Moccasin Snake Declared Most Vicious Reptile
A Times-Democrat report quotes a Arkansan observer claiming the water moccasin in the St Francis basin near Helena is savage and numerous, attacking water troughs and dogs, and that their season peaks with heightened ferocity. The account likens them to Martinique snakes and asserts they are extraordinarily deadly.
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Arkanadas
Martinique
St. Francieis
Inrkansas
St. Francis River
Helena
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Strange Chance Proves the World Is Not So Vast
A New York traveler seeking caribou in British Columbia finds a link between continents via Waubagun water tank. In Scotland a Scottish hostess, learning he is American, asks about her son Sandy McNeil who lives at Waubagun. The chance crossing of paths shows how vast distances collapse in unexpected ways.
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America
Topeka
Kan
Kent
New York
British Columbia
Winnipeg
Waubagun
Senate
New Yorker
Ward
Scotland
Fifth Avenue
Biblical Writings Found in Old Turkish Mosque Vault
Ancient manuscripts uncovered in the Damascus Jami and Kubar mosque vault after a year’s delay. Finds include Syrian tongue fragments of Old and New Testaments, a Greek Pentateuch fragment, Samaritan Arabic translations, and a Syriac Psalter. ambassador Marschall facilitates transfer to Europe for scholarly study.
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Jami and Kubar Mosque
Damascus
Constantinople
Pilestloe
RH. Paul
Senator Varner's Secret to Sleep Ends No Terror for Lats
An eccentric North Carolina senator, Zan Varner, explains insomnia as a mild nuisance. He recounts walking in Washington and a memorable exchange with Mal Pope, then shares his unorthodox nightly remedy of corn whisky to fall asleep.
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Zan” Varner
North
Pannsylvani Navine
Pope
Chamberlin
Washington
Mulal Pope
Dent Tire & Tap
Dest Methods of Cooking
Boiling meat is less wasteful than hakine and baking uses less waste than Todstini, noting relative efficiency of these methods.
Dentists: Claim Subscriptions to Care Statutes Noted
Fragmentary text mentions dentists and subscription to care statutes, unclear context on Philanthropie and Bycwlial names, and references to a letter or message about dental care obligations. Reading shows garbled OCR. main idea concerns dental professionals and statutory contributions.
Banker and New York robber clash in Bogota office
Worthington Cheever, head of Banco del Prado in Bogota, receives a dramatic threat from James Trefny of New York who claims a nitro-cane loaded with death will force Cheever to hand over fifty thousand dollars in cash. The robber is captured within hours after Cheever alerts the police, revealing a stranger’s bluff and a forged Homer Dunlevy identity used to gamble with a Plaza Bank check.
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Worthington Cheever
Banco del Prado
Bogota
New York
Mr. Cheever
Ben
South America
Senor
James Trefny
Emilio
President Cheever
Cheever
Trefny
Plaza Bank
Homer O. Dunlevy
Ramon
Hotel del Orinoco
Cheaver
Homer
Dunnevy
Banco de Prado
Tremny
Treffy
Dunlevy
Jamicht
Mr.Cheever
Fousoner
Immeistrate
Sam
Jim
Chloe
Schwab failed at horseshoeing before steel magnate rise
An elder horseshoer recalls Charles M. Schwab trying to shoe a horse as a young man in Loretto. The horse balked and Schwab quit, later saying he could not learn the trade. The anecdote underscores Schwab’s later mastery in the iron industry and his success as a steel magnate building a New York palace.
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Philadelhia
Charles ™. Schwab
New York
Tie
Pat Moran
Loretto Village
Pat
Schwab
Moran
Loretto
Moment of comic candor in a Chestnut street cigar shop
A Philadelphia observer recalls a newsboy who bought a box of matches for one cent and asked the clerk to keep it on the shelf for future customers. He lit a butt, paid with a penny, and directed the clerk to give matches from his box to any gentleman who asked.
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Chestnut Street
Philalelphia
Wrong Environment Aged actress seeks religion in church
Louis Evan Shipman recounted in Philadelphia how an elderly Negro woman visiting a church joined the service with Zionist fervor. Her enthusiastic responsive readings and Amens drew notice until the sexton halted her, saying the rite was not the place for such zeal.
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Louis Evan Shipman
Philadelphia
Hackett
Sexton
I Want to Let Go In Quiet Exhaustion
Poem imitates Paul Revere style signaling fatigue and longing for release. Speaker asks to forget worries and sleep, seeking solitude away from people and judgments. The voice expresses weariness with life’s pressures and a desire to drop everything and rest.
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Paul Reuters
Amos HK. Wells
Lippincott
Editress Complimented On Gazette’s Steady Run
The Kansas City Star praises the Emporia Gazette noting there has been no deterioration since William Allen White left for Idaho and Mrs. White to run the paper, keeping the publication steady and strong.
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Emporia Gazette
Willian Allen White
Idaho
Jeff Mrs. White
Kansas City Star
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MM. Schwab
Street Gamin
Ani
Hell
Heaven
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