Spelling Bee Draws Large Crowd at Stettiner Hall
The Modern Patriotic club staged a spelling bee at Stettiner hall with proceeds split for Y M C A fund. Winners were George Enyart Onward and Mrs Bertha Stuart Slaybaugh. Music by local quartets preceded and followed the event amid varied speeches and presentations.
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Stettiner Hall
Patriotic Club
Y. M. C. A. Lot Fund
W. T. Giffe
C. L. Wintey
J. H. Neu
George
Explosion on the Tennessee Navy ship during speed trials
An explosion occurred in the fire room of the Tennessee during a semi annual speed trial under naval regulations. A tube failed in the boiler causing a blast of soot and steam. Seventeen men were blackened and some killed in the confined space as rescuers entered the darkened room. An official investigation has been ordered.
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Babcock and Wilcox
Northern Indiana Editorial Association Holds New Officers
The Northern Indiana Editorial Association met at the Murdock Hotel with two weeks’ visitors from Decatur and other cities. Officers named include President James E. McDonald and vice president W H Zimmerman. papers on the paper trust were read. a luncheon at Longcliff followed by a social dinner at the Country club concluded the day. The next session will be in Plymouth in June.
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Rochester Sentinel
Trust
Terflinger
Country Club
Plymouth
Department of Agriculture
United States
Baltimore
Papa
Harper’s Weekly
Hitchcock Trial Games To A Close
New York June 5 The trial of Raymond Hitchcock the comedian came to an abrupt halt in the supreme court as proceedings paused amid legal maneuvering and sudden delays.
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Hitchcock
New York
Raymond Hitchcock
The
Supreme
Lincoln Tablet on a Steamship Presentation
American travelers aboard a steamship are reminded of Abraham Lincoln through a tablet bearing his Gettysburg speech. The text praises Lincoln's honesty, duty, and international influence, proposing his life as a model for citizens and travelers regardless of country.
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Lincoln
Story of a Black Cap at Malta Court Martial
A court martial aboard the Hibernia at Malta for a drunken gunner reveals a comic misread. The president, famed for a black skull cap, reentered without his hat, prompting the prisoner to fear hanging. Instead the punishment was a few days in cells.
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Christopher Craddock
Swiftsure
Malta
Hibernia
London
Tidiness A Feteach House Aims For Immaculate Living
A narrator recalls a friend whose obsession with cleanliness dominates life. The waxed floors and pristine rooms cause accidents and discomfort, turning visits into tense trials. The story hints at a social critique of extreme propriety and isolation.
Before They Were Hatched This Young Lady Proceeded to Count
A humorous anecdote recounts a girl noting eggs and counting hatchlings as a classroom project. The piece portrays a tidy sequence of observations and early curiosity in a light, period-voice style.
Deserved Only a Nickel. Vanderbilt charity tale endures
A New York charity worker recalls Miss Gladys Van derbilt visiting a children’s hospital in Hungary and a boy she challenged to be good for a week. When asked if he deserved the promised dollar, the boy replied that he deserved only a nickel, highlighting a poignant, humorous incident.
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New York
Gladys Vanderbilt
Hungary
Miss Vanderbilt
Children’s Hospital
Island of Woods sought for Ireland amid Arbor Day plan
Ireland seeks formal title as Island of Woods as Forestry and Irrigation promotes Arbor Day style tree planting nationwide. The piece notes the American origins of Arbor Day, its spread, and Ireland’s fall planting week starting October 29, plus a circular urging bishops and communities to participate.
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Ireland
Nebraska
United States
Irish Forestry Society
Watches Baked and Frozen
A jeweler explains watch regulation by heat and cold to ensure accurate performance in any climate. He demonstrates baking watches to heat them then plans refrigeration to test cold regulation. He notes chronometers require stricter regulation due to extreme temperature swings and prolonged exposure.
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Russia
Cairo
Sahara
Iceland
Ancient trees claim astonishing ages worldwide
The document lists various trees with claimed ages from 24 to over 5,000 years. It cites Brazilian coconuts living 600 to 700 years, date palms up to 24 to 300 years, Wallan's oak near Paisley over 700, eight Mount of Olives olives, Fountains Abbey yews, a California redwood, Africa's baobabs, Chapultepec cypress, and Dracaena Draco in Teneriffe noted by Humboldt as among earth's oldest inhabitants.
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Paisley
Scotland
Mount of Olives
Jerusalem
Fountains Abbey
Yorkshire
England
Abbey
Mariposa Grove
California
Africa
Chapultepec
Humboldt
Orotava
Teneriffe
Bamboo Skyscraper Rises to Rebuilt Peking Gate
A bamboo scaffold around the new southwestern gate of Peking supports a rebuilt Chien Men. The structure, standing taller than the city wall, uses no nails or screws and is built of bamboo poles and ropes for the gate’s reconstruction after the Boxer troubles.
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Peking
Boarding house demise cuts cafe medicine display
A somber speaker notes the closing of the boarding house, praising its end of ostentatious medicine taking at the table. He argues such behavior would be shamed in a cafe by guests, waiters, or the proprietor who looks after patrons.
New Color for Army Uniforms
After years of experiments the Austrian military authorities choose puke gray for infantry uniforms replacing blue. The decision reflects lessons from the Boer War and Russo Japanese campaigns emphasizing field invisibility. Pike gray cloth will be issued as current stock runs out.
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War Office
A Purpose for the Change
A visitor recalls a mirror with a black frame in a bedroom and a resident explains she has painted the frame light blue to conceal it for tenants who asked her to keep it until September. The mirror belongs to people in the next flat.
Shrine on Balancing Rock in Burmah
In Burmah a wealthy man built a shrine atop a balancing rock. Material was carried by men and hauled up by rope. The ascent demands stout limbs and steady nerves as only tiny steps are cut in an almost vertical wall, a slip could cause severe injury or death.
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Burmah
Almost a Nature Faker Woodbie Riter
A dialogue fragment features a publisher challenging a writer to illustrate a lovers quarrel scene. The girl demands the return of a ring while the young man argues the writer misrepresents life.
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Woodbie Riter
Sharks used for meat extract in Sweden claimed palatable
A butcher describes sharks being processed in Sweden into a beeflike meat extract. He cites multiple factories, a secret method to remove fish taste, boiling and filtering steps, and evaporation to molasses thickness. The product allegedly helps consumptives as well as beef.
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Sweden
Speed Maniacs hear colonel on a road-therapy idea
The Kentucky colonel suggests a cooperative hospital for car owners where victims could be treated instantly like Mrs. Thompson’s eight year old boy. He implies car owners should fund such a ward to aid those hurt in accidents.
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Robert M. Thompson
Kerridge
Kentucky
Kerridges
Kerridge and Automobile Disablin
Word Making and Nonsense in Speech
A humorous exchange questions a young woman’s role as an author. The man rejects affected speech claiming she is a newspaper reporteress, highlighting old fashioned gendered endings in a light social debate.
Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets Offer Cure Claims
An advertisement touts Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets as a cure for rheumatism nervousness and constipation with prevention claims for appendicitis. Described as easy to take purely vegetable and sold for 50 cents a box by druggists including Porter. Manufactured for T F Trusler Huntington Ind and sold under a strict guarantee.
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Trusler
Porter
T. F. Trusler
Huntington
Ind
Native Caught Seining Leads to $100 in Fines
Thursday night a native was caught in the act of using a seine. The victim faced fines totaling $100 with one penalty for possessing a seine and another for catching fish with it.
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