Primrose Path Ends In Tragedy For Nan Patterson
Nan Patterson the Broadway showgirl known as Nan Randolph faces murder charges in the Caesar Young case. The San Francisco–New York affair, dual life, and lavish gifts led to a fatal shooting in a cab after a long romance. The trial ended with a hung jury and heightened moral debate.
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Caesar Young
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Nan Randolph
Washington, D. C
Origin of the Phrase Mad as a Hatter
The piece surveys theories on the origin of mad as a hatter. It notes a French link and cites a claim tying the phrase to Collins the poet once a hatter, suggesting lunatics called him the hatter, but presents no definitive derivation.
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Collins
Chichester
Intending Emigrant Reflects on Rising Passage Fare
A stray dialogue shows a Booking Clerk quoting five pounds ten to steerage to the United States while the traveler recalls two pounds. The clerk notes a price rise as the emigration rate war ends and the man decides not to go, preferring to stay and be English.
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Steerich
United States
San Francisco Votes Theater Pass Tax Plan
San Francisco adopts a ten cent tax on each theater pass to fund the Actors' Home. The measure directs revenue to support actors and theater community services.
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San Francisco
Unclear Fragments From an Observational Piece
Fragmentary text discusses boys and a quoted remark about Darwinian theory. The readable material references visitors and a humorous remark attributed to Puck. No clear event or outcome is stated.
Talking Shop Engagement Ring Pun
A light exchange humorously notes that Belle’s reaction to a broken engagement is simply another ring to come. The dialogue presents a playful take on romance and telephony in a clipped exchange.
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Talking Shop
Belle
Royal Magazine
Lifesaving Heritage: Parson Family Honored for Drowning Rescues
On his twenty third birthday, J Parson of the Hollows Brentford received the Royal Humane Society certificate for saving two boys from drowning. His father previously saved 48 persons, giving the son a total of 23 lifesaving credits in the family.
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J. Parson
The
Hollows
Brentford
England
Royal Humane Society
By the Young Idea
A reflection on how a curious child challenges a man's self esteem with simple questions, illustrating the humbling dynamic between adult knowledge and youthful inquiry.
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Chicago Daily News
Wife retrieves husband’s body from Yale medical school
New York woman Mrs George Klea carried her spouse’s body from Yale medical school cold storage in New Haven after learning of his October death. She obtained a permit to remove it to New York as officials explained the school holds unclaimed bodies briefly for relatives.
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Conn
George Klea
New York
Yale Medical School
Elea
Springside
Medical School
Ferris
Anatomical Department
Black and Silver Fox Fur Commands High Prices
Real blue fox skin of a rich sooty shade draws top money but the rarer black with white hairs silver fox fetches even higher sums. Last season a single skin brought £480, according to London Tit-Bits.
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London
Photography lessons for prisoners in Scotland praised
Report of the prison commissioners for Scotland notes photography lessons for prisoners have been attended with very successful results.
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Prison Commissioners For
Scotland
Kipling Echoes on England’s Prosperous Slumber
A philosophical snippet reflecting on England’s wealth and restlessness. Kipling laments a nation softened by prosperity that dreamily believes it contemplates while it sleeps, casting a wary eye on complacency and cultural fatigue.
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Kipling
England
Rudyard Kipling
Power in Blows and Animal Strength Ranked
A lion’s paw strike ranks as the third strongest animal force after the whale’s tail blow and the giraffe’s kick. The description compares impact strength among marine and land mammals, noting the whale and giraffe as the first and second strongest.
Cotton Goods Production in Japan Surpasses Eighty Million
As reported last year Japan produced cotton piece goods valued at more than 80 million dollars. The figure highlights strong textile output and export potential in the Japanese market during the period.
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Japan
Visitors to Portland Exposition Swap Midway for Trail
Visitors to the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland Oregon next year will skip the Midway and other attractions. They will instead hit the trail to explore the outdoors and related displays.
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Portland
Ore
Burns Family Bible Sells at London Auction
Robert Burns family Bible sold at auction in London for 8250 dollars. The buyer was a London dealer.
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London
Robert Burns
Free Libraries a Curse Warned by London Express
A London Express editorial declares free public libraries a national curse arguing they spur women to lazy reading of novels. It claims imagination leads to persecuted heroines and domestic duties suffer as cooking goes wrong.
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London Express
Rubbing It In Article Lapses Into Banter After Play
Philadelphia Press reports a humorous exchange where a spectator jokes about not seeing the performance while another recalls a complaint about a hat. The brief interaction captures the light mood following the event.
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Philadelphia Press
Get Together to Ease Water Strains Across Sectors
A Pittsburg Dispatch editorial laments uneven water distribution with Kentucky stock shortages and Wall Street market worries. It urges a meeting of minds to even the burden and improve outcomes for both.
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Kentucky
Wall Street
Pittsburg
Poorest French Provincial Railroads
The article notes that French provincial railroads are among the poorest globally. Carriages are aging, with some decades old, and a line once saw a car collapse as its floor gave way and the vehicle fell apart.
Bath Furnace meteorite bought by Prof. Ward
A 184 pound aerolite with nickel and iron content was bought for nearly 2000 dollars by Prof. Henry A. Ward of Chicago. The Bath Furnace meteorite, second largest of its kind, fell near Bath Furnace Kentucky on November 15, 1902 and cut a tree on impact. Ward plans to place it in the Ward-Coonley collection in New York.
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Bath Furnace
Henry A. Ward
Chicago
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Field Columbian Museum
Ward
Bath County
St. Petersburg
Russia
Ward-Coonley
Christian County
New Stereoscope Idea By Prof Jastrow Described
Prof Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin describes in Science a modified stereoscope using two pictures pasted on a single card and viewed with mirrors. The device avoids a bridge or screen and produces a mirror reversal of views, with possible lens magnification to enlarge images.
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Joseph Jastrow
University of Wisconsin
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Wheatstone
Sir David Brewster
Jastrow
Automatic fire alarm named Autopyrophon patent in Germany
A Danish scientist in Germany patented the Autopyrophon automatic fire alarm. It uses a U shaped glass tube half filled with mercury and a volatile liquid. Sudden room heat moves mercury to trigger an electric circuit and alarms, demonstrated by eight seconds after shavings were set alight in a room.
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Germany
Bald Head Saves His Life On Dark Columbia Bridge
In Northport Washington locomotive engineer Charles F Hoofer spotted a glittering figure between bridge rails as his train curved onto the Columbia River crossing. He halted ten feet from the prostrate, bald headed drunken man whose near death was avoided by the headlight signal and quick stopping. The man, sobered by the close call, could not provide his name and vanished after being taken to Northport.
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New York
Martin
Northport
Wash
Charles F. Hoofer
Columbia River
Hoover
Curability of Tuberculosis Through Seacoast Sanatoria
Dr A Snoop discusses sanatoria as highly curative for tuberculosis especially in early stages. Reports show up to 75 percent cures with lasting results. He notes extensive European seacoast sanatoria and mentions plans by the New York Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor to establish a similar institution.
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Europe
France
Holland
Germany
United States
New York Society For the
A. Snopf
Man Carrying Kite Demonstrated At World’s Fair Stadium
A remarkable attempt to lift a man by a kite occurred on the World’s Fair Stadium grounds using the Avery machine. Weighing about 13 pounds, the light structure features two aerocurves, a rear rudder, and gravity propulsion with a copper wire tow mechanism.
Licorice Grows Wild Across Tigris and Euphrates Banks
A sailor and a druggist discuss wild licorice plants along the Tigris and Euphrates. The licorice is cut for use in flavoring tobacco and snuff, with poor sticks used as firewood and better ones bundled for shipment to England and America.
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Tigris
Euphrates
Tax swap for oil fuels reform debate in Russia
The article notes Russia’s oil output is high yet illuminating oil use is limited by a tax on refined oil. Baku refiners petition the government to abolish the refined oil tax for home consumption and replace it with a tax on all crude oil produced.
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Russia
Baku
N. Ke Herald
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