Librarian Clark Returns From Globe Trek for Stanford Library
Palo Alto Cal George T Clark university librarian returns from a year long global tour with a want list of 6370 volumes for Stanford plus opportunities to acquire more. He expects about 11000 volumes added, including the Morrison Asiatic library in Tokyo and rare Shakespeare editions in London.
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Alto
Cal
George T. Clark
Stanford
Japan
China
Imperial University
Tokyo
George E. Morrison Asiatic Library
Doctor Morrison
England
London Times
Peking
Baron Iwasaki
Mikinosuke Ishida
Shakespeare
London
Clark
Johnson & Stevens
University
Rowe
Halliwell
Royal Society of London
Philosophical Transactions
Cambridge
Cambridge University Library
Burglar Tries Home In New Orleans Incident
Mrs Julia Wilhelm awoke to a heavy intruder in her bedroom at 1804 St Ferdinand New Orleans. The burglar demanded silence, rummaged the room and fled. She remained in bed until dawn, shaken by the quiet threat.
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New Orleans
Julia Wilhelm
1804
St. Ferdinand
Wh- Helm
Law Targets Late-Night Noise Disturbance in Oklahoma
The bill introduced by Republican T. E. Beck in the Oklahoma House would make snoring, talking in sleep, and sleep disturbances after 1 am illegal with penalties. First offense costs loss of breakfast, second offense requires living with a mother in law for a set period, and third plus offenses face fines from 100 to 1000 dollars.
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Oklahoma
T. E. Beck
German Experts Into Russia Prepare for 5000 Specialists
London reports Russia plans to receive 5000 German industrial specialists. Four thousand will work in metal industries, 300 in the health commissariat, 500 in land affairs. Moscow land communes seek 200 specialists for model communes. 150 emigrants have arrived from America and begun work. 4,000 more premises arranged. Groups include former Ford Motor employees.
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London
Russia
Commissariat of Health
Commissariat of Land
Moscow
America
Ford Motor Company
Two Deer With One Bullet Reported in Swanzey
Marshall Hill of Swanzey New Hampshire killed two deer with one bullet. He fired at a large buck which bolted. The bullet went through the buck’s neck into the doe’s head, killing both.
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Swanzey
N. H
Marshall Hill
Hill
Ex Yank Regains Voice After Deafness
Rudolph M Bowman, a former soldier wounded in Argonne, has recovered speech with a newly created voice. Doctors at the Central Institute for the Deaf say false vocal cords now function as the true cords after systematic vocal training, yielding normal sounding speech with slight hoarseness.
Mule Rents Thief In Raleigh Barn Wilding Incident
A farmer near Raleigh reports a bizarre night scene where a thief intruded a barn to milk a cow. A shotgun-wielding farmer found a damaged milk pad and a wrecked milking stool but the thief was gone.
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Raleigh
N. C
Johnson
Linnet Ware Faces Wealth Dilemma and Romance
Linnet Ware, famed dancer and socialite, clashes with love for Selden Moore as the looming Wendell King fortune tests loyalties. Moore discovers Linnet’s inheritance is entailed away from direct heirs, prompting a shift toward genuine affection and a hopeful engagement to a life with wealthier prospects.
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Prince Charming
Secand
Wendell King
Linnet
Moore
Wendell
Mrs. Ware
Wonder Lake Alaska A Hike and Local Tales
H. H. Lumpkin recounts Wonder Lake in Alaska noting its three miles by a half mile size and a shallow to deep shelf. He describes glacial origins, sightings of large fish, winter groaning sounds, summer gas bubbles, and the lake’s depth plus teeming yet uncaught fish.
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Wonder Lake
H. H. Lumpkin
Alaska
Moose Creek
Hatting History From Beavers to Bowler Styles
The passage traces hat making from beaver pelts in 1200 to the rise of hatters in Flanders and England. Apprentices learned felting and decoration as guilds formed, wages averaged nine cents a day. By the 16th century shops began standardizing hats, ending this era of poetic variety. Shakespeare referenced the changing hat styles of 1600.
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Chaucer
Flanders
England
Our Books and Ourselves Questioning a Book's Purpose and Influence
Dr. Thomas Arnold asks readers to interrogate a book's purpose and methods. He suggests evaluating whether the arguments, images, and allusions convince, and whether the reader can think and feel as the author did or identify where understanding diverges.
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Thomas Arnold
Local Woman Praises Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
A Moundsville West Virginia woman recounts relief from irregular monthly periods and pain after using Lydia E Pinkham Veget able Compound. She urges other young women to seek advice and notes letters are kept confidential by the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Moundaville
W. Va
Lydia E. Pinkham
George Tegarden
Third Street
Moundsville
Tegarden
Lydia Bees Venteme
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Massachusetts
Better Convert the Enemy Prophecy on business media balance
A Nation’s Business notes that any act gaining one friend and one enemy is poor policy as an enemy can cause more harm as a knocker than a friend can as a booster. It warns against constant disaster prediction and its destabilizing effect on ventures.
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