Retirement Wave Touches Navy Before 1909
Washington reports a record wave of retirements among senior naval officers in 1908. Fighting Bob Evans turns 62 August 18 and will retire, with 24 officers in total leaving active duty under the 62-year rule, including Capt. John Elliott Pillsbury and Capt. William Sheffield Cowes among others.
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Washington
Bob" Evans
Pacific
John Elliott Pillsbury
Bureau of Navigation
Brownson
Roosevelt
Rixey
Pillsbury
William Sheffield Cowes
Greely
Samuel Williams Very
England
George Augustus Bicknell
John Mitchell Hawley
Massachusetts
Navy Department
Kimberly
Nipsie
Franklin J. Drake
Corean
Seoul
Richardson
Odd recovery of costly gems from opera cloak
Mrs. William D Little recovered a $12000 pearl necklace after misplacing it in her opera cloak. The maid sold the cloak to a resale shop, where workers found the jewels in a pocket and alerted a jeweler, leading to their return. Also reported, the Vali of Van ordered a 12 horsepower motor boat for local use near Mount Ararat.
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New York
William D. Little
Mrs. Little
Bridgeport
Conn
Van
Mt. Ararat
Ararat
Asiatic
Turkey
United States
Negro clerk faced rejection at Muskogee agency
In Muskogee Oklahoma civil service hires a black stenographer W D Nicholson from Birmingham Alabama as the first regular appointment since civil service reform. White clerks oppose his placement threatening walkouts and Indian Agent Kelsey worries others will quit. Miss Alice Robertson is cited in related trouble at the post office.
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Muskogee
Okla
Civil-Service Commission
W. D. Nicholson
Birmingham
Ala
Nicholson
Kelsey
South
Alice Robertson
Sugar Exports Fall Off in American Occupied Islands
Washington reports from the Bureau of Insular Affairs show exports reaching a record value of 33.7 million dollars, with sugar ownish declines in quantity and price. Sugar exports totaled 118,395 tons worth 3.92 million, markets largely Oriental, while U.S. shipments totaled 224 thousand. Imports from the U.S. surpassed 5 million, cotton cloth drives gains. The 1906 tariff amendment corrected bias against American piece goods. The postal savings bank proves vital in the islands, with total operating costs to June 430, 1907 at 37,393.85 pesos and a 30,897.99 peso deficit after interest deductions.
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Washington
Bureau of Insular Affairs
United States
Postal Savings Bank
Commission
Parson's Pet Sermon Stolen In Pittsburgh Church
Rev Dr W T Reid pastor of First United Presbyterian in Pittsburg reports theft of his manuscript sermon on Christ Cleanses the Temple from the church study after robbers entered via a memorial window. Looted papers include the sermon as city headlines note broader church financial uproar.
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Pittsburg
W. T. Reid
First United Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue
the Temple
United Presbyterian
Dr. Reid
Poker Fight Aboard Atlantic Liner Traced To Large Losses
Actor Henry Dixey recalls a fierce altercation on a liner after two heavy poker players clashed over enormous losses. The tale contrasts smoking room mores with Tin Can saloon lore as a tenderfoot witnesses suspected cheating in a dramatic poker scene.
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Henry BE. Dixey
Mr. Dixie
Tenderfoot
Brand of Cain proposal for murderers in France
A French scientist argues that guillotine and life imprisonment fail as punishments for murder. He proposes branding criminals with a red hot iron, stamping an M on the forehead in public, to bear the mark of crime for life and serve as a warning.
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France
Gold Prospects in Lapland Near Ivalo River
The northward gold fields of Lapland along the Ivalo River host ongoing dredging, with 300 foot diggings to trace ore flow. A U.S. founded company reported last year’s find of four pounds valued at 1506 dollars, the largest nugget at 123 grains, while three firms pursue mining, including the Ivala Company. Kultala, built in 1871 by the Finnish government for gold washing, lies within its holdings.
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Lapland
Ivale
United States
Ivalo
Ivala Company
Kultala
Paganini's Violin Faces Decay And Fresh Preservation Debate
The famed Stradivarius violin once touched by Pablo Sarasate is rotting in a glass case. City plans to revive it briefly each year by letting the conservatoire’s best pupil play it for an hour, hoping to extend its life as debates over preservation intensify.
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Paganini
Conservatoire
Pablo del Sarasate
Italy
Siblings who are blind perform in Hamburg concert
A recent Hamburg concert featured a blind sister with a fine soprano voice, accompanied by three brothers, one of whom accompanies on piano and another a cellist. a fourth brother studies composition at the Berlin Academy of Music. The family, natives of Muhlheim, is praised for talent and musical promise.
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Hamburg
Berlin Academy of Music
Muhlhelman der- Ruhr
Muhlhelm
Terms That Seem Strange in Scottish and English Law
The piece highlights peculiar Scottish law terms such as sequestration for bankruptcy, writer or law agent for solicitor, debate for argument, assizes for jury, delinquent for wrongdoer, fatuous person for idiot, housebreaking with an aggravation for burglary, and author meaning the seller of real property.
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Scotland
Gradually First student How did he er to be a college president
Fragmentary excerpt shows a student asking how someone rose to college president. The text contains garbled phrases and incomplete sentences, with stray quotes and misordered words. No clear names, dates, or institutions are identifiable from the available readable portion.
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Liny
Good Fellow Ambitions and a Poker Game Moral
George Ade tale follows Cousin Jim a famed good fellow who drifts into rowdy gambling circles in pursuit of status. Herbert, small and sickly, is lured into high stakes rooms by Jim, learns brutal lessons about drinking and bluffing, and ends up trapped in a rigged boarding-house game. The piece critiques hollow bravado, exposing how ambition to fit in leads to ruinous choices and empty praise.
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Jim
France
Ever
Anon
Bath
Herbert
Renig
Vicky
Ike
Bnd
Congress
Trimmers’ Union
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