Great Marble Cave in Siskiyou Reservation Promises World’s Largest
A southern Oregon cave near Kerby on Sucker Creek, explored by Joaquin Miller C B Watson and Jefferson Myers, is hailed as possibly the world’s greatest marble hideaway. The four-level chamber system spans about 20 miles of passages, with walls of solid white marble and immense stalactites.
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Kerbyville
John Kincaid
Williams
Ore
Frank M. Nickerson
Cave Creek
Elijah Davidson
Davidson
Nickerson
John M. Chapman
Homer and
Ernest Harkness
Pay. F. M. Nickerson
A. J. Henderson
A. B. Smith
M. J. Anderson
Southern
Cost Of Panama Canal Reaches 98 Million
Advance sheets of the Panama Canal Commission annual report show total US expenditure to July 1 at 98,285,110. Of this 40,000,000 paid to the French Canal Company and 10,000,000 to Panama for the right of way.
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Panama Canal
United States
Isthmian Canal Commission
French Canal Company
Panama
Gatun
E. Blackburn
Kentucky
Canal
Commission
Swiss Woman as a Jailer at Aigle Prison
Geneva report profiles Mme Jenny Porchet a 53 year old widow who governs the Aigle prison in the Rhone valley. As governor and chief warder she oversees 12 to 20 male inmates with terms from three months to three years. She opens cells assigns tasks supervises meals and locks up each night. Porchet is praised for discipline kindness and personal influence on many inmates aided by two daughters in food prep.
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Earl van Natta
Missouri State University
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Daddy” van Natta
Papa van Natta
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Earl
Dad
State University
Audrain County
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Beard grows inward challenge for Wichita grocer
Wichita grocer John B. Roberts shows a rare inward beard growth on his left jaw since June. Surgeons call it among the oddest cases they have seen. an operation at a local hospital to halt the reverse growth failed to help.
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John B. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
Island Appears in Bering Sea From Volcanic Activity
Revenue Cutter McCulloch reports a volcano created a new island near Unalaska in July and August. By October the island widened and transformed with lava dust, new bays, and peaks renamed Fire Island and Perry Peak rising from the shore as steam and sulphur fumes lingered.
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Bering Sea
Unalaska
Revenue Cutter
Uncle Sam
Lieut
B. H. Camden
Treasury Department
Perry
McCulloch Peak
Perry Peak
Fire Island
Italy Feels Loss of Youths Report
Reports from Italian army recruiting officers show a sharp decline in physical strength among 20 year olds with thirty percent rejected as unable to endure fatigues. The drain is blamed on emigration of millions of robust youths, thinning rural and urban populations and affecting the nation's future vitality.
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Rome
Captain Bill Small Seeks Blackbeard Gold Off Honduras
Bill Small, master and owner of the yawl Catherine at South Brooklyn, believes he can recover six million dollars in Spanish gold buried a century ago by Blackbeard Latrobe on a small uninhabited Honduran island. After eight years gathering ship and funds, he is ready to try.
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Bill Small
Catherine
Twenty-third Street
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Brooklyn
Blackbeard” Latrobe
Honduras
Saint Gaudens $10 gold piece omits In God We Trust
The first new Saint Gaudens design from the Philadelphia mint arrives at the treasury. The $10 gold piece omits In God We Trust for the first time since 1873 and is expected to apply to all denominations. The Secular League has pressed to remove the motto from official items. The coin shows a spread eagle with arrows and an Indian head in war dress.
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Augustus Saint Gaudens
Roosevelt
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Philadelphia
Department
Secular League of
District of Columbia
Girl Seeks Switchman Job Breaking Gender Barriers
Helen Moyer, 22, of Lyell Street in San Francisco, asked E. P. Anthony of the Southern Pacific for a switchman post. Anthony praised her nerve and promised to find or create a position, noting a potential hire despite historic gender barriers.
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Helen Moyer
Lyell Street
E. P. Anthony
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Company
Anthony
Miss Moyer
Horn embedded in tree reveals 183 year old mountain sheep tale
Forest ranger John Elder found a mountain sheep horn lodged in a yellow pine stump near Redding estimates the horn’s owner was captured 183 years ago. The tree shows 213 rings total, with 183 outside the horn, and the horn measures about thirty inches long and six inches out from the trunk.
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Cal
John Elder
Paisley
Ore
Ingram
Lakeview
Elder
Takes First Ride at Forty-Four in Wisconsin Visit
Madison resident P. G. Stanton, a 44 year old farmer from near Platteville, rode a railroad train for the first time while traveling to visit relatives in Owatonna Minnesota. He said the trip gave him a light headache but he expects to manage the journey. He had only recently felt curiosity after his sister moved to Minnesota.
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Wis
G. Stanton
Platteville
Madison N
Remtives
Owatonna
Minn
Stanton
Minnesota
Monster Carp Caught in Medina County Ditch
Workmen cleaning the Granger ditch east of Weymouth pulled a monster carp three feet long and weighing 27% pounds. The fish likely stands as Medina county’s largest. The drained hole yielded fifty other fish averaging ten pounds each.
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Granger
Weymouth
Medina County
Man Mistakes Mule Tail for Light Pull
John McCarthy of Atlantic City mistook a mule tail for a lamp pull in a dark barn. He pulled hard, the lamp failed to light, and he was knocked unconscious, now hospitalized with injuries.
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John McCarthy
McCarthy
Balloon Craze Takes New York Skies
Balloon enthusiasts in New York push a new hobby as autos wane in appeal. Ten balloons sold at the auto show and many more orders signal a rising ballooning craze. A good balloon costs about 90 dollars and ascensions run about 50 dollars, with no traffic laws in the sky. Rear Admiral Chester plans to pilot a balloon after his apprenticeship.
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New York
St. Louis
Chester
Paris heir appeals to save dogs in Paris
Paris Jaime de Bourbon son of Don Carlos the Spanish pretender calls for reform to allow the public to buy captured dogs. He argues many valuable animals are sacrificed by Paris authorities and urges a program to save them.
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Paris
Jaime de Bourbon
Don Carlos
Tear Down Burrs Prison Washington
Workmen have begun demolishing the old Carter house at the marine barracks, the site where Aaron Burr was confined after his duel with Alexander Hamilton.
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Washington
Carter
Marine Barracks
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
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