Six Day News Forecast From Washington
Washington outlines a busy six day period with Taft's Cincinnati notification meeting and Republican parade, Hearst at Chicago convention, Bryan planning in Lincoln, battleship fleet overseas, and Quebec tercentenary events. Also reports on President Fallieres and Czar, London peace congress, blind conference in Manchester, and a Paris divorce case involving Count Bent de Castellane and Anna Gould.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Independence Party
Quebec
France
Czar
Washington
D. C
William R. Hearst
Chicago
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Hawaii
New Zealand
Prince of Wales
San Francisco I
Chang
Durham Stevens
Korea
San Francisco
Fallieres
Russia
Reva
United States
London
England
America
Manchester
Bent de Castellane
Anna Gould
New York
Paris
Prince de Sagan
Mme. Gould
Memory Test Ends With Umbrella Gaffe
A Canterbury lecture guest tries mnemonics while awaiting a London train. Shelter and patience prove dull until the “Only train to London tonight” whistle spurs him away. At the inn the waiter reveals the gag, declaring the man a silly humbug for forgetting his umbrella.
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Canterbury
London
Potman
Pona the young naturalist buys a moth book
In this humorous tale nine year old Harry asks for advance pocket money to buy a book on moths. The retired colonel approves and later at dinner asks about the book. Harry reveals the title as Hints to Young Mothers, much to his father’s astonishment.
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Harry
London
Hiding His Ignorance Joke Narrates a French Lesson
An official from the department of justice dismisses a rumor as ignorance of the law. He contrasts the rumor’s source with a French lesson of a schoolboy whose father asks him to beg for peas. The tale ends with the boy declining peas, highlighting linguistic misunderstanding.
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Department of Justice
Meeting Old Neptune at the Crossing the Line Ceremony
An inmate of Sailors' Snug Harbor recalls Neptune presiding over the crossing the line rite. He describes his own initiation in the merchant service years ago, the tar and ducking, and how captains missed the excesses while sailors carried on.
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Old Neptune
Father Neptune
Neptune
Not Up to Date Verdict Ignored Gravity Law
A Chicago Tribune report quotes a juried case where a brick dropped from scaffolding, injuring a man, was deemed not connected to the accident. The judge lamented the verdict and the foreman quipped that the law of gravitation is obsolete.
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Chicago Tribune
Kodol Promises Quick Relief for Stomach Ailments
An advertisement touts Kodol as a remedy for stomach disorders promising quick relief. It claims the product helps all with stomach trouble and is sold by all druggists.
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Bluefield
D. B. Baldwin
Pioneer
First National Bank
THE
White Pharmacy
W. VA
Silk
Ecru
Peeeiholle
Taffetta and
China Silk’s
China
Turks Building
Princeton Ave
West
Virginia
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