Hamiltons Secret Good Roads Move Against Local Supervisors
County Commissioner Hamilton faces censure over alleged fly by night good roads associations aimed at blocking South district residents from naming their own road supervisors. A Riverton meeting publicly organized a counter group while $131000 spent on road machinery lacks recorded results. courts should reject his attempt to use secrecy to sway legal status.
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Hamilton
Riverton
King County
Mrs Grundy Fends Off A Raggy Trot Craze
The column records Mrs Grundy reacting to a dancing trend described as turkey trots and tangos sweeping the land. She protests the craze, noting dancers from a ninety year old to Maggie Murphy and Mrs Vanderpuyster, then breaks into a self spirited turkey trot.
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Maggie Murphy
Banter on honor and a Hawaiian princess voyage
A fragment discusses honoring Col Goethals posthumously and legal limits on living-person portraits on bonds. It mentions Benedict Arnold, the Panama Canal bonds, park budgets, and social mores. It ends noting Princess Abigail Wahikaaahuula Kawananakoa of Hawaii en route to New York after a name change through marriage.
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Uncle Sam
Col. Goethals
Panama Canal
Benedict Arnold
Abigail Wahikaahuula Kawananakoa
Hawaii
New York
Jim Campbell
Able
Laugh and Grow Fat and Fashion Notes Parade
A collage of light humor and society blurbs from East Palestine and Burlington plus fashion ads. It spoofs vocal duets, jewelry prices, black outfits in solidarity with Mrs. Pankhurst, and sharp witticisms on money and politics.
Dayton Tramp Appeals For Help In Cold Spring Scene
A distressed tramp pleads, insisting his ruin came not from rum but water. He claims to hail from Dayton town and warns against shedding coats too early as a cold snap threatens if a ticket remains unused.
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Dayton
Local Cabinet Debate Sparks Trust Study Call
A whimsical fragment shows Secretary Redfield urging study of trusts as a cabinet member with side whiskers hints at a murky plot. The farmer’s scheme to gain wealth is noted, while a ghostly line reads Here We Take Summer Board ers In.
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Redfield
Wil
Odd World Oddities and Unusual News Highlights
A trolley conductor returns a found package worth 550 dollars in cash and 4000 dollars in checks earning 59 cents. A Chicago judge denies naturalization to William Krunig who quips Kaiser Roosevelt. Strikers face mob with black snake whips near New Kensington. American Can Company notes rising demand for small cans, claims 2 billion produced yearly. Emma Driver, famed bearded fat lady, dies in Brunswick at 47 weighing 507 pounds. Countess of Cowper dies in Cannes with a wagon funeral in Hertingfordbury.
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Andrew Anderson
Ellicott City
New Kensington
Emma Driver
Brunswick
Driver
Sympathy for the Man. A Star cartoon critique of business
A columnist vents about the general business system and its failure to respect workers such as the milkman, laundryman, baker, and butcher. He imagines promptly resisting offense without involving his husband and questions why the current economy creates excess poverty and confusion in commerce.
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the Star
St. Paul
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