National holiday proposal honors Thomas Jefferson
The Thomas Jefferson Centennial commission recommends making April 18 Jeffersons birthday a national holiday. They seek Monticello preservation, a Washington shrine for Jefferson records, and continued nonpartisan patriotic education. Donations include Jefferson relics and books to Monticello, with Butler and the Lloyd library revealing unpublished Jefferson letters.
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Congress
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Jefferson
Monticello
Washington
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Lincoln
Mount Vernon
House
Springfield
Ill
Coolidge
Dawes
Nicholas Longworth
George P. McLean
Connecticut
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Royal 8. Copeland
New York
Finis J. Garrett
Tennessee
John Q Tilson
R. Walton Moore
Virginia
Robert L. Bacon
Edwin A. Aldema
Claude G. Bowers
Anthony Wayne Cook
Henry Ford
Stuart G. Gibbons
Nicholas Murray’ Butler
Columbia University
Italy
Columbia
Messrs. de Bures
Frerés
Rue Serpente
Paris
Paradise nut story links fruit pods to monkey harvests
New South American Paradise nut buyers source small lots from South America. The nut grows in a large round pod with a small cap at one end. A local tale claims gas or pressure in the pod shoots the cap out with a loud report, attracting monkeys to the nuts in dense undergrowth, explaining the limited supply in markets.
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United States
South America
Brazil
Lost Ancestor Portrait Sought by Blodgett Family
During the move a Blodgett family ancestral portrait went missing. The family could not locate it in either the old or the new location.
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Blodgett
Tenyear-old offers reward for missing grandfather
A distressed family receives a lead when William Blodgett aged ten reports a shop window notice promising paintings restored within suggesting a grandfather’s portrait is nearby. The boy returns from school breathless and believes the missing grandfather’s picture may be downtown.
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William Blodgett
Grandfather
Supreme Court Orders 10 Percent Fire Rate Cut in Kansas
The Kansas Supreme Court ordered fire insurance rates on business properties cut about 10 percent and required refunds of roughly 4 million dollars in impounded premiums. The ruling, five to two, reverses Shawnee County district court and upholds the state insurance department and attorney general. Justice Harvey wrote the opinion.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
District Court
Shawnee County
Kansas Insurance Department
Geeral
W. EF. Harvey
Johnston
Pawson
Hutchinson
Hopkins
Burch
Marshall
E. H. Lindley
University of Kansas
William & Smith
A. J. Rice
Hill City
Rice
Graham County Rural
Atchison County High School
Effingham
Wesleyan
Salina
University Medical School
Young Riverton boy killed after being struck by car
In Columbus Harve George Frazier aged 11 son of Mr and Mrs Ray Frazier of Riverton was killed recently when struck by a motor car.
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Columbus
Harve
George Frazier
Ray Frazier
Riverton
Here
King's Derby Hat Worth $100000 Captured in Cambodian Story
Cambodian King Sisowath, heir of 1840 birth, inherits a brown derby adorned with a $100000 diamond knob. The hat, feared extinct by custom, was saved by a widow. The tale recalls his Paris trip before the war with 200 wives and a seasick voyage he found amusing.
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Bangkok
Siam
Sisowath
Cambodia
Solomon
Paris
France
Buddha
Norodem
Ancient Roman Kitchen Found in Ashstead Wood
Archaeologists led by A. Lowther uncovered a Roman villa near Ashstead Wood in Epsom Surrey. Excavations revealed an earlier structure beneath the rear, destroyed around 60 A D during Boadicea’s rising, with Hadrianic era remains persisting to about 250 A D. Finds include a tiled oven kitchen full of charcoal enamelled bronze dolphin brooch blue glass beads Hadrian silver coin and a small bronze swan head.
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Epsom
Surrey
Boadicea
Ashstead Wood
A. Lowther
Hadrian
Berlin Eases Passport Rules for Americans
Berlin temporarily allows Americans with passports and no formal objections to enter Germany at Bentheim Aix la Chapelle Kehl and Basel without a German visa. The measure runs as an experiment until October 30 and will be assessed whether to make it permanent based on usage by travelers.
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Vaughan
Philadelphia
Delars
Paris
Dion Cassius
Germany
Villers
Etat de la Literature
Allemagne
Pa. 33, Says “le Seavant M. Fr. Guill. Sturtz A Public En 1807, In Dion Cassius
Dionis Cassi
Sturtz Leips
Sous Presse
Durand
Yecole Polytechnique
Jefferson
America
Chenes
M. Tesaler
England
TH. Jefferson
Berlin
Europe
Bentheim
Aixla-Chapelle
Kehl
Basel
Not Appreciated Jersey Wife Faced Desertion Over Fashion
Mrs. Ida Wagner accuses her husband George P. Wagner of jeering and deserting her for not smoking drinking or following modern styles while she made her own clothes. The case highlights tensions over gender roles in marital expectations.
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Alexander B. Randall
Waterbureg
Conn
Burton H. R. Randall
Chippendale
Jefferson
George Wythe
Virginia
America
France
Monticello
Jane Randolph Jefferson
Thomas
Fanny M. Burke
Alexandria
Thomas Jefferson
Victor "Kauffman
The
Washington Star
Rose Gouverneur Hoes
Washington
Jefferson Committee
James Monroe
Martin W. Littleton
New York City
Jefferson House
High Street
Philadelphia
Caroline Sinkler
Agnes Morlson
Jersey Cuy
N. J
Ida Wagner
George P. Wagner
How Mrs Weaver Was Helped
Mrs Weaver credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her recovery from ill health. After weeks she gained strength enough to sleep well and resume chores, caring for three children. She urges others to try the remedy and shares her positive experience with friends and letters. The tale notes continued family use across generations.
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Lawrence Weaver
Hast Smithfield St
Mt. Pleasant
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Lydia WH. Pinkham
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Messrs. de Bure Freres
Doctor Butler
John Ari Lloyd
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M. Michaux
Pattiotis
Plugritis
STATI
Thomas Steff LI
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Supreme Court
Roy L. Bone
Ye Gm
Lillian Mitchner
Ida M. Walker
Norton
Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Kansas
Chanute
Otis Catron
Ray
Clarence ‘Catron
Stark
Wichita
J. E. Wolfe
High Schole
Roosevelt
Great Bend
Council Grove
Daughters’ ‘of the American Revolution
National Old Trails Committees
Dodge City
W. B. Orner
Garden City
Santa Fe
Copeland
Newton
P. M. Hoisington
Seattle
Orient
Ernest Leslie Wolf
Great Britain
Edmonton
Lydia E. Pinkham
Hanford
Lennon
Red Bluff
Calif
Justice of the Peace
G. G. Green, Inc
Eral Gee
Don
Soreness
Mitchell Wee Belve
Acording
Hallazuckey
Waverly Place
Hew Terk
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