Stocking Fashion Sparks Atlantic City Newport Controversy
A lighthearted piece notes stockings as a global symbol of poverty or luxury and cites recent social scenes at Newport and Atlantic City. It recounts a Newport guest wearing mismatched stockings and shoes sparking lively debate, and Atlantic City’s ban on public bathing without stockings. It ends by imagining men’s confusion over fashion signals versus nautical cues.
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Helen of Troy
New York
Jerry Simpson
Newport
Winter Garden
Atlantic City
Fireworks Display and Band Concert at Monroe Park
Labor Day program features fireworks at Monroe Park with moving pictures and a band concert. Event timing noted as 8 31 38t.
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Monroe Park
One of Chicago's Useful Citizens Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley is regarded as one of Chicago's most useful citizens for years. She aided Chicago's treasury by suing corporations for dodged taxes and has been an influential figure in the National Education Association.
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Margaret Haley
Chicago
National Education Association
German battleship Kaiser commissioned with turbine propulsion
Berlin August 31 The new German battleship Kaiser Ersatz Hildebrand has been placed in commission. She is the first German battleship to use turbines instead of reciprocating engines and includes special accommodations for the Emperor William aboard during maneuvers. She will join four battleships forming half of the new Third Squadron to be formed this autumn.
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Berlin
Kaiser
Ersatz Hildebrand
Eméror
William
Boy soldiers and sparing the bride in the city
The Detroit Free Press questions poets and thinkers to comment on a growing scene of boys with rifles roaming the streets. The piece notes boys firing mercilessly, causing damage to windows and lights as they pose danger to the public.
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Detroit Free Press
Birds and insects in conflict over garden pests
A fragment argues against harming birds while noting their role in eating insects. It cites a Washington Bureau of Biological Survey finding that about 95 percent of examined fly catching birds’ diets were insects, urging boys to spare birds and avoid gunplay that harms local wildlife.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington
Dumb Brutes Furnish Thoughts for Doctors
Harper's Weekly notes that nature provides simple remedies animals use to heal themselves. Elephants stablish dust baths while stags birds and ants wash and bathe. Sick animals fast limit diet seek darkness drink water and sometimes plunge into water. Dogs eat dogs grass and other herbs when off appetites. sheep and cows seek specific herbs. rheumatic beasts stay in sap rich areas. warrior ants maintain organized ambulances.
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Harper's Weekly
Dreaded hay fever haunts August meadow season
The piece railing against hay fever notes ragweed pollen as the culprit behind seasonal misery. It describes grass lore and the toll on social life, stating the only remedy is to move away, as sickness and sneezing spread with summer pollen.
Washington man plans novel mediator between labor and capital
James Milford Place of Washington announces a weekly publication to serve as a powerful mediator between labor and capital. He envisions a twenty five member advisory editors council and cites examples of cooperative work and social planning to harmonize interests while preventing a rise of labor influence.
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Washington
James Milford Place
Place
Congress
Mr. Place
Labor Party
Great Britain
United States
Ragweed and hay fever curse August joys worldwide
The passage laments ragweed and hay fever spreading misery despite medical advances. It notes immunity varies, sufferers form a national group and publish reports, yet no cure blocks spread. The author praises a single immune breakthrough as mankind’s greatest future benefit.
Cops Silver Dollars and Wins All Dances at Wedding
In Harleigh road picnic grove after John Wallish and Miss Mary Stoke wed, neighbors dance with the bride by tossing coins into a dish. Michael alone broke the dish with a heavy coin, winning twenty-one dances, leaving him unpopular in Jacksonville.
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Trenton
New Jersey
John Wallish
Mary Stoke
Harleigh Road
Michael
Jacksonville
Social Season Notes at Battles Wharf and Nearby Homes
Miss Sallie McCafferty visits Case House while many guests stay at cottages around Battles Wharf. Listings include Miss Georgia Winters returning from St Louis and families such as the McPhillips, Stoll, Woods House, and Ivalich hosting various visitors through the summer.
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Mary Cronin
Weiss
Greenwood
James McPhillips
Harry McDonnell
McDonnell Cottage
Nellie Sweeney
Allie Yeend
Potter
O’connor
Sam Bailey
Lauren Secour
Helen Lyons
Joe Warren
Jeanette Boudousquie
Mirs
Annie Metzger
Allfred Beardsley
Ivalich
Demouvey
Andrew
Petrinovich
Clemmons
Guy Britton
Henry Stealing
Genial George Leaves Street for Vaudeville Stage
George B Whitfield, once a wealthy broker of Consolidated Exchange known as Genial George, teams with actress Bessie Martin to perform in a sketch titled The Blue Envelope. They rehearsed in New Jersey and plan to headline with Whitfield as the banker and Martin as the actress.
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Wail
George B. Whitfield
Consolidated Exchange
George
Stree
Bessie Martin
Mr. Whitfield
Broadway
Jack Gorman
Miss Martin
New Jersey
Bristol
Social Guests Fill Beach Hotel as Southern Society Meets
Ollinger family hosts Miss Draye among guests of the Misses Kearns while the A O H society of Mobile Montgomery and Birmingham convenes at Battles with three hundred fifty attendees enjoying a delightful day. Visitors from Pittsburgh Boston New Orleans Whistler and Asheville stay at the Beach Hotel and Case House hosts conclude visits.
Night Blooming Cereum Blossoms Noted At Home
Residents report a night blooming cereum with fifteen blossoms observed Monday night. Mrs. Russell accompanied by her sister Mrs. J. H. Laurendine travels for treatment in Mobile. Mrs. Rogers and two visit her mother Mrs. Virginia Ridgeway as Mrs. Whipley receives guests.
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Labor Day
Bach
Harrison Fisher Pictures
Staub
L. Hammel Dry Goods Co
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Rockefeller Foundation
Massachusetts Savings Bank Insurance and Pension System
Nelson Company
LeClaire
Ill
South
George W. Perkins
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Fellowship of Misery
Battles Wharf
Sallie McCafferty
Case House
Kate Miller
Angel la Grath
Stella Berdami
Grace Perez
Ponent
Phillip P. Campbeed
Russell
N.C
J. H
Joseph Laurendine
Virginia Ridgeway
Mrs
Whipley
Reed
Kodak
Colle
Dauphin ST
Pitman
Graham
Ressory Penman
Bell
CG. C. Meux
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