The Singing Fool loses love and Broadway dreams
Al Stone a singing waiter and composer at Blackie Joe's in New York discovers Molly, his wife, has eloped with his best friend John Perry taking their son Junior. Grief and betrayal drive him to consider ending his stage career and selling his stake in Club Bombo, as friends urge him to endure.
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al Stone
Blackie Joe
New York
Molly Winton
Molly
Junior
John Perry
Bombo
Perry
Marcus
Blackie Joe's
Club Bombo
Billy Cline
The
Billy
Ana
Broadway
Bill
Divorce rumors loom as Molly sails for Europe
Al Stone reads a newspaper photo of Molly Winton confirming plans for a Paris divorce from his wife and a voyage aboard the Ile de France with their son Junior. Al fears losing his boy and considers legal action to stop the travel before they depart.
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Cline
Molly
the Biltmore
Molly Winton
Paris
al Stone
Broadway
Minard’s Liniment for Warts In Odd Exchange
A brief fragment shows a quip about Minard's Liniment used for warts and a domestic dispute over brandy with a wry aside about the American lotus nearing extinction. The readable text highlights a humorous miscommunication and a botanical note.
Monster Dinosaur Unearthed in Tanganyika Africa
Fossil remains found in Tanganyika Territory indicate a dinosaur surpassing the Diplodocus Carnegii in size. Casts exist at South Kensington, with the Tanganyika specimen estimated at about 160 feet long and a 100 foot tail, standing 20 to 30 feet tall.
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Africa
Tanganyika
Wyoming
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
England
No Medicine Like Baby's Own Tablets
Testimony from mothers across Canada proclaims Baby's Own Tablets the best remedy for children. The mild laxative regulates bowels, sweetens the stomach, relieves constipation and indigestion, aids teething, and helps break up colds and simple fevers. Sold by dealers or mail order at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Canada
John Hollinworth
Maidstone
Ont
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Many Uses For Butter In Tibet
Story details widespread Tibetan butter use from lamps and altars to clothing and rations. It notes cows and yaks, no fresh milk, and a culture that values aged rancid butter, buttered tea, and tsamba in daily life and travel.
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Tibet
His Best Excuse and A Comet’s Century
A tale of a man dodging social visits with clever alibis. He claims a flight to Cleveland for air races and a funeral a week from Sunday to avoid a weekend with a distant family. The piece notes that about five comets appear naked-eye each century.
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Cleveland
Monkeys Talk in Central Africa Nature Find
Curiosity sparks Cherry Kearton account of baboon language with lip movements and long conversations. A mother baboon first nurses and thanks the old chief baboon, then shares a quiet exchange before drinking at a water hole. Also notes on worms harming health in children and Miller's Worm Powders claim to expel them and restore growth.
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Cherry Kearton
Central
Africa
Kearton
Wooden clock built by European convict displays global time
A prisoner completing a 20 year sentence built a wooden clock cabinet with 30 watches showing the world’s largest cities in real time. It also tracks sun and moon, predicts weather with a barometer, and calendars days and months, including leap year corrections, all without human input.
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Europe
You don't make good music with that instrument said bystander
A bystander tells a man with a bass drum that his playing is poor. The drummer admits it but adds that he drowns a heap of bad music.
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Pounder
Give My Heart Thee Lord Rossetti And Fenelon Verse
Believes asthma at little expense. Thousands spent on remedies for asthma with little relief. Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy costs little and is within reach of all. It is touted as the national remedy far removed from doubtful preparations, available from your dealer.
Car mileage dwarfs railway use in Britain
It is calculated that cars on British roads run about 12 000 million miles annually while British railways total about 600 million miles per year. The motor mileage is therefore roughly twenty times greater than rail mileage.
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British Railways
Wonderful For Indigestion with Bisulated Magnesia
When your stomach feels bad from gas sourness nausea or post meal pains a single dose of pure Bisulated Magnesia brings almost instant relief. It promises prompt effectiveness even in obstinate cases and is inexpensive. Ask your druggist.
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Hubert Dail
Warner Brea Pictures, Inc
Suzanne Eastman
Corns Whitea
Putnams
Corn Extractor
WN UL 1808
High Seas
Ile de France
Biltmore
Minard
Goliath
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mr. J. Malin
R. R. No
Barton St. East
Hamilton
Ontario
Christina G. Rossetti
Jesus Christ
Fenelon
Eveready
Canadian National Carbon Co.,Ltd
Calgary
Montreal
Vancouver
Toronto
Winnipeg
Tery Mone
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