Admiral Rodgers Seeks Lost Son in Alaska Search
Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers plans an Alaska voyage to find his son Alexander Rodgers last heard of a year ago when he planned to raft down the Tanana river. A Bethel letter from Bob Hunter describes a mysterious youth and a possible working partner, with Rodgers circulating 50 letters to reach the right party.
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Seattle
Wash
John A. Rodgers
Navy Yard
Puget Sound
Alaska
Alexander Rodgers
Tanana
Admiral Rodgers
Bethel
Bob Hunter
Bremerton
Hunter
Alexander
P. J. Adler
Kuskokwim
E. B. Hoffman
Adler
John Rodgers
P. J. Abler
A. J. Born
Abler
Hoffman
Johnson
Nome
Cordova
Mr. Born
The French president pay and perks in brief
London reports that a French president earns 240000 dollars a year split between salary and expenses with no pension. He receives minor perquisites such as produce from royal gardens and game from forests. He pays for stable servants but not chauffeurs or secretaries. war and navy ministries cover military and naval staffs.
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London
Rambouillet
War and Marine
Felix Faure
Omaha Frog Market Shrinks Amid Dry Season
Omaha Neb. reports a frog famine as drought dries swamps. Frog catchers like Brandy Clark say frogs hatched in previous years are scarce with ponds and Florence Lake shores now nearly frogless. Prices rise to 80 cents a dozen yet stocks remain tight for hotels and restaurants.
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Omaha
Neb
Clark
Florence Lake
Noted centenarian works haymaking in London field
London reports Mrs Rebecca Clark of Wood Green recently turned 106 years old. She celebrated her birthday and helped hay in a field at Green Lanes, proving surprising vigor as she received a new fork for the task.
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London
Rebecca Clark
Wood Green
Green Lanes
Plow Better Than Pulpit Rev Harsha Drops Pulpit for Farming
Rev Dr William Justin Harsha once led Second Reformed Church in Harlem. Facing $40,000 in notes tied to a failed western publishing house, he resigned eleven years ago and moved to southern Texas. Now in Colorado he reports irrigation farming success with 15,000 pounds of potatoes per acre, cattle, hens, pigs, and bricks of crops, praising the hoe over large farms.
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New York
William Justin Harsha
Second Reformed Church
Harlem
Jarmine
Texas
Harsha
eewmeewewnAd Titan
Afterak
Guy Andl Enuch
Puesucg Sa OG Tuso Cary Guy Soups
Success
Colorado
J. ¥. Hill
Fifty Years Wait for Dividends for Cataract City Bank Creditors
After fifty years the creditors of the Cataract City banks in Paterson New Jersey are to receive no first dividend on their claims. The receiver John L Griggs has 3700 dollars to distribute, obtained through legal battles with the estate of a deceased receiver.
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Paterson
N. J
John L. Griggs
Loneliest English Duchess Consuela Vanderbilt
The loneliest and loveliest duchess in England is Consuela Vanderbilt, daughter of William K. Vanderbilt, who married in 1895 to the Duke of Marlborough. Wealth funded debts and repairs, but the couple grew estranged and no divorce occurred. Though admired by King Edward and society, she chose semi isolation and philanthropy, rarely smiling, her beauty veiled by a sadness that hints at her heart.
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England
Consuela Vanderbilt
William K. Vanderbilt
Duke of Marlborough
Edward
Duchess of Marlborough
Sunderland House
Hutchins Named President of the University of Michigan
Headlined as the appointment of Harry Burns Hutchins sixty four year old Michigan native born in Lisbon New Hampshire. The biographical sketch chronicles his schooling at Tilton and Newbury seminaries Wesleyan Ann Arbor and Vermont University. It traces his career from public schools Owosso rhetoric history law and Cornell Ithaca and his long tenure as dean of the law department and acting president during Angell's absence. The regents praise his scholarship and administrative ability, presenting him as the fitting choice for the presidency.
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Harry Burns Hutchins
University of Michigan
Lisbon
N. H
Conference
Tilton
Vermont Conference Seminary
Newbury
Wesleyan University
Middleton
Vermont University
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Owosso
Hutchins
State University At
Ithaca
Cornell
Angell
Turkey
Esperanto founder attends sixth international congress in Washington
The sixth Esperanto congress in Washington drew 500 delegates from 40 nations including Dr. L L Zamenhof of Warsaw. Meetings used Esperanto as the sole language at times and the language’s spread in the United States grows among scientists teachers and public figures. Maryland passed a law allowing Esperanto study in public schools and advocates urged teaching it abroad as a supplement to existing tongues to foster intercultural exchange.
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Washington
L. L. Zamenhof
Warsaw
Poland
United States
Maryland
Pearson will die poor after grand bequests plan
Chicago philanthropist D K Pearsons, aged over ninety and rheumatic, says he will sell his mansion and enter a sanitarium this year. He intends to finish bequests to about twenty-nine colleges and institutions in twenty-four states, totaling millions, calling pledges his debts and promising no more gifts until his next birthday.
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D. K. Pearsons
Chicago
Dr. Pearsons
Pearsons
Dr Pearsons
Berea College
Gave Sister Away in Quiet Family Moment
A brief home scene shows a man asking if he will marry Bess as her brother tests the union. The sister is said to have told their father she would marry the suitor, signaling an impending match within a close household.
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Bess
Pop
Faulta In American Character in Botanical Education
Prof W Ganong says disregard of details and generalities harm American character. He urges laboratory and experimental work in all scientific study, arguing that books ease the wits while independent observation yields sound knowledge in science.
Public Buildings Mistaken Identities in Suburb
In a Suburb scene a passerby mistakes a building for a public one. The response identifies it as Savitt’s simmer cottage guarding a cottage with a tower, while the small one-story frame structure is clarified as the First Episcopal church.
Might Do It. Potato Bug Cure via Smoking Cigarettes
A Yonkers Statesman quip cites a young man asking how to kill potato bugs and an old lady suggesting cigarettes as the method. The item pivots on a sharp joke about absurd remedies and the old one in a thousand remark.
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Yonkers Statesman
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Coleman
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