Bizarre Tales of Habitants and High Roads in a Dreamlike Saga
A fragmentary narrative blends a farcical rural spoof with travel memoirs. It portrays odd town characters, moral stances, and rail journeys from a celery belt hamlet to New York, then shifts to a Swiss Italian travelogue about Milt and Henry, fall buying, and modest expenses. The piece weaves satire with impressions of social mores, alcohol bans, dreams of luxury, and European travel adventures across Switzerland and Italy.
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Milt
Henry
Wall Street
New York
Tiffany
Gotham
Carolyn Stuyvesant
Carolyn
Babylon
Erie
Sulit
Switzerland
Lake of Geneva
Vevey
Upper Rhine Valley
Italy
Germany
Digermuler Peak Stands Above Nordland Coastline
In Nordland county Norway the Digermuler mountain rises about 1 100 feet above the sea along a jagged coast. Its summit is marked by a stone pile and is accessible by a winding, but fairly easy path.
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London
Nordland
Norway
Striking Nordic Coastline View from High Point
View from this point offers one of the most striking prospects along the Norwegian coast with Higrafstind at 3,811 feet, Gjeitgaljartind at 3,555 feet, and Svartsundtind at 3,506 feet. Lofoten and Vesteraalen lie below, divided by narrow tortuous channels.
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Higrafstind
Gjeitgaljartind
Svartsundtind
Lofoten
Vesteraalen
Kin Reunited After 20 Years as Brother Faces Prison
Towanda Pennsylvania story tells how Eugene Bowers found his brother George after a two decade separation. George, aged about 30, faces at least 15 years for assault and robbery in the Eastern penitentiary. The reunion stirred sobs as Eugene described their vanished mother who eloped in 1893 and took George away. The family in Corning New York believed the mother and child were dead.
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Akron
Ohio
Three Oaks
Michigan
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Milt
Peter Cooper
Bronx Park
Brooklyn Bridge
Pennsylvania Station
O. K. Henry
Poindexter
Henry
Satan
Towanda
George
Eugene Bowers
Eugene
Eastern Penitentiary
Corning
N. Y
Chatham Clean Up Club Launches Fly Swat Campaign
In Chatham New Jersey a group of prominent citizens form the Clean up club to improve sanitation. They will pay ten cents per hundred for dead files at borough hall and purchase thousands of swatters for pupils, households, and workers. The club also aims to remove poison ivy within the town.
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Sons of Ohio
Piremen
Chatham
N. J
Borough Hall
Increased Responsibilities in Congress Debate
A plain citizen argues that Congress members should receive higher pay as duties have increased. The response notes that lawmakers must now study, understand complex issues, and take on greater responsibilities beyond simple gestures and storytelling.
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Congress
Two bears fight to death at City Park zoo
A black bear cub from a den of five died after climbing toward the grizzly’s pen at City Park zoo. The male grizzly, largest in the zoo, watched as the cub toppled from the crosspiece and fell to the cement floor. Keepers later found the cub dead.
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Denver
City Park Zoo
Children Carry Mother's Ashes to Scotland Burial
Jessie and Lillian Glen, aged three and six, travel aboard the Celtic with their mother's cremated remains. Mrs Glenday died in Oakland California and wished to be buried in Scotland. Her husband arranged the urn and began the 6000 mile journey.
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New York
Jessie
Lillian Glenday
Celtic
Glenday
Oakland
Cal
Scotland
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Offer Quick Relief
An advertisement promises rapid relief from acid stomach heartburn and nausea with Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills and invites readers to request a trial box at 372 Pearl Street New York. It also promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for whiter laundry and notes a humorous quip about marital constant worry and dressmakers.
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Wright
Pearl St
New York
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St. Gall
Harry E. Brook
Los Angeles Times
Swizerland
Rhine
Murray
Napoleon
San Bernardino County
Wallenstedt
Zurich
Zug
Lucerne
Geneva
Lugano
Como
Maggiore
Alps
Lombardy
Brieg
Rhone Valley
Domo d’Ossola
Simplon
Milan
Cathedral of
Taj Mahal
India
Genoa
Liverpool
Bernne
Two Bears
Huge Grizzly
Brain Family
Denver Park
Grocers O
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Chicago
Lombard Fifth Ave
Quincy St
Jackson Boulevard
Hotel Lombard
Union
Northwestern
LaSalle
Grand Central
Collies
Evrry
VAM Gleckland CO
40Th St
New Y
Ork
Dept
Dallas
Haisier Company
Diversey Avenue
Buckaloo
Goodfellow
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Libby
Libby, McNeill
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