MES PALMER VICTORIES Crowd social pages around Grant engagement
Chicago society maven Mrs Potter Palmer is the focus as reports claim her world wide social career flourishes after engagement to Grant. The piece notes ties with Prince Michael Cantatusene of Russia and other royals, mentions Newport visits, and recalls Palmer hosting and entertaining crowned heads during the Chicago Exposition era.
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White House Birds Sing For Mrs McKinley
May 9 The President and Mrs McKinley have kept to the White House with Willie the tanery and Mac a mock ing died named for the president. Willie sat in Mrs McKinley s sitting room while Mac sang in the library. The President enjoyed the serenade until he asked for it to be stopped saying he could not bear it any longer.
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New gas burner firm forms amid York gas rate war
The Times reports a new Keen Incandescent gas burner company to be incorporated at Trenton Ni J yesterday. Capital stock listed at 128,000 with 0 percent. A meeting is scheduled today to discuss manufacturing a patent burner amid the ongoing city gas rate dispute.
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Keen Incandescent Light Company Directory to Reveal Gas Firm Ties
Coudert Brothers announce officers and directors of the Keen Incandescent Light Company as a key feature of a gas industry directory. The bulletin notes links among New York gas firms, with Frank S Hastings of New Amsterdam involved, predicting consumer gas rates near 73 cents and a plant soon in operation amid ongoing industry battle.
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Pew Company
New York
Keen Incandescent Light Company
Hastings
New Amsterdam Company
Ght
Russell Lace
Not So Bad Situation in Germany on American Meats
Professor Charles Wardril Stiles, scientific attache at the American embassy in Berlin, sails Wednesday for Pars. He says German plans to regulate or exclude certain meats are likely exaggerated by cable reports and may involve amendments to the meat bill. He anticipates no outright ban on American meats and expects uniform treatment under sanitary rules if German measures pass.
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New York
Charles Wardril Stiles
Berlin
Reichstag
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Mayor Assaulted in Bellefontaine by Miss Crawford
Mayor John R Carsidy was horsewhipped this afternoon on Main Street by Miss Mingle Crawford who waited as he left his office. She drew a hip from under her cape and struck him on the end and shoulders before walking away.
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John R Carsidy
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Informal Topeka Society Supper and Notes of Local Guests
Mrs. W N West hosted about fifteen young ladies at an informal thimble party on Topeka avenue for Miss Town and Miss Wilton of Minneapolis, with Miss Otte O Brien and Miss Hambleton assisting. Guests included Town, Wiccon, Hambleton, Davis, Davie, Gay, Devereux, Crane, Jones, Thompson, Robinson, Mary, Weiss, Bergen, McClintock, Redden. Later, Mr and Mrs George Harrison held an informal supper for friends including Dr and Mrs Swan, Clara Spencer, Davis, Pravies, Sawyer, Robert Pond, Carel Fortes, ONeil, and Fred Lyman. The Notes touch on returns from Lawrence, visits to Newton, Lake View, various Topeka residents, and local social events, with a brief mention of a Persian Nocturne composition and fashion notes on spring parasols and accessories.
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Miss Town
Harriet Jones
Helen Thompson
Metta Robinson
Mary
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Lida Bergen
Edna McClintock
Lee Redden
Washburn Monay
George Harrison
B Swan
Clara Spencer
Miss Davis
Ethel Pravies
Miss Sawyer
Robert Pond
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O'Neil
Fred Lyman
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George Stoker
Eleanor
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Peoria
Aloha Card Club
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Colorado Springs
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Bela
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Lulu Fordyce
Ned Arnold
West
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N. P. Garretson
Harrison Street
Claude Bryan
Wichita
Alice Philips
Topeka
EL Cofran
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Emporia
George W. Crane
Chicago
EB. Boyd
Campbell
LG. Harlan
Charles Rotroe
H. K. Goodrich
E S. Rice
Las Vegas
Grace Volle
Manhattan
M.S Hoover
Julia Lows
St. Paul
Linn
Royal Neightors of America
Gertrude
Lucia Watt
Leavenworth
Clara Mills
W. F Roeh
Vera Low
Frank Dempster Sherman
W. F. Roeh
Central Church
Delft blue dimity dainty gown described for matinee wear
The article sketches a dainty matinee dress in Delft blue dimity with large new sleeves edged in white embroidery. A Mother Hubbard style reaches just below the waist, features a broad sailor collar at the neck, and tapers to a point at the front. It notes numerous pretty designs and suggests clever women can create attractive versions from odds and ends.
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Mother Hubbard
New York Society Objects to Alger Dinner in Detroit
New York members of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution plan to protest Michigan inviting Secretary War Alger to a Detroit dinner on May 2. Resolutions to be presented May 5 condemn political use of national meetings and defend military support, urging sympathetic action and sending copies to affiliated societies.
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Ames
Society of the Song of the American Revolution
Michigan Society
War Alger
Detroit
Alger
Empire State Society
Wichita and Return $462 Via the Santa Fe Tickets Sold May 1
Travel offer for a Santa Fe round trip to California with tourist sleepers. Tickets sold May 1, limited to March 13, claiming comfort and economy. Advertisement mentions daily departure from Depeke, washing service for colored shirts, color guarantee, and steam laundry facilities.
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Depeke
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Santa
Chiquita the Cuban Midget at Grand Opera House
Espiridiana Cenda known as Chiquita, a 29 year old Cuban midget about 26 inches tall, appears at the Grand Opera House with a Spanish pony cab and two maids. She claims single status, has amassed a fortune, and performs waltzes and songs while audiences meet her and buy pictures.
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Espiridiana Sli
Topeka
Grand Opera House
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Generila
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Senorita
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Prince of Wales
Duchess of Brainborough
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Cheap Excursion Rates for Roanoke Trip
Train tickets from St. Louis to Roanoke and back offered during May 14 18 20 and 23 with return by June 4 1904 inclusive Offer details available by writing Tat Chesbrough O A at A Kansas.
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Farewood Gulng
City meeting preview and travel notices mix
A Wednesday meeting notice urges full attendance for the city concerns and lists T J Anderson as secretary with monetary figures. Additional items praise a Union Pacific fare cut to California, ghostly references to ticket agents Lewin and Fulton, and an assortment of local service ads for laundry and baking powder.
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California
FA. Lewin
C. Fulton
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