Percy Conover Finds Work And Family Win In New York
In a crowded New York, Percy Conover overcomes doubt and hard luck to secure steady pay. He sells subscriptions for a weekly paper and tea for his uncle, gradually proving his sales skill. Eventually offered a salaried circulation role, he chooses loyalty to family, moving his mother to the city and uniting the household.
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New York
Shoals
Percy Conover
Mr. Wilson Tesftily
Mr. Wilson
Percy
Eods
Elf
Mncle
Uncle
Wilson
The Fine Art of Cooking Living on a modest dinner table
A Louisville Courier Journal adapts economical sweet potato dishes for variety. It suggests layered potato bakes and glazed slices as breakfast or dinner options, using butter sugar and seasoning. The piece urges cautious culinary adventure for household cooks to enliven meals.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Risky Thrill Feats Attract Public Awe In 1905 Season
An era of extreme public stunts continues with new thrills by Mauricia de Tiers aboard a high airborne auto on a five story skeleton track. Descriptions of death defying stunts mix with notes on engineering analyses and a German investigator’s film records.
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New York
Dreag
Fitzgerald
Madison Square Garden
Arena
Mauricia de Tiers
Mile. de Tiers
Delays Highlight Dangers in Early Auto Racing and Circus Feats
A. F. MacDonald, driving a 90 HP car at Ormond, proves cautious racing pays. The article surveys risky acts from loop the loop to gap rides, noting fatalities and outlawed stunts. It closes with anger at delays in auto race ambulances and officials arriving to aid injured riders.
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A. F. MacDonald
Ormond
Children and London's Fireplaces Law Proposal
In a single year 1,684 London children died from injuries caused by open fireplaces. A campaign urges Parliament to enact a law punishing parents who leave children unattended in rooms with such fireplaces.
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London
Telephone Vibrations in Surgical Context
A fragment discusses telephone membrane vibrations described by physicians as forced and related to malnourished or malnovo conditions. The note hints at medical observations on how speaker device mechanics influence patient sensation or diagnostic ideas, but the excerpt remains incomplete.
Making Bed in the Woods with Spruce Boughs and Balsam Twigs
Arnold Bartlett Parker describes an outdoor bed setup using ground level frame with a head log and foot log, thick spruce bough insulation, and a mat of twelve inch balsam twigs. He suggests placing twigs tightly with tops toward the foot and finishing with hemlock tips for a fragrant bed.
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Arnold Bartlett Parker
Suit Rolls Add Convenience for Athletes on Field and Court
Suit rolls, akin to enlarged music rolls, enter the season as a new wrinkle for athletes in baseball, lawn tennis, and golf. They protect clothing from wrinkles and hold a pair of shoes, an outing suit, and a shirt in a compact roll with canvas or leather construction and shawl-strap handles.
Delphin the Mite Enchants Paris Boulevards with Feats
A London Sketch reader reports Delphin, a tiny man about Milo’s size, drew a revolver in self defense on New Year’s Day after being ambushed by hoodlums. He was fined four shillings for carrying an oversized weapon. Delphin’s tale captivates the streets as he performs at the Carillon, drawing crowds as the courthouse did.
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Delphin
Paris
Parla
London
Milo
Chiquita
Hippodrome
Madhnow
Montmartre
Carillon
Curve Light of the Stars Variability Shifts Over Time
The article surveys stellar brightness variations among naked eye and telescopic stars. It notes 50 to 100 visible stars vary, about six known before 1800, with 1300+ variables including newer discoveries from recent years. Photography and photometers now rapidly expand the catalog and reveal light curves.
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Chandler
Cigar dealer’s Havana cigars nicked by insect holes
Broadway dealer offers several lines of Havana leaf cigars priced from one to two dollars and a brand at 2.50. Insects burrow holes up to a pinhead deep but do not spoil flavor. Damaged wrappers sold to favored customers at 35 to 15 cents, with patches preserving draw.
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New York Press
Earnings of London Beggars Reach Huge Sums
An exhaustive inquiry finds London beggars average 7.75 dollars weekly. Last year 1,925 were apprehended, yielding donations around 775,775 dollars. If 2,000 more escaped arrest, total yearly turning over by beggar fraternity exceeds 1.6 million dollars.
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London
Author to Occupy Pulpit in Toledo Church
Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady, a noted author and Episcopal clergyman, has accepted a personal invitation to assume the rectorship of Trinity church in Toledo, Ohio, pending regular filling of the vacancy left by the rector's resignation. He plans to continue his literary work and does not intend to give up writing.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Trinity Church
Toledo
Ohio
Brady
The Difference in City and Country Dinner Dress
The Illinois State Journal notes a humorous contrast: city dwellers always dress for dinner while country folks start hours earlier, wearing their attire long before the dinner bell rings. This reflects regional social norms in dress and timing.
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Imnois State Journal
Yale Gymnasium Inspector Plans North MidWest Tour
Dr. William G. Anderson, instructor of Yale gymnasium, will inspect leading school and college gymnasiums across the north and middle west, assessing facilities and standards.
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William G. Anderson
Yale
North
Middle West
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