Dr Frank B Wynn Killed Mountain Climber in Glacier Park
Dr Frank B Wynn a prominent physician and mountaineer from Indiana was killed in Glacier Park Montana while climbing Mt Siveh. He led expeditions with colleagues and friends and was a civic leader in Indianapolis and state affairs. Funeral services were held in Indianapolis.
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Purdue University
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Defiance
H. I. Goddard
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Corne
Franklin County
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DePauw University
Ohio Mdical — Ecollege
Cincinnati
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Mt. Tacoma
Dr Wynn
Mt. Nicholas
Glacier National Park
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Frank EB. Wynn
Ilness
Indiana Historical Society
Nature Study Club
Indiana
Indiana Historical Commission
the Democrat
Dr. Wrin
Tangled Tongues at Court and Dinner Table
A Boston Transcript note mentions two spoonerisms: a Chicago wife in a divorce case says he leads me, his awful wife, a lawful life, drawing laughter in court. A guest mishears a host remark about onions, saying I like it is oiled bunnens.
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Chicago
Boston Transcript
Message in a Swallow From Ostheim to Martinique
A swallow from Ostheim Alsace carried a parchment note on its return. The note claimed the bird spent winter with a farmer near Ostheim and that it now bears a message from a shoemaker Joseph Bady on Martinique saluting the current host.
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Ostheim
Alsace
Joseph Bady
Martinique
City crowds pack Kaw Lee on twelfth street
A Kansas City Star reader quote captures astonishment at the crowd gathering in Kaw Lee as Kansas City nears four hundred thousand residents. The exchange contrasts rural curiosity with urban growth and features a humorous country cousin and a city cousin debating the scale of the crowd.
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Kaw Lee
Kansas City
Vem
Twelfth Street
Kansas City Star
Call on U. S. for supplies abroad and across the empire
The Department of Commerce requests readers to sell or deliver varied items. Dr Julius Klein reports demand from Australia for precious stones, Brazil seeks sanitary drinking fountains, Canada for moving picture machines and wireless sets, and England for garbage cans. Mexico eyeing alcohol stills. Italy wants shoe polish. Palestine and Spain seek musical instruments. Siberia asks for dried fruits and prepared milk.
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Department of Commerce
Julius Klein
Australia
Brazil
Canada
England
Ditta
Chile
Prohibition Bureau
Mexico
Italy
Palestine
Spain
Siberia
Botafogo the Argentine Champion Racehorse Dies at Eight
Botafogo, famed as Argentina's finest bred by fine studs, died near Mar del Plata aged eight. Sold for 25000 dollars at two, he never looked the part but raced like a greyhound, debuting in 1917. He conquered the classics, and in a famed revenge match he easily beat Gray Fox before a Palermo crowd.
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Argentina
Botafogo
Mar del Plata
Gray Fox
Palermo
The Joe Miller Joke Book Origin Puzzle
The famed Joe Miller Joke Book is exposed as a misnomer since Miller could not read and memorized lines via his wife. A posthumous pamphlet listed 247 tests with only three attributed to Miller, compiled by a man named Mottely. By mid‑1800s later editors expanded jokes to 1,546.
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Joe Miller
Drury Lane Theater
London
Miller
Mottely
Power in Silence as a Lesson in Humility
The piece compares the value of silence to nature's convulsions and a proverb about keeping quiet to avoid appearing foolish. It suggests astronomy as a way to teach man his small place in the universe, while noting that solitude and vast silence also achieve this perspective.
Nut in Mouth Accident Wins for Widow in Court
An English Court of Appeal ruling finds a collier who habitually carried a nut in his mouth while working suffered a fatal choking accident in the course of employment. The decision entitles his widow to compensation.
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Court of Appeal
Plowman Criticized for Mule’s Strain in City View
A Richmond Times Dispatch quote characterizes the farmer’s plowing as cruel to a mule. The city man argues the animal endures brutality and should be reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals due to the mule’s fast, strained pace.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Junior church for six to sixteen year olds operates in Indianapolis
The Grace Presbyterian Church led by Rev N S Lichterman has launched a junior church for youths aged six to sixteen with 60 members. Services are 30 minutes long in a dedicated room with youth officers, and the organizer hopes to double membership soon based on favorable results.
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Indianapolis
N. S. Lichterman
Grace Presbyterian Church
Remarkable Walrus Tusk Recovery at Pribilofs Rookeries
A notable discovery at Pribilof seal rookeries suggests a tusk regrowth or recovery from a severed tusk of a bull walrus seen last summer. Government seal keepers mauled the animal during a prior incident, and the tusk was broken. This spring the same animal reappeared with an unexpected tusk condition.
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Pribilof Islands
Graphite Deposits Found in Northwestern Siberia
Extensive graphite deposits lie on the left bank of the Kureika River near its junction with the Yenisei, 90 miles from the river mouth. The horizontal plateau rises 20 to 50 feet above river level and contains two layers of solid steel gray graphite. It could meet Russian demand and boost future exports. major sources include Ceylon, Bohemia, Germany, France and the United States. Annual world production is about 120000 short tons.
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Siberia
Kureika
Yenisei
Ceylon
Bohemia
Germany
France
United States
Modern girls and their changing manners and minds
The author argues that the modern girl is freer and more self possessed than earlier generations. She has broader experience and information, rejects irrational taboos, and seeks standards suited to modern life, with only a small minority resisting changes in dress and demeanor.
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Baltimore
Platt national park formed near Sulphur Springs in 1904
In southern Oklahoma near the Texas line a group of 30 cold mineral springs was set aside by Congress as Platt national park in 1904. The waters include sulfur and bromide varieties visited yearly by thousands who drink, camp, or buy bottled water. A Chickasaw legend ties Deerfoot’s tragedy to the springs’ reputed healing qualities.
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Oklahoma
Texas
Congress
Platt National Park
Sulphur
Hot Springs
Ark
Deerfoot
Runaway Perambulator Kills Baby in Dalston
A wind blown perambulator left outside a barber shop in Dalston England overturned on the curb as a horse drawn van passed, its wheel striking the infant and killing him instantly. The mother had briefly left to tend to her other child.
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Dalston
England
Intentions of a man on Run pus Ridge
Gap Johnson of Run pus Ridge describes a planned gathering of married men after a quarrel with his wife. He claims he will invite the ridge’s married men to witness the spectacle if his wife does not object after a period of silence.
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Gap Johnson
Runpus Ridge
Kansas City Star
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