Will devote life to charity by widow Ketcham plan
Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham, famed widow once amid scandal over alleged poison plot, announces retirement from society life to devote her fortune to charitable work. She plans a Chicago hospital for crippled children, with architects at work and prominent philanthropists backing the project. An endowment will fund upkeep after completion.
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Sneyer
Mia
Minnie Wallace
Mra
Ketcham
Jher
Ketcham O
Negeti ation: a Flor variety tale in derailed prose
A fragmented notice describes aNegeti action toward a Flor variety whose den riean t of seit ar the sleomed amid unclear lines. Names, places, or dates are unreadable, leaving a cryptic snapshot of a local clipping.
Capt Streeter Land Claim Spurs Murder and Litigation
Capt Streeter asserts a Chicago land claim spanning from the Calago River to Chicago Avenue and east to Lake Shore Drive, totaling about 160 acres. Ownership slices pass through the Ogden estate, Newberry Library, Farwell, City of Chicago, Mrs Healy, Gen Fitz Simons, Almindingers, and Pine Street Land Association, with Eugene H Fishburn valuing the tract at 4 million dollars. The dispute has prompted murder and protracted litigation. Gen Oliver O Howard recalls that only two Union commanders survive among 27.
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Chicago
Capt Streeter
Alcago River
Chicago Avenue
St. Clair Street
Lake Shore Drive
Indiana
Erie Streets
Ogden Estate
Erie
Superior Street
Newberry Library
Walter L. Newberry
N. K Fairbank
John V. Farwell
Pearson Court
City of
Pearson
Chestnut Street
Mrs. Healy
Chestnut
Oak Street
Gen. Fitz Simons
Almindingers
H. N. Cooper
Pine Street Land Association
Eugene H. Fishburn
Ogden, Sheldon & Co
Street
Oliver O. Howard
Scofield
Veteran Statesman Galusha Grow to Retire After Term
The veteran Pennsylvania statesman Galusha A Grow announces retirement from public life at the end of his current term. Born in Susquehanna County he was first elected to Congress in 1850 and later became the youngest member in 1851. He will be 79 next August.
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Galusha A. Grow
Congress
Pennsylvania
Glenwood
Susquehannaunty
Grow
Trolley road over ice on the Neva in St Petersburg
Immense ice covered the Neva river in St Petersburg forming a winter trolley road. Rails laid on the ice support fastened car tracks and sledges carry merchandise and fuel. Skaters and riders use the route for pleasure while trade shifts to this ice track as winter pours water to cement it to the river surface.
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Neva
St. Peburg
Bund
Decrees of fashion and travel desires in early couture
The article surveys women’s discontent as described by Elia Wilcox and portrays fashion sketches for young girls, skating costumes, and tea gowns. It highlights how women seek beauty amid constraints, detailing a pink crepe dress for ages 12 to 16, a leaf-green skating outfit with velvet trims, and a tea gown suitable for informal dinners.
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Elia Wheeler Wilcox
Tea gowns and fashion notes for stout women in early 20th century dress
The article surveys fashion trends favoring tea gowns for stout figures, detailing bodice and skirt designs with lace trims, plaits, and velvet fastenings. It notes evolving styles, costly embellishments, and a New York remark about maintaining a polished wardrobe with limited evening gowns. It also reports on German invention for deformity treatment, a brilliant December 1901 fireball over England, cedar wood indestructibility observations, gas behavior in high altitude, blotter devices for pen use, and signatures made easier by a rolling blotter mechanism.
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England
English Channel
W. F. Denning
Bridport
Dorset
Needles
Iaie
Wight
Brighton
Frederick A. Schdueter
Newark
N. J
Height and Mood Effects in Balloon Flight and Egyptian Dams
The report notes that blood oxygen uptake rises with altitude to 3 000 metres, while carbon dioxide behavior remains stable. It describes D H Allens pipe charger from Miami sburg Ohio allowing clean filling without spillage. Also covers Nile flood gates at Assiout and Asouan, with 180 openings at various heights to control floodwater for Fayum irrigation.
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D. H. Allen
Miamisburg
Ohio
Nile
Asslout
Asaouan
Fayum
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Harity
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Whitsett Courier
Atlanta Constitution
Monaco
Pillabury
Santos-Dumont
Monte Carlo
America
New York
Streeter
Michigan
America's Veteran Statesman
Ashington
Carnegie
Fic
Russia
Siberia
Ita
Earth
Dr. McGee
Bureau of American Ethnology
Katherina Wegner
Potsdamerstrasse
Berlin
Germany
Washington
Acme
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