Expedition to Seek Crocker Land North of Greenland
Leaders of a new expedition, under the American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical Society, plan a two year Arctic journey beginning July 20 from Sydney to explore Crocker Land and conduct scientific work in Grant Land and inland Greenland. Coordinated by Donald B. MacMillan and George Borugo, the team will include a physician and a cook.
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Boston
Crocker Land
Polar Sea
Grant Land
Peary
Greenland
American Museum of Natural History
American Geographical Society
Yale
Bowdoin
MacMillan
Pole
Crocker
Sydney
Wingler Bay
Cape Thomas Hubbard
Flagler Bay
Btah
Donald B. MacMillan
George Borugo
Drink Nothing At Meals Lecture Provokes Debate
Paris scientists discuss abstaining from beverages at meals. Dr Paul Fabre argues the human body needs little liquid under normal conditions and criticizes traditional table customs as barbaric. He cites curiosity patients as supporting evidence of his claim.
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Paris
Academy of Science
Paul Fabre
Mets
Vocalist Suffers Third Mishap in Year at Mine Blast
In Stelandoah Pennsylvania a renowned vocalist and leader of the Voly Tatoily churel was severely injured when a mine car exploded. He was struck by debris after a cp went off while a fellow worker, Aug, returned from the hospital in a dramatic runaway incident.
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Pacey
Leap Year Marriage Hint From Major Butt To Taft Aide
Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, sails for the Mediterranean for six weeks. He teases women about marriage in leap year and says he is not engaged. He travels with F D Miller, head of the American Academy of Art in Rome and art commission director.
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New York
Maj
Archibald Butt
Taft
Mediterranean
Washington
Dorothy Williams
Eivery
Major Butt
F. D. Miller
American Academy of Art
Rome
Fine Arts Commission
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uncle Sam Adopts Baby Chicago Post Office Sack
A new one pound mail sack, the baby of the U S mail bag department, born in Chicago and adopted by Uncle Sam, is designed to handle vast mail flows. It can hold 800 pieces per sack and 167000 sacks were ordered for destinations from St Louis to the Philippines. This small sack aims to speed dispatch by bundling and routing mail in labeled sacks.
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Chicago
Sam
United States Mail
Department
United States
St. Louis
The
Philippines
Uncle Sam
Dakota cat, a fire fighter, saves shop from blaze
In Deadwood, a unique cat that lives in a local business house reportedly extinguished a fire in a customer's trousers when a match lit his clothing. The same cat also puts out lit matches on the floor and shows a strong urge to reach fire, earning a claim as the world’s lone fire fighting cat.
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Deadwood
Mills County Twenty Years Ago May 1902 and 1907 Highlights
Events from Mills County Tribune files recount marriages births and graduations in Glenwood Hastings and Silver City. Notable items include Mary Myres and F J Roberts wedding at Glenwood May 18 1907, a boy shot in Glenwood and a thunderstorm killing nine horses in Potawatomi County, and a John Croson born girl on May 18. Also listed are high school graduates from Glenwood and Silver City, a May 20 birth in Glenwood, and a six foot eagle shot by Les McFarland.
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Mary Myres
Malvern
F J Roberts
Shenandoah
Justice Hdwards
Glenwood
John Croson
J M St John
Mills County
Fred Wilson
Hastings
Tribune
Glenwood High School
Geraldine Woodrut
Mabel Helfrich
Corrinne Bar
Tribune Files
Neva Russell
Allie Cattron
Drue Follett
Jennie Goheen
Ernest Tyron
Fred Bushnell
Wilbur Warren
Nellie Meadows
Robert Caldwell
Silver City
Les McFarland
White Cloud
Notice to Contractors for High School Additions Glenwood IA
Sealed proposals for additions enlarging and remodeling Glenwood High School will be received at the secretary Wm M Lambs office Glenwood Iowa until 4 pm May 38 1912. Bids opened May 28 1912. Plans may be seen at secretarys or architect J Chris Jensen Council Bluffs Iowa. Each bid to include 500 dollar certified check and a 2500 dollar bond with two or more sureties within ten days if awarded. Board reserves right to reject all bids.
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Glenwood
Iowa
Board of Education
Wm. M. Lamb
J. Chris Jensen
Broadway
Council Bluffs
Towa
William M. Lamb
Baby Born in Prison at Eastern Penitentiary
In Eastern Penitentiary three days ago a baby cried for the first time in years. A baptismal ceremony occurred in the hospital ward for the mother and infant, who were cared for by staff. Prisoners wished to see the child named Abraham Lincoln by Chaplain Welsh, but access was denied. The father is also a prisoner, convicted of larceny six months prior.
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Philadelphia
Walla
Eastern Penitentiary
Abraham Lincoln
Welsh
Akron man sentenced for contributing to delinquency
Akron Ohio John Rettig age 48 a widower was sentenced to eight months in the workhouse and fined 600 dollars plus costs for contributing to the delinquency of a 16 year old girl. Probate Judge Lytle pronounced the sentence Rettig pleaded for rope to hang himself as he rose.
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Akron, O
John Rettig
Lytle
Lettig
Hospitals for Bankrupts Berlin Foundation
A singular foundation is to be established near Petersburg through the will of the wife of the jeweler Ivauboff who left 4 500 000 roubles under strange conditions. A million had to be spent on a sanitarium for bankrupts to ease the anxiety their failures cause so they can endure a few weeks of improved health.
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Berlin
Petersburg
Ivauboff
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Times of the Tribune
Clarence
J W Carter
Bay
Carl Spelman
Potttawattamie County
Julius Rosenfeldt
Bell
Bell Telephone System
Iowa Telephone Co
Luther
Old Stone Quarry
Thia
Jim Harmer
A. H. Culver
Bell Telayhone
P.opagmvic Junction
Miraouri
Mammoth Dack
Laws
Ralder Xion
Coupramisa
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Livo
Superior Mammoth
Linestone Mammatty
Ated
Utemark Bros
Pelyphone
Glenwood RE Ly
Islssing
Valung
Oace
Carl Buch, Grenwood
Badger and Avery
Spectatora
Detmer
W. Fef. Meyers
Glenwood Plumbing CO
R. Trisler
Best Line
City
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