Senator Mead Faces River District Challenge
The rising candidate Dr. Randal Mead seeks a one thousand five hundred majority in a hotly contested race aided by reformist Eloise Lester. His industrialist uncle’s support clashes with the river precincts amid demagogic attack and Mead’s plan to answer with firm, truthful rebuttal.
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Godfrey Bartels
Randa Mead
Randal
Andal
Mandal Mead
Mead
Arnold Carter
Lester
Eloise Lester
Matlock
Carter
Randal Mead
Mead Attacked on Platform as Aide Reveals Heroic Past
After a hostile crowd silences the speaker Mead a missile strikes him, leaving a gash as a dainty woman on stage recalls how Mead once saved a drowning woman on a steamer. Her memory stirs the audience and Mead regains resolve, winning public support and a future with his benefactor uncle.
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Mead
Carter
Lester
Randal Mead
Matlock
Why Middle Aged Man rifts to Crookedness
In Kansas City Times style a doctor narrator reflects on middle age turning honest men toward petty theft. He cites Dr Eccleberry explaining that around forty five increased pressures push some toward small misdeeds. Eyes reveal the shift and only early straight living guards against lapses.
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Mr. Foxton Tillinghast
Doc Eccleberry
Doc
Kansas City Times
Women Students Must Swim Required at Several Colleges
Women students at multiple colleges must pass a swimming requirement to graduate. Institutions include Cornell University Town State Agricultural College Rockford College Syracuse University Cincinnati University University of Wisconsin Wells College Western Reserve and Wooster College. Requirements vary, but common standards include swimming 50 yards and two years of swimming.
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Education
Cornell University
Town State Agricultural College
Rockford College
Syracuse University
Cincinnati University
University of Wisconsin
Wells College
Western Reserve
Wooster College
Cow retaliates after car bump in Williamsport incident
A Williamsport cow angrily confronted a Washington motorist after their car bumped her. She spun, kicked the radiator, and toppled a headlight, bending the fender and hood before the occupants could retreat.
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Williamsport
Washington
Penny a Week Alimony Granted in Marylebone Court
In Marylebone England a court granted a penny a week alimony to a wife from an infirm bootmaker who cited blindness in one eye and his wife's habitual drunkenness. The decision adds to a noted low maintenance record in the area.
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Marylebone Court
England
First Chinese Dictionary Origins and Calepini’s Work
The text notes the earliest Chinese dictionary compiled around 1100 B by Pa-out-she, containing about 40 000 characters. It also mentions the first modern dictionary by Ambrose Calepini, a Venetian friar, a Latin work created before 1500.
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Pa-out-she
Ambrose Calepini
Mice Save Lives In Dunbar Grocery Fire
A fire devastated a Dunbar grocery on the building’s first floor forcing occupants to flee upstairs. Hundreds of mice reportedly escaped the blaze with the residents, whose lives were saved by the distraction.
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Dunbar
Scotland
English churchman loses race winnings pledge
An English churchman pledged to donate his week's winnings from horse racing to the church fighting fund but later said he could not fulfill the pledge as he had lost on every race.
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Allan Dwan
Toronto
Canada
Chicago
Notre Dame University
Far-Flung Bell Calls From Distant Corners of Earth
The telephone gradually spreads to the bleak steppes of Lapland bazars of Mecca and palm covered South Sea islands, where the call of the telephone bell is heard, signaling growing global reach of telephony.
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Bileak
Lapland
Knage Marriage Banter Shows Friction in Romance
Mr. Knage mocks his wife as a brute while Mrs. Knage counters that he is far from perfect in anything, revealing domestic strain through sharp dialogue.
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Mr. Knage
Mrs. Knage
The Friendliness of Modern Banking
President American Bankers Association William E Knox explains how savings banks shifted from austere, distant institutions to welcoming partners in the community They now emphasize the human element reaching foreign-born patrons with guidance and free advisory services This warmer approach has sparked growth in deposits since the war and improved relations between tellers and depositors
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Mysel F
Savings Bank
Backbone Over Wishbone Urges Strengthened Resolve
A banker farmer essay urges shifting power from wishbones to backbones to achieve worthwhile deeds. The speaker emphasizes practical action and steadfast resolve as essential to progress.
Origins of Glasgow Dublin and Ruthaud place names
The article explains names of cities in the British empire. Glasgow derives from two Celtic words ulus meaning green and ghu meaning dear dear green place. Dublin comes from dubb meaning black and han meaning pool. Ruthaud is a corruption of Redlands.
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Glasgow
British Empire
Ulus
Dublin
Pool
Ruthaud
Redlands
None So Deaf in the Still Small Voice
A Boston Transcript excerpt features a colored preacher stating that in some people the inner conscience voice grows quieter and duller until it must learn the deaf and dumb language to attract attention. The quote reflects dialect and social commentary from the era.
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Las
Boston ‘Transcript
Spine Health Prevents Lung Trouble, Says Chiropractor
Under normal conditions their great resistance power derived from vital energy traveling over free nerves guards us against pulmonary troubles. Interference with nerves to the lungs reduces this supply and causes trouble. The safeguard of the lungs is a straight spine and free nerves. At first hint of lung trouble see a chiropractor. Spinal adjustments may remove the cause before tissue destruction is too great and permit Nature to repair damage.
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D.C
Uncle Ben
Kathrine
Nora Britt
Chiropractic Research Bureau
Denton
Theo. A. Tobin
Chiropractor
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New Dover Opera
Delaware
METRO
Fred Niblo
Mrs. Fair
Myrtle Stedman
Paramount Presents
Cecil B. DeMille
Rod LA Rocque
Paris
Monte Carlo
DeMille
Wallace Irvin
Pictorial Review
Dover Hospital Fund
Thomas Meighan
Pola Negri
Suez
the Peoples Bank
New Overland
Willys
Willys- Knight
Toledo
WM. Bullock
White’s
Denton, Maryland
Rhode Island
Sunshine Poultry Farm
R. D. No
Ridgely, MD
Journal Office
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Marion L. Beck
Lida Stanford
Circuit Court
Caroline County
W. Brewster Deen
Reynolds Stanford
Oats J. Keating
Deakyne
Minnie McCarty
Nathan A. McCarty
Easton
Peas
Ford Farm
Johnson Farm
G. T. Redden & Company
S. Frank Cole
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