Learned judge from the Philippines and royal plans loom
Prof E Finley Johnson of the University of Michigan accepts a supreme judgeship in the Philippines. The new Japanese imperial palace in Tokyo is planned to be a bold Italian Renaissance style, 210 by 400 feet, to stand for ten years. Detected threats and fires touch Mason City hospital and royal heirs of Victoria include seventy three direct descendants. A long, unrelated column features a tale of Sarah Bernhardt and a Turkish play a story of Henderson Blaine memory and a plea for skilled workers amid unemployment.
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E. Finley Johnson
University of Michigan
Philippines
Japan
Tokio
Gas Pipe Burst Devastates Cloverport as Fire Leaves Town Homeless
A natural gas pipe burst last Thursday in Cloverport Kentucky ignited a blaze that destroyed about half a million dollars in property. More than a thousand residents, about half the town, are homeless. Neighboring towns rushed aid as no store remained with food.
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Cloverport
German Teachers in Chicago Protest Education Board Rule
Chicago public school German teachers object to a new policy requiring examinations in German for all teachers. The 240 German instructors fear mass resignations if the rule is not reversed.
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Chicago
Board of Education
Chicago resident Franklin Hatheway dies at 83
Franklin Hatheway of Chicago died aged 83 after a long career as a surveyor and engineer. Born in Rome New York, he joined an early survey party to map the lake shore sites of Kenosha and Racine and laid out Madison Wisconsin, arranging the site for the state house under commission from Territorial Governor D Doty.
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Franklin Hatheway
Chicago
Rome
Lake Shore
Kenosha
Racine
Hatheway
Madison
Wis
D Doty
State Register
Widow in Tarrytown Leaves $300,000 for Charity
Mrs Marietta Hay an aged widow in Tarrytown New York died recently in a two room house A house search uncovered thousands of dollars sewn into clothing and hidden in odd places Her will filed shows an estate worth 300000 and charity is named her heirs She kept a bag of stocks and cash on a tree limb outside her window to deter burglars.
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Marietta Hay
Tarrytown
N. Y
Niagara Falls Lit By Self Generated Power Shines Nightly
Des Moines Leader reports the Niagara Falls illumination by a plant owned by the falls themselves as a success. Regular nightly displays reveal vast waters and ice lit by powerful search lights, creating a mammoth, entrancing scene of granduer and color.
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Niagara Falls
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Des Moines
Chattanooga inventor patents lumber staining process
Aman in Chattanooga Tennessee secures a patent for a wood staining method that forces staining material through logs by hydraulic pressure. The process yields logs evenly stained through their entire height and can convert maple to a mahogany appearance at low cost.
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Aman
Chattanooga
Tenn
Boston Transcript
General Greene Denies Leave Request for Dying Mother
General Francis Vinton Greene, a strict disciplinarian in the army bound by rules, refuses a private from the Sev enty-first regiment leave to visit his dying mother. He notes his own father lay dying at home, yet shows unwavering adherence to military duty during the Spanish War.
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Greene
Francis Vinton Greene
Spain
Seventy-first
Camp Black
Hempstead
N. Y
Blank
Colonel Blank
Tampa
General Greene
Missed His Chance Lecture Gaffe Delights Children
An astronomy lecturer at the Society of Arts tells a story about a student asked to explain the corona. The student hesitates and admits forgetfulness prompting the professor to lament the calamity that the one who knew the corona’s composition has forgotten.
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Society of Arts
E. Walter Maunder
London Chronicle
Juvenile Logic Cites Propriety in Uncle Naming
A boy refuses to call his uncle by the expected name arguing he does not say Uncle Papa either. His mother’s insistence on proper address highlights a child’s view of family titles in a humorous domestic vignette from the New York Mail and Express.
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Norman
Uncle Harry
Uncle Papa
New York Mail and Express
Master of the house and a baby's name debate
Gilbert asserts a husband’s authority while Mason questions baby Henry’s name. The Boston Transcript notes a wife’s deference and a husband’s concession as a point of appreciation.
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Gilbert
Mason
Henry
Boston Transcript
Origin of the Yosemite Valley Glacial Formation
The National Geographic Magazine describes Yosemite Valley as a product of glacial erosion. A main glacier descended Tenaya Canyon creating the valley, with branch glaciers joining and forming changing valleys at junctions. As the glacier receded a lake filled the valley bottom before Merced River erosion drained it.
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Yosemite Valley
Yosemite
Tenaya Canyon
Fort Monroe
Tenaya
Little Yosemite
Illilouette
Bridal Veil
National Geographic Magazine
Where Girls Must Marry In Russia
The piece explains that Russian universities required women to be married to study there. A civil ceremony with a male student precedes study and can be dissolved after the course ends if the couple chooses. It cites Sonya Kovalevski as an example who married a student she met at the ceremony.
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Russia
Sonya Kovalevski
No, I Would Not Take Money From Treasury Says Politician
The Washington Star quotes a cold blooded politician denying accusations of attempting to divert public funds. He quips that if he could extract money from the treasury, he would not give it away but keep it instead.
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Washington Star
Realization by Pig on Load to Butcher Shortens Life
The Indianapolis Press notes a pig aboard a wagon bound for the butcher recognizing that overeating tends to shorten life. The remark frames a moral about excess in a compact, ironic wagon story.
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Indianapolis Press
Food of Prehistoric Man Reveals Ancient Diet
An analysis of dental tartar from stone age skulls shows corn husk fibers, vegetable vessels, starch, fish tooth fragments, fruit cells, wooly fibers, and mineral grains. Findings suggest ground corn and rough grinding stones caused dental wear, offering insight into meals from at least 4000 years ago per Chambers' Journal.
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Charters White
Chambers’ Journal
Eye specialist warns against cheap opera glasses
An eye specialist says cheap opera glasses ruin eyes and that many young theatergoers overuse them. He advises avoiding opera glasses altogether and notes those in rear seats often have the poorest lenses, preferring to watch performances with the naked eye.
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Philadelphia
The Minister and the Prize Lie
A London Leader tale recounts a minister encountering boys watching a ring where a dog is at stake. When asked what they are doing, a boy explains the game: tell the biggest lie to win the dog, prompting the minister to admit he once never lied. The crowd remains silent until a boy shouts to hand over the dog.
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London
Suburban Sweden Rail Line Car Used for Intoxicated Passengers
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor piece notes that Swedish suburban rail lines reportedly provide a freight car for intoxicated persons. The exchange suggests labels like Spirits in packages or Hardware, with the punchline that the hardware equals skate blades.
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Sweden
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Northwestbound settlers rates via Iowa Central in 1901
Reduced one way settlers rates to northwest points valid February through April 1901. For full details contact Iowa Central ticket agents or write Geo. Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
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Northwest
Iowa Central
Geo. Batty
Marshalltown
Winter Bargains Highlight The New Clothing Store
A brief note announces good bargains in winter underwear at The New Clothing Store. The item signals promotional emphasis and local shopping interest with a single retail location referenced.
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L. 0
Keepicn
Des Moines Daily News Expands to Eight Pages
The Des Moines Daily News enlarges to 8 pages while keeping a yearly price of 1.00 and AP telegraphic service. Subscriptions remain 75 cents for six months and 50 cents for three months with a circulation over 29 000. Address The News Des Moines Iowa.
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Des Moines
Dickens Supremacy in Library Purchases Noted
In a tablets fragment from the Chicago Times-Herald Mrs Mudrox notes her husband Joshua paid 2.40 more for Dickens volumes than for Thackeray from the same shop. The clipping also mocks hornet sting pain and hints at lessons from education.
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Dickens
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