Typo Cobb Train Dream Leads Woman Through Grand Central
An elderly Brooklyn woman, obsessed with Ty Cobb, waits two hours in a New York hotel lobby for a train call. She mistakes the hotel as Grand Central and asks staff when the Ty Cobb train departs, finally learning the word Coachob helps locate the right station. She then boards a train under guidance.
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New York
Bell
Ty Cobb
Grand Central Station
New Haven
Connecticut
Brooklyn
Americans Go the Limit on Speedy War Motorcycles
Paris reporters note American military motorcycles exceed French bikes in power and speed. A 4 hour Sheepshead Bay run reportedly hit an average of 100 mph, prompting cautious French humor about dispatch riders racing through Boulevard Saint Germain.
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Paris
Sheepshead Bay
French War Department
Boulevard Saint-Germain
Educated Women In Russia Before the Revolution
The article notes that educated Russian women enjoyed freedoms rivaling other nations. Women owned factories, earned university degrees, held professorships, practiced medicine and dentistry, and entered the legal profession. Democrats urged jury service for women and women teachers earning a pension after twenty years.
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Russia
Constitutional Democrats
Duma
Pastor Patton Succeeds Gladden at Columbus Church
A woman church member tells Dr. Patton she enjoyed his sermons and admits she never had sense enough to listen to Destor Gladden. Patton has preached for weeks at the First Congregational church in Columbus after accepting the call to succeed Dr. Washington Gladden.
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Carl
Patton
First Congregational Church
Columbus
Dr. Washington Gladden
Doctor Patton
Destor Gladden
Giant glacier feeds the Quadacha in Finlay country panorama
The narrator describes a vast mountain scene in the Rockies from Laurier Pass to Liard. A towering square-block peak hosts a immense glacier that colors the Quadacha white, a feature they deem possibly one of the largest glaciers in the Rocky Mountain system.
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Rockies
Laurier Pass
Liard
Mount Robson
Paul L. Haworth
Scribner's Magazine
Finlay
Joe
Rocky Mountain
Beauty and Loveliness as Distinct Qualities in Literature
Margaret Steele Anderson argues beauty and loveliness differ in scope and tone. Beauty marks grand works and enduring monuments while loveliness describes intimate human traits, with Shakespearean heroines presenting a spectrum from Rosalind to Cordelia as lovingly nuanced.
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Margaret Steele Anderson
Louisville Post
Jove
Athene
Milton
Troy
Lucifer
Bach
Beethoven
Helen
Brunhilda
Siegfried
Shakespeare
Juliet
Rosalind
Beatrix
Miranda
Desdemona
Ophelia
Portia
Olivia
Viola
Ike Celia
Cordelia
Lear
White-Breasted Nuthatch Champion Steeplejack
The white breasted nuthatch is described as the world’s champion steeplejack among winter birds. It can travel head first down tree trunks and perform dizzy gymnastic feats with ease. The excerpt ends mid description of a nut- generation context.
Winter birds and woodland tricks in quiet prose
The piece weighs on a weasel like bird and a clever outhatch skittering around tree trunks. It notes the bird braves cold and offers a quiet homage to its beauty and social nature amid harsh winter days.
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Hatch
Sea-Lion Performers Demonstrate Circus Tricks
The article describes sea lions at a circus performing stunts such as balancing balls on snouts, passing balls between them, and making noise with horns drums and bells. Clever lions march up and down ladders with a baton while others dive or roll in tanks as trainers introduce new tricks.
Historic Pennant Sold in Glasgow Relic Sealed in Scotland
An aged yellow silk pennant of the Earls of Marchmont, bearing the St Andrew's cross and the rampant lion, dates to the 14th or 15th century. Fragile but purchased by a Booze man, ensuring the relic remains in Scotland.
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Glasgow
WHAT SOLDIER BOYS EAT
The article describes a shift from beans and hardtack to meat served twice daily with bread, vegetables when possible, and canned goods otherwise. It notes cafeteria style meals, personal cooking outfits, and a social scene of soldiers eating contentedly, longing for home treats, and advice on suitable care packages for distant troops.
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Belle Case Harrington
Leslie’s
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EORD
Eureka
Nevada
Ford
Eureka Garage & Supply Co
Eureka, Nevada
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San Francisco
Bureka Cash Store
Emilio C, Pesce
General Banking
Trust Company
Business Exchange
Savings Department
United States Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Postal Savings Depository
First National Bank
Bloe, Nevada
J. A. Sewelll
A E. Knneaty
O. F
Henderson Banking Company
Elko, Nevada
Jons Hexpersox
L. O. Hesperson
Haypex Hexpersox
Lawagat Hexperson
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