Decoration Day at Deacon Bosses
Samantha recounts a Decoration Day in a New England town. Josiah and Samantha join Miss Boss and friends to view the veterans procession. Harvey Lum and family are delayed wandering city streets by faulty streetcar hops, finally arriving after two oclock for a landmark dinner that nearly collapses from hunger and comic misadventure.
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Bharietia Holley
Josiah Allen
Betsy Bobbett
Samanthaz
Surttoga
Samantha
Hktec
Joseph B. Bowles
Josiah and I
Weacon
Tamer
Lem
Elarvey Lum
Enjun
Tamner
The
Fissur
Simon Slimpsey
Betsy
Deacon Gowdey
Weir
Solomon Bobbett
Druasilly
Josiah
Aarvey
Ression
Vetograns
Tamer Bogsea
Blarvey
Boss
Miss Ross
Brother Harvey
Harvey
Elam Lum
William
Caroline
James
Photographing Catch and the Enduring Fish Story
A discussion on fish stories in journalism noting how photographs, though trusted eye witnesses, fail to fully convince skeptics. It covers the lure of the 27 big fish, possible photo tricks, and the lingering doubt that the tale remains a fish story despite advances in image evidence.
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Baltimore American
Aliens in London West End Nightlife Explored
A Westminster Gazette report describes a Frenchman visiting London for a night of curiosity. At a West End hotel a German ushered him to a room, with a Swiss porter, a French maître d hôtel, a German server, and a French chef. The meal, opera, and postshow supper feature French Italian and Turkish elements, with foreign musicians and only one English sighting, a triangle player. He is then approached by French Austrian and German demi mondaines.
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London
West End
East End
Westminster Gazette
Sea water serum touted for tuberculosis treatment
United States Consul General Guenther reports attention on a Paris Academy of Medicine May session treatise by Dr Fournol promoting hypodermic sea water injections for tuberculosis. Fournol and a colleague prepared a sea water serum, raised blood pressure, treated 24 Paris hospital patients with improvements in lung and bone tuberculosis, prompting German papers to say the tuberculosis commission should pursue further experiments.
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United States
Guenther
Frankfurt
Fournol
Paris Academy of Medicine
Academy
Tuberculosis Commission
Father Tests Suitor Over Dowry Style
A stern father questions a young man about providing for his daughter in the standard of living she enjoys. The exchange includes a quip about clothing and a missed picnic last week due to her not having suitable attire. The brief reflects a light domestic encounter reported by the Columbus Dispatch.
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Columbus Dispatch
Free Fiction Crowds Library Shelves With Popular Novels
Public libraries facing strain from demand push to stock popular modern novels to entice readers. The note argues access to contemporary fiction drives self culture and broad use of libraries.
It Is Too Much Trouble to Be Well
Margaret E. Sangster argues illness largely results from neglecting health practices. She links unhygenic homes, defective plumbing, and shade from trees to disease, urging open air living, simple meals, and calm minds to prevent sickness and protect families.
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Margaret E. Sangster
Joseph B. Bowles
Board of Health
Festival in Redwoods High Jinks of Bohemian Club in Grove
W H Ir ewin describes the Bohemian club of San Francisco traveling each August to a California redwood grove for its midsummer High Jinks festival. The event blends poetry and music with woodland folklore in a ritual of tents, feasting, and nocturnal performances ending with a river dip.
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W. H. Irewin
Bohemian Club
San Francisco
California Woods
Santa Cruz Mountains
Cave
Care
Complete modest dwelling plans by Dennis and Gastmeyer
Complete 9e design and construction details for a handsome unique home priced from 4600 dollars in many locations. Features include a full basement with coal bins and hot air furnace, hemlock framework, NC pine floors, ash and whitewood trim, quartered oak staircase, modern sanitary plumbing, antique copper hardware, cherry mantels, and cypress roof shingles.
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Dennis & Gastmeyer
Broadway
New York
North Carolina
Electric light and power expand in Egypt estates and cities
The article notes growing use of electricity in Egypt on large German estates near the Barrage and in Upper Egypt near Nile cataracts. It cites coal costs limiting electricity, petroleum motors as cheaper, cleanliness favors electric lifts in tall lodgings, and electricity as modernizing illumination despite expense.
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Egypt
Barrage
Upper
Nile
Spice matter quoted in conversation
A brief snippet from the Chicago Daily News presents Mrs Smith and Mr Smith in a dialog about propriety and pep. the lines parody biblical imagery with a playful marital exchange. The fragment suggests domestic humor and period tone without a full article context.
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Lot
Smith
Mrs. Smith
Chicago
Detained Prisoner Requests Message for Wife
A courtroom scene features a prisoner sentenced to twenty years in state prison who asks the judge to send a message to his wife not to wait dinner. The remarks reflect a moment of personal consequence within a legal proceeding.
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Fliegende Blaetter
New Form of Door Locks Passage with Triangular Leaves
A Belgian inventor Joseph Henri Dierickx introduces a door of two triangular leaves that close along a diagonal from the lower corner to the opposite upper corner. The leaves pivot and swing into ceiling partitions when opened, creating an unobstructed passage and needing little effort due to counterbalancing.
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Joseph Henri Dierickx
Holton boy’s hospital plea turns to humor and faith
A Holton Kansas hospital patient overheard exclaiming Oh my Lord prompts a Norse woman to offer help. She reveals she is a daughter of God and asks how she can assist. The patient replies with a respectful humorous request to be asked how God would take him as a son in law.
Fat men should swim and lose excess flesh
An editorial in Modern Medicine advocates weight loss by daily long swims in seawater. It warns a brief dip is useless and notes that exercise plus low water temperature boosts tissue consumption. It also urges a rational diet cutting starch and sugar to slim corpulent individuals.
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Battle Creek
Pumping Gravel via Large Pipe In Indiana Districts
Popular Mechanics describes a novel gravel pumping method using a six inch pump and a 15 horsepower engine. Three workers operate the system which can lift over 100 yards of gravel daily, addressing long-standing river-bed extraction challenges for road building.
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Indiana
Kimd
Values of friendship and American influence across empires
A discussion of global esteem for U S friendship, noting a Carea delegation seeking U S aid to preserve territorial integrity. The envoys include a U S educated official and a Honolulu pastor, reflecting Western ties shaping the old eastern empire.
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United States
Carea
Roosevelt
Honolulu
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