Madison Square Garden Sells At Auction In New York
Madison Square Garden was sold at auction to the New York Life Insurance Company for 2 000 000 to satisfy a 2 300 000 mortgage. The 1885 creation financed by Morgan Mills Darling and others was valued at 4 000 000 and stands as the last major landmark of the Madison Square district. Skyscrapers like the Flatiron and Metropolitan rise around the site.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
New York Life Insurance Company
Diana
Madison Square Garden Co
J. Pierpont Morgan
Darius O. Mills
James B. Darling
Fifth Ave
Eden Musee
Ana
Madison Square District
Stuart's Calcium Wafers Beauty Cure Ad
An old advertisement touts Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a facial beauty remedy. It promises clear skin by supplying calcium sulphide through meals and claims the product firms facial fibres and eliminates pimples, blackheads, eruptions, and eczema, with a free trial offer by sending a coupon.
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Stuart
A. Stuart Co
Stuart Building
Marshall, Mich
Embroiderers Invent Swivel Bracelet Yarn Holder
A new device for women who embroider or knit features a bracelet worn on the wrist that carries a swiveling holder for a ball of silk or yarn. The invention aims to ease yarn management while stitching.
German Trap Closes on Rumanians Near Bucharest and Ploesti
Berlin via Bayville reports rapid German Austro Hungarians advance beyond Bucharest and Ploesti has cut off Romanian front line retreat in Predeal and Altechanz passes. The war office says many Rumanians have been taken prisoner and over 10 000 were captured yesterday. Col. Von Szivo's forces forced surrender on December 6 with eight thousand men six batteries and one squadron among the fallen.
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Berlin
Bayville
Bucharest
Ploesti
Predeal
Altechanz
War Office
Rumania
Danube
von Szivo
Woman's Party Plans Proposals to End War
Washington December 8. The Woman's National Peace Party convened for a three day season to draft proposals to Congress aimed at ending the war. Plans include a joint commission of experts from Japan China and the United States. urging an immediate Third Hague Conference. investment risk policy. federal alien control per American War Association. Miss Jane Addams will preside and speak on Internationalism.
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Washington
Congress
Woman's National Peace Party
Japan
China
United States
American War Association
Jane Addams
Veterans in Fight at Soldiers' Home
In Danville Newfoundland and Labrador on December 8 officers report a knife fight between George W. Smith 74 Civil War veteran and Sidney Chappell 40% a former Spanish American War infantry man at the National Soldiers' Home barracks. The combatants exhausted themselves and bystanders could not separate them. The exact cause remains unclear beyond political dispute.
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Danville
National Soldiers’ Home
George W. Smith
Sidney Chappell
Regular Infantry
Spain
Altho
Old paper repurposed into white newsprint in Neenah plan
Dr. Thomas Jasperson in Neenah presents a process to convert used newspapers into pure white stock for reuse in printing. A Chicago mill is reported to be under construction to manufacture paper by this method.
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Neenah, Wis, Dee
Thomas Jasperson
Chicago
Gas for salesmen
A YMCA class night featured W. L. Rhodes of the Paraffin Paint company giving advice on salesmanship. He compared a salesman to a motorist who must carry tools and supplies and maintain enthusiasm as fuel for handling grouchy customers.
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W. L. Rhodes
Paraffin Paint Company
Evolutionary claims spark debate on babies and savages
Chicago lectures by R Waite Joslyn describe humans as evolving from animals to humans, noting birth to age two as animal instincts and ages two to sixteen as savage yet civilizing. He links childish fears and gendered traits to ancient savage ancestry, while a Swedish bread discovery cites early pea cultivation in Europe over a millennium ago.
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Gately
Dress Weill
Third Avenue
Seneca and
Spring Sts
Moore
aLine
Naughty
Alhambra
Build
Orpheum
Eddie Leonard & CO
Mason & Keeler
Mable Russell
Marty Ward
Nell O'Connell
Silver
Sta Ea Ley
Olympia Desvall and Company Siz
Palace Hip
Saturda Raskin
Royal Karata Balalaika Band
Paest
Saint
Devil
Florence la Hadie
Ibe
OAK Theatre
Seneca
Monte Carter Munteal Comedy Co
Go To the Right Drug Co
Washington St
Doctor Lindsay
Occidental Ave
Basil M. Manly
the Star
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau
Italy
Woman's Party
Soldiers’ Home
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N.J
KODAK
Eastman Kodak CO
Rochester, N. Y
R. Waite Joslyn
Earth
Mr. Joslyn
Sweden
Europe
American Castle
Carnegie
Shadow Brook
Lenox
Mass
Anson Phelps Stokes
Onker
Andrew Carnegie
Swift
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