Wonders of America Gunther Collection Surges to Public Quarters
Following the death of Chicago philanthropist Charles F. Gunther the vast Gunther collection of historical documents and autographs moves to permanent quarters in Chicago. The archive includes Washingtons compass, the 1507 first edition noting America, the Oxford Gazette 1665, Grants surrender table from Appomattox, Lincoln artifacts, Louisiana transfer documents, and Chicago plotting instruments. Gunther spent forty years and over a million dollars gathering these relics for public view.
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Charles F. Gunther
Chicago
America
Atlantic
Pacific
George Washington
Frst
the Gazette
Oxford
England
Grant
Lee
Appomattox Court House
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Louisiana
Soain
France
United States
Gunther
Horses Tell Time On Suburban Riding Academy Trails
A New York Sun report notes horses at a suburban riding academy enforce time limits. For a $5 two hour ride, horses instinctively turn back after one hour, guiding riders and preventing overruns. If riders push past the limit, they must physically resist as the horse veers back. The manager explains inexperienced riders lack sense of direction, while horses safeguard riders, themselves, and the stable.
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New York Sun
Willie’s Quiet River Swim Lie Ends in Roof Water Tank
A boy named Willie defies his mother’s order not to leave the building by claiming to have swum in the river. His mother discovers wet hair and questions the tale, while Willie insists he never left, suggesting he swam in the roof water tank.
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Willie
Wile
Ietter
Wille
New York Sun
Elephants Rampage At Malay Railway Station
A herd of wild elephants attacked a Malay railway station destroying the station master’s kitchen and office, pulling down the weigh scale, and scattering debris. One elephant fell into a well and needed rescue while the group retreated after alarms. no containment reported.
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Malay Peninsula
Scientific American
Military Poker in American Legion Weekly
A brief note in the American Legion Weekly compares military saluting to poker. The piece jokes that an officer passes by and one might raise him, with the suggestion that a caller is always possible whether one raises or not.
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Rookle
American Legion Weekly
Humidity and Comfort Measured by Wet Bulb Method
A Popular Mechanics writer explains that heat sensation depends on air conditions beyond temperature. Dry moving air cools the body while damp still air does not, so a wet bulb thermometer complements the dry bulb. By comparing cooling rates of wet and dry bulbs after hot water immersion, moisture content and air motion are inferred.
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Popular Mechanics
Romance In New York Celebrated With Wall Tablets
Two New Yorkers installed jeweled tablets in Cafe Beaux-Arts to mark where they met their future wives. One plaque, inscribed “Happy Dawn, September, 1903,” features a fiery opal with unknown creator Andre Doustanoby. The second honors “A. and L. Aere Perennius, MCMIX” with turquoise, placed twelve years ago by a prominent local lawyer.
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New York
Cafe Beaux-Arts
Andre Doustanoby
L. Aere Perennius
MCMIX
Plea for the Small Birds
A Montreal Family Herald excerpt condemns shooting small birds as a vandal act and urges hunters to deter such butchery. It cites Michelet on birds preventing insect devastation and protecting crops, warning that bird loss could doom crops, livestock, and humanity.
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Michelet
Montreal Family Herald
Irish Judge Delivers Sharp Charge in Breach of Promise Case
Judge Bodkin recounts Judge Murphy’s effective charge to a jury in a breach of promise action. The defendant declined to be examined, provoking a remark about the missing fortune. The judge swayed the jury to award five hundred pounds, noting the plaintiff’s fortune.
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Murphy
Bodkin
Chief Executives At Play In White House Sports
President Harding excels at golf on Chevy Chase at Washington. Wilson enjoys lawn tennis and can drive a locomotive. Roosevelt was highly athletic, boxing fencing and long rides. Taft boxed to stay lean. Harrison Cleveland also fished, with Cleveland angling in Florida for tarpon.
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Harding
White House
Chevy Chase
Washington
Logey
Wilson
Roosevelt
United States
Taft
Benjamin Harrison
Mr. Cleveland
Florida
Allocation and its rise in wartime usage
A brief discussion traces how allocation became popular during the war linked to shipping and loans. The term spreads through media and politics, with comparisons to allotment and apportionment, as writers adopt trending vocabulary.
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Senate
Treasury
Washington Star
Balm for Rainy Vacations and Rain Insurance Concepts
A humorous look at rain insurance plans offered by British and American firms. Policies estimate precipitation probabilities using weather records to cover vacation periods, with examples like a $11,913 payout to a fair in Waltham and a $25,000 policy for Topeka’s free fall.
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Gilead
England
United States Weather Bureau
United States
Canada
Waltham Fair
Fair Corporation
Kansas
Topeka
Ice Cream Riot Spurs Island Dining Comedy
A New York World item recounts Immigrant diners at Ellis Island receiving ice cream as a welcome treat. The first tasters, a Balkan native and an East Indian, caused a playful food smear reflex that spread among 1,700 diners as the crowd tested tricks with cold dessert. The scene ends with a bold, improvised buttered bread method.
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Elis Island
Wallis
Land of Promise
East India
New York World
Otters Found in Brandywine Slough Near West Chester
A pair of fully developed otters was found in a slough along the Brandywine near West Chester Pennsylvania. They are the only otters reported in Chester in about forty years and are protected by the property owner. The pair, about four feet long, are very active and may raise offspring in a den beneath the bank, signaling a potential colony that will attract future interest.
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Brandywine
West Chester
Chester
Dickens Dinner Sparks Plans for Stage Adaptations
At a London Dickens dinner regret was voiced that stage versions of Dickens novels are not popular enough. Branshy Williams proposes a theater push instituting a repertory season in Birkenhead with adaptations of David Copperfield Oliver Twist and Barnaby Rudge by Dickens fellowship members under his direction.
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Charles Dickens
London
Branshy Williams
Birkenhead
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Barnaby Rudge
Dickens Fellowship
Mr. Willams
Drama in Verse and Modern English Poets
In the Yale Review, William Lyon Phelps contrasts modern English drama with verse traditions. He notes Rostand and Hauptmann achieved verse in Cyrano de Bergerac and Die Versunkene Glocke, while Masefield, Synge, Yeats, and Hardy largely write in prose or intellectual modes, admiring Meredith’s potential for verse drama.
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Rostand
Hauptmann
John Masefield
Synge
Yeats
Lord Dunsony
George Meredith
Thomas Hardy
William Lyon Phelps
Yale Review
Rustless steel eyed for wider industrial use
Compressed Alp Magazine notes German authority claims Krupp works push rustless steel production. The alloy reportedly contains chrome, prized for hardness and corrosion resistance, with potential as a substitute for picket plated metal in instrument manufacture and even for artificial teeth plates, replacing gold or vulcanite.
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Alp
New York
Krupp Works
Manna said Elsie questions snare use at breakfast
A child asks if people who snare have bad consciences citing a book. Aunt Susan is presumed to have killed someone in a family breakfast setting as a humorous inquiry from the Boston Transcript.
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Elsie
Susan
Boston Transcript
Excavation Plans by University of Pennsylvania Curator
Clarence S Fisher of the University of Pennsylvania museum announces a major Holy Land excavation the first since World War I He aims to uncover iron chariots cited in the Bible and other artifacts near Rethshan, site of historic battles.
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Palestine
Charlota
Clarence S. Fisher
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Holy Land
Israel
Rethshan
Scientific American
Adaptive Tastes of a World Wandering Agricultural Expert
Otis Warren Barrett advocates global eating to aid world travel and diplomacy. The Kansas City Star notes his decades of government service and his success teaching palm country natives to extract white sugar from palm sap. He claims resilience from adaptable dining and recounts cassava paste as a distant, sticky curiosity.
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Otis Warren Barrett
The
Kansas City Star
Mr. Barrett
Liberia
Japan
Barrett
Red Cross Courses Boost New England Public Health
A New Hampshire nurse reports unprecedented interest in the Red Cross Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick course. The eight-town New England county shows strong Red Cross support, with division officials believing education-backed service secures the future of the Red Cross in the region.
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New England
Red Cross
New Hampshire
American Red Cross
Red Cross Magazine
Findings Is Keepings in NY Police Bond Case
New York appellate division rules that finding unclaimed property by a copper entitles him to the proceeds when no owner is found. Policeman Nicholas Majieski found fourteen $50 Liberty bonds on Third Avenue two years ago and turned them in. After no claimant emerged, he sought the bonds, arguing the law backs him, but police rules say proceeds go to the pension fund. Majieski hired a lawyer to fight the case.
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Supreme Court of New York
New York
Philadelphia Ledger
Nicholas J. Majieski
Third Avenue
Nick
Lost Property Bureau
King Learns Royal Power Dwindles in New Era
In a garden party tale from the Outlook, WH Crooks a labor MP visits the king of England and offers calm reassurance about the future of the monarchy. The king's anxiety and noble observers’ surprise highlight a shift toward a modern political spirit. The royal couple later invite Crooks and his wife to a future event.
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England
Crooks
Altellies
London
Will Crooks
Wil Crooks
Frank Dilimata
Average life of auto in changing automobile market
A Scientific American analysis notes that as highway travel grows and new car demand aligns with retirements, replacement needs rise. It cites 2,000,000 cars retired in seven years and an average service life of about 5.8 years, based on registration production export and import data.
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Scientific American
Inventor touts new and improved life-size tombstone
Austin J. Harman of Custer Ohio claims a galvan ized hollow figure tombstone designed as a standing life-size figure such as a soldier. The lower section can be filled with cement for a heavier base and the body is hollow to hold an urn if desired. The head screws on and can be made to resemble the deceased.
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Austin J. Harman
Custer, Ohin
Columbus Dispatch
Greek Temple Found at Ferres Near Velestion
Archaeological Service informs the minister of education of a fourth century BCE Olympian temple discovery at Ferres near Velestion. The temple, in good preservation, resembles Olympia and contains 10 bronze plaques with laws and decrees.
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Thessaly
Ferres
Velestion
Olympia
No Lady at All
Albert five is severely punished by his mother and cries. His father asks what happened and Albert points to his mother saying he is surprised at that lady in a terse domestic vignette from the American Legion Weekly.
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Albert
American Legion Weekly
Financial Diagnosis Quip On Doctor Visit
A Boston transcript recalls a patient asking the doctor about illness. The doctor reportedly sought $10 and the patient had $11, illustrating a humorous exchange over payment.
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Bostoen
Faulty Bookkeeping
The fragment presents a terse dialogue exchange between a male and female character, noting mismanaged accounts and a charged personal moment. It hints at a gendered tension and a surprising confession that unsettles their previous encounter.
Poets Tie Shop Ad Praises Style and Purpose
A Japanese Advertiser note describes a sign over a tie shop in Asakusa praising the staff's effort to express mood and individuality through fashionable collars ties and garters. The sign hints at a philosophy of beauty and time leading toward an ideal of eternal peace, while acknowledging Asakusa as a stepping stone.
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Asakusa
Earth
Paradise
Some Men Can't Be Satisfied Says Wife Speech
A Chicago Herald and Examiner exchange questions whether wealth health and a loving family fully satisfy a man. The wife quips that some wives talk more than necessary prompting the husband to remark on excess chatter.
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Chicago Herald and Examiner
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