Remarkable feats with a rifle by two Little Girls
M isses Madith and Ethel Long of Lafayette Indiana are described as the world’s twin expert rifle shots though only twelve years old. They perform difficult feats with a .22 caliber rifle, including mirror aiming to shoot with back to target, breaking pipe stems, cutting ends of cigars, lighting matches, cutting cards, and guiding bullets along card edges. Their skill, attributed to keen eyes and steady hands, places them among top marksmen in the Lafayette club.
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Lafayette
Ind
Madith
Ethel Long
Miasea Long
Lafayette Club
Father trains daughters to shoot with rifles and shotguns
John E. Long, engineer at the local water works, trains his daughters Edith and Ethel in marksmanship. He asserts heredity and discipline, notes their rapid progress from a rifle to a shotgun, and plans for them to join the Lafayette Gun Club contests. He emphasizes safety, claiming no accidents in his teaching and that firearms should be treated as always loaded.
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Mr. Long
Sonia Wright
Quirley
West
Edith
Ethel
Everly
Lafayette Gun Club
Cheaper Rails for U S Railroads at $26 a Ton This Year
Steel rail makers report American railroads will pay about $26 a ton, cheaper than England or the Continent. England's price runs $5 higher and Continental rates run about $6 more. Despite large contracts, Pittsburg offices show few orders from big buyers as market activity remains early and tentative. An official of the New York Central confirms plans to pay $26 a ton.
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England
Wwe
Pittsburg
New York Central
Yeakel Cottage To Be Torn Down For Mermaid Lane Widening
The Yeakel cottage at Mermaid lane and Germantown avenue in upper Germantown, a one story log dwelling erected by Christopher Yeakel in 1743, will be demolished as Mermaid lane is widened. Once a picturesque residence, the snug log cabin has survived to represent a vanished colonial dwelling style in the country outskirts.
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Philadelphia
Mermaid Lane
Chestnut Hill
Germantown Avenue
Christopher Yeakel
Upper Germantown
Yeakel
Outdated Legal Snarl Sews Oats Theft Claim in 1888
A Kansas City Journal clipping from a St. Joseph lawyer recounts a 1888 affidavit in which John Blake is alleged to have wilfully retained and misused oats stolen from him by B. L. Smith. The document, filed in a neighboring county, reflects archaic oath language and statutory framing of the case.
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Cour
St. Joseph
E. L. Smith
John Blake
B. L. Smith
Sead
Kansas City Journal
Prince Alters Orleans Visit Amid Royal Tensions
The prince of Wales canceled a Marien visit to avoid a meeting with the duke of Orleans who lingered at the watering place to confront him. It is believed Orleans planned a dramatic scene and reconciliation effort. The queen has not invited the duke recently, and the prince has given no notice of contact for a long period.
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Prince Avolds
Orleans
Prince of Wales
Marienbad
Duke of Orleans
London
Eating at a Nation's Heart
A Nation’s Heart piece discusses caste pervading America from top to bottom in pursuit of status. It cites An American Mother in Ladies' Home Journal on how idle wealth buys titles, builds pedigrees, and elevates self-made myths. It notes voters and elites prefer noble ancestry over self-made narratives, planting family trees like maples at the door.
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America
Ladies' Home Journal
Burke
The
Herald's College
Late Mayor W. L. Strong led New York reform ticket
The article chronicles William L. Strong born in Ohio in 1821 who built William L. Strong & Co. in New York and served as president of Central National Bank. He led a reform movement, won the 1894 mayoral race, supervised figures like Roosevelt, faced Tammany opposition, and retired after health declines. It notes his civic engagements and death.
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Mayor Strong
William L. Strong
Ohio
New York
William L. Strong & Co
Central National Bank
Strong
Republican Citizens' Union
Brooklyn
City of
Ohio Society
American Fine Arts Society
American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum Association
American Geographical Society
Madison Square Garden
W. L. Strong
Waring
Theodore Roosevelt
Fred D. Grant
Avery D. Andrews
Parker
Seth Low
Benjamin F. Tracy
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Kings County
Exploiting Water Power Across European Nations
European technical press highlights water power potential in France Italy and Switzerland. It notes vast energy waste in watersheds and suggests white coal from Alpine snow and glaciers as a renewable substitute. A remark by Charles Dudley Warner from a New York club balcony is quoted about a prediction and its deferral due to mortality.
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Europe
France
Italy
Switzerland
Alps
Charles Dudley Warner
New York
Coat Holder That Eliminates Tips In Restaurants
An illustrated device promises to hold a patron's overcoat in place while arms insert and adjust the coat. A heavy spring wire holder requires no tip, spreads the coat to expose armholes, and retracts when the wearer straightens. The wall pivoted arms fold flat, doubling as a coat rack. George Dolby, Dickens's private secretary, died in a London infirmary penniless and emaciated after supporting himself in later years.
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George Dolby
Charles Dickens
London
Sayings and Doings Book by Crowninshield Not About Washington
Mia Crowninshield wife of the navy bureau of navigation chief asserts her forthcoming work The Archbishop and the Lady does not target official or social Washington figures. The novel unfolds in France set in an old Paris area chateau near Paris built in 1150 now owned by Mme Juliet Adams. The Crowninshields, guests at Adams residence last year, inspired the idea during a house party there.
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Mia Crowninshield
Bureau of Navigation of the Navy
Washington
Crowninshieldays
France
Exactepot
Paris
Mme
Juliet Adams
Crowninshields
Mme. Adams
Townsend elected president of national ticket agents group
Henry C. Townsend long time head ticket agent for Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain has been elected president of the American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents. Townsend, born in Pittsburg Tennessee in 1847, began railway service in 1862 and held top passenger posts at multiple lines before joining Missouri Pacific and Wabash leadership roles. In related notes Bryn Mawr College graduates now lead several major colleges including Brown University Barnard Sage College Cornell and Bradley Polytechnic Institute.
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Henry C. Townsend
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain
American Association of General
Pittsburg
Aliguet
Bellefnntaine Road
Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Toledo, Peoria and Western
United States
Peoria
Wabash
Toledo
Wabash, St. Louis
Pacific
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Wabash Lines
Missouri Pacifie System
H. C. Townsend
Bryn Mawr College
A. ©. Emery
Brown University
G. H. Putnam
Barnard
A. P. Saunders
Sage College
Cornell University
Helen Bartlett
Bradley Polytechnic Institute
May Yohe Home Again Arrives Aboard Lucania
Among Lucania passengers arriving in New York on Saturday were Lord and Lady Francis Hope. Lady Hope is better known in the United States as May Yohe the actress, and her husband accompanied her on the voyage.
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May Yohe
Lucania
New York
Lord
Lady Francis Hope
Lady Hope
United
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San Francisco
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Archie Ellis
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Sweet Brier
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