Tragedies and romance of the Chicago automobile era
A sweeping reflection on the car as fate and fashion, tracing its intoxicating lure for men and women, its social triumphs and tragic wrecks, from elopements to fatal crashes. It cites notable cases, enthusiasts, and the wide spread ownership among Chicago and suburbs, highlighting speed, danger, and cultural impact.
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Cupid
Mephistopheles
le Galliénne
le Gallienne
Faust
Marguerite
Ilinois
Chicago
American Automobile Association
Iinois
Twenty-fourth
Orlando Burrell
Carm
Inois
Indiana
Crown Point
Auto Row
Elopers
Joseph Leiter
Watson Armour
Elsa Parker
Clara Herrick
Arthur Hevemeyer
Sugar King
Leiters
Kenilworth
Natalie Duell
Mr. Douglas
Cleveland
New York
Europe
G. Winthrop Sands
W. KK. Vanderbilt
Paris
Mr. Sands
Pacific Coast
Independence
Ore
Tle
Oregon
Ward Cine
Size of Head Increases Says Westminster Gazette
The Westminster Gazette claims that many people deny head growth after adulthood, but hatters who track customers’ head measurements prove otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Gazette
Bitter social feud echoed in death of Mrs. Doll
The recent death of Mrs. William Hunter Doll, once Anna Agnew Davis, recalls a long feud in Minnesota society. Anna Agnew Davis, child wife of Senator Cushman Davis, faced social banishments led by Mrs. William R. Merriam. The feud followed Davis from St Paul to the national stage, ending with Davis’s death in 1900 and Doll’s later marriage to Hunter Doll.
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Poultney Walcalm
St. Helena
Napoleon
Evans
Cushman KK. Davis
Minnesota
Gay
Davis
Kansas
St. Paul
Merriam
Gov
United States Senate
Maine
Hunter Doll
Inaugural Dance Site in Doubt Faces Capitol Dilemma
Debate rages over housing the inaugural ball amid pension office disruption fears. Pension Commissioner Warner cites $96 474 in idle wages and potential damage to records if the Pension Building is cleared for the event. A House committee may seek an alternate venue, with the National Museum eyed but seen as reducing the ball’s grandeur.
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Congress
Pension Fce
Warner
Pension Office
House Committee On
District of Columbia
National Museum
Editor Wanted for Government Job at Records Office
Uncle Sam seeks an editor for the Experiment Station Record a $1 500 year post. An exam in Brooklyn drew one applicant who described the job as vital and humorous noting the high pay and need for entomology economics zoology veterinary science and multilingual reading writing and arithmetic skills including letter writing and animal husbandry.
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NCLE
United States — Civil Service Commission
Xperiment Station Record
Brooklyn Post
Witor
Sugar Consumption and Production in the United States 1907
A Bureau of Statistics statement notes U S sugar use reached 7,089,667,975 pounds in 1907 with per capita intake at 2.6 pounds. Domestic production totaled 1,511,000,000 pounds and imports from possessions and foreign sources rose, while beet sugar output surpassed cane sugar for the first time. Worldwide production nearly doubled over 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vingon Walsh
Newport
Evelyn Walsh
James Lu. Kernochan
Harry Odrichs
Herbert Pell
Miss Walsh
McLean
Nn Auto
United States
Baker
Washington
New York State
Babylon
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Statistics
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Merry
Burrell
Pleasant T. Chapman
Chapman
Bugsy
Herbert G. Catron
Miamisburg
Dayton
Lochinvar
Peen
Young Jones
Podunk
Amanda Jane
Amelie Louise Furstenberg
Gustave Kozlan
Gustav
Kammersberg
Count Caheen D'Anvers
France
Baron von Bieichroeder
Cologne
Count Zborowstkd
Baron de Pallange
Nice
Marquis D'Audiffret-Pasquier
Count Thiery
Les Champeys
Charles L. Fair
Saint Agasin
William M. Stewart
Stewart
Alameda
Cal
William A. Westphal
William R. Standberry
Dunellen
N. J
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Eiision Building
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