Cuban Spy Miss La Tossa Targets Holton Mission
Lieutenant Holton, a naval officer on secret service duty, foils a tugboat plot to blow Cuban transports near Tampa. He sails to Cuba with Admiral Sampson, meets Cuban General Garcia, and debates US policy while going undercover as a London newspaper correspondent.
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Holton
Navy
Washington
Miss la Tossa
Secret Service
Horton
Senor la Tossa
Cuba
Tampa
United States
Miss la Tessa
Bolton
Santiago
Seguranca
Marine Corps
Manigua
Admiral Sampson
Shafter
Garcia
Deci
Camel’s Return: Aims to Domesticate and Use in Life
Insiders say the camel will be imported and domesticated to vie with cows. It once roamed this continent before crossing the ice via Lehring Strait. The creature’s milk makes cheese and its shawls cover the elderly. Its best role may be as an example to rich men, reminding them of the eye of the needle challenges.
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Lehring Strait
Fifth Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
In the Night Hours Chapter VII Ends With Expedition Plans
Horton replies ready as the admiral contemplates the voyage. The admiral announces a transfer to Beguranca to meet General Shafter and then proceed to land at Aserra deros to join General Garcia. The exchange sets the upcoming colonial expedition in motion.
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Horton
Beguranca
Shafter
Aserraderos
Garcia
Safer egg packing trials aim to cut rail damage losses
The Bureau of Chemistry of the U S Department of Agriculture conducts experiments to determine the safest packing methods for long and short egg shipments by rail. Egg production in the United States is about half a billion dollars annually, with over nine percent of eggs arriving cracked in New York City and many being unfit for food.
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Bureau of Chemigetry
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
New York City
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Woman of Experience and Spouse Exchange Bold Promise
A courtroom aside features a woman and man in a tense exchange about a late detention downtown. The judge presides as the couple debates whether she will wait up or join him later.
Trapper Devoured By Own Bear Trap In New Mexico Wilderness
In Socorro county Santa Fe reports an unknown hunter, trapped by a large steel trap while pursuing bear. Crushed wrists held fast as he fought predators, likely ending in fatal consumption by wild animals, discovered a week later beside the bear trap.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Socorro County
Charles McCarthy
Bear
Civilization
McCarthy
Rats Gnaw At Dying Man In Williamsport Home
Roving rats attacked Lewis Jackson while he lay aged and dying in his Williamsport home. The old man, partly paralyzed, was unable to defend himself or seek aid as the rodents bit his face after death as watchers kept vigil. Other family members were bitten, and a rodent once attacked a child days earlier but caused no blood.
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Bolton
Holton
Williamsport
Pat
Lewis Jackson
Tree Shipped By Parcel Post To Ohio
A tree sent from Franklin Pennsylvania to Ohio was eight feet long with a four inch girth. The branches were bound to the trunk with twine and Rural Carrier Bunnell refused to accept it until he had shown it off to keep the parcel within the limits.
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Parcel Post
Franklin
Ohio
Parcel Vast
Bunnell
Albany Turnip Farmer Presents Governor With Prize Produce
Albany farmer A D S Finley shows Governor Glynn a ten pound turnip claiming the common 200 to the ton variety is easy to raise.
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Albany
N. Y
Daimes
Why I Emigrated to Canada A Farmer's Rise
A Chicago journalist recounts a Western Canada farmer who left Iowa for 160 acres and grew it to about 3000 acres. He built a debt-free, prosperous homestead paid for by three harvests, contrasting a high Iowa land price with Canada’s abundance. The piece frames emigration as opportunity for the poor through hard work and land.
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Chicago
Canada
United States
Western Canada
West
Iowa
Western
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Sampson
Cuban
Romano Wey
Jere
New York
Mr. Holton
Sion
Ogilve
London Standard
Spain
Chapter
Trapper
New Mexico
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