Hanging Pockets and the Clever Pocket Thief
A Detroit Free Press report recounts a Sunday market arrest of Ernest Myers who snatched Mrs Minnock's pocketbook containing $12.12 at Central Market. Bystanders and a sharp lawyer observed a boy’s demonstrations exposing how easily pockets are picked in broad daylight. Myers was arraigned for examination next Tuesday, while a street-education tale highlighted the temptation of hanging pockets.
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Detroit Free Press
Myers
Mra. Minnock
Sheppard
Myeza
Clamay
Soong
Michigan Grand Avenue
Russell House
Alyly
President Clark praises Japanese people in remarks
Massachusetts State Cultural College President Clark, back from Japan, says the Japanese are a people able and willing to do right and notes he never saw a quarrel in Japan nor heard of a Japanese student in either country accused of immorality.
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Clark
Massachusetts State Cultural College
Japan
America
War Train Through Bulgaria Describes Zeibecke Passengers
A war correspondent aboard a Varna to Shumla train details Zeibecke soldiers in vivid terms. He notes their riotous attire, turbans or pyramid fezs, colorful sashes, and arsenal of weapons. The piece contrasts Asiatic irregulars with European passengers as prayer and discipline occur amid a dynamic battlefield railway scene.
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Bulgaria
Hns
Varna
Constantinople
Danube
Rutschuk
Wallachia
Sheitanjik
Shumla
Zeibeck
Rustehuk
Inssash
Shellanjrk
Curious Surgical Operation At Sawmill Injured Boy Receives Skin Grafts
A boy named Hanafin, badly injured in a sawmill, was given skin grafts from eight or nine other boys. About thirty skin pieces were applied to the back wound as doctors and older students assisted, with young helpers volunteering for the painful yet lifesaving procedure.
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Trank Hanafin
Fulger Picot
Hanafin
Akin
Auburn
The Writer's Cramp and Brain Centers of Speech Reading Writing
A French Academy of Sciences paper by M Zouiland outlines that speech reading and writing are each controlled by distinct brain regions. It cites a case of writers cramp where the arm and hand were responsive, but writing failed due to brain dysfunction, not muscular trouble, illustrating brain localization of these faculties.
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M. Zouiland
French Academy of Sciences
Vriting
Cigar Explosive Trap Shocks Cincinnati Street
A Cinci mercial report describes a man on Vine Street who lights a cigar with a concealed tin explosive. An explosion follows as the middle third of the cigar holds a powder capsule. Police later trap a suspect and confiscate more of these loaded cigars from a local stall run by Alexander Corbin. The device is described in detail, noting a tin cylinder inside the cigar and the explosion occurs when one third is burned.
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Cinci ‘Mercial
Vine Street
Carson
William Brown
Sycamore Street
Corbin
McCarthy
Commercial
Davenport Illusionist Dies in Sydney of Consumption
William Davenport a renowned illusionist and spiritual medium died at the Oxford Hotel in King Street Sydney after successive pulmonary blood vessels ruptured. He arrived from New Zealand with his brother three weeks earlier. his death ends a short run that included performances and controversial scientific demonstrations. He leaves a young widow married five months prior and was a Buffalo native known locally and in broader circles.
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Sidney
Australia
W. H. H. Davenport
Oxford Hotel
King Street
New Zealand
William Davenport
Markey
Ashett
Decca
Buffalo
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Sawom & Tarkise
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Mecca
Allah
God
Mohammed
Beath
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