Found the Missing Brooch Through Tangled Tales
A Baltimore Marine Corps officer's wife recounts a Virginia theft of a valuable diamond brooch. A trusted household servant, a mulatto girl, suggested the brooch might be at the Baltimore townhouse. The mistress consulted a fortune teller who said the thief would die and the brooch would appear among the thiefs effects. that night the brooch was found pinned to the mistress gown.
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Marine Corps
Baltimore
Virginia
Alice
Pay Day in the Trenches by Britain’s Army Pay Office
The British army pay department now employs about 7 700 officers and clerks, roughly ten times peacetime staffing. The London office has expanded and even houses private homes to manage the growing payroll. Since August the unit has worked day and night, paying soldiers in French currency notes issued by company officers in the field and recorded on acquaintance rolls. Each soldier carries a paybook and is paid weekly, even in the trenches as they advance.
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London
Avery
Cretait le Roi King Albert Joins Front Line
A Belgian soldier recounts King Albert of Belgium fighting with his troops in the trenches. The king moves among soldiers without guards, calmly raises a rifle after a shell wounds a comrade, then returns to battle as the men do.
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Albert
Belgium
Nieuwe Rotterdammer Courant
Lost Riley Manuscripts Unearthed In Hunt For Complete Works
Researchers uncover over two hundred previously unpublished poems by James Whitcomb Riley as part of assembling his complete prose and verse collection. Notable finds include an early illustrated manuscript titled Man's Devotion and a baby book with portraits of the poet's child friends to whom he dedicated poems.
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Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
Sleeper Wakes To Find Bucket Lodged In Thigh
In Alsace a French soldier slept through the night as a bucket crashed through the trench shelter root and became lodged in his thigh. The man woke with a cramp and refused to move until a doctor arrived to remove the bucket.
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Alsace
Music Affects Beasts and Humans Says Madams Powell
Doctor Alma Webster Powell lectured at the University of Washington claiming music moves people and animals. She cited experiments placing phonographs near bee hives and in stables to improve honey and milk, and said even crickets dance when music plays. Powell also reformed groups of troubled girls in New York by home music training and noted peaceful crowds at Coney Island tents after adding music to rallies.
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Alma Webster Powell
New York
Columbia University
University of Washington
Doctor Powell
Madam Powell
Coney Island
Moss
Return of a Love That Never Was
A married couple drifts apart after ten years. He sends twenty five dollars weekly from his room and pursues humor drawing under the name Scorn. She learns he lives in California as a cynic comic artist and never plans to return.
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Tom
Harry
New York
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
California
Gambling Man Converts Then Falters in Revival
An Ebenezer chapel revival recounts Goat Simmons, the gambling man, crying repentance but then suffering a convulsive fit on the floor. Dice flew from his pocket and a deck of cards scattered as Parson Bagster urged continued shaking to purge sin, while Brother Bogus claimed losses from the lodge last night.
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Goat Simmons
Parson
Bagster
Brudder
Brother Bogus
Kansas City Star
Black Bands in British Army History
The article traces the origin of black bandsmen in the British Army, noting a 17th century dispute over entertainment, the Duke of York’s rejection of land militia discipline, and the transfer of a German band to the guards Including Negro percussionists. It notes Scots Guards maintaining a negro musician through 1841 and describes broader reorganization of regimental bands provoking resentment among colored performers.
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Duke of York
Hanover
Scots Guards
Eskimos Reported to Have Killed Two Priests Near Bearlake
A letter dated January 15 from Arctic Red River, carried by Rev. Father Jules Leeuyer, warns Catholic authorities in Port Norman that Rev. Father Jean Baptiste Rouriere and Rev. Father Guillaume Leroux have been murdered by Eskimos near Bearlake about 100 miles east of Port Norman. The news, received by Rev. Father Allard, suggests the priests had served the Mackenzie valley mission for years.
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Mackenzie River Valley
Arctic Circle
Jean Baptiste Rouriere
Guillaume Leroux
Bearlake
Port Norman
Father Allard
Arctic
Red River
Jules M. Leeuyer
She Makes Him Mr Blobbins Goes to Church
Dialogue-heavy snippet centers on Mr Blobbins and Mrs Blobbins. Tye observes his Sunday church habit and questions its longevity depending on his survival. The piece uses irony to hint at underlying tension about marriage and fate.
Want Market Commission Plan for United States
California women favor establishing a national marketing commission proposed by the US delegate to the Rome based International Institute of Agriculture. The plan envisions a 29 member body including the president, city mayors, department store leaders, a railroad man, bankers, workers, congressmen, and farmers with state and township counterparts and weekly farm produce sales at multiple urban hours.
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California
United States
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Barrie and Deslys Clash Over Burlesque Venture
Miss Gaby Deslys airs grievances about Sir James Barrie, calling him a strange author. She argues his notes mislead her and questions whether he approves of her dress and hair. Deslys reports his views on her appearance and stage presentation in this sharp exchange.
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Barrie
Gaby Deslys
James Barrie
James
Mile. Deslys
Gentle Hint In A Quip About A Dog Rome
A light exchange reveals a man asking about his boy and dog Rome. The responder notes the dog’s habit of howling. The dialogue portrays a casual, domestic moment with a wry tone.
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Rome
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