Princeton Memorial Tower to Honor Grover Cleveland
The Cleveland Monument Association appeals for funds to build a 150 foot tower at Princeton University near the graduate school. The monument honors Grover Cleveland, native of New Jersey, with a site on the golf links and anticipation of future campus buildings. About half of the $1,000,000 project is raised with a goal to secure the remaining $27,000 soon.
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Cleveland Monument Association
Princeton
Grov
Cleveland
Grover Clevellin
New Jersey
East Middle West
South
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N. J
Princeton University
Golf Links
University
Graduate School
Meron
Chenine
Alligator Tricks At California Farm Impress Visitors
A remarkable alligator farm in California showcases trained reptiles that slide down watery chutes at high speed. The farm houses about 500 specimens from huge bulls to young lizards. Commercially raised for hides, visitors’ admission and pet demand boost profits.
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Mul
California
Lost Grangerville Mine Found After Long Search
Miner Tank Hamiston located a long elusive mine near Grangerville Washington along the Salmon river. The dike, a hundred feet wide, shows gravel and talc with preliminary tests indicating gold in paying quantities. The tale recalls Griff Roberts who found it in 1877 then vanished amid the Indian uprising and slaughter of white settlers.
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Grangerville
Wash
Tank Hamiston
Salmon River
Griff Roberts
Roberts
Slate Creek
Hamiston
Phonograph Aids Port Townsend Fog Signal Breakthrough
H. L. Tibbals Jr of the Union wharf in Port Townsend Washington uses a phonograph to aid ships during smoke obscured waters. Pilots hear recorded cries to guide vessels to the landing, supplementing the usual foghorn.
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Puget Sound
Kelly
H. L. Tibbals, Jr
Union Wharf
Port Townsend
Wash
Kansas and the Lemonade Showman Conquest
The verse laments changes in Kansas traditions as insurgents curb corporations and liquor, imagining a past where circus lemonade inspired imagination. The poem cites Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Chapman in Denver as sources for longing to return to a purer lemon-peel era.
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Kansas
Jing
Rudyard
Barker
Arthur Chapman
Denver
Republican
Fragmented Clippings on Science and Daily Life
The text mixes observations on astronomy and compasses with notes about pencil manufacture. It references the earth as a magnet affecting the compass north, the challenge of graphite quality in pencil lead, and historic methods to press graphite blocks after air exhaustion to achieve hardness. It reads like a collage of educational curiosities and technical anecdotes.
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Connass
Perth
Enrit
North Pole
The Catch Game Where Peas Trigger a Quiet Dropout
A party game hinges on avoiding the letter p in dinner suggestions. The leader asks for a dish for a cook who dislikes peas, prompting the first player to answer without using p words like onion. Subsequent players often trip on p laden options before the secret is revealed after several dropouts.
Questions and Answers Joke Set Revision
A playful riddle asks why a solar eclipse resembles a parent beating his boy and why a dog's tail is a novelty. It then poses a final question about the difference between an auction and seasickness, inviting light humor.
Naval salt meat tale and daily rules across papers
A collage of snippets notes who first brought salt meat to the navy, jokes about goose balance, a daily rule set, and fragmentary quotes from newspapers and magazines. The piece blends misquoted lines and classroom banter with a warning about understanding language and a teacher’s struggle with a pupil.
Soakwell’s Pose Described as Mustard Plaster Look
A fragment recalls Soakwell’s expression as if wearing a mustard plaster while another note mentions Yes Praose scurrying for a wife and her spring dress in purple blue aid.
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Grace. Tins he any saving e
The fragment cites a Cleveland Plain Dealer quote about a penurious daughter of a past era, but readable context is limited. It presents a literary aside rather than a clear news item or event with identifiable persons, places, or organizations.
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Piero
Perfortiny
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aprising the Heat and a Sworn Promise
A fragment from Catholic Standard and Times notes a heated moment as Ay Sopners Colt swore with a companion and a remark about making it right for him. The brief item reflects a church periodical tone and provides minimal context.
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Thompson College
Proctor Hall
Isaac Wyman
Salem
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Kansas State Board of Health
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Stein
Cook
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Navy
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Tom
Philadelphia Ledger
Puck
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Emeneker
Grand Theatre
Web
William C. Dowlan
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Chas. A. Goettler
Cinderell
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Costum
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Mentucky
Fred Hewatt
Humboldt
Aberdeen Bicycle and Gun Shop
Oswald Bell
Gogdos
South C Street
L. L. Maley
F. Fredrickson
Cort
Peter Genera
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