The Town Inventor Returns a Rich Man in Lausanne
Eph Knight, once a failed inventor, returns to Lausanne a wealthier man after building a fortune in Knight company stock and torpedo patents. Polly Gill, his former sweetheart now tied to his rise, navigates social judgment as Knight’s ambitions drive life from the woodshed to global prospects and a pending marriage.
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Eph Knight
Lausanne
Eph
Wph
Langley
Knight Company
Wrights
Gill
Polly
Knight
Polly Gill
Epic
Washington
Patent Office
Jim Carew
Carew
Killing Ants With Cannon
A humorous critique explains how in some tropical regions large cannon loaded with grape shot are used to kill warrior ants. The termite like insects live in a republic, with workmen, soldiers, and queens. nests reach twenty feet high and three to four feet underground, and can shelter many workers.
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South Africa
Egypt
Teatime Visitor Hinted By Teal leaf In Cup
A woman who sheltered four soldiers served meager dinners with tea as the main item. She noted a tealeaf floating in a cup and said there would be a visitor that day.
Rosalind Junior Fraser Seeks Child Welfare Coursed Insight
Fraser confronts a crying baby on a fire escape and visits Rosalind, Elizabeth, and Rosalind junior in their brownstone. He aims to write on child care while Rosalind mocks his expertise, sparking a playful push on whose methods best nurture the child’s individuality.
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Fraser
Elizabeth
Frayer
Rosalind
Avon
Walter Fraser
Hal
Rosaline
Grand Duke Nicholas Issues Three Word Warning
Paris recalls the tale of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich harshly warning Moscow supplies traders near the Polish frontier. He steps from his car and declares in three words Do not steal or I ll hang every mother s son of you. The terse rebuke ends the audience swiftly.
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Caucasus
Paris
Nicholas Nicholalevitch
Muscovy
Paria
Nicholas
Grand Duke
Fire alarm saves elephant at Kansas City show
The world famous Little Nemo, claimed as the smallest elephant, caused a blaze by overturning a gasoline stove in a straw barn at the J. H. Hachman World United Shows site on Guinette Avenue and Salisbury Street. Cap Watkins entered the smoky barn to guide Nemo to safety as the fire department arrived and workers moved the llamas and monkeys to safety.
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Little Nemo
J. H. Hachman
Cap” Watkins
Nemo
Cap
Fire Department
Women Advance and Industry Leads Facts Across Regions
Reports show Irish women in stenography earning up to three dollars weekly while English munition workers face a ban on metal buttons and hairpins. In Kansas City Kansas a jurors’ room provides mirrors and cosmetics for women. Los Angeles widows form a Merry Widows club chasing happiness. Queen Mary assists as King George’s health faltering. Philadelphia hires its first woman rural mail carrier, with a substitute route arrangement. Rendham mine cages employ a two and a half turnstile to cap riders at ten, a safeguard devised by Supt. John Corcoran.
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Ireland
England
Kansas City
Kan
Los Angeles
Merry Widows
George
Queen Mary
Mary Moore
Philadelphia
Jermyn & Company
Rendham
John Corcoran
Mrs Wilson’s Jewelry Habit Sparks Rumor in Washington
A century old jewelry business owner, Mrs Wilson seldom wears jewelry. Observers teased that the president accompanied Mrs Wilson to St Margaret’s, fueling a rumor of a romance on their first public outing together.
Why a Legislature Bans Baseball on Sundays
A fragment from a Tribune column questions New York laws linking harsh child labor with Sunday sport bans. The speaker riffs on motives, asking sociologists and others to explain if healthy sports are opposed by lawmakers who endorse child labor, noting the paradox with satire.
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New York
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W. G. Chapman
Destruy
Rosalind Junior
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Herman Goy
Taber
Durham
Poland
China
Farrow
Meadows
Imerson
Lister
McCormick
Guy Matthews
Cramer
Vv. L. Gaston
G. L. Hale
Roy Stranathan
Silver City
Hunsinger With
Lough
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