Brice influences fashion as Countess von Bernstarff serves coffee in brass settings with gold utensils in a Turque style service.
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Washington
Formal Occasion Servants Serve Ice with Coffee and Cakes
A description notes how spoonfuls are stirred into cups with boiling water, then sugar and cream follow. Cheese sticks and honey cakes complement coffee, with creamy cake served next. On formal occasions the countess and Countess Alexandra offer fruit ices in crystal punch cups.
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Countess Alexandra
Munich puppet theater charms visitors at city zoo show
An American attendee reports the Munich zoo exhibition drew many theatre lovers and that the puppet theater was the highlight. He watched Offenbach's Pretty Maid of Elizondo and King Viola and Princess Clarinette by Muhl mann and Scherber, noting flawless synchronization of speech and movement.
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Munich
Munich Zoo
Offenbach
King Viola
Muhlmann
Scherber
Ambition to Own Arnold Daly Overcoat Driven by Fashion
The writer dreams of owning fur lined attire and a muskrat collar as a symbol of status. They plan to acquire with 60 cents and a donated fur cape from a kind old lady, hoping to project an imposing urban image as a music teacher or stage actor.
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Arnold Daly
Charley Frohman
Detroit Free Press
Krupp Announces 10 Percent Dividend for 1906 Profits
The Krupp works, famed armor and gun maker, declares a ten percent dividend on a share capital of 45 million dollars, up from eight percent last year as profits rise.
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Krupp
Krupp Company Accounts Highlight Large Employee Benefits
The year shows gross profits of 9 million with half written off and the remainder allocated to reserve dividends and to contributions to the invalid and pensions fund for the firm's 70,000 employees. The fund totals 500,000. Krupp's contribution to the work men's state discharge fund this year reached 1.32 million.
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Krupps
Torpedo Guidance Device Aims to Stop Self-Damage
A new torpedo attachment from an inventor in VOB IN claims to curb self-damage by allowing the weapon to detour from its course and return. By presetting angles up to 99 degrees the device prevents the torpedo from exploding near its own ship.
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Naval
Oct Sring
Sodapat
Confey Ctehind Lin. Vis
VOB
Dugmmtiont
The Domesticated College Girl in Western Life
The passage describes a widely seen type of educated woman who manages housework and domestic duties while guiding children in music and academics. It notes this as a broad Western pattern, citing Mrs Bushy’s Home Life in Amperica as a source.
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West
Family secret blocks marriage over $100000 dowry
In this playful exchange, passion clashes with propriety as a lover reveals a substantial obstacle. The woman’s devotion is clear yet marriage is thwarted by a dowry of one hundred thousand dollars. Pele Mele notes a melodramatic family ledger shadows romance.
They Know It All in Buffalo Street Car Scene
A Buffalo Express account notes a crying baby in a street car provoking murmurs. A woman carrying the infant resents sympathetic glances and asks aloud about the child. The custodian ends the ride by stopping the car.
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Buffalo Express
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