Train Carriage Pact Between Violet and Dick at Hassleton
In a dec 2 1990 scene a first class carriage departs Great Midshire. Violet and Dick debate Uncle Gilbert and a renewed engagement as a looming conflict. They confront possible disinheritance and a plan to travel separately while weighing risky family politics and bond.
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Midshire
Violet
Lacle Gilbert
Hasselton
Gilbert
Borthorne
Becahniyt
Boythorne
Hassleton
Une
Jon
Uncle Gilbert
Memorial Church at Stanford a grand college edifice
The Splendid G Memorial Church at Palo Alto costs $500,000 and dominates the Stanford campus. Its buff sandstone Romanesque design features a 160 foot belfry with an elaborate bell set copied from London Parliament. The piece notes Mrs. Stanford's vast gifts, the university’s 1887 founding, free tuition since 1891, and a history of financial trials and generous philanthropy. It also mentions gender admission shifts and a tale of trainers and lions referenced in a separate anecdote.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Leland Stanford
California
Leland Stanford, Jr
Pacific Coast
Parliament Buildings
London
Stanford University
America
Stanford
University
Hat rule at Russian government houses causes disputes
In Russia no man may enter a government establishment without removing this hat, a rule provoking trouble since the government spirit shops opened. Officials and customers clashed over hat removal prompting the finance minister to issue warnings against disrespectful demeanor in State public houses. Rural delivery and telephone advances leave town girls traveling fifty miles to start anything new.
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Russia
Cesar's Ear The One Punishment Lions Dread
An examination of how captive animals respond to punishments and threats, focusing on a Berlin incident described in Everybody's Magazine. The piece recounts three lions Sammy Caesar and Mrs Grundy in a seesaw act and how competition for space on a block led to conflict and a clash of will between lion and mate.
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Sammy
Mrs. Grundy
Caesar
Berlin
Everybody's Magazine
Trolley Too Much for Horse on Bowery Intersection
A horse attached to a covered van blocked a cross town line at Bowery and 3d avenue as motormen and a policeman tried to move it. The horse stood patient while the 3d avenue car used power to nudge it along, illustrating electric power triumph over animal effort.
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Bowery
3D Avenue
David Harum
Willy Nitl
New York Times
Woterman
Escaped Convict Tracy Terrorizes Washington Frontier
A long narrative recounts Harry Tracy, an escaped Oregon convict, terrorizing Washington frontier towns in 1900. It details his kills, escapes, and the pursuit by sheriffs, deputies, and militia, leading to a deadly clash near Seattle and ongoing manhunt efforts. It also notes government actions on Sledge Island Alaska for smallpox quarantine and the Dolphin bringing $1,000,000 in Klondike gold.
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Washington
Harry Tracy
Oregon
Tracy
Colorado
Valentine Hay
Portland
Ore
Oregon Penitentiary
Salem
David Merrill
Roberts
Travernor
Arden
Maine
Merril
Columbia
Forc Og Sutherland
Vancouver
Barrac
Bert Bresoner
Salmon Creek
Laeetger
Reise Wash
South Bay
Clark
Puget Sound
Meadow Pont
Perth
Seattle
Merrill
Charles Raymond
Snohomish County
John Williams
King County
Bothell
Northern Pacific
Raymond
Williams
E. B. Breeze
Neil Rawley
Gov. McBride
Secretary of the Treasury
Interior Department
Sledge Island
Nome
Alaska
Interior
Treasury Department
Axe
Great Teachers Meet Draws Twenty Thousand at Minneapolis
National Educational Association's forty first convention drew twenty thousand educators to Minneapolis with prominent figures from U S colleges presenting addresses on school maintenance taxation and education abroad. Officers and directors were named including Charles W Eliot as president and W N Davidson treasurer, with multiple vice presidents from states nationwide.
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Binneapolis
United States
National Educational Association
Mi Olis
Gov. V
National Council
Harper
University of Chicago
America
Texas
Maine
American School
American University
Minneapolis
James Wilson
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell University
Philippine Commission
Philippines
Charles W. Eliot
Massachusetts
W. N. Davidson
Kansas
W. M. Beardshear
Iowa
O. T. Bright
Ilinbolis
Charles F. Reeves
Washington
Joseph Kennedy
North Dakota
Charles FE. Thwing
Ohio
Indiana
T. A. Mattlowa
A. V. Storm
Michigan
D. W. Spraone
Minnesota
C. M. Jordan
Nebraska
E. J. Bodwell
J. K. Baxter
Wisconsin
L. D. Harvey
Great Enterprise Aims to Span Africa with Telegraph Line
A vast electrical project nears completion as seven years pass and three thousand miles of wire lie in place with 1200 more needed to reach the Pharaohs. The line, cost at five million so far and expected to reach six million, vows to transform Africa from the Cape to the Nile, amid harsh climates and hostile terrain.
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Africa
Cape of Good Hope
Nile
A Stranger Seeks a First Rate Church in Town
A Ram's Horn tale recounts a traveler asking a resort resident for a top church. The resident praises the preacher as very good and eloquent, though refuses to name him. The exchange closes with a musing line about life’s most important things.
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Borythorne
Sle
Grmily
Panion
Boythorme
Notel
San Francisco
Stamford
Stasford Memorial Church
Cesar
Bloge
Dolphin
Klondike
Fanby -Tracy
St. Joseph
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