New York Village Planned As Fireproof Model for Wage Earners
The Russell Sage Foundation Holmes Company develops Forest Hills south of the LIRR with fireproof brick and stucco homes. Plans filed with the New York City Department of Buildings include a railroad station hotel and various apartment houses on a main square with an arcade and open air promenade.
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New York
Jamaica
Long
United States
Russell Sage Foundation
Holmes Company
Russell’ Sage Foundation
Mechsine
Ithin
Long Island Railway
New York City
Forest Hills
Vision of an ideal housing village with terracotta apartments
The article outlines a planned complex of five three story apartment houses with integrated stores and central heating on a square block. It describes sunlit living rooms, open air balcony sleeping, a north end unit with bridge access to a railroad platform, and ten one family houses. Costs are estimated at 12 400 dollars for the main building and 10 300 for the north end unit, with other houses at 2800 each. The project aims for an artistic social and economic ideal but may exclude unskilled labor.
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Manhattan
Russell Sage
Chorus Strike Rumor Quelled During Pittsburg Opera Tour
A chorus threat to refuse singing during a Pittsburg Il Trovatore matinee prompted manager Ernest Goerlitz to confront the singers. He warned they would either perform or march to New York and swim to Europe, after which the ensemble resumed singing amid multilingual protests.
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Metropolitan
Nixon
Pittsburg
Europe
Ernest Goerlitz
Conried
Il Trovatore
Goerlitz
New York
Father and Proverbs in a Punch memory
A fragment from Punch quotes Father and son discussing the adage a man is known by the company he keeps. The exchange probes whether association with good or bad company defines a person as good or bad.
Wisconsin settler Dietz ends six year revolt after surrender
John F. Dietz, a Sawyer county recluse, waged six years of resistance against Wisconsin authorities. A 90 man posse surrounded his woodland stronghold after earlier shootings wounded a son and a daughter. Dietz and another son were wounded but escaped to safety. He claimed self defense in the final surrender.
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Winter
Wis
Wisconsin
John F. Deitz
Sawyer County
Dietz
John F. Dietz
Cameron Dam
Thornapples River
Bert Horrell
C. G. O'Hara
Winter School
Horrell
O'Hara
Horre
Paroled Kansas City killer Jessie Morrison in surprise release
Jessie Morrison, longtime inmate known as Kansas state penitentary’s best known woman convict, was paroled by Gov. Stubbs. The release follows an appeal amid an era of public petitions. Morrison had slain Mrs. Olin Wiley Castle in Eldorado in 1900 after a sensational trial history. She may reside in Kansas Missouri or Oklahoma.
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Topeka
Kan
Jessie Morrison
Kansas State ‘Penitentiary
Stubbs
Miss Morrison
Olin Wiley Castle
Olin Castle
Eldorado
Kansas Court
Quittal
J. K. Coddy
Kansas City
Excelsior Springs
Ida Hawley
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Calumet
Castle
Line Busy Leads to Stairs Fight at Fayette City Exchange
Miss Hazel Gillen and Miss Lillian Usher clashed after a dispute over a busy line at the Bell exchange. They tumbled down stairs, fought on the sidewalk, hair pulled, and bruises noted as guests dispersed. Usher resigned amid the incident.
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Fayette City
Hazel Gillen
John Gillen
Bell Telephone Exchange
Gillen
Central
Lillian Usher
Bake bread and darn socks
Mrs. Anton Kling er, wife and manager of the Kling er family, advises wives to bake bread and darn socks to bring wealth to their husbands. She claims these housewifery economy practices helped her husband, Chicago’s richest policeman, earn $600 monthly from his properties. She urges early marriage and buying a home to inspire joint saving and happiness.
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Chicago
Anton Klinger
Mean Trick Reported in Denver Residence Incident
A chaotic scene in Denver involves a man clutching a bath robe and exposing a portion of his anatomy as witnesses report loud noises and disruptive behavior during the incident. Authorities investigated the disturbance and documented the events as they unfolded.
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Denver
Green Willow Barn Grows Into Two Story Structure
Winnipeg reports Harold Mackubbie of Loudminster Saskatchewan built a barn with green willow posts to save money and timber. The willows took root, lifting the floor and elevating the building to two stories with space beneath. He plans a third story and eventual conversion to a dwelling for residence.
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Winnipeg
Man
Harold Mackubbie
Loudminster
Sask
Connellsville Headline Partial OCR Item
Sane head notation from Connellsville Pennsylvania fragment appears with unclear typography and missing context. The readable text references place names and typical newspaper header fragments but no complete event or outcome is discernible.
Munyons Cold Cure and Little Indian Liniment Ad Spin
Munyon promotes Cold Cure as a preventive and remedy for colds grippe and pneumonia with a 25 cent bottle. Free medical advice from Munyon's Doctors by mail. Also advertises Little Indian Liniment as diphtheria preventative for home use and sold by Little Indian Company Mecca Indiana.
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Munyon
Ifunyon
53D
Jefferson Streets
Philadelphia
Wand Scents
Little Indian Company
Mecca
Ind
He Was a Boston Boy
A Boston schoolteacher recalls a five year old boy proving his genius by forming Greek words with building blocks. The father boasts of the child’s erudition with a quip about Boston culture surpassing ancient Athens per square inch.
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Boston
Athens
An Awful Moment in McClure's Scout Story
A Burnham scout boasts sharp sense of smell as a key to success and claims recognition of people by scent, provoking consternation among a group of fashionable women in a McClure's anecdote.
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Burnham
McClure
Hum Humphry Ward Joke At Soho Dinner
A Chicago editor relays from London a witty remark by Humphry Ward. Ward, once a famed bachelor art critic, quips that a woman seeking oblivion must join a nunnery while a man only needs to marry a famous woman.
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Chicago
London
Humphrey Ward
Humphry Ward
Soho
Death at the St. Fashion Hotel Reported As Suicide
A stranger, about the reporter’s size, shot himself with a .32 caliber revolver at the St. Fashion hotel. The body was taken to the morgue. The editor demanded a rush report on a large society wedding in an hour.
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St. Fashion Hotel
Realist William Dean Howells on Hope as a Hay Wisp
Howells critiques hope as not an angel in a diaphanous robe but a mere wisp of hay before a donkey to spur his movement. He spoke this epigram during a Sunday afternoon discussion in New York, framing realism with a sharp quip about optimism.
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William Dean Howells
New York
Taking Tonics and Buik Up on Right Food
A fragment notes the mistake of using tonics and drugs to rebuild a worn nervous system. The author advocates nourishment as the new material to rebuild nerve cells and mentions personal recovery through proper food and study.
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Gameron Dam
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Connellsville
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