Stray Topics From Little Old New York
A New York column surveys dizzying claims by Mrs. Annie Besant on racial hierarchies and reincarnation, notes suffrage lectures at Columbia, and recalls dog sixth senses near John D. Rockefeller’s Clyde Station. It also covers Perth Amboy police, tenement reform pushback, and Oscar Hammerstein’s French honor for opera work.
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New York
Annie Besant
Theosophical Society
Mrs. Besant
Mme. Blavatsky
Yale
Christ
Columbia University
Nathan
Equal Franchise Society
Clyde Station
N. J
John D. Rockefeller
New Jersey State Board of Health
Municipal Bureau of Research
Politicians mingle mentions in election chatter
A roundup of political developments notes Jeff Davis of Arkansas seeking re election to the U S Senate. It mentions George M. Bowers for West Virginia governor and Kansas Democrats aiming to pick two congressmen. It covers a Washington special election, Michigan lieutenant governor hopeful Archibald B. Darragh, and various other Republican and reform proposals plus a new Colorado campaign finance law. Also notes Stella Faulkner’s visit end and the Inland Lakes Regatta in Oshkosh with Lake Winnebago yachts gathering for the event.
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Jeff Davis
Arkansas
United States Senate
George M. Bowers
United States
West Virginia
Kansas
Congress
Washington
Cushman
Archibald B. Darragh
Michigan
Dawson
Roosevelt
Orient
Cyrus Northrop
University of Minnesota
William Howard Taft
William P. Kent
Virginia
Royal E. Cabell
Internal Revenue
Richmond
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Aldrich
Senate Finance Committee
Alabama
B. B. Comer
John H. Bankhead
Colorado
Shafroth
Rockford Prohibition Debate Spurs Talk of Saloons
In the Rockford Watch Company president Jacob Franks argues prohibition shows a theoretical remedy rather than a practical one. He cites workers drifting to nearby towns for liquor and urges Wenatchee voters to support regulation over full prohibition to boost local growth and labor.
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Rockford Watch Company
Omaha Evening Bee
Hotel Men Meet in Omaha Convention
Omaha hotel keepers host a three day gathering for peers from Minneapolis St Paul Fargo Sioux Falls Cedar Rapids and other cities for the annual Northweastern convention in Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Fargo
Sioux Falls
Cedar Rapids
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Little Old New York
Perth Amboy
New Jersey
Wilson
Oscar Hammerstein
Manhattan Opera House
France
Hammerstein
Salome
Politics
Stella Faulkner
Everett
L. R. Barrett
Hotel Men's Association
Oshkosh
Wis
Winnebago
Inland Lakes Yachting Association
Wisconsin
Minnesota
J. S. Mooney & Co
Rockford
Jacob Franks
Jewelers’ Convention
Rock
Ford
Franks
Prohibition
Wenatchee
Orondo Avenue
Clark Cox
Mission Street
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