Miss Penelope Romance Becomes Real Life for Writer
Miss Penelope hosts writer Holmes at her rural home where a shared reading triggers a literary romance. Holmes discovers Penelope resembles a heroine he wrote, he confesses he kept a rose from her, and Penelope realizes her own life has become a story. Holmes learns he is not married, only living with his sister and her husband, clarifying the mistaken marriage premise.
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Miss Penelope
Penelope
Rudolph Rassendy
Zenda
Flavia
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Rudolph Rassenby
Mae
Meeks
Esther
Penelope Rose
Holmed
Finvia
Rudolph Rassendyll
Witness Admits Alias Hinckley Middle Name Joke
In a courtroom clash a sworn witness named Hinckley reveals his given name is Jeffrey. He explains Alias is his middle name, prompting the judge to suggest starting the middle name with an E. Court resumes as the examiner proceeds amid light humor.
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Hinckley
Jeffrey
Boy Answers Squire With Wide Skill Set
A London Answers tale recalls a boy who seeks a 5 shillings weekly job at a squire’s house. He vows to do everything from cleaning silver to cooking and dusting. The squire notes the clay soil but hires him for adaptability, not insolence. Also a Kansas City Independent quip on timing chauffeurs versus speeding autos.
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London
Kansas City Independent
Soap and lace dyeing with milk and tea steps
Instructions describe washing lace with soap and hot water, squeezing through without wringing, rinsing in milk to set crisp texture, adjusting shade with cold tea, and pressing or ironing on the wrong side using thick soft waterful to finish.
Buried in Cement and a Christian Burial Found
An 1853 discovery near Fort des Vingt Quatre Heures revealed the remains of Geronimo, an Arab boy born around 1520 who converted, fled Oran, and later refused Islam. After capture by a Moorish corsair, he was condemned to die by being buried in concrete. The bones were exhumed December 27, 1853, and interred in a cathedral sarcophagus with a plaster cast of the cavity made.
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Geronimo
Oran
Algiers
Fort Des Vingt Quatre Heures
Halido
Unconquered Peak: Lizard Head and San Juan Giants
The San Juan mountains in northwestern Colorado present a grand, jagged skyline with 14 000 foot peaks. Mount Wilson dominates at 14 250 feet while Lizard Head rises as a 290 foot obelisk of trachyte 14 160 feet high at the summit. Despite attempts, climbers have yet to conquer its steep sides near Telluride and Rico.
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San Juan
Colorado
Rockies
Elbert
Blanca
Mount Wilson
Rocky Mountain Range
Lizard Head
Lizardhead
Telluride
Rico
New York Post
Albanian recounts flood tale with stubborn bridge dogged by horse
An Albanian in an eastern state recalls freshets and a horse tied to a footbridge to keep it from adrift. The flood swept horse and bridge downstream, later the bridge lodged on the bank with the horse perched on the former. A bystander quips that someone saw something similar, noting Carter the boss was carried downstream and then seen reappearing upstream pulling the old bridge.
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Carter
Albany Journal
Japanese mortar delivery teased as playlike to onlookers
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a bedless method in Japan where native builders mix mortar in the street, form six pound balls, and toss them up to workers on a ladder and roof, a display that looks more like play than work to observers.
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Japan
San Francisco Chronicle
The First Arm of Modern Playwrights Please Women
The passage from Theater Magazine notes that the appeal to female audiences drives success. It argues that women influence attendance, with men accompanying as escorts or to support her presence, shaping a play’s reception and fate.
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Theater Magazine
Had to Keep Ideals and Marital Jibes
A quip about marriage and literary work circulates between a Cleveland Plain Dealer line about writing love stories and a Manchester Union jab. The exchange lampoons how debates over marriage can intersect with authorship and personal ideals.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bachian Judges Things by His Own Conditions
A brief note from the Manchester Union remarks that Bachian judges things by their own standards, while asserting no two sunrises appear alike to any two senators.
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Bachian
Manchester Union
Another English pugilist coming to invade the United States
The National Sporting club of London backs Jim Driscoll with 5000 dollars to prove he can whip any featherweight. Driscoll, seen as England’s sharpest featherweight since Charley Mitchell, claims the English title and boasts victories over Jem Bowker and Owen Moran. Also notes on harness racing as an educational tool at fairs and expositions.
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United States
National Sporting Club of London
Jim Driscoll
England
Charley Mitchell
Driscoll
Jem Bowker
Owen Moran
Jeffries Bids Permanent Ring Retirement
Jim Jeffries declared he has permanently retired from boxing, stating there is only a remote chance he would return only if penniless. He opined that most men are worth about two dollars a day and would choose fighting over labor if broke, and he claimed in a hypothetical Burns and Johnson match the black fighter would win, and he would not fight him or any other Black challenger.
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Jim Jeffries
Jeff
Burns
Johnson
Mystery colt at Keene stable opens 1908 turf season
A yearling dark bay colt at James R. Keene’s Sheepshead Bay stable signals the start of the 1908 turf season. Details are scarce beyond it being a remarkable mover and the trainer’s staff keeping quiet about names and pedigrees. Reports place a recent trial at a quarter mile with weight up in about 0.2235, seen as 0:22 by some observers. Peter Pan, last season’s sensational three year old, will not be trained again due to injuries and will be sent to the Keene Kentucky farm.
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James R. Keene
Sheepshead Bay
N. Y
Keene
Keene Farm
Kentucky
Keogh Plans Return to Chase Pool Laurels
Jerome Keogh of Buffalo, once world pool champion, prepares to challenge Nominy Investon for a third time. If Investon accepts in St. Louis, Keogh will move there to play three cushion billiards and pool at an academy in the Mound City. Houston had won the title from Keogh in January in Buffalo and defended it in New York two months later.
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Keogh
Poolitle
Jerome Keogh
Buffalo
Nominy Investon
Chmpion
St. Louis
Keagh
Mound City
Uhueston
Buffatoan
New York
Racing in Australia Recognized
A message sent before the board of review adjourned recognizing the Victorian Breeders and Owners Trot ting Horse Association of Australia and establishing reciprocal relations to safeguard California horses shipped to Australia.
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Australia
Board of Review
National Trotting Association
Browne's Noble Image in Ashes and Grave
A reflective line notes humanity’s nobility amid ashes and the pompous aura surrounding Browne in death.
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