Social gathering notes from Chicago area visits and teas
SS Logier of Chicago visits Mia. Robert T. Herrick hosts a porch party on Tyler street with Navajo rugs and summer furnishings lit by Japanese lanterns. Guests include Misses Meade Davis Holloway and Meade, and many others from Kansas City, Louisville, Cleveland, and locally, with conversations, ping pong, moonlight picnics, teas, and club invitations shaping a lively social scene around early August travel plans and household entertainments.
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Mita Grace Dauchy
Chicago
Mia
Robert T. Herrick
Herrick
Tyler Street
Mary Meade
Ethel Davis
Kate Holloway
Kansas City
James Montgomery Flagg
Miss Meade
Charles Colburn
Irah Davis
Miss Dauchy
Elizabeth Meade
Miss Quinton
Pay Quinton
Louie Wood
Laura Sheahan
Miss Bauer
Grace Bauer
Archibald F. Williams
Bert Cook
Waller
Louisville
Harley Reisman
Sam Freishman
Harry Stanley
Frank Gohagen
Roy Milter
Horace Cowgill
Will. Sheahan
Pleisch
Summer News From Ludington and Surrounding Towns
Local notes report residents away for the season in Ludington and nearby communities Miss Aline Lamy spends a week in Richter while Miss Mary Frost travels to Canada for the fall. Mrs M J Holmes returns from La Salle Illinois. C N Strawn back from Mt Pleasant Iowa. Mae Capper back from McPherson. Emma Evarts to return from Hutchinson Friday. W F Rigby in Kansas City. Guests hosted by Mr and Mrs W H Bousen include several local families. Commentary laments vanity and domestic foibles, praising good nature and cooling in a light social column.
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Ludington
Michigan
Aline Lamy
Richter
Mary Frost
Canada
M. J. Holmes
la Salle
Ilinois
C. N. Strawn
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Mae Capper
McPherson
Emma Evarts
Hutchinson
W. F. Rigby
Kansas City
W. H. Bousen
W. L. Osborn
Noa
C.J. Paccord
C. B Free
M. E Younkin
Miss Vesper
Dittus
Mc~Afee
Theo Vesper
Alfred Gustafason
Harold Keifer
Wallace Circus Visit to Topeka Tomorrow
The Great Wallace show returns to Topeka with its famed street parade rich menagerie and all star performers. Advance material extols its superior equipment, horses, bands and tents, claiming the circus stands apart from others and always earns praise from communities visited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Topeka
Wallace Circus
Carnegie Hosts Large London Party For Reid in Scotland
Mr and Mrs White Law Reid return to London after a Scottish tour. They joined a party at Skibo Castle, residence of Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie invited a large house party to meet them and later drove the party to the railrose station in a four in hand coach. The Reids plan to sail to New York on Saturday and have canceled many engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scotland
Mrs. Reid
New York
Independents Compete Strongly in Shawnee County County Attorney Race
The Independent movement in Shawnee County boasts meetings across rural and urban precincts and has raised 800 in cash with a 5000 pledge for campaign expenses as they contest county attorney and sheriff positions. Z A Stebbins campaigns for county attorney with hopes of uniting Populist and Democrat votes against Schenck and Nichols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ave
Republican County Central Committee
Topeka
Sherif
Z. A. Stebbins
Stebbins
Stahl
J. J. Schenck
Shawnee County
Schenck
Nichols
Ochs Buys Philadelphia Public Ledger From Drexel Estate
Adolph S. Ochs has purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger from W. Childs Drexel and the Drexel estate. Possession was immediately turned over to Mr. Ochs. The sale involved about half a block of improved property on Chestnut and Independence halls, with reported value over $250,000 and no partners in the transaction beyond substantial interest held by certain parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph S. Ochs
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philadelphia
W. Childs Drexel
Drexel
Possesion
Mr. Ochs
Chestnut
Mfr. Ochs
New Owner Plans Changes at New York Times Business Desk
The new owner may appoint L. C. Clarke Davis to continue ance duties and John Norris of the New York Times will, for the present, act as business manager. A restructuring is anticipated as part of the ownership transition.
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Soren
Bogerasiinae
Ochs
Mays
L. C. Clarke Davis
Ancefor
John Norris
The
New York Times
Johnson Defends Labor Figures From Kansas Bulletin
Kansas Labor Commissioner W L A Johnson responds to a State Journal article and Major T J Anderson critique about manufacturing statistics. He clarifies the bulletin covers 1860 to 1900, not last year, notes reporters reported separately, and that 1900 figures were misattributed. He says the 1901 figures come from the census and promises proper biennial reports.
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T. J. Anderson
Johnson Down
United States Census Bureau
State Journal
Bulletin
Kansas
Mie
Labor Bulletin
Bureau of Labor
Xpit
W. L. A. Johnson
Commissioner of
Labor
Mary MacLane Eludes Reporters at Home of School Friend
Mary MacLane arrives in New York at Baton station before dawn and hurries to the home of her school friend Mise Fran cea Corbin at 467 Broadway. Reporters press for comment but she refuses to be seen, while Corbin offers no statement about the visit.
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Mise
Francea Corbin
Mary MacLane
Broadway
Arine
Poe Maphess
Buffalo
Seghe
Baton Station
Corbin
Raiiin
Corbin Mays
MacLane
Radcliffe
Police Jottings Reveal Old Times Offender Captured
Police report outlines arrests including Myrtle Bundy and Moore with Arnold, bonds posted, and efforts to identify suspects. Notes a street walker Mary Wade and others, with Downie and Laure Cope involved in a separate incident. The force reports $9,000 turned over by the department in six months and mentions slot-machine arrests by local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wade
Mary of
Downie
Laure
Mary
Ponled Tee
Wm. Wood
Chess
Burglar Breaches Steinberg Home Through Cellar
A burglar entered the Steinberg residence at 16 Monroe Street through an unlocked cellar door. He searched downstairs rooms and closets before fleeing, while Mr and Mrs Steinberg were away. Police note lapse due to servant’s carelessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Steinberg
Monroe
AL O'Clouk
Mrs. Steinberg
Movement for Uniform Pay and Term in Country Schools
Supt Wright leads a county wide drive for uniform teacher pay and an eight month school term. Boards seek a five dollar raise for teachers and to standardize term lengths from seven to eight months starting in September, citing need for competent staff amid plenty of first and second rate teachers.
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Supt Wright
Wright
Real Estate Transfers Listed for February in City Additions
Real estate transfer notices record property changes with several parcels listed in the city’s new addition. Names of buyers and sellers appear with street locations and parcel numbers, indicating usual conveyance activity in the period.
Detective Bureau Seeks Former Captain Strong
Captain Titus of the detective bureau said detectives were at work locating former Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. A warrant charging theft had been sworn by May Yoke, but the search continued with no arrest announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Titus
Detective Bureau
Putnam Bradlee Strong
May
Ce Cetain
Titus Seid
Texas foe Fred Grant
A fragmented item reports Col. Thomas Ward, chief of staff to Gen. Miles, being described as pateted in retirement alongside a July Washington note mentioning General Smith and an intent regarding Fred Grant, with unclear specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted
Wee
Smith
Washington
Col
Thomas Ward
Gen. Miles
Fragmentary tale of fear and fate in the sheep circles
A damaged OCR fragment hints at a man haunted by an oxtet he could not weep for and a death that looms to kill his companion. The text is incomplete and veers into spectral wording, leaving core facts and names unreadable.
Ot Heels suffer bruises and sprains after mishap
A fragment mentions Ana Heiene and Dm. Carter related to a west wheelman incident. The text references a wife of a county auditor and injuries described as bruises and sprains. Details are unclear due to OCR damage.
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Heiene
Mon
Sauly
Carter
Couty Audh da Tee
Wet
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