Speculators Bid Giants for U S Bond Sale Says Recorder
The New York Recorder analyzes how dozens of bidders rush to buy United States bonds at 117 open market, with no deposit required and hopeful bidders risking little. It notes bucket shop operators and bankers may profit while some bids are rejected as irresponsible. Pierpont Morgan is cited as a responsible bidder poised to dispose of options, illustrating the enormity of the sale.
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Texas
Committee On Awards
Treasury Department
New York
Pierpont Morgan
Treasury
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
United States
New York Recorder
Remarkable Roentgen Discovery Reported by Rome
A Rome dispatch notes Professor Salvioni of Perugia describing an optical instrument using Roentgen rays to see through objects. Physicians viewed contents of a sealed aluminium box via this method, though the exact mechanism remains unexplained. A London photographer reportedly substitutes a Crookes tube with a broken filament lamp to capture Roentgen photographs on a small scale.
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Rome
Roentgen
Salvioni
Perugia
Rome Medical Academy
London
New York Sun Special Cable Dispatch
Raffles Off Minister At Georgia Revival
In Parrott Georgia a church revival wore down by constant visitors led to a steward meeting. They decided to raffle the remaining preacher after no one wanted him, and the lowest dice throw selected the minister to be cared for during the revival’s closing hours.
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Parrott
A Checkered Life of E M Bell A Stage Actor
E M Bell once practiced law in Lake Erie region and planned marriage to Frances Folsom, now the nation’s first lady. He became an actor to ease mental strain, later marrying actress Maude Harrison. As A M Palmer's leading man he played Lord Windermere in Lady Windermere's Fan and was noted for culture and education.
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E. M. Bell
Great Lake Erie City
Frances Folsom
White House
Maude Harrison
A. M. Palmer
Lord Windermere
May Not Use Bourbon After All on Warship Kentucky
Secretary Herbert writes Mrs. Frances Beanu champe president of the Kentucky State WCTU that whisky will not be used to christen the warship Kentucky. He notes it is early to decide the fluid for the prow but says the tradition may fall to the builders to choose.
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Herbert
Frances BE. Beanuchampe
Kentucky State
Kentucky
Milwaukee superintendent invents self-centering trolley wheel
A Milwaukee street car superintendent develops a trolley wheel with spiral grooves on both sides. When the wheel slips from the wire the wire drops into the groove and is guided back to its place. The wheel and grooves span six inches in width, enough to correct 99 of 100 displacements.
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Milwaukee Street
Tramp Uses Stamp Ruse to Beg Across Cloverport
A tramp visited Cloverport houses begging for postage stamps to write to his sick mother. He obtained stamps from each kind lady and left town with several dollars, as reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Cloverport
Louisville Courier-Journal
New Kipling Muliplication in Vermont
The Boston Herald notes the continuation of Kipling offspring in Vermont as the count grows to two, marking a quirky local family trend and a humorous cross state observation.
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Vermont
Boston Herald
Prophesies Warn of Severe Winter and Civil Strife
A New York report summarizes zodiacal forecasts predicting a harsh winter with strikes riots and disasters across Europe and the United States. It expects poor early trade in Britain Ireland Russia and Persia, rising crime, shipwrecks, epidemics in February and political tensions at court.
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Scorpio
Saturn
Uranus
Mars
Raphael
American Federation
Mercury
Venus
Libra
Europe
Asia
China
Siberia
Russia
Turkey
Great Britain
Jupiter
British Isles
Ireland
Persia
Queen Victoria
England
Prince of Wales
Princess of Wales
Germany
Austria
Zadkiel
United States
New York Recorder
Burnham's Adventure on the Treacherous Snake River Island
Scotty Burnham, a placer miner, braved Snake River rapids to reach a rich island. He fell from his boat, lost blankets and provisions, and spent a frigid night relying on rocks and birds for food. After days he swam 100 yards through raging current to shore, his madness sparing his life. He is recovering but remains unsettled by the ordeal.
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Noe
Snake River
Scotty Burnham
Scotty
Denver Republican
Whisky Octopus Report Stuns Gainesville Eagle Readers
A man in Gainesville found a gray pea sized object in a half pint of whisky. It grew into a rubbery eight tentacled form, prompting doctors to speculate it could be a miniature devil and that city liquor may be tainted.
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Mr. Little
Chestnut Mountain
Gainesville
Plans for a New Patriotic Party Unveiled
Washington session of the National Council of Patriotic Organizations gathers delegates from major orders representing over 8,000,000 members. It outlines immigration limits, prohibition on sectarian funding, support for a sixteenth amendment, citizenship-based suffrage, and universal taxation with public-property exception. A committee will push these principles at national party conventions or spur an American party if ignored.
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National Council of Patriotic Organizations
Washington
Congress
United States
National Council
Washington Post
Doctor's Advice and Farm Stock Humor Highlight Rural Life
A Portland Express reader quote shows a doctor telling Pat he needs animal food and Pat replying that grain and oats work, while a St. Louis Globe-Democrat note reports corn farmers delaying sale to seek higher prices as large portions stay in the field and cribbed storage rises.
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Pat
Medicus
Patrick
Portland Express
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Five Cassady Heirs Sue for South Omaha Site in Major Suit
Five heirs of Peter Cassady of Princeton Illinois sue for the site of South Omaha in a nearly one million dollar litigation. The claim concerns 288 acres once of little value based on a technicality in original land transfers. Part of the land is now or formerly belonged to the South Omaha Land Company and is platted into blocks and lots.
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Peter Cassady
Princeton, Ills
South Omaha
T Uth Omaha Land Company
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Concord, Mass
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Acton St. Maynard, Mass
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Acton Mass
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Barrett’s Mill Road
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