Myers Builds Railroad Solo On Kansas Prairie
Rudolph Myers, a lone worker near Jetmore, Kansas, has spent 12 years carving three miles of grade and twelve miles of right of way for a private railroad. He lives in a corrugated iron shack with mules nearby and has refused to discuss his project, aiming to connect Jetmore to lands north of Garden City with a line that could shorten the Santa Fe route, though funds and interest waver.
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Mabel Abbott
Jetmore
Kan
Shadelgas Prairie
Miles
Tolling Plain
Kansas
Rudolph Myers
Myers
Kanos
Kansas City
Garden City
Gar- City
Santa Fe
Gothing
Kelder
Embarrassed? Miss Weed Forms Boston Personality Institute
Miss Evangeline Weed of Boston founded a Personality Institute claiming 95 percent lack personality and can develop it. She treats diverse clients from professors to club women with individualized methods, aided by psychology study and a personal tragedy that inspired her approach.
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Boston
Evangeline Weed
Dnstitute
Harvard
Miss Weed
Mina Weed
Institute
Columbia
University of Berlin
Personality Institute
Norman Prince
How to Be Charming by Miss Evangeline Weed
A compact lesson on charm urging readers to notice others positive traits. It stresses polite speech, genuine kindness, and retaining a forgiving spirit as the basis of personal magnetism and social influence.
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Evangeline Weed
Physical personality in daily life and growth
A speaker describes physical personality as vitality and poise in movement. She emphasizes correct stance and freedom of body, noting that personality cannot be taught but can be developed through practice and awareness.
Girl asked about wearing riding pants in Oregon incident
In Salem Oregon on Sept 17 Miss S S Wolfe of Madras asked Governor Olcott about the age to wear riding pants. She claimed Bend Chief of Police Nixon confiscated her pistol and ordered an akirta. Olcott referred the matter to the attorney general for decision.
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Salem
Ore
Gov. Olcott
S&s. ID. Wolfe
Madras
Nixon
Bend
Alabama Anti-Saloon League fights foam rule change
Alabama Anti-Saloon League leaders warn they will oppose any modification to prohibition laws. The current law bans selling any liquid in Alabama that looks like beer or foams like beer, due to concerns about deception and public intoxication.
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Alabama
Mobile
Ala
Alabama Anti-Saloon League
Prices High Even in Faraway Tunis
Prices rise to 25 centa for bread prompting Arab quarter shops to close in protest. Thousands march through the city forcing closures of native owned stores.
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Tunis
Chilean plan to turn Rob inson Crusoe cave into hotel
The Chilean government will convert Robinson Crusoe cave on Juan Fernandez Island into a hotel and designate the island as a national park and tourist center. W A Bryan of the Hawaiian society reports the plan.
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Honolulu
Juan Fernandez Island
Island
W. A. Bryan
The
Hawaiian Society
Man Charged With Arson Ring In Coastal District
Chetialis records show D L Bar ney Clowers named as alleged leader of a Pacific coast arson ring. He faces a second degree arson charge in an Information filed here. The indictment cites the Newaukum River Co. sawmill blaze 12 miles southeast of Chebalia on March 1.
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Chetialis
D. L
Barney) Clowers
Clowerets
Newaukum River Co
Chebalia
Cochran Seeks Parliament Aid Against German Plays
London September 17 Charles B Cochran theatrical producer campaigns in parliament to curb German plays on the English stage asserting each German work acts as propaganda and should be restricted.
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London
Charles B. Cochran
Parliament
Queen Adopted Piglets After Hog Attack in Evansville
In Evansville Indiana on September 17 Queen a white and brown beagle hound became surrogate mother to five piglets after hogs on Joseph Schneider’s farm killed the five puppies. Queen was given to his stepson Fred Schmitt but kept the piglets as her family, singing in distress when they were separated. A later note mentions a Chinese trust that controls dye used on firecrackers made from cibuca.
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Evansville
Ind
Joseph Schneider
St. Wendel
Schneider
Fred Schmitt
New Voters Rush to Define Political Role
Washington reports after women gain the vote they face choices about party alignment. Carrie Chapman Catt’s National American Woman Suffrage Association urges women to join a party of their choice. Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party advises forming a distinct women’s party. The non-militant wing has formed a non-partisan league of women voters.
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Washington
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Alice Paul
National Woman's Party
Suffragists
League of Women Voters
Diot's Poem Stirs Pastor in London
The London scene reports Rev. As Cuming finding lines in a hymnal flyleaf. The verses mock churchgoers with lines about those who attend for News to laugh and talk and those who do not worship God. The pastor ponders the author and the motives of readers.
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London
Cuming
Gil
Our Values Rooted In Low Rent Policy
The message touts a business model built on low overhead and rock bottom prices with quick turnover. It promises no fall price increase and denies cut sales losses, inviting customers to join a large base of friends.
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D. L. Clowers
Chehalis
Diot's Poem” . Stirs Pastor
Fahey-Brockman
Pike Arcade
Rhodes Co
2Nd Ave
Raleigh
Portland
Oregon
Fahey
Prrockman Qorstairs Lobhiers
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