Labor boom and city women shake up canneries in California
Cannerys run full blast amid a fruit rush as Tamaki and Smithers clash over pay. Japs and Swedes toil in heat while Miss Sybil Smythe pays two dollars a day to attract workers, boosting efficiency and altering labor dynamics. Sybil returns to run Smithers ranch, claiming labor costs drop to about 85 cents a day.
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Rancho Pico
Smithers
Tamaki
Intelligence
Bhylock
Tamak
Gard
Mr. Smithers
Tama
Dandy
Sybil Bmythe
Damatamaki
Miss Smythe
Penguin Diet Suspected Behind Antarctic Sledge Dog Return
Prof. C. E. Borchgrevink recalls how a sledge dog carried away by drifting ice returned months later fat and alive, suggesting the animal lived on penguins at the ice edge while sea ice extended far from shore near Cape Adair.
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Cape Adair
Prof
C. E. Borchgrevink
Leslie’s Monthly
Irish Ballad on Streetcar Accident Narrated by Witness
Boston lawyer Thomas Barry sought the witness account of an Irish rider in a salt growing streetcar crash tale. The witness depicts a crowd shouting that the man is killed as the vehicle passes, and By jumped in to move the crowd aside and demand the stretcher bearers give the victim air.
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Thomas Barry
Boston
Barry
Carr
Hirvin
Brooklyn Eagle
Noted leaps in science and a whale of a worm tale
The article surveys diverse topics from a Royal Astronomical Society view of comets and a Dane inventor's steamship with a submerged propeller to pigment sticks by M J Raffaelli and glass adhesion methods by Professor Calletet. It also reports giant earthworms in Ceylon Cape Colony Natal Australia South America andnickel steel's rare properties and meteoritic nickel. A first person sea accident anecdote ends with rescue and recovery in hospital.
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Royal Astronomical Society
Donati
F. C. Ishoy
M. J. J. Raffaelli
Callletet
Harry Johnston
Uganda Protectorate
London
Ceylon
Cape Colony
Natal
Australia
South America
Dropped a Hundred Feet Falling Man’s Terrific Descent
John Anderson a former naval worker injured while painting ironwork beneath a high bridge next to the Mississippi. He fell about 100 feet from a sling used to lower or raise him, breaking both thigh bones and injuring his leg hip and head but expects no permanent maiming or disfigurement at city hospital. He recalled the fall with vivid imagery and stated he had no warning of danger.
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Jackie
John Anderson
St. Paul
High Bridge
Mississippi River
China
Mandalay Glows With Sacred City Silence at Sunset
In Mandalay, the setting sun cloaks the thousand pagoda bells and the royal city walls in a sacred, contemplative glow. The narrator describes the city’s sky, parrots, goats, and crowds, noting pyathat kiosks, white bridges, and moats as Mandalay seems awake yet sleeps, a dream breathing under the light.
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Mandalay
Old Royal City
Government of
India
Pyathat
Airship over London by Stanley Spencer in successful flight
London Sep 28 Stanley Spencer English aeronaut completes a remarkable solo voyage in his airship from Crystal Palace travels about thirty miles. Observers note steady control, descent near East Cole, and a 800 foot height. Spencer’s craft, bamboo frame, 75 foot bay, 200 cubic feet hydrogen, 80 horsepower petrol engine, weighs 600 pounds. He claims speed near 15 mph and safety features to prevent pitching. Also Lieutenant Kenneth P Williams nominated for congressional Medal of Honor for Samar relief expedition led by General Chaffee and praised by Rear Admiral Rogers.
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London
Stanley
Spencer
Crystal Palace
Metropol
Thames
Eee
Chelsea
Kensington
Earlscourt
Harrow
East Cole
Clapham Common
Percival Spencer
Santos Dumont
Washington
Rept
Kenneth P. Williams
First Infantry
General Chaffee
Relef
Island of
Samar
Rogers
Monument for Swedish Norse spinster homes in memory
A wealthy old man’s bequest founded homes for unmarried women descendants. Unmarried women proving kinship gain furnished suites and private meals under simple conduct rules. A visiting summer girl quips that the husk of the corp is like taking its corset off.
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Sweden
Norway
Corp
Noted European Royal Suicide Attempt Reported in Algiers
Telegraph dispatches from Algiers claim Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, a Csar cousin, attempted suicide with a revolver at his hotel aboard the Russian imperial yacht Blanchart before a Russian woman. Later reports reveal Prince Vladimir Troubetskoy, aboard Standart, shot himself after drinking with a woman, but was unharmed. In Des Moines, Maud Smith and her 17 year old daughter shot at Harry Clark five times at the state fairgrounds, two hits fatal, allegedly after he wooed the daughter.
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Paris
Algiers
Paul Alexandrovitch
Csar
Blanchart
Vladimir Troubtsekol
Standart
Des Moines
Maud Smith
Harry Clark
Gold Discovery Shocks Oregon Mining Belt
In Baker City Oregon on September 18 reports claim the largest gold find ever made in the state. The discovery lies on Willow Creek in Malheur County about 40 miles from Huntington and 60 miles from Baker City offering a major mining prospect.
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Oregon
Baker City
Ore
Willow Creek
Malhur Country
Huntington
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