Revered Maceo remembered in Cuban memorial day rites
The Century note recalls cemetery rows in Santiago de Cuba with stacked coffins and marble slabs in a formal Spanish style. Maceo, the Afro Cuban general, is honored above Martí and Estrada Palma as Cuba marks Memorial Day on December 7 with ceremonies and flowers.
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Santiago de Cuba
Harry A. Franck
Wittes
Greener Tieniery
Marti
Eberly
Estrada Patni
Miceo
Water power potential could match five Niagaras
Experts say British Columbia can develop 3 000 000 horsepower from mountain runoff far beyond current 2 500 horsepower generating plants serving Vancouver and nearby towns. Harnessing all water power could light heat ten cities the size of Vancouver and New Brunswick and spur BC into a major Canadian manufacturing center.
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British Columbia
Niagara Falls
Vancouver
New Westminster
New Brunswick
Canada
Fine Tune Will Live
The article discusses church bell refusals over playing the war song Tippertary and compares it to Uncle Make Toon, noting the tune's strong associations with the Old Contemptibles and a sense it may endure as a wartime relic in posterity.
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Wellingberouch
Tipperary
London
Happy on His Way in Hoosier Lesson Mix Up
A Midlands area school teacher announced an afternoon study of Ching and asked students to bring country products. One boy rushed to a grocery for a nickel’s worth of sassafras, believing he should study him at school, but the grocer corrected the effort and the student left content.
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Indianapolis
Nin
Indhana
New Cunarder Scythia to Use One Funnel
An English newspaper reports the Cunarder Scythia will employ only one funnel for all her tonnage. It notes past practice linked funnel count to status and power, but asserts the ship will now dispense with extra funnels as unnecessary for operation.
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Scythia
Vrogn
Seals Migration Advances in Arctic Route
The government protection plan for seals in Ninarheain Waters appears highly successful with many seals migrating early to the Arctic seas. Migration began three weeks earlier than usual and an unusually large number of animals were observed en route north.
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Arctic
New Scrap Started on Rainy Holiday in Boston
A fragment hints at marital tension during a rainy holiday in Boston amid civil unrest. The readable lines mention a wife urging movement and a restless husband, with emphasis on domestic strain in a city under social friction.
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John
Boston
Pine Stumps Worth Money In Naval Store Boom
A Washington dispatch notes that cutover pine stumps in the South yield resin turpentine pine oils and other byproducts after clearings. Stumps survive after logging and can be monetized, with several processes extracting up to twenty five products including resin tar pitch and charcoal.
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Washington
Clement S. Uecker
Southern Settlement and Development Organization
South Atlantic States
GLOWING PRAISE OF DAISIES IN TOLEDO FIELDS
The Toledo Blade extols daisies as bright flowers across meadow and pasture. They lift heads to heaven and color the landscape with white heads and yellow centers inviting people to bring them home for vases and decorations.
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Toledo Blade
German Interned Ships Recounted By Sims
Rear Admiral William S. Sims criticizes German seamanship in World's Work article for July describing the interned ships. He notes three years of neglect leaving ships filthy and unfit for sailors with workmen forced to sleep near docks during scrubbing and disinfection to restore them as habitable vessels.
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William OS. Sims
Marine on duty in Peking never saw his country
Private CW BF Childress is the sole U S marine in China who has never visited the United States Born to American parents in China he enlisted at the legation He speaks Chinese well and serves as interpreter for the Marines and looks forward to seeing America one day
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United States
Peking
China
BF. Childress
Marines
Legation
Childress
Ching
White Mule Name Origin Explained by City Attorney
Dixon H. Bynum, assistant city attorney, explains how white mule earned its name. He notes government efforts to curb liquor traffic among Indians, with nontypical stories from those caught with liquor. A standard tale blamed an one-eyed negro on a mule. Indianapolis Star.
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Dixon H. Bynum
Bynum
Southwest
Indianapolis Star
Women Eligible for Victoria Cross Royal Warrant
The London Gazette publishes a royal warrant extending Victoria Cross eligibility to women. Matrons sisters nurses and hospital nursing staff and civilians serving under armed forces are now eligible for the decoration.
Seibo Town Among Bands And Marines In Santo Domingo
The article describes Seibo on Santo Domingo as a remote town with no hotels and thatched huts. Marines camp at its door yet locals remain surprised by American civilians. The town features an ancient church with a marine wireless station atop and a fortress-like garrison house, all set among wooded hills.
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Seibo
Santo Domingo
Selho
West Indies
United States Marines
Marine Wireless Station
Harry A. Franck
Century Magazine
Woman’s tongue proves stubborn in divorce case hinted by Detroit News
A divorce trial revealed a deaf mute wife’s skill with sign language challenges her husband’s patience. The husband resisted controlling tactics, showing that men struggle to quiet a wife’s expressive communication, a wry jab from the Detroit News.
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Detroit News
Lone Jack Calamities Prompt Mayor's Jinx Theory
Mayor King of Lone Jack Missouri links a spate of local troubles to a hidden jinx and malign influences. He notes downs, bus driver resignations, barber departures, a bank robbery, labor strife, and preventable accidents as evidence, arguing the town mirrors broader national life.
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King
Lone Jack
Fitney
Las Jack
St. Louis
Kipling Autographs and Checks Boost Signature Value
The Boston Globe notes that autographs fetch higher prices than the check amounts they accompany. It cites Kipling and a Boston poet who received modest checks for literary contributions, choosing to frame and display them. The column questions whether Kipling himself had similar experiences.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kiplin
Boston
Kipling
Boston Globe
Prisoner recollections of a bungled jewel theft
A inmate recounts an elaborate plan. An assistant born in Boston helped with a second story job that failed when the alarmed police woke and arrested them. The bre vlar remarks on education as the cause of his downfall and cites a paradoxical demand to clamp the down spout for the swag.
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Mum
Penitentiars
Boston
Jin
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Acidity of the Stomach In Questioned Belief
Dr. Frank Smithies, chair of the gastroenterology section of the American Medical Association, states the theory that gastric juice causes ulcers has been disproved. He notes ulcers occur even when stomach acidity varies and can heal despite high acidity.
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Frank Smithies
Adidivess
American Medical Association
Breezy Bits From Peshastin News Bulletin
Local notes report a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Dan Phillips and mention recoveries and illnesses among residents. Community group events include a Pre F Club luncheon and a P T A meeting with a talk on school work. Socials feature a suffragette campaign speech and a pie social at the school.
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Dan Phillips
Harry Daggett
Tom Luttrell
Wilma Moore
P. R. Bradley
T. J. Luttrell
Mrs. Wm. Wasco
I Told You So Prophecy Hopes Upset Election Day
A poem by C. F. Wadsworth traces the refrain I told you so echoing through a day of civic life. Characters from milkman to pilot repeat the line as the narrator endures forecasts about a presidential race and vows to avoid prophecy in the future.
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Smith and Jones
Pune
C. F. Wadsworth
Mrs Leedy Visits Hobson Ranch With Forre Family
Mrs Leedy of Wenatchee spent several days with her son Forre and family at the Hobson ranch turning Monday.
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Mrs
Jack
Wenatchee
Patrick Home
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