The Pantheist of the Dragonfly Wood
Gabriel Swift obsessed with Keats and poetry discovers a nude naiad at a hidden lake while seeking a wood nymph. He misreads the scene as proof of pantheistic will, but finds a shocking, personal consequence as a splash reveals a naked body and a concealed secret.
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Gabriel Dante Swift
Baga
Felix Todd
Swift
Felix
Gabriel
Gabiel
Heaven
Gabe
Endymion
Hilla
Venus
Remarkable desert animals endure long waterless periods
The piece notes creatures like the peccary s desert dwellers and the mouga mouse surviving extended waterless spells. It highlights the mouga with a fur lined cheek pocket and claims a mouse lived three years on dry seed with no water or greens, showing astonishing tolerance and no health decline.
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Sonora
Mouga
Desert
Saved the Situation in Penny Pictorial
A man and woman argue about beauty and perception in a Penny Pictorial scene. The man asserts some women cannot be improved, singling out Violet Cochrane, while noting the other woman’s perfection. The exchange ends with a quiet, relieved tension as firelight flickers.
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Wolman
Violet Cochrane
Penny Pictorial
Banana Trade Surges in United States Markets
The United States last year bought bananas valued at 11.5 million dollars and exported about 1.5 million dollars of the fruit.
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United States
Eastern railroad tests show 97% of engineers observe signals
Surprising tests by an eastern railroad reveal only three per cent of over 2,000 engineers ignored danger and caution signals. Automatic block and interlocking signaling, with home and distance signals, highlight training improvements and discipline for violations.
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Yoad
New York
Speed Versus Safety In Rail Travel Debate
A Boston Herald view questions whether public demand for faster rail service justifies skimping on safety. It notes rising fatality rates, cites interstate commission data showing 11 years of rail accidents, and asks if carriers will invest sufficiently in equipment while the public clamors for shorter NY to Chicago runtimes.
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Publc
Boston Herald
New York
Chicago
Great Britain
Germany
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hberal
Slower Trains Signal Push for Safer Speed Limits
The discussion notes that the provision of slower trains and the common disasters of aging train lenses point to a move toward orderly, safety bounded speed restrictions, even if they lag behind public desire and corporate concessions.
Dad Murphy the Conductor and the Hot Car Hogs
Old Dad Murphy known as Dad Murphy the conductor of a westbound livestock train responds with military brevity to railroad officials. On a scorching July day he discovers eight hogs died from heat and communicates with the superintendent via telegraph in terse fashion reflecting long service and railroading habit.
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Dad Murphy
Dad
Burhaus
Murphy
Bears Try to Board Train on Pennsylvania Limited
Two black bears chased the east bound Pennsylvania Limited between Portage and Ben Creech on the Alleghenies summit. Stenographer John McEwen spotted the pursuit as passengers watched from the observation car. One bear ran on the westbound track while the other leaped at the train but missed the observation platform. The chase lasted nearly two miles before the bears disappeared into the woods. brakeman Walter Wynecoop had seen them nearby weeks earlier chasing a tramp camp at Kitanning Point.
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Pennsylvania
Portage
Bens Creech
Alleghenies
John McEnwen
Walter Wynecuop
Kittanning Point
Pittsburg
Ip Putehs
Walls Still Guard Campeche Seacoast City of Yucatan
In Old World like Campeche Mexico the ancient walls remain as a proud relic of the 17th century fortification. The irregular seven sided polygon bastions and octagonal water forts rise eight meters high and four meters thick. A barely visible moat and a 1769 cost record underscore the wall’s preservation and romance.
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Yucatan
Mexico City
Mexico
Hove
Campeche
Campechs
Tropics
Europe
America
Atlantic
Vera Cruz
Coatzacoalcos
Cuba
Spain
Carlos TV
Campecha
Retirement of Maj. Gen. James F. Wade Ends 46 Years of Service
Washington Maj. Gen. James F. Wade has been retired from active service at age 64 after a 46 year career. He began in the Twenty-ninth Regiment at the start of the Civil War, served in the Philippines for nearly four years, commanded divisions in multiple theaters, and held senior posts including command of the Atlantic Division at Governors Island. He also led the Fifth Volunteer Colored Cavalry and the Ninth United States Colored Cavalry before rising to major general of volunteers during the Spanish War.
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Washington
James F. Wade
Twenty
St. Paul
Philippines
Division of the
United States
Atlantic
Governors Island
N. Y
Sixth
United States Cavalry
Sheridan
Pleasonton
Fifth Volunteer Colored Cavalry
United States Calry
Jefferson
Ninth
United States Colored Cavalry
Texas
New Mexico
Eighteenth Cavalry
Arizona
Fifth Cavalry
Indiana Territory
Department of Dakota
Minn
Cuba
Cradle Rocked by the Wind Among Gilyaks of Saghalin
New York reports that the Gilyaks in Saghalin suspend cradles from tree branches rather than rocking them. Cradles are bark constructed, bound by deerskin thongs, with a hood and two suspension rings. Mothers in good weather place infants in the wind swinging cradle. no hand rocking is needed, unlike harsher days.
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New York
Saghalin
Peter the Great
Russia
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