Wild Runaway Horse Rides Indianapolis Boulevards
Grace Mockford and Edith Timmerman found a pleasant drive turned chaotic when a reins snapped and the horse bolted from Capitol Avenue toward Twentieth Street. A brave bystander vaulted aboard, grabbing the reins and latching onto the bus rings to stop the runaway.
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Ndianapolis
Ind
Grace @ Mockford
Edith Timmerman
North
Illinois Street
Capitol Avenue
Ohio Street
Twentieth Street
Oklahoma man loses money in old odd man wins game
A. E. Peyton from Hugo Oklahoma traveled to Kansas City with cash and two $50 money orders. He met a man named Kent and another stranger in a setup gambling scheme. In thirty minutes Peyton lost 138 dollars and two money orders before kent was arrested by a police officer.
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Peyton
Hugo
Okla
Ninth
Main Streets
Himsel
Frank Kent
Kent
Oklahoma
Child’s Screams Trigger Stop On Hodiamont Car
In St Louis, a seven year old girl’s loud screams as Hodiamont car begins moving after stopping at Clara Avenue cause a near panic. A mother chases to catch the car but is left behind. the conductor’s stop signal halts the train. The child’s scream is credited with averting a potential kidnapping.
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T. Louis
Clara Avenue
Newsboys Form Police Squad in Springfield
Springfield Newsboys association establishes a patrol force to supervise the business district and protect newsies rights. Solomon Skvirsky, president and ex-officio chief, leads a ward officer for each city ward to curb gambling and petty theft among about 600 newsboys.
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Pringfield
Mass
Springfield Newsboys’ Association
Solomon Skvirsky
Skvirsky
Russia
Springfield
Center of Drum Industry in Granville Mass
Granville Massachusetts ships nearly half a million toy drums yearly and illustrates modern mass production. A unique eight foot hoop drum advertised with a horse driven through the barrel and telegraph poles as drumsticks became a local legend after a Boston display collapse. The article describes labor division, head production from sheepskins and calfskin, and a wood barrel peeled by a machine.
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Granville
Mass
Boston
Pacific
Medicine Dropper Necessity Sparks Ingenious Eggshell Solution
A man with unsteady hands requires a seven drop dose of powerful medicine. With no medicine dropper at home and the family also shaky, a visiting relative proposes a makeshift device. They drill a pinhead hole in a raw eggshell to let the medicine drip in exact drops.
French inventor offers simple swimming apparatus
A new swimming device by a French inventor lets a person with no training pass through water at sixteen miles an hour. The design uses a six foot plank with floats at each end and folds for easy transport.
Adventurous Life of Dr George Ernest Morrison
Dr George Ernest Morrison, named financial adviser to the president of China, is described by Jens the Tagliche Rundschau as an adventurous writer and opponent of German policy. Morrison, long-time London Times Beijing correspondent, is Australian by birth, educated in Melbourne and Edinburgh. In 1883 he survived a spear attack in New Guinea. the spearhead was removed in 1884 in Edinburgh. His notable work includes An Australian in China.
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George Ernest Morrison
China
Bhoud Netable
Venturous Heeler
Edinburg
For Her Mother's Sake
A count asks if the heiress can learn to love him. She refuses to be cruel and break her mother's heart yet agrees to become his. The dialogue reveals motive and affection amid intended union.
Odd Callings Are Found in Uncle Sam's Census
The piece notes strange occupations listed in the thirteenth U.S. census. Examples include a Texas snake merchant selling over 160000 rattlers and snakes, a shoe industry array of odd roles, a Kansas City smoker of hickory logs, walrus mustache gatherer in Seattle, and various factory and dock positions such as whirler pouncer walloper vibrator tonger teaser.
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Uncle Sam
Texas
Kansas City
Seattle
Bering Strait
Pacific
China
Tests Link Stable Flies to Infantile Paralysis Spread
Urge Surgeon John F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost of the U S Public Health Service report replication of Rosenau's findings at the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Infected monkeys exposed to 300 stable fly bites daily from October 3 to 8 developed paralysis, with several cases proving infection and one showing the characteristic cord lesion.
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Urgeon
John F. Anderson
Wade H. Frost
United States Public Health Service
Milton J. Roseneau
Harvard Medical School
Rosenau
Anderson
Frost
Washington
Fair Sex Drinks More Than Men in the Capital
Albert E. Shoemaker of the Anti Saloon League accuses increasing liquor use among women in the national capital, especially young girls, while men grow abstemious. He blamed cafes for encouraging women's drinking and spoke before the Women’s Christian Temperance union. A government hospital report notes many foreign insane patients and a rising insanity rate among bachelors.
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National Capital
Albert E. Shoemaker
Anti-Saloon League
District of Columbia
Shoemaker
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Capital Society Girls Turn From Sports to Art Classes
Washington elites abandon outdoor sport to study oil painting at the Corcoran under EH C Messer. Daughters of cabinet officers and diplomats join the art school, with Miss Nagel and Miss Meyer highlighted for notable progress. the class includes about a dozen from the city’s smartest families.
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AAP
Washington Society
EH. C. Messer
Corcoran Art Gallery
Messer
Nagel
Meyer
Miss Townsend
Portugal
Manuel
London
Mies Hildegarde Nagel
Commerce and Labor
Mise Meyer
Navy
Washington
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A. E. Peyton
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Ster
Chicago Newsboys’ Association
Main Street
Eek Peice
Ted Eines
Center OF
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Ashington
Joe
Capital Society
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