Women Run Cancale Oyster Town in French Fishing Life
In Cancale a town of about 15 000 residents, fishing men spend most of the year at sea leaving women to manage the town. The thrifty oyster workers keep beds productive, with many widows and daughters supporting themselves. The women handle oyster beds, ferrying loads to market, while the town honors art and labor as generations of models and photographers visit. Across Europe King Gustav of Sweden also disguises as a laborer to study conditions amid a national strike.
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Cancale
Newfoundland
France
Eyn
Feyen-Perrin
Luxembourg
Paris
Gustav
Sweden
Louise
Indian fugitive shoots to death in Oklahoma schoolhouse
Cherokee Indian Jack Willis fled into a rural Oklahoma schoolhouse near Sleeper and opened fire on officers. Constable Tuck Ketcher was mortally wounded and later died. Willis was shot by Constable Wilson as pupils escaped through windows.
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Sleeper
Okla
Jack Willis
Tuck Ketcher
Willis
Keteher
Wilson
Schoolboy Dies in Arkansas Teacher Tragedy
Near Gravette Arkansas a schoolboy named John Butram was killed by his teacher A T Kelley. The incident centers on a fatal classroom confrontation and the alleged motive involving a discipline dispute.
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Gravette
Ark
John Butram
A. T. Kelley
Butram
Quotable Fragments on Virtue and Genius
A fragmented quotation piece lists thoughts from Hood Emerson Saint Gregory and others. It touches on virtue happiness duty and the limits of praise. It also humorously notes historical figures like Dickens Hemans Johnson Dante and Shakespeare lacking modern traits.
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St. Gregory
Phillips Brooks
Cunningham Gelie
Paris Revolt Cemetery Massacre and Grim Art
An account recounts a May 21 assault on a Paris cemetery by the 47th line regiment with bodies left in a trench and later burned. It notes a grisly sculpture "Le Mur Aux Victims du Revolution" and references weather reports, corozо trees in Tabasco, and a school incident ending with a fatal shooting during a dispute at Bear Hollow School.
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Duc de Morny
Paris
47Th Line
Moreau Vauthier
France
Parisian quirks and transit in a single dispatch
In France barbers display their craft with long beards. Paris links twenty two suburbs to the city by pneumatic tubes. The Bois hosts two major racecourses while Swiss cheese in Paris is a white cream cheese eaten with powdered sugar.
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Paris
The
Bois
Reading humor snippets from diverse papers
A collage of quips and jokes from various newspapers and magazines. The items span travelers, editors, readers, and cartoons with lines about love, marriage, work, and daily life. Names and outlets include Philadelphia Record, Chicago Daily News, Life, and The Jewish Ledger.
Cotton duck in market reports in duck hunter decoys
A Washington Star passage notes that cotton duck appears frequently in market reports and explains the term as the material used for decoys by duck hunters.
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Duck Hunters
Washington Star
Cartoonist Quip Sparks Light Laughs in Paper
A humor line from Puck prompts readers to smile at a cartoonist's jab about worms in fruit. The witty exchange highlights the magazine’s playful tone and appetite for punny quips.
Tragic Twins and Ills of Early 1900s Medicine
Fragmentary clipping notes sore eyes cured by Cuticura remedies, mentions a 65 year old speaker praising results. Includes ad tone from Potter Drug & Chem. Corp and a story fragment about a ringmaster at Lake Forest and a cannibals’ philopena scene.
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G. B. Halsey
Wisi Va
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. i
Sele
J . H. Co. Chatfield- Taylor
Chie
Lake Forest
Ongofas
Hark
Plum Lows
Philopena
Cheney Catarrh Cure and Patent Medicine Ads
An assortment of old patent medicine snippets promotes Cheney Catarrh Cure at one hundred dollars per case and Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for digestion. Quips about trains, airplanes, and a boy’s oatmeal breakfast punctuate a period newspaper flavor.
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P. J. Cheney & CO
Cheney
Safe Course Ends with Nighttime Near-Burglary Alarm
The Spokesman-Review notes burglaries in the Wilson neighborhood cause Mrs. Wilson to fear intruders. One night as Mr. Wilson returned late he crept up stairs and heard his wife say she would shoot if he was a burglar. The tense moment shows mistrust and danger in a quiet home.
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Jewish Ledger
Birmingham Age-Herald
Joax
Philadelphia Record
Boston Globe
Chicago Daily News
Jack Scorcher
Judge
Brooklyn
Whale
Jonah
Johnny
Mrs. Lapsling
Dinah
Chicago Tribune
Henpeckke
Chicago Record-Herald
Public Ledger
Greenland
Henry
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King
Gustav, V
Queen Louise OF
Sweed
Fachise
Ital
Ince
Rnte
Peret
SAGES
Emerson
Charles Dickens
Dante
Shakespeare
Atlantic
Tabasco
Bear Hollow
Kelley
Wesley
Plain Dealer
Borrowell
Borrowell—I Have No Use For That Fellow Bjones. Wigwag—Yes, Bjones
Philadelphia
Springfield Republican
Tommy
Paw
St. Louis Republic
Miss Cayenne
Edward
Charley
Puck
Dr. Pierce
Jack
Tom
Success Magazine
Perry Davis
Guarat
Brownh
John I. Brown & Son
Boston
Mass
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