Sunday Baseball Clash Pushes Reformist Weldon to Front
Pat Weldon, ninth ward political leader, crews up support from Rev Ezekiel P. Jones to seize Sunday games. Jones is guided into arrest plans, McDowell and players fined by Police Justice Evans after a dramatic court scene. Weldon hints at primary backing from the Ministers association.
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Pat Weldon
Ninth Ward
Pat
Tom Wilson
Nine
Ministers’ Association
Ezekiel P. Jones
Jones
Tommy Evans
Third Church
McDowell
Mr. Jones
Patrick Weldon
Evans
Tommy
Pat. Weldon
Evans Ezekiel P. Jones
Mae
Mac
Weldon
Thomas Evans
Justice Evans
Joseph B. Bowles
Chef Gustave Becker Buys Two West Ninety-Fourth Street Buildings
Gustave Becker, chef at the Holland House, bought from Germania Life Insurance two elevator apartment houses at 306 and 308 West Ninety-Fourth Street for 300000. He also owns the home at 204 West Ninety-Fourth Street and says wealth is not unusual for a cook.
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New York City
New York Herald
Gustave Becker
Holland House
Germania Life Insurance Company
West Ninety-fourth Street
Becker
West Ninety Fourth Street
Salt and Epilepsy Belief from Bellevue Ambulance Surgeon
An ambulance surgeon at Bellevue states that epilepsy cases always show the patient with salt on the neck and face. He calls salt a relic of an old country superstition and says its effectiveness as a cure is unproven. The quote is attributed to the New York Sun.
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Bellevue
Washington letter ends fines for postal workers as discipline
The First Assistant Postmaster General proposes abolishing monetary fines for postal workers after a year of study. A uniform efficiency record system will replace fines, with salary reductions tied to performance and promotions based on efficiency. John A. Holmes will tour major offices to implement the change and consult postmasters.
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Washington
Hitchcock
John A. Holmes
United States
Holmes
Census Bureau denies scandal as clerks read divorce records
Acting director Rossiter says thirty to fifty thousand cases are in the 20 year period in New York Chicago and Philadelphia and a million nationwide. Clerks will study records in courthouses to extract cold statistics with no personal data. About a year is needed to finish the government research with staff in New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston and Baltimore.
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United States Census Bureau
Pittsburg
Newport
New York
South Dakota
Bureau
Rossiter
Chicago
Philadelphia
Public printer Stillings backs Roosevelt phonetic spelling move
Charles A Stillings official US public printer endorses the phonetic spelling reform urged by Roosevelt and Carnegie. He notes a commission will revise the manual of style to unify government printing and cut proofreading and overall costs. Stillings, appointed October 1905, has long been a leading figure in American print operations.
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Charles A. Stillings
United States
Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
Stillings
Public Printing Office
Chip A. Stillings
Uncle Sam
Boston
Typothetae
Washington
Printers’ Board of Trade
New York City
Gen. Stillings
Blackmar
Grand Army of the Republic
Countess Marguerite Cassini Said to Enter Convent
Reports claim Countess Marguerite Cassini the Russian embassy chatelaine and Washington social leader will retire from public life to join the Sisters of Mercy in Paris. Born in the 1880s era she became embassy host at a young age and drew wide attention with lavish entertainments and numerous portraits.
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Marguerite Cassini
Sisters of Mercy
Paris
Marguerite
Nicholas Longworth
Washington
Chatelaine
Army
Cupid
Europe
Vision of heaven ends in kitchen joke
A Christian Zulu-Kaffir recounts a dream of heaven to a Kaffir listener. He says he did not see any Kefirs there because he looked into the kitchen.
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Heaven
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