San Diego begins Panama-California exposition work
The Panama-California exposition for 1915 in San Diego has begun with a welcome to passing vessels marking the opening of the Panama Canal. San Diego plans emphasize hospitality and progress, backed by a $2,000,000 preliminary fund and a California state building appropriation, outlining irrigation, reclamation, colonization, and regional history exhibits.
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San Diego
California
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Great Southwest
Mexico
Central America
South America
Sacrificed to Fashion and the Plume Trade
An expert cites bird slaughter driven by fashion, noting the lyre bird of Australia suffers massive losses with hundreds killed for plumage. Scrub fires destroy breeding sites, leaving only fifty-two lyre tail specimens catalogued in London last year. Egret populations vanish in North America and China, with select plumes valued at forty dollars per ounce.
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Australia
London
North America
China
Fat-reducing “aniztere,” a mock ad in dialogue
A comic fragment shows a druggist warning his stout wife not to interrupt his plan to sell six bottles of fat-reducing remedies, highlighting a playful household scene from a period newspaper.
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Deas
Smiling Dutch Women Behind Unpromising Fronts
A London Mail essay paints Dutch women as amicable despite solemn masks at Scheveningen. It contrasts The Hague’s village charm with official clocks kept twenty minutes fast and notes the calm, old world atmosphere surrounding the capital and its famed but futile peace conference setting.
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Scheveningen
London Mail
The
Hague
Versailles
Mind Reader Cheatum Attracts Men And Boys
In a one night lecture, Professor Cheatum, a mind reader and prestidigitator, addresses a male audience of men and boys. He claims a man in the hall is forgetful while a running quip from a boy about yeast cake night interrupts the show.
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Professor Cheatum
Mexico Distrusts Japan Advances and Coaling Station Fears
An unnamed Mexican-American informant claims President Diaz resisted Japanese requests for a Magdalena Island coaling station before a renewed U S contract. He notes U S pressure and Monroe Doctrine considerations, Taft mobilizing troops, and Mexican veterans of the Russo Japanese War who mapped the west coast and fear foreign influence despite immigration.
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EL Paso
Tex
Diaz
Magdalena Island
Japan
United States
Taft
San Antonio
Galveston
Mexico
Short, terse notice in feminine handwriting quoted
A writer notes that anxious readers fear a brief feminine handwritten message. The snippet opens with Dear Sir and mentions an exchange, illustrating how such terse notices provoke ongoing worry.
Lord Coleridge Praises John Henry Newman
The text notes Lord Coleridge declaring that Newman possessed the strongest intellectual force among nearly all great men of his era, as observed in Justin McCarthy's piece Pemimicornerg.
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Coleridge
John Henry Newman
Justin McCarthy
A Coming Calamity in After-Congress Opinion
A brief quotation from the Atchison Globe notes that after a man leaves Congress, observers remark that he no longer resembles a former legislator, prompting speculation about his post service appearance and impact.
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Congress
Atchison Globe
No proverb of man lacks sense in appetite
The remark notes a mule eats a fixed portion from a hundred bushels of oats while a man often overindulges, lamenting human foolishness in appetite and restraint. It uses a folksy comparison to question moral discipline and self control.
Rattlesnake Trade Brings Suit Against Express Company
In Swain county Manuel Weeks built a rattlesnake shipping business that drew New York scientists paying five dollars per specimen. A mishandled box caused a train carful of snakes to be killed, delaying traffic and halting shipments. Weeks sues for five thousand dollars.
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Swain County
North Carolina
New York
Manuel Weeks
North Carolina Mountains
Weeks
Express
Button Draws Lightning in Eau Claire Storm
Desk Sergeant John Johnson suffered a sore neck when a collar button was struck by a bolt of blue lightning during a storm that paralyzed the police department call system for over an hour. Call boxes failed and flashes lit the boards as the bolt traveled toward his neck. He quipped about preferring the tensorial arts over a neck shave.
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Eau Claire
Wis
John Johnson
Johnson
Hand in Ice Uncovers Body in Morristown Stream
A human hand surfaced through ice on a small Morristown stream revealing an unidentified man beneath. The head showed blunt force damage. An ax with blood and hair was found beside the body.
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Morristown
N. J
Church Ride on a Steam Traction Engine Sparks Lively Talk
Jim Nixon rode a steam threshing traction engine to church last Sunday. He said he felt refreshed and tired of pulling a horse and wagon when cars passed and joked about cruising the road in a rig that cars could not jar.
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Jim Nixon
Jim
Hedge Corners
Mass
Herald
As It Goes Reflects on Faults and Qualities
A writer muses on human flaws and the hope that others possess many fine traits before we judge them. The piece hints at social expectations and communal tolerance, framed in a reflective, observant voice.
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