Pedro the Mule of the Virginia Eats the Mail
Pedro of Guantanamo, the shipboard mascot on the battleship Virginia, devours the day's letters and catalogs as a waste paper chewer. The Cuban goat works through officers and crew mail, finishing in two hours and ten minutes, then rests behind the forward turret.
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New York
Virja
Pedro
Guantanamo
Atlantic
Texas
AS & Kid
Virginia
Navy Yard
Louisiana
Schroeder
Behind the Scenes of Peter Pan on a Shifting Stage
The article describes live backstage scenes during a Peter Pan performance. Stage hands and props move as the platform reshapes into dual scenes, Never-Never-Land and Our Home Under the Ground. The Peter Pan actress sits composed, guiding details and costumes with her input.
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Heaven
Peter Pan
Suspected A Family Row During Great San Francisco Earthquake
Royal Tracy recounts an amusing incident in San Francisco when he stayed at the Adams house. Overhead, two vaudeville performers argued for two nights, escalated to wrestling and chaos, and after a hotel clerk’s warning they were removed. Tracy aimed for ten hours rest but the quake forced a plaster shower instead.
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Royal Tracy
Stub Talmadge
Henry Savage
Southern College Widow Company
San Francisco
Adams House
Man
Tracy
Dandy the Poodle Lays In State For Six Days
In east New York Mrs. C. C. Gardner mourns her pet poodle Dandy who died a week ago. The black dog lay in state for six days, groomed and displayed on a silk spread with a taxidermist prepared to preserve him, as neighbors paid condolences and she remained grief struck and unable to eat or sleep.
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Dandy
Ex-Wife Targeted Mail With Pig Tail and Notes
In a Cleveland federal case Exhibit A a satin lined pig tail tied with pink ribbon was mailed to Mrs. Platt. Exhibit B contained a troubling note. Claude Platt and Lulla Underwood of Wellington were sent to the grand jury for mailing the items to Mrs. Platt, who identified the handwriting as her ex-husband's. Platt denies sending them. he claimed he cut off a pig's tail and drove Underwood to mail a letter. They were jailed in default of bail.
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Cleveland
United States
Walthen
Claude Platt
Lulla Underwood
Wellington
Federal Grand Jury
Mysterious Shock Cures Paralyzed Man in Illinois
James H. Showers of Kewanee Illinois a 60 year old paralyzed man recovered his use of all limbs after an electric shock like sensation passed through his body He had given up treatment as hopeless and is mystified by the sudden recovery after eight years of paralysis.
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Kewanee
Ill
James H. Showers
Mr. Showers
Norfolk Woman’s Rapid Courtship Ends in New York Elopement
Miss Rose Skinner of Norfolk married magazine writer George Bronson Howard after a Baltimore fire near miss and a swift elopement in the Little Church Around the Corner New York. The couple departed for a European tour on Saturday.
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Norfolk
Baltimore
New York
Rose Skinner
George Bronson Howard
Fifth Avenue Faces an Invasion by Business Houses
New York on Fifth Avenue sees a flood of commerce pushing north of Forty-seventh Street threatening the exclusive mansions of Vanderbilt and other fortunes. The Windsor Arcade and rising business rents push trade toward Fifty-first Street, prompting Columbia College trustees to consider a night college linked to the College of the City. Local leaders view a night program as meeting demand for after-hours study, with Cooper Union and the universities offering partial options.
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Forty-seventh
F Eighty-first Street
Columbia College
Fifth Avenue
Perity
Forty-seventh Street
Ford
Fifty-first Street
Columbia
Ess
College of the City of
New York
Cooper Union
Night College Movement Aims To Serve Working City Students
Advocates push for a city night college to supply free or affordable education to working adults who cannot attend day classes. Existing city college enrolls 800 plus but only about 200 graduate, with four fifths leaving to work. Supporters argue tuition relief and flexible hours will expand access and meet rising demand.
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City College
Anti death by own action bureau lights darker Hamlet side
The Salvation Army in New York reports rising personal crisis cases with 22.7 per 100,000 in New York and higher rates in Hoboken 29.2 and San Francisco 49.6. Four men and one woman described dire losses, swindles, gambling debts, crime indictments and drug troubles, seeking help to avoid death by action. Also noted is a novel idea to use NYC post office staff as outdoor league coaches, sanctioned by President Roosevelt.
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Salvation Army
New York
Hamlet
Army
Hoboken
St. Louis
San Francisco
Wall Street
Federal Ball League Aims at Roosevelt Idea for Post Office Teams
The article outlines a new Federal Ball League formed by United States post offices to honor Theodore Roosevelt by developing physical prowess alongside intellect. It notes prospects of teams in New York and Washington, with Speck planning moves to Philadelphia and Baltimore, and anticipates clubs in Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago Indianapolis Louisville St Louis Denver and possibly San Francisco as the movement grows.
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New York Post Office
Federal Service
Roosevelt
Wilcox
William J. Speck
Money Order Department
Post Office
Mwo Postal Service
Baseball League
United States
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
Indianapolis
Louisville
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Hartford's Gillette and Dockstader Rise From City Roots
The piece traces William Gillette and Lew Dockstader from Hartford high school stage successes to famed collaborative theater figures. It notes Gillette's engineering flair behind The Sherlock Holmes era and other stage innovations, and recalls Otis Skinner and Lucius Dockstader early performances amid Hartford's dramatic milieu. Also references a dramatic escape during an earthquake in Golden Gate Park.
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William Gillette
Lew Dockstader
Hartford
Conn
Mr. Gillette
Mark Twain
Otis Skinner
Gillette
Secret Service
Sherlock Holmes
Clarice
Skinner
Scott
Mr. Skinner
Nerva
Lucius Dockstader
Paul Revere
Thespis
Danish actor Sangerberg to tour American stage
A leading Danish actor from Copenhagen arrives in New York and will perform in a three month American tour. He will present nine classics of the Danish stage in Chicago Omaha and San Francisco. Mr and Mrs Sam Bernard welcome a six and a half pound girl, their second child. Doris Mitchell mid Chicago acts in The Mills of the Gods at the Astor in New York. Mme Alla Nazimova accepts a new play on Abelard and Eloise for early production.
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Copenhagen
York
Christian Sangerbers
Royal Theater
New Lake
New York
Sangerberg
Chicago
Omaha
San Francisco
Sam Bernard
Richard
Doris Mitchell
Lydia Furlong
George Broadhurst
Astor Theater
Mme
Alla Nazimova
Abelard
Heloise
Ridgely Torrence
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Pedro Dotes
Billy
Maude Adams
Chamber of Death
Mrs. Gordon
Margaret Illington
Colleg
Anti-Suicide Bureau
Federal Ball League
NEW
Ness
Otis, William and
Lew
Golden Gate Park
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