Joaquin Miller Defies Death at Seventy on The Hights
San Francisco poet Joaquin Miller, aged around seventy, recalls his battle with illness and argues he will live to finish his life. He remains active at his rugged mountain cabin atop The Hights, where visitors are welcome but cautioned by the rugged trail and rough surroundings.
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Joaquin Miller
San Francisco
Sierras
Bay
Golden Gate
Queen Victoria
England
Mount McKinley
Joaquin
Mr. Miller
Golden Gate Park
Chinatown
Cherokee editor John M Oskison’s Rise From Vinita to Collier's Chair
Cherokee Indian John M. Oskison left Vinita in 1894 to study at Stanford and Harvard. He won a Century Magazine prize, wrote for the New York Evening Post, and became Collier's editorial writer in 1907. His work fueled the loan sharks campaign and the creation of The Average Man's Money department. The Cherokee lands he loved are no longer his daily home.
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Winita
Okla
Collier’s Weekly
John M. Oskison
Indian Territory
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Vinita
Leland Stanford University
Harvard
Century Magazine
New York Evening Post
Collier’s
Senate
Kansas
Russell Sage Foundation
New York
Spavinaw
Flint Hills
Hay Prairies
World’s Biggest Oil Well Sparks Oil Boom in Mexico
In Po trero del Llano, Mexico, a giant oil well maintains 300 pounds pressure and yields over 125000 barrels daily. After 92 days the total exceed 12 million barrels, with about 8 million saved in storage. An earthen reservoir holds 5 million barrels, while other tanks fill as workers expand storage. The well’s crude trades at 5 cents gold per barrel, valuing output near $2 million monthly, yet much oil still escapes waste daily.
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Potrero del Llano
Mexico
Buena Vista
Tuxpam
Geutu Builds Personal Crematory On Mountain Peak
The article describes Geutu's unique character and his self constructed crematory, a stone structure thirty feet high atop his mountain where his body may be laid in the future and ashes scattered to the four winds.
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Geutu
Clergy urges hatless evenings in church
The Rev. Charles L. EB Cartwright of North Avenue M E church tells congregants that warm weather calls for women to attend Sunday evening services without hats and men to remove coats.
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Doff Coats
Pittsburg
Charles L. EB. Cartwright
North Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Lightning Restores Speech After Lightning Fear
Miss Jessie Fisher, long speechless for two years due to illness, suddenly regained speech in New Orleans after a vivid lightning flash and loud thunder caused fear. The incident attributes a dramatic recovery to a near electric shock of weather.
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New Orleans
Jessie Fisher
Invention Reduces Ship Rolling From Hamburg System
Herr Frahm of Hamburg improves ship stability by water tanks running across the hold. The water transfers from one side to the other to dampen rolling, cutting motion from 11 percent to 2 percent in practice.
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Herr Frahm
Hamburg
Rotten Cigarette Paper Process Questioned
The article notes cigarette paper is largely produced from waste untarred hemp rope. It highlights an industrial method using hemp byproducts and points to concerns about material quality and supply.
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