Rockefeller Builds Artificial Skating Lake at Lakewood Estate
Report from Lakewood New Jersey dated December describes John D Rockefeller creating an artificial lake on his estate for skating. Workmen excavate while a watch tower overlooks the grounds and a pine hedge shields the site. Rockefeller, famed for wealth, previously flooded a New York yard pond for skating during winter thaws.
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Rockefeller
Ocean Avenue Boulevard
Mr. Rockefeller
Wall Street
New York
West Fifty-fourth Street
Enterprise Wrecked at Entiat River Rapids
The steamer Enterprise of the C and C Steamboat Co. ran aground on the Entiat rapids bar near Douglas county this morning around 7. Capt. Fred McDermott commanded the vessel which was en route from the Trails to Wenatchee with flour for a Waterville firm. North Star departed upstream to assist as crews investigated damage likely to be known by tomorrow.
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Enterprise
C. & CO. Steamboat Co
Entiat Rapids
Douglas Country
Griggs
North Star
Fred McDermott
Columbia and Okanogan Steamboat Company
Trais
Wenatchee
Waterville
Columbia
Okanogan
Brewster
Riverside
Pringle
Vnril
Judge Pollard Offers Drunkards Chance for Reform
St Louis judge William Jefferson Pollard urges drunkards and families to write him with full details of cases. He offers to share his experience in handling drinking men and asks pledges to abstain from intoxicants in exchange for avoiding penalties. He emphasizes good deeds over wealth as societal heritage.
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St. Louis
St Louis
William Jefferson Pollard
Pollard
Mrs Bellamy Storer Claims Created President Roosevelt
A Cincinnati dispatch reports Mrs. Bellamy Storer and her husband claim they created President Roosevelt. She says she influenced him to become assistant secretary of the navy after visiting President McKinley in Canton. She denies the garbled interview and avoids further comment.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Bellamy Storer
The
Commercial Tribune
Navy
Bellamy ‘Orem
Pantie Tere
Constitutional convention debates prayer language in Oklahoma
In Guthrie the constitutional convention debated whether the Supreme Being should be titled the Supreme Ruler of the Universe or God Almighty, with petitions from various sects including atheists urging non discriminatory language in the constitution. In Hazelhurst Miss a 22 year old woman Angie Birdsong was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Dr Thomas Butler, with a motion for a new trial to be filed by her uncle United States Senator McLane In, and sentence postponed.
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Guthrie, Okla
Hazelaurst
Angie Birdsong
Thomas Butler
Birdsong
Mississippi
Monticello
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N. J
L. V. Wells
Entiat
Bar
Pres. Roosevelt
Navy Department
President McKinley
Glencove Farm
Arthur Gunn Wenatchee
Bousquet and Holm
Ywylester’ Department Store
Coats
Lou
Shinsensu Sinema
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