Valentine Saint Inspires Charlotte to Share Joy
Charlotte Gage begins as a listless, pampered girl but after charity toward two poor children, Esmeralda Mickey and Rose McNally, she buys Valentines for them. The act awakens her empathy and alters her outlook, as she helps the Mickey family and gains a new, kinder view of life.
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Harlotte Gage
Charlotte
Middletown
Mrs. Gage
John Gage
Valentine
Rose
Virginia
Gage
Mrs. Dale
Ardsley
Billy
Willie
Valentines
Mr. Valentine
Santa Claus
Esmeralda Mickey
St. Valentine
Jim Mickey
Willie Mickey
Rose McNally
Dale
Mickey
Wilsie
Frances
Remarkable Cake Motto From a Chinese Cook Tale
Gossip recounts a renowned Chinese cook famed for fine cakes who crafted a grand cake for a festivity. He sought a motto to crown the frosted top and, with his mistress’s consent, finished his work. The result astonished her when the cake appeared, for the motto read Prepare to meet thy God as the cook attended a mission Sunday school.
Aquarium replies to stock brokers in menacing call
A New York stock broker line winds through a prankish phone exchange. Asked for Mr Fish, the reply shifts to identifying the caller as Colonel Jones, then the chaotic response ends with the caller being told, The Aquarium.
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New York
Legless Race Joke Highlights Political Stump Speech
In The Coming Race a joke quotes an English doctor predicting a legless human race. It jokes about a legless steamboat race and suggests politics would boom with everyone “going on the stump.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer is cited as the source.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Intelligence and the Suffrage Debate
A dialogue excerpt shows Symonds challenging Belcher on grounds for opposing woman suffrage. Belcher cites that many women say men are all alike, implying irrationality and hindering intelligent use of suffrage.
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Symonds
Belcher
Boston Transcript
Belief Debate on Human Origin Cited in Chicago News
A clipped Chicago News quip questions Darwinism and mocks the idea of human descent from monkeys. It suggests instead that all workers may originate from mice, reflecting a satirical take on evolution debates.
Deadly blaze at Empire hotel 11 die in St Louis fire
A early morning fire at the Empire hotel on Oliver Street in St Louis killed 11 people and injured eight. Occupants escaped via windows or bed rope lines as flames swept the three story lodging house. The inferno left 35 to 40 residents and nearly destroyed the building with damages estimated at $20,000.
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St. Louis
Empire Hotel
Oliver Street
Morris Yall
Toho Davis
John €. Lenders
George Thompson
Sarah Harris
B. F. Woodley
J. A. McMullen
S. T. Corey
Vance Martin
A. J. Allen
Harry Cline
Walter Johnson
Henry Robinson
John C. Lueders
J. J. Lally
J. W. Gillam
Don Ryan
Sally
George Lane
Niesely
United States Japan and Britain Press Open Door
Washington reports confirm that the United States, Japan and Great Britain are resisting any Manchurian treaty by Russia and China that could threaten U.S. interests in the Far East. The State Department asserts U S aims to keep Manchuria open for trade and to protect current trade advantages even as mining and railroad rights are treated as secondary concerns in the broader open door policy.
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United States
Japan
Great Britain
Russia
Washington
Peking
China
State Department
Manchuria
Manchurian
Eleven Die As Gas Explosion Razes Trostel Butcher Shop
In Chicago on Wednesday night a gas explosion at Trostel butcher shop 376 Twenty second street killed eleven people. Firefighters and laborers searched the rubble at a nearby morgue, hoping for survivors. Fire Chief Musham believes the blast came from a pocket of gas.
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Chicago
Trostel
Twenty-second Street
Musham
Miners Accept Old Scale Report In Secret Session
Indianapolis February 8 In a secret session ending after midnight the massed delegates of the United Mine Workers acted on advice from national officers and adopted the joint committee report realigning the scale as a whole and restoring the old system.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
Coth
Joint Committee
Gold Field and Catherine placer surveys described
Survey notes detail Gold Field and Catherine placer tracts with corner markers, bearing references to White's Bar Initial Point and multiple course lines. Coordinates specify beginnings and line distances for Nos. 1 through 3 placer claims, totaling about 20.68 acres for No. 1 and smaller parcels for Nos. 2 and 3, with associated monument stones and bearings.
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Montana Gold Dredging Company
New Jersey
Montana
Ite
Dillon
Edwin Norrie
White's Bar
Nnarg
Beaverhead County
Catherine Pisner
Beene Ney
Office of the Register of the Veland
Helens
Seta
N. W
Cor
Catherine Placer
Cor. No
White
Catherine No
Sur
Sermener Point
Noel
Catherine
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Chicago News
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Mont
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Filton
State of Montana
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Justice Court
Dillon Township
Chas. Hirghman
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Justice’s
Cros. Hrnschman
Said Township
Ransom
U. S. Land Office
Helena
Omas Clements
Bannack
L. J. Price
John Cloutier
Sis
Said
Thomas Clements
Henry F Paduck
Dolt N. Paris
Mont. Gromos U. Greene
Register
Charles W. Ware
Galena
Bryant
Montansa
Recorders
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Melrose
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Lima
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Frank Roe
James Smallhorn
Mont. James
Freeman Hane Johnson
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Wm. Inch
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Wm. Ellsworth
Byron Ambros
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Admiral Dewey
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Broadway
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Dilton
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Dell, Mont
L. J.price
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Enid William Rosenbaum
Thomas B. Patterson
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Ole Dahle
George D. Greene
Department of the Interior
Anne H. Evana
Charles A. Harvey
George (. Austin
John Teers
William Little
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