Kitagaki in Annapolis asias son of baron
ASHANTI KITAGAKI. A young Japanese midshipman at Annapolis Naval Academy, son of Baron Matsuka, sits in the higher house of Japan by birth. He learned English first in Tokyo, says he spoke little upon arriving in the United States, and is popular at the academy. He hosts guest at Carvel ball and shares lunches with Hamilton Institute students and naval attaché acquaintances.
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Kunfinich
Kitagaki
Mikado
House of Jordy
Hitt
Lords
Japan
Witt
Ashanti Kitagaki
Toung Tapanexe Midehinman
Annapolis Naval Academy
Midehinman Kitagaki
Tokio
Annasinus
Washington
Legation
Huron Takashita
Carvel
Hamilton
Academy
K. Matsuka
Baron Matauka
Matexkaly
Kitagall
New Statue at Vicksburg Memorial by Minnesota Commission
The Minnesota commission selects a 90 foot obelisk of light granite for a Vicksburg memorial to Minnesota soldiers. A bronze peacemaker statue by William Cooper will stand on a base pedestal along with three regimental monuments and three markers. The total cost is 23700 with 25000 appropriation. remainder funds commission expenses. The commission includes Gen Hubbard Gen Andrews and Gov Wilson. Phonograph tours world as scientist collecting records for Vienna academy across Croatia Slavonia Tyrol Carinthia New Guinea India and Australia expeditions underway with Greenland and Pebout future plans.
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St Paul
Minnesota
Aiege
Vicksburg
Peare
William Cooper
New York City
Vilage
L. F. Mubbard
C. C. Andrews
Gev. Thomas Wilson
Imperial Academy of Sciences of
Vienna
Croatia
Slavonia
Khos
North Tyrol
Foralberg
Carinthia
New Guinea
Iadia
Australia
Pebout
Greenland
Fog signalmen ensure safe runs in dense fog on English rails
The article explains how fog signalmen, drawn from platelayers, guard trains in dense fog by placing detonators and signaling with red flags. It details duties, shifts, and protections, including the detonator economizer to reduce waste and improve safety for drivers and guards.
Train and track talk and rail history notes
Prussian cars carry only three-tenths of U S capacity. New all steel cars to carry mail Boston New York. Bavarian government to take over 1500 miles of steam rail by 1909 at 60 million dollars. Express trains run Mexico City St Louis in 59% hours at 33 mph for 1877 miles. Nationalization of Japanese railways passed with 17 lines to be purchased in ten years up to 220 5 million. Metcalfe claims world record for rapid construction above Victoria Falls. Five and three quarters tons of track laid in 12 hours. William Brown named NY Central vice president salary 75000. Brown’s rise from telegraph operator in Sioux City to VP noted. Andrew Jackson Buchanan at Western & Atlantic for 67 years, still on payroll at eighty seven. Old man shows little sign of age with unchanged height and elastic step.
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United States
Boston
New York
Pala Linate
Mexico City
St. Louis
Charles Metcalfe
Rhodesian Railways
Victoria Falls
William ©. Brown
New York Central Lines
Sioux City
Andrew Jackson Buchanan
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Atlanta
Oriental party decor and Japanese recipes teased in 1920s How-To
A 1920s Chicago Tribune piece offers whimsical guidance for hosting a Japanese themed event. It covers costumes, room design with lanterns and crepe paper, tableware ideas, and edible touches including sushi and kuri kinto. It adds tips on kimono patterns, obi tying, and simple Japanese songs as ambiance. The column ends with a comical mock dialogue about mistaken cultural references and a laundry incident.
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Beatty
China
Japan
Madame Merril
Fresh Air, Patti Favor Healthy Aging and Outdoor Life
The article extols lifelong fitness through outdoor exposure and rain baths. It cites Patti and Langtry praising three hours daily in the open air and frequent baths as keys to lasting youth and good looks, with caution on proper dress and protection against the elements.
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Patti
Sull
Mme. Patti
Linen Suit for Bride Reveals Summer Walking Skirt Style
The article describes linen gowns as highly utilitarian for travels, highlighting a white linen dress with coral trim and white pearl buttons. A linen belt completes the surplice-front bodice, paired with a baby Irish lace guimpe and a trimmed lingerie hat, presenting a critic-defying summer appearance for a bride on her appearance out.
The 1906 Girl in Modern Fashion Contrast
A fragmented 1906 fashion sketch contrasts the era’s full circular skirts high chignons tilted hats lace veils with a modern 2004 shirt waist. The text hints at evolving feminine style from period frivolity to contemporary consumer behavior as a young woman shifts to shopping.
Prove It and Probing Dialogues in Vintage Skits
A collage of humorous lines from Royal Magazine and other papers shows stagey exchanges. It includes a New Housemaid gas sequence, a fortune hunter plot with Vladimir and Lord Dedbroke, dental bravado, a stubborn hotel steward tale, and barbed quips from Philadelphia and Cleveland papers, all reflecting turn‑of‑the‑century lighthearted chatter.
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Mary
Plepae
Royal Magazine
Rethel Gotrox
Vladimir
Lord Dedbroke
Ethel Gotrox
Milburn Co. Kidney Pills Ad From Buffalo
Fragmentary OCR shows an ad or notice about Kidney Pills with a price of 80 cents and a reference to Milburn Co. Buffalo. Readers are advised the text is garbled but indicates a medical or patent remedy promotion and a commercial listing.
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Milburn Co
Buffalo
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Tle
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Hoss
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Stata
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Eid
Jones
Skinner
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Robinson
Tarlan
Reed
Peanut
Prin
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Foster
Weet
Virginian
W. L. Jackson
Mercaroburg
W. Vasaya
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