Miscellaneous global notes and agricultural updates
London efforts to emigrate British women to South Africa are reported. Mme Jeanne Marin wins the Chauchard prize from France. Alfred Soderman of Worcester grows potatoes and tomatoes on one vine. London schools may use foghorns. A Lucknow medical college is proposed as a Wales visit memorial costing 1,250,000 dollars. Sweden seeks its expatriate sons in the U.S. and more.
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London
South Africa
Alfred Soderman
Worcester
Mags
Lucknow
Prince of Wales
Ohio
Perseus
Boy Scout Barnard Katz Loots Cash Box Then Pirates Spark Treasure Hunt
Bernard Katz stole $25 from his father's cash box to fund a treasure hunt inspired by dime novels. He led authorities to Franklin Square where police found the money on his person after excavations and he was jailed in $300 bail awaiting juvenile court.
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Philadelphia
Bernard Katz
Captain Kidd
Bernard
Mr. Katz
Franklin Square
Katz
Gorman
Bones of Massacre Victims Found Near Lake of the Woods
Skeletons of Jean Baptiste de La Verandyre and Jesuit Father Auleau along with 19 skulls of French Canadian voyagers killed by Sioux in 1736 were uncovered on an island at the northwest angle of Lake of the Woods. The site of Fort St. Charles, built in 1732, was also located by a St. Boniface college party and Judge Prudhomme. The finding honors victims’ memory amid ongoing efforts to identify the massacre site.
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Winnipeg
Man
Jean Baptiste de la Verandyre
Father Auleau
Lake of the Woods
St. Boniface College of
Prudhomme
Fort St. Charles
Sieur de la Verandyre
la Varandyre
St. Boniface College
Red River
John Greenleaf Whittler
St. Boniface
Holy Roman Mission
Ocean Liner Food and Drink Costs Top Sea Voyage Facts
A New York article notes that in 1907 a transatlantic liner spent over 41 million dollars on food, far above seven million on coal, with champagne and claret heavily consumed. First class drank 129,209 bottles of champagne and steerage 121,297 gallons of claret, reflecting lavish aboard dining and drink habits.
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Suez
Nitroglycerin On Train Triggers Riot In Oklahoma
An oil well shooter with a valise of nitro glycerin rode a railroad car from Ramona near Bartlesville toward Owasso. Suspicious passengers confronted him, he confessed four quarts of nitro glycerin were aboard, causing panic and a mass ejection at Collinsville.
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Tulsa
Okla
Ramona
Bartlesville
Owasso
Collinsville
Waiter Refuses Dollar Tip at City Pavilion
In New York the waiter Honus Muller at the Pavilion on Eighty fourth street and the East river declined a diner’s one dollar tip after a party of a young man and woman ate fare totaling 10.50. The diner offered the bill and the man said it was for the waiter, but Honus refused saying he earns a good salary and cannot conscientiously accept a tip. The couple left, tossing the bill on the floor.
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New York
Hopus Muller
Eighty-fourth Street
East River
Honus
Accident Reveals a Hoard in Bandanna Bundle
In Williamsport Pennsylvania a woodsman named David Lewis, treated for a broken leg, yielded three dollars in cash and upon locker inspection a bandanna bundle opened to reveal a stash totaling 1517 dollars, the savings of years in a Sullivan county lumber camp.
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Williamsport
Williamsport Hospital
David Lewis
Sullivan County
Prohibitionists and Paris song inspire passengers aboard
The article lists astonishing on board consumption figures including 20 641 brandy bottles and 73 384 gallons, over half a million gallons of beer, vast delicacies from live lobsters to turtle soup, and 6 500 000 eggs, with each passenger averaging five sixths of a gallon of liquor and a full gallon of mineral water. Also notes 76 223 bottles of sterilized milk for children.
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Paris
Lloyd's
Thirteen Swordfish Save Dorcas From Shipwreck
Philadelphia report says thirteen swordfish in the Dorcas beam held key to safety after a three master clipped her bowsprit off Georges Bank. Capt. Lester Nunan notes swordfish scarce and many sharks in the area as Dorcas prepared to sail to Boston on July 23.
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Philadelphia
Dorcas
Georges
Boston
Lester Nunan
Rare wild swan shot in Maine by Waltham hunter
Kennebec County reports a rare wild swan brought to Ellsworth taxidermist E D Brann after being shot at Webbs Pond by Hamlin Kingman of Waltham. The young bird has white plumage with black feet and bill, six feet nine inches wingspan, and is part of a migration path from Hudson Bay toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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Kennebec
E. D. Brann
Ellsworth
Webbs Pond
Hamlin Kingman
Waltham
Gulf of Mexico
Hudson's Bay
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Woman's Eyes Are Costly in Gypsy Fortune Seance
Michael Unger of Princeton told Seret McGowan at Central police station that a gypsy fortune teller induced him to part with money and a gold ring during a seance near Trenton. He sought police help to uncover who took the valuables after realizing the loss.
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Trenton
N. J
Michael Unger
Princeton
Seret
McGowan
Central
Uae
Unger
Count Seizes Daughter After Italian Noble Arrest
In Muskogee Oklahoma Tale Count Accassano and his daughter Esther were arrested near Weleetka on kidnapping charges after Esther wed James Lalley, a railroad section boss. Accassano claims deceit. they were released and plan to sail for New York then Italy.
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Muskogee
Okla
Louis Accassano
Esther
Weleetka
James
Lalley
Smith
Accassano
New York
Italy
Count Accassano
Mexico
Monterey
Talley
Accagnano
Rome
America
Dustin
Oklo
Cathao Hc
Eternal City
Sabbath School as Mighty Peace Force and Moral Trainer
The Sabbath school is not just a church nursery but a powerful educational force guiding national life and social relations. It shapes youth into future reformers and voters, advancing temperance, peace, and service over conquest, aligning with the Prince of Peace and the Kingdom of Love through enduring instruction.
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Councila of Nature
Woman's Place in Nature in American Life
A critical look at the gender dynamic as American women are described as independent and dominant. The piece contrasts the American woman’s relationship with love and men, noting flirtation and submission in social life while questioning male dominance in romance and adventure.
Graded Bible Lessons Would Ease Teaching in Small Schools
Dr. M. C. Hazard argues graded lessons suit each grade’s capacity, offering advantages over a single uniform lesson. They align with child psychology, easing instruction for small, country, frontier schools and reducing the need for teachers to adapt unsuitable material.
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M. C. Hazard
Telford Road
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Chile
Wu Ting-Fang
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Richard Fairbanks
Ly Walden Fawcett
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Takahira
Walden Fawcets
Baron Takahira
Baltimore American
Sabbath School
Robertson Wallace
Huxley
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