Spectacular Fifth Annual Sportsmen's Show in New York
Madison Square Garden hosts a two week sportsmen's fair featuring a vast forest setting, an indoor lake with an island, a bowling championship, an Indian village with demonstrations, and a large game park curated by Dr. Heber Bishop. The event includes fishing and aquarian displays with 40 Maine guides and 20 Range levs, a water carnival with major clubs, and a rooftop shooting range with revolver and rifle contests.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
America
Madison Avenue
Antonio Apache
Elbert Woot
Maine
Heber Bishop
Boston
Bishop
New Brunswick
Quebec
Miramichi
Izaak Walton
Cornelia T. Crosby
Fly Red
Crosby
Alsiei Athletic Union
Knickerbocker and
New York Athletic Clubs
Chicago Athletic Association
Duquesne Country and Athletics
Pittsburg
National Swimming Association of Philadelphia
Argonaut Racing Club of
Toronto
Harvard
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Yale
Elmer E. Shaner
Nannages
Harvard Sluggers and Prairie Dogs in National Sports Note
A survey spans Harvard football negotiations with Chicago and a possible return game, Western contenders eager for east games, and golfer enthusiasm. The piece then shifts to prairie dogs out West unchecked by historic predators, harming grazing lands, followed by a visual on fake electricity based strength tricks debunked by simple physics.
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Blank
An Essay on Banks and a Man Named Shy
The Toledo Blade shares a humorous tale about banks and a man who calls himself Shy. He tests deposits and interest rates, encounters a wary clerk, and imagines becoming a wealthy capitalist after opening a savings account. The piece lampoons bank rhetoric and human folly in a lighthearted, fictional vignette.
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State Institute
St. Louis
Toledo Blade
Exercise as a health cornerstone and its difference from work
A physician explains that exercise is recreation not labor and should be pursued in easy stages. He argues cycling suits many for health benefits and that one must avoid duty driven effort to keep exercise effective.
Peppermint lozenges mistaken for shirt buttons
Ally Sloper notes Gladys Boo misidentifies his peppermint lozenges as shirt buttons. The comic quip frames a domestic mishap with a humorous mislabeling of a common item.
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Gran Ma
Gladys Irene
Ally Sloper
Georgia mother pleads for son in legal trouble
In a plea for release, a Georgia mother asserts her son has always avoided the public eye and never sought political office, insisting he has always worked for his livelihood. The comment appears in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Georgia
Thar
Allus
Ron
Atlanta Constitution
Waste of Swes The stout and slender girls kiss
In the Indianapolis Journal excerpt a stout girl and a slender girl kiss passionately, prompting a young guard to remark it is a waste. The slender girl questions if the remark referred to her, expressing dejection.
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Guart
Indianapolis Journal
Reading habits of a polite reader in Somerville
A humorous note from the Somerville Journal about a man who habitually wears a nightcap. He reads books with paper covers and returns them undamaged. The item playfully reflects on cautious, careful reading manners.
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Somerville Journal
Coroner's Jury Verdict On Pipe Lighting Death
A coroner's jury found that the deceased died while attempting to light his pipe with an electric light, a method deemed impossible to perform successfully. The verdict underscores a fatal misjudgment in using modern lighting for a simple task.
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Atlanta Constitution
Four sisters spark a Somerville hairdressing hobby
The 14 year old in a family of four girls becomes the expert hair dresser as younger sisters learn from her and try new styles with help from their patient sibling.
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Somerville Journal
A Natural Bridge Across the Pacific Predicted
Professor W J McCree predicts a land bridge forming along the Aleutian chain from Alaska toward Asia. He cites rising Aleutian and Russian islands and the Yukon river detritus creating expanding dry land and a wider Alaskan territory.
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Pacific
America
Asia
W. J. McCree
McGee
Alaska
Bering Sea
Aleutian
Aleutian Islands
Russian Islands
Kamchatka
United States
Uncle Sam
Arctic
Yukon
Alaskan
Alaskan Territory
Major Clement B White Lincoln’s kin led Alabama guard at Fort Morgan
The article notes Major Clement B White of Selman Alabama, Abraham Lincoln’s brother in law by marriage, served as an Alabama state guard officer and participated with his command in the capture of Fort Morgan Mobile Bay before Alabama’s formal secession. Lincoln reportedly said he would “bang White” when they caught him. White later served the Confederacy in multiple military and civil roles.
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Clement B. White
Selman
Ala
Abraham Lincoln
Alabama State Guard
Fort Morgin
Mobile Bay
Alabama
Lincoln
White
Major White
Confederacy
Washington Elm Failing. Cambridge Plans Preservation
The historic Washington elm in Cambridge Massachusetts is rapidly decaying. Park commissioners say it may be saved only for a few years more, with plans for spring overhauling and all possible measures to preserve the tree.
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Washington
Cambridge
Mass
Cambridge Park Commissioners
General Miles Recalled Amid Liar Allegations From Army Era
The note recalls that General Miles faced liar accusations like General Winfield Scott, then a captain, who was tried by court martial for claiming two traitors among generals Wilkinson and Burr. Scott was found guilty and suspended for a year.
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Miles
Winfield Scott
Wilkinson
Burr
Washington town names seek Issequah change
The state famed for mines mountains farms and harbors faces a petition to rename Gilman in King county to Issequah as lawmakers weigh unusual proposals alongside Snoqualmie Snohomish Skokomish Steilacoom Squak Skagit Tumwater and others from the region.
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of Washington
Gilman
King County
Issequah
Snoqualmie
Snohomish
Skokomish
Steilacoom
Squak
Skagit
Bkookumichuck
Tumwater
Tacofay Ledger
Fitchburg Railroad Time Stable Corrected
A corrected entry dated November 14, 1808 records time stable data for the Fitchburg Railroad. The notice updates previous timing details and aligns schedules with standard railroad timekeeping practices.
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Terest
General Sporting
Banks
Shy
L Lincoln
Fitchburg Railroad
Marlboro Branch
Marlboro
Saniays
South Acton
Maynard
Whitman’s
Gleasondale
Ay Hudson
Stavriboro
Hudson
Rleasondale
Victor
J. W. Henderson
South
Actox, Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Eliza J. Tuttle
Veton
Jonathan K. W. Wetherbee
Acton
Acton Enterprise
Charles” J. McIntire
Esquire
S. HH. Folsom
H. E Boyd, Maynard Bi'k, Maynard
the Gem Washing Fluid Co
Maynard, Mass
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
O. S. Fowler
James T.foote
Grant
Monumental Bronze CO
Bridgeport, Com
the Monumental Bronze Co
C. H. Cheeney
Jessie Pratt
Charles H. Walcott
Maynard Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
S. H. Forsom
Register
Probate Court
Teo
Deirs
Elizabeth Smth
Aeton
Gaid Court
Rita M. Wetherbee
Cammbridge
Eat
Charles J. McInrink
Folsom
Rexistas
William Jones
Hereas
Charles Kk. Giles
Concord Enterprise
Concord
Bas
S. IL
Folsom, Registes
Hapgood
Stow
W. A. White
P. O
Stu, Maynard
Ernest Hosmer, D. D. S
Mase
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