Burdocked Burr Landry secures big scoop in crime case
Burr Landry, a young cub reporter, is imprisoned for burglary in a reform school. He plots to recover missing papers tied to Lawyer Marcus’s gang with help from his cellmate. A staged note leads to a rescue, Merrill’s exposure, and Landry’s career breakout at the Evening Spectator.
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Burrandry
House of Correction
Burr
Anry
Rolfe Merrill
Evening Spectator
Merrill
Marcus
Geome
Gurr
Reformatory
Yee
Rose Newman
Rose
W. G. Chapman
Let Go and Let Freedom Shape Family Ties
A reflection on loosening control within families to ease strain on writers and individuals. Overbearing supervision stifles personal growth, while trusting, voluntary freedom fosters creativity and healthy self development.
Nightlife harms children’s health and growth says Streetland
The excerpt argues that late night outings disrupt rest and sleep, lowering weight height and chest measurements and weakening heart lungs and eyes. It claims education suffers as children return tired to school, and nightly outings foster indolence, while boating habits become entrenched.
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Philip Davis
Optimistic Thought in a Time of Struggle
A reflective note quotes a resolve that every obstacle must be faced with endurance. It frames perseverance as key to overcoming life’s challenges and turning setbacks into progress.
The Caged Bird Never Sings Joyfully
A Farm Life quote notes that the caged bird cannot match the joy of birds in the field or forest, reflecting on freedom and nature.
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Shirley
Hals Portrait Displayed in Budapest Museum
The Budapest Fine Art museum holds a Franz Hals portrait from Moritz Kaun’s Paris collection. It was shown at the 1911 Paris exhibition of seventeenth century Dutch masters and reproduced in W R Bode's 1914 Life and Works of Franz Hals. The drawing also appeared in the Stadel Institute Frankfurt catalogue of old master drawings last year.
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Budapest
Kunstchronik
Franz Hals
Paris
Moritz Kaun
W. R. Bode
Stadel Institute of Frankfort
Razor Sharpener Promises Re edged Blades Twelve Times
Inventor introduces an electric safety razor sharpener that allegedly re edges blades as many as twelve times. The device clamps blades in a holder placed between two revolving cylinders while the holder moves back and forth, applying even pressure on both edges.
British U boat destruction tale from Noordam voyage
On the Noordam voyage from Rotterdam to the British coast passengers heard an account of a British cruiser destroying a German submarine by exposing a hidden gun beneath a disguised merchant superstructure. The voyage also exposed German smuggling tricks including copper anchors and hollow cement blocks filled with benzine.
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New York
Frank F. Boulton
Noordam
Boulton
Anderson
Vitalia
Holland
Rhine
Germany
Rotterdam
Taubes
Deal
Downs
Air raid vivid account from Berlin by German doctor
A German doctor recounts a French air raid on Berlin from a top floor hotel. He describes approaching enemy planes, anti-aircraft fire, the shock of bombs, and taking shelter in a cellar with officers and a captain guiding them. The blast wrecked nearby houses and killed five occupants. horses in the market were blown apart.
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Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
Campaign to Erect Poe Memorial by Virginia Pearson
Actress Virginia Pearson leads a drive to raise 10 000 dollars for a memorial over Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore Maryland. She balances theater work with zoological study and is pictured with elephants at a New York City zoo.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Fayette Street
Baltimore
Virginia Pearson
Wanda Chooses Return Over Sea Trip With Courtney
Wanda hopes to visit Peggy at Pinehurst but Courtney Towne secretly delays the car to keep her from going with Peggy. He reveals a shared plot to settle debts and secure a future in which Wanda should stay with him. Wanda relents, and they decide to return together.
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Wanda
London
Courtney
Vanda
Halbert
Peggy
Captain Minturn
Pinehurst
Courtney Towne
Kent
England
Peg
Kent Paxton
McClure
Judge blocks Reno divorce. asks for more evidence
In Portland Judge McGinn refused to grant a divorce to Glenn M. Wambold after he testified he married in 1903 and left for a chicken ranch in 1909. The judge warned that guesses do not count as proof and ordered more evidence before ruling on the divorce claim.
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Portland
Ore
Reno
Nev
Wambold
Beloit News Warns City Unprepared as Cannons Are Stolen
Beloit officials report vandalism has damaged the city defenses and stolen cannons from the park. Residents are urged to remain calm while authorities work to restore security and prevent further damage.
Dustman estate books total four thousand found
Elkhart Indiana administrator A H Brown reports Jonathan Dustman known as John Gordon stored about 4000 books for forty years. Only about 500 hold market value. the rest are antiquated texts or pamphlets in paper bindings.
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Elkhart
Ind
A. H. Brown
Jonathan Dustman
John Gordon
Dustman
Sapulpa Larceny convict learns uncle left estate
Luther Huff serving 20 days in Creek county jail for larceny has learned a Broad City New Mexico uncle Gilmore died leaving him a ranch and cattle herd valued at 31000. Lawyers volunteer to aid his release and his wife is willing to reunite. He prepares a trust for his son’s education.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Luther Huff
Creek County
Gilmore
Broad City
N. M
Huff
Beloit Faces Unprepared War Threat After Cannon Ball Theft
The paint worn off and three cannon balls at the gun are gone, taken by souvenir hunters. The town of Beloit would be in a terrible state of unpreparedness if war were declared, highlighting the fragile defense posture.
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Beloit
United States
Powers That Be
Lucy Provokes Opposing Gaze in Street Encounter
A brief Victorian era exchange features a woman named Lucy provoking a confrontation by averting her eyes when asked to view a young man named Jiggins. The dialogue hints at social pressure and flirtatious scandal in a checkout or alleyway scene.
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Lucy
Undertaker Introduces Phonograph Music at Funerals
In Walla Walla Washington undertakers Ruth and Hennessy Bros introduce sacred music played on a phonograph for those who cannot afford live music. One machine with a program of records was purchased by the Hennessy Bros and will be used whenever possible.
Sunbury Woman’s Nap Burns Five Hundred Fifty Five Dollars
Mrs Frank Welchance of Sunbury hid a roll of 555 in cash in a parlor stove and dozed off. Her mother, unaware of the stash, started a fire and only the metal clasps remained from the pocketbook.
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Sunbury
Frank Welchance
New “Bank
A Fee-sible Plan
A wife asks for a money making scheme for their trip. A doctor laments there is no way to raise funds unless he can persuade a rich old person with appendicitis.
Read Well and Sit Upright for Health and Beauty
A renowned literary woman urges proper reading posture. She favors book rests to avoid arm strain and warns against reading in bed. She extols straight sitting, breathing, and the body’s influence on neck, chest, and eye health, noting outdoor activity benefits the mind.
Parson and Chickens Boost Fox Skin Bounty Vote
A Kentucky legislator from a mountainous district argued against repealing the bounty on fox scalps. He claimed stopping the payment would deprive constituents of funds to feed preachers and keep the gospel coming, noting Methodists rely on chickens to tempt ministers. The repeal vote failed.
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Kentucky
Turkish School Children
Lindamira Harbeson describes Turkish children in old-fashioned schools where girls study in groups with an elder servant and boys walk in lines with their fatherlike attire. In Scutari Gypsy village children learn by street songs, forming circles with a lead girl as music grows louder.
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Scutari
Lindamira Harbeson
St Nicholas
Collection Caped Crime In Harlem Held-Up Preacher
A New York highwayman used wit and a gun to rob a Harlem preacher of his money. After taking the roll, the bandit chided the man for earning by theft and said if he were merely taking up a collection he could do so more easily.
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New York
Harlem
Judging a Man Properly
Quotation from Montaigne argues true worth comes from character and mind rather than outward trappings or wealth. The speaker urges assessing a person by intrinsic qualities, not by compliments or external adornments.
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Montaigne
Naturalist's Self-Story Echoed in Snowdon Tale
Theodore Watts features Charlies Row ley in Fifty Years of Work Without Wages. While climbing Snowdon he praises scenery in flowery terms to an old gypsy woman who remains unmoved. She coolly replies I envies it I dont jabber.
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Theodore Watts
Charlies Rowley
Snowdon
Cottler
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