No Bosses in the New Party and Local Flood Aftermath
Roosevelt outlines a genuine people’s party built on equal stake in leadership, not bosses, aiming for broad organization and reform. In Crosk valley a Saturday storm sweeps away homes, barns, and vehicles, with multiple farms devastated and only some houses left standing. A local man’s suicide follows a taunting remark about his red shirt at a Walla Walla plant. A reception honors Prof. Smith and bride as the Weston Leader notes a Ladies Band party with games, cake, and a mirrored gift for the director.
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Bret Speople
Chicago
Roosevelt
California
Crosk Valley
Charles McCracken
Campbell Place
Frank Jones
G. Lightfoot
James Nelson
Trail of Havo wrought by severe Butter Creek storm
A Saturday evening storm battered Butter Creek valley and nearby districts causing heavy property and crop damage. A wall of water swept through the area with roofs toppled, wheat fields ruined, and livestock losses reported. Named property owners and figures include John Crow, Claud Crow, John Rothlin, George Perringer, J W Maloney, Sam R Thompson, and others. Damages reach thousands of dollars, with estimates of crop losses and livestock casualties across several farms and ranges.
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Butter Creek
Butter Creek Valley
Birch Creek
Amatillo Reservation
John Crow
Claud Crow
John Rothlin
George Perringer
William Wright
Jobo ‘Todd
L. ©. Rothrork
Blakely Farm
Barrey
Roulstone
W. W. Harrah
A Storm on Galilee
A Travel Magazine account describes a sudden storm on the Sea of Galilee. A calm morning gave way to a rushing band of rough water and howling winds from 2000-foot cliffs, forcing a boat to beach and later calm winds return.
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Sea of Galilee
Tiberias
Capernium
Capernaum
Mirror
Travel Magazine
Sewers of Paris Showers City Streets In Waste Silence
A vivid note on Paris sewers praised as the finest system in the world. It describes clean up after Shrove Tuesday revelry with streets cleared by morning, the vast network of nearly 2000 channels, and sewers carrying cables and tubes. Also includes brief literary fragments.
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Paris
Wordsworth Recites In Garden For Emerson Visit
Emerson recounts: in Wordsworths garden the poet stood tall and recited an entire poem to the visiting American philosopher. The scene, true to Wordsworths rustic air, left Emerson surprised yet moved as the poet chanted like a schoolboy.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
England
Wordsworth
Ike
Stoves of Iron Superseded Roman Stuba in Eighteenth Century
The article traces heating history from Roman stuba to iron stoves. It notes stuba as fixed and immovable, used by the wealthy before Christianity, then describes medieval brick and stone heats in Germany and Scandinavia, large stove walls, and beds atop heated surfaces. Cardinal Polignac first built iron stoves about 1700, Franklin's 1745 base burner marked a key improvement, and private use rose after 1830 per the London Standard.
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Germany
Scandinavia
Cardinal Polignac
France
Franklin
London Standard
Traveling Stones From Nevada Describe Magnetic Rollers
Traveling stones range from pen to six inches in diameter found in a relatively level Nevada region. When spread within a few feet they roll toward a common center, then cluster like eggs. When a stone is moved three and a half feet and released it rolls rapidly toward others, a curious magnetic behavior noted by Harper's Weekly.
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Nevada
Harper's Weekly
A Legend of Agincourt and Realism With a Vengeance
A fragment discusses Agincourt legend and Shakespearean phrasing from King Beory V. The piece challenges French accounts of the battle using nobles fighting and a royal turn. It then shifts to realism in art with a New York artist railing at exaggerated depictions and a Chicago painter’s bath scene detail marked Nebuchadnezzar in cuneiform.
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Agincourt
Beory V
Shakespeare
London Standard
New York
Nebuchadnezzar
Lippincott’s
Thoroughly Qualified and the Diplomatic Corps Questioned
A Philadelphia Record report quotes a president challenging a candidate about being an ornament to diplomacy. The applicant replies with pride that four years as head of the church speaks to fitness. The piece reflects careful commentary on public service and career ambition.
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Corpat
Philadelphia
Ancient arithmetic problems from 1700 B.C. papyrus
Archaeologists uncovered a well preserved Egyptian papyrus dating to about 1700 B.C. showing arithmetic methods. It demonstrates additions and multiplications for unit and fraction work, with equations and problems on barley division and loss, circle area, and pyramid cable measures.
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Egypt
B. C
New York Tribune
Hero and Leander Improvisation On Primitive Stage
A London Graph summary recounts Christin Brandes and a young troupe staging Hero and Leander with improvised dialogue. Hero, torn between affection and duty, tries to resist Leander's pleas while the manager whispers to improvise and retire, ending with Hero exiting the stage.
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Hero
Leander
Christin Brandes
Brandes
Hellespont
London
Rossini Jokes Over Trombone Ordeal At Dinner
The Muascal Courier recounts a Rossini prank at a dinner party where a trombonist is tricked into playing after Rossini briefly leaves. The instrument yields a comical squeal described as a mass of sticky macaroni. Rossini then offers the coveted opera orchestra post to the trombonist the next day.
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Rossini
Muascal
Ronsini
Boston
Sunlight Kills Disease Germs in Simple Light Test
An instructive experiment shows sun exposure halting anthrax germ growth. Germs on gelatin plates grew 860 and 400 colonies under sun and dark conditions after ten minutes, then 2620 in sun and none in dark after one hour. The report notes that no disease germ thrives in sunlight and briefly comments on modesty hindering aggression and group access.
What She Might Catch and Other Odd Exchanges
Fragmented OCR style lines present a surreal exchange about parried gestures and annual clothes. Mentions a wife, a husband, and strange phrases like gore, gurt, and Ineltnations, referencing Thomas a Kempis in a cryptic dialogue.
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Hisnes
He-A
Appropriation on Ballot Sparks Supreme Court Dissent
The Supreme Court reverses Judge Galloway in the University of Oregon referendum case and declines to refer the ballot. Chief Justice Makin dissents, his first on the bench, arguing the form of the petition must include a full copy of the petition with each page. Justice McBride writes the majority finding forgery concerns allow the petition to go on the ballot despite missing copies.
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Jeption McBride
Supreme Court
Galloway
Marion County Court
University of Oregon
Makin
Supreme Bench
McBride Anya
H. J. Parkinson
Bakin
Progressive platform calls for direct postmaster elections
The Iowa state convention of the progressive party adopts a platform urging direct election of postmasters by constituents. Delegates to the national convention are chosen, with Judge J. L. Stavers of Boone leading the delegation. The platform criticizes Chicago conventions, praises Roosevelt, and supports primaries, rail valuation, and protective tariffs.
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Iowa
Progressive Party
Change
J. L. Stavers
Boone
Chicago
Tatt Nod
Rocanvelt
United States
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