Social Life in Town and Country Compared
A reader compares town and country social life, noting city women chase constant entertaining and display while country women enjoy steadier, meaningful visitors. The piece cites Prairie Farmer Home Magazine and Mrs Charles Henrotin, praising country life for freedom, rational standards, and enduring community ties.
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Prairie Farmer Home Magazine
Charles Henrotin
NOTES OF THE FASHIONS
Fashion notes describe dressy evening shoes with large floral decorations and long champagne suede gloves. White evening coats boast lace and chiffon, with slashed sleeves revealing lace. Parisian house jackets echo Eton style, short at back with elbow-length sleeves. Queen Alexandra gifts enamelled adornments. corset tips advise muslin or silk ruffles instead of padding. Hat designs return the flower toque in bolder, wider shapes. A toque combines red velvet anemones with pink. another uses purple tulle and red tule with pale primroses.
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Paris
Eton
Alexandra
Mustin
Marthy's Influence Shines in Poketown Tale
A Detroit Free Press reader recalls Poketown's lore where Marthy Dobbs uses savvy to run a grocery, outshines Dave, and even won a local political prank. The tale highlights small town independence and Marthy's grip on the firm and community, ending with a humorous note about a teacher.
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Detroit Free Press
Poketown
Martha Dobbs
David Dobbs
Dobbs
Marthy
Dave
Big Dave
Four US circuit judges hear Northern Securities merger case
Four United States circuit judges sit together in St. Louis to hear the government’s merger case against the Northern Securities Company. The special act allows direct path from Minnesota district court to the Supreme Court, speeding action and avoiding years of delay. The panel includes Caldwell, Sanborn, Thayer, and Van Deventer with Beck, Day, Watson for the government and Griggs, Young, Grover, Bann for Northern Securities.
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St. Louis
United States
Congress
United States Circuit
Northern Securities Company of
New Jersey
United States Circuit Court For
District of Minnesota
Supreme Court of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
Caldwell, Sanborn
Thayer
van Deventer
Caldwell
James M. Beck
William H. Day
D. T. Watson
Pittsburg
Dyer
Northern Securities Co
John W. Griggs
George B. Young
St. Paul
M. D. Grover
Great Northern Railroad Co
C. W. Bann
Northern Pacific Railroad Co
Fish Named for Assistant Treasurer as Plimley Is Recalled
Washington reports the president withdrawn William Plimley from consideration for assistant treasurer of the United States in New York and nominating Hamilton Fish of New York to the post. Fish is a lawyer and son of ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish. Separate dispatches note Montana capitol damage from an earthquake in Helena and a tragic raft accident near Chant, J. T. in Joplin, Missouri.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Capitol
Report of coal strike commission handed to President
Judge Gray and Carroll D. Wright, presiding officers of the anthracite coal strike commission, have submitted the commission's report to President Roosevelt. The document will be released to the public on Saturday. In Asheville, Prof. T A Weaver, head of a local educational institution, was jailed for refusing vaccination and for refusing to pay a $25 fine for evading inoculation.
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Washington
Judge Gray
Carroll D. Wright
The
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Roosevelt
Asheville
N. C
T. A. Weaver
Murderous Jealousy Sparks New Castle Shooting
New Castle Pa March 19 John Genkinger died in Shenango Valley hospital from a wound inflicted moments earlier by George Merkle proprietor of a Darlington hotel in Beaver county Police officer Henry Bell arrested Merkle who held his smoking revolver at Mrs Eva Rumberger s apartments Genkinger identified Merkle as the shooter four shots fired only one took effect Coroner Porter and Mayor Jackson examined Mrs Rumberger following the incident
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Castle
Totelkeeper
New Castle
John Genkinger
Shenango Valley Hospital
George Merkle
Darlington
Beaver County
Eva Rumberger
Genkinger
Merkle
Keep it to Yourself Insults Suppress Side of Scribner’s Motto
The Chicago Daily News quotes a sharp remark urging restraint, noting it is worse to reveal foolishness than to endure it. The line frames a caution against public boasting or harsh judgments in print.
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Chicago Daily News
Harwit Strange Act At Central Park Menagerie
A hawk story from Central Park menagerie in New York describes two birds kept together in a cage one developing a tumor in the leg which the other attacked with its claws to lance it. The report appears in the Cleveland Leader.
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A. Harwit
Central Park
New York
Cleveland
Markets Review From New York to Buffalo and Chicago
A broad regional snippet covers currency, government bonds, and mercantile paper in New York, with grain and live stock prices from Cleveland and Chicago, plus Toledo market figures and East Liberty and East Buffalo cattle, hogs, sheep, and lamb values. Also included is a short note on browned rice as a light, sanitarium dish suitable for invalids and children.
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New York
Sterling Exchange
Herald
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Nat. Manufacturers’ Ass’n
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the Assecuren Press
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W. Va
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Keller
Federal Court
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Calvin Price
Jeremiah Graves
Herrin
Ill
Nellie Reicheldeffer
Buffalo
Murphy
Coatsworth
Edwin L. Burdick
Trenton
N. J
Henry Tatnell
John M. Mack
Asphalt Company of America
National Asphalt Co
Buffalo Dry Dock Co
Sunshine Club
Daisy
Joplin
Chant
J. T
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Post Office
Wodjazynski Gczyjoczka Skrowsk
Gelf
Chicago Tribune
Chronicle
Job Printing Department
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Een Eye
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D. O. Osteopathic
Caoapsdie
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Hubert Day
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