Geology Education Urges Rural Progress and Mines
Dr. Salisbury urged central west teachers that geology should be taught widely for farming and mining, arguing soil knowledge boosts farm value and youth readiness. He warned geology links to prosperity through informed cultivation and urban development.
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Des Moines
R. D. Salisbury
Department of Geology
University of Chicago
Central West
Salisbury
Iowa
Corn Belt
Eugenie’s End Near Captured Napoleons Heart and Throne
Empress Eugenie once led Europe’s gayest court now lies near death in Farnborough. The Spanish grandee’s daughter grew from convent upbringing to marry Napoleon III after a dramatic pursuit. He offered a left handed alliance before she finally consented to marriage at Notre Dame.
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London
Eugenie
Montijo
Spain
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Francesca
Paris
Madrid
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Duke of Alba
France
Second Republic of France
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Adelaide
Prussia
Baden
Queen
Prince Albert
Parvenu
Molle de Montijo
Compelgne
Chauteau
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Envoys Expense Bill Reduced by Comptroller
Comptroller Downey trimmed ambassador R. C. Kerens travel expense by 2.85 dollars after ruling his leave of absence did not qualify for travel costs. Kerens traveled from New York to St. Louis via Washington, adding 57 miles at five cents per mile, leading to the deduction. The state department auditor had argued no travel pay due to leave.
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Washington
Downey
Treasury Department
R. C. Kerens
Austria
Kerens
St. Louis
Ashington
State Department
New York
New Chorus Girl Law Enforced in Philadelphia
Philadelphia enacts a state labor law barring chorus girls and actresses under twenty from remaining on stage after 9 p m. The law also prohibits employing females under age after 9 p m.
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Philadelphia
Aged Couple on Long Tramp Reaches Palo Alto
Mrs Fannie McGlynn aged seventy seven and her companion traveled about 100 miles from Philadelphia to Palo Alto near Pottsville to visit friends only to learn those friends had left the town years ago.
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Philadelphia
Palo Alto
Pottsville
Fannie McGlynn
Munich Beer Festival Ends With Massive Consumption
The October Festival near the Bavaria monument drew 1,460,000 liters of Munich beer and 30,600 pounds of beef. Prince Regent Ludwig and Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg drank there as more than two million visitors filled beer shops and ambulance services were needed 373 times.
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Munich
Ludwig
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Spain's National Disgrace Illiteracy Led by Heraldo
The Heraldo de Madrid mocks Spain for mass illiteracy, citing 12 million of 19 million unable to read or write. It argues Spain should educate its own people and tame internal savages before Morocco. Royal children send telegrams praising the King's Own regiment bound for Morocco.
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Heraldo
Alfonso
Madrid
Spain
Heraldo de Madrid
Morocco
Lloyd-George
King's Own
Don Alfonso de Bourbon
Infanta Eulalia
Prince of the
Austrias
Meteorite Missed Two Boys in Malden Park
Two Malden youths John McDonald and Frank Butler narrowly avoided a meteorite strike at Chaddock Park. They reported the object passed within two feet, left fumes that sickened them, and buried ten feet underground. Tufts and Harvard scientists will excavate the meteorite for study.
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Boston
Chaddock Park
Malden
John McDonald
Frank Butler
Butler
Malden High School
Tufts
Harvard College
Policewomen sought for Vassar protection in Poughkeepsie
The Civic Education League urges Police Commissioner to appoint a policewoman to guard women in Poughkeepsie, focusing on Vassar students. The move aims to improve safety and reassure campus newcomers.
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Vassar
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Civic Education League
Twilight Time With a Bellhop’s Morning Water
A wry remark contrasts slow twilight with the patience of waiting for a bellboy to fetch water at morning, implying a comic frustration with daily routine and travel delays.
Ottoman view urges invasion to secure Macedonian autonomy
The Ikdam argues for a military move to establish a Macedonian autonomous principality under Ottoman sovereignty. It claims religious liberty fell under Greek rule, supports advancing beyond Salonika to Plassona, and warns that autonomous Macedonia would balance power in the Balkans benefiting Roumania and Europe.
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London
Ikdam
Macedonia
Crescent
Allistrad
Athena
Balkan
Via
Kavala
Salonika
Salonissa
Plassona
Thessaly
Roumania
Europe
Balkans
The Vengeance of Outlaws in Milan Clash
A band of brigands in Iravara near Palermo murdered the Cala guero family, warned them of doom, and abducted two youths. On June 8 the parents and two sons were slain, while three others were later killed by the brigands. One surviving brother resides with two children in Brooklyn.
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Milan
Calaguero
Iravara
Palenmo
Signor
Calagero
Florenza
Castrofillippo
Lving
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bear Steals Army Meat at Yellowstone Park
The War Department approved a $10.80 claim for beef stolen by bears from Troop I, First U S Cavalry, in Yellowstone. Guards had set a suspended frame to protect meat, but a bear reached it by climbing from a tree ladder and lifted the meat to the ground.
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Washington
War Department
First
United States Cavalry
Yellowstone National Park
M. Betts
Grave of Petrified Man Found In Baltimore Cemetery
The body of Patrick Dugan, buried nine years earlier, was discovered petrified and weighed over 600 pounds. The face and hands were light gray while the clothes were darker. He was eighty four at death and the body was reinterred in a different cemetery.
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Baltimore
Patrick Dugan
Dugan
Sneeze Fatality Interrupts Aerial Act in Calgary
In Calgary Alberta during an aerial act John Bartlett hung by his knees from a trapeze while a female assistant, strung by a strap in his teeth, spun in midair. Bartlett sneezed, the woman fell 30 feet into the orchestra pit, a hairpin piercing her skull.
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Calgary
Alb
John Bartlett
Bartlett
How to Introduce a Man to Christ
A teaching on sharing faith cites Philip and Nathanael as examples. It urges believers to present Jesus, avoid self‑promotion, address objections with come and see, and guide in prayer to assurance of salvation. The piece compares world objections to Nazareth with spiritual inquiry.
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Christ
Philip
Nathaniel
Moses
Jesus of Nazareth
Joseph
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Son of God
Ole Bull
Philadelphia
John Wrickon
Wickson
Mricson
Wricson
Mr. D
Wrieson
Ole Bulli
Offlee
Ericson
Hricson
Nazareth
Galilea
Philp
Isaiah
God
Jonah
Rabbi
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