Debutantes in Europe and Odd Tales From Abroad
A collection of anecdotes on singers in Europe seeking earnings, with debutantes earning modest sums like 200 francs a month and up to 5,000 francs on debut. The piece contrasts European pay with American ambitions, followed by a series of illustrated vignettes about daily life in Cairo trades, factory draymen, and a parliamentary quip about a hat mishap, concluding with reflections on honesty and independence.
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Europe
Che Pheator Magazit
United States
Bordeaux
Fragmentary quote appears in warped OCR item
An OCR fragment quotes London news and a lobbyist note. It mentions two kinds of speakers and includes garbled names and phrases about Eden, Tesyne and Korpent, with hints of Washington and Franklin. The readable text is sparse and uncertain.
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Atern and
Eve
den of Eden
Tesyne & Korpent
Washington DT
Merona
Supreme Court rules for Dillon in Braxton tax case
The Supreme Court awards a writ of preemptory mandamus against Braxton County Court to levy taxes for 1905 up to seven percent above the 1904 level. The county seeks suspension or appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, with no written opinion yet filed. Local rumors and diversions follow, alongside an ad for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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Supreme Court
C. W. Dillon
County Court
Braxton
County Court of
Dillon
Braxton County
Jacob Huffman
John J. Beneder
E. H. Cunningham
Aaid Court
United States Court
United States Supreme Court
Melawell County
Anserement
Charleston
Chamberlain
Detectives Probe Smuggling Mystery Along Confluence
Report describes a long standing mystery about drifting whiskey into Obiopyle and Confluence. Officials, aided by Wabash purveyors, pursue the secret still and the hidden source as they hear tales from workers around Confluence.
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Wine Revere
Banjo Jim's Narrow Escape on Rail Line
Banjo Jim, a long-standing figure in the Monongahela valley, nearly met harm at Fairmont after a heavy drinking spell. He wandered onto railroad ties and dozed as a locomotive sped by, a danger spotted by a nearby officer who woke him. Aged as a relic of earlier American history, his tale echoes the rough edges of regional lore.
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Cairo
bin Belle
Cather
Banjo Jim
Monongahela Valley
Fairmont
State Board Investigates Case Of Leper In West Virginia
Dr A K Warden of Pickens, on orders from the State Board of Health, visited George Rashid, an Assyrian leper living in a tent near Pickens, to document his condition, medical history, and prospects for deportation to Syria. The report notes Rashid's tuberculosis form, travels across multiple states, isolation under guard, and efforts by authorities to secure deportation while ensuring his care.
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Ds A. B Warden
State Board of Health
Pickens
W. Va
George Rashid
Warden
Hugh A. Barbee
The
State Board of
Heath
Grafton
HA Barbee
Point Peasant
Barbee
Tgat
Linnelt
M.george Rashid
Beirut
Syria
America
New York
Waterville
Maine
Elkins
Uniontown
Firet
Clarksburg
Valontown
J L Cunningham
Pisens
County Health of
J. G. Bosworth
Hattoneville
A. K. Warden
Sentinel
Rashid
Dr. Warden
Til
Clark May
West Virginia
B&q
Shetter
Warren
Lae Peonte
Engliss
Deserter from U S Navy Surrenders Here
A seventeen year old deserter, Elisha Evang, turned himself in at the Main Latrobe junction. Mayor McClung secured transport to Philadelphia and delivery aboard the Lancaster. Evang enlisted in May and deserted in July in Newport Rhode Island. He sought punishment but hoped youth would lead to leniency.
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Main
Latrobe
Nisuppers
Elisha Evang
United States Naval Service
Philadelphia
McClung
Evang
Naval Service
Newport
Memphis
Teno
Emai
Lancaster
Worshiping on the Mountain Top Sermon at Bluemont Cemetery
Rev. C. L. Trawin of the First Baptist Church preached from the grave near Bluemont Cemetery as threatening weather kept attendance light. The sermon drew lessons from Thomas Seaton’s hunting stories, depicting man pursued by Evil, and concluded with a unanimous vote to hold another service there next Sunday evening.
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Santinel
CL. Trawin
First Baptist Church
Bluemont Cemetery
Baptist Church
Toomas Seaton
Typhoid Fever Stricken Thayer Taken to Hospital
Mr John R Thayer was moved to City Hospital after typhoid fever was diagnosed by his physicians His daughter Miss Iva Thayer was admitted a week earlier with the same illness Friends and relatives express hope for their quick recovery at the hospital.
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Daily Sentinel
John R. Thayer
Thayer
Misa Iva
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Baltimore Sun
Drayman
House of Commons
Speaker
Witherby
Robert Goushinon
Perron
Vera Hamlers
Anene
Mr. Dlonaldaen
Carrie
Tin
Pulette
Spentcere
Castoria
What Is
Bidwell
Con Hoence
Qhiopyls
I. C
Callon
J.geo.preiss & Sons
Main St
State Board
Wesleyan College OF
West Virginia Wesleyan University
Business
Conservatory of Music
Benson
J. Wier
Buckhannon
U. S. Navy
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