Baths for City's Poor Move Starts Soon in Indianapolis
Commercial Club committee will review municipal bathhouse plans after state board discussion led by George Edwin Hunt. He compares Chicago Buffalo experiences, estimates 155,000 Indianapolis residents lack bathing facilities, and argues for multiple small bathhouses with low or no fees to serve all districts.
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State Board of Commerce
George Edwin Hunt
Commercial Club
Hunt
James &. Roberts
J. K. Lilly
Roberts
Mexico
Lilly
New York
Iunt
Indianapolis
Brightwood
Frospect Street
Twenty-fifth Street
Military Park
Tokyo
Japan
Boeffalo
Chicago
Stockyards
Carter LM. Harrison
Thirty-ninth Street
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Edéston
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Glasgow
Burge ss Book Vanished In Great Wind At Shortridge
In a San Francisco storm a manuscript of Gellett Burgess new tales vanished from his hilltop home as 278 sheets were blown up the chimney. A search found only soaked pages, while Burgess recalls a mare dream inspiration and a lost sequel to The Purple Cow.
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San Francisco Post
San Francisco
Chronicle
Daily Papers
Gellett Burgess
Pacific Zephyrs
Burgess
Mr. Burgess
Chief Surgeon of the Paris Horse Hospital
The chief surgeon notes that check reins cause more stiff shoulders and weak knees than all other causes combined, highlighting a common equine health issue observed at the Paris Horse Hospital.
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Paris Horse Hospital
Shortridge High School Biology Lab Shows Off Creature Collection
An inside look at Shortridge High School biology lab reveals a lively menagerie. Miss McLellan and Ben W. Douglass run the department as 100 plus students study experimental biology. Displays include horned toad from Kansas, a long-ago stuffed possum, a horse skull, hornets nests, and Maxinkuckee turtle aquariums.
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Douglass
Shortridge High School
Ben Douglass
Fair Creek
Millersville
Fall Creek
Hammond's Grove
Biddy
Biological Department
Brayton
Kansas
Traveling with a Ringer in the Old West
Detroit Free Press recounts a former jockey's tale of illicit horse racing ventures. He describes buying a trotter, racing in small towns, netting $50 wins, and amassing about $10,000 before a Kansas season, then a fatal crash ended a scheme and left him ruined.
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Detroit Free Press
Sesson
Kansas
Jackass
Abandoned Brooklyn Churches Reused as Auctions and Rinks
Within ten blocks of the Eagle office twelve churches stand idle or repurposed. Some sacred buildings became an auction store or bicycle rink while others serve as stables or tenement houses. The sale and neglect rate in the district is higher than ever in the city’s history.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Eagle Office
Rose-rose Memory Of Herrick And Jonson In Verse
A Renaissance style tribute notes faded beauty and immortalized verse. The speaker laments changing petals to gold and purple within the Muse’s breast, and recalls Life and Love when young. A resting hand marks this flower as time moves on, while Nature’s march ends passion and fame.
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Herrick
Jonson
Reese
Josaph Trexler
Isle of Pines Described as Health Resort Near Cuba
The article details the Isle of Pines off western Cuba as a prospective American enterprise. It covers geography, climate, water, minerals, towns Nueva Gerona Santa Fe and Jucaro, exports from 1899 1900 crops and livestock, and potential industries including tobacco sugar rubber marble and tourism with American projects and transport links noted.
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Washington
Division of Insular Affairs
Isle of Pines
Cuba
United States
Batabano
Batabana
Habana
Miami
Fla
Tampa
New Orleans
Pensacola
Pennsylvania Railroad
Southern
New York
Havana
Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Steamship Company
Nueva Gerona
Santa Fe
Jucaro
Nicaragua Canal
Panama Canal
Jamaica
Caribbean Sea
Rhode Island
Sierra de la Canada
Caguilla
Sierra de Los Caballos
Mount Casas
Mount Cristales
Nuevas
Sierra de Casas
Jardines
Les Nortes
Gulf
Win
Las Antillas
Pinos
New Gerona
Sierra de Las Casas
Caballos
Casas
Clenaga
Columbus
Aoahne
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Mr. Hart
Board of Commerce
Miss McLellan and
Ben W. Douglass
Daily Echo
Clara
Chelly
Ringer
Beautiful
The
Antilles
Uncle Sam
Chicago Tribune
Prince Henry
Trinity
C. Aneshaensel & Co
Ohio Street
Pere Os Steel
Eugrami
Usiness Universit
Steatele
E. J. Heeb
Voris
Monument Place
BIG Four City Ticket Office
Clevelan Anderson
Union City
Cleveland
Fort
Boston
N. Y
Bos
Knickerboe
Benton Hah
Benton Harbor Express
Wabash
Louis Ion
St. Lous Limited
Terre Haute
Mattoo
St. Louis Express
Ker, Ao
MEIC
Lafayette
Fast Mail
Pecia
Leago
Cincinnat Express
Greensburg
N. Vernon
Louisville
Peoria
CIN
HAM
Dayton
Ryam City
Wash St
Cincinnati Express
Toledo
Detroit Express
Lmited
Dayton Express
CHIL
Ind
Louis RY
Omee
West Wash St
Chicago Fast Mails
Chicago Express
Chicago Vestibule
Monon
Lake Erie & Western R. R
Michigan
Detroit
Muncie
Laporte
Indiana
Decatur
St. Ease
St. Louis
Baltimore
Columbua
Richmond
Pigea
Columbu
Vincennes Express
Madison
Martinsville
Louisvi
North Vernon
Xenia
Pittsburg
East
Phi
Martinsville Am
Illinois and
Washington Streets
tDaily
Psunday
Union Traction Co., OF
Union
West
Maryland Street
Anderson
Marion
Elwoot
Assandria
Elwood
Greenfield
Georgia
Meridian Streets
Greenwood
Franklin
Pennsylvania
Bourly
Ant
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