The Train Near Marenne A Tale Of Accident And Fear
Weekly Short Story by Paul Marguerite recounts Dr Trinsel recalling a near fatal accident at Marenne station. He narrates life’s fragility and the constant threat of death, then vivid rescue by a servant and a woodcutter as the heel frees from a railway switch. The tale ends with a reflection on life and luck.
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Paul Marguerite
Trinsel
Trin- Sel
Marenne
Baptistin
Monsier
Textile Strikers Consider Return To Work In New England
About 10 000 textile workers who kept a nine week strike in New England will gather on the common to vote on returning to work. The mass meeting will decide whether to end the strike or continue it at mills of American Woolen Company and others. Some Lawrence mills oppose the new wage plan while Pacific Arlington and others refuse to adopt the schedule.
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New England
Lawrence
American Woolen Company
Woodmilla
Pacific
Arlington
New American Woolen Company
Everett
Pacific Mills
Local men accept New York backward auto run bet
Winston-Salem residents J. H. Lenman and J. H. Nixon agreed to drive an automobile backward from Winston-Salem to New York for a $2,000 prize from wealthy New Yorker E. W. Dennis. If they fail the wager calls for a $2,000 forfeit, with a start planned for April 1 if weather allows.
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Winston-Salem
J. H. Lenman
J.H. Nixon
E. W. Dennis
New York
Messrs
Lehman and
Ninon
Little blind girl presides over New York Senate for brief moment
A seven year old blind girl, Rachel Arkenas of New York City, presided over the New York State Senate for about fifteen seconds and announced the vote on the Gittins-Pender bill aiding higher education for the blind. The bill passed unanimously as she repeated the vote with the lieutenant governor.
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Albany
Nate
Rachel Arkenas
New York City
John Alden
Alden
Conwiy
Rachel
Ferguson funeral defies will in religious rights dispute
The Ohio man Owen Theodore Ferguson of Columbus died at his sister’s home. His will banned religious rites and any Christian symbols at his funeral and urged a nonsectarian cremation or burial with a marching band and Dixie tunes. Relatives defied the request and buried him in Columbus vault. Ferguson was forty five.
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Marion
Owen Theodore Ferguson
South Wood Aven
Columbus
Re. B. B. King
Mount Vernon Avenue
Ferguson
Old Town
Robert
Oakdale
Moxahala
Pergusoff
Explosive accident maims man at New Catskill aqueduct shaft
George Barr night superintendent of Shaft 11 at the New Catskill aqueduct in Morningside Park exposed a nitro glycerine cap, threatened to show its danger, and after attempting a joke triggered an explosion that severely injured him. He was taken to J Hood Wright Hospital with life threatening injuries. Barr's home is in Lynchburg Virginia. A separate report notes the twelfth annual Virginia Graduated Nurses Association convention opening in Lynchburg with Miss Randolph of Richmond presiding.
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New York
George Barr
Catskill Aqueduct
Morningside Park
Barr
Pittsburgh Contracting Company
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Street
Broadway
B.C. Goodwin
Max Morris
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Goodwin
Morris
J. Hood Wright Hospital
West One Hundred
Lynchburg
Graduated Nurses’ Association of Virginia
Monnie
Elks' Home
Miss Randolph
Richmond
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad Claim
Norfolk resident E C Hampshire reports relief from kidney colic after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Ad copy urges readers with back pain or kidney discomfort to request Dean's Kidney Pills by name, noting a 50 cent price and Foster Milburn Co. as producers.
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Dean
E. C. Hampshire
E. Brambleton St
Norfolk
Doan
Mr. Hampshire
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Yuan Prepares 5 to Defend Pekin
Special dispatch reports President Yuan Shikai notifying foreign legations that if peace talks fail with General Sheng Yun marching 10,000 troops from Kan Su, Pekin will be defended to the last. Loyal troops bolster defenses as cannons rise on the Southern City wall and long range guns guard all 16 gates while the siege threat looms.
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PEKIN
Yuan Shi Kai
Sheng Yun
Kan Su
Pekin P
Yuan
Yun
Memime Dans
Violence rises in Westphalia coal strike with clashes
Berlin reports sharp growth in violence as 00,000 miners strike. Beecham fights left thirty non union men jailed after barricades. A mob attacked a building, troops used sabres injuring about thirty. Dynamite disappearances raise fears of anarchist campaigns. Strike leaders urge restraint as gas and factory operations feel impact. In New York Mrs. Jacob Miller, suffragette leader, plans to sit at Tamany steps until Murphy supports votes for women.
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Berlin
Beecham
Rhine
New York
Jacob Miller
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
Roosevelt to Renounce Speech on Big Business
Washington reports indicate Colonel Roosevelt plans to modify his stance on regulating big business as he pursues a third term. The Columbus address angered industrial interests, prompting Roosevelt to seek business support and distance his candidacy from perceived threats to America’s solid institutions.
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Washington, D. C
Baltimore American
Republican
New York
Roosevelt
Washington
Columbus
Institutons
America
Taft
Gagga Imore
Chicago
St. Louis
San
Taft Supporters Form Clubs Across Nation For renomination
A Pittsburgh conference gathers manufacturers merchants and professionals to plan concerted action defending Taft and opposing Roosevelt. B F Jones Jr presides as Taft campaign leaders, including Taft, Crane and McKinley, agree to end personal attacks and focus on issues like the third term and recall of judicial decisions.
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Francisco
Taft
Roosevelt
Pittsburg
B. F. Jones, Jr
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Crane
Massachusetts
McKinely
Taft Campaign Bureau
Hitles
Taft Bureau
Knox Hosts Salvadorean Escort Aboard Cruiser
The U S cruiser Marriana arrived at San Jose Guatemala from Acajutla, El Salvador, with Secretary Knox and party aboard. A harbor salute welcomed them as about fifty Salvadoreans escorted Knox from San Salvador to the coast.
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San Jose
Guatemala
United States
Marriana
Knox
Acajsutla
Salvador
Maryland
Acajutla
San Salvador
Mary Curtis Lee Named Sponsor for Confederate Reunion
Miss Mary Curtis Lee daughter of Captain and Mrs Dan M Lee of Stafford county has accepted appointment as sponsor-in-chief for the Sons of Veterans of the State of Virginia at large. She will attend the Grand Reunion of United Confederate Veterans in Macon Georgia from May 6 to 12.
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Fredericksburg
Mary Curtis Lee
Dan M. Lee
Stafford County
Sons of Veterans of
State of Virginia
United Confederate Veterans
Macon
What a Woman Can and Did Do
Testimonial from Mrs Lucy Hennessee of McMinnville Tennessee praising Cardus a woman's tonic for six years of womanly troubles. She claims rapid improvement after one bottle and urges other women to try the herbal remedy noting its gentle natural cure and benefits to appetite nerves and complexion. Written inquiry to Chattanooga Medicine Co Ladies Advisory Dept for instructions and a 64 page home treatment book.
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Cardus
N. B
Ladies’ Advisory Dept
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Woman's Roast and Apple Dishes Featured in Home Kitchen
Instructions describe roasting beef with bacon onion and carrot in a moderate oven, with stock for flavor and periodic basting. Also offers several apple based sauces using dried fruits and nuts, plus baked apples with candied peel and spice. A verse notes a commuter’s grudge in a Milwaukee Sentinel car column.
Pacemaker of the heart identified by Keith and colleagues
A Royal College of Surgeons demonstration outlines the discovery of the heart’s pacemaker, a small mass of tissue where beat initiation originates. Dr. Martin Flack and Dr. Thomas Lewis helped locate the site, with electrical studies confirming its role and noting secondary centers that can start beating if the primary center is damaged.
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Arthur Keith
Royal College of Surgeons
Keith
Martin Flack
Thomas Lewis
University College
London
Philadelphia Public Ledger
A Clever Game Careers TM
A party game uses large card boards with celebrity pictures. Players guess the subject's career by describing the reverse side before time runs out. If recognized the true life history is written. if not the guess is read. Cards are collected and the real name revealed with the best career read aloud.
Witty Exchanges Reported in Chicago Tribune Scribbles
A clipped 19th century style quotation features muffled knocks and banter about a deadbeat named McStab. The dialogue shifts to humorous social jests about entertainment, money, and a ring, with arch remarks about bald heads and borrowing. This fragment showcases a theatrical or social exchange noted by the Tribune.
The Influence of Heredity Heard in a Satirical Bit
A humorousHarper's Weekly quip jokes that heredity influences a garage family. Wimpleton notes the stork visit to Jimpson's home as he reveals his chauffeur has a bouncing baby who honks like a horn and spends time blowing bubbles, a playful satire on parenthood.
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Jimpson
Wimpleton
Wimp
Harpers Weekly
Prohibition Debate Echoes In Historic Missives
A collage of cartoonish phrases from Milwaukee Sentinel and Virginian-Pilot letters references sharing possessions and hospitality with lines about a cook pocketbook car and an opera box. The Virginian-Pilot note notes explorers turning to a region where statute prohibits exists, signaling satire on prohibition.
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Portor
Milwaukee Sentinel
Virginian-Pilot
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