Two Season Tickets and a Hidden Romance at the Concert
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts two orchestra patrons who sit side by side for seasons. They exchange no names but share a growing romance sparked by music and a misdelivered chance. He, the artistically minded man, escorts her home after an accident. The scene closes with Allyne introducing himself to her mother.
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Chicago Orchestra
Earth
Allyne
Wesley Allyne
Wesley Allyn
Detroit
Hills
Chicago Tribune
Economical Kitchen Quips and Lending Insight
A Tid-Bits joke notes Mrs. Burnem claiming her husband eats much less since they stopped hiring a cook. A separate line observes that usurer loans rarely reflect creditworthy behavior.
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Sweet
Way of Killing Whale in Greenland Waters
Dr. Frederick W. True of the Smithsonian Institute spent two months in Green Bay Newfoundland studying finback whales. Ninety eight caught. eleven were not. Whaling now uses steam craft and a gas-embedded harpoon with crossarms. The explosion immobilizes the whale and a rope secures it as it fights. Death follows unless a second shot is needed.
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Frederick W. True
Smithsonian Institution
Green Bay
Newfoundland
Institution
Old Time Historians Reviewed By Modern Critics
James Ford Rhodes argues that Thucydides and Tacitus would be the top historians among English German and American scholars with Herodotus and Gibbon as strong contenders for a third spot. The piece weighs Herodotus’s accuracy and credulity, noting Gardner and Mahaffy praise his noble narrative while Macaulay admired Herodotus Thucydides and Tacitus.
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Thucydides
Tacitus
James Ford Rhodes
Atlantic
Herodotus
Gibbon
Percy Gardner
Mahaffy
Macaulay
The Lake Michigan diving bell disaster test
A phospor bronze diving bell five-eighths inch thick with bricklike ribs and inch thick plate glass windows weighed 23 000 pounds and sank in 200 feet of water. When towed to depth the rope quivered and the bell collapsed into a shapeless mass under an estimated 86.8 psi, over 1 361 tons on a six foot square side.
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Lake Michigan
Automatic Mauser rifle promises fully automatic loading
A new Mauser rifle patented last year features automatic loading from the magazine. After every shot the breech opens, spent case ejects, next cartridge inserts, striker cocks, and breech closes, all in a fraction of a second, reducing operator action to aim and fire. Engineering notes the design is neat and compact, though its practicality for military use may be debated.
The Marie Celeste Mystery Recalled From the Sea
A Boston brig Marie Celeste sailed in the 1860s with seventeen crew, a captain, his wife, and child. Near Spain the ship appeared intact with no sign of the twenty souls aboard, amid coldly silent decks and half eaten meals, prompting enduring speculation but no evidence.
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Boston
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Gibraltar
Coast Guard
America
Europe
Theory Should Explain and Be Contradicted by Done
A fragment discusses how a theory should account for phenomena and be challenged by evidence. The wording suggests a debate on the role of theory in light of results that contradict it. The source presents a concise philosophical stance rather than a full argument or narrative.
American girl Jennie Creek to receive Legion of Honor in Paris
Milgrove Indiana girl Jennie Creek invited by the National Humane Society of France to be guest of honor at the Paris exposition. At age eleven she saved a train from destruction by signaling with her skirt when a bridge burned and the World's Fair train nearly fell into a gulch.
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Jennie Creek
Milgrove
Indiana
National Humane Society of France
Jennie
Legion of Honor
Panhandle
Society of the Legion of Honor
Water Supply On Troop Ship Described in Detail
The Balding World explains a condensing apparatus that produces about twenty tons of water daily for a troop ship. Water is distributed through iron pipes to horses and soldiers, with tanks in lower holds and portable 400 gallon tanks as backups. Pumps lift water to decks with suction hoses to each tank and a rising main run parallel to the main supply.
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Tropics
A Botanical Freak Atol Islands From Floating Plant Rings
A botanical curiosity describes an atol formed by hoop shaped rings of growing plants floating on ponds and lakes. Roots deepen to anchor into soil, creating cup like basins that accumulate nutrients and plant matter. Over centuries these rings may become small islands aiding seed deposition.
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Little Island
Little Party Souvenirs for Children’s Celebrations
Japanese trifles make pretty inexpensive souvenirs for a child's party. Tiny paper fans kinds kites baskets delight children. Silk bags filled with ribbons please children. Bonbon boxes shaped like fruit and animals look pretty but costlier.
Store Seating Prompted Clerks Baffling Arrangement
A philanthropic agent complains that furniture department clerks occupy all seats while the store proprietors promised seating for clerks. A sales girl explains the seats are in the furniture area, leaving none in other departments as observed in the Chicago Tribune.
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Philanthropic Society
Chicago Triune
England's Armored Trains in Boer War
England uses armored trains to protect troops, likened to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters driving dyspepsia. The Bitters are claimed to cure indigestion constipation liver and kidney trouble and to guard against recurrence for fifty years.
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England
Hostetter
Sleep-Talking Husband Frights Mrs Henpeck at Home
Mrs Henpeck worries over her husband who talks in his sleep, a habit that disturbs the household and drives her to distraction, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
Northwestern inventors received patents last week for items including a spring attachment for pump rods by James Bane of Waseca Minnesota, an automatic magazine gun by Michael Beck and E Ferrant of Minneapolis, a self heating dinner pail by Harvey L Marlett and Cc Marlett of Fargo North Dakota, a plow courier by Will Metcalf of FandreaU South Dakota, and a starching machine plus a plow attachment by Caesar Wilson of Litchfield Minnesota. patent attorneys Merwin Lothrop & Johnson handled the filings at 912 912 Pioneer Press Building, St Paul.
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Northwestern
James
Bane
Waseca
Minn
Michael Beck
E. Ferrant
Minneapolis
Harvey L. Marlett
Warner
S. D
Caesar Wilson
Litchfield
Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press Bidg
St. Paul
Timekeeping on the Sta William Penn
Readers report ships and ferries maintaining schedules with punctual departures. The William Penn line remains noted for reliable arrivals, while harbor observers highlight tight timetables and steady crews.
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Sta
William Penn
Fae
A Book of Choice Recipes from Walter Baker Company
Walter Baker and Company Dorchester Mass offers a cookbook quality collection of recipes in a printed booklet. The notice mentions the cookbook and acknowledges the newspaper as a paper source for the publication.
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Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
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Baker Drug Company
Fergus Falls
Western Canada
Ottawa
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
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Thompson
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