Washington belles seek the men’s glances in street fashions
Washington residents report women promenading on F Street in neon dresses to attract male attention. Rev Warle of Vermont Christian Church criticizes tight skirts and rouging as inappropriate for decorum, noting the trend draws unwanted attention and reflects social pressure on women.
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Pretty Suffragettes and Little Yellow Cart
Miss Rosalie Jones and Miss Elizabeth Freeman arrive in Cincinnati from Franklin with a yellow suffrage wagon named Suffraget. They tour state counties and county fairs distributing suffrage literature to advocate the women’s amendment. Both are New York residents. Jones is the daughter of Dr. James Livingston Jones.
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New York
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Bridegroom Wins Bitter Contest at County Fair
The text describes a competitive arrival and two day delay in the event as the winner, Mr Wood, marries his bride after a clergyman finally performs the ceremony when a judge refused due to too short acquaintance. The couple exits the parsonage amid a sprinting rival.
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Convention Hall Declared Unsafe by Fire Expert
Edward F. Croker, ex chief of the New York fire department, after examining Philadelphia’s new 100000 convention hall, says the building is a fire hazard and a menace to the city. Local insurers condemned it as a fire trap while the city planned to lease it. Built hastily for the German Saengerfest, the hall received 50000 from the city and 50000 from the singers.
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Sheriff Hood Raiders Seize Whiskey In Blind Tiger Raids
Special to The Item. Montgomery August 13 officers of Sheriff Hood conducted four raids on blind tigers Sunday morning. Whiskey and bear in quantities enough to stock a saloon for a holiday business were seized along with evidence of illicit activity. The campaign was successful in every raid.
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College Fires a Prexie Emeritus
Dr. James Kennedy Patterson, president emeritus of the State University of Kentucky, loses his annual pension of 3000 dollars and other privileges after a bitter contest minutes after the trustees named Henry B. Barker chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals as successor starting January 1, 1911.
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James Kennedy Patterson
State University of Kentucky
Henry 8. Barker
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Overman's Good Roads Amendment Defeated
Washington, Aug 12. The Senate defeated Senator Overman's amendment to the post office bill proposing 250 000 dollars for highway work in each state. The House favored the Shackleford good roads feature granting general aid for maintenance of all public roads. Southern senators Swanson Martin Overman Simmons and Smith of Georgia urged adoption of the House provision.
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Long-serving Kentucky university president retires in 1911
In Glasgow Scotland on March 26 1888 the longtime leader of Kentucky State University retires after a career starting in 1869. The board grants a pension of 3000 dollars annually and a seat at national and state educational meetings. He helped pass the Morrill Act with Justin Morrill and is noted for amassing wealth and a potential bequest to the university amid looming legal battles.
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Hatter Weds Countess Unbeknown to Friends
New York reports reveal Miss Aurelie de Limburg-Stirum of the Hague married John Delle Donne of Bovie Brothers and D. Donne hat manufacturers at 126 West Twenty second Street on July 2? They honeymoon at the Chestnut Hotel Riverdale and plan to go abroad. The couple, who kept the union secret, said they met in Paris. The Countess is the second Limburg-Stirum to wed an American.
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Child Eats Strychnine Thinking It Candy
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania an 11 year old girl Dorothea Bannister died after finding and eating several strychnine pills left by a physician for her mother. The child, playing in the sick room, picked up the pills mistaken for candy. despite a warning from her mother it was too late.
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William Bannister
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Here
Confesses Wife Murder After Surrender in New York Farm
Gordon Priest, a young farmer from near Evans Mills in Watertown, is arrested after notifying authorities he found his wife murdered in their home. Police say he initially claimed innocence but allegedly confessed to killing his wife with a hatchet. A hundred dollars he claimed was stolen was found hidden in the barn.
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