Ingenious Women Adapt Ordinary Inventions
The Washington patent office holds many models by women though few true inventions. Women excel in adapting existing contrivances for home needs and managing daily tasks, such as adapting a hairpin for many uses and coordinating household harmony, while men often lead in original invention.
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Patent’ Office
Washington
Beaure
James on American Women and Thanks in Car Crowds
The Chicago Tribune notes Henry James joked about never hearing an American woman say thank you in a crowded car when offered a seat. The piece explores deeper claims about motive, obligation, and the interplay of imagination with perceived real and unreal substances in intellectual reflection.
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Henry James
Chicago
Tribune
Liang Tung Yeu Yale Classmates Friendship Tale
The future Chinese minister to the United States, Liang Tung Yeu, is described by Yale classmates as a capable businessman. He belonged to a ten member group with equal monthly allowances of 100 dollars each. All checks arrived together and left the group briefly strapped. Liang solved this by pooling funds so each 100 dollars would last three days, ensuring the ten could eat and then survive the month without hardship.
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Liang Tung Yeu
United States
Yale
Arkansas Bans Concealed Weapons With Heavy Fines
Arkansas Governor signs a law imposing fines from one hundred to one thousand dollars and a year’s imprisonment for drawing a knife or pistol. St Joseph Missouri police offer rewards for top gun toter arrests and convictions as a model for crime reduction. The piece also notes New York justices resisting wearing gowns while praising the gown’s imposing look.
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Arkansas
St. Joseph
Commissioner of Police
Troy Times
New York
Truy Times
Iowa News Roundup of Fatal Accidents and Elopement
Multiple Iowa items including Ned Powers killed in a runaway near Manchester after tugs failed to control horses. Five Dubuque sailors drowned when a boat capsized near Frontress Lake. German actor Constantin Ackerman and widow Agnes Koch elope to Chicago. Des Moines man McAnna arrested for stealing silk dresses. Miner Swan Lundstrom crushed at Coaldale Mine. Webster City man McGuire killed in a yard accident on an Illinois Central train. County and state oil tests reveal dangerous oil with no clear grade. Legal notices on Sunday publications ruled unlawful. Neighborhood tornadoes and storms cause damage near Granger and Polk City. Memorial Day services yield large revivals under William Sunday.
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Ned Powers
Harry M. Bradley
Manchester
Cawley Farm
Powers
John Powers
Illinois Central
Fort Dodge
Geof Ford
Val
Stolteben
Paul Keyes
Dubuque
Frontress Lake
Round Island
Constantin Muth Ackerman
Agnes ‘Koch
Davenport
Chicago
Ackerman
Frace
Sinon
Sam Cohem
McAnna
Swan A. Lundstrom
Coaldale
Des Moines
Lundstrom
Newton
Scott Street
Roy H. McGuire
Inds Central
Manchster
Webster City
J. D. McGuire
Waterloo
McGuire
Millinois Central
Trin
Standard Oil Company
Government Inspection Service
Omaha
Sioux City
Lee Chapman
Pisgah
L. B. Cousins
Cov 1 Bluffs
Strong
Ofl
Withrow
District Court
Iowa
Horace Hamilton
Muscatine
Hamfton
Will Reevent
Charles Warren
Polk County
Cummins
Aberty
Audley Crouch
Harry Scroggs
Denison
Ole 'Simmons
Council Bluffs
Simmons
Jewell
Clinton
State Industrial School
Frank Spencer
Jewella
Avery Hayne
Marshall
Marshalltown
Okmulgee
I. T
Hayne
Edward Hogancamp
Hogancamp
Arizona
Supreme Court
Dunshee & Dorn
J. H H. Campbell
Prohibition Party State Central Committee
Temperances
The
Commonwealth
Granger
Polk City
Polk Farm
Lincoln School
William Sunday
Knoxville
Nebraska
Fritz Klein
Winnebago
Neb
George, Meyers
Lavern B. Roe
Tom Lee
Hosea Delier
Klein
Frank Pesch
Prudential Insurance Company
Pesch
Prudential
Morrison, Sterling and Erie
Ill
United States Express Company
Cal Moore
Charles Connor
Los Angeles
Cal
Peckham
Iowa State Baseball League
Julian Magruder
Richmond
James Black
James Black Masonry & Construction Homeeys
St. Louis
Cromwell Dickson
Mobile
Ala
South America
Kansas Supreme, Court
Anheuser-Busch, Brewing Company
John Walker
Biloxi
Miss
Kirk
Yazoo City
University of Industry, Science and Art
Grand Junction
Col
Carnegie Foundation Fund
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Philippines
San Francisco
Buford
F. K. Dunn
Charleston
Illinois Supreme Court
Third Judicial District
Jacob W. Wilkin
Danville
Artman
Lebanon
Ind
George Rhodius
Indianapolis
James M. Berryhill
Rhodius
Louisville
Elma Dare
Dare
Post Office Department
Roosevelt
Mack Richardson
San Antonio
Tex
Dempsey ‘Timber Company
Tacoma
Wash
Duquoin
Perry County
Marguerite
Helen Curtis
Cleveland
EB. H. Harriman
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Philadelphia
White House
Boromea
St. Clements Catholic
Duluth
Minn
Boward C. Delano
Missouri
Illinois
Lillia Davis
Princeton
Wellington Hotel
Kansas City
London
Teamsters
Hammond
Teamsters’ Association
John A. Grant
Atlanta
Mississippi Valley’ Railroad
Illinois Centres
Texas & Pacific
H. G. Barther
McKinley
McKinley Bomstead
Memorial Association
H. H. Tucker, Jr
Uncle Sam Old Company
Leavenworth
Kan
Philip W. Kampien
Capitol National Bank of &. Paul
Foster Ey Pegitia
Haywood Trial Witness Confesses in Steunenberg Case
Testimony in Boise centers on the Steunenberg murder link with William D. Haywood. Alfred Horsley alias Harry Orchard admits plotting the crime and implicates Haywood and leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. Numerous other incidents and deaths are noted in a sweeping weekly recap.
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William D. Haywood
Harry Orchard
Vindicator
Federation of Miners
Denver
Orchard
Henry Orchard
Frank Steunenberg
Steunenberg
Haywood
Moyer, Pettibone
Alfred Horsley
Harry Orcherd
Boise
Idaho
Western Federation of Miners
James H. Hawley
Miscellaneous News Briefs From Early 20th Century Events
A summary of diverse incidents including international tensions with Japan over reparations, Diaz invitation to Mexico, fatal car and train accidents, devastating windstorms and fires, lynching near Indianola, Guatemala rumors, a Toledo court conspiracy claim, a Port Zarziss ship explosion, museum leadership changes, and a fatal pie eating incident in Truckster, Pa.
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Wiscellaneous
Viscount Tani
House of Peers
America
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Progressives
Japan
United States
Root
Diaz
Mexico
Thomas Heffner
Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn
James Sweeney
Saratoga
N. Y
Kentucky
Iiinoie
Iowa
Roosevelt
National Editorial Association
Indian Territory
Herman Koeh
Beaver Dam Lake
Wisconsin
Minnie Haag
Delphia Koéerring
Belvidere
Ill
John Puepura
Utica
Minnesota
Granite Falls
Minn
Dooley
Lee Reynolds
Lee Fox
Indianola
Miss
Mexico City
Cabrera
Guatemala
Toledo
Toledo Raitlways and Terminal Company
J. Pierpont Morgan
Tripoli
Port Zarziss
W. M. R. French
Chicago Institute of Fine Arts
American Association of Museums
Truckster Pa
Mptake
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Weekly Tribune
Freeman-Tribune Pub. Co
Wisconsin ‘Assembly
Columbus
D. M. Berry
August Dolin
Baumann :& Brother
Isaac Greenbaum
J. J. Reynolds
Andrew Simonson
Racine
Wis
Simonson
Kurrachee
India
France
Far ‘East
Emma Leahy
Leahy Hotel
Senate Committee
Cowan
United
States
Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Rpublican
Fred Hatting
Reddick
Austin Stockdon
John Fraser
Chicago & Southern Railway
William V. McMacklin
Helen W. Gougar
Lafayette
Lodz
Russian Poland
United States District Court
Springfield
Wabash Road
Oscar
Sophia
Sweden
Clarence McKenzie
Standard Brake Company of
Albany
Eugene A. Sittis
Brewer and Maltater
Ernest C. Sweetzer
Wasington University
Gov. Harris
Ohio
James Cornelia
Canton
Jimmy Britt
Battling - Nelso
Florence Morales
Bernada Mo
Manuel Barilla
Republic of Guatemala
J. 8. Bossier
Easley 8. C
Castro
Messag
W. W. Russell
L. H. Blanton
Central Univalty of
Arcon
Oliver Leenguth
William Leibenguth
Osc Schwank
Alle Town
Allentown
Charles N. Holt
Holt
Montgomery
Mary Baker Eddy
William Curtis
Osage Nation
Okla
Shabley
Padelphia
John R |Atlway & Brother
G. W. Japen
Americus
Dally
Indiana
le Nedogel Bank
Leben
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