Billings in Ogden for business and social rounds
W. W. Billings of Provo has been in Ogden in the last few days attending to business interests and visiting friends. Advertisers must have their copy for the Evening Standard in time for the day prior to publication. Heavy losses are feared as sheep range in the Red Desert, with about a million animals involved.
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W. W. Billings
Provo
Ogden
Evening Standard
Red Desert
Tomas Lovell, Sr
John HH. Suttle
Prevo
Salt Lake
Ogden Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Nye
Hyrum Belnap
A. E. Pratt
85S. Smith
W. M. Bostaph
Weather and social notices from Ogden page
A desert cold snap reports 22 degrees below zero and 18 inches of snow with heavy sheep losses feared. Lectures by Dr J T Miller on character study and religion noted with free admission. Local events include an old time party at the Armory and a bride’s party at the Royal Dancing Academy.
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Wameuttar
Desert Range
Shburtliff's
Burns Anniversary Event at Congress Dancing Academy
A Scottish anniversary gathering at the Congress Dancing Academy on January 25 offers Scottish songs and dance with an oration by Hon. B. H. Roberts. Tickets are 50 cents.
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Congress Dancing Academy
B. H. Roberts
Brakeman’s Mountain Goat Pass Tale
A western railway official recalls an eastern line brakeman who used a goat as a joke gift. While on vacation in Denver the man was given a mountain goat. To bring it home he shipped it with a tagged horn reading Please Pass the Bullet. Thomas J. Meechin, Brakeman, S. 3. & T. RR.
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Western Railway
Rockies
Denver
Colorado
Thomas J. Meechin
S. 3
T. Rr
Harper's Weekly
Supreme Court Reverses Damages in Door Incident
The Utah Supreme Court reverses three rulings in a set of cases. It rules Rich’s payments and deed arrangements did not breach Foxley’s contract for property sale. It remands a perjury case for new trial and overturns a $350 personal injury award against Oregon Short Line Railway, citing no strong basis in ordinary door failures for recovery. Justice Frick authored the lead opinion with others concurring.
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Foxley
Rich
Supreme Court
J. Frick
D N. Strang
W. M. McCarty
Atate
Alexander Justenwen
Sanpete County
Justensen
Jacob Johnson
Niels Peter Nielson
Nielson
Johnson
Juatensen
James Larson
Larson
Jistensen
Himeself
J. A. Howell
Ogden
Oregon Short Line Railway Company
Martha Christensen
Miss Christensen
Frick
The Lily as the Oldest Flower Cultivated
The lily is described as the oldest cultivated flowering plant with no poor kin, unlike other flowers. It appears in Egyptian and Assyrian monuments 8,000 years before our era and was known in Europe 2,600 years ago. An estimated 150 to 300 varieties exist, all part of the same royal family.
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Kitt
Europe
Old Sayings About Work and Swine Across Lands
A quirky regional tale notes a Chinese laundryman joking that hogs work for a living, while hogs elsewhere in Ireland and Germany bear burdens. It recalls Abraham Lincoln’s youth in Indiana and a backwoods method where swine bathe in a clay pit to create mortar, illustrating rustic wit and practical farming lore.
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China
Ireland
Germany
Abraham Lincoln
Indiana
Nols
Grape Nuts Endorsement Letter Praises Health Gain
A reader testimonial from Battle Creek Michigan praises Grape Nuts and cream for restoring health and strength after stomach troubles. The letter claims dramatic improvement and urges others to try the product, noting the writer’s satisfaction and urging reading The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Eighty Years Hence All Jews in the United States
Rev Louis Mayer of New York speaking in Chicago predicted that within eighty years all Jews of the world will reside in the United States if immigration continues. He cited persecution abroad driving thousands to the U S and noted 611,976 Jewish immigrants arrived in New York in 1963 to 2007, with 149,182 arriving in 1907.
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Chicago
Louis Mayer
New York
Chicago Hebrew Mission
United States
Dr Mégar
Old-Time Dance at Armory Hall by Electrical Workers and Ladies
Electrical Workers and Ladies of Woorcraft announce an Old-Time Dance at Armory Hall on January 16 with a grand electrical display. Admission is 0c per couple.
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Woorcraft
Armory Hall
Cooley Attacks Course of Study at Art Institute
Chicago January 14. School Superintendent E G Cooley criticizes the Art Institute’s courses in a report to the board urging its removal from the list of schools whose work counts toward teacher promotions. More than 1,200 teachers have received salary increases this year based on credit from the institute. An advertisement for Bees Laxative Cough Syrup promotes its use for colds and coughs in children.
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Chicago
Art Institute
E. G. Cooley
Board of Education
Geo. F. Cave's
Depot Drug
Lincoln Park Bridge to Be Torn Down
Chicago January 14 Lincoln Park board contemplates destruction of the bridge over the lagoon famed for suicides. Built high for sailboats, launches have replaced them and the structure is now unused and unsightly.
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Chicago
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park Board
Progress of Industry Walks Through McCormick Mills
A passage from Everybody's Magazine notes rapid factory progress with new automata cutting guard fingers, chewing chain sinks, and boring holes faster. It contrasts 1845 bolt costs with modern labor and describes a vast twine mill producing enough twine to girdle the earth in a day.
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McCormick
James K. Polk
White House
Chicago
Brooks
Everybody’s Magazine
Tapping the Gunnison Canyon
The Gun ninson Canyon project, hailed as the era’s greatest government engineering feat, will transform 150000 acres in southwestern Colorado into farmland by boring a tunnel through a six mile thick mountain base to carry a river across the range. The Black Canyon’s near vertical walls and rapids long deterred any traveler, making the undertaking pivotal for irrigation and desert redevelopment.
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The
Technical World Magazine
Colorado
Gorse
Caught Both Ways in Jinks and Ainke Exchange
Jinks jokes about dairy farming and finance, saying cows and bulls defeated him in both careers. Ainke asks for clarification as Jinks notes his timid nature led to bad luck in country farming and Wall Street.
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Ainke
Wall Street
New Train on the USL to Portland Oregon
Railroad rumors say the Oregon Short Line will add a new train between Salt Lake Ogden Portland with ten heavy passenger engines and Ogden shops preparing them for the run. The service date is not announced while block signal coverage expands from Ogden to Pocatello and Huntington to boost safety on increased traffic.
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Oregon Short Line Company
Salt Lake
Ogden
Portland
North
Ligh
Huntington
Oeden
Pocatello Ana
Notice: Plano Rehearsal Postponed by Illness
The Plano Reettoral by students of Miss Alma Bauer, planned for tonight, has been postponed due to illness among several students.
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Alma Bauer
Whittier Remembrance Describes Early Poet Pride
In Youth’s Companion a reminiscence by Mrs Abbey J Woodman recalls John Greenleaf Whittier realizing he was a real poet at Harverhill Academy. He read an original poem at the dedication of a new academy with Robert Dingmore, a Windham farmer, leading the street procession. The scene ends with Whittier being dubbed The Quaker Poet.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Mra Abbey J. Woodman
Whittler
Oak Knoll
Harverhill Academy
Woodman
Mr. Whittler
New Academy
Robert Dingmore
Windham
Haverhill
Torlonia Relates Arpagnio Miser Tale At New York Dinner
Don Marino Torlonia recounted the Arpagnio legend to guests in New York comparing an unnamed American millionaire to the famed miser. The tale centers on a dying man who orders a barber to shave him quickly to save four lire and eighty centesimi on the bill as he dies with a grim smile.
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Don Marino Torlonia
Torlonia
Rome
New York
Arpagnio
Corso
Her Telephone Hour Keeps Friends Linked With Reliable Times
A girl with many engagements sets a daily telephone hour so friends can reach her reliably. She calls the house if not at home and tells her maid where she may be reached. The method is described as charming and prevents missing her.
Kleybolte & Co saved by Carnegie Trust Company
New York January 14 Charles A Dickinson of the Carnegie Trust Company Andrew Sullivan president of the Real Estate Trust Company and Lowman Erb who took over the affairs of Rudolph Kleybolte & Co in creditors interest met at the Gamagh Trust Company and voted to restore control to the firm The action follows a plan that revealed liabilities of nearly 8 million dollars and sought to safeguard bonds and stocks pledged by the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and other lines with the Erie plan having fallen through
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New York
Charles A. Dickinson
Carnegie Trust Company
Andrew Sullivan
Real Estate Trust Company
Lowman Erb
Rudolph Kleybolte & Co
Broadway
Teale
Yeater
Tay
Gamagh Trust Company
Ofice
the Herald
Securion
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Erie
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company
Kleyholte Co
Cincinnati
Eugene Zimmerman
J. P. Morgan & Co
Kleybolte & Co
Lea
City
Hamilton & Dayton
Marquette
Ann Arbor
Detroit
Toledo
Trenton
Cincinnati Inter-terminal
Modern man not a wonder Wallace argues
Alfred Russel Wallace contends that modern man is not superior to ancient humans. He cites history and monuments showing no clear advance in intellect or morality and notes savages and Pacific Island peoples may rival or exceed Western progress in various qualities.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Dan
Stoy
Mr Perkins Advocates Plain Waist Fashion
In a dialogue cited from Youth's Companion Mr Perkins remarks on his wife's gown noting a plain white waist with no face or ruffles while Mrs Perkins defends the elaborate lace adorned design saying it took days to craft a neat simple look. Simmons mentions sharing the observation on the train.
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Mr. Perkins
Mrs. Perkins
Simmons
Obscure Art Sparks Musical Banter Between Critics
The Russian critic tells Obscure Art he does not appreciate the composition. Mr. Comrox replies candidly that he does not either, saying it keeps him guessing. He notes three questions he asks about any piece: why it was written, why it is played, and why people listen.
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Mr. Comrox
Police Intervene in Ogden Party After Liquor In Japanese Joint
Four Ogden youths lured four city girls to a Japanese noodle shop on Twenty Fourth Street where hot noodles beer and liquor were served by the proprietor. Police arrested the four young men and the proprietor. all face handling by Chief Browning with the proprietor charged for selling liquor without license.
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Oglen
Browning
Twentyfourth Street
Dearby
Farming Betterment and The High Living of Midwestern Farmers
A nostalgic argument praises midwestern farmers for becoming well housed fed and educated. It cites land ownership size in US compared with Europe and France and Germany as five and nine acres versus 150 acres in the United States. The piece urges rural schooling in agriculture and domestic science and highlights farm life with vivid domestic scenes.
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Orient
Mediterranean
England
France
Germany
United States of America
Harvard
Typhoid Germs Fail to Ail Immune Man in London Hearing
A Malvern Hydro water contamination case in London heard expert Dr. Thresh explain typhoid bacilli are microscopic and unlikely to affect a healthy man. He recalled swallowing millions of germs in testing water and felt no ill effects, while judges questioned the risk.
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London
Malvern
Thresh
Earl of Granard to Wed Miss Mills in January
The Earl of Granard and Miss Bea trice Mills plan a January 13 wedding. Miss Mills is the daughter of Ogden Mills and granddaughter of D C Mills, the New York philanthropist. The Earl is a king’s friend, Royal Body Guard officer, and a rising diplomat.
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Earl of Granard
Beatrice Mills
Miss Mills
Ogden Mills
D. C. Mills
New York
Offcer
Royal Body Guard
Evolution in the Pear Family Across Civilized Gardens
Fragmentary vintage prose contrasts pear origins in Europe with human progress while a London court case highlights gender bias as a complainant seeks respect. The piece blends early horticulture musings with a social anecdote about a woman demanding more than a black eye.
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Gore
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Kelly
Geo. J. Kelly
Irma Robins
Jennie Robins
Selpio, Utah
Jones Coal. Co
Armory Wall
Wiowe
Walt Whitman
Wm. Thurston Brown
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Budcon
Culley's
Utahna
Or. J. Stilwell
Joseph Parry & Sons Co
Washington Avenue
Joseph Baumeister
Royal Dancing Academy
Elizabeth
Teter J. Lammers
J. T. Miller
Character Builder
Broom Hotel
Burns
Brakeman
Judge Howell
Ng To
Losy
Cooley
Gunnison Canyon
Colorado Desert
U.S.L
Oregon
Whittier
OF the
Middle West
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Peninsular
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