Dreams and Hunches Fail in Horse Racing Bets
A Washington race fan recalls chasing dream based bets that misfired at various tracks. He describes betting on a 100 to 1 black horse, then blue horses at 15 to 1, and a white plug Elmer S. at 160 to 1, all despite dream interpretations.
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Washington Evening Star
Washington
New York
Benning
Kansas City
Iansas
Ixmoor Downs
Brighteyes
Navy
Troy
Hudson
Long Island
Albany
Bladensburg
True Blue
Blueway
Blueaway
Slamm
Kate
Warrented
New Orleans
Plugovitch
Elmer 8
Elmer Stnt
Elmer S
Dream Boys
Rockefeller on Temptation and beer in youth
Harper's Weekly notes Mr. Rockefeller's Bible class views on temptation. He cites Joseph as a model and argues ordinary temptations are enough to shape character. He warns against overprotection and urges discernment in handling everyday temptations, including beer.
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Rockefeller
Harper's Weekly
Joseph
Gehenna
Art Theft Scare Grows in Italian Churches and Monasteries
In Italy there is mounting concern over a rising pattern of thefts targeting religious art in churches and monasteries. Authorities urge vigilance as galleries and sacred sites report damaged or missing works amid ongoing investigations.
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Italy
Meta Raynes and the London Gargoyle Letter Mystery
Meta Raynes, a typewriter girl living in a central London garret, helps prove her lover Jack Melville innocent of murder. After her brother-in-law’s crime is revealed, she climbs a tower to retrieve a letter from a gargoyle that names the true killer, saving Jack’s life and securing a perilous future.
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Meta Raynes
London
Meta
Jack Melville
Jack
Richmond Park
George Daubeny
Meta Rayne
Daubney
Thomas Daubeny
George
Daubeny
Thang
Mohammedars of Bengal Organize Partition Demonstrations
The Mohammedars of Bengal plan demonstrations to back partition of the presidency, aiming to provoke Hindus who are generally opposed to it.
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Bengal
Presidency
False Word Drops In A Charge Of Offense
A reader notes that being subjected to a charge based on a counterfeit offense seems outrageous though the claim hinges on misrepresentation. The letter argues that a false word should not bear the burden of a wrong accusation.
Quinine The Life Saving Drug Across the World
The article extols quinine as vital to travel and empire from India to Africa and the Americas. It notes its role in reducing malaria deaths, enabling Panama Canal work, Civil War soldiers, explorers like Livingstone and Schweinfurth, and Panama railroad workers, while tracing its origins to the chinchona tree and historic names.
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Chicago Chronicle
India
Humber
England
Livingstone
Central
Africa
Schweinfurth
Panama Canal
Panama
South America
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Louis XIV
Ceylon
Java
Cemato Africa
Riveras
Lambert
Medical stance opposes legal right to end life
In a defense of the physician’s role, the piece argues against capital punishment and any legal right for doctors to terminate life. It asserts medicine exists to prolong life and that doctors must resist procedures ending life, noting uncertainty in predicting death and the value patients place on doctors fighting for life.
Proved It Representative Chalk Beeson Speech
Kan representative Chalk Beeson told a women's congress that trees are like children noting they bring trouble at first but pride later He recounted a writer father who thought children a nuisance yet rushed to the window to greet his child and hear a teasing remark about his hair.
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Chalk Beeson
Kansay
Women's Congress
John
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Heaven
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