Avalanche Cabin Builder Survives Destructive Slide
In Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah John Purbush and two companions lived in a cabin built to shed avalanches. A massive snow slide crushed the cabin and buried Purbush but he survived after being rescued. The event followed days of nearby avalanches destroying cabins and mine property as the mountains shifted and roared.
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Big Cottonwood
Utah
Cor
New York Sun
Big Canyon
John Purbush
Furbush
John
Furbash
Onb
Silincs
Thors
Farbush
Old John
Inzs
Ida
Callus
New York
Byron
Jesus
Sissy
The Struggle of Immigrant Families in a Chicago Slum
Janet Dale reports on poverty in a crowded Chicago street, detailing two Russian Polish families living in fireless rooms with little food. A widow named Eve Hoboviteo pleads for schooling for her children, while a neighbor hopes for a farm home for better opportunities. The piece contrasts endurance with anguish and highlights the cry for education and a better life.
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Janet Dale
Chicago News
Weson
Oman
Mariana Wyndercie
America
Russia
Jusra
Thass
Eve Hoboviteo
Poland
The Ordinary Girl and Syndicate Publication Craze
A broad sketch contrasts the ordinary girl's life with her courtship and marriage prospects, then shifts to a sharp note on the rise of syndicated newspaper material. It notes the economics of syndication, low costs per column, and the appeal to papers seeking affordable content. A Christmas-era anecdote and a wry exchange between Ethelinda and George close the piece with humor.
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Times
American hotel dream urged for London restaurants
A London letter laments hotel dining monotony and calls for a first class American hotel and restaurant presence. It envisions American operators in London serving buckwheat cakes, corn bread, doughnuts, and pies to attract locals and curious English diners. It notes potential demand for an American lunch shop and jokes about British tastes and pork pie misgivings.
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London
Chicago Tribune
Millennium
Strand
Pascus
Locusts for Breakfast and a Grasshopper Diet
An entomologist hosts a breakfast with a visitor to test eating cicadas the seventeen year locusts and grasshoppers. They describe flavors and the potential as a nutritious famine-era food while noting cultural taboos. A Michigan justice of the peace case follows with a prisoner jumping from a train to avoid fare. A young editor seeks a wife, joking about funds and marriage while planning to answer the father.
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Riley
Washington
Michigan
Detroit
Gorry
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Ree
Gooperstown Freeman's Journal
Oneonta
Arkansaw Traveler
Missouri
Black Jack
Red Range
Hlustrai
Ethelinda
George
God
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Peerless
Portsche
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Eclipse
Tam
Cantona Monitor
Kreibill Hingine and Roisler
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North Cherry Street
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Ezra F. Andis
Whikel
North Queen St
A.w.weikel
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Wiolesale
East King Street
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Lititz Degg
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Gyror
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East King &T
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Adm
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Pranriotir
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Lancaster
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Ent
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Lancaster Pa
W. H. Appel
Jhwhler
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Lititz
Reese
Columbia Rail Road
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J. M. Keiper
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Chatham
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Martin Rudy
Lancaster Bicycle
Tricycle Agency
East King ST
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Tin
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Panied Lrovold
Bae
Penn Square
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Amer & Brunner
Gunsiity New Taven
Pes Hotel
Penn, Lancaster CO
Blades B. J, Bach
Prop’r
Railroad Restaurant
Lititz PA
L. 8
Hacker, Proprietag
Arwick House
R. R
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Lititzstop
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Continental Hotel
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Portland
Maine
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