Billy the Waupun Dog and His Prankish Past
Nearly everybody in Waupun Wisconsin knows Billy a plain dress dog with a fighter’s rep and remarkable intellect He is an inmate in the state prison serving in the medical department owned by Dr G P Messer Billy began as a rough bull terrier uneducated and fond of chewing chasing birds and napping in dust He was educated by his master and grew into a clever well disciplined companion through patient training and study of odors in the medical wing
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Waupun
Wis
Billy
Medical
G. P. Messer
Milly Frst
Billy the dog learns tricks and speaks like a judge
The Chicago Record describes Billy a two and a half year old dog weighing 44 pounds who learns to speak, walk through arms for meat, sit on command, and even act as a judge expounding the law. He enjoys a treadmill, chases cats, and patiently waits for prey emerging from holes while his owner photographs his antics.
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Billy
Helier
Monser
Aenis
Shea
Mie
Messer
Fernobie
Chicago
FUNSTOX ON THE FILIPINOS AND AIDED ETHICS CRITIQUE
Col Funston, famed for his Philippines campaigns, wrote home to the Topeka Capital before hostilities. He criticizes Chicago meeting critics of the war and portrays Filipinos as educated enemies of Anglo-Saxon order. He urges firm action and a strict lesson, even a harsh chastening rod, until subjugation and order are restored.
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Col
Funston
Philippines
Topeka
Ban
Chicago
Tam
Sam
Hired Girl Question: Bureau of Information Planned
The Household Economic association will open next fall a bureau of information for employers of domestic servants and seekers. A trained superintendent will assess applicants knowledge and offer lessons in domestic science. A clubroom will host weekly talks on cookery and sanitation and monthly social events for bureau women.
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Household Economic Association
Bureau of Information
Shailer
The
Lightning speed predicted for transit from New York to Philadelphia
Oberlin Smith predicting rapid transit by electric rubber-tired engine, with tubular frame and pneumatic tires, could enable a New York to Philadelphia ride in 30 minutes. He cites three miles per minute including stops, at the Cape May civil engineers convention. A house in Paris linked to Nicholas Flamel faces removal, with the building once rented to poor residents under his will for daily prayers.
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New York
Philadelphia
American Society of Civil Engineers
Oberlin Smith
Bridgeton
Society
Cape May
Ober- Mc Smith
Paris
Rue de Venise
Nicholas Flamel
Flamet
Ermyntruda Marmaduke Named for Baby in Brownlow Row
Bill Simmons and wife debate their newborn son’s fate and the registrar’s naming rule. The mother insists the child bear Ermyntruda Marmaduke, a duke’s name found by Mrs. Pippleton, while Bill contests and plans to consult the registrar. The quarrel spills into the street with Pippleton and Harriet entangled in the dispute.
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Bill
Avonvick
Gearmite
Bill Simmons
Ermyntruda Marmeduke
Ermyntruda Marmaduke
Penworth
Ermyntrnda Marmaduke
Billie
Mr. Simmons
Blue Gulch
Ermyn
Bui
Pippleton
Ermin
Pip
Harriet
New Year Mix Up At Registrar Ends In Laughter
In a noisy street scene Bill Simmons and partner Pippleton rush to the registrar to declare a newborn boy. A mix up over the birth and name reveals the child was registered hours earlier as Ermyntruda Marmaduke Simmonssex by the mother, prompting comic reckoning and plans for revenge.
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Anes
Bill
Shakespeare
Iipely
Tppleton
Tero
Pippleton
Pipriztou
Pip
Bill Simmons
William
Lill Simmons
Mountain Court
Shoreditch
Ermyntruda Marmaduke Simmons
Simple Epitaph and Oddities From Old News
Epitaph tale features a Yorkshire widow seeking a plain tasteful stone for her husband Williams Wilson who died in 1896. Also notes a humorous domestic exchange about exhaustion from planting grass seeds and mentions grafted potatoes with tomatoes by a French experimenter creating underground tubers and above ground fruit.
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Williams Wilson
Academy
Centenarians in Spain Favor the South for Longevity
Madrid reports Spain hosts many centenarians with 25 per million inhabitants, a figure rising since 1847. Andalusia leads, especially Malaga with about 100 per million, while provinces like Syria Alava and Teruel lack centenarians. The south of the Sierra Morena shows the strongest clusters, whereas the north rarely reaches even one centenarian.
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Spain
Madrid
Andalusia
Malaga
Syria
Alava
Teruel
Sierra Morena
Story of a Slave and a Miracle Medicine
A Manchester Michigan man recounts his wife recovering after years of helplessness through Electric Bitters praised as a remedy for female disorders and assorted ailments. The ad notes guarantee and price. Also reports a bone box found in Havana linked to Morro Castle defender Velacio to be sent to Spain. Chamberlain's cough remedy praised by a Newark New Zealand druggist. A peanut trust forms in Norfolk Virginia with five million dollars capital.
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George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
W. H. McKee
Velacio
Morro Castle
Havana
Spain
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Bill White
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Peelstrag
Cin Vas
Mr. Newgarden
Mery
Eczema
Phil T. Jones
Mixeraville
Ind
Swift
Atlanta
Georgia
Centenarians
Chamberlain’s
Charles Holzhauer
Newark
N. Z
HL McKee
Norfolk, Va
Eomanns
Ivesiinea Conducerd
U.S
Basom
Athens
OBIG
Othe Phoenix
South Court
W.E. Peters
Attorney At Law
Athens, Ohio
Newt Iy
Bank of Athens
United Collections
Brown
Bangia, Gashler
Saratoga West
Saylor Springs
Illinois
St. Luis
Springfield
Louisville
Cincinnati
AMD
J. Allen
Saylor
Bimm
Clay City
Iinots
OSW RY
Cincinnat
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Ohio
Dentee Ee
Soul Rat
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