Moving Habits and Apartment Life Revealed in Chicago
The Inter Ocean quotes a broker discussing moving motives and tenant types with sharp notes on how women and men influence rent and repairs. Rainy days slash showings, while moving prompts many to drink rather than relocate. Russell Sage’s Indian Territory philanthropy is recalled with his remark about Muskogee women.
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Inter Ocean
Henry
Chicago
Muskogee
I. T
Russell Sage
Mr. Sage
Indian Territory
J. Goulds
Goulds
Fifth Avenue
Old Creek Indian Mission
Tallahassa
Alice Robertson
New
Getting Crew for Whaler in Harper's Magazine
Clifford W. Ashley recounts the struggle to assemble a whaler crew for a Harper's piece. On a bright August morning sailors are hunted through streets, chased from a wagon, and corralled in a back room as the mate balks at boarding until lunch.
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Harper's Magazine
Clifford W. Ashley
Mr. Ashley
King visits Vesuvius in diplomatic display
A historical note describes Italy's King visiting Vesuvius and recalls prior coverage claiming the eruption was witnessed by royalty. It contrasts reports from Italian and German papers and mentions a Spanish king's courtier misquoting time during an attendance.
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Italy
Vesuvius
Ince
Spain
Women Golf Pioneers Tackle Long Courses In Britain And Beyond
The article notes women faced restricted access to traditional courses in England and Scotland, often playing on shorter links. In the United States Beace Women have long been allowed on top courses though some days are restricted. It highlights that modern champions rely on self training with focused practice and instruction, not sheer repetition, to refine specific shots.
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England
Scotland
Beace
New Idea Magazine
Heart of Rameses II Identified in Enamel Vase
Comptes Rendus notes confirmation by Louvre experts that the fourth vase with jackal lid contained the heart of Rameses II. The heart shows muscular fiber patterns unique to this organ, preserved by ancient soda preservatives, dating to 1258 B C. The vase’s contents confirm the king’s heart was first embalmed about 3,164 years ago.
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Comptes Renéus
Paris Academy
Rameses II
New York Times
Council
National Museum of the
Louvre
M. Lortet
Hugouneng
Renaut
Rigan
Cairo
His Mother's Teaching Judge Rejects Juror in Capital Case
A southern judge recalls ruling out a juror who opposed capital punishment in a capital murder trial. The lanky backwoodsman faced the court with firm stance, and the judge warned of the danger of mistake in judgment. The exchange reflects themes of moral influence and courtroom procedure in a historic legal setting.
Modern sun dials with brass plates and pedestals
Harper's Bazar notes sun dials in brass or bronze about 18 inches diameter priced around 15 dollars. Pedestals of stone marble or cement cost 20 to 100 dollars and reflect English and Italian garden styles with Ionic or Byzantine columns. Some dials mount on tree trunks stones or salvaged building pieces, with engraving or carving increasing price up to 100 dollars.
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Harper’s Bazar
Too Practical Miss Pease How Do You Like That New Doctor
Dialogue features Mrs Ques and Miss Pease discussing a beauty doctor. Mrs Ques condemns the practitioner's advice as insulting while a joke about self bread kneading underscores the banter.
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Miss Pease
Aquarium Hatchery Work Restocks City Waters With Fishes
The Aquarium hatchery nears a season total near 100000 fish as yellow perch hatched from local and Cold Spring Harbor eggs are released for city park waters including Prospect Park Lake. Earlier, saltwater smelts from Cold Spring eggs were released into the Hudson after spawners migrated, with other species like whitefish, rainbow and lake trout and humpbacked salmon already dispatched to state waters. Upcoming eggs include pike perch from Vermont black spotted trout from South Dakota and grayling trout from Montana. The hatchery, with visible eggs, hatching troughs, and growing fish, draws public interest.
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Paternel
Aquarium
Cold Spring Harbor
New York Sun
Prospect Park
Battery Sea Wall
Hudson
Vermont
South Dakota
Montana
Migration of Wild Geese in the Hebrides
In late March or early April the gray geese of the Outer Hebrides assemble, forming a vast phalanx before departing for Arctic nesting haunts. The king leads the flock in wedge formations as hundreds of thousands rise, with 300 veterans joining to escort him to the pole for the journey southward in October.
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Hebrides
Arctic
Etherial Body Seen and Atmosphere Height Measured
The article discusses reports of perceiving the etherial body or soul via higher vision and X rays, proposing it links mind and matter. It then explains measuring the atmosphere’s height by sunset blue fading and trigonometry, estimating a range of about 109 to 131 miles.
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East
India
Yale Experiments Explore Illusions Of Senses
Psychological investigators at Yale laboratory report curious results from hallucinatory tests. In one test a tone seemed to sound with each click though the tone was omitted. in another a ball felt when the metronome clicked. in a third a bead appeared at a fixed distance though the bead was removed.
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Yale Psycholoical Laboratory
Architect Dubb Creates Six Rooms Where Five Fit
A caricature in the Columbia Jester mocks Dubb as a successful architect who confuses Greek temples with dog kennels yet boasts he can fit six rooms into the space of five. The joke centers on his grand claims and muddled design sense.
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Flubb
Squigg
Dubb
Columbia
Summer tourist rate to Southwest announced
Summer tourist rates to points in the Southwest. Rates set at one and one fifth fare for round trip. Tickets on sale June 1 to September 30 with final limit October 31, 1906. Applies to many points across Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Michigan Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia. Call for particulars. I McNair Agent Ada I T.
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Southwest
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Misiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
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Campbell
Pantech
Dr. King
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Sears
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