Bertie Adams Hums About Telephones In D C Remarks
Congressman Robert Adams of Philadelphia known as Bertie recounted a joke about two Philadelphia telephone companies and a new office boy who could not tell him which line to answer. The tale drew applause from the audience as Col. Bingham of Philadelphia watched.
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Washington, D. C
Robert Adams
Philadelphia
Bertle
District of Columbia
Bestera
Bertie
Col. Bingham
Impossible escape in a cryptic chateau scene
In a spellbound sleeper’s tale, Hume awakens bound in a box aboard a cart then finds Sir Charles Verner and Marion Le Mar at a mining hall. Marion confesses fear and love as a tense plan unfolds, with threats of murder and revelation of a will forged under coercion. The narrator plots a desperate escape amid a deadly breakfast confrontation.
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Bret
Hell
Sir Charles Verner
Dr. Fuleton
Dr. Venner
Marion le Mar
Dagmar
Whem
Charles Venner
Marlon
Willam Dagmar
Sir Charles
Marion
Bendant
D‘enghelm
Ech
Fragmented tale of a deadly confrontation and heartbreak
A first person narrative recounts a violent murder in a smoke filled room. The narrator shoots Dr Vernet and Sir Charles Venner, kills Dr Fulton, and accidentally wounds Marion before she dies. He carries her to a grave in a pine forest and flees as a broken wanderer after the massacre.
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Beutlant
Sir Charles
Youra
Dagmar
Marion
Bria
Monsieur
Sir Charles Veaper
Ecarcely
William Dagmar
Marlon
Dr. Vernet
Bendant
Charien
Fulton
Reudant
Vernet
Charles
Werner
Dr. Fulton
Min
Sir Charles Varner
Noor
Charles Verner
Einske
Charles Venner
Sir Charles Venner
House of Death
Peggy Percy Finds Love After All in Family Saga
Peggy Percy, long deemed destined to be an old maid, sacrifices her own happiness for relatives and household duty. Frank Merryman, returning changed, finally declares his love and asks Peggy to marry him, rewarding her patience with a new future as his wife and household partner.
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Peggy
Frank
Peggy Percy
Helen Lockwood
Helen
Mr. Merryman
Pegey
Ilelen
Merryman
Serere
Frank Merryman
Sunny Little Peary
Rochester
Uncle Merryman
Mrs. Merryman
Pop
Merrymant
Miss Percy
Percy
Rochestert
Peg
Pergy
Tam
Hem
Judge Rochester
Peggys
Prophetic insight on Sunday shoal invention era
Robert Raikes invented the Sunday shoal and noted boys could be led astray by mischief around Christmas time. He did not foresee the mortality it would cause among amateur Bantae Clataes Chicaso Tribune.
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Robert Raikes
Eit
Chicaso Tribune
Testing Timber Strength at Charleston Sawmill
The Forest Service conducts extensive tests at the E. P. Burton Lumber mill near Charleston South Carolina to determine the strength of longleaf pine timber. Logs are tracked from forest to lab, with history from soil and cutting time to drying, guiding knot and growth studies and sawyer selection.
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Washington
Jan
Forest Service
E. P. Burton Lumber Company
Charleston
North Carolina
Man's Head Knocks Off In Tunnel Accident
Louis Brockhouse fireman on the New York Central Line was killed when his head was struck by a caboose as a freight train passed in a tunnel before Sing Sing prison. He leaned out to view a malfunctioning piston rod. The 2-year-married Craton resident left a widow and three children.
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Sam
New York
Louis Brockhouse
New York Central
Sing Sing
Tarrytown
Brockhouse
Craton
Old Man’s Strict Silence Over Names After Son’s Marriage
In a Chicago Record-Herald snippet a man orders silence about his son’s marriage to a chorus girl. He allegedly threatened outbursts, kicking doors and striking objects while insisting the boy’s name never be mentioned around him. The joke hinges on the son sharing his father’s name.
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Itla
Chicago Record- Herald
Carnegie funded United Engineers Club building plan
New York records describe Andrew Carnegie gifting 1.5 million dollars for the United Engineers Club project. The 22 story hollow terra cotta construction will rise near Bryant Park and the New York Public Library, seating 1000 with a grand library atop. The goal is to unite engineering societies for meetings, demonstrations and shared records while preserving individual society identities. Mary Cunniffe, a Port Jervis post office clerk, was sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling letters to fund education and medical bills for her siblings, after appeals for leniency failed.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
United Engineers’ Club
Anishet Ft
Bryant Park
United States
National Societies of Mechanical, Electrical and Mining Engineers
Grand Central Railroad
Atellon
Aarge
Vihers
Engineers’ Club
Fnront
Sun
Mary Cunniffe
Thomas
King’s County
Cunniffe
Port Jervis
N. Y
Shields
Houghton
Tere Buss Cunsniffe
Miss Cunniffe
Port Jervia
Bull Fights Decline in Mexico and Spain
Jane L. Rivero Quijano, a Puebla native, says bull fighting wanes in Mexico and Spain. She cites Puebla’s bans, rising opposition, and legal controls on Sundays in Spain. She notes Mexico imports most bullfighters from Spain and links theater growth to possible drops in bullfight popularity.
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Mexico
Spain
Jane L. Rivero Quijano
Bynalard
Puebla
Mex
Baltimore
Kanens City Journal
Room for Millionaire Mischief at Pittaburg Hotel
A Pittaburg visitor, jokingly asked if he is a millionaire, replies he is not, while a hotel clerk expresses relief that there is room. The brief exchange reveals local humor and a dignified social tone as the guest announces pride in his hometown.
Shoots His Wife's Lover in New Jersey Tragedy
Charles Roberts shot and killed Harry Moore near Balem on the Penns Neck road after confronting Moore about the affair with Roberts' wife Roberta. The incident occurred in a blizzardy night with the couple's troubled marriage and separation recently resolved before the fatal confrontation. Roberts awaited arrest at Harrisonville after delivering Moore to the scene and then fled toward Salem.
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Sam Balem
N. J. Don
Harry Moore
Charles Roberts
Penn's Neck Road
Here
Roberta
Roberts Ny Moore
Roberts
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