Girl Elopes After Sleepless Window Interlude
New York City report details the elopement of 21-year-old Oceanside butcher William Eldred and 19-year-old Julia Rider after she overslept at 2 am. They secured a license in Hempstead and wed at a Methodist church, prompting local school officials to caution about dances tied to late hours.
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New York City
William Eldred
Oceanside
Queen's Borough
South
Elizabeth
Miss Rider
Eldred
Correspondence School Diet Kills Ducks
Joseph Millman sued Joseph Pepper in Kirst District Court Jersey City after Pepper refused payment for 180 ducks and ten geese sold for 125 dollars. Pepper blamed the deaths on feed from a Monticello farm and cited a correspondence school as his source of duck knowledge. The court awarded Millman the full amount.
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Huguenot
N. Y
Joseph Millman
Joseph Pepper
Mongaup Valley
New York
Pepper
Millman
Carrick
Kirst District Court
Jersey City
Monticello
Peppler
Teacher Down On Dancing Club In Erasmus Hall
New York City report notes a lecturer at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn criticizes a school dancing club. The item reflects early rising and late nights as indicators of student discipline.
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Walter B.gunnison
Erastus
Dill Pickle Club
St. George Hotel
Brooklyn
New York City
Erasmus Hall High School
Frat Initiation Leads to Court Fine for Umbrella Incident
Robert C. Murray a 24 year old Amherst graduate and Columbia post graduate student was fined 10 dollars by Magistrate Krotel after being stopped on 125th Street under an umbrella while a crowd jeered. He claimed fraternity initiation but the magistrate ordered penalties and warned future fines.
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New York City
Moore
Horn
Krotel
Ife
Robert C. Murray
Am_herst
Columbia
Murray
Dr Seaman to Make Address at South Dakota Church Meeting
The South Dakota Church Federation executive committee set December 31 1912 for its annual meeting in Huron at 9 am with a mass meeting to hear President Seaman of Mitchell College and President Warren of Yankton College. Tuesday features the president's address and talks on neglected districts rural church issues and church union.
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Huron
South Dakota Church Federation
South Dakota
Congregational Church
Seaman
Mitchell
Warren
Yankton College
Gage
Huron College
Messrs
Carson
Thrall
Rosenburg
Pinch
Jas. S. Harkness
C. C. Todd
S. W. Pollard
H. R. Best
G. T. Notson
Chicago
Federation of Churches In America
Engulfed Alive in Bed of Quicksand Near Streator
Henry Luke a Santa Fe track man was swallowed by quicksand at a mine workings near Streator Ill despite nearby colleagues a rope rescue failed and the rescue team from La Salle searched while a Santa Fe passenger train was stopped to avert disaster at the precarious roadbed he vanished.
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Streator
Ill
Henry Luke
Santa Fe
Luke
la Salle
Balkan War Weighs on Turkey and Europe
An analysis notes the Ottoman Empire faces a pivotal Balkan war shaped by Serbia Bulgaria Montenegro and Greece with potential loan conditions from J Pierpont Morgan to restore peace. It traces Balkan borders and national aims, outlining historic Ottoman rise and retreat and the risk of further territorial losses for Turkey.
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Balkan Peninsula
Danube
Adriatic
Europe
J. Pierpont Morgan
Turkey
Morgan
Italy
Morvan
Balkan States
Greece
Peninsul
Roumania
Bulgaria
Balkans
Servia
Constantinople
Bertin
Principality of
Montenegro
Drave
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria
Ater
Balkan
Thedea
Crete
Aegean
Ferdinand
Tsulwaria
Herlin
Macedonia
Alexander
Central Asia
Armenia
Asia Minor
Osmanlis
Osman
Bursa
Murad I
Adrianople
Jie
Kossovo
Wallachia
Thessaly
Hungary
Poland
Strength of Mother Love in Storks and Larks
Harper's Weekly recounts how stork mothers defend nests on rooftops, risking structure and life to save their young. It contrasts stork maternal courage with skylark nesting in meadows, noting cunning peasant observers use a bird’s flight and song to locate eggs.
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Egypt
Europe
Loni
Harper’s Weekly
Veteran actor at Lambs Club suffers digestive attack
A New York veteran actor, after heavy meals, emits muffled faraway sighs during a Lambs Club card game. Ben Hangood Burt, the songwriter, overhears the episode and, as the culprit identifies the cause, quips “Old man, I know, you’re tinted,” reflecting the anecdote from the Saturday Evening Post.
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New York
The
Lambs’ Club
Ben Hangood Burt
Burt
Saturday Evening Post
Norwich Canary Breeders Survive Flood Through Back Bedroom Breeding
Amid floods in Norwich a breeder kept canaries safe in the back bedroom by the river. Water rose to breast height in lower rooms, but he refused to abandon the stock, wading in after them and carrying food as the birds sang. This practice is credited with saving hundreds of birds.
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Norwich
Manchester Guardian
Quote about mosquitoes and smoking bans in Lip Pincott
A fragment notes a character asking about mosquitoes and another claiming his wife will not allow smoking unless mosquitoes bother her. The exchange reflects a joking dialogue on nuisance and habit.
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Dill Pickley
W.R. Patterson
Wellington
Tex
J. E. Wells
Main Street
Parene
E. H. Mather
C.E. C
Dakota Engineering CO
Civil Engineers
Western National Bank
Lt. D
Dakota
Trabeic
Mr. Morgan
Ottoman Empire
Vienna
Dinaris Alps
Hunmary
Routmania
Servin
Asia
Black Sea
Shipka Pass
Russia
Mahomet II
Venetian
Suleiman II
Belgrade
Rhodes
Alwena
Africa
Mediterranean
Ionian Islands
Lepanto
Canaries
the First Trust
Bran
Commercial & Savings Bank II
Mitchel H. M&m
T. Morrow
KE. A. Loomer
Mitchell National
Mitchell National Bank
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