Finders Keepers Turkeys and a Courting Fair Mystery
Ruth Warren helps a wounded royal turkey in her family’s care at Hubbard Road near the county fair. The bird heals under Ruth’s kindness and leads to a romance with Paul Rivers after a $100 reward is paid for its recovery.
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Ruth
Grandpa Gardner
Netta
Grandfather Gardner
Netta Ihag
Turkey
Hubbard Road
Gardner
Paul Rivers
Rivers
Gardner Cottage
Ty W.G. Chapman
Field Glass Famine Pulls Philadelphia Blind
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes a shortage of field glasses in the city as demand surges after a war related crisis. Optician shops report no stock and all inventory has been shipped to Europe at higher prices, causing widespread shortage concerns.
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Philadelphia
Opticians
Europe
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Diggers in England Challenge Landlords in 1649 50s
In the years 1649 50s a strange English movement known as the Diggers emerged. They gathered in large numbers in some localities to till waste lands and out of the way places. They opposed land held by a few rich men who hoarded earths treasures for themselves. A leader explained their aim to meddle with property.
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England
Diggers
Country Girl Is Efficient in Rural Uplift Debate
A Rochester Democrat critique counters city critics who claim country girls receive no attention in rural improvement efforts. It argues that country women forge their own paths without uplift misfits and that universities and demonstration cars overlook practical female progress.
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Rochester Democrat
Phantom Towns of Reno County Recalls Lost Plats and Dreams
In Reno County Kansas, long vanished townsites like Oakdale Stella Lerado and Riverside began as bold plattings by visionaries such as Frank W. Knox and Dr. John A. Brady. Rail routes shifted, fortunes faded, and planned boom towns became wheat fields, rural stores, or city outskirts, leaving only maps and memory.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Frank W. Knox
Oakdale
Knox
Reno County
Charles Oswald
Sand Hill
Medora Township
Rock Island
Stella
Haven
Yoder
Stella Town Company
Missouri Pacific
J. P. Vincent
Turon
Pretty Prairie
Arlington
Lerado
Bell Township
John A. Brady
Louisville, Kye
Rono
Wichita
Andale
Doctor Brady
Lorada
Jay Gould
L. A. Bigger
Penalosa
Riverside
J. E. Eaton
Parade
Central
Missouri
Kansas
Ninnescah
Grand
Martin
Broadway
Pennsylvania
Lookout
Highland
Movement for common lands and enclosure reform
The text notes Gerard Winstanley urging use of common or waste lands to feed the hungry and boost crops. Diggers were peaceful but suppressed, yet their influence lasted, as 1766 to 1830 saw over a thousand acts of Parliament promoting inclosure and utilization of waste lands.
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Gerard Winstanley
Advice Seekers Echo Uncle Eben on Opinions
A regional column quotes Uncle Eben noting that when a man seeks advice he will encounter differing opinions, reflecting on the wide variance in viewpoints and the challenge of finding solid guidance. The reminiscence underscores the humor and wisdom common to the era.
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Eben
Expect Too Much. The trouble with sensitive children
The Washington Post notes that many supersensitive children become discontent with parental care as they grow, suggesting high emotional needs persist beyond childhood.
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Washington Post
Legless Hero Rescues Child From River
In Randolph vicinity a legless man pulled from a wrecked Union Pacific motor car saved five year old Mabel Dennilinger of Frankfort by tying the child to himself and swimming to shore after being hurled into the river.
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Manhattan
Kan
Union Pacific
Randolph
Mabel Dennilinger
Frankfort
Invents new wire system in Norway patent
London. The Morning Post's correspondent at Christiania telegraphs that Fredrik Dahl, a Norwegian, has patented in several countries an apparatus permitting the transmission of any number of words simultaneously by an automatic photographic electric method. Experts say the system will revolutionize telegraphy.
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London
Morning Post
Christiania
Fredrik Dahl
Mrs. Sidid Wirt Becomes Mrs. Spreckels on Honeymoon
A photograph shows Mrs. John D. Spreckels Jr. with her husband on their honeymoon. She, formerly Miss Sidid Wirt of Kansas City, daughter of Edward L. Wirt, gave up an opera career to marry Jack Spreckels.
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John D. Spreckels, Jr
Spreckels
Sidid Wirt
Kansas City
Edward L. Wirt
Jack’ Spreckels
Savannah Householders Embrace Boys Overalls For Window Washing
In Savannah Georgia practical housewives wear boys size overalls for window washing drawing curious crowds. Observers watch as skirts trend may be a Sunday novelty, and tradesmen humorously tip hats at the overall clad workers. The scene reflects a shift toward functional dress in domestic chores.
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Georgia
Savannah
Laws for Children Commissions Appointed to Study Future Legislation
The children's bureau reports 45 states and territories plus Congress enacted child related laws in 1915. Commissions across states study needs from feeble mindedness to vocational education while expanding compulsory schooling and birth registration efforts. Alaska Hawaii Philippines Porto Rico also show child welfare measures.
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Washington
Congress of the
United States
Children’s Bureau
Arkansas
Florida
Utah
New Jersey
Missouri
New Trampshire
Delaware
Idaho
Indiana
California
Bureau
District of Columbia
Alabama
Kansas
State Board of Health
Alaska
Hawaii
Honolulu
Philippines
Porto Rico
Bullet Wounds Twice in St Louis Clerk Shot at Home
Frank Dickmann aged 38 a city clerk residing at 3743 California Avenue is in City Hospital with two gunshot wounds from a single bullet fired at his residence. Police report no further details on motive or suspect as investigation continues.
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St. Louis
Frank Dickmann
California Avenue
Obsession and possession differ only in shade of meaning
The piece explains that possess and obsess share Latin roots and a common suffix sess, yielding similar senses. It notes etymology shows minor distinctions, but morally they largely overlap, especially in describing devilish influence, as obsession can mean spirits hovering about rather than inhabiting.
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Oxford Dictionary
Remedy for Rosy Nose and Healthful Living
The passage advises that facial flushing signals poor digestion and urges careful chewing after meals. It promotes relaxation, steady eating, hydration, sun exposure, and rest to improve health, especially for lean individuals. Traveling in calm climates is suggested as beneficial.
What the Duke Said at Waterloo Legend Debunked
The Manchester Guardian notes a near misquote of Wellington at Waterloo. As French chasseurs attacked Mont Saint Jean, British Guards rose from banks behind the lines, responding to Wellington's order “Stand up guards,” decades before the famous phrase became linked to him.
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Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
Herbert Maxwell
Third Chasseurs
Mont Saint Jean
Wellington
Maitland
Manchester Guardian
His Precarious Condition
A Kansas City Star quip recounts Emmett Ackles’s wife accusing him of misdeeds after a trip to Kansas City. The uncle jokes that Emmett’s condition is “middlin’ critical” as he hopes to falsify his way out of trouble following a note signed Your Little Sunshine.
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Emmett Ackles
Uncle Fogg
Emmett
Kansas City
Sunshine
Kansas City Star
Church by Telephone Reaches Guernsey Islanders
Residents of Guernsey in the English Channel can listen to church services at home each Sunday evening for about ten cents. Police firemen lighthouse keepers and other workers on duty receive the service free. At Flatte Fougere lighthouse up to eight people hear a service from five miles away.
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Guernsey
English Channel
Flatte Fougere
Locating It A Stockbroke's Night Larder Thief
A well known stockbroke habitually raids the larder at night taking any tempting food. His wife and the maid recall a leftover pudding and ask where it is. The maid nonchalantly replies it has gone to the city.
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Clara
Maxim’s bitter truth on coffee tastes
A reporter recalls Sir Hiram Maxim’s coffee experiment from My Life where thirty young workers sampled Mocha Java and mixed chicory with coffee dust. The stenographer boldly declares the chicory blend the true coffee, revealing widespread ignorance about genuine coffee quality.
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Sir Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram
Maxim
Army
Navy
Costa Rica
A Strange Trade On A Bad Market Day
In St Paul, a pompous business man curses the wheat market after a canceled 2,000,000 bushel contract. A worker on crutches, Benny Paul, cheers the day as he whistled along. The trio meets on the street and a small act of bargaining unites them.
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Benny
Benny Paul
t—St. Paul Pioneer Press
History as living task for each era
History must be eternalized yet made immediate for the present. Each age reinterprets its inward ness to fit current conditions and translate the past into strength and wisdom for today’s ventures.
Age of Elephants and Parrots in Historical Texts
Eardley Wilmot claims elephants live about a century with favor, Lydekker notes Indian elephant aging via teeth, parrots age data scarce. A London Zoo Madagascar parrot from 1831 survived to 1884. several others around twenty years old are cited.
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Eardley-Wilmot
R. Lydekker
India
Madagascar
London Zoo
Portsmouth Frigate Sold for Junk at East Boston
The Portsmouth, a famed US navy frigate veteran of two wars, was dismantled in East Boston for metal after four years as a hospital ship at Norfolk. She proved burdensome to the department and was sold for junk.
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Portsmouth
United States Navy
East Boston
Norfolk
Value of Cape Cod Canal Shown by Traffic Count
The Cape Cod Canal has logged over 2500 vessels since its 1914 opening, each vessel saving about seventy miles of travel and avoiding the dangerous route around Cape Cod.
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Cape Cod Canal
Cape Cod
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