Dipping the Flag A Historic Naval Greeting
A March 16 era note on the traditional naval salute when ships dip their flag as a sign of greeting. The piece recounts discipline, customs, and the ritual asks how flags and topsails convey state of peace or war. It cites Portsmouth in the 16th century and cites Harper's Weekly on the fixed code of salutes and gun numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldish
Worhout
Joan Daowkins
Portsmouth
Harper's Weekly
Changes in Words How Language Transforms Over Time
A Chicago Journal excerpt explains how words evolve through carpentry like shifts in meaning. It traces neighbor from sib to good sib to gossip and farmer from boor to boorish, and explains neighbor to neigh bor to neighbor. It concludes with a note on the proverb Little pitchers have big ears and a reworded sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Journal
Ruthless Hannibal Campaigns Across Italy and Spain
Ruthless Hannibal led a punitive campaign in Italy and Spain plundering 400 towns and destroying untold tens of thousands of men in this historical narrative.
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Hannibal
Llannibal
Italy
Spain
Building Up A Word It Appears A Fine German Art
A Chicago Herald account recounts a farcical German etymology of long compound words from Hottentot life. A prisoner’s mispronunciation leads to a tangled chain of terms describing captor, jail, and weapon with comic geopolitical misreadings.
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Germany
Getoma
Attentater
Wiis
Attentaterlittengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte
Hottentottenstrottertrotte Mutterattentater
Tokyo's Pool of Tears and Ghosts of a Prison Site
A fragmented note describes a stagnant pool on the former Tokyo prison grounds known as the Pool of Tears. It never dries, draws ghost stories, and is avoided after dark though daytime students use the area for air and exercise.
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Tokyo
Jiu
Japan
Leopard Attack Described in Sport on the Nilgaits
An account titled Sport on the Nilgtts recounts a dangerous encounter with a leopard. The narrator recalls a sudden ambush while returning from visiting a friend, the horse bolting, and five puppies fleeing as the hunt ends with the dog Flirt injured but later recovered.
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Pletelier
Starg Bend
Jerome
Philos
Flirt
Details of Inaugural Parade Announced from Washington
Official list reveals sections from drum and bugle corps to colored bands and boy scout units. Highlights include Atlanta and Lewistown bands, Washington groups, and thousands from Southern congresses and universities. Governors named to ride. McCreary to attend but skip parade.
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Lst
Washington
Junig Order
American United Meanies
Atlanta
J. J. Witter
Fort Plain
8. C
Boy Scout Band
Lewistown
National Training School For Boys
Washington, D. C
Southern Commercial Congress
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Davidson College
George Wwu University
George Washington University
Clemson
Eastern College
Tusculim College
University of North Carolina
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken
N. J
J.N. Fled
D. C
Pioneer Drill Corps
South Bethlehem
Virginia
Nebraskan
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
New York
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Maryland
Missouri
Delaware
McCreary
Theosophists' California Center Hints at New Sensitive Race
The Krotoua Institute near Hollywood opens under Marie B Rossnnk. Theosophy leader A P Warrington says a "sensitized" race will arise with high mental and clairvoyant powers. He cites children born now as part of this new lineage dedicated to universal brotherhood.
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Los Angeles
Krotoua Institute
Theosophical
Hollywood
Marie B Rossnnk
Annie Besant
San Gabriel Valley
Apolonia
Vyana
Universal Brotherhood
A. P. Warrington
Theosophy
Fish Pulls Captor On Ice In Dramatic Rescue
In Chicago Rogers Park police rushed to the lakefront to find fisherman James Clark pulling aboard a shivering Daniel Reed who had been dragged by a fish line onto a moving cake of ice. Reed explained a violent tug caused him to brace as the ice broke and drift toward Michigan shore before the line snapped and Clark saved him.
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Chicago
Rogers Park
Lake Front
James Clark
Daniel Reed
Michigan
Clark
Salvation Army receives Detroit donation for General Booth memorial
Salvation Army officials in Detroit report a woman donated property valued at 50000 dollars to the Detroit post as a memorial to General Booth. The memorial fund aims to fund new training colleges in New York and Chicago and has surpassed 100000 dollars. Japanese and German migration noted by Mexican officials reports over five thousand Japanese and several hundred Germans crossing into Mexico from the United States in the past week.
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Detroit
Salvation Army
Mich
General Booth
New York
Chicago
Wtals
Mexico
Loaane
Laredo
Manuel A. Estevan
Santonio
Tex
United States
Free Exhibit for School Children Opens at Broadway
Long Branch school children and The Record newsboys are invited to a Saturday matinee at the Broadway in a free special view of a grand series of pictures showing the inauguration of Governor Wilson and ceremonies at the national capital. Manager Rosenberg and The Record sponsor the event with free admission for all children at 12 o'clock.
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Long Branch
Record
Broadway
Rosenberg
Wilson
National Capital
United States
Washington
Feta
Methodist Author Defies High Critics at Conference
A heated session over a Methodist book led to a seven member committee. Five aged ministers requested retirement including Wright Reeves Reed Roe, all honored with formal farewells. The conference also debated Preachers' Aid Fund contributions and held society anniversaries and services under Pentecostal auspices.
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Preachers’ Aid Society Fund
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
H. P. Sayford
Li Bi Cu
China
Pentecostal Committee
Dr. Lake
Monroe Vayhiger
Morris
Clinton N. Howard
Thrift and Virtue in Franklin's View on Wealth
A fragment reflecting Benjamin Franklin on thrift as key to riches and virtue. It notes that different people are not equally suited to wealth and that wise management requires seizing tasks earlier in the day rather than delaying to later in the afternoon.
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Benjamin Franklin
Arrowroot Jelly Recipe Method
Instructions describe mixing two tablespoons arrowroot with cold water then adding a pint of hot water and boiling for over minutes stirring constantly. The dish should be prepared in a double boiler.
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Raveler
Trateter
Sydney Bulletin
Xrowh
Chicago News
Birmingham Age Herald
Seneca
Long Branch Banking Coo
THE
Uptown Bank
Schenck
UpTown
Britton
J. J. Cotton
Golden’s Paints & Wall Paper
Lucas
James E. Riddle
Chas. E
Hanson’s
A. K. Bennett
Choice Groceries
Green
Blaisdell & Edwards
Johnson-Goodnough Co
Long Branch Opera House
BIG Parade
Baltimore
Hyattsville
Democratic Association
Citizens of the
District of Columbia
Fish
Captor
Funny Creature
Funds For Salvation Army
Fabientiy
Puck
Dally Record
Asbury Park
Frank
Cookman and
Grand Avenues
Paris
Broadway Theatre
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