Debtor Jim Percival's comic trick ends in debt and revelation
Jim Percival, a young man with limited income, falls for a stage dancer while secretly courting debt. He learns his wife arranged his meetings to mask his infatuation, then confesses. She reveals she earned 200 a week through social events and a ten week plan to clear his debts with her earnings.
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Paris
Percival
X. Theater
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P—— Street
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Jim
Jove
Jeanie
The City Boy and the Country Boy Exchange
A country boy watches a city boy stumble along a street amazed by thousands of daily wonders the city dweller passes without notice. After two days the country boy returns home and tells friends of the city’s many wonders the city boy misses.
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Country Uy
Baffin Land Named Second Largest Island In World
Geography piece notes Baffin Land's rise to second largest island after Greenland, detailing its size about 800000 square miles, lake regions Amadjuak and Mettilling, and historic shifts in rank among oceansic lands. Mentions Dr. Robert Bell and cartographic debates.
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Taschen Atlas
Perthes
Baffin Land
Hudson Strait
Cumberland Island
Fox Land
Meta Incoguita
Sussex Island
Greenland
Polar
Cockburn Island
Iceland
Robert Bell
Geological Survey of Canada
Geographical Journal
Ble
Australia
Lake Amadjuak
Lake Mettilling
Borneo
New Guinea
Perry
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Scotland
Ireland
Madagascar
Sumatra
Nippon
Japan
Great Britain
Celebes
New Zealand
South Island
Java
Cuba
Kansas City Journal
Bible Publication Statistics Exceed World Totals
A Pittsburg Bulletin item presents dramatic figures on the British and Foreign Bible Society. It claims 165,000,000 copies distributed in the nineteenth century weighing 30,700 tons. A 16 mile train with 150 locomotives would move the cargo, and a single volume would be 202 feet high, 140 feet wide, 41 feet thick.
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Liverpool
British and Foreign Bible Society
Everest
Pittsburg Bulletin
James J Hill and the levee clerk's midnight warning
James J Hill recalls a perilous night when a poor Mississippi levee clerk paid men at a distant station. He woke to an Indian servant aiming to rob him, drew a revolver, and kept still when it emptied. He says he would have died had he moved.
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James J. Hill
Mississippi
Arizona Dolossoma blooms as olive producer in west
Arizona is blossoming into a great olive producer with potential to expand. The Cincinnati Times-Star notes the Western states can achieve much when they commit to new ideas.
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Arizona
Uncle Sam
Cincinnati Times-Star
Buttoning a Coat the Right Way for Proper Fit
A quirky guide notes that nine of ten people button coats incorrectly, starting with the top button harms collar shape, and recommends fastening from the bottom to preserve symmetry. Also contains brief humorous clippings on fish meals, rat hunts, and dictionary curiosities.
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Daily Tribune
Oxford Professor Watches Rowers Learn to Row Backward
A renowned Oxford don, famed for knowledge of Ulysses travels, visits the river to observe an eight practicing. He muses on the oddity of rowing backward, noting the scene looks very nice yet awkward for learners.
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Oxford
Ulysses
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