Historic Hopkins mansion gifted as Providence memorial
Marshall Gould the great great grandson of Admiral Esek Hopkins plans to donate the 1755 Hopkins mansion and two and a half acres to Providence for park use. Mrs Elizabeth Angell West Gould of Cambridge funded and furnished the home with family relics. The property, valued around 30000, rests on a scenic eminence and features a restored colonial kitchen and bear’s claw mahogany table.
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Esek Hopkins
Marshall Hopkins Gould
Elizabeth Angell West Gould
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Providence
R. 1
Hopkins Mansion
Gould
Third Ward
Alderman Dunn
William K. Reynolds
Bay Btate Limited
Charles Street
Hopkins
George
Sophia Hawes West
Taunton
Frederick Gould
Boston
Harvard
Elizabeth Angell
Rhode Island
The
Colonial Dames
Society of the Descendants of the Mayflower
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hopkins Park Monument
Glacia Calla's Fine Portsmouth Home Hoarded in Trial Evidence
Sheriff Collis of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, searched the home of Gracia Calla in the Roy murder case. The house, richly furnished with French items, statues, and portraits, reportedly cost tens of thousands for interior decoration and features a royal polar bear rug. A diamond ring gifted by the shah of Persia is among objects shown.
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Paul Emile Roy
France
George A. Carkins
Collis
Portsmouth
N. H
Roy
Gracia Calla
Miss Calla
J. G. Hathaway
Boston
Calla
Paul Jobert
Mmes, Eames
Me'ha
Calve
Ellen Beach Yaw
Shah of Persia
Henry Mapleson
Walter IL. Badger
Cambridge
Mass
Egypt
Persia
Million-Point Cribbage Match Ends In Sight In Des Moines
The long running cribbage contest between Col John C Lopez and Milo Ward in Des Moines has stretched seven years. Their score stood 460,234 to 455,234 with a hopeful finish target in 1915. Both men hold local offices and play weekly from 7:30 to 11. They average about 2,150 points per night, having worn out boards and about 250 decks.
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Des Moines
John C. Lopez
Milo Ward
Loper
Polk County
The
Commercial Exchange
Portugal's Crown Worth Millions As King Manuel II Crowned
The upcoming Portuguese coronation will feature Europe’s most valuable crown valued at about 8 million dollars. The jewel-studded diadem rivals the czar’s in worth, while the English crown is listed at 1.8 million dollars.
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Portugal
Manuel II of
Europe
The New Barn Dance Sees An Aged Dancer Outpaced
A Detroit Free Press poem laments an aging dancer who once waltzed and twostepped with grace. Beloved, he now lacks the skill to learn the New Barn Dance and falls from favor as a younger rival rises.
Curfew debate among Panama Canal bachelors sparks proposals
Panama Canal Commission workers living in bachelor quarters debate a curfew and liquor ban. A Paraiso employee proposes lights out by 10 pm and no liquor, while others favor 11 pm or question enforcement. One dissenter, Andrew Bearup, defends bachelor freedom and calls for health-minded retreat.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Canal Zone
Panama
Washington
New York Post
Paraiso
Canal Commission
Ecommission
Culebra
Canal
Empire
Bernard Shaw
Andrew Bearup
Bearup
Connecticut leasing Pratt Hill for Hungarian partridge propagation
The Connecticut state fish and game commission leased 700 acres on Pratt Hill near Win sted for partridge propagation. The area offers good cover and the experiment is expected to succeed.
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State Fish and Game Commission of
Connecticut
Pratt Hill
Winsted
Hayward's Heath Horticultural Society offers penny per queen wasp
The Hayward's Heath Horticultural Society in England will pay one penny for every queen wasp presented at the summer show to curb a wasp surge.
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Hayward's Heath
Police Dog's Fine Work Delights Brooklyn Residents
Inspector Harkins and Acting Captain Funston test New York police dogs with a plain clothes officer behind a fence on Ocean Parkway. Patrolman Michael Nicholson releases the dog Nogi who chases, trips, and bites the officer, sparking frantic calls from neighbors unaware of the staged exercise.
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Nicholson
Wolf Hunters Plan Permanent Camp in Algonquin Park
Montreal dispatch says wolf hunters returning from Kippawa Quebec killed two poisoned wolves and a Canadian lynx. Poor snow and milder weather shortened hunt, but outing successful. They plan a permanent wolf hunting camp in Algonquin Park next autumn to operate through the winter.
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Montreal
Kippawa
New York Sun
Algonquin Park
L. O. Armstrong
Don't Scorn the Sailor Song Sent to Virginia Congressman
A Denver Republican verse requests funding for an official navy song titled Dont Scorn the Sailor. The poem depicts a cold night at sea with a sailor paying tribute and urging not to scorn sailors who are sensitive yet ready to defend. The piece notes a political aim to secure money for the song from Congressman Maynard of Virginia.
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Maynard
Virginia
Congress
Navy
Denver
Aged Maine Pedestrian Takes Bath Trip for Wheelbarrow
Andrew L. Powers aged ninety three walked from Phippsburg to Bath Maine in a hurry for a big wheelbarrow he bought there. The carpenter born in Georgetown in 1815 and now working on local houses wheeled the cart home, matching the energy of a much younger man.
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Maine
Andrew L. Powers
Bath
Phippsburg
Kennebec Journal
Powers
Georgetown
Sneeze Shakes Building as Teeth Fly Free
C. J. Sage of New Boston, Connecticut is dubbed the hardest sneezer in New England by friends. A World correspondent reports he shakes buildings with his sneezes and recently lost two teeth, not false ones, in a single explosive eruption.
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C. J. Sage
New Boston
Conn
New England
George Snow
New York World
Family feuds over European trip and tax plan
In verse, a Boston Globe poem by Michael Fitzgerald portrays a household split over a congressman’s plan to tax Yankee fortunes funding European travel and titles. The father Joe Noggs supports American worth, while the mother and Sadie envy foreign nobility and wealth. The poem lampoons social climbing and the pursuit of titles amid a family dispute.
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Europe
Ingay Paree
London
Rome
Bramble Center
Michael Fitzgerald
Boston Globe
Buttermilk club formed by editor in Dallas dispatch
Colonel Jim Lowrey of the Honey Grove Signal urges support for the Buttermilk club and sends a copy to Vice President Fairbanks. Fairbanks is named a charter member as the club promotes buttermilk health benefits and humor of the old school newspaper man.
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Jim Lowrey
Honey Grove
Tex
Signal
Dallas
New York Press
Fairbanks
Buttermilk Club
Lowrey
Jim
Firewater club memo echoes in odd outbreak note
Fragmentary wartime prose mentions distributing bottles of firewater and says to preserve them as souvenirs in exchange for full membership in the Signal's Buttermilk club. The text is fragmentary and odd, with no clear date or location.
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Signal
Buttermilk Club
Em and the Knocker in Cleveland Leader Cartoon
In a Cleveland Leader cartoon a husband remarks that his wife has brains enough for two and a witty retort follows about the reason for marriage, reflecting a humorous exchange on intellect and partnership.
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Cleveland
Happiness and the art of not fretting
A reflective piece from the Catholic Standard and Times urges readers to find happiness in forgetting fretful concerns about unattainable desires. The prose promotes a tranquil mindset and contentment with what cannot be obtained.
Involuntary Faddist: Binkerloo Adopts Vegetarian Diet
A humorous note from the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports Binkerloo has become a vegetarian. The motivation is given as necessity rather than choice, reflecting a social satire tone.
Lawyer Finds Joy in Rest and Will Work
A witty note on lawyers enjoying downtime and the satisfaction of handling wills. The piece blends the idea of rest with professional purpose, suggesting happiness comes from meaningful legal work and the routine of estate planning.
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English dancer honored for kindness at Herald Square show
Miss Elizabeth Hawman of England received a makeup box and engraved resolutions from stage hands after stopping to aid Dave Lewis, a stage carpenter who collapsed at Herald Square theater. The gesture, titled an honorary membership in the stage employees union, highlights goodwill amid Lew Fields' pony ballet production of The Girl Behind the Counter.
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Hawman
New York
Herald Square Theater
Elizabeth Hawman
The
New York Tribune
Dave Lewis
Miss Hawman
Stage Employees’ Union
Lew Fields
Pony Ballet
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W. J. Atkins
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