Last Letter From Luzon Igorot Town Quisad
S. S. Drury descends into Quisad a tiny Igorot town near Luzon center, detailing daily clinic work at a yard with a large rice mortar, efforts to treat eye and skin diseases, and the communal cannibal feast cannar as a ritual healing, contrasting primitive life with hopeful Christian influence and future awakening through iodine and quinine.
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Luzon
Japan
Quisad
Igorotham
Ogus
Cansu
Canau
Troys
Hearing Opens on Enterprise vs Pennsylvanian Railroad Case
Washington June 14 1907 six Interstate Commerce Commission members heard the Enterprise Transportation Co against the Pennsylvania Railroad and New Haven Navigation Co. The firm claims Pennsy unfairly charges 22 cents per hundred pounds to Philadelphia versus 7 cents for New England Navigation Co for same Jamestown fish. If through rates are ordered Jamestown Philadelphia would drop to 24 1 3 cents while New England would rise. The case focuses on Jamestown Newport ferry status and amended Hepburn Act interpretation. The matter was reserved for an early decision.
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Washington, D. C
Enterprise Transportation Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Haogland Navigation Co
New Haven
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knapp
Daniel
New York
Long Island Sound
Jamestown
Philadelphia
Newport
R. I
New England Navigation Co
Enterprise Transportation Oo
New England Navigation Go
Enterpriseransportation Co
Sestance
Enterprise Transportation Coo
Commission
Enterprise Co
New England Co
Stainless Flag Day Plans National Worship Drive
The temperance movement led by the American Anti-Saloon League aims to mount the largest national demonstration for their cause on Sunday June 30. About 100,000 Protestant ministers nationwide are expected to preach on temperance using Dr. Ervin S. Chapman’s address The Stainless Flag as the basis for sermons. In Rhode Island State Superintendent Rev A B Cristy expects two thirds of local pastors to participate and plans 10,000 copies of the address for distribution.
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United States
American Anti- Saloon League
Ervin S. Chapman
Southern California Anti-Saloon League
Maine
Anti-Saloon League
St. Louis
League
Anti- Saloon League
Dr. Chapman
Rhode Island
A. B. Cristy
Early Aerial Telegraphy by Amontons
The Philadelphia North American notes Amontons as an early pioneer of aerial signaling. A system carried messages from Paris to Rome in about three hours using telescope posts across the Alps. Signals at each post formed letter combinations, with the key kept by initiators and distant recipients, but officials discouraged the effort.
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Amontons
Morse
Bell
Paris
Rome
Alps
Philadelphia
The Cottage for Modest Homes and True Simplicity
A concise essay defining a cottage as a simple economical dwelling. It contrasts modest cottages with oversized seaside mansions, praises reasonable design, and stresses homey charm through proportional harmony and unobtrusive coloring, citing Robert C. Spencer's House Beautiful remarks.
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Robert C. Spencer
The Arctic Outlets and the Ocean’s Balance
The article argues that vast ice channels discharge through Bering Strait Baffin Bay and the Greenland European opening preventing catastrophic landlocked ice buildup. It attributes Earth’s stability to polar placements easing ice accumulation and avoiding planetary upheaval shaping evolution and geography.
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Arctic Ocean
Beringstrait
Baffin’s Bay
Greenland
Europe
The Hotel Clerk and The Dream of Wealth
A Chicago truth seeker argues against the hotel clerk’s lot as portrayed in Collier's Weekly. He notes limited marriage prospects due to low wages and lodging, aging risks, and potential fates to night clerk, cloakroom attendant, or ruinous unemployment leading to the almshouse.
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Chicago
Collier’s Weekly
Missed By Parrots How Columbus Missed A Discovery
A historical note on Columbus failing to reach Zipangu due to a parrot driven superstition. It recounts his westward voyage after failing to spot Zipangu from Gomera and how Pinzon swayed the course toward the southwest guided by a flock of parrots. Had he stuck to his initial path, he might have reached the Gulf Stream and the shores of Florida.
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Columbus
Atlantic
Zipangu
Japan
Gomera
Canary Islands
Martin Alonzo Pinzon
Pinzon
Gulf Stream
Florida
Cape Hatteras
Virginia
Keep Yourself Young Exercise Daily for Lifelong Fitness
A New York Medical Journal excerpt urges daily strenuous exercise to extend life and optimize athletic limits. It argues that current age limits vary widely and that true limits depend on lifelong physical education, diet, sleep, and restraint in pleasures.
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New York Medical Journal
What do people mean when they talk about tacking
Bobby asks about tacking after hearing his sister describe her first sail. She explains it as turning halfway around and then sailing on the bias, while the boy shows confusion and a hint of hurt at being left out of the experience.
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Bobby
Old Age and Work Warns Against Retirement
A London Lancet commentary argues older individuals erred by quitting work. It notes that retired seniors often decline in health and age prematurely without active occupation, stressing that vitality persists with regular, moderate business activity and that disruption to routine leads to trouble.
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London Lancet
Indian Punishment in Baroda Echoes Historic Cruelty
A historical description recalls Baroda's harsh methods with elephants. A hundred elephants were state funded, criminals bound hand and foot were tied to an elephant’s haunch and paraded through city streets, suffering brutal injuries before beheading and crushing with the elephant’s foot.
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Baroda
India
Crossed the Border Extract from a Lady's Letter
A brief humorous note from a Simplicissimus extract describing swift travel and changing languages as locals swear in German in the morning and Italian by afternoon, illustrating a journey across borders with light satire.
Sun Spots and Terrestrial Links Remain Unexplained
Astronomers offer no accepted theory for sun spots yet note a likely link to Earth phenomena. They observe the magnetic storm and aurora borealis frequency curves closely match the sun spot frequency curve, suggesting a shared underlying cause.
A Mean Cut
Dora and Flora joke about marriage and a Pledge while Cleveland Lender and Jane Porter weigh in on worry and fancy. The dialogue hints at social expectations and concern over future behavior as jokes about drinking and marriage surface in a light, witty exchange.
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Dora
Jack
Flora
Cleveland
Real Sinkers. How they caught the thief at the railroad eating house
A Milwaukee Sentinel item quips about a thief captured after an 80 pound weight of plunder slowed his escape. The punchline reveals the culprit hid doughnuts rather than money or silverware, framing a humorous crime anecdote from the rail line eatery.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Partially Revived Scene From Old Newspaper Fragment
A garbled OCR snippet shows a scene where a child asks to place a ten dollar bill in a fainting mother’s hand and then requests ten more, captioned by a source text fragment. The tone resembles a tabloid or dramatic anecdote from a late 19th or early 20th century page.
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Johnnnie
Papa
Papsa
Johnnie
Resentment as a natural safeguard for justice and innocence
In this reflection, the idea that resentment is a natural defense mechanism is explored as a safeguard of justice and the security of innocence, attributed to Adam Smith. The quotation emphasizes emotion as a corrective force supporting fair treatment and protection of the innocent.
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Adam Smith
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