Immigrant Swindlers Target Graft on Transit to Citizenship
A harsh critique of steamship agents and petty bankers who exploit new immigrants. The piece describes how emigrants from Italy, Jews, Greeks and others pay inflated fares, face coerced extra charges, and endure delays from departure to Halifax and onward to the United States, often losing savings and family belongings. The writer links this graft to lax laws and notes these agents cluster in foreign quarters like the Ghetto and Little Italy. The article warns that the abuse costs new citizens and harms the nation.
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United States
Canada
Halifax
Mie Fo
Italy
New Naval Fighter Mighty Submarine HB Trial Underway
A new United States submarine, the HB, will soon undertake a trial voyage to New York with plans for a transatlantic run. It features hydroplanes, a drop keel, and wheels on the hull bottom, 161 feet in length, about 535 tons, powered by gasoline engines on the surface and storage batteries submerged. Armament includes six torpedo tubes, ten torpedoes, and a crew of about 22 under Lt. Kenneth Whiting, signaling a potential revolution in naval warfare.
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United States
New York
Atlantic
Kenneth Whiting
Navy
Leona Wells Wins Largest U S Salary For Woman Clerk
Leona M. Wells of Wyoming is appointed assistant secretary of the committee on appropriations with a salary of 2500 dollars. A veteran government employee, she helped the claims committee with 50000 old claims and will handle about a billion dollars in appropriations. Wells was born in Illinois, moved to Wyoming in 1899, came to Washington a year later, and enjoys outdoor leisure while proudly voting at home in Wyoming.
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Golden West
United States
Leona M. Wells
Wyoming
Committee On Appropriations
National Cooperative Intelligence Bureau Planned in Washington
Domestic service proponents in Washington announce a new bureau to supply domestic workers and assess moral character of employers. Julia James leads the effort through the Gentlewomen's Tongue, with clerical, social secretary, reader, and companion roles offered. The bureau, to be incorporated, will charge a placement fee and endorse employers after thorough checks. Endorsements come from leading clergy and local professionals.
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Ociety
Washington
Julia James
League
National Co-operative Intelligence Bureau
Mushrooms From Mines A New Market Idea
A New York man notes mushrooms are now gathered from Pennsylvania coal mines as well as cellars. He explains mine growing costs are low due to mule manure and steady heat, with market prices crashing to 25 cents a pound while demand fluctuates. He cites restaurant demand, a French waiter earning $5,000 annually, and warns on natural mushrooms and toadstool confusion.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Hmes
Long Island
Coin toss spurs Bakersfield oil bonanza gains
Four thousand barrels of oil daily gush from an oil field in Bakersfield country discovered after a silver coin toss. Owners Clarence Berry John D Spreckles Jr William Maguire and Charles Holbrook faced big options on lands and selected a site by chance. Engineering crews began drilling and within a week the gusher erupted, turning the investors into major oil contenders.
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San Francisco
Ofa
Bakersfield
Clarence Berry
John D. Spreckles, Jr
William Maguire
Charles Holbrook
Spreckles
Dentist Seibert Seeks First Patient For Missing Dog
New York doctor Fred Seibert at 185 Sherman Avenue is missing a patient described as an aristocratic dog with a long gold front tooth crown. The dog, known for drinking beer and smoking, allowed a gold tooth while the doctor was a student.
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New York
Fred Seibert
Sherman Avenue
Pin Through Body Reveals Pin’s Nine Year Trek to Calf
A Philadelphia native in Los Angeles swallowed a black headed pin nine years ago while pinning a dress. The pin traveled through his body, misdiagnosed as liver trouble and rheumatism, then tuberculosis. It moved from lung toward the heart, then diaphragm and back down to the calf, where surgeons finally removed it from the left leg muscles after a long era of medical watchfulness.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ulysses
Francis McMann
McMann
Philadelphia
Mailer Brewing Company
California
Girl in Blue Silk Pajamas Roused by Doctors in Omaha
A 21 year old Omaha girl Mise Saale Aller wore blue silk pajamas and rode a Harney streetcar at midnight. She wandered to the business district, was awakened by physicians, revived with ice water, wrapped in a cafs tablecloths, and returned home by automobile.
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Omaha
Neb
Mise Saale Aller
Harney Street
Gba
Torica
Rica
The Star Dust Man By Wilburd Nesbit
A verse piece personifies the speaker as star dust and cosmic material. It muses on being part Jupiter Halley Mars Neptune Saturn Orion Hercules and the Milky Way while pondering the origin of hair and the vast unknowns of space. The poem blends science and whimsy in a playful astronomy themed meditation.
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Jupiter
Halley
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
Saturn
Hercules
Pleiades
Arcturus
Making It Clear Has Been A Has Been Remark
A playful exchange unfolds as one person questions if another called them a has been. The respondent clarifies they did not call them such but insisted the person had never been a has been.
Cherry Pie Anniversary Incident Ends With Hatchet Gaffe
A wife bakes a cherry pie for her husband’s Washington birthday anniversary. The husband reacts with mock patriotism, then, in a dramatic moment, drops the carving knife and declares he must cut the pie with a hatchet, prompting a tense, darkly comic scene.
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George Washington
A Reproof At Table By A Fond Mamma
A mother reproaches her children for table manners while the children retort with a question about yesterday’s warning that it is unseemly to comment on others' manners. The playful exchange highlights parental authority and child wit in a domestic scene.
For Rent Open Minded Man and Acute Victim Exchange
A clipped dialogue fragment features a chronic bore declaring openness and an open mind, while an acute victim interjects doubting why any idea has not entered the open mind. The exchange plays on repetition and irony within a brief, dialogic tease.
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Sugar Trust
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