Dan's Business Conquest in Camar Railroad Deal
Dan Carter Curtis, business manager to Alvadora, helps overthrow the Camar president Renato and wins a concession for a railroad. He wooed Mabel, married her, and invites Phillips to dinner as the venture ends with Phillips promising to sign a fair concession.
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Phillips
Alvadora
Daniel Carter Curtis
Republic of Camar
Dan
Dicky Etern
Palm Beach
Mason
Mabel
Republic
Renato
Model of the Moment in Silks and Fashions
The New York Post notes polka dots checks and stripes dominate silks with metallic millinery and gold lace over black or white tulle. Despite warding fancy materials, trimming grows in skirts coats and waists as taffeta remains a trim option while satin and glossy weaves rise for coats and formal wear.
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New York Post
Cleaning Wrinkle Tip for Quick Clothing Care
A cleaning tip advises using a rapidly evaporating liquid on fabric while placing clean white blotting paper beneath the stained area to prevent spreading. This method confines the liquid to the targeted spot and reduces overall soiling.
Widow of Vast Wealth Inherits Billions After Honeymoon Death
The widow of James Henry Smith, who died in Kioto Japan while on his honeymoon, is poised to inherit about 75 million dollars. Smith, nicknamed Silent Smith in New York society, inherited 50 million from an eccentric uncle in 1899 and grew wealth since. He married Annie M. Armstrong Stewart on September 13 after Stewart’s divorce from William Rhinelander Stewart in Sioux Falls, then traveled to Great Britain. Stewart, originally Annie Armstrong of Baltimore, had a daughter, Anita Stewart, from her prior marriage.
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Wybrien
Borona
Camar
Dan
Mabel
Phillips
John Phillips
Phillips & Kent
Porveda
Alvadora
Bonato
Presidente
Adverseen
James Henry Smith
Kioto
Japan
America
Scotland
Taft and the Elevator Boy Parade
Secretary Taft attends a New Willard banquet greeted by a bellboy who offers to carry him to the tenth floor. Taft remarks that some “great and good” friends have tried to boost him toward the Supreme Court bench, noting the humorous encounter.
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Taft
Panama
New Willard
Taft Party
Chicago Elects Frederick A Busse Mayor of Chicago
Frederick A Busse has been elected Chicago mayor, the first Republican in the post since 1895. A four year term. The campaign centered on improving local traction with Democrats led by Mayor Dunne backing municipal ownership via street car condemnation if needed. Republicans supported recently vetoed ordinances granting twenty year street car franchises with city option to buy for fifty million dollars plus expenditures.
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Chicago
Frederick A. Busse
Democratic Party
Dunne
Busse Served In Legislature Later Chicago Postmaster
The text notes Mr. Busse was elected to the legislature ten years earlier and served six years including time as state senator. In 1902 he became state treasurer and in December 1905 President Roosevelt named him postmaster of Chicago. He suffered a serious injury in the recent Johnstown railroad accident while unable to participate in the mayoralty campaign.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Busse
Pennsylvania Railroad
Johnstown
The Cold Bath Ironies Revealed by an Eminent Doctor
A Providence Tribune critique argues many claim to enjoy the cold bath but deceitful rituals reveal they rarely take it. The essay dissects vicarious bathing and pretense at morning ablutions, contrasting imagined pleasure with actual practice and suspicion.
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Association For the Study of
Providence Tribune
Eagle Reverence Among Delaware Indians by Washington Irving
Irving relates Delaware Indians held the eagle in sacred reverence as a guardian spirit. When pleased, the eagle-like power promised abundance and hunting prowess, while displeasure brought thunder and lightning as the guardian’s wrath. Feathers said to render wearers invisible and invulnerable.
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Washington Irving
Big Numbers in Hydrogen Corpuscles at Lehigh
Professor Bra shear spoke at Lehigh University about filling a tiny vessel with hydrogen corpuscles. He estimated about 525 octillions of corpuscles could fit, and at a leak rate of 1000 per second it would take 17 quintillions years to empty the vessel.
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Brashear
Lehigh University
Suspicious Cold Sparked Phone Alibi Dispute
A New York Press remark centers on a quarrel over a late night call during a severe cold. A man asks why he is questioned about last night while his supposed illness and plan to bed were noted. The exchange suggests tension over credibility in a domestic context.
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New York Press
A Good Talker and the Engaged Cook
A dialogue scene recalls a cook who claims to have worked in ten families last year. The insistent hired narrator emphasizes the cook’s chatter as a social asset, urging the value of her conversations. Bombe’s remark highlights the tension between charm and accuracy in hiring.
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Bombe
Home seekers excursion to irrigated lands in Bighorn Basin
Special to We run details personally conducted homeseekers tours on May 7 and 21 June 4 and 18 under D. Clem Deaver General Agent Landseekers Information Bureau. Tours aim to help settlers secure an entry at cheap rates on magnificent irrigated lands in the Bighorn Basin with round trip price of 20 dollars.
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D. Clem Deaver
Landseekers’ Information Bureau
Bighorn Basin
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