Dealers Think Hit Price Peak As Reductions Put Pressure
A New York Times inquiry among wholesale and retail merchants and financial traders finds widespread belief that price reductions are climactic yet uncertain. Dealers note clothing stock adjustments, competition from department stores, and cautious demand as department stores test lower price levels while aiming to sustain higher class lines.
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America
New York Times
Anong
London
Taid Flere
Etay
Fragmented golf tale hints at purchase urgency
OCR reads like a garbled golf story about a first place, abdicating, and packing. It mentions Edinburgh and a ten week period to buy golf balls. The fragmentary text references a town and business, with unclear quotes and names.
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Coe of Golf
Edinburgh
Hidden Oxford Experiments on Youth and Sex Control
Reports claim Ju Horley, grandson of Thomas Huxley, conducts tutor experiments at Oxford on perpetual youth and sex determination. Achievements include tadpoles transforming within three weeks, a new creature form, flatworm rejuvenation, and frogs eggs yielding 90 percent males. The Daily Mail notes great potential in these discoveries.
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Bowen
Oxford
England
Man Horley
Thomas Henry Huxtey
Fromé
The
Daily Mail
Julian
Hurley
Lita
Professor Rice Recalls Orinoco Cannibal Clash
New York report recounts Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice and party fending off fierce cannibals along an Orinoco tributary last February. The explorers escaped by leaping into the jungle amid gunfire as tribesmen armed with bows and spears charged. Mrs Rice joined to Esmeralda, Brazil, then continued with the expedition. specimens were sent to Harvard Peabody Museum.
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New
G. B. Byers
Ortooco River
Professor White
Rice
Esmeralda
Brazil
Amazon
Rio Negro
Cangutare
Apecimena
Harvard
Queen's Chair in Jungle Discovered in Gold Coast Wilds
A massive copper chair claimed to be a gift from Queen Victoria was found deep in a Gold Coast jungle. Local legend says it marks a chief's grave and the spirit reoccupies the throne at times, keeping the natives from moving it. A surveyor and search party reported the dense jungle hindered progress and no full history could be confirmed.
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London
Queen Victoria
Eng
Gold Coast
West Africa
The
Daily Graphig
City doubles taxes on profiteering landlord Jacob Shevitz
Detroit city council imposed a 100 percent increase in assessed valuation on Jacob Shevitz owner of a Pine Street apartment house after finding he raised property values. The action targets alleged profiteering behavior by the landlord in the city.
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Detroit
Jacob Shevitz
Houge
Old New Year and Quarter Days in England History
A digest of calendar reforms and the shift from March 25 New Year to January 1, noting the 16th century Gregory XIII reform, Parliament’s change, and the eleven days dropped. It recounts public opposition and the concept of quarter days including Michaelmas and Christmas. Also includes scattered notes on solar age estimates and a wartime anecdote.
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New-York
Chetetian
New York
England
Callal
Sésbona
Gregory XII
Guesa
M. Peronnet
French Academy of Science
Navy Eyes Double Track Radio Pilot System for San Francisco Harbor
The Navy plans a two-cable radio pilot system to guide ships through fog into the San Francisco harbor within years. Commander H W McCormick says funds should be available July 1 and that the project promises reduced delays as vessels enter and leave the port using automatic signaling to stay over the cable location.
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Washington
Eulding
San Francisco
Caty
Golden Gate
Navy Department
Congress
H., W. McCormick
Patelfic Coast Radio Minterial
Mare Ieland
Las
Bureau of Steam Engineering
San S. Francisco
McCormick
United States
New York
Thio
Bry
Cilet Barbers
Canles
Navy
San Francisco Bulletin
Talking Machine Record Demonstrated by Wireless Speech
In Essex a high powered transmitter records a speaking voice forty miles away. A mastodon tusk fossil unearthed near Stockton revealed a large bone relic of prehistoric origin.
Jottings and Anecdotes on Marriage and Daily Life
A collage of humorous quips and reflections on marriage, reputation, and social behavior. Topics include how to separate true friends from phonies, the value of a polished reputation, and observations on courtship. Also noted: a New Aluminum Treatment from Christiana university using Labradorite to extract aluminum. reader anecdotes describe meals, census questions, and social missteps in lighthearted vignettes.
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Profs, A
V. Mf. Goldschmidt
Christiauta
Ekersund
Norway
Thor
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