Jerome K. Jerome Pokes Fun At American Wives In Chicago
English humorist Jerome K. Jerome, speaking at the Twentieth Century club in Chicago, joked that American wives travel often and that husbands should visit Europe to see them. He noted the Spartan resilience of American children and shared anecdotes on widows and absent husbands with his characteristic gentle sarcasm. He also read from his book The Thoughts of 1905.
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United States
Europe
Ocean
Jerome K. Jerome
Chicago
Twentieth Century Club
Dresden
Deeds for Sale At The Gazette Office
Classified notice announces deeds for sale at The Gazette office. Listing provides basic auction or sale action with location reference to the Gazette office and indicates official notice status.
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Gazette Office
Turbine Bliss Leavitt Torpedo Aims to Revolutionize Navy
The Bliss Leavitt turbine torpedo, built in Brooklyn, will replace the Whitehead, travel farther and faster, and fire from submarine tubes. A 300 unit government contract funds its production, with tests on Noyne Bay and penalties for the aging gunpowder era.
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United States
New York Times
Brooklyn
Noyne Bay
Long Island
Sarah Thorp
Whitehead
Sun Exposure Said to Cure Ear Cancer in Germany
Consul General Guenther of Frankfort reports via a Washington dispatch that a German surgeon Dr. Hirschberg cured an ear cancer by daily sun exposure at Lake Geneva. Eight days of sunlight finished the malignant margin and a complete cure followed.
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State Department
Guenther
Frankfort
Germany
Washington
New York Globe
Hirschberg
Chivalry Club Rules On Street Cars Stir Pittsburgh
A Pittsburg special dispatch reports a club of east end businessmen whose constitution bans women from standing when seats exist. Members may take any vacant seat, but when full men on the right yield to women, while men on the left may keep their seats even as crowds stand.
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East End
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Mrs Rogers Hanged for Murder in Windsor Vermont
Mary Rogers, age twenty-two, was executed at Windsor Vermont for the August 12 1902 murder of her husband Marcus Rogers to obtain $600 life insurance and to marry another man. Leon Perham testified against her, detailing the plot and chloroform killing in Bennington. Her third federal reprieve expired today and the case is one of the era’s most famous criminal episodes.
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Windsor
Vermont
Charlotte Chronicle
Mary Rogers
Supreme Court of the United States
C. J. Bell
Martha Place
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Bennington
Leon Perham
Perham
Rogers
Leon
Morgan
May
Pertram
Bryan in Japan Sees Pacific as Bond for Peaceful Ties
In a welcome address in Japan, William Jennings Bryan praised mutual exchange and peaceful development between the United States and Japan. He urged more visits, urged high ideals in nations, and defined eloquence as informed earnest speech delivering clear meaning.
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United States
Baron Kaneko
Pacific
Mediterranean Sea
Pacific Ocean
America
Japan
Carlyle
Waseda
Bryan
Sign Posts For Desert Travelers Across Pacific Slope
Appropriations by California and Nevada legislatures authorize sign posts in the Pacific slope desert to mark trails and water holes. The project aims to relieve traveler suffering and prevent deaths by guiding hikers through sagebrush and sand.
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California
Nevada
Pacific Slope Desert
Census Count Sets High Point Population at 10000
A recent census in High Point records a population of 10,000 residents. The count identifies local demographics and supports municipal planning.
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High Point
Bryan's Jap Becomes Japan's Political Figure and Host
A Lincoln dispatch tells how Yamachita Yashichuro known as Bryan's Jap became W J Bryan's Japanese godson and guide in Japan. He arrived in Lincoln in 1900 and, after kneeling at the Bryan home threshold, lived as a Bryan household member for four years while pursuing studies. He earned a Nebraska bachelor’s degree in 1904 before returning to Japan.
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Yamachita Yashichuro
Bryan
W. J. Bryan
Japan
Mr. Bryan
Lincoln
Berkeley
Yamachita
America
Sfe
Yamaditta
University of Nebraska
Legislator in College to Broaden Views Before Lawmaking
D. J. Schurr the thirty nine year old newly elected Ohio state representative from Madison county entered Lima College on November 20 to improve his English and understanding of lawmaking. A former Plain City schools superintendent and Wittenberg graduate he says he aims to represent voters well by studying history and philosophy of lawmaking and voting for just laws.
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Columbus
D. J. Schurr
Ohio State Legislature
Madison County
Lima College
Cleveland Dispatch
Schurr
Wittenberg College
Normal School
Ada
Plain City
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Jerome
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Gastonia
Simplon
Nebraskan
Japan News
Mrs. Bryan
America’s Friends’ Association
Coats
Jas. F. Yeager
The
Loray Mills
Ory
Pittsburg Writing Machine Co
Pittsburg, PA
Gazette Printing House
Bryan’s
Ohio
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