No-Tipping Hotel Aims to Be World's Largest in London
London reports a 1000 room no-tipping hotel to be built behind Regent Street near Piccadilly. The plan includes a roof garden, smoking and billiard rooms, libraries, and modern comforts. Rates set at six shillings a night. staff prefer steady wages to tips, challenging traditional boarding houses.
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London
Joe Lyons
Engand
Strand
England
Salmon
Regent Street
Piccadilly Circus
Straets
Nelson
Aboukir
Hungry Sam Miller Devours Banquet At Kniss Farm
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania Hungry Sam Miller wowed a crowd at a chicken and waffle supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kniss near Strawberry Ridge. After 50 guests sampled the feast Sam consumed five chickens, 50 waffles, cakes, pies, pickles, and finally a full eight quart bucket of waffle dough before food ran out.
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Bloomsburg
Sam Miller
Charles Kniss
Strawberry Ridge
Kniss
Sam
Bed Bath in a Pocket Tub for Lazy Patients
A Chicago invention offers a six foot inflatable rubber bed bath allowing an adult to bathe in bed. Deflated it lies flat under a patient. inflated it rises to a tub with ten inch walls. Water is poured via hose, the bath drains back into a vessel, and the bather is dried without leaving bed. Promoted for typhoid fever and other illnesses, it claims to facilitate Brand treatment without moving patients, potentially reducing death rates.
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Chicago
Cara
United States
Photograph One's Thought Thinkers Discuss Vacuum Photo Graphy
Worcester mass Dr Max Baff of Clark College discusses a Japanese credited discovery enabling thought photographs. He proposes exposing film in a vacuum tank with subjects near the tank and their heads against it. He suggests developing the unwound film in darkness while subjects think on a subject for potentially interesting results.
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Worcester
Mass
Max Baff
Clark College
Wholesale rabbit drives sweep Lakeview district in Oregon
In southeast Oregon Lakeview area residents organize winter rabbit drives with lines across prairie thousands of rabbits killed by clubs, no firearms used. Coyotes also reduce numbers. Proposals rise for a rabbit cannery to process meat for export while vast quantities go unused. Meat and skins could be profitably utilized as farm work slows in winter.
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Portland
Ore
Lakeview
Oregon
Paralysis Remedy Is Near Says Rockefeller Institute
The Rockefeller Institute in New York states a cure for infantile paralysis may be announced within six months. Dr. Simon Flexner says revenge on the disease is near, with evidence of prevention and understanding of the germ, its spread, and infection pathways.
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New York
Rockefeller Institute
Simon Flexner
Forgetful promises in politics and marriage vows
The piece cites Champ Clark and Oklahoma Governor Lee Cruce to illustrate forgotten pledges and the shifting social expectations of public figures. It notes Cruce’s vow to wed if elected and his subsequent denial of marriage, plus his aversion to dress suits and preference for informal attire at formal events.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Oklahoma
Lee Cruce
Cruce
Kentucky
Cattle Queen of Osage Nation Found Wealth in Adoptions
A fifteen child widow known as the Cattle Queen began with a washtub and a cow. She cared for motherless calves, built a cattle trade shipping ten thousand dollar lots, and fostered orphans on the ranch. At eighty two she remains active and wealthy, regarded as a seer by Osage.
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Jane Applebee
No Extra Sails Wanted
Charles R Phillips an 18 year old from Carmi Illinois was refused entry to the United States navy after a recruiting officer deemed his ears too large and attention grabbing for a sailor's life saying others would mock him and make life unbearable.
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Charles R. Phillips
Carmi
United States Navy
Charles
Evansville
Ind
Phillip
Phillips
Two Games. The difference between learning golf and motoring
A quip by Puck contrasts learning golf and motoring, noting in golf you hit nothing at first while in motoring you hit everything. The saying reflects a witty comparison of beginners’ challenges across two activities.
Not Such A Heartless Old World After All
A Philadelphia case shows sympathy and kindness remain alive. Russian immigrant David Polykoff needed a transfusion after illness. his wife donated blood but it proved insufficient. Numerous altruists, from doctors to everyday people, offered blood and support. A second transfusion was performed and doctors are hopeful. The story ends with a reminder that this good world exists when its heart is touched.
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Philadelphia
David Polykoff
Swamp Green Attracts Proposals Of Marriage
Col Edward Howland Robinson Green, son of Hetty Green, reveals he has received about 200 marriage proposals from around the world after saying he might wed if he found the right girl. He mocks the letters, noting many are scented and recounts a dinner date with a woman who sent a red rose.
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Edward Howland Robinson Green
Texas
New York
Hetty Green
America
Gol
Constantinople
Japan
Russia
India
Canada
United States
the Waldorf
Old Hand at Birthdays
Classroom joke about birthdays. A teacher questions Willie for missing school. Willie explains it was his birthday and notes the teacher’s habit of not staying home. The exchange ends with Willie saying the habit has worn him down.
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Willie
Likely Story Opens With a Blurred Past Tale
In a brief anecdote a kind lady asks a blind beggar how he lost his eyesight. He recalls being a street car conductor on a fashionable line where the ladies harping scratched out his vision.
Bride of Skill and Strength in Wilburd Nesbit Verse
A humorous poem praising a bride who excels in many talents yet cannot sew on a button. The speaker mocks the groom’s boastful plan as he envisions a wife with broad skills from debating to carpentry, while he learns traditional domestic duties. The poem ends with his vow to marry for love and the joy of shared labor.
His Helpers and Vulcan Forge Lightning Flashes
A mythic scene shows Vulcan assembling thunderbolts with assistants who seize lightning and depart the factory. He names the first group underlings and the second corps as thunderlings while rapping out thunder claps for the visitors.
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Vulcan
Second Corps
Her First Social Function Debut Prompts Whispers
An infant christening draws a public debut as a baby wails in church. A pewmate asks whose child, and a neighbor explains it is the Mittles girl making her first appearance, prompting murmurs and a lighthearted remark.
Quote about playing with rude boys on the commons
A character notes he avoids playing with rude boys due to cursing and his own lack of training. He explains he has not learned to cuss well enough to empire nor to play, since the empire seeks retaliation against players.
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Commons
Empire
All One to Him but Summer Accents the Tongue
A fragment shows a village exchange where one speaker questions another about riding a dkate not in winter. The respond entangles dialect form as he explains that he only gets soaked in the summer, highlighting a humorous mispronunciation and seasonal misadventure.
Not Guaranteed Polish Described in Witty Quip
The remark labels a man as capable yet flawed noting his polish is brittle. One critic compares him to patent leather, implying durability issues despite surface shine. The quote reflects skepticism about lasting quality amid confident presentation.
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