Lonely Washington Vacation Sparks Bond on Bench
A distrait student from South Carolina meets a miner’s son from Nevada on a Washington monument bench. They exchange stories of loneliness and travel as they discuss ten days in the capital and gifts mailed to friends, forming an unexpected connection amid city spectacle.
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Washington Monewest
Rhoda Jamson
Itheda
Washington
Congressional Library
Capitol
White House
Carson City
South Carolina
Dome
Tonger
Four-Leaf Wish Shapes Quiet Arlington Farewell
In a gentle romance set around Arlington and a Potomac overlook, a publisher and a woman share a shy plan for sightseeing, confess a saved lie, and exchange a hopeful farewell. He promises to visit South Carolina before returning west and hints at a shared future.
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South Carolina
Arlington
English Peer Learns Size of America in Telegraph Tale
A wealthy English peer and company president arriving in San Francisco discovers, after multiple urgent telegrams to a New York manager, that time zones explain the delays. On reaching New York he learns the company’s clocks were 6 to 8:30 a.m. difference, prompting a lighthearted admission of his error and a remark on forgetting America’s size.
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New York
San Francisco
Orient
New York Times
Not Enough Context for a Clear News Item
The provided text appears to be a fragmented quotation with unclear attribution and no discernible event, date, or location. It lacks a coherent narrative to summarize into a newspaper card with identifiable persons or organizations.
A Cold Wave.jealous husband and social balance tale
A Chicago Record Herald quotation describes a wife managing a jealous husband by convincing him other men admire her. The dialogue shows concealed pride and how social perception is used to ease tension.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Unclear dialogue cited from Yonkers Statesman
Fragmentary exchange mentions an uncle who lectures and Jim claiming an attentive audience last night. The source appears to be a quoted line from Yonkers Statesman with minimal contextual detail.
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Bill
Jim
Yonkers
The Pledge Mr Biggins Signed Is Reviewed
A dialogue from The Age of Technical ties includes Mr Biggins explaining a pledge signed at the start of the year. He asks for a review to determine if a lawful clause can be found, implying scrutiny of obligations or rules. The exchange references a kiwger character and a Washington Star source tone.
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Kiwger
Mr. Biggins
Washington Star
Our Precise Artist
Percy spoke to her with his sole in his eye in a Pittsburgh Press feature noting a striking metaphor and illustrating a vivid creative moment.
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Percy
Pittsburgh Press
Said to Be Very Effective. Crawford I Remember Your Wife
A courtroom quip recalls a husband avoiding shopping with his wife. Crabshaw jokes that he won his freedom by flirting with the pretty salesgirls, eliciting laughter from the judge and jury.
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Crawford
Crabshaw
Model husband says a good man concedes to others
Baltimore American quotes a humorous line: a model husband is a man who knows he cannot have his own way and pretends the other way is his.
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Willie
Paw
Baltimore American
Paw Ought to Know Joke on Ballad at Welding Yard
A Cincinnati Enquirer item notes a joke about a tune sung at a welding site, with a playful exchange between a dog and a narrator. The fragment highlights a humorous line about the “Baitie Rema of the Re obule” in a regional paper teaser.
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Paw
Willie-Paw
Cinc'nnati Enquirer
Reindeer Plan Pitch in Labrador Dogs Versus Deer Debate
The Cartwright post narrates a child named Stuart Swaffie mauled by dogs and lore of Eskimo huskies, leading to Dr. Grenfell's drive to replace the pack with reindeer. It notes dog killings, harsh winters, and the need for a new workforce at Labrador settlements. The St Anthony mission hosts 200 deer amid trials and growing interest.
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Hugson Bay Company
Cartwright
Stuart Swaffie
Labrador
Stuart
Wilder
Rigelet
la BR
Northland
Dr. Grenfell
St. Anthony’s
Stereoscopic photography eyed to settle Olympic race results
England trials a stereoscopic camera system to judge runners at the tape after Stockholm. Two side by side photos would add depth to determine exact positions, though early tests showed limited decisive power unless the photographic record aligned with judges. High speed snapshots aid training but standard motion pictures lack speed.
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Stockholm
England
Cambridge University
Sleep as an Illusion Says D Annunzio Sees Double
Italian poet Gabriele D Annunzio, a believer in the occult and psychical phenomena, concludes after seances with scientists that man has a sleeping double or invisible prom pter. He claims sleep is an illusion and rest is taken from the mundane body by this partner, though the mechanism remains unknown.
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Gabriel Annunzio
de’'Annunzio
Philadelphia Ledger
Notable New Brunswick jurist Hazen Grimmer Appointed to High Courts
The Hon. Ward Chipman Hazen Grimmer, named judge of the Appeal Division and Chancery Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, is a longtime St. Stephen figure. A former mayor, provincial legislator, and government member, he is described as straight forward and capable. He is 56 and a native of St. Stephen, a friend of the current Marine and Fisheries minister.
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Ward Chipman Hazen Grimmer
Supreme Court of
New Brunswick
St. Stephen
Maine native earns Persian honor as gendarme commander
Colonel John N. Merrill, born in Maine, has been decorated by the shah of Persia with the Order of the Lion the highest Persian award. An American, he became a commander of the gendarmes after moving to Persia years ago and recently left that arm to sign a three year contract. He now commands infantry and cavalry to rout outlaws in southern Persia.
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Maine
Persia
John N. Merrill
Chicago
Whisky Dominates Fifth District Distilleries in Illinois
Five Illinois distilleries in the Fifth district rank as the largest in the world. The biggest plant operates 65 000 gallons daily, needing corn from 200 acres at forty bushels per acre. If all six central Illinois distilleries ran simultaneously they would require the entire output of 1 000 acres per day. Rye is also heavily used alongside corn.
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Ilinois
Fae
Record Miles of New Road in Province Construction
A new record for colonization roads is set with 1,360 miles completed this year and 1,500 miles improved. Superintendent G. W Bennett oversaw the project, with expenditures exceeding $400,000. Northern highways improved have surpassed old standards. costs were borne wholly by government in some cases and shared in others.
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G. W Bennett
New Zealand Records Lowest Infant Death Rate
The London Globe notes New Zealand has the world’s lowest infant mortality at 6.1 percent, with London's about 11 percent and Russia double that. In Dunedin, NZ, six years after a health reform, only 4.5 percent of babies die in the first year.
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New Zealand
London
Russia
Dunedin
Society For the Fromation of the
London Globe
Detroit Auto Factories Output and Capacity Report
Engineering News reports Detroit automobile factories produced motorcars worth 650 million nine hundred ninety dollars last year. The plants have capacity for about 400 thousand cars, capitalized at 100 million nine hundred thousand dollars, employing 120 thousand workers with weekly payroll above 1.5 million dollars.
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Engineering
Detroit
Lure of the Antarctic Promises New Shackleton Expedition
The Ohio State Journal notes Sir Ernest Shackleton plans a perilous polar venture beyond the pole. He aims to traverse the Antarctic continent from shore to shore, doubling the challenge of reaching the pole and relying on no retreat depots.
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Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
Amundsen
Scott
Shackleton
Pole
Ohio State Journal
World Map on a Millionth Scale Begins Cooperation
In 1909 a movement started to prepare a world map on a millionth scale—ffteen miles to the inch. Nations were asked to cooperate. London hosted the first conference four years ago and Paris now hosts an international meeting with delegates from thirty two countries. Specimen sections were shown as plans for a global team effort unfold.
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England
Scotland
London
Paris
New York World
A Wonderful Bullet Inventor Claims Revolutionary Metal Projectile
M Rogozea a Spaniard claims to have invented a marvelous bullet that could revolutionize warfare. Fired from an 1830 pattern smoothbore with nine grams of powder it could destroy walls at 1200 yards, or from a modern rifle reach over 3000 yards. The seven inch long seven ounce projectile is a diminutive shell and supposedly emits almost no smoke. It flies straight from a smoothbore gun, defying typical ballistic looping.
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M. Rogozea
Emancipation Movement Grows in Cairo Veiling Debate
In Cairo a movement seeks to abolish the veil for Moslem women. Led by educated young men trained in England and Europe, the campaign argues that veiling has confined women and hindered their progress.
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Cairo
England
Varicose Veins Tuberculous Theory Debated
Professor Leimburg, dean of medicine, advances a theory before the Academy of Mediaw that varicose veins are a species of tuberculosis. He claims the head found beetle-like formations in sections of varietine vetotvl and that gimnea pige inoculated with tuberculvels developed within.
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Leimburg
Faculty of Medicine
Vans
Academy of Mediaw
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