Happenings of a Week Mix of Weddings and News
The week’s notes report the marriage of the Baroness Vaughan to Emmanuel Durieux at Arronville France. Adem J. Swope makes a new claim to part of Col Thomas H. Swope estate. Roosevelt signals limited involvement in the New York campaign and Emperor Francis Joseph’s eightieth birthday celebrated by the Hapsburgs. A Black Hand threat targets International President T L Lewis. Estrada assumes Nicaraguan presidency after Delgado Entadral transfers power. A Whippany rag sorter uncovers jewelry worth 1800 dollars. Irvington chauffeur Thomas Langdon rated 100 percent in machine operation. New York detective George Gostelli shot dead at Oyster Bay.
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Vaughan
Leopold
Emmanuel Durieux
Ar- Tonville
Balincourt
France
Adem J. Swope
Kokoma
Ont
Thomas H. Swope
Belgium
Arronville
Ballincourt
Roosevelt
New York State
State Committee
Francis Joseph
Austria
Isch
House of Hapsburg
T. L. Lewis
Illinois
Juan J. Estrada
Republic
Jose Dolores Entrada
Jose D. Madriz
Granada
Herbert Streuble
Whippany
N. J
Thomas J. Langdon
Irvington-on the-Hudson
Helen Gould
New York
George Gostelli
Oyster Bay
Four tragedies and political notes flood earlier pages
A four year old girl was killed and relatives injured when a car struck a telephone pole. others escaped unharmed. Insanity blamed on cigarette smoking in Washington for a judge’s ruling. A New York Negro business league speaker boasted he would not swap places with Theodore Roosevelt. Illinois National Guard camp established near Peoria. Los Angeles police found starving captives in a bungalow claiming religious fasting. Longworth signals opposition to Speaker Cannon. Federal funds allocated to state militia purchases, Nevada excluded. A Cherry widow accuses Italian consul official of treachery and vows to buy a revolver to kill the accuser.
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Mra
Thessere Lewis
Mra Lewis
Clarence Manley
Charles Johnson
Kenton
Washington, D. C
William J. Carver
Scott Bond
Arkansas
Beverly
Massa
Cannon
Nevada
Joseph G. Nichall
Chicago
Brothel of a Bridegroom? Dinshaw’s Playful Exchange
A skit features a young man asked by the groom’s little brother whether he will marry Bess. The suitor hesitates, stammers, and is pressed by the child who claims to have heard Bess tell her father she plans to land the man that night.
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Bess
Pop
Keep Baby's Skin Clear With Cuticura
Parents are urged to prevent skin eruptions in infancy through gentle care and emollients. Constant use of Cuticura Soap, aided by Cuticura Ointment, keeps skin pure and avoids chronic rashes. Send for a free 32 page Cuticura Book from Bendon Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Odd Advice From a Gingham Apron and Yellow Fingers
A bustling exchange dismisses dangerous remedies as a sly joke. The elderly woman promotes Dr. Pierce’s Pellets to soothe the stomach and bowels, while Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is pitched for teething and colic. The tone reflects a rustic, humorous marketplace banter.
A Night of Offenses and Quiet Plans in Tredegar
Tom faces a moral test amid political graft and personal doubts as Arden pressures secrecy about Nancy Bryerson. Arden and Tom discuss burden sharing and a potential move for Nancy while Tom seeks a loan from Henniker to bribe city officials. Arden reveals Nancy’s relocation and Tom wrestles with trust, mercy, and the double standards of powerful men.
Man Declines Conscience Clash and Plans Boston Technical Course
Vincent Farle despondently faces a possible alliance with Arden as Nan’s memories fade. Arden urges him to become the “strong man armed” and seize his chance, while Tom Layne decides to cancel his Pennsylvania engagement and return to take a managerial post after proceeding to Boston for technical studies.
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Tom
Vincent Farle
Arden
Nan
Wiliam Layne
South Tredegar
Paradise
Deer Trace
Woodlawn
Gordonia
Norman
Pennsylvania
Boston
Way-Ho or Wack-lifted Texans argue over Waco name
A Washington correspondence recalls heated pronounciations of Waco by Texas senators once splitting between Way-ho and Wauk-ko. The tale echoes arkansas debates with Arkansas and Arkansaw, as John J. Ingalls labeled each senator by their favored form in the chamber.
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Waco
Way-ho
Arkansas
Senate
Garland
Walker
Arkansaw
John J. Ingalls
Arkangan
Washington
St. Louis Star
Militant suffragettes and Japan courtship class noted
A Newport and Philadelphia founder recalled how Atherton Blight amused by suffragette antics at a Bellevue luncheon. A Japanese courtship class teaches maidens not to propose or exchange photos, while Lady Coleridge, English judge’s widow, reconnected with Miss Amy Jackson Lawford whom she later wed after crossing the Atlantic.
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Atherton Blight
Newport
Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Club
England
Japan
Coleridge
Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford
Ous
Who was The Woman with the Serpent Tongue
The Houston Post questions the identity of the Woman with the Serpent Tongue, suggesting Cleopatra as a likely reference. A new putty knife invention from a New Yorker features a rake scraper attached to remove surplus putty.
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Hue
Cleopatra
Houston Post
Dean's Kidney Pills Ad and Victorian Scene
An old ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with claims of relief for kidney disorders and dropsy, including a testimonial from Mrs. W R Cody of Lewiston Idaho about swelling, weight gain, and restored kidney function. The piece also reproduces a Dickensian dialogue about shepherds and social views, presented as a quoted scene from Mr. Weller.
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Dean
W. R. Cody
15Th St
Lewiston
Idaho
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Selfish Youth Insight At Matuchen Picnic
Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman credits youth as prone to selfishness during a Matuchen picnic. She recalls a Boston man soaked in rain in Boston Common when a boy in a macintosh asks if he is waiting for Miss Endicott, who will arrive once it clears.
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Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
Boston
Boston Common
Mrs Wiggin Reflects On London Visit In Witty Exchange
During Mrs Wiegins London visit an interviewer asked her opinion of the city. She replied with a cheerful quip comparing her experience to a dinner scene about the decline and fall of the Roman empire as told to Dr Gibbon.
Real Modesty Provokes Laughs At Pittsburg Luncheon
James K. Hackett recalled a young actor who took modesty too far. At the start of his career he inserted in dramatic papers an advertisement reading Engagement wanted small part such as dead body or outside shouts preferred.
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James K. Hackett
Pittsburg
Beach Camera Fiend Provokes Bathers Disgust
Two bathing girls discuss a man described as a beach camera fiend. They condemn the behavior while recalling he earlier posed for a life drawing and then ate lunch from a box, illustrating a troubling scene at the beach.
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Life Benefit
Domestic Amenities in Cracked Dialogue on Attire
A fragmentary exchange probes domestic life and social concerns as a speaker mocks a partner with crude humor about giving away light parts to a poor tramp and questions summer attire, hinting at gender roles and economic strain within a home.
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