The Prince Regent and the Coutts Bank An Old Tale
A London Globe snippet recalls a tale of the Prince Regent using a forged Coutts cheque to test bank resilience. The shrewd banker refused to settle with over the counter, and the prince’s plan collapsed when the equerry sought royal instructions. Also noted are rare eggs and elusive birds such as the frigate bird, whose nests and eggs remain undiscovered despite widespread sighting reports.
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Coutts’ Bank
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Jreat Indies
Globe
Woolley Confronts Train For a Fifty Dollar Bill Change
The writer Robert Wickliffe Woolley recounts finding a $50 bill with only 10 cents in change aboard a train. The conductor offers to mail the payment after taking his address, but Woolley calmly keeps the bill, noting there is nothing to collect. The tale appears in the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Robert Wickliffe Woolley
Rip West
X Woolley
Toylog
Bathes of Caracalla noted for vast size and features
The text describes the Baths of Caracalla with capacity for about 1 600 bathers in late ancient times. It notes an enclosed area of 360 square yards that included a foot racing course and a bathing establishment measuring 240 yards long by 134 wide. Remains of wills are described as gut and ten feet thick in three places up to fifty feet high.
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Caracalla
A Cumulative Test Ag'the Thin Man and Stout Man Discuss Dinner
The thin man and the stout companion talk about diet and food. The thin man praises Chiphan's near his drive, offering an excellent dinner for 25 cents and suggests trying one. The stout man agrees, recalling having one last week.
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Chiphan’s
Bond issue details for Indisoa Pennsylvania credit bonds
Public notice: $10,000 in Indisoa Pennsylvania Four and One Per Cent Coupon Bonds issued by the Bor Fodiana Pa. bonds of $1000 each, payable 1916 1921 1926 1991, with tax free status in Pennsylvania. Proposals to purchase the described bonds close at 12:00 PM Monday March 20, 1911. © Board of Commissioners.
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Pennsylvania
Bor
Nat 'B Olark
Secrecy Shrouds 700 Marines Departure for Guantanamo
A force of 700 marines sails from Philadelphia aboard the Prairie for Guantanamo in the largest detachment since the Nicaragua expedition. The unit, planned for Haiti, is to be landed at Guantanamo temporarily, with secrecy surrounding its fitting out.
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Philadelphia
Guantanamo
Guba
Haiti
Washington
Nicaragua
Atlantic
Guannanamo
Maui
United States
Port Aw Prince
Thauitfen
Guantenamo
Fattt
Madero Moves on Chuahualos and Chihuahua City
Francisco Madero and his army advance toward Chihuahua City as reports say he aims to seize the city, reopen the Juarez railroad, and seek U S recognition. Chihuahua is described as surrounded by insurgents and Monterey dispatches note departures toward the United States, with casualties reported on both sides.
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Juares
Sam
Fase
Tex
Francisc
Madero
Iis
Chiiuulos
Juarce
Iturez
Unite States
Juntey
Monterey
United States
Vonsular
Carothers
Bei
Torreon
Tapix
City Loses By Decision In Will Case Parkersburg
Parkersburg will lose about 40 000 dollars if the supreme court sustains Judge W H Moss's ruling in the Chork will case. Clark left his estate to a hospital trust for the poor, but the will was found indefinite and void. The amount, once a hospital fund, now stands to go to Mark’s brother in New Orleans.
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Parkersbrg
W. Va
WH. H. Moss
Circuit Court
Dr. Chork
Supreme Court
Br Clark
Moss
Beestse
Gadsion
Oor
Mark
New Qrelouns
Howard Eliot to Lead Missouri Pacific as President
Chicago railroad circles report Howard Eliot will accept the Missouri Pacific presidency succeeding George J. Gould. He is said to receive a salary of 100000 dollars per year with control of millions in new capital for rehabilitating the road.
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Howard Eliott
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Howard Eliot
Northern Pacific
George J. Gould
Mc Noli
120 Perish in Flames at Allssia Theater
A terrible disaster struck a moving picture theater in Bologoi town Novgorod province at 8 1e. One hundred twenty people were killed and forty or more injured, many of them children, as crowds surged to exits and trampled each other in the panic.
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Moving Picture Theater
Allssia Gyrny
Petersburg
Moving Picture
Bologoi
Novgorod
Two Women Powering At Lake View, N C Merch March
Mrs Apca WM Barnes of New York and Ma G Pettis of New Haven wore ornate attire described in a Lake View event. The item involved was a tweed classiveyed tosh creal.
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Poerigh
Lake View
N.C
Merch
Apca WM. Barnes
New York
Ma. G. ©. Pettis
New Haven
Big and little crooks sentenced as judge cites senate
Judge Ben Lindsay told Yale students that the small crook goes to prison while the big crook ends up in the United States Senate. He blamed universities for producing many crooks despite also noting many good men. He said some judgeships and the Senate attract the corrupt, leaving real justice rare.
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Senate
Lindsay
New Haven
Conn
Ben Lindsay
Denver
Yale
United States Senate
Senate fails to confirm Lewis Nokier appointments
The Senate did not continue several presidential picks including William H. Lewis of Boston named assistant attorney general and James C. Nokier of Nashville named register of the treasury. Both are African American. Lewis faced objections over his higher Washington post while Nokier faced no objections tied to his tenure. In Columbus Ohio the state association meeting of manufacturers opened with about a hundred delegates attending.
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Senate
Lewis
Nokier
Washington
William H. Lewis
Boston
Department of Justice
James C. Nokier
Nashville
Tenn
Register of the Treasury
Publi
Hed For Attacking Gin sego in yenrad case
A report describes an attack case involving an alleged assailant named Ahmed Hale. Details are limited and the text references charges and a trial context with unfamiliar terms and garbled phrasing. The record captures the core event of an attack and legal action surrounding it.
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Hed
Ginsego
Suildaea
Fonmnen
Venradd
Gid Ahmed Hale
Indigestion Drug Promises Quick Stomach Relief
The ad claims indigestion causes headaches nervousness and dizziness from a disordered stomach. It touts M1-6-NA stomach tablets as a prescription remedy that stops fermentation and distress in five minutes, with a 50 cent box guaranteed by Hildebrand's.
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Hildebrand's
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