Life Saving Scheme Aims to Rescue Wrecked Vessels
Roosevelt approves Arbuckle life saving plan with two vessels off Sandy Hook to aid wrecks along the Atlantic coast. It envisions wireless machines, night rockets, and breeches buoy reach, with government support and no pay to the saving companies.
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Jobin Arshuckie
Arbuckle
Roosevelt
White House
Representative Cocks
United States Life Saving ,Service
John ‘Buckle Life Saving Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Iirther
John Arbuckle “Lity Saving. Company
Sandy -Hook -‘Nshishin
Life Saving Corps
Nhe
Forch Services
Polar Paintings Come to America From Arctic North
A remarkable collection by Alexander Borissoff, depicting the frozen north, may tour New York and other cities. Painted on site above the seventieth parallel, the works show ice, snow, and Arctic life with vivid chiaroscuro. The exhibit includes Novaya Zemlya scenes and Kara Sea studies, highlighting the harsh yet luminous polar environment.
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New York City
Vienna
Berlin
Paris
London
Alexander Borissoff
Vas
Paria
Reil
Ual Lance
Borisof
North
No Tude
Arcangel
Yalmal_ peninsula
Novaya Zemlya
Arctic Ocean
Kara Sea
Wartth
Polar Circle
Borissoff
Lucky Chap Exchange of Engagement Ring Becomes Joke
A humorous exchange features a sweet girl asking the bachelor about his happiest moment. He replies that the peak moment was when a jeweler took back an engagement ring and he received aleseyi inks mi exchange.
Steel Goggles with Cross Slit View
A French eye specialist markets steel goggles with glassless plates forming a cross shape. When worn and adjusted the wearer sees through narrow slits in all directions, claimed to resist fog and dust, offering a constant unobscured view.
Palm Tree At Port Royal Guard Of Fate
Journal notes that a blasted palm tree stands in Port Royal garrison, revered as a sentinel. Locals claim the land and town’s survival depend on the tree remaining upright, linking its fate to Jamaica earthquake legends and the naval station’s safety.
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Port Royal
Port . Royal
Jamaica
Death Trap for Snakes in Connecticut Woods
A hunter found 11 large black snakes in a Connecticut patch of woods dead from a shock. Telegraph wires overhead had been broken by quarry blasting, creating a ground trap when snakes touched both wires and short circuited the circuit, causing instant death.
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Connecticut
Ancient British chiefs gold armlets found in Kent sandpit
Workers at Crayford in Kent unearthed several massive solid gold armlets or bracelets. The ornaments, possibly from ancient British chiefs, were found three to four feet underground and are valued at £260 to £306 for gold alone. They are well preserved with inscriptions still undeciphered, dating to a pre Christian Era.
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Crayford
Kent
England
Hoodoo desks plague Washington offices and odd tales
A Washington Post cited pattern shows executive departments hauntingly labeling certain desks as hoodoo desks after multiple resignations deaths and transfers. Stories recount persistently unlucky doors in war and other offices plus colorful local tales of names and rumors in high society.
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Wilmonton
Washington Post
Buren
Asus
Washington
War Department
Civil-Service Commission
Government plans lobsters future at Booth Bay station
The article spews absurd proposals about government funding and experiments to propagate lobsters, including cross species ideas and defense developments. It mentions a $200,600 appropriation to start with 20,000 lobsters this season and grand plans to boost the invisible supply by millions. The piece parodies bureaucratic zeal and risks of experimental cuisine.
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Fiat Commission
Booth Bay
Tzig
Wiles
Department of Agriculture
Fish Commission
Washington men plan temperance clubs for light wine option
The Washington Star reports a proposed temperance idea where several Washington men aim to form societies across the country pledging members to drink only light wines and beers. They argue lighter beverages curb habitual drunkenness, citing biblical injunctions and supposed medical support, with initial societies possibly in Washington.
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Washington
Sayl
Washington Star
Hob
Scientisia
Europe
Motion to adjourn in order ends Mississippi jury tale
A Tennessee informant recalls a Reconstruction era Mississippi legislature member who, despite being uneducated, voted with his party and later sat as a circuit court juror. The crowded docket stretched late, and the hungry juror rose in heat to quip that the court could adjourn only by its own motion. The judge paused, and the juror asserted that a motion to adjourn is in order, sir.
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Tennessee
Mississippi
Jaror
Sightseers at Capital Washs Rubberneck Wagon Town
Washington hosts a high number of visitors described as rubberneckers, with many sightseeing wagons on each block by day. The Library of Congress, though little visited by white locals, is praised by biased travelers as the world's most beautiful building and remains crowded nightly with out-of-town guests.
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Lois
Tim
Cairo
Jim
Charley Glass
Gines
Jim Mangum
Bangum
Cat Two Biscks
Capital
Washington
Library of Congress
Dusky Thomas Jones Faces Theft Charge at Washington Court
Thomas Jones, described as dusky, stood in the Washington police court over a stolen overcoat. He wore the coat when arrested, and when asked why he took it he claimed temporary intoxication and the unwritten law, offering no clear explanation.
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Thomas Jones
Hue
Washington
Thomas
Rye
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Cartiele
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K Street
Kentucky
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Carlisle
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Willis P. Richardson
Quartermaster General’s Department
United States
Samoa
Longworth
Alice Longworth
Abe
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