Reincarnation Novel Wager Proves Horse Trading Alive Again
Farmer turns $30 into $125 profit in two days through a chain of trades, beating a skeptic in Greenwich Connecticut. T. E. Turner, 70, a longtime horse trader from near Albany, demonstrated the old craft remains viable amid autos and trolleys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer
Scoffer
Auto
T. E. Turner
Greenwich
Stamford
Genn
Turner
Happy
Brace Farm School
Dictionary Amuses Capital As Secretary Breaks Ice
Washington's Turkish envoy arrives with a large Turkish English dictionary. The secretary to Hussein Kiazim Bey carries the book everywhere, using it to strike up conversation with a famous bachelor nicknamed a lady killer. He asks in polished English if the benevolent words imply the man is a murderer.
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Washington
Hussein Kiazim Bey
Mohawk Brant Sero Attacks German Dime Novel Stereotypes
Brant Sero, a full blood Mohawk who uses the name Ojija cheka, declares war on German penny dreadful publishers for portraying American Indians as bloodthirsty scalpers. He furnishes Berlin papers with interviews defending his people and says at the Muskogee congress the modern Indian generation will correct global views of the noble red man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brant Sero
Penny Dreadful
Germany
Berlin
Muskogee
Brazil Rosewood Trade Flags Amid Export Slowdown
Brazil faces a drop in rosewood shipments to the United States and Europe despite strong demand as logs remain hard to extract from Brazilian forests, hindering exports.
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Brazil
United States
Europe
Gold or the Tariff and the High Cost of Living
The author argues that tariff policy, not gold scarcity, drives living costs. He cites McKinley Wilson and Dingley tariffs, showing price rises align with tariff levels and trusts. England’s prices rose less, but still rise with protection. repeal of tariff moves needed.
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Friends of High
Massachusetts Commission
Great Britain
England
Bradstreet
Abere
Enes
Iroi
Englind
Bradstreet’s
London
Washington
Melkinley
Massachusetts Investigation Committee
T, Scanlon
Peace plan urged to avert fifty years of European horror
Dundee city councilor Rev. Walter Walsh warned that a Europe at war could suffer devastating and lasting destruction for decades. He urged an international arbitral court at The Hague, noting support from Britain’s Edward VII and the Kaiser, and anticipation by nations and the United States to lead the effort.
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Europe
Walter Walsh
Dundee
Scotland
City Club of
Chicago
Walsh
Great Britain
Russia
France
Italy
International Court of
Hague
Netherlands
Knox
United States
Edward
Kaiser
Church Carved From Rock in Oberstein Legend
In Oberstein a hollow rock church rises from a river cliff. A fourteenth century tale tells how a robber baron killed his brother after a quarrel and vowed to build a church where his brother fell. A spring of clear water miraculously appeared as a heaven sign.
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Oberstein
Dog Acts as Drum Major for Goshen Band
Roger's band of Goshen Indiana, a nearly fifty year old musical group, has breveted a St Bernard as drum major. The dog first drew attention when it broke away from a boy leading it, took center, sat upright, and kept perfect time with its tail beating the rhythm during the marching performance.
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Roger
Goshen
Ind
New Oil Field in South At Sipsey Swamp Fayette County
A new oil discovery in Fayette county Alabama appears to rival Beaumont Texas after four wells began producing in the Sipsey swamp. The find, made recently by accident, has sparked a rush drawing in local Alabama residents and workers from Texas and Caddo Louisiana, as fields in the Texas and Caddo areas wane.
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Fayette County
Ala
Beaumont
Tex
Sipsey
Alabama
Texas
Caddo
Siam Exports Large Rice Volume and Mills
Siam ships about 1,000,000 tons of milled rice annually from forty seven mills. American machinery sales to Siam last year totaled $2,538, despite American engineers building the first mills. Rice is Siam's chief resource and export.
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Siam
Yankee Machines Make Siam's Ice
The Bangkok Manufacturing Company uses American equipment to run Siam’s only ice plant, producing twenty tons daily.
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Yankee
Siam
Bangkok Manufacturing Company
Not Surprised Real Estate Agent Commentary
A meandering remark shows a real estate agent claiming suburb death rates are lower nationwide and a skeptical near by witness, with scattered lines about insults and reputation restoration. The piece reads as fragmented dialogue from Chicago Journal and Pele Mele style quotes.
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Chicago Journal
The Busy New Life Pills Ad by A W Shelley
An old advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a quick health booster. It claims sugar coated globules cure weakness languor and many ailments and promotes the product priced at 25 cents from A W Shelley.
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Dr. King
A. W. Shelley’s
Fire Alarm Boxes Listed at Various City Precincts
The article lists locations for fire alarm boxes around the city including intersections near North Aberdeen 4, Market and I streets, City Hall, High School, Harbor and Heron, Benn and Heron, Wilson's Mill, and Fifty two more points such as Fourth and G streets, Broadway corners, and Michgan Ave. Entries note multiple streets and landmarks like the Franklin School, Federal Lumber Co, and Western Cooperage Co, reflecting a dense citywide alarm network.
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Aberdeen
Cleveland
City Hall
Market and I
Terrace Ave
River
Burrow’s Dock
Hume
Benn and Heron
Wilson’s Mill
Harbor and Heron
S. E. Slade’s
Second
Stanton Streets
Market
American Mill
Wishkah
Heron and
Fourth
M. Franklin School
Anderson & Middleton Mill
Broadway
Heron
Third
Sixth
Federal Lumber Co
Division
Michigan Avenue
Western Cooperage Co
Michigan Ave
River Street
Washington Streets
Curtis
Clark Streets
South
Evans
Front Streets
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Friends of Protection
Rock
Dog
Drum
Indiana
Troleum
East Heron St. Aberdeen
J. M. Lupton
Mgr
Telephone
Cor. H and Hume &T
The
Ralston
Brain and Brown
Stewing Co
L. L. Maley
Wash
Solld Everywhere
H. L. Cook & CO
E. Heron St
Patterson & Locke Co., Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
Harper
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Numboldt
South F Street
Nick Katurick
West Heron Street
J. C. Cross
Wishkab Block
Ane Wishkah Streets
Austin M. Wade
Wishkah Block
Aberdeen, Wash
Wilson Buttner
East Heron St
Offter
South L St. Bendence
Humboldt Saloon
Fred Hewitt
Hayes & Hayes Bankers. (Incorporated
S. W. Johnston Transfer Co
George B. Reid
Robert H. Burrows
Aberdeen and
Hoquiam
Grayport
Pheme
U. G. Kinnison
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