Curious Philippine claim against the government ends in gold
The 14 page house of representatives file on Feliciana Mendiola of Angeles Pampanga details a kitchen siding damage claim. An army board found in doubt but awarded 380 gold to the claimant, with Congress officials approving the finding amid vast expenditures to justify payment.
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Congress
Senora Feliciana Mendiola
Angeles
Pampanga
Philippine Islands
Sam
House of Representatives
Secretary of War
Quartermaster-General
United States
William Langworthy
Teamster Summerville
Teamster Pickle
Army Board
Senoral Feliciana
House
Senate
National cemeteries hold over one hundred fifty thousand unknowns
A congressional table shows 152 103 unknown soldiers and sailors buried in national cemeteries and a total burials figure of 853 085 with 291 282 known remains. Arlington leads with over 20 000 interments including 4 625 unknowns.
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Army of the Unknown
United States
Chaney
Indiana
Quartermaster General
Mexico City
Arlington
Washington
Vicksburg
Nashville
Fredericksburg
Andersonville
Senator Gallinger Receives Odd Divorce Request
A Midwest city man asks Senator Gallinger to act as both divorce court and matrimonial bureau, claiming his wife in New York refuses him and seeking permission to marry a second wife while appealing to Justice Fitzgerald for a writ. He cites amnesty from jail, wealth, class, and education in a lone missive.
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Senator Gallinger
Middle West
Mr. Gallinger
New York
James Fitzgerald
Hon
Washington socialite laments endless card peddling
A prominent Washington woman told a friend in a drawing room that the city is the most extraordinary she has lived in and that since arriving she has done nothing but peddle visiting cards.
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Washington
The Oldest Man in the World at British Museum
An Egyptian grave figure, not a mummy, coated with bitumen, from a later New Stone Age phase, draws crowds at the British Museum. Discovered by a wandering Arab and reported to a British official, it was guarded by Egyptian soldiers during removal. The auburn haired figure lies on the western Nile shore and has drawn attention for eight years.
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British Museum
Egypt
The
Nile
Tommy Burns Denies Hypnotic Powers In Ring
The boxer Tommy Burns rejects claims that his gaze hypnotizes opponents. He told a London News correspondent he is no mesmerist and would not regard his eye power as mental suggestion. He noted he can steady an opponent with a fixed gaze but denied any hypnotic influence.
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Jack Palmer
Wonderland
Jom Roche
Theater Towal
Dublin
Corres
London News
Burns
Tack Palmer
Palmer
Moir
Out of the Mouths of Babes in Chicago News
A humorous exchange with children and adults on impressions and manners. A small boy defines impression as a dent, while Ina asks for a bird’s stomach on a hat after spotting a woman with a roh in’s breast on her hat.
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Featherly
Howard
JT Howard
Ina
Chicago News
The Attraction
An old woman tells a visiting minister she enjoys Sundays because she can always get a good seat when he preaches. He notes his unpopularity but welcomes her praise and asks why she attends. She answers that the seat is the main draw, not the sermon.
Massachusetts Inventor Lets Linen Fiber From Straw In Twelve Hours
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemist Benjamin C. Mudge develops a combined mechanical and chemical process to convert flax straw into linen fiber in about twelve hours, increasing yield to 250 pounds per 1000 pounds of straw while preserving seed crop and producing pulp for paper.
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Massachusetts
United States
Belgium
Benjamin C. Mudge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Guest's Kick at the Chittenden Hotel
A Columbus Dispatch tale from last week reports a hotel guest accusing rotten service. He complains of hair in ice cream honey and apple sauce. The proprietor explains hair in ice cream from shaved ice and honey from the comb, but hair in the sauce comes from bald Baldwin apples.
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Chittenden
Columbus
Ohio
Dispatch
Carrier pigeon saves a late night train dispatch
A New York Sun tale recounts a pistol of luck and fidelity as a carrier pigeon delivers emergency orders to a rail yard. The Red Lantern messenger, Samson, carries a timed message to Cannonball and Nemesis in a narrow escape before a potential crash.
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Bill
Stockton Siding
Fargo
Midnight Express
Bill Hott
Stockton
Scruggins Corners
Scruggins
Sam
Samson
Express
New York Sun
Monument Planned for Engineer Carl Mack in Oklahoma
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway plans a monument near Red Rock Oklahoma to honor Carl Mack veteran engineer who died last August after staying with his engine as a wrecked train collapsed around him. His fireman C J Wanzer was critically injured and conductor Al Glazier escaped unscathed. Mack had 30 years with the line and never missed a run in the Oklahoma division.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Red Rock
Oklahoma
Carl Mack
Santa Fe
Mack
Oklahoma Main Line
Guthrie
C. J. Wanzer
al Glazier
Glazier
Purcell
Okla
Newton
Kan
Ponca City
Kansas City Star
The Ticket That Came Back on the Rails Tale
A railway tale tells of a passenger ticket blown from a window on a north bound Colorado and Southern train. The ticket drifted toward a passing south bound train and, drawn along by suction, reentered the smoking car door where the baggage master found it.
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Colorado & Southern Road
May Take Over Japanese Railways Heavily Financed Plan
Report says a syndicate of leading European financiers is likely to take control of the Japanese railways soon. They have offered help to the government in reorganizing national finances.
Metal Cars the Cheapest in Railroad Repairs
The text notes wooden railroad cars cost about $100 yearly to repair, far more than steel cars, and wooden cars are out of service six times longer due to repairs compared with metal ones.
Light Cars With Acetylene On French Railways
Lighted mine carriages on the French Northern railway use acetylene for illumination and the results are reported as satisfactory and promising for wider adoption.
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A. &. Guthrie, Proprietor
Choteau, Teton CO. Mont
Tommy Burns
Hypnotic Eye
George Washington
McCracken
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