Prohibition forces warn against delaying nationwide amendment
A Baltimore area notice from the Anti-Saloon League of Maryland urges lawmakers to ratify the national prohibition amendment promptly. It argues organized liquor opposition seeks to sway sentiment, highlights past Senate action, and calls on readers to press their senators and delegates to settle the issue for the nation.
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House of Representatives
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Maryland
House of Delecates
Youth Restored by Doctor’s Bold Regimen
Walter Joseph Delaney recounts Thomas Maltby’s cure through Septimus Gregg’s extreme method. Maltby abandons idle living, undergoes playful training as a boy for a month, embraces sport and simple pleasures, and regains vigor, appetite, and purpose amid a bustling resort scene behind a brick wall.
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Thomas and Mattie at the juvenile cure fantasy
A nostalgic tale follows Thomas peering over a wall into Mrs. Gregg's girls department. He visits Mattie Oneda during a monthly party with music and dancing, encounters a cure and爱情, and later reunites with Mattie after a two year Europe tour, finding a healthy family life and happiness.
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Grege
Mattie Oneda
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Gme
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Mattie
Professor Gregg
Fattened by Cannibals Tale Of Escape From Cannibal Feast
Guy de Villepien a former San Francisco Academy teacher described his perilous journey from Ciudad to Callao after fleeing cannibals who he said planned to fatten him for a feast. He recalled a strange people half man half ape and noted kindness only delayed the fatting. He reported his escape amid many adventures. de Villepien was a newspaper correspondent during the Russian Japanese war.
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San Francisco Academy
Eeast
South America
Ciudad
Brerag Aires
Callao
de Villepien
Santa answers boy’s Christmas wish from Wilson era
Charlie Conroy, a youth in Fast Orange, writes to Santa Claus at a New Jersey site, asking for a sweater gloves a necktie books a toy train and fruit. Governor Wilson is impressed and arranges for a stenographer to send the requested gifts to Charlie.
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Fast Orange
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Santa Claus
Trenton
Wilson Charlie
Wilson
Charlie
Five Hundred Cuss Wards In Tire Factory Case
In an automobile tire factory at Mhbl town N toa, clerical workers faced fines for swearing during the year. A recent Salvation Army box release showed $498.00. a worker allegedly said damn twice, bringing the total fine history to five dollars and the 100 clerks involved.
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Salvation Arms
Ancient Vessels of Japan A study of early ships cited
A historical study by Shinji Nishimura of the Society of Naval Architecture and East and West News outlines Japan’s ancient seafaring craft. It traces the Morota-Bune from Kumine and links it to Korean and Amur origins, arguing a prehistoric, shared stock among Alnu, Koreans, and early Japanese boatbuilders.
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Society of Naval Architecture
Tokyo Anthropological Society
East and West News
Morota-Bune
Kumuto
Nuku-no-Uini
Idzumo Province
Mr. Nishimura
Kumine
Korea
Songyn
Japan
Asia
Amur
Wife in Name Only by George Munson
Lord Rensley returns from abroad to find his wife Lady Rensley living in a loveless marriage. She married for fortune and title, while he pursued adventure. A covert suitor Rizal offers escape but the truth tests their bond as a quiet return disrupts the Abbey social scene.
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Canada
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Cleveland
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Europe
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Rizal
New York
Rizai
Rivar
Italy
Can You Beat It Taunting Dialogue Card
A fragmentary dialogue shows a playful exchange about choosing between a person and money. The lines reveal affection and flirtation with hesitations over implied rewards, ending on a teasing remark and endearment.
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Jose
Jack
A Secret Bargain at the Rensleys Ball
In a moonlit drawing room Tord Rensley offers Baron Rizzi £500 to leave Lady Rensley alone. Rensley then persuades his wife to return to him, confessing past faults and renewing their engagement as Edith vows faith and forgiveness.
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Rizzi
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Rensley
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W. G. Chapman
Balked at the Woman Jury in Municipal Court
A Portland Oregon fronlan article recounts Capt. Brown of the American steamer Leclenaw resisting port regulation fines. Harbor Patrolman Hakesy urged proper lights and a gangway, warning of a $200 federal penalty. Brown balked at a woman jury, ordered the crew to adjust the gangway, and declared his age at 64 before complying.
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Leclenaw
Hakesy
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Portland
Monuments to Mark Twain in Missouri Planned
Missouri plans two state erected monuments to Mark Twain one at his Florida birth site and another in River View Park Hannibal. The Florida inscription is debated with a despondent tone though Twain remains a favorite among young readers and praised for literature.
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Mark Twain
Missouri
Florida
Riverview Park
Hannibal
Sancho Panza
Pope
Board of Trade and Lords Rule Without Meetings
A critical look at the board of trade reveals a presidency with many members including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the speaker of the house, yet no meetings are held and decisions are announced as the board's. It contrasts with the privy council and education ministers who also never convene, while a Edinburgh cab driver jokes about a policeman signaling at a busy crossing and the cabby’s punchline about keeping his horse in line.
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Canterbury
House of Commons
London
Iand
Committee of the Privy Council of Education
Fisher
Edinburgh
Cachman
Blue
English Singers to Standardize Teaching of Singing in English
A group called the Society of English Singers plans to standardize English singing. Francis Tore notes English syllable difficulties on certain notes, citing vowels and rhythms. Mr. Toye says composers create artificial challenges by not writing with singing in mind.
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Society of English Singers
Francis Tore
London
Mr. Toye
Sager
Recall of a travesty informs bribery trial in China
The trial of former finance minister Chen Chin-tao and two subordinates unfolds amid questions of bribe payments and whether funds moved higher. Merchants claim money changed hands while Chen denies receiving any. The satire by Surcet exposes graft as universal, ending with a clash where a warship is built by a porcelain factory and sinks in a mock battle.
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Francisque Sarcey
Chen Chin-tao
Finance
LE Yuan-hong
Chen Chin-tan
Surcey
Fo Hi
Walter
Some Old Health Fallacies and Public Health
A noted surgeon addresses women about public health and dispels common myths. He notes widespread ignorance about disease and cites beliefs such as rings curing styes, red flannel curing sore throats, and that measles are inevitable, urging prevention and segregation when illness occurs.
At the Tombs of the Kings
A Syrian maid at Jerusalem’s great square well encounters a doctor who warns of dangerous microbes in the water. She declines a river water trip, recalls family typhoid deaths, and agrees to boil water for drinking after the doctor’s kindly advice. The exchange ends with the doctor noting his profession and a prior life saved by a doctor.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Sorrow and Sympathy in George Eliot’s Adam Bede
Excerpt reflects on enduring sorrow as an indestructible force that reshapes rather than ends the self. It contemplates whether anyone truly recovers their former blind loves and gossip, urging gratitude for sorrow that deepens insight and compassion.
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Adam Bede
George Eliot
Dark horse run for association president proposed
A quote suggests women in the association may back a dark horse candidate for president. A counter jab questions why they do not advance the suffrage aim by fielding a female candidate, the so called gray mare.
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