Circus 15 but a few days away in Athens
The Barnum and Bailey circus rapid rise in Athens as October 19 looms. Madison Square Garden opened April 1 with universal praise. Athens expects a three mile parade at 10 am and thousands more to arrive by rail. The show boasts 480 artists, 300 from Europe, a new $3.5 million equipment, and a giant downtown ticket office for early seats.
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Barnum and Bailey Circus
Athens
Madison Square Garden
New York City
Metropolis
New York
Europe
America
Palmer
Vinol touted as superior cod liver oil remedy for weak stomachs
Medical staff urged to prescribe Vinol containing cod liver oil peptone iron and citrate claiming it digests easily and strengthens patients from early on The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery notes Vinol is tastier and better tolerated than traditional cod liver oil emulsions A Savannah observer recounts a local tale about a ball chained to a laborer's leg as a thief deterrent and a joke about theft prevalence
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Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery
Vinci
Athens
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Savannah
Darky
Must Travel to Know Bold Chester Quote
A compact quotation notes that the world is a country no description can fully reveal and one must travel personally to truly know it, attributed to Chester. The line emphasizes experiential knowledge over secondhand description.
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Chester
Features added to W and A bill for re leasing plan in November
Banner's Special Correspondence from Atlanta details the likely substitution of the Andrews bill with a new measure on Western and Atlantic railroad leasing. Rep Dorris of Clinci surveys the issue, noting preferred commission structure to avoid patronage and ensure expert oversight.
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Banner
Atlanta
Senate
McHenry
House
Andrews
Dorris
Clinci
Releasing Commission
State Railroad Commission
Cascarets Headache Relief Ad Blurb
An old advertisement urges taking Cascarets for headaches biliousness and constipation. It claims a 10 cent box cleanses the stomach removes sour undigested food and foul gases, takes excess bile from the liver and flushes waste by morning, promising months of regularity.
Garden of Eden theory stuck on missing fossil sign
A New York World report notes explorers found a petrified stum p in British Guiana they claim may prove the Garden of Eden site but lack a fossilized serpent to supply final proof, leaving questions unresolved.
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British Guiana
Garden of Eden
New York World
Physicians In Germany Population Health Stat Snapshot
In Germany the number of physicians averages about one per 2000 inhabitants, with higher concentrations in cities and lower levels in rural districts. The ratio varies by region, reflecting urban density and access to medical care.
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Germany
Commerce Downs Fifth Aggies 32 to 7 in season opener
Commerce high school defeated Monroe Fifth Aggies 32 to 7 in Commerce Georgia’s season opener. Harden’s 35 yard run and Cooper L’s 65 yard end run highlighted a strong local performance as Commerce scored five touchdowns and two goals while Monroe managed one touchdown and a goal. Officials were Cooper referee Harden umpire Shirley timekeeper H. Davis lineman.
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Commerce
Commerce High School
Aggies
Monroe
Harden
Cooper
James
Shirley
H. Davis
Monroe Aggies
Bits of Byplay by Luke McKuke in Local Humor
A humorous collage of quips and exchanges from a column titled Bits of Byplay. The text features feisty dialogue about diplomacy, divorce gossip, a sheriff who is also a sexton, and witticisms on money and manners. Reader letters hint at social satire and small town banter with references to Kentucky locales and names.
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Sher- Prairie County
Comstock Vices Most Bitter Foe Dies at Fifty-Three
Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society For the Suppression of Vice, died recently after forty three years of crusading against indecency. He claimed to have destroyed vast quantities of objectionable material and led more than four thousand arrests with nearly two thousand convictions. He rose to prominence opposing September Morn and engaged in battles with prominent suffragists and other figures. He was born in 1844 at New Canaan Connecticut and spent years in New York armed for his campaigns. He leaves a widow and a stepdaughter.
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America
Anthony Comstock
New York Society For the Suppression of Vice
Comstock
New York
Mr. Comstock
New Canaan
Conn
Chicago divorce court opens with 2402 names on docket
Judge George Kersten began Chicago's new divorce court by clearing nearly 100 suits from the docket. None was tried. they were settled, continued or stricken. He warned of a busy term but urged couples to reconcile and start anew, extending best wishes.
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Kersten
Chicago
George Kersten
Judge Kersten
Seattle Minister Resigns to Rejoin Army Captain Hyde Returns to Duty
The Rev. Arthur P. Hyde, pastor of St. Clement's Episcopal Church in Seattle, resigns to resume full duty as an artillery captain. He will devote his time to instructing the coast artillery reserve corps of the Washington National Guard, to which he has been assigned by the War Department.
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Seattle
Arthur P. 8. Hyde
United States Army
St. Clement's Episcopal Church
Hyde
Coast Artillery Reserve Corps
Washington National Guard
War’ Department
Odd Happenings In the Day's News
Three women who passed the civil service exam seek mail carrier jobs in Geneva Illinois. A Jersey barn crew chased a stolen horse after recognizing hoof beats from his old mate. A German shell wounded a British officer in London. A shell—not fired across the Channel—arrived by parcel post to post headquarters. Two brothers marry, creating a tangled family web with stepfathers and in laws in Stockton California. One bride becomes her daughter’s sister in law and step mother to her brother in law. An East Orange New Jersey man vows to push a peanut 1.75 miles for a crowd at a prize fight, using a truck and a lantern wire as the course.
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London
Channel
Stockton
Cal
East Orange
N. J
U.S. Exports Surpass 3 Billion in One Year
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reports that the United States for the year ending August 31 1915 posted exports of 3 035 033 280, while total foreign trade reached 5 000 000 000. Imports stood at 1 669 698 934 with August showing a strong export balance and a large increase in free duty imports. Gold movements shifted with a net inward flow of 146 254 775, and overall foreign commerce for the year totaled 5 129 715 002.
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Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
United States
Burglary Intercepted as Detective Races with Silver
Dr and Mrs John A Kellar of Bridgeport Conn returned home to find a intruder leaning over the balustrade and claiming to be a detective. He urged them to run and help and fled with the family silver. Moments later the nearby home of Policeman Edgar Fischer was found robbed as well.
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John A. Kellar
Bridgeport
Conn
Kellar
Capsize teaches to swim on New Jersey creek rescue
Mrs Hatton did not know she could swim until a canoe capsized in Assiscunk Creek Burlington New Jersey. Thrown under a bridge she swam upstream an eighth of a mile guided by shore voices before fishermen pulled her into a boat as she was sinking. Her sister Mary Parker clung to the canoe during the rescue.
Supreme Court rules wives in same home cannot collect ali mony
State Supreme Court holds that women living with their husbands in the same household are not entitled to alimony profits, ruling against such claims and emphasizing shared residence as a factor in support decisions.
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State Supreme Court
Child in the World War Dramas of War Triage
An English witness recalls near front lines during a battle as a doctor recalls a wounded soldier. A searchlight sweeps the area and gunfire erupts as the speaker realizes the peril and fatal risks of aiding the wounded in a blasted lane.
Slayer, condemned to die, surrenders at Ellis Island
Miroslav Sichinsky, 39, Ruthenian student and former political prisoner, surrendered to U S Commissioner Frederic C Howe at Ellis Island after years of hiding and escaped prison twice. He aims to have his status adjudicated to become an American citizen and pursue education and journalism.
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Miroslav Sichinsky
Andreas Pototsky
Galicia
United States
Frederic C. Howe
Ellis Island
Sichinsky
Commissioner Howe
Austria
Governor Pototsky
Ferdinand
Servia
Count Pototsky
Canada
Francis Joseph
Stanislaw
Sweden
New York City
Egg laying record set by Lady Eglantine in Delaware
A White Leghorn named Lady Eglantine laid 287 eggs in 330 days at the Delaware College agricultural experiment station in Newark. Competing in the fourth annual international contest, she surpasses the previous 286 eggs in 365 days by a Plymouth Rock hen. The American hen is bred from an English strain, with five hens of the same line having laid 1,138 eggs in 47 weeks.
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White Leghorn
Lady Eglantine
Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station
Newark
Del
Hylantine
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rock
Eglantime Farms
Greensboro
Hair Brown Again at 76 in Atchison Woman
Mrs Martha Lewis of Atchison Kansas, aged seventy six, has regained her natural hair color after years of silver white hair turning brown. She is also reportedly receiving her third set of teeth, a claimed result of a natural curiosity.
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Martha Lewis
Atchison, Kan
Thank God for the might and heat of work
A poem by Angela Morgan printed in the New York Mail praises work as urgent, inspiring, and salvific. It extols the ardor, pace, and disciplined force of labor driving mind and body, shaping fate, and advancing civilization. The verse lauds labor as a conqueror, a purifier, and a manifesto for collective effort.
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Armet
Angela Morgan
New York Mail
Death tests used for soldiers on the field
The article reviews three medical tests to detect life in wounded soldiers. Eyewash ether reflex tests conjunctival reddening, fluorescein injection colors skin and mucosa if alive, and a heart-stilette probe directly detects cardiac movement. Each method aims to distinguish life from death in the field.
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la Clinica Medica Italiana
Icard
Hallui
Tipperary Hymn Adopted by Baptist Ministers
More than 100 Baptist ministers adapted the tune of Tipperary to a self penned hymn at a Philadelphia weekly conference to attract attention to religion. Rev Clarence Woolston said popular ditties should draw people to the church. The chorus praises Christianity and uses the familiar tune to spread the religious message.
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Philadelphia
Clarence Woolston
Satan
Cereal Crops Forecast In World Chief Countries
World cereal production in the chief agricultural nations is forecast to reach over 3 billion bushels of wheat this year. Cable reports to the Department of Agriculture from the International Institute of Agriculture project large yields across the globe, with Canada and Asiatic Russia contributing significantly to the total.
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Department of Agriculture
International Institute of Agricunze
Plux
Canada
Asiatic
Russia
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