Jim and I foil a bold midnight intruder at Aunt Mary’s
In a quiet night visit to Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary a robber climbs the kitchen window. A gourd, a cider barrel, and a hard fruit strike him, tossing him into a waterlogged barrel. The four residents tie the man, alert a constable, and learn he is an escaped convict slated for a ten year sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Jim
Atncle
Joe
Mary
Min
Elient Ani
Lok
Duele Joe
Aunt Mary
Ward
Munner
M. Quad
Gleanings on opium, leather, Cuba woods, and transit timber
Gleanings note 1 000 000 opium smokers in the U S. Leather waste used as cogwheels replacing cast iron. Cuba’s main exports timber are mahogany and cedar with rising land prices. Timber and lumber costing 2 000 000 used in New York rapid transit tunnel prep. once removed, unusable except for firewood and spoilage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cuba
New York Rapid Transit
Fragmented OCR: mysterious line hints at man height
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a man described as taller than another and a distance of about a thousand yards. The text is incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, or places to establish a full news item.
The Cook Book Notes on Meat and Salmon Dishes
The article describes preparing meats for soups by starting in cold water to extract flavor, suggests sugar for a crust on Hague, and offers a milk substitute for cream. It praises salmon as substantial though less digestible, with baking in cream mentioned. lists vegetables served as a separate course including cauliflower, globe, artichokes, asparagus, spinach, tomatoes and peppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Vale's Great Organ Gift Dazzles Yale Memorial Hall
The Newberry organ, built for Yale University, cost over two million, with a 32 foot open diapason and 4 588 pipes. Funded by Mrs Helen T. Newberry of Detroit in memory of her late husband, it ranks among the world’s grandest organs. Yale scholars Sanford and Parker tested its tonal range amid the hall’s classic memorial arch and ornate white finishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo
Jube
Newberry
Toke
United States
Worcester
Hogland
Biffort
St Sulpice
Paris
Sanford
Europe
Gloucester
Derry
Locust Swarm Destroys Coast in 1707 South Africa
An ancient record describes a vast locust swarm in South Africa in 1707. The insects invaded the coast, were driven seaward by strong winds, and left a shoreward bank of dead locusts three to six feet thick for fifty miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Double Track Motorway Plan From New York to Montauk
The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers and the American Automobile Association promote a two track steel road from Long Island City to Montauk Point. The plan includes a forty foot wide roadway with hedges and fences, gates for toll access, and limited maintenance. Estimated cost is $15,000 per mile with $1,000,000 for 112 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Come Telutet
Iron Lakes
Oity
Montaule Point
Stone
Natonal Association of Automobile Manufacturers
American Automobile Asociation
New York American and Journal
Long Island
Aea
General Stone
Automobile Club of America
New York
Newport
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Long Island City
Javkeou Avenue
Aban Doned Oliver Charlick
Flushing Meadows
North Shore Riltroad
Montauk
Thiy
Kentucky Court Halts Boxing by Building Injunction
The Kentucky Court of Appeals in Commonwealth v Terry McGovern and others holds that a court of equity may grant an injunction against owners and managers of a building to restrain holding a prize fight therein. The ruling delivers a severe setback to pugilistic contests in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petre Flebting
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
The
Commonwealth
Terry McGovern
Court of Equity
Kentucky
Honduras Must Explain Seizure Of Railroad Action
Washington June 22 The state department after reviewing questions about the seizure of the railroad between Porto Cortez and Vimboto by the Honduran government has referred the matter to Mr Combes the American minister who will seek an explanation from Honduras for its act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honduras
Washington
State Department
Porto Cortex
Vimboto
Hondurae
Combes
Floating Church to Feeds Berlin Waters for Sermons
A novel floating church designed to carry about fifty people will be built on Berlin waters. It aims to preach the gospel to the 130,001 Sibernitu and other worshipers who frequent the harbor area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porishermen
Berlin
Notable Figures and Events From Early 20th Century News
A collection of brief items mentions Miss Ellen Stone likely returning to Milo to recount adventures, a Russian opera singer recovering $50,000 from railway injuries, and a Rome charity concert raising $20,000. It notes prominent New York women and anniversaries, including Miss E Lowe of Batham England turning eighty five, and Northwestern University reporting a sixty year old preparatory student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Stone
Milo
Sarkisova
Ginger
Patt
Charity
Rome
Steet
Helen Gould
Russell Sage
New York
E. Lowe
Budson Lowe
St. Helena
Napoleon I
Batham
England
Northwestern University
Virginia Waterman
Tdvingston Syvenue
Branston
United States
Bird M. Wilson
United States District
United States Circuit Courts
San Francisco
Miss Wison
Illinois
Smith
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Glenwood
Reynolds & Son
Barre, VT
the Times’ Daily Short Story
Jim and
Vale
University
Speedway
Montask Pobet
Natural Food Company
Niagera Falls
Roosevelt
Albuquerque
N. M
New York Tribune
Taele
Hecker
Marrion
Union Cigar Store
Corner Cigar Store
Barre and Vicinity
Vermont
C. A. Heath
Elm St
North Main Street
Barre
Central Park West
New
Buffalo
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