American Adventurer Fred Mills Fights Holdout in Amisegir
The San Francisco Call recounts Fred Mills, an American adventurer and captain in the Honduran army, who defended Amisegir against Nicaraguan forces. He and a small band held a graveyard position, repelling attackers with an automatic pistol and sword until mortally wounded. Mills slays twenty five Nicaraguans before dying, earning burial as a generalissimo by the enemy.
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Fred Mills
Amisegir
Honduras
Nicaragua
John P. Poe
Princeton
Nevada
San Francisco
Mills
Goldfield
Nev
President Zelaya
Ulysses
America
Nome
Panama
Alaska
Central America
Reason and Will Power in Thumb Phalanx Lengths
A New York Journal observation notes that when the second thumb phalanx exceeds the nail phalanx, reason dominates will. Individuals plan to act but never do, seeing the best path yet lacking the drive to execute and missing opportunities.
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New York Journal
Fairy Tales Start With Time Than Office Detainment
A child's question about fairy tale openings prompts a mother to humorously note not all tales begin with Once upon a time Sometimes stories start with a grown up line about being detained at the office creating a playful contrast in a New York World snippet
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Tommy
New York World
New Drip Cup Aims To Stop Pitcher Spills
A newly patented drip cup shown in an illustration offers a simple method to prevent pitcher contents from spilling. The device attaches to pitchers to control flow and reduce mess.
Amposin Lecture by A Ward on Art and Talent
Artemus Ward jokes about his art career noting he never claimed to be an artist but always mixed up in art. He recalls starting to draw as a child, including a turnip-drawing on a wooden bridge that villagers praised as faithful to nature. He quips his future might lie behind him.
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Artemus Ward
Steel belts rival leather belting for power transmission
Consul Frank 8 Hannah of Magdeburg cites a German technical paper reporting steel bands tested in Charlottenburg as feasible substitutes for leather belting. Benefits include thinner bands, lighter weight, tighter adjustment, reduced slipping to about one tenth of one percent, small total power loss near one percent, and less centrifugal impact enabling higher speeds.
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Frank
Hannah
Magdeburg
Charlottenburg
Can a woman dress on twenty thousand a year
A New York paper asks the question and notes a wife who earns a high income manages to dress well despite the cost. The item cites Bernard in Kansas as a playful aside about spending on attire.
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New York
Bernard
Kan
Milk as Disease Carrier Warns Public Health Official
Surgeon General Walter Wyman summarizes a report on milk and public health ordered by President Roosevelt. The findings tie infected milk to hundreds of epidemics and urge pasteurization under health supervision, noting Sanitation advances and the role of clean pasteurized milk for infants.
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Walter Wyman
Public Health Service
Secretary of the Treasury
Cortely
Roosevelt
M. J. Rosenau
Hygienic Laboratory
Wyman
New York
London
Washington
Mohler
Nathan Straus
United States
John W. Trask
Leslie L. Lumsden
Betel Nuts and Hindustan Aphorisms Collected by Gutterman
Arthur Gutterman collects witty Hindu proverbs in a small book titled Betel Nuts. The sayings mimic local speech with spice and color, comparing everyday scenes to morals and clever retorts.
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Arthur Gutterman
Hindustan
Orient
Steel Lighthouse Shipped to Cape Campbell
A large steel lighthouse built in Thames was assembled to 65 feet in height, then dismantled with plates and framework numbered for shipment to Cape Campbell, New Zealand.
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Cape Campbell
New Zealand
Thames
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Herbert Henry Asquith
Great Britain
Pitt
Mr. Asquith
Oxford
Jowett
Asquith
Robert Peel
Peel
Amposin
A. Ward
Bunch
Brooklyn Life
Ander the
Rose
Allah
Ram Chunter
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