Pekin The Celestial Capital’s Imperial City Revealed
A detailed, antiquity rich account of Pekin’s layout and history. The piece describes the Forbidden City and Imperial City with palaces, gates, marble bridges, and the awe of a sacred, strictly guarded precinct. It notes the wall, moat, and vast array of courtyards, gardens, and ceremonial halls, ending with a reflection on missionaries’ wives facing the palace’s inner quarters.
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Pekin
Chinn
Tartar Cty
Neakin
Ching
Chinsee
Tsuegt Yormen
Foreign Office
Tientsin
Vartar
Utiatabotw
Heiredd Mary Hogan Returns to Claim Inheritance
A Kansas City tale recounts Mary Hogan, once a pota to farmer’s daughter, who left home amid family strife seeking work in Denver and Dodge City. She later married a hotel proprietor, moved to a cattle ranch, and bore five children. After her father’s death, Major Blake L. Woodrow managed the estate as heirs fought over a $20,000 inheritance tied to Hogan’s potato farm.
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Kansey
Twelfth
Charlotte
Thraan
Ely
Hosen
Este
Effoyloe
Mary
Kansas City
Baslines
Tony
Mary Hocon
Perenni
Macy
Blake L. Woodrow
Hogan
Nenrey Wan
Major Wiecon
George Wi MckKinnay
Dodem City
Kan
Abe
Mary mi
Corps
Patelek Hogan
Boy and dog Shep at Kansas City police station
A ten year old boy fed his shepherd dog at the central police station in Kansas City, claiming his mother could not pay for a license. The dog faced execution, but the boy's tears moved officers. Chief McFarland reassured him, and the boy and Shep left together, the dog leaping happily as they went home.
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Central Police Station
Kansas
Clut
Kan
Tim
Ely
Shep
A.po
Wa H
Berchlet
McFarand
Bir
Kanua City
Shooting on Burlington train ends in courtroom oddity
In Alliance Nebraska a man named Vance and a cowboy friend faced charges after a shooting on a Burlington railway tied to a ranch venture. Vance claimed the revolver use was a prearranged signal, not an intent to harm the brakeman, and demonstrated firing and other tricks in court to prove innocence. The brakeman later admitted he misstated the incident. The piece also previews the Hippodrome show and praises the Paris theater spectacle Vercingetorix for its grandeur and athleticism.
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Chongs
Vance
Butte Creek
Alliance
Neb
Jack
Pany
Burlington
Lookel
Vril
Arctic chase spans gaps for Abruzzi duke and geareber
The duke of the Abruzzi departs Maly in search of Andree in Arctic regions. Captain W Bade Di Winmer sails from the vast coast of Spitsbergen to pursue the Abruzzi duke.
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Geareber
Maly
Andree
Arctic
W. Bade di Winmer
Spitsbergen
Duke of the
Happy Family of Lambs and Mother Cow
An unusually patient cow at Went Harton Farm in Northamptonshire, England, becomes nurse to six orphaned lambs. The cow feeds and shelters the lambs, refusing separation, and bellows to return when separated for grazing. The scene, captured in a photo titled THE HAPPY FAMILY, shows the lambs nursing eagerly after a brief separation.
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Molderness
Went Harton
Northamptonanire
England
FP Aneley
Bereek
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Non of
Barth
The
Forbidden City
Tartar City
Ee City
Moloeque
Saal Plaster of
Vanes
Rudes
Deever Times
Vercingetorix
Amy Beally
Chicago
Parla Ome
Beare
Uona
AWN Odd Family
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