Longed-For Climax In Town Planned To Kill Blanche
In a small town six women plot to end Blanche’s reign as the town’s social queen by marrying her off to Sam Merrills. They stage a series of dinners and parties to push Blanche toward Sam while keeping Dick Somers distracted. Sam appears receptive, while Sally and Dick quarrel, and the scheme gathers momentum as the group moves toward a supposed climactic turn.
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Dunbars
Sally Haynes
Juan Gray
Bayley Twins
Cara Endicott
Kit
Sally
Blanche
Dick Somers
Carol
Mwan
Unti Blanche
Sam Merrills
Pippin
Joan
Sam
Sun
Sham
Tutner
Uttte
Dici
Juan
Engaged Couple Finally Publicly Announce Marriage
In a candid moment the couple reveal they wed after a brief engagement. Sam delivers a speech as Dick and Sally share glad tidings. Sally regrets the years of worry and imagines the social plans they avoided by a swift announcement.
Shoshone Indians Win Their Spurs War Honors Defined
The Shoshone of the American Northwest valued bravery as the key virtue. War deeds gained status through killing a white or grizzly bear, stealing enemy horses, leading successful raiding parties, and scalping an enemy warrior. Scalps carried honor independent of vanquished foes, and multiple warriors could share honors for different trophies.
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American Northwest
Detroit News
Relief for Leprosy Found by Indian King
Legend places Rama of Benares as a king who fell to leprosy and, after abdication, was healed by kalaw tree fruits. He later cured a princess sharing the disease, they wed, and their 82 sons founded a city where khalaw trees grew. Traders across Asia then sold chaulmoogra seeds for leprosy and skin ailments.
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Benares
Phsicians
Thut
India
Burma
Siam
Europe
Listening to Earth's Veins With New Metal Locator
Two Swedish engineers Hans Lundberg and Harry Nathurst invented an electrical instrument that detects metallic ores underground and signals their position by sound. A prospector carries the device and, with receivers on his head, listens for tones that indicate a vein beneath the ground.
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Hans Lundberg
Harry Nathurst
Insured for a Charity by Life Policies in New York
The New York Evening Post notes insured individuals name charities or institutions as beneficiaries, enabling bequest principal conservation. Admin methods have been devised, and many organizations are already chosen. The plan appeals to philanthropists who want their work to prosper after their death by continuing to do good.
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Ife Insurance
New York Evening Post
Early Gas Engine Invention by Lenoir Described
The first practical gas engine, attributed to a Frenchman named Lenoir, resembled a single cylinder horizontal steam engine and was double acting. Gas entered during the forward stroke, exploded by an electric spark, and exhaust occurred on the return stroke. Ignition did not require compression, making the engine inefficient.
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Lenoir
John Tops Baby Names In America Says Columbia Record
The Columbia Record notes John leads all names in popularity across city directories with WH Yam and James following. It discusses how biblical names influence child naming and that popularity seeds heredity, urging clergy to study this visible trend.
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America
John
Whyam
James
Joah
Columbia Record
Calro City Boasts World Mother Title in Prideful Quotation
A city dubbed Calro gains fame from a boast by a drub describing Calro as the world’s mother city. He extols its soil as gold its Nile as a wonder its women as black-eyed virgins of puradive its houses as pulaces and its overall charm as surpassing aloess wood and heat.
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Calro
Ike
West Virginia’s Loud Speaker System Onboard Ship
On the battleship West Virginia a loud speaking system with 100 speakers across five circuits speeds calls and battle instructions from three bridge stations. A two stage vacuum tube amplifier ensures power, while the bo’s’n still pipes calls with tunes and words for those near the transmitter. The ship’s 200 line switchboard serves telephones throughout the vessel and ties to Bell System for dockside business.
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John Paul Jones
Navy Department
Arizona
Navy
Western Electric Company
West Virginia
Wis
Intangible Ideas and Real Yet Not Tangible Notions
An analysis notes that intangible things cannot be touched yet can be real such as beauty and moral quantities. It discusses negation prefixes and how intangible concepts influence arguments and perceptions, citing the sunflower of nature like a sunset as a vivid example from the Chicago Journal.
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Chicago Journal
Patches as Love Messages from Old World Customs
The article recalls a quaint practice where facial patches signaled romantic messages. Patches on the left cheek, riplit cheek, chin, ear, temple conveyed varied meanings from love to indecision. It questions whether this old language of beauty will be revived.
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London
Wilads
Thumb as a Diaracter Indicator in Mental State
A physician from a lunatic asylum asserts that a person with an inactive thumb held at right angles while writing or performing tasks signals a dispersed mind. Even if conversations seem sane, the thumb’s inactivity is linked to latent madness, per the expert.
Ancient Oxford Pace and ItsStoried Colleges
In Oxford, the ancient university town, visitors find one of the world’s most interesting places. The city houses a group of about 20 colleges tied together as a league, with Balliol College dating back to around 1200. Christ Church is noted for its grand buildings and historic stone steps worn by countless students.
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Oxford
Oxford University
Ballol
Christ Church College
Otford
Ellie Byrne
Stan Laurel
Horses to follow and back in the Western Christian Advocate
A young man paid for tips on horses after answering an advertisement. He received a card listing Horses to follow Hoarse horses Horses to back Hobby horses Horses to put something on Saw horses and Horses to let alone Race horses, as noted in the Western Christian Advocate.
Javanese Houses By No Means Things Of Beauty
Description of Southeast Asian homes and walls in Java and Bali shows sturdy stone foundations, tall protective earthen walls, and roofed overhangs. Balinese farm life features separate animal huts, wooden stair footings, and simple, utilitarian family dwellings with modest ornamentation.
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Java
Poeng Euvas
Roos Brothers Turns To Telephone Sales
Lab business Roos Brothers Inc relies on telephone outreach as a growing profit source during the campaign period and one month after, with 1038 calls generating a percent of sales. Salesclerks in the wards report higher purchases tied to the call drive despite no drop in wall sales.
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Lab
Roos Brothers, Inc
Japanese Telephone Operators Dress in Uniforms
Japanese operators in Tokyo wear a distinctive uniform called shakaia over a plain white mona, with sleeves narrowed by a cord below the elbow to keep hands free. The outfit includes a sash, white cloth couvre, straw sandals, and white stockings, a custom noted for working women.
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Japan
Gyub
Tokyo
Telephones lag behind in English habits in Leeds
A Leeds Post report notes English people trail in adopting telephone use. It cites hopes to develop the habit to U.S. levels, with recent competitive features inspiring the public. The text highlights belief that only about a third of the population has private lines and talks of emerging conversations.
Telephones Dominate New York Convention Facility Setup
Madison Square Garden housed unprecedented telephony for the national convention with over 100000 feet of extra wire, eleven switch boards, ninety two booths, seventy one coin boxes, and a public address system. Two chair desk instruments enabled instant links to strategic points on the Garden. Local radio fans could hear proceedings via Chesapethe Potomac Telephone Company station WoCAP.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Carden
Chesapethe & Potomac ‘Telephone Company
Wocap
Simple German telephone number reading quirk
In Germany callers often group digits in pairs rather than as single digits. For example 4070 is read as twenty five, seventy eight. The quirky habit contrasts with English and elicits humorous misreading when translated "tunfund zwanzig" and "welt and sleb ate."
Nominee's Name Sakes Work on Switchboards
The public watches the Democratic nominee for President while John W. Davis remains at his station in the Western Electric Company Kearny Works. Davis teaches in the Inspection section of the Waverly Shops and his team contributes to cabling for telephone switch boards. A second J W Davis works in the NRearny Works general service department making telephone communication equipment.
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John W. Davis
Kearny Works
Western Electric Company
Davis
Waverly
General Service
Nrearny Works
J. W. Davis
History of the typewriter keyboard origins
The piece traces claims that Alexander Davidson designed a standard keyboard, but finds no evidence. It credits Christopher Latham Sholes and James Densmore with creating the universal layout, noting early machines had key conflicts. It explains designers sought a layout to prevent typebar collisions.
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Alexander Davidson
West Virginia
Davidson
Christopher Latham Shules
James Densmore
Shoeles
Densuore
Getting Plucked in the European Square Revisited
A fragmentary dialogue recalls a famous European square once crowded with tourists and pilgrims. The speaker muses on repeated visits and speculates that dealers placed items there in similar eras, hinting at a pattern or stereotype about this location.
The Bluebird Princess Brings Arno to a Bride
Prince Arno travels seeking a bride and finds a castle of bluebirds under a witch’s spell. He sacrifices a bluebird to break the enchantment, restoring a princess who becomes his bride. The king hosts a weeklong feast celebrating their marriage.
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Aruo
Prince Arno
Bluebird
Arno
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Acadian Memorial Park to Honor Nova Scotia Heritage
The Detroit News reports Nova Scotians preserve landmarks from Longfellow's Evangeline. Grand Park will feature Acadian Memorials including the old village site, church, priest's house, and willow-lined street. A Norman chapel and a bronze Acadian girl statue by Henri He will stand within a grass plot enclosure.
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Nova
Normandy
Henri Hehere
Pie Ereneh
Detroit News
Distressing holiday fears of returning home on trains
A Windsor Magazine excerpt recalls a wary traveler on a train who frets about the burden of returning home. The dialogue covers reserved seats luggage, a blue serge costume, and planning for good weather, ending with a hopeful note about coming back soon.
Walter J Thompson Early Telephone Pioneer of Tacoma
Walter J. Thompson of Tacoma, then president of the Bank of New Tacoma, was among the early testers of Bell’s telephone at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He recalled the initial indifference until Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, showed interest, after which the invention gained attention. Thompson later demonstrated the device on the Pacific Coast, recounting the thrill of talking across a distance. The telephone reached the Pacific Coast in 1878.
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Pacific Coast
Philadelphia
Alexander Graham Bell
Walter J. Thompson
Tacoma
Wash
Bank of New Tacoma
Bell
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Thompson
Innovation in Race Announcing at Altoona Speedway
At the Flag Day races in Altoona a Public Address system carried Starter Fred Wagner's voice to 65,000 fans as Jimmie Murphy won the International 260 mile race. The system mounted on a Reo truck amplified Wagner's speech to horns around the grandstand, letting the crowd follow race incidents clearly.
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Altoona
Fred Wagner
Speedway
Jimmie Murphy
Wagner
Great Wood Bowl
Western Electric Company
Oval
A Good Christian Religion Promotes Citizenship
A Herald and Presbyter piece argues that reverent Christian faith embodies reverence for God and Gospel, shaping good citizenship. It states a good Christian is a good citizen, while a lawbreaker cannot be both, urging efforts to support church and religion to serve God, country, and souls.
The Mystery of Christ Birth and Death
Crichton contrasts the infant Jesus with the crucified Christ noting the birth as a greater mystery. The piece reflects on how a humble cradle provokes deeper wonder than the cross and questions the perception of Jesus in human life and suffering.
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Christ
Jesus
Crichton
What He Lacked in a Train Depot Encounter
A stout man on the route to the depot four blocks away paused on a corner to wipe his brow. He asked a passing officer if he could catch the 3245 train. The officer checked his watch and said the man looked the part but lacked the speed to make it.
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Boston
Transcrip
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