Mexico City Bull Fight Excitement Draws Crowds
Report describes MNDaY in Mexico with open shops and festive crowds in ragged and fine attire. It details La gran Corrida de Toros at Plaza de Toros at 3:30 pm, notes Revertes matadores, ticket price of 35 a head, and an arena layout with barriers, gates, and seating. The bullfight sequence covers picadores, banderilleros, and the matador finalizing with a mortal thrust as the crowd cheers.
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Mexico
Clistes
Zatins
Plaza de Toros
Republic of Mexico
Reverte Espanol
Muleta
Reverte
Peare
Cuadrilla
Simon N. D North Chosen as New Census Director
Simon Newton Dexter North has accepted Roosevelt’s offer to head the Census Bureau. A veteran statistician, he headed the manufactures department in the Twelfth Census and has long been active in journalism and state affairs. He resides in Boston.
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Simon N. D
North Chosen
Simon Newton Dexter North
Roosevelt
Census Bureau
Manufactures
New York State Asaogla Tea Press
Albany Express
National Association of Woodturers
Industrial Commission
Boston
Nap Cost Seat in Senate Sidetracks Pettus and Pugh
A reminiscence traces how Pettus pressure led to Pugh’s defeat for a U S Senate seat. Pettus demanded a judgeship for Alabama alongside a morning nap, prompting Pugh to concede and lose the race. The anecdote notes political risk of bold moves and warns of volatile rhetoric in Washington.
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Nap
Senate
Pugh
Sue A Sama
Pettus
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Dpa
Cleveland
Bes
Washington
Senator Pugh
Pug
Pdo
Alabama
Joe Chappell
Mitchell
Diver skafander ends sponge harvesting across nations
The skafander allows divers to search the sea bottom for an hour but causes fatal palsy risk. Law now bans its use to protect sponges in Samoa Créete Cyprus Tunis Egypt Turkey and Greece. Natives also use harpooning primitive diving gear and dredging.
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Samoa
Créete
Cyprus
Tunis
Egypt
Turkey
Greece
Porchester Castle A Historic Crossroads Of Britain
The article traces Porchester Castle in Portsmouth Harbor as a layered fortress built by Romans and altered through Norman and Tudor periods. It notes a Briton Caer Peris, Roman Portus Magnus, circular towers, thick walls of eight to twelve feet, and a prison during King John’s era with 8000 prisoners during a French war.
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Casilea
British Isles
Porchester Castle
Portsmouth Harbor
Caer Peris
Portus Magnus
John
France
Real Homespun bakery aims to lift two sisters in Troy
Eleanor Wray, short on means since Dr Wray’s death, opens Real Homespun bakery and mending shop to support sister Nettie and younger brother Herbie. The enterprise draws steady customers like Lawyer Cair and townsfolk, while Eleanor endures strain from long hours and social gossip as engagement to Charlie Leigh looms, altering town fortunes and family pride.
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Eleanor Wray
Eleanor
Papa
Charlie Leigh
Nettie
Charlie
Dr. Wray
Troy
Kathleen
Kleaper
Wray
Cair
Gay Young
Obsrile Leigh
Bessie’ Carr
Foster
Jamie
Brown
Toven
Carl
Miss Wray
Anders
Nettle
Pupila
Kensington
Herbie
Elea
Charles
Dr Wray
Cheena
Will
P Leigh Duitier
Lee
Bessie Carr
Ted
Llaugh
Leigh
Bessie
Carr
Mia
Carona
Sharlie
Sapa
Mamma Leigh
Fest
le Leigh
Bexing
Surgeon Finds Small Brass Plate in Patient After Operation
In a remark from Chicago, a surgeon reports discovering a small brass plate in a patient after surgery. The sick man weakly asserts it confirms his prior claim about something he had eaten, as quoted in the fragmented text.
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Chicago
Trials of the accommodating man with a rural telephone
An amateur farmer recalls the burdens of being the district telephone operator in a rural area. He describes arrivals of town callers, mistaken messages, and the strain on family life as neighbors rely on his line for communications. He laments constant demands from both town and country neighbors.
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Mra Jinks
Jinks
Jinkses
Mr. Jinks
Jinkies
Detroit Free Press
Had Hope for the Future in a Dialectal Vein
An old gentleman and a boy named Arthur discuss marriage in playful chatter. Chimmie tries to write to his girl Lizzie but struggles with rhymes. A quip defines a diplomat as a man who tells his wife everything that happens, not to please.
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Plessant
Hare
Arthur
Lippinott’s
New Drying Process Lets Fresh Produce Dry Efficiently
A drying method uses air drawn through steam pipe grids into a chamber under a slotted floor, drying fruit and vegetables at 90 to 100 degrees for six hours. Tests in Worcester England covered carrots potatoes sliced apples and other produce achieving commercial dryness with low running costs. An English industry may soon rise.
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Watts
Worcester
England
E. Waxsmann
American Association For the Advancement “of Science
EB. W. Morley
Poem Reserve University
Sandy Hook
Crow supposedly saved by a crow killer farmer tale
An Illinois farmer recalls a country visit and describes a long campaign against crows plaguing his crops. He details rifles, scares, and even a dramatic encounter where a crow allegedly saved a hog by pecking at a hawk, ending with gunfire and a dramatic finish.
Publishers publish thin editions of standard works
English publishers favor limp leather volumes as Lothrop unveils Irving Bacheller’s Carrel of the Blessed Sacrez and Crockett’s Strong Mac set on Scottish moors with a shift to Spain. Edward Hutton’s Italy and the Italians appears from Dutton, Scribners hype a Powell detective drama The House on the Hadtop, Crowley retells Detroit 1812 war scenes, Badger issues Tannhauser, Liljencrants revisits King Canute, McClure-McClure offers The Blue Goose mining tale, Conrad writes in English though Polish born, Carnaquay debut from Macmillan, Harte posthumous Trent’s Trust.
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the Lothrop Publishing
Irving Bacheller
Ssrcez
North
Crockett
Strong Mac
Scotland
Spain
EB. P, Dutton &Co
Italy
Edward Hutton
Scribners
Princes Powell
Hadtop
Mary Catherine’ ‘Crowley
Detroit
Pon‘Tiac
Richard “G. Badger
Tannhauser
Charles G. Kendall
A .C. McClure & Co
McClure
Phillips’ & Co
Frank L. Nacop
Bret Harte
Yo Niraes
California
Joseph’ “Conrad
Conrad
Poland
Patriotic Review
Warsaw
Ronald Carnaquay
Macmillan Company
Fock
Bradley’ Qiman
Government ends India feather trade causing global impact
The article explains how the Indian government’s decision to halt feather exports follows severe hunting, destruction, and crop losses in India. It notes feather supply from India remains vast, with green parrots and pearlet plumage prized by London plumassiers. Ending the trade could uplift rural South African farmers and spark European animal protection measures.
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India
Jan
London
London Aid India Docks
South Africa
Europe
Real Catastrophe Phrase Hidden In Frightened Quote
A fragment from the Philadelphia Ledger contains disjointed dialogue about poisoning and fear at night. It mentions a husband accusing his wife of hiding strychnine and a whispered plea to keep quiet to avoid waking the baby. The battered text includes garbled names and stray phrases.
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Philadelphia
Ledger
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THE
Forchester Castle
Great’ Britain
Real Homespun
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Crow
Hoge
Dearborn Street
Reed
Jong
Mr. Crow
Hiss
Lyman Abbott
Henry Ward Beecher
Brett Harte
Mgr
Harte
Trent
Trust
George
Tyan
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