Creosote Shipment En Route to Galveston Largest Yet
The steamship Pecton sails from London to Galveston carrying 2,200,000 gallons of creosote. Of this, 1,500,000 gallons are for the Santa Fe treating plant at Somerville, touted as the world’s largest. Also noted is the vivid red squirrel fish with stripes and sharp spines observed in the sea.
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Galveston
Texas
Pecton
London
England
Santa Fe
Somerville
New York steward becomes grandfather and great grandfather
John Paul, a political club steward in New York, is noted for becoming a grandfather and grandfather simultaneously as his baby granddaughter is born while his grandmother reaches age 97.
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John Paul
New York
Features of Campus Sport Reflect on Football's Prominence
The essay argues football defines campus sport's best and worst. it notes the sport's demanding nature, the gap between ideal play and recruiting reality, and the need to keep athletics clean while appealing to the average student. It also references pilgrims visiting Westminster Abbey for Edward the Confessor.
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Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Balbino Daviles Named to U S Mexican Embassy Staff
Balbino Daviles of Mexico City, translator of American poetry, joins the staff of Ambassador Casusus as the Mexican representative in Washington.
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Balbino Daviles
Mexico
Casusus
Washington
Inauguration Cage for Pattison and Quiet Footwarmers
Columbus reports the governor elect Pattison stayed in a glass 12 by 12 foot cage during Monday’s inauguration amid illness. He wore footwarmers for comfort as lacemaking declines in England Italy and France with Alencon and Chantilly no longer produced, and Belgium supplying lace. In Edinburgh a group of youths charged with housebreaking pledged not to touch intoxicants during "business hours."
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Columbus
Ohio
Pattison
England
Italy
France
Alencon
Chantilly
Belgium
Edinburgh
Migrating swallows and electric dreams from a curious era
Hungarian ornithologist Otto Herman notes swallows take 105 days Gibraltar to Lulea. Col R E Crompton predicts electricity will replace housework. Experiments at Torrey Club show radium can stimulate seed germination. Spaniards and French view solar eclipse with varied contrivances. Airship travel grows. Flammarion admires lit skies and city lights from balloons.
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Otto Herman
Gibraltar
Lulea
Sweden
Col. R. E. Crompton
Torrey Botanical Club
New York
C. 3. Gager
Lieber
Spain
France
Madrid
Paris
W. de Fonvielle
French Aero Club
Camille Flammarion
Venus
Rats with air rifles stalked in Baltimore hotels
A Baltimore rat catcher tours hotels and other sites using a small air rifle to pinpoint and shoot rats in basements and kitchens. He listens at holes, fires precisely, then hauls pests from their nests with a long wire. His method avoids poison and yields a steady stream of quarry.
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Baltimore
Baltimore News
By Way of Excuse and the Senator’s Dishonesty
A hypothetical dialogue questions the honesty of a senator and features Tom Watson's Magazine framing. The remark suggests a political motive framed as repayment for the cost of election.
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Crawford
Crabshaw
Tom Watson
Simon Lake to abandon U S for Berlin headquarters
Simon Lake, inventor of a class of submarine boats, plans to leave the United States in two weeks to establish his permanent home in Berlin where he will run the sale and manufacture of his boats abroad.
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Simon Lake
United States
Mr. Lake
Berlin
Unable to determine clean headline from OCR fragment
An OCR fragment offers a reward related to a medical treatment or cure claim. The text mentions CHENEY CO and Otis Catarah Cure but is garbled. No clear event, date, or names beyond imperfectly captured terms.
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Hal
F. J. Cheney & CO
Owen J. A
Brander Matthews Advocates Drama Museum Gallery
New York professor Brander Matthews urges a museum gallery to trace the theater’s development across different countries illustrating its growth and history.
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Brander Matthews
New York City
Forest Gate’s 3 Year Old Swim Champion Emerges
In Forest Gate England a three year old girl, daughter of a public baths matron, displays rapid skill by swimming the full 80 foot length of the bath tank. She demonstrates early talent amid local excitement.
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Forest Gate
England
Allen's Foot-Ease Shake Spurs Quick Relief
A terse notice highlights Allen's Foot-Ease for hot sweating aching feet. Dr. D. K. Parsons details gifts totaling 365000 to colleges with 1000 yearly gifts and a 25000 grant to tana College School of Manual Arts. Mothers seek teething remedies for children as Lake Titicaca is noted for power potential.
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Allen
D. K. Parsons
Tana College School of Manual Arts
Piso's Cure Re sumption Proves Popular In Glasgow
For forty years Piso's Cure has cured and druggists sell it. The ad notes price five cents and mentions Glasgow Scotland. It claims $16,000,000 annual spending and an average consumption per head.
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Ayer
Arentiss M. Meyers
Washington, D.C
Piso
Glasgow
Scotland
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Toronto
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Ayers Ihe
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