Endowing a Harvard Chair of Playwriting with 200000
An admirer proposes a fund of 200000 to endow a Harvard Chair of Playwriting, aiming to improve dramatic training. Nine other contributors may follow, reflecting a long sought national achievement in formal playwriting instruction. The plan echoes calls for professional input alongside traditional lectures. The Times notes the idea’s potential impact on theater education.
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Harvard University
New York Times
Harvard Isl
PPS Ch Nin
Two Dams Proposed for Upper Mississippi Project
A plan advocates building two large dams on the upper Mississippi to improve navigation and generate about 800 000 horsepower. Deepening the channel is deemed essential to keep river traffic viable, with harnessed power expected to bring significant economic benefits. Eminent engineers linked to similar projects endorse feasibility of the scheme.
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Upper
Mississippi
Australia Fights Rabbit Plague With Half‑Million Dollar Annual Kill
Tree pests and other pests menace crops in the east, but Australia faces its own invasion of rabbits. Victoria spends 500000 dollars each year to curb the superfluous bunnies, while Massachusetts and other states pay millions in pest control since campaigns began. The antipodes have troubles of their own.
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Australia
Massachusetts
Victoria
Edison storage battery street car praised as horse replacement
An official from a New York street car company said the Edison storage battery street car could supplant horse cars on his line. The remark shows urban transit still relies on horses, even in the east, while the west is viewed as more progressive.
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New York City
New York Divorce Seeks Higher Alimony Over Rising Costs
A New York woman seeks increased alimony after her divorce as living expenses have risen since the original decree. The move signals growing strain on alimony arrangements amid higher costs of living.
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New York
Roosevelt Plans Privacy Tour After Vatican Controversy
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt intend to retreat from public view after leaving Rome for Genoa on April 13. They will retrace their honeymoon along the Mediterranean, with limited media access and a meet with Pinchot planned at Porto Maurizio. Catholic praise and letters arrive as Roosevelt aims to keep Vatican matter low profile during a municipal dinner in Rome.
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Rome
Italy
Col. Roosevelt
Genoa
Mrs. Roosevelt
Mediterranean
Spezia
Kermit
Ethel
Roosevelts
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Porto Maurizio
Pinchot
Viena
America
Vatican
Baron Fava
Washington
Mr. Roosevelt
Woman found dead in New York hotel after chloroform exposure
Police probe into the death of a well-dressed woman at a Fifth Avenue hotel. The body, discovered Tuesday night, had a chloroform-soaked handkerchief over the face. She gave several names including Mrs. V. H. Young of Tuxedo and Mrs. Vo. Wisher, while an umbrella bore the name Mrs. V. H. Sternberg.
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New York City
Fourth Avenue
V. H. Young
Vo. Wisher
V. H. Sternberg
Pfitzner Is Injured In Thirteenth Flight
A. L. Pfitzner of Hammondsport crashed on landing at the Country Club grounds after twelve successful flights in his monoplane. The right wing was badly wrecked and he was thrown to the ground, sustaining injuries to his face and right shoulder.
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Buffalo
New York
A. L. Pfitzner
Country Club
Pfitzner
National Crusade to End Bucket Shops Across Cities
Federal action targets an alleged ring of 250 illegal brokerage offices with St Louis millionaire Louis Cella among indictments. Arrests span New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St Louis, Cincinnati, Jersey City, and Washington. Twenty nine brokers named from Price & Co Baltimore Boggs & Co Philadelphia New York Standard Stock Co St Louis. Authorities say firms traded via Consolidated Exchange Philadelphia with Ford & Parrish as exchange reps.
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St. Louis
Wickersham
Washington
Richard E. Preusser
Eo Maver
George Turner
William H. Lillis
Oliver J. Robinson
Bdward
Boges
Harry Johnson
United States
District of Columbia
Edward Everett Taylor
Edward
Boggs & Co
Broadway
New York
Taylor, Preusser
Lillis
Owens, Mayer and
Guy
E. S. Boges & Co
New York City
Consolidated Exchange of Philadelphia
Ford & Parrish
Carter Receives 20 Year Manslaughter Sentence
Aberdeen Mississippi John Carter was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Dr R P Wendel after the physician was discovered in his wife s room at the Clapton hotel. The jury deliberated three hours before sentencing him to 20 years in the penitentiary.
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Aberdeen
Mississippi
John Carter
R. P. Wendel
Clapton Hotel
Stampede in Fort Smith Theater Sparks Panic
A panicked rush at the Grand theater in Fort Smith Arkansas injures many as a fire breaks out at the Swift and Co plant across the alley. The blaze destroys the plant while six hundred patrons, including men women and children, flee toward the exits.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Swift & Co
Masked Men Rob Bank in Randolph Nebraska
Three masked men dynamited the First National Bank of Randolph early Monday, stealing about 10,000 dollars in gold and currency. Night Marshal Carroll was bound after being confronted. The gang, active in northern Nebraska, reportedly fled toward Sioux City in an automobile.
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Omaha
Neb
First National Bank of
Randolph
Nebraska
Sioux City
Carroll
Plunges Over Mountain Kills Ottawa Millionaire
John Anson Howard of Ottawa was killed when his car plunged from a mountain road 16 miles from Del Monte and lodged in a tree. His companion, former Mayor Robert F. Johnson of Monterey, escaped unhurt and said goodbye before the body was recovered.
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San Jose
Cal
John Anson Howard
del Monte
Howard
Robert F. Johnson
Monterey
Mad Mullah On Rampage In British Somaliland
London reports a renewed offensive by Mohammed Abdullah the Mad Mullah in British Somaliland. The Minglish government plans to evacuate coastal towns while keeping a small garrison. Abdullah claims victory and signals intent to target Italian Somaliland to remove Europeans, having slain about 1200 friendly tribesmen.
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London
England
British Somaliland
Mohammed Abdullah
Abdullah
Victor Hmmanuel
Lillis Flees to London After Cudahy Slaying Incident
Jere S. Lillis of Kansas City, a banker involved in the slashing by John P. Cudahy, escapes Texas publicity by sailing from New York to London, England, departing soon from New York Harbor.
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Jere S. Lillis
London
San Antonio
Texas
Kansas City
John P Cudahy
England
New York
Mrs Alice V McAloon Divorces William A McAloon on Final Decree
New York City Mrs Alice V McAloon obtained a final decree of divorce from William A McAloon known on the stage as Andrew Mack.
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New York City
Alice V. McAloon
William A. McAloon
Andrew Mack
Union Bank of Brooklyn Closed by State Bank Superintendent
O H Cheney state superintendent of banks took possession of Union Bank of Brooklyn after a board meeting concluded the bank was in unsafe condition due to certain assets. The seven-branch institution with a $1,000,000 capital and $5,000,000 in deposits had no asset statement released at seizure. The move caused negligible stock exchange impact.
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New York City
Union Bank of
Brooklyn
Edward M. Grout
Tueday
O. H. Cheney
Cheney
Union Bank of Brooklyn
Union Bank
Mechanics & Traders’ Bank of Manhattan
Stock Exchange
Negro who helped Rough Riders to die in Dallas jail lynching
In Dallas the accused killer and highwayman known as Bubber Robinson, a former Ninth Cavalry Rough Rider, was sentenced to hang after a judge invoked religious imagery. A mob stormed the county jail seeking lynching, but Robinson and Burrell Oates were hidden away.
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Dallas
Texas
Ninth Cavalry
Roosevelt Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
Santiago
Bubber” Robinson
Judge Seay
Robinson
Alen Brooks
Burrell Oates
Plane falls injures Maxim heir in Hartford test flight
Hiram Percy Maxim Jr., son of the inventor of the noiseless gun, was testing Hartford's first new aeroplane in this state when he was thrown from his seat. He sustained a broken ankle and injuries to his thighs and hips during the accident.
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Hartford
Conn
Hiram Percy Maxim, Jr
Insurance probe bill sails through New York Assembly
Albany report says Assemblyman McInevery's resolution to study all non-life insurers passed 126 to 4. In New York City, Clifford W. Hartridge testified in Thaw case that his legal fees exceeded 700 dollars to recover a dog whip allegedly used by Thaw to beat girls, part of a suit against Thaw's mother seeking 92,200 for services.
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Albany
N. Y
Thaw
New York City
Clifford W. Hartridge
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Street Car Men Vote for Strike in Detroit
In Detroit 1,260 street car workers cast votes and 1,240 approved a strike unless the company grants a pay increase. The overwhelming margin signals strong labor pressure and possible walkout if demands are not met.
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Detroit
Mich
Dean's Kidney Pills Cure Back Pain and Urine Trouble
Alfred J. O'Brien of Sterling Colorado recalls nine months at Baltimore Marine Hospital and three months at Omaha's St Joseph's Hospital with a dull back pain and terrible urine. After taking one box of Dean's Kidney Pills his back pain vanished and a complete cure followed. Remember the name Dean's. For sale by all dealers 50 cents box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Alfred J. O'Brien
Second St
Sterling, Colo
Baltimore Marine Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
Omaha
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Real Wise Boy Was Willie
William Fulversham recalls a joke from his New York rehearsal about Solomon the wisest man. He credits weight with women from his boyhood and recounts a kindergarten memory where his teacher tests his biblical wit.
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Willie
William Fulversham
New York
Chigwell Grammar School
Solomon
Denmark expands tuberculosis treatment beds under 1905 law
Denmark funds three quarters of sanatorium costs for the poor. When new hospitals are finished, Denmark will offer one tuberculosis bed per 1,200 people, extending treatment length. In the United States the ratio is one bed per 4,500 people.
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Denmark
United States
Wrong View of Marriage Sparks Banter at Sea
Ex governor Pennypacker quips that divorce would rise if more men like William Windle existed. Windle, aboard a excursion steamer to Point Breeze, spots his friend Jackson on deck and asks if he is out for pleasure or if his wife is along.
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Pennypacker
William Windle
Point Breeze
Jackson
Little girl's quip on aging to mother in law words
A five year old asks if her mother looks almost 40. The mother confirms age, and the child adds you don t look it tonight but you will tomorrow morning. Judge.
Rosy Color Produced by Postum Letter Endorsement
A reader recounts relief from nervousness and ringing in the ears after abandoning coffee and drinking Postum. The letter credits Postum with improved appetite, invigoration, and color, noting a child now drinks Postum and a pale son gaining a rosy complexion. It ends by inviting others to read about Postum in The Road to Wellville and to send letters for human-interest stories.
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Wellville
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