Timely Topics on Merit, Laws, and Noiseless Games
A collection of satirical notes and commentary on varied topics. It discusses merit over influence in industry, European commercial tensions with America, college commencements by women, a gambling case needing a guardian, genealogical claims from Adam, a camera deer shot, fashion norms, and calls for laws. It also urges wage peace, notes a surge of historical novels, promotes noiseless baseball, and reports on a New York temperance bill proposing tea and coffee sales in saloons.
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New York
Freedom From Fear Through Outdoor Life and Courage
The article extols outdoor life as a growing American pastime and links physical activity to health and social progress. It argues fear, especially superstition and the dread of exposure, causes vast suffering across ages and classes. It urges eliminating fear through science, union protections, and personal virtue, urging parents to shield children from ghosts and individuals to live justly to defy fear.
Youngest and Oldest of Kings in Europe
Europe gains a new monarch, Grand Duke Franz IV of Mecklenburg Schwerin, the youngest ruling king at 19 and heir to Europe’s oldest reigning line. He ascended less than a month ago, governing a small German state of 5,000 square miles with 60,000 people and about 10 million dollars in revenue but a national debt near 30 million. He is linked by blood to the Czar of Russia and related to many royal families, with a Dutch prince consort as his cousin.
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Europe
Franz IV
Mecklenburg- Schwerin
Holland
Edward
England
Czar
Russia
A Happy Suggestion From a Sleepless Author
A Glasgow Times note shares an exchange where an insomnia plagued writer is advised by a friend to get up and read his own work. The brief anecdote captures the humor and usefulness of turning restless nights toward reading.
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Glasgow Times
Father of His Country Reunites Four Boys For Fourth
Four boys upset by Mrs Reynolds illness plan a loud Fourth of July. They write to George Washington, who confirms a quiet woodland celebration with Martha Washington and orders leaving cannons and firecrackers behind. Washington arrives at riverbank to greet the boys as Martha accompanies him.
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Will Brown
Jack Loring
Fellows
Ned
Mrs. Sawyer
Hattie
Isabel
George
Sam
Jack
George Washington
Washington
Will
Chicago
Martha
Martha Washington
Father George
Hoya
Washingtons Fourth with a Boyish Washingtons Army
Ned and friends join a playful Fourth of July with George Washington as a guiding figure. The general leads a balloon parade, shares lunch, and recounts frontier adventures before rowing to the farm and returning home for supper. The boys reflect on patriotism and a quiet, sunlit celebration.
At the Ime Museum Fat Woman and India Rubber Man Spar
A brief theater style skit at the Ime Museum features The Fat Woman and The Living Skeleton debating with quick quips about arguments and length. The exchange centers on the India Rubber Man and the Fat Woman declaring the end of their disputes.
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Ime
Seven hundred aboard Mohawk excursion shipwreck at Glen Island
Seven hundred workers from the John W. Green hat factory on a Glen Island trip aboard the Mohawk faced a disaster when the steamer struck a rock. Panic ensued as passengers scrambled for life preservers, with a child injured and others pushed, while rescuers and a Glen Island boat ferried survivors from the sinking vessel.
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South Norwalk
Conn
John W. Green Hat Factory
Danbury
Glen Island
Pan-American Exposition Nears Record Attendance in Buffalo
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York advances from preparation to completion. About 40 000 daily attendees rising toward 60 000 with July 4 expected to draw 100 000 for dedication day. Northwestern exhibits ready for weeks with ongoing improvements and steady visitor interest. Washington and Oregon delegates travel westward attracting investors and enthusiasm builds.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Washington
Oregon
Prices Paid in Spokane Poultry Eggs Livestock and Grains
Local market prices in Spokane list poultry and eggs with live weights and dressed rates for chickens ducks geese and turkeys. eggs at 4.26 per case. Vegetables show potatoes at 1.25 per cwt onions 3.50. Hides and pelts priced per lb. beef cattle hogs and veal rates. sheepskins and wool pelts posted. Grain delivered prices for Club wheat Bluestem red varieties with bulk and sacked distinctions.
Americans Captured After Pekin Pawnshop Robbery
Five men calling themselves Americans were seized by Chinese troops near Pekin, handed to Major E Robertson of the US legation guard. They demanded 5000 taels from a pawnshop keeper, received 500, loaded five carts with loot, then fired as 100 Chinese troops occupied the town. The legation was notified and the group was brought in. Pekin districts used by British police have been turned over to Chinese authorities.
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Aimer
Pekin
E. Robertson
United States Legation Guard
United States Legation
Cuban Leader Gomez Arrives in New York with Party
General Maximo Gomez landed in New York with his son Urban and Alexander Gonzalez state secretary to General Wood. A crowd of Cuban and American supporters greeted him at the Pennsylvania Twenty third street ferry. He thanked the group and appeared in good health. T. Estrada Palma met the party and escorted them to the Waldorf.
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New York
Maximo Gomez
Urban
Alexander Gonalez
Wood
Pennslvania Twenty-third Street
T. Estrada Palma
Cuban Revolutionary Party
Wal
Carnegie to Fund Detroit Library Building One Fourth
George W Rad ford of the Detroit public library board says Andrew Carnegie has written promising to contribute seventy five thousand dollars toward a new public library building in Detroit. The pledge signals a major boost for the city’s library development and public access to learning resources.
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Detroit
George W. Radford
Detroit Public Library Board
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
City National Bank of Buffalo Placed Under Receiver
Washington on July 1 Comptroller of the Currency Dawes appointed a receiver for the City National Bank of Buffalo. The move places the bank under federal supervision pending further action.
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Washington
Dawes
City National Bank of
Falo
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