Millionaire Barber Serves Four Clients At Dawn
Tom Whaten, a Chicago barber, shaves four millionaires daily, earning about $3,000 yearly from four clients: P. D. Armour, W. S. Allerton, Marshall Field, and N. I. Fairbank. He travels between residences by a fast pace, keeping a private shop setup and receiving yearly salaries plus Christmas gifts.
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Thomas Whalen
Mr. Whalen
P. D. Armour
8. W. Allerton
Marshall Field
N. I. Fairbank
Europe
New York
California
Chicago
Fairbank
Whalen
Fie
Mr. Armour
Mr. Field
Prairie Avenue
Mr. Allerton
Mr. Fairbank
Whaien
Lake Shore Drive
Tom Whaten
Inventors who struck it rich from toys and gadgets
A curio about inventors earning fortunes from simple items like a can opener and return ball. It notes large profits for creators of dancing Jim Crow and Pharaohs serpents toys, while many names remain unknown to the public.
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United States
John Gilpin
Anslee
Five-Man Company Gulps City Mail at Boston Hotel
A Boston hotel clerk reports a five-member company used the hotel giard room as its headquarters for 18 months. They received mail and met customers there and sent messages from the room. When confronted, they refused to pay and threatened to harm the hotel with reports.
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Boston
The Queen's Shilling Turns Bad For City Volunteers
A London Chronicle note reports that city imperial volunteers received a queen's shilling on enlistment, one man giving his to his fiancée who had it mounted as a brooch. The shilling is now deemed bad, but the fiancée plans to wear the brooch as a reminder of a historic era and national means.
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Sue
London Chronicle
Orchard and Garden Advice for Growers
A guide to selecting young healthy trees and planting in every corner of a yard. It warns against excessive mulching to avoid surface roots and suggests applying copperas under grapevines to combat mildew. Pruning should shade trunks, and trees should grow with symmetrical limbs. A soapsuds wash helps destroy lice on fruit trees.
Edinburgh professor calls morning dram curse of country
An Edinburgh professor says the morning dram is the curse of the country. Cooper Union in New York reported last year revenue of 113 and expenditures of 59087.09. Havana is praised for its beautiful horses and carriages compared with any US city of the same size.
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Edinburgh
Cooper Union
New York City
Havana
United States
Notable Figures and Their Diverse Interests Stamp Headlines
Lord Salisbury forbids smoking in his Hatfield apartments while Senator Hale keeps a Lincoln walking stick once owned by the president. Cronwright Schreiner arrives in England as an uitlander refugee and adopts Olive Schreiner's surname. Charles A. Colter, Atlanta's former mayor, named arts expo commissioner. Willard Bartlett elected vice president of the American Unitarian Association. Mrs. Patterson, daughter of Andrew Johnson, plans a park at his Greenville grave and urges national park control. Representative Littlefield wins a beer stein at a Washington minstrel party amid prohibition debate.
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Lord Salisbury
Hatfield Hlouse
Senator Hale
Maine
Lincoln
Mr. Hale
Cronwright Schreiner
Cape Town
England
Cronwright
Olive Schreiner
Atlanta
Charles A. Colter
American Unitarian Association
Willard Bartlett
Brooklyn
New York Supreme Court
Dorman B. Eaton
Patterson
Andrew Johnson
Greenville
Tenn
Littlefield
Washington
Stein
Field Marshal Lord Roberts Heroic South Africa Leader
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 67, commands the British army in South Africa. His idolized "Piples" figure inspires troops as the march to Kandahar continues. His son was killed at Colenso, a tragedy cited in dispatches from the front.
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Colenso
Pretoria
Tll
Lord Roberts
Piples
Kanda
Har
Epthres
South Africa
Uis Son
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Piet J. Joubert
Treansvaal
Cano
Cape Colony
Joubert
South African Republic
Yaoubertt
Neesles
Tucker
KuiHer
C.O.D
F.E. Encell & CO
Dearborn St
Til
Field Marshal
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