American Girl in London to Sing Old Negro Songs
Miss Clara Alexander of Memphis Tennessee attracts London society by singing old plantation songs for the King and Queen. She declined a stage career preferring native southern melodies and has become a fashionable favorite in the English capital awaiting a royal audience.
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King
Southland
London
Clara Alexander
Memphis
Tenn
Oldland
England
Miss Alexander
John Mackay
Tennessee
Darky
Gilbert
Lady Bancroft
Juliet
Ludlow
Portland Place
Alexes Mame
Edward
Alexandra
Brooks
Hileo Miesander
Hon Augustus Browne Sags in Cleveland Streetcar Incident
A crowded Cleveland street car at peak hour snaps the tail of Hon. Augustus Browne trousers as he sits while the car pulls away, leaving him seated on Belgian blocks. Eyewitnesses note the spectacle, discuss potential damages from the car line owner, and recount Browne’s dignified protest amid the mishap.
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Augustus Browne
Cleveland
Galo
Browne
Augustus
Rowne
Mr. Browne
Union
Thomas Johnson
Marquis Ito’s Humble Birth and Western Transformation
Japan’s Marquis Ito, once stoned by a mob, rose from rustic origins as son of gardener Juzo Ito. He secretly boarded a Liverpool-bound ship hidden in a bale for hours to reach Europe, aiming to study Western manners and politics. He is described as the most Western Japanese in the Occident and a figure of significant influence.
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Marquis Ito
Juzo Ito
Europe
Liverpool
Japan
China’s 40 000 army shows modern military shift
An observer notes China’s new army maneuvers at Shangtung praising improved discipline and organization. The force uses Mauser rifles and Japanese gear, with cavalry seen as the weakest link, and credits Japanese influence for rapid modernization. The article highlights diplomatic attention and predicts China could become a formidable regional power and ally.
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Chulel
Shantung
Texas sulphur deposits to boost state status as a sulphur state
Geologists locate ten million tons of 40 percent native sulphur north of the Texas Pacific Railroad in El Paso county. The ten thousand acre field, nine and a half feet thick, has attracted Illinois and European capitalists but lacks a nearby railroad, Toyah being the closest station twenty miles away. Annual U S consumption stands at 500,000 tons with Italy and Virginia among major suppliers. Louisiana leads production in the United States. The visible supply may meet trade needs for twenty years, while the Anglo-Sicilian Sulphur Company, Limited of London dominates world trade.
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Texas
Con Ry
trans-Pecos
el Paso
Texas Pacific Railroad
Toyah
United States
Italy
Louisiana
Loulea County
Virginia
Anglo-Sicilian Sulphur Company, Limited
Lon
Enfeebled Europe Faces a Failing Russia
An aged, ailing Russia epitomizes a weakening European balance of power as distant declines echo across continents. The piece likens nations to men, noting Russia's faltering stature amid shifting alliances and the waning influence of empires once dominant in Europe.
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Europe
Russia
Itma
Turkey
Hybrid Easter Lily proves cheaper to grow
Fragments describe farm notes on planters saving seed costs with a new hybrid Easter Lily while crops expand under dry farming in Colorado and South Dakota. The text also recalls pest control schemes from youth and critiques land law changes affecting forest reserves and land title transfers to timber syndicates.
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Department of Agriculture
South Dakota
Colorado
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Public Lands Commission
Dputle Totints Commission
Init Thie
House of
New Easter Lily cross may cut bulb time and price
The Department of Agriculture reports a Bermuda lily cross with a Philippine species to shorten growth to two to four months and reduce spring bloom prices. If experiments meet expectations, many may afford a longer lasting Easter Lily without luxury or extravagance.
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Department of Agriculture
Mepartitione
Philippines
Colnon
bowen @ byleit
Public Timber Grabbing Endorsed by Commission Report
The second instalment of the Com mission's report condemns widespread timber grab bing and weighs repeal of land laws aimed at large scale homesteads. It urges careful study of public lands before any disposition, favors range control and irrigation, and cites Nebraska style homestead provisions as a cautionary model.
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Gifford Pinchiot
Forester Wnis
Public Lands
Uttalse Jon
Presidents Public Lands Commission
Twlow
Lothia Witei
Bolt
Oller
Torren
Nebraska
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Hatter
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Dakar
Mhontana
Ccre
W. M. Crane Company
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