Hidden Treasure Hunt by Mrs Hitchcock Promises Cocos Island Expedition
Mrs Roswell D Hitchcock widow of a U S Navy commander claims a map to a buried treasure valued at 15 9 million on Cocos Island in the southern Pacific Ocean She reports a landslide guards on the island Costa Rican forces and a Boston steamship owner ready to fund a 300 000 expedition She plans a scientific party including a geologist botanist and students to search for bullion jeweled pieces and a legendary jeweled sword amid peril and intrigue while recounting past failed efforts by Palliser and Fitzwilliam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
New York American
Roswell D. Hitchcock
Commander Hitchcock
United States Navy
Hitchcock
Cambridge
New York
Klondike
Cocos
Palliser
Victoria
B.C
Lonor
New England
Boston
Uy Sities
Pigskin Bu
Wen
Lord Fitzwilliam
Club in league with cupil seeks domestic happiness
A Des Moines club named after the Japanese formed to promote marriage and preserve peace in homes. Forty six couples join under the First Methodist church influence. It conducts banquets rides and musicales to attract bachelors. Officers include President Walter A. Sauffman and Secretary Mrs Emma Pairatt.
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Waka Foot Kurwai Club
First Methodist Church of
Des Moines
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
George J. Truffman
Armong
Catse
Walter A. Sauffman
RK. J. Baird
Emma Pairatt
A. J. Bettom
Talk Not Cheap For Him Farmer Scott Thought
Berkshire Connecticut farmers embraced telephones as a rural boon. Farmer Babes Scott of Lee near a Yorkshire village first bought a home line, spoke with kin across Massachusetts Connecticut and New York, then faced a huge bill and had the device removed from the horse the next day.
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Farmer Scott
Berkshire County
Connecticut
New York World
Babes Scott
Lee
Yorkshire
Massachusetts
New York
Scott
St Ne
Poultry Experiment Uses Hot Water Hatchery Plan
Colorado physician Dr. Pitt A. Wade conducts a novel poultry experiment near Canon City using a 100 degree artesian well to hatch and brood chicks. After a successful single egg in a water tight box, he plans a hatchery on an extensive scale with specially built incubators and continuous water temperature control.
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Colorado
Pitt A. Wade
Canon City
Colo
Denver Republican
Eueh Eps
Sent Pee
Surgeon Senn Seeks Back To Simple Life In Africa
Chicago renowned surgeon Dr. Nicholas Senn plans a solo expedition to the Zambezi region in Africa seeking a stark retreat from civilization. He aims to study local savages and the flora and fauna, despite possible dangers from the unhealthy climate.
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Chicago
Nicholas Senn
United States
Africa
Zambezi
Benn
New Turbine Locomotive Idea From German Inventor
German professor Johann Stuwpt of Charlottenburg proposes turbine driven steam locomotives using staged turbine sections on each driving axle. Steam routed from boiler to first turbine, then to the others before rejoining exhaust, with exhaust led to the stack.
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Johann Stuwpt
Charlottenburg
Germany
Chicuko Tribune
Rush for Bad Lands Flooring Opens Vast Dakota Country
A Deadwood dispatch reports a prophecy fulfilled as rail lines push across the Bad Lands between the Black Hills and the Missouri. Settlers move in fast, with irrigation projects in Butte County expanding and thousands more acres awaiting reclamation for crops like hay, alfalfa, wheat, and sugar beets.
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South Dakota
Deadwood
New York Herald
Herald
Sioux Reservation
Blauck Hills
Missouri
Jordan
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago and
Milwaukee
Pierre
Milwaukee Road
Northwestern
Evarts
Missouri River
Chamberlain
Blick Hills
United States
Butte County
Black Hills
National Government
Locomotives as Fire Dugtoes in Buffalo News
The teading railroad buys jig shifting engines with fire apparatus for emergencies. A water stream at 140 pounds of pressure reached fifty feet and did effective work. The tank locomotive carries 8,606 gallons and uses a seven eighths inch puzzle in the rear.
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Teading
Buffalo News
Look Before You Leap Homecoming Conflicts in Love
Dick Truesdell returns to his father and home while doubts simmer about Margie’s engagement to George Colson. A misread telegram and a Morse code error reveal a trust test as Margie demands proof, ending with forgiveness after a tense confrontation and supper.
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Truesdell
Margie
George Colson
Cruesdell
Marjorie
Diek
Dick Truesdell
Jed
Marie
Marie Gorman
Bennett
Mr. Bennett
London
Mare
American Exchange
Marc Bennett
Mark
The University Presidency and Accountability
Andrew S. Draper argues in Atlantic that university leadership must be accountable to the central office. Freedom to act is balanced by definiteness of responsibility and frequent accountability to prevent arrogance and ensure harmony in governing a great institution.
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University
Andrew $. Draper
Atlantic
Widow's Second Husband Versus First in Banter
Snappy dialogue snippet features Cholly and Algy debating marriage. Cholly notes a widow may remarry while Algy quips he would avoid being her first or second husband, highlighting playful social exchanges between the characters.
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Cholly
Algy
Doscher
Pointed Paragraphs From a Curious Era
A collection of oddball notes cites Weary Campbell Bannermaan as a purported first prime minister of purely Celtic stock, plus mutterings about engineers, governors turned mayors, “Ohio kids” congressmen, birding experts, and a range of social tidbits from Mindanao to London and Texas. It mentions a Russian diplomat’s daughter in America, Speaker Cannon’s aide, a linguist Greek king, and auctions of tea farming plans while noting aging figures in Canada and global curiosities.
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Weary Campbell-Bannermaan
Godfrey Sykon
Wagstar
Leedy
Kansas
Valeda
Alaska
Ralp Cole
Roman G. Dawes
Howard L. Taylor
Ohio
Yi. A. Mears
Apo
Mindanao
Philippine
Mule
Nelka de Smeroff
Washington
Blow
St. Louis
Poor
Russia
White Busboy
Cannon
Greece
The Cunning Girl Morals in a San Francisco tale
A cautionary tale from the San Francisco Call about a clever girl who toys with three admirers until suspicion ends her romantic options. The story concludes with a moral that cunning or charm can burn out, leaving an old maid to reflect on past flirtations.
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Susan Boggs
Mary Jones
San Francisco
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claims Deafness Cure
An old advertisement asserts deafness results from inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers a cure via Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promises one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured, with directions to send for a free pamphlet and to obtain the remedy from druggists.
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Hall
B.S. Cheney & CO
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Titan
Shayn Levinson
Yale
New Haven
York
Merula
Rew Lidel Tower
Emtel
Wie
Ode
Ugur
Miles el Pea
CUPIL
Bothuma
Dots and Spaces
G.il Satelifte Iri Nalasrin
Europe
Switzerland
Rhine
Denmark
Eve
Bond Street
Aklopi
Japan
Ree County
Texas
Lord Strathcona
Canada
San Tego
Yokohama
Professor Kock
German East Africa
William Rolfe
Mass
Royal
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