FENDERFEET WIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
City bred in the great metropolis J C Hill and his three sons settled on homesteads at Lloydminster Saskatchewan eight years ago. They became North America’s champion oat growers winning the Colorado Oat trophy for the best bushel of oats at the Fifth National Corn exposition in Columbia South Carolina. Their success came after developing land that was wild prairie and building a mixed farming operation praised for its climate soil and seed choices.
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J. C. Hill
Lloydminster
Saskatchewan
Canada
Columbia
S. C
Hill
United States
Hampstead Heath
London
Alberta
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Lawyer recalls hippo remark led to lawsuit in Tennessee
James C. McReynolds recalls practicing law in a small Tennessee town. A billsman sought $10,000 damages after being called a hippopotamus two years earlier. He delayed suing until a circus came through town last week, thinking it a compliment.
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James C. McReynolds
Tobacco Trust
Tennessee
McReynolds
Saturday Evening Post
Eczema cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Sam Marcus of Lowell Place Chicago describes severe burning itching and disfiguring eczema lasting two years. He reports using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with warm water twice daily for five to six months and was cured. The advertisement notes Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold worldwide with a free sample offer and a Skin Book.
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Lowell Place
Chicago
Sam Marcus
Dept. L
Boston
Paris Opens Silhouette Target Dueling School
A new silhouette target dueling school opens in Paris where prospective duelists practice shooting at targets. The exchange hints at a grim tone with a remark about sparing gore for a brother.
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Bill
Paris
Jill
Opera Seating Sparks Society Banter In Exchange
A brief conversation recalls a good seat at the opera with remarks about overhearing society chatter from a near box. An old advertisement praises Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain pricing at five cents. The exchange ends with a quip on the saying access is sweet and a light joke about tasting.
Dogfish Attacks Spur Call to Thinning of Fish-Eating Sharks
In a Rockland tale from 1885 Fisherman Frank Oleson recalls a deadly dogfish attack on his companion Charlie Freeman off Tenants Harbor as they fished near Martinicus Island. Other incidents include a New York yachtsman nearly eaten and a poisoning of the dogfish trade by oil from livers once sold for a dollar a bucket.
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Rockland
Frank
Charlie
Frank Oleson
Charlie Freeman
Tenants Harbor
Oleson
Alpine
Freeman
Martinicus Island
Chehaven
New York
Penobscot Bay
Bowker
Water Lily
Fred Lewis
Portland
Massachusetts
George E. Robinson
Kettle Bottom
Orr’s Island
Hypodermic Restores Life In France Duke Case
French doctors reportedly revived a duke after death using hypodermic injections. The heart beat, warmth returned, and breathing resumed briefly before midnight, prompting legal angles over the infant heir and estate. A magistrate witnessed the revival at the bedside.
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Paris
France
French Academy of Medicine
Missing prize bull dog spurs rival in Washington
In Washington a prize bulldog named Duc, gifted to Miss Katherine Elkins by the Due d Abbruzzi, disappeared at a horse show. Rival Billy Hitt joins the search, with bets 10 to 1 that if he finds the dog the name may switch to Sweet William.
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Billy” Hitt
Katherine Elkins
Animal
Washington
Due
d’Abbruzzi
Miss Elkins
Duc
Billy
Sweet William
Mr. Hitt
Billy Hitt
Novelist Alice Meadows Drowns Saving Dog Near London
London reports novelist Alice Maud Meadows died in an accident at Red Hill while attempting to rescue her dog from water. Born at age fourteen she began writing early and published works including The Infatuation of Marcella An Innocent Sinner The Moth and the Flame and many other novels.
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London
Alice Maud Meadows
Red Hill
Marcella
Bride May Die From Dancing Tragedy in Beaver Falls
Mrs John Kuzlus a bride of three days lies in critical condition after excessive dancing at her wedding in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. The Polish custom of paying a dollar per dance led to her 293rd dance, to which 293 silver dollars formed the dowry. she collapsed during the dance.
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Beaver Falls
John Kuzlus
Kuzlus
German Jews Love Empire Reject Zionist Loyalty
The Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith in Berlin rejects Zionism as a national threat. It declares Jews in Germany are first Germans, then Jews, and supports aiding Jewish refugees while maintaining German national loyalty. It opposes solutions to the Jewish question by international action.
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Berlin
Germany
East
Futurist Canvas Invitation Sparks Doubtful Question
A dialogue thread features an invitation to view a futurist canvas followed by a counterfactual worry about being overwhelmed. The exchange hints at shared curiosity and a cautious regard for potential overload.
Not So Polite as it Looked on the Streetcar
A tall woman struggles to find a seat as twelve men sit still. A small boy offers his seat and explains the reason is sticky chewing gum on the chair, challenging the notion of politeness.
Womanliness and gender psychology in Weininger’s view
The text argues that losing womanliness is not easy and questions desexing. Weininger notes that some are anatomically male yet psychically female, while denying a person can be anatomically female and psychically male. It asserts feminine psychic traits persist regardless of masculine appearance.
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Weininger
Mr. Weininger
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Fenderfeet
Hill and Sons
Loss and Huston
Madge
Marjorie
Carl Schurz
Morningside Heights
Nelson A. Miles
Horace Porter
Count von Bernstorff
Karl Bitter
Schurz
Maine
Dory
Atlantic
Hitt
Pet
Philadelphia Record
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Chas. H. Fletcher
Viledi
FOLEY
Free Homestead
Geo. W. Aird
Traction Terminal
Indianapolis
Ind
Immigration
Ottawa
Carter
Carters
Bourbon Remedy Co
Lexington
Daisy Fly Killer
a ___ express
Manoo
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
Interstate Pharmacal CO
N. Franklin ST
Dept. D
Chicago, Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
the Paxton Toilet Co
Mass
Newport New
Newport Beach
Oregon
T. A. Shook
Timber Landa Specialty
Orego
Georgia McDuffie County
Board of Trade
Thomson
Georgia
Watson E.coleman
Washington, D.C
Benjamin Co
P.O
Anderson
Purdue Specialty CO
Bradford
Houston, PA
Rensselaer
F. E. Sutton
Snowden
T.wlnedath
Adams
Toledo
Remedy CO
Lafayette
Indiana
Hodsoa
Terre Haute
Lod
Sure Money Getter
M.co
St. Louis
Petaluma Incubator Co
Berrien Co
Mich
G. Quardokus
St. Joseph
Bladworth
Sask
Can
J.D. Johnston
Sumner Co
Tenn
A. C. Drumm
Walworth CO
Wis
R. H
Barn
Con
Silo
C. W. Malick
Genoa
Evesham
Sase
Rusk Co
A. Prescher
Ladysmith
Glenavon
G. A. Moodie
Barton Co
J. F. McClintock
Golden City
Bottineau CO
N. D
H. Moon
Antler
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