Madame Clarisse Seeks Daughter As Paris Opera Star’s Past Returns
In a rural scene Gracie Clifford learns from old Jean Leonard that her mother is Madame Clarisse, a famed Paris opera singer. Leonard recalls Clarisse’s kindness and secrets about Clifford, while Gracie vows to find her mother, aided by the fragile bond with Stella and Jean.
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Old Jean
Clarissa
Gracia
Madame Clarisse
Jean Leonard
Hai
Mr. Leonard
Cora
Tecan
Jean
Gracie
Stella
Jean Deonard
Lalare
France
Paris
Boston
Clifford
Sted
Stoel
Gtacie
Cherie
Mavaaie
Leonard
Cliford
Trig
Clartisse
Madame Larissa
America
Baby Stella
Dindard
Cimere
Temperance The Wreak Chaos in Wartime Journal
Wisconsin Masons move to bar saloonkeepers and liquor dealers from membership reviving a long held stance against drunkenness. Grand Master Myron Reed leads a push for strict enforcement and new rules, with opposition among some members. the plan aims to deny lodge access to those tied to alcohol businesses.
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Mazonie Rrend Lodge
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Myron Reed
Grand Lodge
Chicheter
Jon
Hempernasst
Ieee
SHO i Herald
One-Armed Malden Builder Completes Stone House
C O Blomerth, a one-armed Malden newsdealer, finished a three-story rough stone home on Highland Avenue after four years of work. He built with his own devices, including roofing paper roofing and self-made mortar. a fall once left him inactive for a year, yet he completed the house with brick trim and relics such as front steps from the Universalist church.
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Highland Avenue
Malden
C. O. Blomerth
Tvo
Universalist Church
Mr. Blomerth
Poston Herald
How toilet soap is milled for a finer bar
The New York Mail and Express explains the difference between common yellow laundry soap and toilet soap. It details better tallow, no rosin, milling, and milling steps from sliding shavings to a compressed bar, then stamping and coloring for final form.
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New York Mail and Express
Facts About Mexico From Lewis Godlove
Lewis Godlove comments on Mexico noting a population around eleven million with only a small share able to buy goods. He argues about nine million producing little or earning little and consuming little, while wages rarely exceed fifteen cents daily. He claims clothing is scarce due to climate and two cereal crops are possible, with pulque and sombreros as main purchases. He cites the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Lewis Godlove
Mexico
United States
Meéxico
St. Louis Globe- Democral
Yearround Fresh Vegetables From Kern Valley
Bakersfield Gazette notes Kern valley provides fresh vegetables nearly year round with winter supplies and perennial tomato vines. Tejon oranges grow to perfection and some of the finest oranges observed originate there.
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United States
Kern Valley
California
San Finigdio
Early Writing Materials Through History and Transition
The text traces ancient writing origins from bricks, tiles, shells, stone, ivory, tree barks, and leaves to book eaves. It notes early copper and brass money records found in India dating to around 100 BCE and mentions leather and wooden tablets. It describes the shift from papyrus to parchment by the eighth century.
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India
Four Die After Crossing Collision at Little Silver NJ
A late afternoon accident at the Little Silver crossing of the New York and Long Branch line killed four, including Mrs. Ward about seventy, Mr. Keating forty seven, his Irish nurse age twenty five, and Elsie Keating a young girl. The carriage struck by a northbound Central Railroad of New Jersey express traveling forty miles per hour caused the gruesome scene as the party was on a pleasure trip. The nurse name could not be learned.
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Rupert Arnim
Bia
New York
Max Boyden
Edgar Gil
Gracie
Mr. Edgar
Lite
Garele
Teuch-Road
Jean Leonard Sting
Stella
Jethys
Little Silver
N. J
Deadly riot at Duluth as police clash with 1500 strikers
In Duluth Minnesota a deadly confrontation erupted between police and about 1500 field workers protesting a week of layoffs. In a trench on Seven teenth avenue and Michigan street officers and militia fought a sustained firefight, with at least one man killed and around twenty five wounded.
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Duluth
Minn
Gas and Water Companies
Seventeenth Avenue
Michigan Street
McLaughlin
Meitriam
Sutphin
Company ix
George Costin
Anav
Ellensburg Fire Devastates Downtown and Destroys 14 Blocks
A major blaze in Ellensburg Washington leveled fourteen city blocks including the grocery of J J Anthony and most commercial buildings. Only the First National Bank and Lynch Block survived as residences in the southeastern area burned afterward. Loss toll likely $2,000,000 with about 150 people left destitute and a minimal water supply force to fight the flames.
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Ellensburg
Washington
J . J. Anthony
First National Bank
Lynch
Bare Snips &Co
Ashler
Oriental Hotel
Masonic Temple
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Geddes
Fish
Localizer
Dexter Stable
Thirteen Blocks Burned In Bakerstiehl California Fire Devastates Town
A massive fire in Bakerstiehl Cal spread from a kitchen blaze on 3.15 to nearby structures including the Southern Motel and Hotel. It consumed about forty dwellings and every business in town with losses around 1750 insurance paid. Firefighters struggled as the blaze moved swiftly, leaving Bakerfield residents homeless and extra guards deployed to protect the salvaged district.
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Bakerstiehl
Kel- Boy
Bakerfield
Southern
California
Durango Fire Destroys City Landmarks in 19th Century Blaze
A southern Durango fire, driven by strong winds, destroyed nearly all businesses and public buildings except Streeter's Hotel and the post office. The blaze caused about half a million dollars in losses, leveled eight business blocks, and killed many residences on the Boulevard. Firefighters were overwhelmed and the origin remains unknown. Churches courthouses and the Grand Central Hotel suffered total ruin. The Clipper Theatre City Hall and several saloons were destroyed along with wholesale mercantile houses. Large quantities of gold coins from South America were reportedly involved in the broader confusion surrounding the event.
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Durango
Col
Idea Newspaper
Grand Central Hotel
Clipper Theatre
Bedesadozen
Tragedy in Texas Flood Destroys Bridges and Tracks
Heavy rains across 200 miles of Texas cause wide flooding on the Brazos and Trinity rivers. At Bellbrook a Texas and Pacific bridge and 500 feet of track are washed away. Fort Worth area land and homes submerged. City rescue crews evacuated 200 people to warehouses. Property losses run into millions with wheat, oats, fruit and cotton badly damaged.
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Texas
Brazos
Trinity
Bellbrook
Texas and Pacific
St. Louis
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
Fort Worth
Denver
Farmer
Richardson
H. Plums
Mra HS. Bentley
Patrick
Explosion at St Etienne Coal Pit Traps Miners
A blast in a St Etienne coal mine entombs about 300 miners, with two pits affected one flooded the other burning. Sixteen bodies recovered and ten rescued miners died from injuries. Sixty horses perished. The death toll rises to around 185. Relief funds flow in as crowds gather. President Carnot orders immediate aid for families. Fourteen more miners were rescued barely alive.
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St. Etienne
France
Carnot
Tragedy in Jersey City: Son Kills Mother then Ends Own Life
Herman Probst murdered his widowed mother Elizabeth Probst in their home before shooting himself eight hours later. Elizabeth, nearly blind and about fifty, cared for her son, described as devoted, sober, and active in the Methodist Church. neighbors aided their three room home.
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Jersey City
N. J
Herman Probst
Elizabeth
The
Methodist Church
Dervishes Driven Back After Nile River Clash
In Arquin Egypt a battle sees gyppian troops and dervishes clash. Seventy Egyptians killed or wounded, two English officers injured. Colonel Wodehouse leads pursuit, boats seized, 500 dervishes captured. Separately, a Sunday School picnic in Allegheny City ends in tragedy as five youths drown in Connaquenessing Creek after a barge capsizes.
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Giles
Arquin
Egypt
Sho
Wodehouse
Oklahoma Jubilee Ends in Injuries After Grand Stand Collapse
A Guthrie celebration drew crowds with horsemanship races and excursions. A hastily built grand stand collapsed, injuring hundreds and causing one fatality among the crowd. Injured hailed from Oklahoma, other states, and Indian Territory as mournful scenes followed the holiday.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Trbtafiomin Ant Rossi
Pele
Okahoma
Indian Territory
Storm Kills Two Boys Near Dubuque Iowa
A severe afternoon storm strikes Dubuque Iowa with high winds and heavy rain. Two boys named Corbet and Bennett herding cattle near the city outskirts sought shelter in a barn and were killed by lightning. The storm caused damage to shrubs and trees and harmed corn and other grain crops.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Corbet
Bennett
Fatal Cannon Explosion Kills Two at Chelmsford
At Chelmsford Massachusetts Walker Symonds Jr twenty four year old son of the Robbins Hill House proprietor was instantly killed by a premature cannon explosion. His companion Raymond Ravendale was horribly mutilated and died en route to a hospital.
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Chelmsford
Mass
Walker Symonds, Jr
Robbins Hill House
Raiobbre Aman nesed-Rapmforda
Violent Deaths in New York City in 1966
Tables show 1966 violent deaths in New York City by method: burns and scalds 122, suffocation 85, poison 178, run down by wagons 53, street cars 14, railroads 50, electric wires 5, exploding cartridges 3, shot-inflicted newt practice 3, wounds 21, fractures and contusions 154, dragging 103, exploding fireworks 9, falls 391. Thirty children smothered, many in beds. fires claimed thirty, plus one from other causes in a death.
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New York City
National Baseball Notes and the Louisville Club Sale
The Louisville Club undergoes reorganization as Grance W. Barwox departs umping duties. Boston’s Jal os Gon shines with two home runs for New York players. New Polo Ground to be the future home of New York. Players like Burns and Wilkesharré lead in hitting and baserunning while Cleveland and Chicago clubs face steady shifts. The Louisville sale completes for nine thousand dollars to T. Sherley and W. H. Thomas.
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Grance W. Barwox
Ome Nasu
Boston
Jal Os Gon
New York
Ng BuyFaLo
N. Y
Penn
Tom Brown
Chicago
Morrill
Wise
Irwin
Washingtons
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Pete Horating
St. Joseph
Wairg
Cincinnati
Downer
Harvards
Bostons
Brown
Pitrspune
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Pittsburg
T. Sherley
W. H. Thomas
George
Columbus
Prtcher Clarkson
Sawders
Illence
St. Louis
Hewitt
Washington
Anson
Daly
Gore
Sullivan
Clarkson
Fitzgerald
Wilkesbarre
Lowell Mass
Wetca
Welch
Youghkeep- Tie
New Yorks
Slattery
Cleveland
Firteturg Msi
Soenteny
American Association
Brooklyn
Athletic
Aye BA RE
Baltimore Ae
Hele
Kansas City
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