King Victor Emmanuel III Leads Italian Front
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy drives leadership at the front and in war planning, embodying republican leanings, social reforms, and popular appeal. He is praised for lucidity, energy, and restraint in military affairs while aiding troops and rescuing earthquake victims in 1905.
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Italy
Rom¢ Victor Eimmanuel VI
Austria
Mt Lake of Genoa
House of Savoy
New World
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Victor Emmanuel
Victor Emamnuel
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Paris
Berlin
London
Vienna
Petrograd
Balkans
Mediterranean
Will is found in shoe of injured man on train
A Northbound Orient Railway train incident near Fairview, Oklahoma, left a stranger named Walkirk with a severed left leg after a fall from the baggage car. Doctors removed a retaining shred, then the man signed a will disposing of Washington farm property before an operation. He had not previously signed the will.
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Wichita
Kan
Orient Railway
Oakford
Okla
Fairview
Washington
Walkirk
New Gloves for Brave Cop in Milwaukee Rescue
Traffic Patrolman Rohde earned a reward pair of white gloves after risking his life to stop a runaway horse. While William Horowitz, a fruit peddler, loaded his wagon at Seventh and Vilet, the horse bolted toward Chestnut Street. Rohde grabbed a line, was dragged, and finally brought the horse to a halt, his gloves torn and his face bruised.
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Milwaukee
Rohde
Sam
William Horowitz
Seventh
Vilet Streets
Chestnut Street
Horowitz
Fond du Lac Man Recovers After Novel Hip Repair
George Mulhollan of South Byron underwent a rare operation for a fractured hip. Two silver plated tenpenny spikes were nailed through the hip bone to set the fracture, an first of its kind in Fond du Lac county. The bones knit and he can walk as well as before.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
George Mulhollan
Byron
Mulhollan
Knight’s hen hatches eleven chicks from fifteen eggs
East Palestine Ohio resident Joseph Knight on the Burt farm reports he trusted a hen to hatch fifteen eggs. The eggs hatched eleven chicks and four kittens appeared, Knight attesting to his honesty.
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East Palestine
Joseph Knight
Burt Farm
Here
Knight
Curious Condensations From The World This Week
A collage of brief notes covering varied topics from ancient life expectancy to oil fields and film making. It notes Peru building Portland cement independently, a century rise in life expectancy, Caucasus drilling methods, Ottoman navy reform, Columbus era population estimates, and mixed Turkish races. It also mentions oil lake hazards to ducks, global fish classifications, a banished film famine, skim milk film production, reservist transportation issues, Emile Combes directing a hospital, a parolee’s 250 mile testimony trip, and Sweden and Scandinavia emigration figures.
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Peru
United States
Belgium
England
Caucasus
South America
America
Panama
Moving Picture
New York
Emile Combes
France
Pons
Geoorge Spencer
Walaed
Gardner
Ore
Portland
Sweden
Minland
Two Kinds of Water in a Navy Training Scene
A naval recruit training scene features an ensign testing rookies on water bodies. John Henry answers with a pun stating there are two kinds of water calm and rout, illustrating quick wit in a classroom moment aboard the training school.
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Navy
John Henry
Garbage Can Patent Sparks Unlikely Pride
A curio of boastful vanity appears in a human interest vignette where a man endlessly touts his patent garbage can bought for $6.50. The exchange highlights odd pride and the quirks of personal achievement.
Well Called Dismal Swamp Ghosts of the old canal haunt locals
The article paints the Dismal Swamp as a place of darkness and fear where antebellum slaves hid and ghostly night workers are said to have dug a drainage canal once tied to a George Washington land venture. Old residents still cling to these tales as a living part of the swamp's mystique.
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Osman
George Washington
Wamp
Chinese Cook Prepares Pup In Dining Ceremony
A western mining man notes at a New York Times hotel tale of a Chinese cook who, after receiving a pedigreed Irish terrier pup, serves the dog at a dinner in a covered dish. The tale ends with a quip about men and women.
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Star Hotel
New York City
the Times
City Lies in Deep Gorge Near La Paz
James Bryce describes the dramatic approach to La Paz Bolivia from the Guayaquil and Antofagasta railways at Viacha. From 13 000 feet the line descends into a narrow gorge where a gray red roofed city lies 1500 feet below, laid out like a map under thin air.
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James Bryce
South America
la Paz
Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
Guayaquil
Antofagasta
Viacha
Cordillera
Prospecting Promise in Pay Dirt Parable
A quip contrasts belief in soil luck with a tale of prospecting payoff. The speaker notes that going out prospecting yielded pay dirt, implying tangible rewards from hands on toil and the lure of mineral finds.
Man Realizes Real Ideas After Building His Own House
A reflection on how personal invention and self-designed construction reveal real ideas only after the house is built, showing the insight gained through independent planning.
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New Zealand
Cairo
Roosevelt
Wombert
Oeio
Faust
Leesons
Ohio
Wing Wuinbert
Naples
Capodimonte Palace
Monza
Bresei
Humbert
Rome
Pantheon
Ira Nelson Morris
Castel Porsirio
White House
Calarian
Racconigi
Wellesley
Ruth Banning
Wellesley College
Brave Cop
Earth
Ajiffy
Libby
McNeill Libby
Chicago
Huuladr the
Driéa As
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Bryce
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