Arctic hunter's year among Eskimos documented by Whitney
New Haven sportsman Harry Whitney recounts his year marooned at Etah Greenland with Eskimos after joining Peary's 1908 expedition. He details Arctic night survival, brutal weather, Eskimo endurance, musk ox hunting, and his silent treatment of Cook's return before finally boarding the Roosevelt and Jeanie for civilization.
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Harry Whitney
New Haven
Cape Sabine
Greely
Hall
Mr. Whitney
Montreal Herald
Etah
Peary
Jeanie
Erik
Roosevelt
Greenland
Sheridan
Arctic
Ptah
Whitney
North
Roosevalt
Annootek
Smith Sound
Annootok
Ellesmere Land
Cook
Doctor Cook
Anootok
Bushwick
North Star Bay
Baffin’s Land
Tennyson in the Mud A Stormy Night Tale
An excerpt from M D Conway's Autobiography recounts a stormy night when Tennyson led the narrator through mud, slipped, and sat beside him. The poet responded with wit and anecdotes as he grope for a path, quipping that the event should have occurred after dinner and to keep it from the temperance folk.
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Tennyson
Albion
England
M. D. Conway
Personal Item Missing Train Leads Reporter to Omaha Visit
A baggage laden woman rushes to the stairs to file a personal item about traveling to spend a week with her sister in Omaha. She gives the reporter her name as Mrs. George Mecis of Highland Park and asks not to publish the item, then quickly exits with luggage.
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Omaha
George Mecis
Highland Park
An American Duchess and the Ragaz Theatre Tale
An American heirless duchess from the Pin ger family is noted for a Ragaz amateur theatre episode. A New York girl asks if she is a real duchess and is told yes, but the duchess is described as machine made in a playful remark by a Knickerbocker mother.
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Decazes
Pinger
Ragaz
New York
Healing by music aids hospital patients in soothing pain and fever
In Philadelphia Samaritan Hospital under Rev Dr Russell Conwell, nurses report music calms feverish patients and eases anaesthesia. Hymns such as I Know My Redeemer Liveth and Flow Gently, Sweet Afton reduced restlessness. Dixie soothed delirium and The Last Rose of Summer helped sleep.
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Philadelphia
Samaritan Hospital
Russell Conwell
Redeemer
Afton
Dixie
Kentucky
Maryland
America
Jesus
Saul
Joe
Squirrels Hurt the Crops in Maine Report
Lewiston reports to the Inland Fisheries and Game office that gray squirrels devastate farms. Thousands of dollars in damage described. cornfields ruined as farmers petition Chairman Brackett for protection. A 2 year old law bans hunting gray squirrels, fueling calls for repeal and broader enforcement.
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Lewiston
Maine
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game
Brackett
Fish and Game Commission
London to Cleanse Children With Municipal Laundering
London’s county council plans to increase motherly duties by laundering schoolchildren with dirty faces and necks. It seeks terms with boroughs to wash and return children cleaned and, if needed, clothed anew. Kensington prepares to spend thousands on public baths as Chamberwell bills for laundering and brushing up 8,908 little children.
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London County Council
London
Teeis
Kensington
Chamberwell
Atom May Be Electricity Theory by Prof Nicholas
At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society Prof Earnest Fox Nicholas president of Dartmouth college argued that matter has never been freed from electricity and the atom may be an electrical structure and nothing more. He suggested matter and electricity may be the same in the final analysis.
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Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Earnest Fox Nicholas
Dartmouth College
Monkey in dressmaker shop provokes scene in Paris
A chimpanzee wearing a frock coat and gloves molested a girl near Rua Boileau as 20 workers left a dressmaker. She protested and was bitten. Police seized the animal, kept overnight, and its owner’s cook retrieved it. The police magistrate warned the creature for ignoring questions.
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Paris
Rua Boileau
Ship's Cats Vanish Off Pacific Mail Ships
A mysterious hoo doo grips the crews of Pacific Mail Steamship ships between Ancon and San Francisco as cats vanish from the San Jose, Pennsylvania, and Penna during recent passages near Lower California. Sailors fear tragedy and many vow not to sail again.
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San Francisco
Hners
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Ancon
San Jose
Pennsylvania
Penu
Lower
California
Anatomy of Woman With Reversed Internal Organs Described
Philadelphia reports the case of Miss Anna A. Moses of Osterburg Bedford County Pa a trained nurse with all organs reversed in position a condition termed eitus inversus She learned to write with her right hand but in childhood favored the left Her heart was found on the right side in 1898 and confirmed as inverted in 1904 after symptoms appeared He consulted Dr Mervyn R Taylor at 1706 Race Street who found the complete reversal of her internal arrangement.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Jordan
Anna A. Moses
Osterburg
Bedford County
Moses
Mervyn R. Taylor
Raca Street
Gems Worth Over Million Stolen From Edgewater Park Home
General and Mrs H Burd Grubb breathed relief as Mrs John Joel of South Africa left their Edgewater Park residence with a necklace valued at more than a million dollars. The jewel had kept the Grubbs awake ten nights as Mrs Joel, sister of Mrs Grubb, refused to place the gem in a safe or notify police. Her husband, a trustee of De Beers, is said to be worth over a hundred million dollars. Mrs Joel had earlier arrived carrying gems in her jewel case that were worth more than the reported total.
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Edgewater Park
N. J
H. Burd Grubb
John Joel
South Africa
Grubbs
Joel
General Grubb
Grubb
Barney Barnato
de Beers Company
Hdgewater Park
Love at First Touch Beryl Clarke and William Gooshaw to Wed
In Brooklyn a blind librarian Miss Beryl Clarke and William W. Gooshaw plan a Thanksgiving Day wedding. Clarke leads a school for the blind at the Pacific branch while Gooshaw guided a manuscript by raised letters and they met through a shared love of books. Clarke cites personality and intellect as the attraction.
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New York
Brooklyn
William Gooshaw
Beryl Clarke
William W. Gooshaw
Dan Cupid
Mr. Gooshaw
General Grubb Guards Jewels After Night Vigil
A report notes General Grubb stood guard at night over valuable jewels valued at one million five hundred thousand dollars. The incident highlights heightened security for royal or government valuables and the vigilance of guards responsible for protecting priceless assets.
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Han
General Grubb
Bowery Mission seeks jobs for idle Americans
Sending Idlers West New York. The Bowery mission launched a campaign to place unemployed men in the western states where labor is needed. Railroads will be asked to provide low-rate transport. Four hundred beneficiaries shared a free dinner at the foundation celebration, with letters from President Taft Governor White and Mayor Gaynor read.
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New York
Bowery
Taft
White
Gaynor
Parrot Shot as a Hen Thief in Connecticut
In Winsted Connecticut a parrot owned by Otto C Schneider of Sandisfield escaped and flew to neighbor N H Snow’s henhouse. The bird talked to the hens causing alarm and Snow fired, killing Polly. Schneider buried the bird.
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Winsted
Conn
Otto C. Schneider
Sandisfield
N. H. Snow
Schneider
Snow
Polly
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