Sis the Samaritan Girl Delivers a Monticello Message
In a rural roadside rescue a seventeen year old girl named Sis tends three injured men after a touring car crash. She stabilizes wounds, fetches water and bandages, and coordinates care at a nearby house before riding five miles to Monticello to deliver a crucial message to halt a railroad sale. She faces a future of gratitude from the men and an implied reward, while her family faces upheaval as the plan pivots on her efforts.
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Sid
Tom
Artie
Pho
Arlo
Jim
Arie
Angel of Mercy
Greenwood Tree
Robin Hood
Indy
Miss Samaritan
Tam
Jack
Monticello
Sig
Burbank
Monticallo
Law Office
Thorpe & Holmes
Thorpe
Court House
Laddie
Springfield Nursing
Sis
Bpy
Bill Nye on Hornets and Memory From Insect Tales
The speaker recounts collecting hornets and recalling memories triggered by stings. He describes placing a large hornet in a cabinet, a spring awakening of memory, and past incidents with hornets on his head and body. He recalls warding off hornets with a comb and a makeshift hat, noting the hornet’s odd, quaint effect.
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Empire House
Hornet
In the Country Jests and Urban Banter
A collage of humorous quips from magazines and newspapers continues the playful exchange on social manners money and modern life. Jests touch on marriage happiness and subway slang with satirical twists from Lippincott's Smart Set Catholic Times Boston Transcript Chicago Record-Herald New Yorker Louisville Courier-Journal and others.
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Chicago Record-Herald
New Yorker
Cyclone Belt
Louisville Courier-Journal
Ally Sloper Snippet Reveals Manager Absence Over Bills
A dialogue from Ally Sloper shows a caller asking for the manager, a boy asking for the name, and the reply that the manager is out and not receiving bills. The scene hints at a comic strip moment of mistaken identity and busy office mishap.
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Bill
Sloper
Mrs Pinkleton Laughs at Husband's Jokes for Hat
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet, Mrs Pinkleton is noticeably amused by her husband's foolish gibes. The remark suggests she leverages his humor to justify purchasing a new hat, portraying a light domestic moment with subtle humor.
Jokes and jabs from old papers on love and law
A collage of quips from Chicago News Boston Post Louisville Journal and Puck. It jests about justice, law, social ranks, marriage and show business with wry humor and sharp punchlines from early 20th century humor columns.
Automatic Restaurant in Ostend Serves Quick Meals
In Ostend an automatic restaurant in Rue de Flandre offers cooked viands on paper trays in glass-fronted compartments. Patrons insert ten-centimes to release items like sandwiches cheeses and sardines along with drinks such as lager vermouth cognac and bitters. The setup attracts Sunday visitors and other crowds despite some dissatisfaction from the caterer.
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Ostend
Rue de Flandre
Unclear Student Quote on Synonyms and Behavior
Fragmentary line discusses differences between cute and sneaky as taught in school. Mentions Mrs Jones and a pupil nicknamed Puck. The excerpt uses a dialogic tone about parental guidance and classroom language without clear events or outcomes.
Zelaya Must Answer For Americans Shot
Two Americans, Leroy Cannon and Leonard Grace, were court marshaled and shot in Managua, Nicaragua, after being accused of placing dynamite mines to blow up government steamers. The State Department demanded explanations, with peremptory notes to President Zelaya and naval forces directed toward Nicaraguan waters as tensions rise.
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Nicaragua
Americana
Leroy Cannon
Leonard Grace
Greytown
Diamante
Cannon
Honduras
State Department
Washington, D. C
Zelaya
Republic of Central America
Hazera
Taft
Des Moines
Vicksburg
Excommunication Against Mrs Augusta K B Stetson
Boston directors of the Mother Church issue an order excommunicating Mrs Augusta K B Stetson of New York City after a conference exceeding three days found she worked against church interests and persisted in teachings and practices contrary to Christian Science.
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Boston
Mass
Augusta KB. Stetson
New York City
Christian Science
Stetson
William M Laf Fan Dead Publisher of New York Sun
William M Laffan longtime publisher of the New York Sun since 1884 died at Laffan House Lawrenceville after an appendicitis operation. Born January 22 1848 in Dublin he studied in Blackrock Booterstown Dublin University and St Cecilia's Medical. He married Georgian Tompkins of Baltimore in 1872 and began as a San Francisco reporter before owning the Baltimore Bulletin and later moving to New York City.
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New York City
William M. Laffan
New York Sun
Laffan
Lawrence
S. 1
Mr. Laffan
Dublin
Blackrock
Booterstown
Dublin University
St. Cecilia’s School of Medicine
Georgianon Tompkins
Baltimore
San Francisco
Baltimore Bulletin
Jails Petty Civic Graft Tail Three Months For Bribery
George H Warren of Malden was sentenced to three months in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to bribery involving five dollars. He admitted giving William Dunn senior weights and measures official five dollars to refrain from prosecuting a coal company charged with short weight in sales.
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Cambridge
Mase
George H. Warren
House of Correction
Warren
William E. Dunn
Malden
Cabor Stands By Boycott From AFL Chief Mitchell Speech
John Mitchell, AFL officer under contempt sentence, vowed to defend constitutional rights and support boycotts against Bucks Stove and Range. He declared he would spend his money and express his views despite consequences, urging continued pursuit of labor causes as the convention praised him.
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Toronto
Can
Committee On Boycott
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Mitchell
Brown
Gompers
United States
Washington, D. C
Bucks Stove and Range Company
Duelist Guilty of Murder at Sylvania Ga
Rufus Lucas was found guilty of murder with mercy recommended after a fatal duel in J. W. Hodges store in Oliver. Lucas was wounded in the fray as Hodges died. Other items note three deaths in a Colingwood Ont. fire and various regional incidents.
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Sylvania
Rufus Lucas
J. W. Hodges
Oliver
Lucas
Bride to be, party killed in bridge wreck near Cuthbert
A bridal party returning from Fort Gaines to Coleman crashed after the driver lost control on a thirty foot bridge over the Central Railway two miles west of Cuthbert Georgia. Three men died Curtis Williams James Shepard Horace Shepard and two women were seriously injured Helen Mattox and Mary Mattox. Williams age twenty three was married.
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Cuthbert
Curtis Williams
Fort Gaines
James Shepard
Jidison
Horace Shepard
Edison
Helens Mattox
Coleman
Mary Mattox
Aliss Helene Mattox
Fort Gainer
Williams
Central Railway
Shepard
Shepards
Helen Mattox
Supreme Court lets private business refuse service to Negroes
Des Moines Iowa private firm Bell Coffee Co can refuse to serve any person including Susie Brown a Black woman who paid entry at a pure food show the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the private concern may deny service though a lower court had found in Brown's favor Chief Justice Evans and Justice Nyaaver dissented.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Evans
Nyaaver
Mexican ambassador's son injured in Tampico crash
Mexico City reports Hector Casasus son of Joaquin Casasus former ambassador to the United States had a broken collar bone when his automobile struck another car driven by C. H. Rathborn owner of the Southern Hotel at Tampico. Rathborn was seriously injured and Casasus was driving at about fifty miles per hour on principal street overturning a baby carriage. the father was in New York City.
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Mexico City
Hector Casasus
Joaquin Casasus
United States
C. H. Rathborn
Southern
Tampico
Caesasus
New York City
Ice merger ruled illegal restraint of trade
In St Louis Judge George H Shields declared Polar Wave Tee and Fuel Company an illegal combination restraining trade. The seven constituent corporations allegedly restricted competition before merging and raised ice prices from 35 to 50 cents per hundred pounds. Attorneys said an appeal will go to Missouri Supreme Court. The firm organized in 1903 by merging four retail and three wholesale ice concerns with 1.9 million dollars capitalization.
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St. Louis
Polar Wave Tee and Fuel Company
George H. Shields
St.Louis
Shields
Polar Wave Company
Supreme Court of Missouri
Damages in Odd Suit Involving Bell Telephone
William Rocap, a Philadelphia newspaper man, won $5000 damages against Bell Telephone Co in Common Pleas Court over injuries at the Country Club on June 21 1908. A ball of fire struck the phone booth during a violent thunderstorm as he relayed a pole match report, throwing him 25 feet and leaving him unconscious for 16 hours. He missed work for all weeks The suit charged negligence.
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Philadelphia
Common Pleas
Wiliam H Rocap
Bell Telephone Company
Country Club
Cubans Push for American money as currency standard
Havana reports a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Oriente Province urging adoption of the American dollar as currency. Other items note Italian deputies resuming work in Rome, concerns over foreign worker protection after a Cherry, Illinois mining disaster, and U.S. interest in buying a Peruvian Pacific port for a coaling station. Mrs. Roosevelt tours Italy and plans a spring return. reform talks in French courts. plague reappears in Caracas. censorship debate grows in Britain. Persian cabinet resigns. French Catholic schools cited. Bolivian minister to Peru named. and Morton Plant sails from Southampton on a world cruise.
Governor removes Cairo sheriff after mob lynching
Governor Charley Dencen declared the office of Sheriff of Alexander County vacant. Sheriff Frank E. Doyle allowed William James, the negro murderer, and Henry Salzner, a white uxoricide, to be taken from his care and lynched at Cairo by the mob. The action rests on a law that ends a sheriff's term when he surrenders a prisoner to a mob.
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Cairo
Springfeld
Charley
Dencen
Alexander County
Frank E. Doyle
Wiliam James
Henry Salzner
Blacksmith Sells Secret Process for Steel Making
Gallipolis Ohio Mason Grover Bidwell village blacksmith sells a new secret method claimed to save the United States Steel Corp 15000000 yearly. The plan would convert iron ore to steel by a simple process reducing machinery time. Grover, poor with little education, negotiates for two hundred thousand dollars and royalties.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
United States Steel Corporation
Mason Grover
Bidwell
Grover
Wfe
National Biscuit Pays Record Texas Business Fee
The National Biscuit Company of New Jersey paid the State Department 55000 for a ten year Texas business permit. It marks the largest fee ever paid by any corporation to do business in Texas. The payment is on a capitalization of 55000000.
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National Biscuit Company
New Jersey
State Department
Texas
School Chief Dismissed Over Cruelty Allegations
James P. Farrell, superintendent of the Brooklyn Disciplinary School for Boys, was dismissed by the Board of Managers on charges of cruelty. The board cited misconduct and management concerns as the basis for the action.
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James P. Farrell
Brooklyn Disciplinary School For
Board of Managers
Figute at porta and sports betting trends noted
The piece notes Savannah plans at Thunderbolt Park for at least thirty days and Juarez Mexico open bookmaking with paraphernalia. It cites American pitchers totaling 145 whitewashes last season, bets shifting to football, Harvard over Cornell 18 to 0, Sacandaga’s National Hunt Cup win, Hughey Duffy joining as manager, and Keene leading Jockey Chit tracks with $110,000 while Hildrath has $167,000.
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Thunderbolt Park
Juarez
Mexico
Soldiers’ Field
Cambridge
Maas
Harvard
Cornell
Angelo Devereux
United Mutts
Hughey Duffy
Chicago
Seagon
James R. Keene
Hildrath
Georgia Residents Sign Appeal to Taft on Shipp Pardon
In Rising Fawn Georgia a petition to President Taft requests mercy for ex Sheriff Joseph F Shipp and co defendants. The signees claim the sentence would harm ignorant and irresponsible negroes and endanger Southern women, reflecting local fear and racial tension.
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Georgia
Taft
Wife Leaves Home After Theft Then Mule Kills Husband
Mrs James Edmonds of Washington County deserted her home taking household effects and five cattle but leaving an old mule. Edmonds filed desertion and larceny charges. The mule, Edmonds sole possession, kicked him, causing fatal injuries in a Pittsburg hospital.
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Pittsburg
James Edmonds
Washington County
Edmonds
Fatal Rabbit Hunt Ends in Tragedy Near Shenandoah
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania William Allman a nineteen year old Gilbarton resident mistook a bush for a black cat and fired from his home at dusk fatally wounding eleven year old Arthur Kern. The birdshot blast ripped a hole in the boy’s heart as his mother heard him call for her.
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Shenandoah
William Allman
Gilbarton
Arthur Kern
William Kern
Allman
Letter to Kill Rothschild in Upper Silesia
A Breslau schoolmaster traveling to Schillersdorf was stopped by a man who asked him to deliver a letter to Baron Albert Rothschild. After agreeing, the schoolmaster continued and the Baron exploded, severely injuring him. Authorities believe the killer intended to kill the baron. No New Trial For Jordan. Superior Court judges in Cambridge Massachusetts denied a new trial to Chester v. Jordan, who was convicted of murdering his wife.
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Breslau
Prussia
Schillersdorf
Albert Rothschild
Upper Silesia
Baron Rothschild
Superior Court
Cambridge
Mass
Chester v. Jordan
Boll Weevils in Spanish Moss Threaten Cotton Crop
Louisiana State Crop Pest Commission warns that Spanish moss provides winter shelter for large numbers of boll weevils. A commission bulletin states the moss shelters the pests, posing a serious threat to cotton planters in Baton Rouge.
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Louisiana State Commission
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State
Flames 1500 Feet High Amid Teneriffe Eruptions
An earthquake occurred as Teneriffe volcano continued erupting with five craters active. Flames rose to 1500 feet while lava flow slowed, posing no immediate danger to nearby villages.
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Teneriffe
Duke Breaks Leg Hunting in Melton-Mowbray Event
The Duke of Roxburghe sustained a leg fracture while hunting at Melton-Mowbray England. The Duchess of Roxburghe Miss May Goelot of New York City is noted as his wife.
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Duke of Roxburghe
Melton-Mowbray
England
Duchess of
Parr Succeeds Clarkson as Port Surveyor in New York
James Clarkson will be succeeded as Surveyor of the Port of New York City at the start of the year. Treasurer Charles H. Treat, in his report, urges retrenchment and cost cutting amid retirement news and port oversight changes.
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Parr
Clarkson
James
New York City
The
United Sines
Charles H. Treat
New Jersey Auto Law Upheld by Supreme Court Justice
The New Jersey Supreme Court upholds the Frelinghuysen automobile tax and licensing regime. Justice Alfred Read writes that licensing cars for highway safety and public protection is constitutional, despite questions over value versus horsepower and interstate commerce implications. A separate note reports arrests and later releases linked to other local cases and society items.
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Jersey
Supreme Court
Alfred Read
Trenton
Frelinghuysen
New York City
Johnson
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Local notes from Canton Mantua and Woodbury summarized
Edmund Turner of Canton has a bed weighing six pounds five ounces. Ruth Robinson of Mantua was seriously injured when struck by a wagon owned by Charles Dukes. Horace Carll of Canton sold forty fine roosters to a Salem dealer at $1.46 each, and Emma Simma of Harmony sold twenty four chickens at $1.73 each. Frank Kates and William Dilkes of Canton husked and housed corn for neighbor William Baker, currently with a broken leg. Knight's farm stream near Woodbury ran dry for the first time in memory. Estates: John M Henderson of Woodbury valued at $18,000 and Eustace Egeic of Mantua at $34,000. Oysters shipped from Maurice River and Bivalve total sixty to seventy carloads daily.
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Mantua
Charles Dukes
Horace Carll
Canton
Salem
Emma Simma
Harmony
Frank Kates
William Dilkes
William Baker
Streas
Knight's Farm
Woodbury
John M. “Henderson
Eustace Egeic
Maurice
Better Pay For Clergy At New York Episcopal Convention
The annual diocesan convention in New York discussed improving clergy salaries in rural districts. Bishop Greer noted pastors in the city’s wealthy diocese struggle to meet basic expenses. A Chicago tuberculous school initiative is also mentioned in the text.
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Episcopal Diocese of
New York
Greer
New York City
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