Bury’s Giant Boy Makes Stand Six Feet Nine Inches Tall
In Danbury Connecticut a boy named Herman Johnson stands six feet nine, an object of wonder to townspeople and World reporters. He believes he is the tallest boy in New England and seeks opportunities to prove the claim as doctors study a rare growth spurt amid curious attention.
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Anbury, Conn
World
Oer
New England
Danbury
Patrick
Bridgeport
Casey
Sethick
Thies
Wen
Fears
Leverver
A Lesson in Business by Example
A merchant teaches his son the core of success is absolute honesty while detailing how a fixed 7.5 percent markup hides costs. He walks through expenses, bad debts, contingencies, and living costs, showing how a $3 lace curtain becomes $4.69 after adding all charges.
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Kansas
Windsor Street Confusion Stalls Streetcar Load
Passengers crowd a Windsor streetcar as a conductor tries to guide a passenger who explains her husband bought something at the corner. The scene shows a tense exchange as the elderly traveler looks out the window, unsteady and absorbed in her own thoughts.
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Windsor E
St Anc
Windsor Street
Marriage Law Reflected In State and Church Roles
A fragmented note discusses marriage and family law, contrasting state statutes with church standards. It cites the ideal of one man and one woman and emphasizes reform, uplift, and obedience within religious moral framing.
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Considera
Hop Hall
The Great Eye Reads Every Thought in Modern Science
A religious reflection by Rev. L. W. Allen compares Roentgen’s photography to divine omniscience. He argues that sensitive plates of God’s Book of Remembrance record human deeds and judgment day scrutiny.
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Roentgen
Carson
Rev
L. W. Allen
Factory Act Exemption Plea Sparks Home Work Debate
The home secretary faced pressure from Belfast shirt and collar makers to exempt women and girls from the new factory act clause banning home work after factory hours. London newspapers oppose the move. In Brooklyn, Cornelia Weekes, 70, widow of a local undertaker, died on Feb 8, followed by her brother Henry J Eldert, 74, on Feb 9, both after long illnesses from heart failure.
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Belfast
London
Cornelia Weekes
Brooklyn
Henry J. Eldert
Hawaiian cable terms tied to Hawaii legislature act
Inquiry into terms for an American company to land a cable in Hawaii shows the act passed last August. Colonel Z C Spaulding would obtain a $40,000 yearly subsidy from Hawaii if a matching subsidy comes from the United States, plus other government message transmission provisions. The US had prior rights to land a cable at Pearl Harbor under a coaling station arrangement.
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San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Z. C. Spaulding
United States
Pearl Harbor
Provisional National Reform Party calls national convention
Pittsburg March 30 The Provisional National Executive committee of the new National Reform party issues a call for a national convention to be held in Pittsburg May 25 The declaration of principles urges direct legislation, universal legal tender of all money forms, abolition of liquor traffic, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, and government ownership of railroads telegraph and telephone.
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Pittsburg
New National Reform Party
Platform Committee
Rescue and reprisals in Matabeleland conflict report
Cap Gifford leads a rescue that saved thirty eight whites at Ineeza after repelling a Matabele assault. Captain Spreckley routed a strong force, capturing prisoners and reporting widespread killings and mutilations in Fillbase. Mobs near Bulawayo threaten attack as staff await Cecil Rhodes arrival.
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Buluowayo
Matabele
Cap
Bulnawayo
Fillbase
Messrs
Bentley
Edkins
Baragwanth
Carpenter
Cecil Rhodes
Kansas Temperance Union Plans Pledge Drive
The Kansas State Temperance Union in Topeka outlines a political action plan for the upcoming campaign. It seeks 30,000 written pledges from voters to refuse support for any candidate not pledging enforcement of the prohibitory law, aiming to balance Kansas political power. Signatures are being collected.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas State Temperance Union
Kansas
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Denver Directory
Denver
Procter
Lawrence ST
Garside
Isis
Esse
Sax Id Helialie Hotel
Marcsipery Co
Fence Co
Gasernes Arket
Isc Mus
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Coptral
Star Grocery
China
Kepet Rede Eury Miller & Amarhoe Bt
Blitz Jewelry
Arapahoe
Cole
W., Sherman
Denver Music CO. Catalo
Champa Street
Wis
Weber & Clayton
Oxford
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