Speed Plans Hidden Run to Win Phonograph
In a moonlit ranch plot, Speed and trainer Glass prepare for a secret race against Centipede’s cook to win back a prized phonograph. Helen and Jean scheme, while Fresno and Stover press undecided bets and antics ramp up the romantic gymnasium farce.
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Flying Hearts Ranch
Centipede Ranch
Flying Heart
J. Wallingford Speed
Yale
Culver Covington
Helen Blake
Speed
Jean Chapin
Covington
Helen
Larry Glass
Wally
Glass
Jean
Stover
Missa Chapin
Miss Blake
Gallagher
Fresno
Silas
Fifth Avenue
Willie
Cheaperado
Mr. Speed
Jerry
Extravagance Wasted in Comical Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds as a tall plumber and a short bricklayer discuss vanity and a failed date. The plumber teases the bricklayer for dressing up while the date never appeared, and the bricklayer laments sweating and having his shoes shined for nothing.
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Youngstown Telegram
Telephone lock keeps calls from unauthorized use
A New York inventor devised a flexible metal collar for telephone stands. A locking bolt and yoke fasten to the receiver stem, with a padlock passing through aligned holes to hold the switch lever down. It fits most phones but could be bypassed by a determined person.
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New York
Electricity for Fat People Promises New Medical Uses
Scientific doctors hail electricity as a breakthrough and describe Nagelschmidt’s diathermy as a medical heat therapy and a surgical bloodless cautery. Early London Hospital demonstrations show removing a cheek tumor and lupus patches with minimal bleeding and rapid recovery. The method also induces painful muscular contractions to burn fat, with reports of 500 pounds lost across 70 patients.
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F. Nagelschmidt
London Hospital
Nagelachmidt
Wireless links bind Australia’s capitals across the coast
A survey notes six state capitals in Australia are connected by wireless telegraphy. British and American tech reports discuss innovations from barber singeing devices to iron and steel corrosion protection. News items cover magnet behavior with temperature, New York building power outlets, municipal garbage to power plants, arc light carriers, Wight lighthouse power, wire bending, cross Atlantic cable plans, and a swiveling welded device by an Ohio inventor.
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Australia
The Customer Always Right in Business
A late merchant notes the customer as a powerful force in commerce. He argues customers’ whims shape fair practices, likening business care to farmers tending fruit, horsemen guarding champions, and coaches guiding players to success. The customer makes the merchant essential.
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Prince
Pala
Max Ma
The Baby and the Boss Household Tale
A mother boasts that her youngest child rules the home as the baby and the boss. Bridget the servant often takes days off without notice, and when cautioned she recalls being told by the boss to ask permission for holidays, citing candy given as permission.
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Bridget
National Monthly
London Opera House Closes Amid Stage Superstitions
London actors fear ill luck as the London opera house closes for a second time. Superstitions rule the stage with rules about whistling in dressing rooms and not uttering the final words in rehearsal. The omen dates include November 13 1911 and July 13 1913.
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London Opera House
London
Opera House
Devices In Walking Sticks Through History
The article surveys walking sticks modified for utility and concealment. It notes swords and concealed firearms in peaceful eras, Henry VIII’s three pistol cane, and later versions with snuff boxes watches compasses spirit flasks and telescopes. It mentions a past craze for knob pipes that unscrewed into a pipe.
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Henry VIII
Postmaster In Village Shop Read Postcards
An old village postmaster who runs a general store is accused of reading postcards. He denies it. A lady orders ham and cheese, then asks why not sent. He replies he inferred from a postcard that her friends were not coming and assumed she wouldn’t need the items.
Burglars Use Microphone to Hear Safe Locks
The article explains burglars use a flat telephone receiver and rubber ear tubes to amplify tiny sounds from a safe lock. By pressing the receiver against the safe and listening for slight noises as numbers align, criminals can determine the correct combination and open the lock.
Fragmented Poem Fragment Detected on Page
A partial readable excerpt shows a poetic girl speaking of sunbeams and waves and a startled sewer figure. The legible fragments mix quoted dialogue and stray phrases about dancing and danger, with unclear context or attribution.
Maharanee of Kapurthala Visits U S With Husband
The article recounts the Kapurthala Maharanee Anita Delgado, once a Spanish dancer, visiting the United States with her husband. It notes her father’s objection to the match and claims the prince overcame it by giving $6,000, framing the tale as a modern romance echoing old chivalric myth.
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Kapurthala
India
Anita Delgado
Maharanee
Dad
Annie
Delgado
Ficé
United States
Maharajee
Pétrarch
Laura
Dante
Beatrice
Activities of Women Across Nations and Sectors
A survey of headlines notes New York storekeepers using over 60 000 extra girls during holidays. Cancer mortality among women rose 22 per cent from 1901 to 1911. Most members of New York's Shirtwaist Makers union are young girls. Swiss theology graduates gain clergy status. Mrs Philip N Moore joins Vassar Provisional Alumnae council. London forms a Women’s Municipal party. non political. Ohio labor law hurts women’s trades, replaced by men. Poverty tied to higher risk of delinquency. About 4 000 girls join colleges under the Women’s Intercollegiate Student Government association.
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New York
Switzerland
Philip N. Moore
Vassar College
Women's Municipal Party
London
Widows Host Dinner Sparks Mountain Charity Tale
In the North Carolina mountains, J McWhitaker hosted a dinner for 17 widows. The group totals 1,033 years in combined age with 152 children and 283 grandchildren among them. The feast featured wild turkey pheasant venison and farm produce.
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North Carolina
Blue Ridge
Great Smoky Ranges
J. McWhitaker
Vicar Questions Word Choice In Marriage Service
A Leeds vicar known as Doctor Bickerateth was contacted by a clergyman about omitting the war term in a marriage service. He noted he was not the bishop but believed the bishop would not permit the omission. He asked who the bride would marry and was told a doctor. He inquired about inserting the word consult in wradt.
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Leeds
England
Bickerateth
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