Pirates of the Atlantic and Historic Pirate Bases
A Washington bulletin links renewed piracy to the grounding of the Carroll Deering and the disappearance of three ships. The piece surveys famous pirate haunts from the Greek Archipelago to the Barbary coast and notes legends of Bartholomew Roberts and Henry Morgan, plus English and Moorish seamen who shaped piracy across eras and oceans.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
National Geographic Society
Barbary
Indies
China
Greece
Italy
Asia Minor
Golden Gulf
Tieir
Roe
Pompey
Lis Culma
Beabella
le Carbarossa Frothers
Rudieard
Constantinople
England
Spain
Wolland
Rome
Mostem
Jerbo
Tunis
Kates
Charles V
Tremizon
Dips Robbed of Haven As Art Center Moves
Report notes the shift of the Royal Academy exhibition from Somerset House to London’s London Morning Trust cites the empty room reveal. A woolen ladder and debris surround the doorway as purses, both old and new, are found stuffed in the brickwork gap, illustrating successful pocket picking during renovations.
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Art Center
London
Partington House
Somerset House
London Morning Trust
Cockatoo Defeats Rooster in Backyard Battle
In Martinez California a two pound cockatoo outlasted an eight pound rooster in a five minute fight at B I Rhine’s home. The bird gripped the rooster’s windpipe with its sharp beak to deliver the fatal blow after a long struggle. Rhine says the two birds had been feuding for weeks and the cockatoo attacked when the rooster charged.
Italian inventor unveils fast landable airship in Rome
Epaminonda Bertucci of Rome announces a verona war chasing unarmored mule aircraft capable of landing without a large field and traveling up to 800 miles per hour or coasting at a few miles per hour. He has tested the machine on a small scale and sees clear success.
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Rome
Italy
Epaminonda Bertucci
Population boom in Mexico City reaches one million
Reports estimate Mexico City’s population at about 1,000,000, more than doubling in the last decade. The surge is blamed on revolts and rising unrest, with harsh conditions and housing strains reported in the capital.
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Mex
Mexico City
Mistress of High Finance in Indianapolis
A husband and wife agree to split expenses to save, but the wife secretly drains the husband’s savings into her own account. Over three months she saves more than half and, through a double checking setup, uses his funds for next month’s spending, boosting her bank balance while his vanishes.
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Indianapolis
Ilinor
Hale
Indianapolis News
Song Slow to Win Favor and the Tale of Tippec Tippary
The piece titled It’s a Lone Way to Tipperary was written in 1911 by Jack Judge with help from Harry Williams. Publisher Bert Feldman urged changes before release. The song later became a marching favorite in the Great War and is tied to figures like Sarah Bernhardt in its fame.
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Tipperary
Jack Judge
Harry Williams
Rope and Wire Waste Made Bell System Cable Paper
The article explains how discarded ship rope is converted into high grade paper that insulates telephone cables. Over 13 million pounds of old rope were processed into 7 million pounds of cable paper used by the Bell Telephone system last year.
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Seven Seas
Ty Ie Bell
Queen Keeps Diary for Fifty Years as Latin Bound Volumes
Reports that Queen Alexandra has maintained a personal diary for about fifty years. The small leather bound books measure nine inches by four, bound in Latin bindings adorned with flowers.
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Queen Alexandra
The Kitchen Cabinet s 9 The Kitchen Cabinet s 9
The people who work with best are often very queer. The people who are kin shock your first idea. The people you choose for friends appal. But the people you marry are the queerest folk of all.
Sumptuous Summer Dishes From Old Time Cookery
Wholesome summer recipes including Coffee Junket and Lemon Jelly. Dishes feature Salmon Salad Custards Jellies Nut Cutlets Fruit Juice Pie and Chicken Custard. Practical notes cover outdoor meals porch dining and simple dessert prep.
Vere Mae Weil Excellence Accounts
A fragmentary note appears to reference Vere Mae Weil and an “Excellence” account. The text also includes a childlike line about Nernt's cookies and a Ruger speaking to “Mother” and a Boston Transcript quotation. The source is unclear and contains conversational, nonsensical phrases without a coherent news event.
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Ruger
Nernt
Bostor Transcript
Beneath Him. Opportunity Knocks Or Not
A brief, period-tinged exchange contrasts ambition and service as one speaker wonders if opportunity ever arrived and the other replies that servants exist for such chances, reflecting class expectations in a clipped dialogue from the Boston Transcript.
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Boston Transcript
Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a physician prescribed kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It claims the tonic strengthens organs and aids their natural work, noting years of performance and broad pharmacist support. Readers are urged to buy or request a sample bottle by mailing ten cents to Kilmer Co. with a newspaper mention.
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Kihner
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N
Silence as reply to calumny and defamation
Addison counsels that silence can counter attacks if no provocation is given. The maxim frames restraint as strategic defense, urging measured response rather than escalation.
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Addison
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