Silver Chairs of Hanover Duke Headed for Sale
A Philadelphia Ledger dispatch claims the Duke of Cumberland plans to sell his solid silver furnishings and other treasures to pay repair debts. The Austrian aristocrat’s palace at Gmunden holds much of the collection, with fears the items may leave the country and end up in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art as war shifts wealth and property.
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Duke of Cumberland
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Ernst August
George of
Hanover
England
George I
Queen Victoria
Henry the Lion
House of Hanover
Gmunden
Austria
Europe
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Plan of Operation Fails
A young man entered a loan office seeking 37.50 with no security and proposed using future funds to buy a car. He said he would provide a mortgage on the auto as second security after obtaining it, but the agent noted the auto company would hold a chattel mortgage until paid. The youth bowed out as unable to proceed.
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Automobile Company
Film Flam Laughs In A Column About Opportunity And Sleep Talk
A lighthearted column features quotes from Martha Mattox and Helen Ferguson on opportunity and love, plus a quip about men talking in their sleep. Monty Banks jokes a man should talk at home without interruption, as the piece notes it has little to do with a science headline.
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Martha Mattox
Helen Ferguson
Monty Banks
Los Angeles
Leviathan the modern ocean liner and its comforts
A description contrasts the old windjammer with the Leviathan, noting the giant ship’s speed and passenger capacity plus a ballroom dining rooms smoking rooms tea rooms swimming pool gym health baths a small hothouse and accommodations for dogs.
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Ocean
Pistol Toter Disarms Under New Law
Uncle Yell Burnett became the first citizen to surrender his firearms under the new pistol law. He handed over a twenty year old five cylinder derringer to the mayor last week, a small caliber weapon likely to fatally wound a mosquito at close range.
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Yell Burnett
Arkansas
Wallace enjoys New York visit while praising Minnesota landmarks
Asa M. Wallace editor of the Sauk Centre Herald visits New York and notes Woolworth building Ocean Parkway and Coney Island. He touts Minnesota by citing state highways 20 million dollars spent and the Minnesota State Fair in September as the best show in the world.
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EW York
Asa M. Wallace
The
Herald
Sauk Centre
Minn
New York
Gopher Prairie
Sinclair Lewis
Wallace
Lewis
Asa
Woolworth
New Yorker
Asa Wallace
Ocean Parkway
Minnesota
Surf Avenue
Coney
New Yorker Flyer In Two States Kills Thirteen In Crashes
The New Yorker passenger train No. 30 caused two fatal wrecks in Illinois and Indiana killing 13 people. Four Granite City residents died in Highland Illinois and nine more across the line at Liggett Indiana eight miles west of Terre Haute. Aut accidents blamed on stalled cars at grade crossings. Train crews reported high speed before the Highland crash. Investigator Garrigus called Liggett deaths an unavoidable accident.
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Erre Haute
Ind
Pennsylvania
St. Louis
New York
New Yorker
Highland
Illinois
Granite City
Ill
Liggett
Terre Haute
Bac
Cal John O. Garrigus
Colorado's gold and silver lure in early settlement
A graphic Geologic Survey statement outlines how gold sparked Colorado’s first settlements in 1858 59. It details Pike's Peak as a guiding landmark, Cherry Creek as a key destination, and the spread from Clear Creek to towns like Idaho Springs Black Hawk Central City and Leadville. By 1900 gold output neared 29 million dollars.
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ENVER
Colorado
Charles W. Henderson
Geological Survey
Department of Interior
Pike’s Peak
Cherry Creek
Platte River
Denver
Clear Creek
Golden
Idaho Springs
Black Hawk
Central City
Rocky Mountain Range
Long's Peak
Boulder
Colorado City
Canon
I Springs
Georgetown
Tarryall
Fairplay
Gite
Oro
Leadon
Breckenridge
Georgetown-Montezuma
Leadville
Mystery Mount Meteor Deep Crater In Arizona Blues
Flagstaff attorney C B Wilson reports a giant meteor or mineral deposit beneath Meteor Mountain in north central Arizona. Over fifteen years of drilling by Holsinger estate workers has reached about 1700 feet with an ultra hard core, while estimations place the potential value at hundreds of millions of dollars. Local Navajo legend ties to gods from stars and a belief that disturbing the site could bring doom.
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Earth
Meteor Mountain
Crater
Arizona
C. B. Wilson
Flagstaff
Wilson
8S. J. Holsinger
Lagstaff
Ariz
Tians
Tut
Cestors
Hdm
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OUR Comic
Burt
Avi
Film Flam
Poser
CPI
Sauk Center, Minn
New York City
Pikes Peak Or Bust
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