Low Necks in Trolleys and Philadelphia Customs Peculiar
A vivid, column like vignette contrasts Philadelphia street life with New York habits. It describes evening wear aboard trolleys, opera crowds avoiding cabs, and fashionable women in velvet hats, wrap and lace. The piece notes late night dining in modest fashion with musings on urban social rituals.
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Laundry Girl Receives 40000 Return for Kindness Story
Miss Anna Marion Yonkers a White Swan laundry bookkeeper in Milwaukee is credited with kindness shown on a Burlington train three years ago. She says she later received a 40000 draft from Chicago man Charles W. Johnston, whom she met briefly. he described a distant homeland in letters.
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White Swan Laundry
Su Henly
Charles W. Johnston
Chicago
Burlington
White
Savanna
Charles Jensen
Miss Yorkers
Mishan
Brian
I Bormanthe
Onages Are Wealthy and Owning Oklahoma Lands
The Onage Indians of Oklahoma numbering about 1500 hold extensive land and wealth. They own around 1,400,000 acres and report notable wealth in annual figures disclosed by the recently public agent’s report.
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Thrie
Oklahome
Ann Xourcer
Topeka News Briefs Highlight Cold Weather and Local Events
Topeka and surrounding areas report bitter cold with temperatures near zero on Thursday. Nightly in Topeka, people gather for Christmas and New Year activities as city services, school heating tests, and Salvation Army efforts distribute meals and gifts. Local officials and businesses note transportation and coal shortages, while theaters and social clubs host performances and gatherings through the holiday season.
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Crawford Tonleht
H. J. Adams
Burlington
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Topekar
H. A. French
Newton Pent
Tomeln
Matt Weightman
Cutorade Springs
F. W. Eroersan
Mowemting & Temperance
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Sinter
Mercury
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Nottonville
Topeka
Zeile de Tuscan
Frank Geabendike
Ottawa
Mitler
Clay Center
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Mia Lake
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Topelan
Newton
Jessie M. Dryer
Post Office
Hanford
Cloud County
Kansas Association
Tonka
Christopher Wine
Santa Fe Mechanical Department
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Mile
Ge Lue
JH. Guy
J. Hume Chitners
N. Nelson
A. J. Hiller
City Mission
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Publc
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John MacDonald
California
War Department
City Railway Company
Topel
Dean Kaye
Grace Cathedral
Templar
Maxonia
Art
JW. Smith
Topeka Democrat
Topiiks Frees
Topeksje
St Lewis
M.C. A
Kansas Medical
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Noge
Charles B. Hanford
Crawford
Balvation Army
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Eva Harding
Trego County
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Ensign Howard
Geena
Topeke
Parker
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Council
Taming of the Shrew in Topeka with Hanford Drofnah
Charles B Hanford and wife Marie Drofnah headline a Topeka production mixing The Taming of the Shrew with The Old Guard. Cast includes Ka Kidder Louis James and Robe Curry, praised Beatrice and Hero by Drofnah and Curry, with strong staging and costumes. audience notes Beatrice and Beheading misread. The Power Behind the Throne also staged at Grand, Katherine Willard leads as Aria with a praised emotional performance.
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Marie Dromah
Honfors
Iwan
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Min Drofnah
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Ianford
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Robe Curry
Katherine Willard
Aria
Mildred Rowena
Richard Nesmith
Wricht Lortimer
Haron Ronald
Hero
Red
Alger's Secretary Chooses Minnesota Man as Aide
Whellington December reports Senator Alger selecting Thomas Grant of Minnesota as his secretary. Grant, born June 26, 1876 at Fort Snelling, is a civil war veteran and Georgetown Law graduate with a military reserve background.
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W. Hocket
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Darling
Thomas Grant
Anslostan Bout Club
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Hock Creek Fipiscopallur Church
Irs
Masonic Fraternity
Minnesota Republican Association of Washington
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Geo
Cortelyau
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Lfe
MoKin
Whellington
Alger
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Aitee
Eaenes
Bair
Oppose New States W C T U Protests Admission
Mrs. W H Upham wife of ex Governor Upham and Wisconsin WCTU leader urges Senator Quarles to block bringing New Mexico and Arizona into statehood without a provision banning polygamy. She cites Inter-Denominational Council of Women petition and Helen Gould gift as backing and warns of Mormon influence threatening loyalty.
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W. H. Upham
Upham
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
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Quarles
Council of Women
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Helen Gould
Mu House
Senate
Washington
Brigham Young
Mississipni
Yukon gold hunter returns home to share half million
Tacoma dispatch reports William Costes after twelve years chasing fortune in the Yukon sails home to Chicago with a half million, a rough tale of hardship and luck shaping his plan to live in comfort. He endured famine and cold before returning to spend his remaining years in ease.
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Tacoma
Wash
William Costes
Fepra Dawson
Chicago
Bardshine
Northern
Klondike Pioneer’s Storied Alaska Journey
A Yukon pioneer, Defoe Klondike, spent years in Alaska and the Forty Mile region. He endured harsh conditions in Porty-Mile during a severe winter and followed prospects from Dawson to a lesser creek, accumulating about 500,000 in wealth through hard work.
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Klondike
Alaska
Fonday Porty- Mile
Coates Emifhet
Porty-Mile
Dawson
Cable Steps Down From Rock Labend Board
New York announces the resignation of long time Rock Labend board chairman C. Cable. Andrien is elected chairman of the executive committee and D. G. Reid becomes chairman of the board of directors. Cable, age 70, sought lighter duties. change made at his request.
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RW Cable
Rock Labend Board of Directors
D. G. Reid
Boand of Directors
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