Theatre troupe on a cold night in Lancashire
A touring company endures a frigid night awaiting a morning train to Paisley. Miss Wells and Miss Fairbrother clash over Cyril Ardener while Constance Wells faces a lost love with dignity. In time Constance resists, helps her husband, and finds inner strength amid love and sacrifice.
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London
Lancashire
Paisley
Cyril Ardener
Lillian Fairbrother
Cyril
Wim
Constance Wells
Miss Browning
Ardener
M Iiss Wells
Miss Wells
Constance
Tom Anderson
Tly
Gold and Diamond Thieves Plague South Africa
A St. James Gazette report recounts South Africa's gold and diamond thefts, including a sensational diamond train heist attempt from the Wimberly to Cape Town route. A thief drilled beneath a moving post office van to reach the safe, but disappeared before loot could be taken.
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South Africa
Cape Town
Wimberly
Post Office
St. James
Indian Boy Kills Chief in Field Tale
A 12 year old Hubert Garrett recounts a frontier incident where an Indian attack captured a man and his son. The man killed the attacking chief in a stakeout by a camp and freed the prisoners. Later the boy, wary of traps, shoots an Indian peering from a log by a creek and is believed when the party confirms the hunter killed an Indian chief.
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America
Hubert Garrett
Absinthe as Headache Cure Proposed by Bar Tender
A Girard bar tender touts absinthe as a simple effective headache remedy. He claims a few drops rubbed on the hands and inhaled through the face provides a positive cure without endangering mental balance. The Philadelphia Record cites his method.
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Girard House
Philadelphia Record
Ice Kite Lifetime Ice Maker From The Tropics
A Brazilian farmer builds a kite device to make ice by sending water in tin cans to three miles high. The top cans freeze into ice while a steel cable powered pulley system hoists them back. He plans a 150 foot long kite with an endless chain to nudge more cans into ice. The South American Journal calls it the most original ice machine.
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Brazil
South American Journal
Spine mended by sandbag treatment in New York case
Lee A. Hervey of Woodside New Jersey section is hospitalized with a spine dislocation. Six weeks after a trolley collision his body rests embedded in sandbags to keep him still as doctors monitor progress and sensa tions indicate spinal recovery may begin.
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New York
Lee A. Hervey
Woodside
Newark
City Hospital
Hervey
Pasengers
New York Journal
Why Thunder Stirs Curiosity In Weather Learnings
A New York Recorder summary explains thunder as sound arriving at different times from a distant storm, making irregular roars. It notes how flat terrain vs mountains shapes the peal and even covers topics like summer lightning, rain after lightning, and souring milk due to nitric acid formed by air heating and lightning.
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New York Recorder
Dogs Fall to Sparrows in Bizarre Nashville Fight
In a scarcely believable encounter near Nashville two dogs battled a flock of English sparrows beneath a large tree. The sparrows swarmed like a cloud, injuring both dogs who were left scarred and partially blinded, with bystanders rushing in to remove them as the birds retained their aggression.
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Nashville
He Stood in Need of Prayers
A Kentucky minister's twelve year old son shows the bicycle fever and discovers his father’s safety during a prayer scene. The boy thought his father’s safety referred to a bicycle, not a parent.
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Kentucky
Botanical Clock Marking Time by Flower Colors
A botanical curiosity on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec features a flower whose petals change color with the time of day. The bloom is white in the morning, red at noon, and blue at night, allowing the clock to tell time from its tint.
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Constance
Cyril
Tehuuntepec
Cleveland World
Notice in Irish counting house warns noncustomers
In a Dublin counting house a placard reads that persons having no business in this office should get it done as soon as possible and leave, a terse public notice displayed in a conspicuous place for efficient service.
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Ape Eace
Connie
Tom
Globe-Democrat
Gold and Diamond Thieves
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