Public pond plan for Kansas City game fish fishing
A Kansas City resident urges the park board to fill a four block ravine in the Fifteenth Street grove with water and stock it with game fish. After a year fishing could be permitted with a small fee. The proposal aims to provide an afternoon fishing option close to the city for families and casual anglers.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Kansas
Blue River
Swope Park
Independence
Park Board
Fifteenth Street
Benton Boulevard
Too Big for President J P Morgan Refused Job Says Dog Show Doorkeeper
A Madison Square Garden dog show doorkeeper recalls meeting J Pierpont Morgan and his young niece. Morgan joked about not running for president, noting he is too big to take the job. The remark drew amused comments from bystanders.
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J. P. Morgan
New York
Madison Square Garden
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Woman Heads Movement to Teach Balloon Flying
A new junior aero club is to be organized in New York City with a national scope. Promoters aim to establish branches in principal U.S. cities and the club will be composed entirely of young people interested in balloon flying.
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Woman Heads
Aero Club
New York City
United States
Junior Aero Club of the United States Formed
Miss B. L. Todd originates the Junior Aero Club of the United States to study aerial navigation. The club will have three membership classes including honorary and two active groups. Officers and committees drawn from self made balloon builders. eligibility under twenty one. Branches may be formed with ten or more members.
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Junior Aero Club
United States
B. L. Todd
G A Holder Sells Galax Leaves Business to Florists
G A Holder of Round Peak spoke in Mount Airy about his growing galax leaf enterprise. He will pay neighborhood women and children up to 3000 dollars this winter for gathering leaves from mountain ravines. Leaves are bundled in twenty five and sold to florists in cities at 25 cents per pack of 3000 leaves. Workers typically earn 1 to 150 dollars a day collecting them.
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G. A. Holder
Round Peak
Mount Airy
Canadian's Odd Misfortune
Edward Spendlove of St John New Brunswick traveled to Mexico to inspect timber land for investment. He struck a peculiar tree with an ax and sap sprayed into his eyes, severing his sight.
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Edward Spendlove
St. John
N. B
Mexico
Typewriter Expands Amid Global Language Use
The article notes the typewriter now transcribes Japanese ideograms and has long supported Arabic Syriac Armenian Hebrew. It highlights Turkey’s permit system blocking Turkish Arabic scripts at customs, yet demand grows with machines in Bagdad Damascus and Syria using Arabic Syriac French scripts. In India Hindoo scripts also appear, while Chinese remains resistant.
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Turkey
Harper's Weekly
Bagdad
Syria
Persia
Bombay
India
World's Biggest Clock Oversees Hudson From Jersey City
A soap plant in Jersey City erects a rooftop clock intended as the world's largest. The dial spans twenty eight feet and will face the Hudson, allowing New Yorkers and ferry passengers to set watches any time day or night.
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Hudson
Jersey City
Hudson River
City Clock to Surpass Philadelphia Timepiece
A new clock will have a diameter over 1,134 square feet of face area, weighing about six tons. The minute hand extends 18.25 feet and, with its counterweight, weighs one third of a ton. The hand moves 23 inches per minute, over half a mile daily, with luminous outlines and night visibility. Regulation follows Washington standard time.
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City Hall
Philadelphia
Washington
Yale to Teach Business Under New Graduate Program
Yale will add twenty seven graduate electives under a common head for business and commerce. The new department will cover banking insurance railroads and commerce with courses on moral and practical aspects of business and management. Gifford Pinchot will teach forestry related commercial courses as national forester.
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Yale
New Haven
United States
Gifford Pinchot
National Forester
One of Ouida's Faithful Dogs
Three dogs once with Ouida the late novelist were found near death in a Viareggio cottage after her death. Ruffino died before discovery. Nerino and Titania survived and were sent to the British consul. Titania later went to Captain McLean of the Algeria. he praised her affectionate nature.
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Ouida
Viareggio
Leghorn
New York
Algeria
Ruffino
Nerino
Titania
Oulda
Captain McLean
Farewell to New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel
Historic Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City faces demolition on May 1 as the beloved landmark is torn down. The piece laments the loss of a historic hotel once famed for its grandeur and social role, noting fond memories and timeworn walls fading into history. The poem by Jennie Porter Pardee in the New York Tribune adorns the tribute to a hospitality era.
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Madison Square
New York City
Fifth Avenue
America
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Jennie Porter Pardee
New York Tribune
Plan 70 Aid the Poor and Charity Clearing House Idea
Former President Grover Cleveland marks his 71st birthday in Lakewood New Jersey and urges a nationwide effort to aid the poor. He advocates a charity clearing house to ensure gifts reach those in need and condemns the dependency fostered by half hearted dispensation, praising rich donors who would fund such efforts.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Lakewood
N. J
Cleveland
New York
Mr. Cleveland
Princeton
Prof- Ag
Parachute Thrillers Highlight Double and Triple Falls
Popular Mechanics spotlights daring parachute feats including a triple parachute leap from a balloon where an aviator uses red white and blue chutes in successive descents. A second stunt features a man and woman in a double parachute drop opening after 500 to 600 feet.
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Earth
Wage limit defeated in canal construction salaries debate
The House finished sundry civil appropriation debate with a total of 106,966,369 dollars. A proposal to cap Panama canal construction wages at 95 percent of U S levels was defeated 101 to 10. Senate moved to skeleton form for the post office bill and adopted the Gallinger ocean mail subvention as an amendment.
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House
Washington
Panama Canal
United States
Sulzer
Supreme Court of the United States
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Senate
Penrose
Post Office
Government Printing Office
Fire damages Bridgeport business district and injures clerk
An explosion, likely of natural gas or linseed oil, sparked a serious fire that threatened Bridgeport Ohio’s entire central business area. Walter Harper, a clerk, was badly burned while rescuers pulled him from the cellar area as flames consumed clothing and skin.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Bridgeport
Walter Harper
Amelia Bingham Moved to Sanatorium for Operation
To Operate on Miss Bingham in New York on May 7 Amelia Bingham the actress who has suffered peritonitis for over a week has been removed to a sanatorium in preparation for a surgical operation.
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Miss Bingham
New York
Amelia Bingham
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