Dogs Do Wonders and Dangers in a Busy World
A Lausanne correspondent recounts a dog that retrieves a buried purse amid European dining room snubs and a Parisian hotel scene, then a Wallack the dog saves his drunken master by staying submerged, and a Quincy terrier Becky helps foil burglars by chasing them and returning with a clothing clue.
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New York Evening Post
Fitz Nigel
Lausanne
Switzerland
France
Fido
Herbert L. Drake
Quincy
Becky
Mr. Drake
Upland Road
Dog Saves Many Guests at Knickerbocker Hotel
Teddy the dog attacked a Black Hand dynamiter and prevented a bomb blast under the Knickerbocker Hotel boilers. The blast was aimed to kill Italian waiter John Jason after weeks of threatening letters. The intruder fled as hotel staff and police secured the device before detonation.
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fFochester
Teddy
Black Hand
Knickerbocker
Girllroom
John Jason
Jason
Dog and Kitten Rescue Bond Deepens Bond
A London Spectator correspondent recalls a servant who tried to drown a kitten at a pond three times. Each attempt was thwarted by the master's dog which swam out and retrieved the kitten, finally carrying it home to safety and keeping watch over it thereafter. The pair grew inseparable, sharing a bed and a hearthside bond.
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Becky
King
Mrs. Drake
Mr. Drake
Adams Street
London Spectator
Dog
Faithful Spaniel Remains By Dipsomaniac Master
A spaniel in Hounslow stayed loyal to a drunken gentleman who split from his wife and wrecked the home. The dog named Jack never left his master when he was intoxicated, showing tender solicitude during his periods of liquor use.
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Hounslow
Jack
Wallack
The Instructiphone a Youthful Genius Tale
A thirteen year old inventor Cyrus Edison De Squeers builds an Instructiphone that feeds knowledge into his brain but fails to store it. The device prints from one ear and out the other, proving the boy's brain cannot be bypassed by machinery. The narrator notes Cyrus mirrors many boys and finds no fault in the machine itself.
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Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier de Squeers
Cyrus
Education path of U.S. Presidents traced to Harvard and William and Mary
An article surveys where presidents studied, noting Harvard and William and Mary as the primary early American colleges. It lists Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Madison, and Taylor as William and Mary alumni, and Roosevelt, Adamses, Hayes, and Garfield among Harvard graduates, with other leaders tracing to law offices, academies, or West Point.
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William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Old Eli
Harvard
William
James Monroe
John Tyler
James Madison
Zachary Taylor
William and Mary
Madison
Princeton
Virginia
Andrew Jackson
Salisbury
N. C
Martin van Buren
Kinderhook
N. Y
W. P. van Ness
William Henry Mharrison
Ipstead
Sidney College
Benjamin Harrison
Union College
Oxford
Cincinnati Law College
James K. Polk
University of North Carolina
Felix Grundy
Millard Fillmore
Cayuga
Buffalo School of Law
Franklin Pierce
Bowdoin College
Portsmouth
N. H
Levi Woodbury
James Buchanan
Dickinson
Carlisle
James Hopkins
Lancaster
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Grant
West Point
Eclectic Institute
Hiram
Williams College
Mass
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
McKinley
Union Seminary
Mahoning County
Allegheny College
Meadville
Harrison
Garfield
Arthur
James Bryce
Great Britain
America
Bryce
My Newfoundland Resting in a Sailor's Grave
Poignant verse recalling the death of a beloved dog, a Newfoundland, whose loyalty comforts the speaker as she imagines a future reunion in the afterlife. The poem blends grief with spiritual imagery of the Great Spirit and hunting grounds, affirming the pet's eternal watch.
Never Again Would I Shoot A Poor Innocent Bird
A boyhood poem recalls hunting bluebirds robins and wrens for sport until one spring day a brown bird nestlings nearby was killed. Seeing its nest and mother bird dead, the speaker vows to abandon killing birds for life. The piece ends with a moral pledge against harming animals.
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Glens
Poems And Dreams In A Little Girl's Album
A nostalgic verse from the New Orleans Times-Democrat reflects on a young girl’s album, cataloguing rhymes dreams and prophecies while imagining a future tally of fulfilled wishes and the lasting record of her childhood hopes.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
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Boston Herald
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Instructiphone
Carolyn Wells
Mary
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