Belgians Favor New Blood in Throne Claim Change
The Count of Flanders resigns his claims to the Belgian throne in favor of his son Prince Albert. At sixty five the elder is considered aged while Albert, twenty seven, and his wife Princess Elizabeth are popular. The people welcome younger blood and see a bright future with the prince and princess. Leopold is mentioned as a name in the royal family.
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Count of
Flanders
Philip
Belglum
Prince Albert
Elizabeth
Prinses Leopold
Princess Alice Cited In Royal Court Gossip
Fragmentary scraps recount whispers of Princess Alice of Albany and the crown prince amid royal observing years. The tale hints at royal marriage plans and tense courts, with references to the duke of Sixe-Jobure and shifted loyalties in England long ago.
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Dome Spore
Kater Tj King
Alice of
Alleaby
Sixe-Jobure
Alice
Ave
England
Allen
Princess Alice
Megan
Post Office Deciphers Odd Addresses From Letters
Readers learn how clerks at a Dublin post office handle badly addressed letters and misread names. The piece notes the high delivery rate despite frequent name spellings, examples of foreign and American errors, and clerks’ efforts to match mail to correct recipients.
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New York
Ohiroarophy
Post Office
Caroliny Yanowski
Chamberstreet
WN. 7
America
Oddities and Scattered Thoughts From the Era
A jumble of quips and quotes on culture politics and crime. References span a New Yorker postal veteran a Hawaiian delegate race Fort Sheridan confusion at a mess hall and a Denver poll repeater. The piece mocks titles crimes and social habits with hazy names and speculative asides.
Sheriff of London in Indian Territory showdown
A vivid dialogue recalls a London sheriff named Thomas Robert Dewar. The scene contrasts ceremonial Guildhall robes with frontier justice as Dan compares the dignitary to a Western sheriff facing Bill Dalton and a posse in Indian Territory.
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Dan Ip
America
Thomas Robert Dewar
London
Sherif
Sherrf
Dan
Bill Dalton
Indian Territory
Roosevelt Family Name Quen dinis in Early American Lore
Theodore Quentin, a member of the Philadelphia reserve police, wrote to President Roosevelt asking why his youngest son bore the same name Quentin. The President replied that Quentin is an old family name from a French Huguenot refugee who settled in the county over two centuries ago.
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Roosevelt
Thedore Quentin
Philadelphia Reserve Police
Quentin
Quendinis
The Sayings of Children From Aboard the Farm
Queer and amusing child ideas delight in a rural scene near Chicago. A boy mistakes a porch for lacking handles and a toddler gasps at frozen breath while a pumpkin pie devotee asks her mother to kill a pomkin and make pie.
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Chicago
Fat
Bum
Mantma
President Roosevelt Intervenes to Save Harvard Football Player
The article recounts President Roosevelt persuading Bob Keenan to stay with Harvard football after he wanted to quit. Keenan, a Brooklyn resident, faced captaincy objections but relented following Roosevelt’s intercession. The piece ends with an odd aside about a short man and a tall girl buying a hat.
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Roosevelt
Harvard
Beck
Bob” Keenan
Macher
Brooklyn
Hob Wan
Limngs
Kieru
Bob
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Mire Lee Dann
Woodville
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Straet
Philadelphia
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Addison
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Zola
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Ohio
Edward
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Count de Castellane
Expertivous Clase
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