New York Clerk Rescued After 50 Hours on Broadway Ledge
George Lammert a New York life insurance clerk dangled on a ledge above Broadway for hours after a wind blew his inspection paper out a window. He clung to a narrow ledge, crawled to a distant pipe, signaled with a handkerchief and notes, and was finally rescued by a window washer with a rope.
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New York
George L. Lammert
Broadway
New York City
Lambert
Himalayas
Lammert
City Hall
America
Trinity Church
The
Stock Exchange
Curtis Logan
Logan
Life Insurance Company
Prominent American Bride Breaks European Court Charm
Sibyl Kaye, daughter of Mrs. Post, marries American Arthur T. Kemp after resisting offers from European nobles. Kemp, a New York millionaire, had vowed not to marry again but proposed after meeting in Paris. The couple plan to return to the United States in June amid New York and Newport social buzz.
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New York
Sibyl Kaye
Miss Kaye
Arthur T. Kemp
Mr. Post
Mr. Kemp
Chemists
Lanman & Kemp
Newport
Kemp
Hollis H. Hunnewell
Miss Mildred Harrison
Philadelphia
Europe
Count Carl Hohnstein
Bavaria
Miss Harrison
Paris
Count Holstein
Miss Kayé
Colorado Springs
British Isles
Continent
Egypt
Nile
Holy Land
Arthur Kemp
Hunnewell
Maude Jaffray
Ionable School For
New Orleans
William W. Douglas
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Neilsons
China
Japan
Neilson
Vanderbilt
Post
Holland House
Sibyl
Reginald Vanderbilts
Beile”’ Neilson
Yale
Mrs. Kemp
Mrs. Hunnewell No
J. S. Tooker
The
Aero Club
Maj
John S. Thacker
New York National Guard
Father Ducey
C. Downing Fripp
Ottawa
Can
Beaumont
Tex
New Tire Material Elast o Needs Testing for Comfort
A 19th century brief reports elastos a new solid tire compound tested in England. It combines glue glycerine and chromic salts heated and injected into tires, aiming to match air tire motion. It adds weight but eliminates spare tires.
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England
Absent from Opportunity Finds Fortune in Time
A tale contrasts two travelers, one penniless and the other borrowing 50 cents. The borrower rises to head salesman and later head of a wholesale firm that grows into a major middle western business, while the other, who declined chances, ends jobless in New York. The survivor dies worth a million and a half after 22 years.
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Middle West
Memory of the Sagebrush
The government will spend 850000 dollars on an irrigation system north of Pocatello Idaho to transform vast sagebrush lands into thriving farms within two years. The piece urges a civic tribute to sagebrush before its removal, foreseeing crops like cabbage onions potatoes alfalfa and hay replacing the native brush.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Pocatello Tribune
Remarkable Long Eggs Reported From Britain and France
A coastguard officer's hen in Bridgeport Conn laid an egg 75 by 6% inches, while a farmyard egg in Fenny Stratford yielded a second egg inside. A record egg in size weighs five ounces, with other freakish eggs noted among ducks. Weston Park Museum houses a duck egg with a smaller egg inside, and a twin egg joined end to end. An egg preserved in mortar from an 800 year old Paris church wall was found intact.
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Coastguards
Bridgeeport
Conn
Fenny Stratford
Weston Park
Sheffield
Paris
Bargain Casket Challenge in New York Funeral Trade
A New York funeral director vows to donate 500 to a hospital if rivals prove his 35 dollar casket matches the value of a higher priced unit. He claims to offer fully equipped caskets for 35 dollars and Even pledges to bring rivals to his showroom for comparison. He says the goal is to save laboring men money while delivering quality service.
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Greater
New York
Boy survives bear encounter in Washington and bags huge specimen
A Washington boy named Hiram Frayson was hunting when a black bear approached within twenty feet. The gun’s hammer snagged on a limb and discharged, saving him from a fatal blow as the bear was moments from attacking. The bear was so large four men needed to load it onto a wagon for the trip home.
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Hiram Frayson
Washington
Caterpillars Swarm Roads Halting Train in Victoria
In Victoria Australia travelers report caterpillars swarming along Wodonga and Barnawartha district roads. The insects denude vegetation threaten vineyards. An excursion train halted as dense swarms blocked the rails.
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Wodonga
Barnawartha
Victoria
Australia
Shrewd Tricks of Birds Feigning Death At Feeding Place
A naturalist notes clever bird behavior as a group of blackbirds and thrushes feed near a border bank. The patriarch guards the feast while others approach quietly, the sentry ruffling feathers and piping a warning, yet the cat remains unmoved.
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Baskea
Pat's Turn. The Major
Dialogue depicts a judge complimenting a driver and horse as it draws attention from passersby. The unnamed Major teases Pat about the horse, creating a light humorous exchange in a courtroom setting.
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Pat
Scrubbins Marriage Cools a Social Lion Says Daily News
Chicago Daily News quotes Eva saying Scrubbins was a social lion in bachelor days and has calmed greatly since marriage. The remark implies his wife may tame his social impulse.
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Eva
Young Scrubbins
Jack
Chicago Daily News
Oh Bobby's Sleep in Church Sparks Judge's Jibe
A humorous exchange quoted by a judge notes a minister’s expected ire at a boy dozing in church. The youngster retorts that he woke for the collection, delivering a light moral quip on churchgoing habits.
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Bobby
The Contrary Way
Unclear text notes an entertainer's skill in arousing audience desire through dry humor. Contains fragmented quotes and incomplete context.
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Baltl
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