Walking to Asia Not Difficult When Strait Is Frozen
Excerpt from A Year With a Whaler by Walter Noble Burns details sailing Aug 15 through the Bering Strait. It notes strait width about thirty six miles between East cape in Asia and Cape Prince of Wales in America, with Diomede islands, swift tidal channels, and Eskimos crossing by skin boat in calm weather.
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Bering Strait
Arctic
East Cape
Cape Prince of Wales
Big Diomede
Straits
America
Asia
Walter Noble Burns
Guardian of Love Reunites With Long Lost Betrothed
In a Wales mine tale a preserved body of a young man, found after years, prompts an old village lady to kiss the corpse. She recalls a sixty year old betrothal and believes her absent lover has not forsaken her. The miners take the old woman home as she mourns the reunion.
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Wales
Iit
London Telegraph
Eskimo dress has purpose confirms Amundsen in North West Passage
Captain Roald Amundsen notes Eskimo clothing from deer skin coats to anoraks carries meaning in design. He admits initial ridicule by his expedition team for fringe removal. When fringe was restored, a practical change kept garments functional and distinctive.
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Roald Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Captain Amundsen
Vast Cosmic Distances Baffle The Curious
The article muses that astronomy offers little money and demands vast figures. It notes the North Star lies 210 billion miles away and a one mile per minute train would need 479 million years to cover that distance, while light takes 36 years to reach Earth.
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United States
Afar
Right In His Face
Grieving depositors gather on the sidewalk before a closed bank. A man consoles a white haired grandpa in a bandanna, saying banks burst every day. The scene conveys shock and sorrow after a bank collapse observed by bystanders.
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Harper’s Weekly
The Wrong Heart
A London Answers quip has a proud father praising a suitor as a man after his heart while the young man insists he seeks his daughter, not the father, in a playful misdirection.
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Bubkins
London
A Popular Role
A witty exchange frames a star’s focus on the payroll as a joke about roles and haste. The dialogue contrasts celebrity life with everyday concerns, underscoring the ironies of fame.
Farm For Sale in Texas 100 Acres with Timber and Coal
W C Groner offers 100 acres in Loving Young County Texas under a four wire fence. Thirty acres cleared and cultivated with twenty more good land, timber for firewood and posts. Coal underlayed by survey. Price two thousand dollars with option to trade a Graham residence valued at one thousand dollars, plus three hundred dollars cash and five equal yearly payments at eight percent interest.
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Graham
Loving
Young County
Texas
Tobacco ban proposed for Methodist clergy orders
At the general conference in Oklahoma City leaders debated a tobacco habit memorial. The amendment would bar admission to holy orders for any candidate who refuses to promise complete abstinence from tobacco.
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The
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Oklahoma City
Lost hounds reward notice from Texas
Grant Price or L H Hayes of Murray Texas offer a $2.50 reward for information leading to the recovery of three hounds lost two miles west of Graham. A small white red headed female and two black and tan dogs are missing.
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Graham
Grant Price
L. H. Hayes
Murray
Texas
Miss Eleanor Wilson Weds William G McAdoo
Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, wed William G McAdoo in May. She becomes step mother, mother in law, and grandmother in one ceremony. McAdoo is a widower more than twice her age with a younger daughter and an older married daughter.
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Eleanor Wilson
Four magazines offer year of The Leader for 18 cen t a
An offer advertises a one year subscription to The Leader comprising four magazines for a total price of 18 cen ta. The deal highlights value for readers seeking multiple issues at a reduced rate.
Carrier pigeon found in Newcastle with identification bands
A carrier pigeon discovered at R. S. DeLong & Son's building in Newcastle Tuesday morning was captured by locals. It bore two leg bands reading A. J.-13-14974. After two hours of feeding and rest, the bird departed southward. A note from F. P. Wood, Secretary of the Commercial Club, stated it was watered and fed in Newcastle on May 12, 1914.
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R. S. DeLong & Son
A. J
F. P. Wood
Commercial Club
Newcastle
Newcastle Register
Roosevelt river claim praised by National Geographic editor
Gilbert S. Grosvenor, editor of National Geographic, backs Roosevelt's claim of discovering a river a thousand miles long in South America. With Roosevelt's thirty years of exploration, his recent Brazilian work is deemed valuable to science and likely accurate, though the editor notes some doubt remains.
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Roosevelt
South America
Gilbert S. Grosener
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Society
Col. Roosevelt
Brazil
Teddy
Daily Star Telegram Club Offer Amid Mexican War Fears
A club proposal offers the Daily and Sunday Star Telegram plus Handy Almanac Encyclopedia and Atlas of 240 pages for 2.35 dollars until December 15. The Leader can be added for 15 cents more. The deal lasts only a few days, urging quick orders.
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Mexico
Star Telegram
Telegram
Wanted Twenty 2 Year Old Heifers by R A Petty
A classified notice seeks twenty two year old heifers with red or white faces offered by R A Petty. The ad specifies breed outline and contact by the seller for potential buyers.
Postal trap used to obtain signatures in detective cases
London Tit-Bita notes how detectives rely on mailed registered letters to obtain elusive signatures. The two penny method has trapped signers, including a literate appearance hoaxing woman who received six months imprisonment. Receipts for registered letters are not freely given, only in specific justice cases.
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London
Back Care For Automobiles From the Journal of the AMA
The Journal advises careful back use during car cranking and seated driving to prevent lumbago and rheumatism. Keep the back straight, bend at hips, not waist, and sit with hips back against the seat. Use cushions or supports to maintain spinal curves and avoid slouching or seating on the lower spine.
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Alsac
Journal of American Medical Association
His Hunt For Home
The famed pianist De Pachmann faced a royal summons at Buckingham Palace with Queen Alexandra. He refused then rode in a cab all night, having forgotten his address, wandering through London's many squares until a cab finally delivered him home.
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de Pachmann
Queen Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
London
Businesslike suitor shows priority on duties over romance
A Houston Post quote describes a father remarking a suitor is practical and formal. The suitor announces his office location and hours in a note to the girl's father, seeking a meeting at the father's convenience.
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Nfice
Houston Post
Soda and Water Question From the Delights of a Sage
A witty old lady questions whether the phrase soda water should be written as two words or with a siphon between them. Her quip reflects playful language debates in simple terms.
Accident insurance satire in Buffalo Courier cartoon
A third story quip by Bill asks Tom to drop a hammer or brick on him for accident insurance, reflecting dark humor in a Buffalo Courier cartoon. The line plays on the notion of seeking coverage through an accidental injury.
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Bill
Tom
Buffalo Courier
Higher Praise Quip Amuses Kansas City Journal
In a humorous exchange reported by the Kansas City Journal Mabel receives a compliment with a twist as Henry deflects and George adds a pun about being “plu per fect.” The light dialogue showcases period wit and social banter.
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Mabel
Henry
George
Kansas City Journal
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Boston Transcript
R. A. Petty
J. A. Martin
R. L. Reed
England
Jimmy
Pittsburgh Post
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