Bonner the Fireman Defined by Duty and Innovations
Death of New York Fire Commissioner Hugh Bonner sends ripples through the department. Colleagues recall his strict discipline, calm nerves, and decisive tactics, including his habit of signaling control with a cigar. Bonner’s career featured invention of key firefighting tools and plans for a city fire school.
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New York Fire Department
Hugh Bonner
New York
John K. Sheehan
Bonner
Joseph Burke
Combustibles Bureau
Alexander Stevens
Fire Headquarters
McClellan
Mr. Bonner
Westmoreland
Seventeenth Street
Fourth Avenue
Tenement House Committee
Old Criminal Court House
Manila
Signs of Spring in the City Streets
A humorous verse from the Chicago Record-Herald describes spring’s arrival through everyday mishaps. It notes pinching shoes, burning toes, cluttered rooms, ill fitting wardrobes, muddy cab horses, and noisy mischief as signs that warmer days are coming.
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Chicago Record-Herald
New Use for Automobiles in War Dispatches
A prominent autoist traces the evolution of news dispatches from Marathon to modern motorcar. He notes the automobile’s role in carrying General Grant’s orders, praises its reliability, speed, and off road capability, and discusses future armoring for ambulances and protection against bullets.
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New York
Fort Leavenworth
Grant
Greece
Marathon
Athens
Howard
Miles
United States Army
Governors Island
Kan
Mercury
Plan to unify U S colleges under 100 mile rule
A Madison Wisconsin meeting of state college presidents outlined a national scheme to develop and consolidate universities. Larger universities would absorb smaller schools within a 100 mile radius, turning them into junior colleges up to the sophomore year while the university provides four year and postgraduate work. Rockefeller and Carnegie support the effort.
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Madison
Wis
Plants
Wisconsin
Rockefellers College Endowment Organization
Commmon
Ife
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Green face paint case shocks Canary Islands carnival
In Las Palmas eighty residents sue chemist Alonso after carnival facial paint left permanent green images of flies rabbits and birds. A Madrid expert says the method is tattoo like and the wearers must live with the marks. Alonso narrowly escaped lynching as courts decide the outcome.
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Madrid
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Alonso
Why Patrolmen Sleep on Their Beat
An obituary notes W. Curtis former Marlboro Massachusetts city marshal died of pancreatic cancer after an autopsy. Physicians explain excessive sleep on the beat may be linked to this illness, reframing the condition as not laziness but a medical issue.
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W. Curtis
Marlboro
Mass
Ludlow's Good Luck Benevolent Windfalls Planned by Rood
Ludlow Massachusetts faces a distant fortune from Charles D. Rood, a native son now wealthy abroad. Four gifts of 1000 dollars each will be placed at interest for the worthy poor abstinent youths and prize funds for school pupils. The funds mature across centennials, with large sums projected for the town's future.
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Charles D. Rood
Ludlow
Springfield
Mass
First Congregational Church
Loyal act fuels Newark agent’s endowment policy win
Superintendent Frisbee of Prudential Life Insurance told of Agent EK E Searing of Newark being struck by a trolley and severely injured. Despite wounds he secured a $1,000 twenty year endowment policy with annual premium of $41.97, inspiring the meeting with loyalty and applause.
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Frisbee
Prudential Life Insurance Company
EK. E. Searing
Newark
N. J
Artistic Visiting Cards Revival in Vienna by Ex Libris Library
The Austrian Ex Libris library plans reviving artistic visiting cards with tiny etchings and distinctive designs. Once common in the eighteenth century, these cards expressed taste and become collectible objects.
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Vienna
Ex Libris
Pinchot warns of a future war tied to forest service scouts
Gifford Pinchot told Campfire Club of America in New York that the United States could rely on forest rangers for wartime scouts. He stressed preserving forests and timber, noting timber may last under thirty years and coal under a century. He praised the forestry bureau as a long‑range saving force.
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Forest Rangers
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Department of Agriculture
New York
Campfire Club of America
Mr. Pinchot
A. A. Anderson
Club
Bureau of Forestry
Student invents machine to translate Chinese by touch keys
Columbia University student Donald H. Miller unveils a device resembling an adding machine that prints all meanings of a Chinese character when its key is pressed. He asserts it could translate any language and revolutionize China trade and diplomacy. a college dictionary is planned.
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Donald H. Miller
Columbia University
New York
Miller
Columbia
Young Miller
China
Livingston Hall
Scented Hairpins From Paris Hit Hairdresser Windows
A Paris report describes scented hairpins as a new novelty in hairdressers' windows. The hairpin knob carries a spring that releases a tiny perfume spray when touched to keep hair smelling fresh. Variants in gold for blondes tortoise shell for brown hair dark combs for auburn and silver for gray hair are noted.
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Paris
Duel With Canes In Steady Slashing Duel At Lissa
Fifteen minutes of cane fighting marked the latest form of student honor duel at a technical high school in Lissa. The duel took place in a ring set in a wood as seconds supervised. Both contestants fought naked to the waist with equal length canes until one crossed the ring boundary and lost, leaving both sides marked with multiple injuries. University circles debate the untested trend away from sword duels.
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Lissa
Technical High School
Queener Cause For Divorce In Lebanon Ohio City
Mrs Inez Diebold seeks a divorce from Louis Diebold claiming superstitions and a fainting minister at their wedding cursed their marriage. She requests her maiden name Inez Beedie restored and cites repeated omens affecting happiness. Diebold, a Cleveland real estate man, and her father the marshal of South Lebanon are named.
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Lebanon
Inez Diebold
Louis Diebold
Inez Beedie
South Lebanon
Cleveland
Diebold
South
Marshal
British Sailors Die In Night Channel Collision
A wireless dispatch from Portsmouth reports the cruiser Berwick rammed the torpedo boat destroyer Tiger during night maneuvers in the channel. The Tiger split in two and sank quickly. 22 crew were rescued, one dying later, leaving 59 others drowned.
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Portsmouth
Eng
Channel
Berwick
Tiger
Gladiator
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