World News and Oddities From Overseas Pages
A collage of brief items including a Crook County tale of two men attempting to capture an eagle and drowning it, a Cambridge professor’s failed 48 day fast, notes on Latin worship and standardizing pronunciation, a Bronte family potato economy anecdote, a Nairobi special train with wild animal shipment to Hamburg, and Paris as a paradoxical city for women men and horses with declining horse numbers and improving treatment efforts.
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Mayor
Cambridge University
Ceald
Nairobi
Hamburg
Paris
Erection In Lyon Marks 160th Veterinary School Anniversary
The 160th anniversary of establishing a veterinary school in Lyon will be celebrated mid May 1912 with preparations underway and invitations sent to veterinary schools in the United States and abroad to send delegates in sizable numbers.
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Lyon
United States
Hartlepool Bride Constance Rowe Weds Herbert I
The wedding took place at St Kilda's Hartlepool with Pat Wisters and nine sisters noted among attendees. The ring was worn on the left fourth finger by old belief of a link to the heart. Other items include nitroglycerine creation and various unrelated notes.
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Pat Wisters
St. Kilda's Church
Hartlepool
England
Constance Rowe
Alderman Rowe
Harts
Herbert I
Edison on Death, Consciousness and Simple Living
Paris special coverage of Thomas Edison speaking at the Hotel Majestic. He muses on consciousness after death, materialism, and grafting, then argues prisons and asylums store faulty machines. He critiques luxury, Paris fashion, and English reforms, urging simpler living and education.
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Paris
Thomas A. Edison
Hotel Majestic
Mr. Monnat
Claxton Company
Europe
Dr. Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Carrel
Mr. Edison
Rue de la Paix
Edison
Notre Dame
England
House of Lords
Mauretania
China Getting Up to Date in Antung Recreation
Consul E. Carleton Baker reports growing interest in Antung for parks and playgrounds. Public subscription funds a large land purchase and improvements including driveways tea houses and a tennis court as part of new recreation facilities for the Chinese community.
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China
E. Carleton Baker
Antung
Cincinnati
Jssued
Mischief in a Florist Shop Prompted by Rubber Heels
In Philadelphia two young employees at a florist's rear area were surprised by the owner as they played checkers while the front of the shop looked after customers. The proprietor complained about their absence from work, and one youth blamed the rubber heels the boss requires they wear for their tardiness.
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Harper's Magazine
Philadelphia
Independence of Motheriniaw in Harper's Weekly
In a humorous exchange, Jiggers teases Binksey after Binksey says he read the Declaration of Independence to his mother via the long distance wire on the Fourth of July. The joke hinges on the anachronistic setup.
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Binksey
Fragmented Readings Reflect Early Police Origins
A garbled passage contemplates poetry and public order, noting a late afternoon scene and a faded memory. It hints at an ancient system of policing said to have begun in England, mentioning an inaugural date and a figure named Fool lu Mids with a cryptic context.
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England
Diwbert Fool Lu Mids
Sailors Entangled by Love in San Juan Visit
The gunboat Atlanta anchors at San Juan as Lt. Grey falls for Alice Smith while Miss Mary Smith awaits a possible marriage. Complications arise when Grey discovers he courted the wrong sister, and the wedding to Alice soon follows before the ship departs.
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Atlanta
San Juan Bay
Dewey
Caribbean
Detroit
Nashville
Bon Juan
Greg
Cavenaugh
Grey
San Juan
Morgan
Briggs
Santurve
Deans
Key West
Smiths
Country Club
Juan
Santurce
Brown
Smith
Miss Smith
Alice
Mary
Lieeutenant Grey
Alster
Venezuela
Banturee
Uncle Bam
Navy
Alice Smith
Bell as a London Sign and Its Public Significance
The article traces how bells became a London sign from the seventeenth century, noting bell inns and taverns connected to Shakespeare and Dickens. It recalls a 1648 bell carving from Knight Rider Street, a bell sign at Carter Lane, and a 200 year old Bell and Dragon emblem found during rebuilding, now kept at Holborn.
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St. Nicholas
Merle England
London
Knightrider Street
Guildhall
Carter Lane
Richard Quyney
Holborn
Old Mammy Reunites With Judge Tuley After Sixty Years
Chicago jurist Murray Floyd Tuley, 77, locates Ellen White, once his Kentucky slave and caretaker, 96, in Leavenworth Kansas. They recall Civil War era bonds as they share a tearful reunion after decades apart aboard a Kansas City stop en route to California.
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Kansas City Times
Ottawa Street
Leavenworth
Kan
Chicago
Kentucky
Murray Floyd Tuley
Ellen White
Tuley
Judge Tuley
Leya
Jo Tuley
McCarthy
Kansas City
California
Judge Tooley
Care of the Farm Horse Bulletin Planned by Washington
A pending farmer bulletin from the Washington bureau of animal industry will be titled Care of the Farm Horse. It focuses on practical issues such as ration and fodder choices, grooming within limited time, mare and foal welfare, and maintaining a reliable farm team, with a practical scientific approach.
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Washington Bureau of Animal Industry
Lucy Gray ofubey TM fo ort heard Luc y ae en on ae
The fragment recalls Lucy Gray a solitary child on a wild moor who wanders in snow at break of day. Her parents search in vain as Lucy leaves a lantern trail and the tale ends with the vanished girl and a spectral disappearance near a bridge and hedges.
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Lucy
Our Educational Failure in The Charleston News
The piece argues teaching is undervalued and underpaid, draining intellectual talent from the profession. It asserts education funding is wasted by elevating other fields and that good teaching yields future lawyers and doctors. The column laments lack of compensation, self respect, and career advancement for teachers.
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Charleston
Welcome Guest by Martha Haskel Clark in Smart Set
An excerpt from Martha Haskel Clark in Smart Set evokes a wandering guest at an inn as a metaphor for youth and romance. The narrator contemplates fading beauty and restless adventure while noting society’s satire and shifting fortunes.
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Walt
Martha Haskel
Clark
Vacation Blues At A Summer Resort
From the Chicago Tribune a speaker laments the burden of travel and packing while on vacation. He complains of poor coffee and constant rain, noting restless wives, tiredness, and the ineptitude of fellow travelers before declaring relief when the trip ends.
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The
Chicago Tribune
The Hunters Who Never Hunted the Ment
A fragment from a historical page speaks of beasts and old roars, describing a grim hunt and a mythic youthful figure set against a vast, reverent landscape. The text mentions China and infants with shaven heads, hinting at cultural or ritual details within a dark narrative.
MR WYSP AND HIS WIFE
Jane Littlefinger stirs Henry Wysp and Isabel with witty clashes over Jane and her suitor Jimmie Gumtree. Henry secretly engineers a match between Jane and Gumtree to settle household politics and create a domestic monarchy.
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Mr.wysp
His Wife
Helena Smith Dayton
Jane
Henry
Isabel
Jimmie Gumtree
Teubel
Mr. Gumtree
Misa Littlefinger
Earth-countrymen and the dream of instant interworld communication
A Hampton's Magazine excerpt reflects on a future where distant peoples share thoughts instantly via idealized telecommunication. The prose envisions conquering oceans and storms, enabling mankind to unite through a trained mind-link and instantaneous messages across space.
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Charian C. Jones
Hampton's Magazine
Baseball and Sentiment in the Moonlit Game
The article depicts a sentimental baseball player after a game under a rising moon. He speaks of feeling inspired with his partner and cheekily claims with her support he could win any pennant in the big leagues, though his bravado falters in an interrupted moment.
The Lady Sways Support for Knight on the Diamond
A woman offers to cheer from the bleachers while her knight plays, suggesting better field layout to see the diamond. He accepts the idea and is present next night with renewed energy, and the game proceeds past twilight.
The Mest of Them Do From the Ram's Horn
The Ram's Horn reports a preacher officiating at a marriage when the bride reflects on prior husbands noting her first husband was decent while she questions the groom’s character though she admits he praises himself highly.
Author claims eighth son bagged in Africa hunt
An odd message from Author B Eight Lions Btowart Pars Whit states he has bagged his eighth son while in Africa pursuing big game after finishing The Cabin. He asserts only three others have been bigger, beating him by inches, and adds a brief, cryptic note.
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Africa
Jungles
Hin
In Pursuit of a Crook On the Trail
A man pursues a criminal figure, resisting help yet pressing the culprit to answer. A hostile exchange targets a journalist name as a suspect, labeling him as one of the newspaper crowd. The scene hints at suspicion toward press figures in a tense pursuit.
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Murphy
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Ulett
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Dead River
William Ledyard
Hoston
Albert Leavering
New York
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Allo
Heaven
Italy
Germany
Charlotte Bronte
Thackeray
Charlotte
Brontes
Mre Gaskell
Horton
Mra Lou Acker
Ed Wonder
Colorado
Louis St. Gaudens
Mise
Res
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Washington, D. C
Eliot
Cambridge
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Corish
N. H
G. Preston Tonge
St. Paul
Yarmouth
Reueh
Belle Reynolds
Santa Barbara
Cal
Pius X
Ireland
Taiwan
Dienert
Brooklyn
Hawaleuye
Garibaldi
Coney Galleries
Teneriff
Wizard
Tle
Ma Hey
Ast
Chance
Lucy Gray
William Wadsworth
Life's Inn
Het
Page
Paice
Knight
Dame
Promidiums
Abe
Jane Tittlefinger
Feabel
Teachel
Henry Wysp
Jane Littlefinger
Stelia
Tane
Inabel
Henry Wyep
Timmie Gumtree
Iaabe Jones
Jimmie
Taabel
Any
William Shakespeare
Hentrica
Benedict
Gumtres Anid
Henry Wasp
Kenton
RKO
Goodwin
Peter
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