The Little White God: Roper-Curzon’s Wild Canadian Expedition
Capt. Arthur Eric Paget Roper-Curzon spent $300,000 in three years chasing a past love Miss Marguerite Gwynne. After royal lineage and social drift, he funded a Klondike expedition, staged a home wedding scheme, and a dramatic dead man’s feast before declaring himself broke at thirty-one and planning a new start in life.
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Arthur Eric Paget Roper-Curzon
America
Hfe
Henry III
England
Arthur Erle Paget Roper-Curzon
Marguerite Gwyn
Mediterranean
Canada
Toronto
Capt
Roper-Curzon
Far
Northwest
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Klondike
Sergt. Mortimer
Toronto Mounted Rifles
Edmonton
Roper Curzon
White God
Boston
Capt. Roper Curzon
West
Strife at the Capital for Uncle Sam's Favor
A survey of the European and Asian envoys at Washington includes Turkey's Chekib Bey and other diplomats like Gen. Isaac Khan Mofakhamed Dovjet and Phya Akharaj Varadhara of Siam. The piece notes their ranks, credentials status, residences, and social roles in the U.S. capital.
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Uncle Sam
Chekib Bey
Foreign Office
Constantinople
Isaac Khan Mofakhamed Dov- Jet
Shah
Isaac Khan
St. Petersburg
Egypt
Belgium
Mexico
Venezuela
Argentine
Slam
Korea
Min
Privy Council of Korea
Sev
Prince Min
Legation
Siam
Phya Akharaj Varadhara
Land of the White
Appendicitis on the Nile Noted by Paris Surgeon
Two medical men in Madison Avenue near a shop window of surgical instruments discussed appendicitis. One spoke of discoveries in Egyptian mummies, citing an eminent French surgeon who described evidence to date, suggesting the disease has grown more common with greater meat consumption.
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Nile
Madison Avenue
New York Press
Paris
French Academy of Medicine
Sudden disappearance of Angeline Brown mystery deepens
In Carbondale Illinois Angeline Brown has vanished from her home near Centerville. For days no progress in locating a search crew. Mrs Brown long time family member of sister Mrs Hutchcraft. An abandoned debris filled cellar is suspected to hold clues. A brother who left forty years ago reappeared after eighteen years. Authorities deem the case anomalous and believe she may be alive.
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Virago
Jess
Carbondale
Angeline Brown
Centerville
Cummins Fails to End Stride Strike in Dubuque
Governor Cummins arrived in Dubuque Iowa to settle the street car strike after talks with the Union Electric Company the strikers and business leaders. Militia remained to back order as proposed terms were relayed by Iowa Federation of Labor President Urick and State Labor Commissioner Brigham. The men rejected the offer and the governor departed for Pennsylvania while other officials stayed.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Cummins
Union Electric Company
Urick
Iowa Federation of Labor
Brigham
Pennsylvania
Enforce drastic Sunday law shutters Hot Springs stores
Hot Springs Ark June 23 a drastic Sunday closing law took effect prohibiting newspaper sales. Shops and stores were closed and milk and ice wagons could not deliver goods. All amusements were without music. One man was arrested for selling chewing gum and an alderman for having his grocery door open.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Alton Man Kills Himself in Forest Park
John Fitt of Alton Illinois died by suicide in Forest Park after leaving a farewell letter urging youth to resist life’s temptations. The June 23 report from St. Louis notes the self inflicted death and the warning tone in his message to the young.
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St. Louis
John Fitt
Alton
Ill
Forest Park
Clew in Umbria Plot Leads to Two Arrests in New York
Detectives arrested Joseph Fignaro and George Bruno of West Hoboken, finding a dynamite plot clew tied to the steamship Umbria. A paper on the Cunard scheme titled Hired Man Is Girl was found on one suspect. In Carthage Maud Gage, 22, missing days, was found working on a farm in men's clothes, hair cut short.
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Umbria
New York
Joseph Fignaro
George Bruno
West Hoboken
Cunard
Carthage
Accused of Killing Bride in Tennessee
Walter W. Henning faces a murder arrest warrant in Chattanooga charging him with killing Mrs. Henning. The couple wed in Soddy on April 18, triggering the case against the groom who is the daughter’s husband.
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Bride
Chattanooga
Tenn
William Hallett
Walter W. Henning
Henning
Yale Baccalaureate Exercises Lose Center Aisle Passage
New Haven Conn June 23 For the first time in years the senior bow to the president of Yale after the baccalaureate address was cut out of the exercises because there was no center aisle down which he could pass.
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Yale
New Haven
Conn
Big Tips for Waiters at Ann Arbor Hotel
Washington June 23 John H Hen S elman Jr a student at Ann Arbor university attracted attention by distributing five dollar tips to waiters. He was arrested and will be tried for his sanity.
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Washington
John H. Henselman, Jr
Ann Arbor University
Garfield Monument Decays in Cleveland Neglect
The Garfield memorial in Cleveland Ohio is rapidly decaying due to neglect. Built at a cost of 250000 dollars, it charges 10 cents for visitors to view the monument.
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Garfield
Cleveland
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Fator
Poper
United States
State Department
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
Ali Forough Bey
White House
Iowa Circle
Clinedist
Elephant
Buchanan
London
Phya
Arlington
Cheng-tung Liang Cheng
Hoon
Sir Liang
China
Andover
Amherst College
Mr. Wu
Sir Cheng-Tung Liang Cheng
Washington Heights
Morpheus
Hanor
Byron Williams
Angeline
Brown
Slater
Hom
Valin
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Board of Trade
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