Swede Wrestler Faces cunning Jap in New York Club Episode
A Swedish wrestler recounts a rivalry with a Japanese challenger at a New York club where exhibitions mix with massage services. The tale covers tricks, stage disputes, a staged finish, and a dangerous gouge that led to a Swede’s victory as referees miscounted. The piece highlights club culture, wit, and the persistent rivalry between Swedish and Japanese wrestling traditions.
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Slory
New York
Stoning a Tiger to Death in Tibetan Hills
An aged tiger preys on locals prompting a mass assault by about a hundred villagers near Chipla. They lure the sleeping tiger with stones, close in, and deliver fatal blows as the beast bites and roars. Despite fierce resistance, the man eater is slain, while the scene carries the era’s crude frontier justice tone.
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Western
A. Sterling
Chipla
Vortune
Howell
Tim
Madstones Debunked as Absorbent Pipe Clay Myth
A medical opinion outlines that madstones vary in composition and that the effective ones are porous porous baked pipe clay or absorbent stones like red brick. The piece notes capillary action draws poison or fluids into the stone, but warns against relying on the stone for life saving. It cites a case where a family exploits a stone for money and a man died after over 100 hours of its use.
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Farming on City Lots Promoted by Help Yourself Societies
Philadelphia Help Yourself societies promote cultivating vacant city lots for health and income. Maxwell's Talisman notes over a thousand city families earned similar wages on small allotments, with a sample family supplying summer vegetables and winter preserves, boosting health and knowledge while adding about 200 dollars to yearly income.
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Philadelphia
Maxwell
Tallaman
Alge
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Talisman
Time by Cat's Eyes in Chinese Folklore Mystery
An illustrated tale recounts how Chinese pupils reportedly tell time by eye light. Hue, visiting a Christian mission, learns from a Chinese youth who uses eye dilation when noon approaches to indicate time, leading to a village hunt for cats whose eyes reveal the hour.
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Hue
Aecot
Jiue
Modern Slaves of Matrimony Explores Grindstone Burdens
The essay critiques how wives’ lavish generosity traps husbands on a grindstone of debt and endless sacrifice. It cites New York cases where incomes fund wardrobes and luxuries, a Midwest man’s tale of wage slavery, and resort-era social pressures that corral men into financial servitude.
Revise Bridge Whist Discussed in English Papers
Minneapolis Sentinel reports a surge of debate across English papers on abolishing the exposed dummy hand in no trump bridge. Critics argue the dealer would gain certainty, reducing the game’s fairness and zest, while others favor rule tweaks such as trimming honors or reducing no trump trick value from twelve to ten.
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Minneapolis Sentinel
New York
Sky
Largest Power Station in the World
The Flak Street station of Commonwealth Electric Co. of Chicago, described by M. R. Greene in March Technical World, nears completion with an ultimate capacity of 166,000 kilowatts. It will be the largest electric steam turbine plant, containing fourteen 12,000 kilowatt units.
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M. R. Greene
March Technical World
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Food by Chemical Synthesis Translation in The Literary Digest
A garbled excerpt discusses chemists seeking lab made foodstuffs and synthetic processes. It notes attempts to distill food from coal derivatives, cites a German chemist, and mentions promises of future food derivatives amid industrial chemistry trends. Brasil now has 143 cotton mills.
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Literary Digest
Pawt Yeure
Commos Miathy
Baye Thle Journal
Thila
Billy
Terra del Fuego natives misrepresented as cannibals
J J Medlin of Laramie recounts Patagonia beliefs and reports from Terra del Fuego. He notes past bounties on heads ended six years ago, describes climate, gold and quartz finds, land tenure issues, and cultural practices while asserting natives are peaceful and not cannibals.
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Geema
Patagonia
J. J. Medlin
Laramie
Wyo
Pat
Terra del Fuego
Land of Fire
Straits of Magellana
Chile
Argentina
Wyoming
Texas Deer From Terlingua Reported as New White Herd
Sam Dorsett, superintendent of Forsatt ranch near Terlingua, Texas, claims a white deer killed near Eagle Pass belongs to a white deer herd in the Rio Grande valley. He says he saw many on Tornillo creek and killed two for proof, insisting they are a distinct species from the blacktail.
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Sam Dorsett
Forsatt
Mr. Dornett
Tornillo Creek
Terlingua
Tornillo
Rota
Rio Grande
A Typical American Girl By J C Phelps Stokes
A garbled antiquated narration centers on a typical American girl during a formal dinner and concert scene. The speaker quotes stagestruck lines and misheard exchanges, reflecting social mores and a playful clash of accents and identities.
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J. c Phelpe Stokes
Pirtinge's
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