Colby College Opens 1080 Academic Year
Waterville Maine September 21 Registration marks the 103rd Colby year with 114 men and 65 women entering. The freshman class is likely the largest in Colby history. Professor H L Newman a Colby graduate will start a new religious education department. Football players have begun practice and a game is set for Saturday in Springfield.
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Waterville
Colby College
Colby
Eoothall
Springfield
Pear Tree Blooms Twice a Year in South Boston Yard
In defiance of natural laws a pear tree in the backyard of Michael Carroll, Build ing Inspector, at 48 Old Harbor Street South Boston, is blooming for a second time this year. Carroll notes the tree has bloom cycles twice yearly for several years, once in spring and again in early fall. He references the year’s longest day June 21 with over 15 hours of light and the shortest day December 21 with about nine hours.
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Michael Carroll
Old Harbor Street
Boston
Mr. Carroll
Sere
Michael Carrol
Old Haror Street
Flooded Cranberry Bogs Escape Frost
Sept 21 Middleboro reports cranberry crop little affected by severe frosts. Most bog owners flooded beds in advance, limiting damage to unprotected, dry bogs.
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Middleboro
Lawyer and Insurance Man Clash at 23 Central Street
In a Central Court session, Lawyer A. A. Tucker and Insurance Man Sam A. Aronson clashed over alleged mutual customer variances. Tucker, a large man, challenged Aronson who ordered him to leave. Aronson defended himself, using a roll top desk and doors to eject Tucker into the corridor as a bystander reportedly slammed the door.
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Central Street
A. A. Tucker
Sam A. Aronson
Central Court
Higgins
Tucker
Aronson
Mr. Tucker
Mr. Aronson
Mr.Aronson
The Tenth Mrs Tulkington in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
Ellis Parker Butler author of Pigs Is Pigs shares his view on marriage in The Tenth Mrs Tulkington a complete feature in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Ellis Parker Butler
Bowman Wife Loses Trial Yet Regains Momentary Hope
Mrs Laura Price Bowman charged with plotting murder to collect five thousand five hundred dollars in insurance loses one champion today but regains another as L F Bowman her husband at the State Insane Asylum declares her recent mental state makes her unaccountable for the alleged plot.
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Huntington
W. Va
Laura Price Bowman
L. F. Bowman
State Insane Asylum
Fragmentary note hints at a court or defense funding item
The readable text mentions custody and a prison context with Mrs Bowman and a man named Price. It references Kentucky funds for defense and a mention of Mrs Tulkin Ellis Parker Butler in Boston Magazine. The garbled OCR yields no clear event or outcome.
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Herb Co
Bowman
Kentucky
Visit to Victoria's deathbed and German diplomacy
Fragmentary notes mention Victoria, King Edward, and a discussion of Germany's diplomacy and naval plans. It references Wilson's 14 points, a flight to Holland, and varied names in a chaotic OCR passage. No clear event or date is determinable from the readable text.
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Victoria
Edward
Earl ‘of
Austria
Germany
Zanzibar
Helgoland
Wilson
Holland
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Dez
Roquefort
Aoe
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Forts
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England
Versailles
Kaiser
Czar
Kaiser William
Ooston
Ohi
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Basta
Wailea
Ead
Es Hotham
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