Clever Kitten Star Steals Show With Dog In Puppet Pageant
In Jamaica Queens a fox terrier performs tricks beside a tiny Maltese kitten dressed in doll clothes. The dog sits, the kitten is carried, and both remain still until Kiss the baby gently. The kitten sighs disapproval as the terrier kisses her nose, then chases ensues with a playful dance. The second item features a Boston wharf tale about a boy seeking a berth and proving himself by hard work, and a moral urging self reliance in study and problem solving.
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Jamaica
N. Y
Kitty
Day Dreams Verse Imagines a Sailor King and Castle
The fragment presents a youthful voice dreaming of becoming a bold sailor and conqueror. It envisions crossing the ocean seeking wealth and building a fortress with a donjon, ruled by ten thousand loyal vassals to safeguard the slumbering ruler.
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Johnny
Donjon
Dream of princess turns to lesson on three
A boy dreams of rescuing a princess and ruling a kingdom but the vision dissolves as the teacher asks him the rule of three. The tale ends with the boy realizing the crown is the cap of a dunce in a playful verse.
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EH de Witte Kaplan
In &T
Nicholas
The Elephant's Lip Circus Moment
Little Louise recalls a circus moment aimed at a crowd when she exclaimed about the elephant's long upper lip. The anecdote captures a child's surprise during a show.
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Little Louise
Broad Missouri Farm Auction Listings Across Counties
A long Real Estate listing describes numerous Missouri tracts for sale ranging from 160 to 1,065 acres. Properties include tillable bottom land with rich soil near Lowry City Archi Cass Holt and other counties, with prices from 5 to 45 per acre. Several farms feature timber, orchards, springs, and improvements including houses barns and granaries.
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Lowry
St. Clair County
Price
Archie
Cass Co
Sumner
Chariton County
Forest City
Holt’county
Shannon County
Missouri
St. Joe
Missouri River
Wayne County
Linn Co. Kas
Linn Co
Lowry City
Laclede Co
Lebanon
Frisco Ry
Webster County
Marshfield
Webster Co
Conway
Miangua
Frisco By
Wright Co
Frisco Ryana
Wright County
Seymour
Mountain Grove
Niangua
Grove Springs
Douglas Co
Frisco
Norwood
Howell County
West Plains
Mountain View
Poinoma
Earth likely pear shaped in early stages say scientists
Professor G I L Darwin endorses J H Jeans of Trinity College Cambridge who argues the Earth evolved from a nebulous mass through ruptures to its present shape. A pear form may have existed with the large end near England and the stalk near Australia, leaving volcanic zones along the former equator.
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G. IL. Darwin
J. H. Jeans
Trinity College, Cambridge
England
Australia
Veil Dance Emerges in Paris as New Fashionable Form
A French dancing master introduces the veil dance as Paris replaces the American cake walk. Women wear sheer wraps at the waist and wave the ends while men don regence styles and crush hats. Dancers form lines to a half waltz half gavotte, creating a graceful, stately effect against dark coats.
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Paris
Paris Professor Warns of Dangers From Radium Discovery
Professor Curie of Paris and his wife discovered radium from pitchblende and warned that a room with one kilogram could destroy eyesight burn skin or kill. Radium emits Becquerel rays in minute particles traveling up to 100000 miles per second, causing inflammation on hands and luminous effects.
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Curie
Paris
Remembrance of 1814 Fire Found in House Repairs
During repairs in the northwest corner of the old hall the Statuary chamber the house of representatives a burned window sashes removed revealed a charred window case and melted lead from the fire of 1814 Joel Grayson recovered the lead and preserves it as a memento in Washington Star.
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Capitol
House of Representatives
House
Statuary Hall
Joel Grayson
Washington Star
Andrew Johnson era tailor home still stands in Greenville
Andrew Johnson, former president, lived in Greenville Tennessee a town of 1800. His shop building remains with the old sign reading A Johnson Tailor over the door. Some old citizens occasionally bring up receipted bills for garments. He left no son and the Patterson family descendants of his daughter still occupy the former residence.
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A. Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Greenville
Tennessee
Knoxville
Patterson
China’s Way of Paying After War Loans
At the war’s start the Chinese government lent money to wealthy merchants. After one year interest was paid, then it stopped. Lenders were asked to accept mandarin buttons, peacock feathers and other decorations in exchange for the obligations.
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China
Japan
What an Earthquake Really Is
A London Graphic piece explains the Ju dsen quake as a mythic cow shifting the world’s burden between horns to mark the Muslim new year
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Judsen
London Graphic
Boy keeps marbles after winning fair play gambles
A small boy pockets marbles after a game and his mother deems gambling wrong. She warns to return them, but the boy says his father won’t mind since he never cared about a silver dish won at a euchre party.
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Washington Post
Pneumonia Not Caused by Microorganisms Says Dr Reynolds
Chicago physician Dr Reynolds argues pneumonia is not spread by a germ in sputa but by poor conditions. He contends misattribution hinders addressing improper clothing damp unventilated surroundings insufficient food and vice as real disease causes.
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Dr. Reynolds
Chicago
Telephone Answers in a Busy Line
A wash woman notes the line while hanging clothes as gossiping lines connect with a husband and mother in law. A man hints at trouble with an acquaintance recently married. A Pennsylvania conductor denies a passenger bound for heaven. A witty joke about sixty seconds ends with a Utah court clerk asking for a number.
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Pennsylvania
Heaven
Utah
How He Lost His Beauty
In 1884 85 at the Art Students League C D Gibson recalls posing for a notably plain Irishman. The man recounts a beguiling babyhood tale explaining his ugliness as result of a nurse swapping him for a less favored infant.
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Art Students’ League
C. D. Gibson
Celtic Fringe in England's Government Draws Notice
Commentary argues that Ireland and Scotland are gaining influence in Britain with Sir George Hite promoting Ireland, four Scots and three Irish in the cabinet, and key military posts held by Irish or Scottish figures. It notes the adjutant general, quartermaster general, and permanent undersecretary for war or higher commands among Irish and Scottish appointees.
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England
Iingland
Ireland
George Hite
India
Channel Fleet
State athlete at center of medical term shift
An Exchange summary discusses a new medical term “state athlete” that replaces “strenuous life” and describes a figure once dominant in running jumping lifting and fencing. The narrative notes he can start now but cannot finish, is easily distanced, and has faced bankruptcy while under care from doctors surgeons and nurses.
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Ife
Oscar Browning Remembered In Cambridge Verse
Oscar Browning the writer and mountaineer, recently robbed in Rome, remains a popular Cambridge figure. Elected fellow of King's College in 1859, he inspires university verses that poke gentle fun at his stature and nature’s decrees fading into obesity.
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Oscar Browning
Rome
Cambridge
King’s College
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Roy Sykes, M. D
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