Novel endurance test riders to be their mounts
Bill McBride and his wife plan a through ride from Oak Range near Colby Kansas to New York City on bronchos. They expect to cover 2300 miles in about five and a half months starting July 25 with a goal of reaching Manhattan early January 1904. The pair aim to prove the cowboy can endure across the continent with no long stops.
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Navy to mark Palmyra birthplace with Oquendo gun
Washington orders place of one 5 inch gun from the Oquendo at Palmyra New York to honor Rear Admiral Sampson. The gun and other trophies from Santiago were shown in Norfolk for three years before shipment. The Oquendo fought Brooklyn Oregon and Texas near Santiago, then ran ashore after Indiana retired.
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Navy Department
Washington
Sampson
Palmyra
N. Y
New York Times
Battle of
Santiago
Norfolk
Sage Barred at New York Stock Exchange Entrance
Three policemen and three uniformed attendants blocked the Wall Street entrance as Russell Sage attempted to pass. A young man produced credentials, and Sage, leaning on him, waited while guards examined them before the financier could enter.
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Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Russell Rage
New York Herald
Mr. Sage
Russell Sage
Millionaire Walsh Plans Europe Art Purchase for New Palace
Thomas F. Walsh, Colorado croesus, sails to Europe to buy a million dollars in art treasures for a new Washington palace set to open in fall. The residence will house 48 automatic music features in living and sleeping rooms, operable by touch, to provide music and heat for occupants.
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Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado Croesus
Europe
Washington
New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
Quelties
Lion Captured After Bold Pit Trap in South Africa
A hunting party in South Africa, for the Roya Zoological Gardens of London, traps a ferocious lion after days of effort. The prideful beast roars, tests the pit, and is finally driven into a timber cage. The capture, celebrated by the native herd and villagers, ends with the lion en route to royal menagerie.
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R D. Marshall
South Africa
Roya Zoological Gardens
London
Lon
Royal Gardens
Transposed Word Puzzles From a 19th Century Column
A historical puzzle page lists numbered wordplay tasks for readers. It includes directives to transpose central letters of first words and form new terms, with sample items such as transforming perspiration to desires and other analogous word-shifts.
Rhymed Word Square clues for a Los Angeles teacher
A list of rhyming word square clues includes a L A man who is a teacher and guide and phrases about garments, a donkey, walking with resting friends, a bird not robin or wren, and a word meaning to get back again.
Riddling Verse on Counts and Affection
A playful riddle notes that first second and third are in cannot while fourths appear in cold but not hot, fifths in you and in yes. It ends by claiming that all children love it and guessing is easy.
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Chicago
Gesl
Aioe
Central Pharmacy
State of the atmosphere and clothing materials
The passage lists four clues: 1 a state of the atmosphere 2 a material used in clothing 3 a plume 4 heath. The items appear as a metagram puzzle snippet from a periodical.
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Heath
Prefix Pussles and a Stage of Puzzles Across Isles
The item lists a series of puzzle headings From No 155 Prefix Pussles to No 146 Jumbles William Wallace Allee Cietsheecel. Instructions alter phrasing and terms across entries including Prefix changes In stance bartering changes and wordplay with references to The New York Herald Key to the Puzzler No 188 Numeral Enigmas and various titled puzzles such as Transposals Arithmetical Puzzles and A Famous Incident.
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Franklin
Ton. Ee
William Wallace
Allee Cietsheecel
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