Hole in the Rock How Convict Realff Fled Gibraltar
The New York Tribune recounts Ambrose Realff's daring escape from the Gibraltar prison. Despite tight supervision, he allegedly created a hidden cavern, a cave under the rock, and even built a small canvas boat. Guards pursued with torches and crowbars, but Realff evaded capture for four years before final recapture.
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Ambrose Realff
Rock of Gibraltar
Renalff
Realff
Rosia
Realif
Khed
Ile
Baron Trench
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Strait of Gibraltar
New York Tribune
Yan kee Glunn recalls Booth mentorship and comic breakthrough
The narrative follows Mathias Currier Kimball known as Yan kee Glunn who at seventeen joined a Lowell museum production of Richard III with Junius Brutus Booth. When Booth’s actor missed a role Kimball improvised with a Yankee twang and earned the crowd and Booth’s praise.
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Mathias Currier Kimball
Junius Brutus Booth
Kimball
Lowell Museum
Booth
Richard IL
Lord Norfolk
Bosworth Field
Norfolk
Mr. Booth
Dust and climate influence from ancient science notes
A discussion on dust explains its role in rain and cloud formation, sun protection, and twilight. It argues a dustless sky would worsen rain experiences and rainwear, suggesting dust moderates sunburn, moisture, and sunset colors as described by an Exchange summary.
Weaving Tale From India's Filmy Muslin
A Mogul princess defends her clothing after her father rebukes her for showing skin, arguing she has seven sults. The tale contrasts a weaver expelled for neglect allowing a cow to eat muslin laid to dry, mistaken for a spider web.
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India
Dacca
Early Tendencies of Boys Shaping Life Paths
A Chicago News reflection notes that some boys fulfill their youth promise, citing Carver once a village mischief and now a leading surgeon in a hospital. The piece emphasizes that early behavior can foreshadow future achievement.
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Carver
Chicago News
It Is Not Only in Politics But In Other Things
A St Paul dispatch remark notes that many men think they are too smart to be honest, suggesting skepticism about integrity across fields beyond politics. The quote underscores a view on boastful cunning and moral laxity.
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St. Paul Dispatch
Sweden
Black Sea
Europe
Publick Intelligencer
United States
California
New York World
Whole Town Betterment Ideas Earn Kansas City Support
W. C. Winsborough of Kansas City urges extending urban beautification to residential areas. He cites the 300 block idea and the 1 100 block crusade and notes success of flower plantings by the Manufacturers and Merchants' auxiliary. He says civic pride, health, and education of children justify a citywide home beautification movement. The health and police departments could aid by enforcing cleanliness ordinances.
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W. C. Winsborough
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Manufacturers and Merchants’ Association
Winsborough
Local shoppers urged to back hometown businesses
A pronounced appeal argues that spending $2 locally, when only a dollar was spent before, benefits the race. It warns that reliance on mail order houses to centralize trade harms small towns and stresses buying at home strengthens the town and its people.
Plan as guide for town growth urged in Jamestown talk
An address before the congress of horticulturists urged village improvement societies and park superintendents to focus on comprehensive town plans rather than minor efforts. The speaker said public spirit guided by a plan could transform a town in five to eight years, if a local leader with vision and perseverance drives the movement.
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Congress of Horticulturists
Jamestown
Spokane Chamber Outlines City Improvement Topics
The Municipal Journal notes the Spokane chamber of commerce lists public meeting discussion topics. These include shade trees on residence streets, bridges and approaches, river bank improvements, statuary and fountains, park ornaments, sidewalk cleaning, removal of street obstructions, decorative light posts, billboard regulation, and enhanced street lighting. The list is a comprehensive review of improvement needs.
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Municipal Journal
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Fez looting, Tunis headgear, and Punchline Lectures
Fragmented notes recount pillagers in Fez with scarce fezzes and Tunisian headgear amid Levantine fashion. Quick jumps to London Tatler jokes about Heloise and Abelard, then a tale of a bush-town lecturer expelled a heckler after a sharp quip, ending with odder musings and a dramatic duel report.
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Fez
Wigin
Tunis
Germany
Wi.zerland
London Chronicle
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Gibraltar
Home Trade Philosophy
Brunswick
Forth
New York
Abelard and
Helowme
Heloise
Abelard
St. Marcel
Pere-la-Chaitse
London Tatler
Diophantus
Alexandria
Mohammed Ben-Musa
Italy
Leonardo
Visa
Barbary
Aspinall
Victoria
Ballarat
Advocate
Dr. Pean
Paris
Continental
O. C. Vammen
Prop. Choivest
G Street
Heron
Aberdeen, Wash
Humboldt
Fred Hewets
Prop
South F Street
Andrew Blum
DR. McNiven
DR. Watkins
Crowther-Wooding
G and Heron Streets
Bon, Maclafferty
Maclafferty
Physicians and Surgeons
Zelaska
Boston
Koetler Elk
Aberdeen
J. C. Cross
Wishkah Block
Corner 6
Wishkati Streets
E. H. Fox
Ben Sheeks
Room
Dabney Bock
Austin M. Wade
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
East
Hume St
Aberdeen Livery & Transfer Co
J. F. Bennett
Oswald Bell
Roy Ellis
Bell & Ellis Bicycle and General Repair Shop
Gunsmiths
Tel
Locksmiths
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