Wireless shopping sails the Atlantic and beyond
The piece notes wireless telegraphy enables shopping and financial trading at sea, with department stores using shipboard operators to publish bargains. It contrasts mid ocean luxury and a husband’s concern with provisioning and spending, then shifts to England’s grouse season in Scotland and the allure of the moors despite abundance of birds and hunting.
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New York
London
Paris
Washington Post
Atlantic
England
Scotland
Moors
Grampian Hills
Ancient Spanish Bell in St. Stephen's Church
In East Haddam a bell hanging in St. Stephen's bel fry is said to be cast in Spain over 1000 years ago. The inscription notes Spain as the origin and a priest’s blessing. Some believe the bell came to America after Napoleon destroyed its original Spanish church. It measures 28 inches high and 24 inches wide at the base.
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East
Haddam
Connecticut River
St. Stephen’s Church
Spain
America
Farmers Consolidation and Growth Across the United States
In the past decade nearly one million new farms were created and the total farm count rose about 15 percent. The old states east of Ohio show a shift toward larger, market‑oriented holdings while closer markets see fragmentation into smaller farms. Farm numbers have nearly tripled since 1870 with sharp gains in land and livestock values.
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United States
Ohio
Mary Powell Marks Fifty Years on Hudson River
The Mary Powell, a Hudson River Day Line boat, will celebrate its semicentennial this season. Captain Anderson has served aboard for forty years in multiple roles. The vessel remains in daily service between New York and Kingston, admired for its vitality.
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Hudson River
Mary Powell
Anderson
New York
Kingston
Passenger Carried Onto Monoplane Across English Channel
A passenger was transported by monoplane across the English Channel as the journey continues to attract many who prefer the old-fashioned risk of crossing by air.
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English Channel
Esperanto Gains Attention Like Puzzle Pictures
Esperanto draws many followers, matching the surge once seen with puzzle pictures and rivaling the impact of simplified spelling in popularity.
Berlin Empress Fosters Garden City Plan For Suburbs
The German capital adopts the city beautiful concept to expand Berlin beyond its five to six story limits. The project aims for varied street widths and scenic setbacks, linking architecture with landscape. Plans total over 40,000 dollars with top German architects guiding the effort.
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Berlin
London
Germany
America
New York
Dresden
Nuremburg
Munich
Berne
Dourges
France
Duesseldorf
Antwerp
Tipless Hotel in Strand Proves a Success in London
The Strand hotel in London reports no vacant rooms since opening a year ago with nearly a quarter of a million guests over 844 days. The tipping ban is strict. visitors offering gratuities are denied service or told to stay away. Staff willingly serve without tips, and many patrons accept the policy.
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London
Strand
Man Finds Lost Money On Conneaut Lake Road
W S Moltry of Beaver Falls retraced his route and recovered a pocketbook with 50 in cash along the Conneaut Lake road about 60 miles from where it was lost. He only learned of the loss when trying to pay for a lunch at a hotel.
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Newcastle
W. S. Moltry
Beaver Falls
Conneaut Lake
Furs in England Price to Fall if Fur Stock Rises
Lord Strathcona at Hudson Bay Company meeting reports from Canada show growing fur bearing animals. This suggests 1911 fur collection will rise, easing the previously high fur prices in England.
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London
Hudson's Bay Company
Lord Strathcona
Canada
Small Boy Becomes Heir After Father's Will
John Arthur Hinckley, four, inherits two thirds of his father John A. Hinckley New York capitalist estate after his Bellport death. The boy gets staged annuities totaling 3 000 yearly until 15, then 10 000 until 21, 20 000 until 28, and 50 000 at 28. He also gets 25 000 yearly until 35 then half of the principal at 35 and the remaining half at 40.
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New York
John Arthur Hinckley
John A. Hinckley
Bellport, Ltd
Scientist Weighs Earth At Seven Trillion Tons
New York physics instructor Reinhart A Wetzel of the College of the City of New York completed a series of delicate experiments to compute Earth's weight. His results, using highly sensitive apparatus, are claimed to be more accurate than previous estimates and required experiments conducted after midnight to avoid disturbances from foot traffic.
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New York
Reinhart A. Wetzel
the College of the City of New York
Wetzel
Sethest
Rattlesnake Tales From Pennsylvania Tree and Sill
Central and northern Pennsylvania reports of rattlesnakes perched in trees and on window sills. A Jersey Shore party finds a yellow mottled rattler twenty feet up a beech, later dispatched. Other sightings include a snake on a cabin window sill and a large rattler in a box above a hen coop in Slate Run.
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Williamsport
Columbia County
Pennsylvania
Charles H. el- Unger
W. T. Miller
Mr. Miller
Nippenoss Township
Slate Run
Right to Sleep Is Sacred in Pittsburg Case
In Pittsburg a court upheld a magistrate ruling fining milk wagon driver Leo Harmon ten dollars plus costs for loud driving in early hours. Residents had protested and a petition from fifty women urged Harmon's model status, but judges Shafer and Frazer denied appeal.
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Pittsburg
J. D. Shafer
R. S. Frazer
Cratton
Leo Harmon
Harmon
Fishing Joke Boomerang Ends With Iron Prison
In Berwick Pennsylvania Fred Rough plays a prank on Clyde Croft by hitching his hook to an iron undersea object. Croft struggles thinking a whale has him. he lands a wash boiler instead. A 12 pound rock bass is freed from its iron prison as Rough laughs.
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Erlin
Count Zeppelin
Baden-Baden
Mergentheim
Teutoberg Forest
Berwick
Fred Rough
Clyde Croft
Croft
Rough
Cee
Rouge
Walking the Cliffs of Cornwall A Defender of Nature
The author extols Cornwall's cliff walks from Penzance to Land’s End noting how the coast’s ragged granite faces embody nature’s grandeur. He describes vivid flora, mist and sea, and the irresistible lure of shelf caves that entice repeated climbs and sunlit wanders, ending with exhausted joy.
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Cornwall
England
Penzance
Land’s End
Dr. Syntax
Longships
Pengance
Wesley
Coast Guard
Victor Hugo
Syrena
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Midocean
Beauty Plans
Tipless Hotel
Weight of Earth
TALES
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