Telegraphic items and old notes from Challis Idaho
A collage of telephonic cable news, theatrical employment figures in Britain, a diary snippet from sixty years ago mentioning long foot journeys and snow, a note about Rutherford B. Hayes, and a medal awarded to Franz Anton Krich for gallant service at Cavite with Dewey’s fleet.
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the Weiter
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franz Anton Krich
U, 8
Buffalo
Mantia
Strich
Cavite
Petro
BH. P. Wood
Dewey
Movement to unify crematories across North America
A consolidation movement seeks to form a International crematorium association with 72 crematories in the United States and Canada. The plan aims to standardize incineration certificate pricing and allow body incineration at any member crematory. A Buffalo meeting during the Pan American Exposition will organize the group. In San Francisco a transit device helped detect a counterfeit operation, leading to an arrest.
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United States
Canada
Arevi Ho Association
International Association
Buffalo
Movement to curb exodus of American art students abroad
A group of sev ENN art institutes in the United States has launched a campaign to stem the migration of American art students to Paris. Leading American artists who trained in Paris endorse the plan, arguing U S facilities for initial art training are equal or superior to those in Paris, and European study should follow thorough domestic grounding. They say the Latin Quarter should be avoided for beginners, and emphasize preliminary training at home before postgraduate study abroad.
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Paris
Lve
Latin Quarter
America
Europe
Blocklinger
Chiscago
United States Navy
John Worthy
Bridewell
Black Unger
Navy
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Cleverly Crafted Scheme Foiled by Glove Trade
An old Frenchman, Pierre J. D Heur, died in Tasiana after using a glove trade ruse to dodge duties. He sent consignments to New Orleans and New York containing only left and only right gloves, refused by him, then bought them at auction to avoid payment. Separate note mentions Rev J M Bacon planning balloon ascents to study fog and test guncotton dispersal.
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Tasiana
Pierre J. D’heur
France
New Orleans
New York
D’heur
D'Heur
J. M. Bacon
London
The Vaccination Salon In Paris Sparks Fashionable Fads
Paris correspondence notes a vaccination craze treated as a social spectacle with salons where women gather to receive the smallpox vaccine on limbs and a breakfast afterwards. The male physician officiates while guests mingle, with discreet, professional conduct and fashionable fees. the scene reflects Parisian trends and social ranks.
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Paris
The Relapse of Miss Turner in Two Minds About Life
Ruth Turner, engaged to Tom Marston, grows tired of high society and seeks a deeper life. After a weekend of soul seeking and a heated breakup, Tom and Ruth exchange a misread signal via a night club dream message, revealing lingering affection and mutual curiosity about their futures.
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Jesse L.mwellyn
Daly Story Pub. Co
Miss Turner
Muller
Tom
Bluminstein
Winston
Mrs. Winston
Mina Turner
Ruth
Tom Marston
Mamma
Mrs. Turner
Exoterie Club
Huth
Kasen
Mia
Turner
Ruthy
Miss Ruth
Misa ‘Turner
Ruthie
Curlatts
Sermons Preached by Machinery Stir London Churches
A feature on the use of a mechanical sermon system called the monsterphone in St Mary at Bills London. A magic lantern and full musical accompaniment accompany a robust preacher in a modern effort to draw crowds, turning a once sparse congregation into hundreds. The article also notes Titusville’s pioneering oil well by Colonel Drake in 1859 and compares crude early methods to present practices.
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London
England
St. Mary-at-Bills
Tig
Keystone
Titusville
Drake
Oll
Night Attack on Brooklyn Negro Colony Vaccinates 300
Fifteen health department doctors in Brooklyn escorted by over forty policemen invaded the Gwinnett street colony in Williamsburg Friday night and vaccinated about 300 Negroes. The operation aimed to curb illness reports, surrounded the block, and proceeded after residents were told to bare their arms. Two white men found in a house claimed Christmas trade and were vaccinated before leaving.
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Brooklyn
Gwinnett Street
Williamsburg
New York Sun
Marcy Avenue
Harrison Avenue
Haye
Clymer Street
Met
Calendars Exhibited and Ocean Cable Work Highlight Richmond News
An 1901 calendar exhibition ran January 1 to 10 at the Young Men's Christian Association rooms in Richmond Virginia with calendars mailed by Philadelphia firms to General Secretary E. K. McKee. The feature notes fur trimmed undersleeves and cable laying of Cape Nome to Unalaska and St Michael Alaska, describing the first deep sea American made cable, wreck of the ship at the start, and the recovered cable assailed by a paddlewheel steamer, now in operation.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Sixth
Majin Streets
Richmond
Philadelphia
Slalster
8. K. McKee
Wort
Cape Nome
Unalakiik
St. Michael
Alaska
Paper Dominates In Laboratory Filtering Industry
The document notes paper for laboratory filtering outruns all other devices. A large plant operates four profitable production lines exclusively making filter paper.
Edinburgh Unity Church to unveil Lore Lorimer Burns memorial
A Edinburgh Unity church plans a memorial to John Lorimer Burns titled Chloris and the mate in the Unt-white locks. The eight foot high Celtic style stone will feature Huma arms and carvings and be shown January 25 at Newington. Afterward Ninety Club will address Clorinda’s grave in Cannongate churchyard. Highland Mary already has a monument at Duncon.
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Hassle
Edinburgh Unity Church
John Lorimer
Burns
Chloris
Newington
Bray
Ninety Club
Clorinda
Cannongate
Mary
Duncon
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Bilver Messenger
Challis
Owart, Pentiches
Idaho
Michael
Nome
Cecil Raleigh
Great Britain
Ralich
Wilkie
Secret Service
Federal
San Francisco
Thinmt
Secret-Service
Desay
Bair
Rive
Bad Boys
Maret
Jutulng
Negro Colony
Star
Angel
Gai
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